Born on 27 January 1976 in Singapore, Tan is a Singaporean songwriter, composer and singer.
Chan is a perceptual scientist in the Hong Kong music scene. Chen Yiren is a great poet, a modern version of a talent. He not only uses the opulence of rhetoric and the uniqueness of literary style to make music a poetic flavor, but also makes poetry no longer just dead literature, but living life, prehistoric music with poetry and songs.
Chen Yiren is a musician with a strong guitar background, with a deep jazz literacy and a vocal, especially his Music of funkyand soul style that is inclined to Acoustic guitar folk, fresh, pleasant and warm vocal and guitar.
Educated in Singapore, primary school, was once considered by the class teacher to have no good voice, but never lost the persistence of the musical dream. He has achieved excellent results of 9A2B in the examination, has a high degree of language talent (Chinese, English, Japanese, Cantonese, a small amount of Hokkien, a little Hainanese), and has passed the seventh grade piano, and is also proficient in playing guitar. He has been a member of the choir, swimming team and national olive team, and also enjoys skateboarding. In 1996, 19-year-old Tan became obsessed with pop music and sent a bomb disposal team when he was a soldier in Singapore. After completing his military service, he studied at the Department of Economics, National University of Singapore. After graduation, I decided to go to music.
In 1999, he composed music for Hong Kong superstar Jacky Cheung and made his debut.
Since 2000, Chan has been a lyricist, composer, arranger or producer in the works of a number of Hong Kong singers (Lee Wei, Cheng So-man, Eason Chan, Joey Yung, etc.), and he has also sung Mandarin in the works of Hip Hop singers such as Nong Fu and Chen Guanxi.
In 2004, Chen set up a music production team "TheInvisible Man". In late 2007, he produced a commercial song for Christina Aguilera and Korean idol singer Rain.
On March 20, 2009, Chen released his debut solo jazz album Raw Jazz.
On June 4, 2010, Chen Xiangren and Ouyang Jing held a MOV Live concert, and their joint album "Buy 1 Get 1 Free" was released on July 13. On June 6 of the same year, Chen Washiren was invited to serve as the judge of "Super Voice 2".
On 17 April 2011, Chan won the Best New Actor Award at the 30th Hong Kong Film Awards for his film Bruce Lee.
On August 28, 2011, Chen Wanrenhui released his first solo Chinese album "Who is Chen Yiren".
On May 28, 2012, Chen joined Sun Entertainment.
Known as Singapore's "musical genius", Chan has written and composed lyrics and produced music, and has worked as a songwriter in the works of first-line Hong Kong pop singers such as Eason Chan, Joey Yung, and Zheng Xiuwen, leaving his name on the cover or inside page of their albums. The first song he wrote, "Reconciliation is Not as Good as the Beginning", was given to Jacky Cheung, the King of Heaven, and the road to debut seemed to be a smooth road. Although the Music Scene in Hong Kong has developed, Singapore's childhood and youth are the most crucial time points to start his musical ideals.
Tan was born in Singapore's ordinary working class, his parents did not have high incomes, but he still insisted on supporting him to attend a prestigious school. "I only had my first pair of adidas in middle school, which my dad bought at a time of great bargaining." In addition to the family's financial difficulties, Chen Has a big problem, that is, his own physical defects - he suffers from flat feet, hereditary gout and high uric acid. The biggest problem is the hearing impairment.
The local media now often refer to Chen As "Beethoven with the surname Chen", implying that his hearing problems and musical ideals are on par with Beethoven.com. At the age of 12, Chen Found That He had a big hearing problem, and after examination, he found that his right ear was only 50% of ordinary people's hearing, while his left ear was 75%. Ear problems accompanied him into adulthood and did not improve much even after becoming a professional musician.
Chen, who has flat feet and gout, chooses to use running, swimming and playing rugby to overcome the physical pain. He is very optimistic by nature, and so is he in the face of ear diseases. "If I don't listen well, I'll listen more." I can tell people, I don't hear well, you talk about it a few times! ”
But the hearing impairment did cause a great deal of trouble to Chen's music career in any case. For example, when mixing, because the sound frequency received by the left and right ears is lower than that of ordinary people, and it is not very balanced between each other, if it is not well controlled, it is easy to affect the change of the entire song channel. In the face of this problem, Chen Xiangren himself "developed" a set of "brainwashing + imagination" listening training methods - "a normal song, the human voice will be in the middle position, but when I listen to it, I lean to the left." I tried to listen as much as I could, and told myself that the vocals were in the middle, and then I would talk about the tunes I heard in the middle. "Although it is easy to say, the difficulty of actual operation can be imagined. When singing and producing songs, he spends several times more time than the average singer or producer to try to eliminate these problems. He has written and recorded more than 300 songs, all of which were completed under such conditions.
"People with bad hearing shouldn't make music." Doing variety shows and performing can be done. But I just like to make music. ”
The first song sold was sung to Jacky Cheung, and the first time as a producer was Eason Chan's album, Chan arranged, sang, RAP, and even ventriloquism. He writes songs, makes music, and performs, all on a whim, doing it casually, and his lyrics are very straightforward, depending entirely on the mood of the day he wrote the lyrics, and it is precisely in this way that you can easily understand what he wants to express.
Listening to Chen Wanren's singing, there is no skill, but his voice brings a warm feeling, which can release the feeling that the song wants to bring to the listener. Chatting with Chen Wanren, the biggest feeling is that it is gentle, magnetic baritone, always smiling, coupled with his figure, the same as Maitreya Buddha, and his mentality is also so casual, always holding a grateful attitude to face what is happening around him.