Author | Pang Ensheng
Liu Huan, a well-known name in China, stands at the top of the music scene and has become a well-deserved "big brother" in the Chinese pop music scene, and almost every Chinese can hum a few of his songs.
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Liu Huan, a professor at the University of International Business and Economics, is a musician who integrates lyrics, composition, arrangement, production, singing and music education, and is a well-deserved godfather of music in today's pop music scene.
Liu Huan shouldered the mission of teaching and educating people, devoted himself to the popularization of art education in colleges and universities, always stood on one side of the podium and worked tirelessly, and the accumulation of knowledge and cultural restraint over the years made him a respected artist.
At the recording site of CCTV's "Art Life", Liu Huan's 16 classmates and 7 teachers in Tianjin arrived together.
Seeing so many deceased people who came from Tianjin to cheer for themselves, Liu Huan cried, although Liu Huan and many of them have not seen each other for many years, but the friendship in the past is very deep.
Liu Huan was born on August 26, 1963, to a family of teachers on Fifth Avenue in Tianjin, to middle school teachers, and his father, Liu Kun, was the director of the Political and Educational Affairs Office in 12th Middle School.
Liu Huan's "main attack" when he was in the gymnasium primary school literary and art team was not singing, but with Jiang Kun's now partner Dai Zhicheng.
Old Mr. Chang Baohua had intended to recruit the two as apprentices, and if this was the case, Liu Huan's generation in the cross-talk circle was one generation older than Guo Degang's.
Little Liu Huan is dutiful, quiet, unobtrusive, and sympathetic, and the Peking Opera is also sung well; Liu Huan and Dai Zhicheng are at the Tianjin Primary and Secondary School Literary and Art Show, and Liu Yajin is also on the same stage.
The left picture below shows Liu Huan in childhood, who exuded a literary and artistic atmosphere at a young age.
Their primary school propaganda team is well-known in Tianjin and has performed for Prince Sihanouk, King of Cambodia.
Liu Huan's family lived in the hutong next to the Western-style building at 62 Changde Road, and the hutong entrance was lined with two identical small Western-style buildings, British buildings, much like the houses on the old London Street in the Sherlock Holmes movie.
Liu Huan, who has now moved to Beijing, returns to Tianjin every time he returns to the hutong where He lived as a child, and he still remembers the scenes of more than 40 years ago.
Liu Huan was most impressed by the small alley when he was a child, and when he was a child, he played football in the alley with his friends, and playing was his happiest thing.
Liu Huan said, "When I was young, I thought that the hutong was so big, and the house was also very large. When you grow up, go back and find out how small it is! "
At the end of the hutong, No. 1 Pingchuanli is Liu Huan's home.
His parents took Liu Huan and his younger brother Liu Xiao, who was 10 years younger than him (the brothers' names mean laughter), and the family of four huddled in a small house.
Although the house has long been changed, it is fortunate that in order to protect the historical buildings along the Fifth Avenue, it has not been demolished.
Liu Huan and Chen Daoming both studied in junior high school in 12, and Liu Huan was particularly fond of music at that time.
Once, during recess, he taught his classmates to play drums in the classroom, slapped his desk loudly, and was severely criticized by the class teacher.
In 1979, Liu Huan was admitted to the Sixteenth Middle School (also the alma mater of the singer Jiang Dawei), because Dai Zhicheng failed to enter the Sixteenth Middle School, so Liu Huan spent a lot of time on music.
If Liu Huan had been talking about crosstalk at that time, perhaps there would have been one more Guo Degang in the cross-talk industry, but there was one less Liu Huan in the song world.
In 1981, the same year as me, the college entrance examination was not as easy as it is now, and the university admission rate in Tianjin was less than 3% that year, which was the lowest admission rate in more than 40 years since the resumption of the college entrance examination.
At that time, the gold content of an undergraduate student was higher than that of today's graduate students.
In the end, Liu Huan was admitted to the French Literature Major of Beijing Institute of International Relations with excellent results.
During college, Liu Huan's love for music gradually grew stronger, and he found a piano in a corner of the school that no one cared about, which made him extremely excited.
The piano was a luxury for Liu Huan at that time, so he went to play the piano every day after eating at noon, and did not stop until the afternoon class.
Liu Huan learned to play the piano and began composing his own compositions, but Liu Huan really associated with the word "singer" in 1985.
That year, he won the double championship in the English and French song contests of the capital university, and Liu Huan began to write his own history in the Chinese music scene.
In 1987, Liu Huan sang the theme song "Sun in the Heart" of "Snow City", officially entered the music scene, and soon after became popular all over the country with "Young Ambition Without Sorrow".
His high-pitched pitch and wide range resonate with his magnetic voice, and his one-breath, breath-pumping singing effect makes people remember this distinctive singer.
The TV series "Beijingers in New York" was broadcast in 1994, and Liu Huan covered all parts of the music of the whole play, including the opening and ending song interludes and background music. One of the most widely disseminated is the song "Ten Thousand Questions" that has influenced the style of mainland pop music.
Speaking of Liu Huan's classic works, we cannot fail to mention "Crooked Moon".
"Distant night sky,
There is a crooked moon,
Under the crooked moon,
It's that crooked little bridge. ”
This song became a popular song recited in the streets and alleys at that time, and also became a unique memory of people in that era, and "Crooked Moon" was regarded as a representative work of mainland pop music towards introvertedness.
Liu Huan combines the singing techniques of different vocal arts, and his vocal range is 5 degrees higher than that of ordinary male voices, and he can sing more than HIGH C.
Liu Huan is a person with a personality, and whenever he listens to his songs, he can hear his lightness, his pity, his sentimentality, and his boldness.
Music is his emotional catharsis, and the song contains all his feelings about life. (Singer Cheng Fangyuan evaluation)
As a singer, he is very creative, he not only sings with his voice, but also interprets with his heart, so he can convey the emotion of the song well and gain the love of fans. (Composer Li Haiying commented)
Working with him is a kind of enjoyment, for the sake of art, for the sake of what he thinks is worthwhile, Liu Huan will desperately pursue and achieve. (Composer Xu Peidong commented)
Liu Huan invited the voice students to come to the home for a party, which can be seen that Liu Huan's warm home decoration is modern and artistic.
During the Beijing Olympic Torch Relay at Tianjin Station, Liu Huan, the No. 5 torchbearer, handed over to Feng Jicai, the last stick.
In the pass, Liu Huan held high the "Xiangyun" torch with his right hand, and his face was always full of smiles, and his excitement was overflowing with words.
On August 8, 2008, at the opening ceremony of the much-anticipated Beijing 29th Olympic Games, Liu Huan and Sarah Brightman sang the theme song "Me and You", vividly interpreting the theme of "One World, One Dream" of the Beijing Olympic Games.
Let's relive that moment of glory again!
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The author Pang Ensheng grew up living in Tongleli, Hong kong Road, Fifth Avenue, graduating from Xinhua South Road Primary School in 1976 and tianjin no. 20 middle school in 1981.
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