"My love is like a tide, love is like a tide pushing me to you, closely following..." In 1993, Zhang Xinzhe, who was not yet a "little prince of love songs", sang this song "Love Like a Tide" for the first time. Its unique and gentle voice attracts many fans.
However, few people know that the lyrics writer Li Zongsheng was reluctant to give "Love Like a Tide" to the young teenager in front of him. However, after looking around, I found that there was no more suitable person than Zhang Xinzhe, and finally I had to go back to Zhang Xinzhe to sing this song.
From the son of the "coal boss" family to the top godfather of the music world, Li Zongsheng's life is full of legends.
01
The neighbors next to the Li family merchants, every time they mention Li Zongsheng, always shake their heads, and then sigh and say, "The son of the gas seller, his head is not very bright." ”
Mr. Li's father runs a gas shop in Taipei, directly the owner of coal, and his mother is a middle school teacher.
The people in the family are very shrewd and wise, and Li Zongsheng, who grew up in such a family, was not at all influenced by the atmosphere and became a smart child.
It has become a "stupid child" ridiculed by neighbors, all of whom are students in the third year of junior high school, and do not understand the square calculation formula of (a + b).
My mother was anxious to take Li Zongsheng's middle school entrance examination every day. Until one day, someone quietly recommended a cram school to her, saying that if she went to that cram school, she would definitely be admitted to high school.
Mother Li was assured and immediately sent Li Zongsheng to tuition. In the cram school, in order to discipline the students efficiently, the teacher does not teach in a soft voice, but after teaching it again, if you still don't understand, you will rudely slap and fall on the student.
In addition to using his hands, the teacher would also pick up a rice spoon and smash it on the head of 16-year-old Li Zongsheng. After being taught like this by the teacher for several months, the most sad thing happened to Li Zongsheng and his parents, and he failed the college entrance examination.
In order to have a school to read, that summer his sister took him on a trip to various private high schools and church schools. But no school opened its doors to him, and he ended up going to Hsinchu Nian Technical School, 60 kilometers from home.
Already a green teenager, he rubbed the Mid-Autumn Festival bright moon, left from his lively home, sat on the train and looked at the Hsinchu Station to be reached, and suddenly felt that his heart became particularly depressed and uncomfortable.
When he got back to school, he picked up a guitar and played it, and wrote "One Man" with a pen.
Being able to play the guitar is the only skill that Li Zongsheng can handle, and it is also the only skill. That's when he was 14 years old, he learned with the children of the neighbor's family.
Therefore, when the folk song movement struck, Li Zongsheng did not hesitate to plunge into this torrent, and did not forget to pull down a few friends who loved music and play a band.
However, playing in a band is also a costly activity. When it was time for the holidays, he helped his father deliver gas at home during the day and stayed at the restaurant at night.
His family's attitude toward him is to support him to go out and make money, but it is impossible to play a band in the future. His father said to him clearly: "If you like to sing, you can go, but when you graduate, you still have to come back to send gas." ”
Unexpectedly, Li Zongsheng played the hope of the band, not only won awards in the Taiwan Campus Folk Song Contest. In 1980, he signed a contract with Polygram Records to produce a record "The Complete Works of Acoustic Guitar".
However, hope will eventually fade. Because of the requirements of military service, the number of band members slowly decreased. Li Zongsheng also had too poor grades to get a diploma, so he had to choose to go home.
Li Zongsheng, 24, could not rely on the band to mix meals, so he obeyed his father's arrangement, carried a gas canister across the stinking night market area, climbed up the telephone pole in the afternoon, and pasted the store's contact information. In the evening, I ran to the folk song restaurant to sing.
Every day's life is divided into two halves, half for survival and half for life. He wrote his own experience during this time into the "Past Events" section of "Three Things about Azong".
03
The cycle began again and again, dark and boring days, until the appearance of Zheng Yi, brought him a turnaround and change.
Although Li Zongsheng's conditions were not good, he caught up with Zheng Yi, a beautiful woman in the history department of National Taiwan University at that time, and Zheng Yi was also a girl with excellent singing talent, who sang into the record company by relying on a song in the folk song movement.
However, Li Zongsheng would follow Zheng Yi to the record company every time, and even though he was Zheng Yi's boyfriend, no one paid attention to him.
After learning that the company was going to give Zheng Yi an album "The Little Rain Came just in time", Li Zongsheng introduced himself.
At first no one believed what a hairy boy said, until the album's producers ran away. The company's leaders had no choice, so they called Li Zongsheng by phone and arranged for him to be responsible for the production of this album.
In 1982, Taiwan's ace variety show "Variety 100" had a miracle, and "Little Rain Came just in time" directed by Li Zongsheng won the show's 13-week music debut.
Sending his girlfriend to the stage where thousands of people called, Li Zongsheng actually couldn't believe it: "Is this true? Is this something I do? Let an ordinary college girl become such a person. I'm deeply proud of it, and I think it's amazing. ”
But it also changed his mind, being behind the scenes and sending more people to the bright stage.
Creating such a popular work for the first time made him believe that he was valuable and capable. Therefore, he took over the record of making Zhang Aijia's "Busy Blind", and it should be known that the last person who helped Zhang Aijia record was Luo Dayou.
If Li Zongsheng can't make a good work, it will directly ruin his subsequent musical career. As a result, the album "Busy Blind" was selected as the 19th place in the "Taiwan Top 100 Albums" and created the trend of "concept album" in Taiwan.
04
After joining Rolling Stone Records and gaining a foothold by producing Zhang Aijia's albums, the era of Lee Zongsheng dominating Taiwanese songs has also arrived.
Of all the singers he has praised, there is not a single singer who is not popular.
Chen Shuhua, who debuted as a child star, was not successful in the transformation and will soon become a singer, and Chen Shuhua's mother begged him for help.
Under Li Zongsheng's planning, Chen Shuhua never ate the jade girl of human fireworks, but became a brave urban woman with a capable short hair. In addition to the external image, Chen Shuhua's singing style has also changed to cold and mournful, and a song "When Dreaming and Waking Up" directly swept through Taiwan Province.
In addition to being a "love song diva", Liang Jingru is also the dry daughter of Li Zongsheng, the "godfather of the music world". If Li Zongsheng had not noticed this teenage girl and personally taken her into the Rolling Stones, it may have been a pearl covered in dust.
He wrote his first song "Growing Up Overnight" to the gentle Liang Jingru, but during the release of the publicity, he encountered the Taiwan earthquake and had to cancel the publicity. Liang Jingru thought that she did not have a chance to become famous, and she was discouraged and packed her bags and prepared to return to Malaysia. Li Zongsheng dissuaded her for several days, desperately guaranteeing that she would become famous.
Later, Courage was born.
Zhou Huajian, who sang "Friends", was actually taken away by Li Zongsheng when he noticed that the resident singer sang well when he was eating at a Western restaurant. And Mayday is a group of young people who are not favored by the Rolling Stones, and even throw their musical works into the trash.
After Li Zongsheng picked up their works and read them, he personally called them and encouraged them to sing the songs they wrote in the future, saying that they would definitely be on fire and not give up.
05
In 2013, Li Zongsheng released "The Hills", which has the lyrics of "Tirelessly crossing, every hill." Over the hill, though already white-headed. ”
This song, which he wrote to himself, contains many years of wind and snow, tiredness and bitterness.
When I was young, I was treated roughly by my teachers and far from the sadness of my parents. It is also to pursue dreams and encounter the bitter support of setbacks. Even more on the way forward, I saw the "companion" of my own figure and couldn't help but reach out to support it.
Some people say that everyone has a Song Li Zongsheng in their hearts. Indeed, there is always a song that will make you feel that it understands your desires and stops, understands your human vicissitudes, and can touch the softest part of people's hearts.
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