Some time ago, taking advantage of the New Year's Day holiday, I made up for the "Xiaosong Strange Talk" that I had not watched before, after all, Gao Xiaosong's talk show has completely "ended".
One episode, "Gao Xiaosong's Memories of Rock and Roll in College," is about campus folk and rock and roll, and in addition to some stories from the 1990s, it also mentions a figure that Chinese mainland popular music scene, Xiao Ke.
Gao Xiaosong said that he was "a rare all-round genius in the music circle at that time", able to write lyrics, arrange music, and sing on his own album, in Gao Xiaosong's words, the top ten songs on the chart, four of which he composed lyrics and composed, and the remaining few he participated in production, playing piano, singing and harmony.
He has written songs for many big-name singers, such as Faye Wong, Jacky Cheung, Tan Yonglin, Lin Yilian and other heavenly queens. In 2012, Faye Wong and Eason Chan sang "Because of Love" on the Spring Evening of CCTV, which was Xiao Ke's lyrics and composition.
For Xiao Ke, he is a contemporary of Gao Xiaosong and Lao Wolf, and he is like Rock Singers such as Wu Tong and Wang Feng, who are standard academics. The difference is that he didn't get mixed up with rock 'n' roll.
Xiao Ke began to contact music when he was 10 years old, and studied piano with a legitimate teacher, less than 2 years after learning the piano, he took the selection examination of the Conservatory of Music, but in the end only one failed. Although everything you do as a child does not determine a person's future, some people's future is predestined from the beginning.
In 1990, Xiao Ke graduated from high school and was sent to the Music Department of Capital Normal University because of his musical expertise. At that time, Cui Jian's "Nothing" was the enlightenment of countless people's rock blood, and you are embarrassed to say that you make music without playing a rock band in Beijing.
So Xiao Ke, who had just gone to college, also formed a rock band with his friends, but it didn't take long to break up. After that, Xiao Ke became fascinated with jazz, and then wrote songs, composed, learned to arrange, and did what interested him. After graduating from college, he also went to middle school to work as a music teacher because of his graduation from normal university.
After signing with Red Star Production in 1995, he officially entered the music industry as a singer-songwriter and released his first album "Thoughts Come and Go". In addition to making solo albums, he has also participated in the soundtrack and songwriting of many TV series, and many songs such as the TV series "Carry Love to the End" are created by him.
After that, his creative talent was recognized by many people, and he was invited by international record companies such as EMI to arrange songs for singers such as Lin Yilian, Xiao Yaxuan, Gu Juji, Karen Mok and so on, and completed many widely circulated works.
In the early 2000s, it was the peak of Xiao Ke's creative career, but the sudden change caught him off guard. On April 29, 2003, he recorded to singer Wang Zheng in the recording studio that he knew that in the early hours of the night, before that he had been all night long, and under extreme exhaustion, he drove home and had an accident.
At an intersection, he collided with a sneaking truck, shattered multiple bones on his body, injured his lungs, and suffered severe bleeding, causing him to fall into a coma, and he had been unconscious for many days, and the doctors gave the result that he might become a vegetative person. Finally, it took more than 40 days for him to wake up from his slumber.
"When you open your eyes again, it's like a baby being reborn and seeing the world again." He then decided he couldn't fight as hard as he used to, he said, because life seemed more important, so he began to selectively write songs for others or do what he really wanted to do.
"What are we doing in this world?" Xiao Ke's answer is: We came to this world to play!
In 2008, he composed songs for the Beijing Olympic Games and was sung by dozens of big names, "Welcome to Beijing", which he and Lin Xi collaborated to complete, Lin Xi composed lyrics, Xiao Ke composed.
In the creation of this song was not smooth, Lin Xi's habit is to have a song first and then a word, while Xiao Ke is just the opposite, under several arguments, no one will give in, because they are very stubborn. In the end, Xiao Ke gave in to completing the creation of the melody, because Lin Xi returned to Hong Kong.
Unlike Lin Xi's creation, most of their works are based on the theme of "love", but Lin Xi writes love in a long stream, writing into the wood three points, which can arouse the resonance of many people. Xiao Ke is willing to hide emotions and divide love into multiple stages and multiple feelings.
Now, middle-aged Xiao Ke is more willing to live in his own world, and in previous years, he can still be seen appearing on the talent show as a judge, and winning the face for the students. But now he refuses to show his face, refuses options that can make him famous and rich, and only does what he likes.
In an interview with a media outlet, he told this story (from the Daily People interview transcript):
A young man with feelings plans to carry a guitar all over the world, walking without money to find a place to work, being discovered as a music director of an Internet company, and later assuming IPO responsibilities; 20 years later, the company's listed young people also became famous. But at that time, I looked back and thought, what was I doing this for?
We have come into this world not to have fun!
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