In April, singer Tao Zhe suddenly posted a long article saying that he went to the hospital to remove the screws and steel nails that were placed on the index finger of his right hand 15 years ago.
He recalls the accident 15 years ago, when the index finger of his right hand was fractured in a car accident and the screw was inserted during the operation. And today, I can finally say goodbye to the screws that have accompanied him for 15 years.
"I will always remember your importance in my life – you are a reminder, a warning, and hopefully we will never see each other again."
While many people sighed, some young people asked:
"Who is Tao Zhe, is he very red?"
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Time back to October 18, 2019, jay Chou's shanghai concert was the second concert.
This Chinese king showed a rare nervousness:
"Very heavyweights come to see our concert. It made me sing very nervously. King of R&B, the senior of the seniors."
The large-screen shot cuts to the men in the first row of the audience, followed by a full scream - Tao Zhe.
In the spotlight, the king of R&B in Jay Chou's mouth has passed his 50th birthday.
Only those who have experienced the era of "Zhou Wang Taolin" can truly understand that using the question "Red" is itself a contempt for the discourse music scene of that year.
In 1993, Wang Zhiping, a famous music producer in Taiwan, bought audio equipment in Los Angeles, USA, because of the language barrier, communication with the clerk was very difficult.
Tao Zhe saw it in the store and enthusiastically went forward to translate it, so that Wang Zhiping could smoothly buy the equipment he needed.
Wang Zhiping also learned that the boy who helped others also liked to compose music, so he invited him to return to Taiwan half a year later to participate in the production of singer Zhou Baoyuan Records.
Since then, The works launched by Tao Zhe have immediately been favored by singers such as Zhang Xinzhe and Chen Shuhua, and they have issued invitations to him.
After several years of behind-the-scenes work, Tao Zhe began to come to the fore and released his debut self-titled album, David Tao. Soon, he became the "R&B Godfather" of Taiwanese pop music scene.
The word "godfather" is not worthy of anyone.
Rene Liu once said: Because I am a singer, most of the CDs I want with the record company, but Tao Zhe's records are all very serious with cash to buy at the record store.
Xu Wei said: He is a well-deserved musician
Wang Lihong said: He taught me in R&B or other very important and formal singing techniques.
Chen Xiaochun said: In front of him, I was like a primary school student
Someone once compared the personal style of "Zhou Wang Taolin".
Also amazingly talented, Jay Chou has created a trend in a split-minded way, wang Lihong and Lin Junjie can sing love songs beautifully and timelessly...
Tao Zhe, on the other hand, is really like a "preacher", some people describe it this way: he made a song 20 years ago, and you may not find out how advanced this piece is until today.
Like a prophet, bury the treasure of good culture, waiting for future generations to open and discover its value.
It is also like a pot of good wine, the more precipitated the more fragrant.
Why these descriptions are not exaggerated at all, because if you mix entertainment forums, you will always find that Tao Zhe will be taken out once in ten days and half a month.
This year's young people occasionally open the daily push of the music player and hear a Tao Zhe song, which is amazing.
Searching for a new song by a recent singer, I found out that it was written 20 years ago.
At that moment, they were in a trance, not knowing whether it was time freeze-frame, or the most awesome music that could always break through the shackles of time, experience the baptism of time, come to our ears, and give us a lesson.
Tao Zhe's father, Tao Dawei, is a Taiwanese singer, and his mother, Wang Furong, is a famous Peking opera singer, so the title page of his early album says that he likes various musical styles, including classical, pop, folk music, Peking Opera... It's staggeringly rich.
In his early years, when he did not debut, he had already made orthodox black music such as Hip-hop and New Jack Swing under pseudonyms such as "Stephen Wonder and Snoopy".
To paraphrase the current popular language, "I'm awesome, but I don't say it, I just play."
After his debut, the album's first song, "Ten and a Half at the Airport", was stunning.
Born out of "Easy" by Lionel Richie, the song is a soul song, and the transposition and rhythm of the hand are beyond the reach.
"Black Liuding" and Jay Chou's theophragm "Fantasia" were released every other year. It can also achieve the equalization of singing degree and influence.
A song called "Love Is Simple", and now some people say, "This is the song of 24 years ago????"
And Tao Zhe, as precious as Jay Chou, is the degree of thought in the music of singers in that era.
It's not just about making love, go to Paris turkey today and compare you to rats and rice tomorrow.
In the United States, after the events of 9/11, he spread the word about war and peace, a rigid system, describing a population as powerless as ants. Through the heavy power of rock and roll, it interprets the vicissitudes of the loss of love.
His words describing women in "Looking forward to the Spring Wind" are particularly comforting, the original song was originally about the lonely female image of seventeen or eighteen years old who had not yet married Si Chun, and he adapted it into an independent female figure that he bought flowers and wore himself, encouraging women to break through the shackles of traditional concepts.
"Buy your own flowers and bring them yourself, love and hate more freely."
This is Tao Zhe's value for women 27 years ago.
Tao Zhe is a person who is very serious about everything he does.
From 1997 to the present, only 7 albums have been released. Someone once asked him to send more, but he was very persistent, never catering to the market, just blindly making his own music.
The same goes for concerts.
At the 2003 SOUL POWER Hong Kong concert, Tao Zhe abandoned the use of original songs and rearranged all his songs.
You can hear the use of the classic European and American pop song "over the rainbow" in "The Beach".
At the beginning of a Chinese-style song, you can hear a solo composed of xiao, pipa, violin and many other instruments, which is as beautiful as a dream.
You can hear a blues harmonica in Quicksand.
Therefore, some people call this concert president's mountain in the Chinese music industry concert.
To this day when writing this article, open the b station,
There are 21 other people watching this concert from 20 years ago.
In 2001, Tao Zhe and Mei Yanfang met and then came together.
Although it was not made public, Mei Yanfang introduced him to her best confidant, Zhang Guorong.
In 2003, Mei Yanfang was diagnosed with cancer and proposed to break up, until the condition was exposed, Tao Zhe did not understand the painstaking heart behind the breakup.
Later, Mei Gu died, and he carried the coffin for Mei Yanfang at her funeral and wrote "Her Song" for her.
Suddenly, I found that Youth had gray hair
Love makes people forget to be afraid
The barren heart does not need to be understood
She was a dream I didn't want to wake up from
The phrase "She is a dream I don't want to wake up" made everyone cry.
Slowly, Tao Zhe disappeared, occasionally helping others write a few songs, and then I heard that he was married in a low-key manner.
The most recent big storm was probably his derailment in 2015.
At that time, Tao Zhe held a press conference in Taiwan and solemnly apologized: "I did cheat after marriage, and I apologize to my family and fans."
Then he made a PPT document about his infidelity, admitted that he cheated after marriage, and explained the time, place, person, process, summary in detail...
Even the apology for cheating is so serious about doing a ppt, it can be said that it is the first person in history.
A little funny, a little bit of a pity, a small part of those insults that came out of the sky may have heard his songs, in this internet age where human nature does not allow stains.
Some say they deserve it, some people sigh softly.
Then he later participated in a variety show, dragging the 50-year-old body for a long time, helping Yuan Yawei adapt the song to make the harmony "Forever young".
The song adaptation was very amazing, and then opened the forum hot review first:
"Tao Zhe, is it the scumbag who cheated and still did ppt?"
His stain was so glaring, his PPT was used for entertainment and mockery, his music and seriousness, in being ignored.
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The birth process of the album "Black Liuding" was made into a documentary, and at the end, some producers expressed concern that the Chinese music scene was moving in a similar way to Tao Zhe.
And 15 years later, his concerns are now all a reality.
The content of the music is greater than the form, and people are obsessed with idols rather than the works that idols show.
A song that sucks so bad that it doesn't have any substance, replaced by the smiling faces of the bean lovers "open", there are a large number of fans who spend money on digital singles, buy them or even don't listen to them.
Rushing traffic is more important than listening to songs, and seeing the faces of brothers and sisters is more important than the work itself.
All the data is red, but none of the songs are really "red".
So back to the question posed by young people who didn't know Tao Zhe at the beginning: "Is he very popular?"
The people of that era were speechless.
At that time, Tao Zhe sang the inner self, accused the destruction of war, lamented the contradictions of love, denounced irresponsible public opinion, complained about the era of the supremacy of money, ridiculed indifferent interpersonal relations and attacked the disappearance of truth and fairness...
Today's stains are like screws stuck into a finger that can't move.
Red or not red, can only wait for a wave of young people to open the player in the afternoon, randomly play the old songs to 20 years ago, say a word: Eh? Sounds good, is it a new song?
This may be the answer given by time.