Who is Tao Zhe, is it very red?
Time back to October 18, 2019, jay Chou's shanghai concert was the second concert.
Last month, Jay Chou held a concert in Shanghai, and Tao Zhe, who had not been seen for a long time, appeared under the scene.
Jay Chou used only one sentence to express his respect for the R&B godfather:
"When I first debuted, I was actually deeply influenced by you, because I think the best R&B sang was Tao Zhe."
Many young people may have no impression of the name, but in the more than two decades that the entire Chinese music scene has been baptized by the R&B shock, Tao Zhe's name should occupy the top spot in this wave.
If there is a time machine back to Taiwan 15 years ago, someone asked who the godfather of the music world at that time, Luo Dayou, and the super new king Jay Chou most admired.
The answer can only be Tao Zhe.
In 1998, Tao Zhe was nominated for the Best Composer Award, the Best Record Producer Award, the Best Chinese Singer Award, and the Best Chinese Male Singer Award at the 9th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards with "David Tao", and successfully won the weighty Best Newcomer Award and the Best Record Producer Award.
Being able to bring such a refreshing and shocking album to the Chinese music scene in 1997 is no longer comparable to that of ordinary singer-songwriters.
The next "I'm Ok" released in 1999 and "Black Liuding" released in 2002, three consecutive high-quality divine albums allowed Tao Zhe to successfully cross the newcomer wall of the Golden Melody Awards, laying his irreplaceable godfather status in the R&B field.
The new person is not new, look for yourself in doubt
Tao Zhe was 28 years old when he won the Golden Melody Award for Best Newcomer, which is not too young.
Before his official debut, he had produced many albums for big-name singers such as Chen Shuhua, Zhang Xinzhe, Du Dewei, Zheng Zhongji and so on behind the scenes, and his production ability had long been professionally affirmed by insiders.
The first time his Bole master Wang Zhiping heard Tao Zhe's own music, he was amazed and felt that "this child is really a genius."
At that time, singers with strong singing were actually not particularly handsome.
A singer like Tao Zhe, who is absolutely impossible to debut by looks, is far from being able to bring him the sense of security he needs.
He felt that the job of an artist should only take up 5%-10% of his life, and of the remaining 90%, he needed to hide back in his own black hole.
It is widely accepted that Tao Zhe's reign in the music scene should be from 1997 to 2006, with a peak period of nearly nine years.
He also used to be a brother in the Taiwanese music scene.
"Zhou Tao Wang Lin", the four most outstanding singer-songwriters at that time, all once did each other's momentary Yu Liang.
Compared with the other three, Tao Zhe's fade out seemed too early.
A few years ago, he also participated in the mainland variety show "Almighty Star Wars", competing on the same stage with singers such as Sun Nan and Wu Kequn, but the impact was not large.
Perhaps it is not the best time to catch up with the variety show, even if his adaptation is reinvested, it will not be able to stir up the splash of the year like "Taiping Shengshi".
Classics such as "Just Love You", "Love Me or Him", "Susan Says" and so on, including "Today You're Going to Marry Me", which still sounds like a hippy love song, and this song even won the best song of the Golden Melody Award that year.
There are music fans who comment that listening to Tao Zhe's songs must be played in order, otherwise it is easy to miss his ingenious thoughts in the song order arrangement.
In particular, the album "69 Movements", the first pure musical overture "May God Have Mercy" and the second "Chaos ∞ Bad" came down, and the sense of high-quality of the song created by the scene atmosphere, and the almost roaring scream of the climax part, were enough to make the first-time listener get goosebumps.
The quality of this album is still not inferior to today, ten years later.
The public generally believes that this album was a turning point in Tao Zhe's career as a singer, and he lost his influence on popular pop music from this album.
Not because it's bad, but because it's too good.
A few years ago, Tao Zhe, who was 34 years old, imagined to the camera in "No. 11 Maternity Room" that he would be 40 years old in 6 years.
What kind of songs will a 40-year-old make?
Then we saw this "69 Movements".
The "Firebird Gong" in which the second soul broke out,
Tao Zhe was officially crowned the King of Golden Melody because of this album.
In the Chinese music scene, there are definitely only a few singers with such top creative ability and can remain evergreen.
After doing the album, he got drunk and cried, saying he gave the best to fans and the company this time.
This time, Tao Zhe completely let go of the temptation of commerciality and non-commerciality, that is, completely casually made an album he wanted to express.
Not only is it a tribute to his rock years, which have always been a great influence, but also a beautiful remembrance of the days related to youth before the age of 40.
In this divine album, there is a very special self-described rap "About Tao Zhe", which recalls his experience from his debut to the present and a frank self-dissection.