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Real name: Steve Chou.

Stage name: Xiaogang

Birthday:1June 7, 969

Constellation: Gemini

Blood type: O type

Height: 178cm

Weight: 68 kg

Native place: Hubei Provincial Public Security Bureau

Favorite book: weiyang song, Norwegian forest

Good at musical instruments: guitar, piano, drum, electronic synthesizer.

Steve Chou is not just Xiao Gang.

Xiao Gang

With a song "Hasa Aceh", it became popular in the streets.

White and gentle campus love song prince

With the original intention of loving music

Create hard.

Become a singer producer as an artist.

Not only the transformation was successful, but also many classic popular love songs were produced.

Recently, Dusk, which was produced and sung by an individual, swept across Asia.

It also made Kelly Chen popular in the music circle with his notebook

Richie Jen's lyrical song list captured by the eternal night is long-lasting.

Na Ying betrayed and created another dazzling style in Chinese mainland.

Is there a song in Emil Wakin Chau that has created new achievements for the king of the country?

A golden song written for the heavenly king.

Over the years, we have seen more than just "idol singer" Xiaogang.

This is also "gold medal making" Steve Chou.

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Recent chronicle

-In 2003, he was invited to produce and sing a song for Shanghai Oriental Radio Station Dynamic 10 1.

-In 2003, Jay Chou, Taojiji and Adu were called "Four donkey kong" and "Four Wonders" in the Mainland.

-china national radio's Best Male Singer-Hong Kong and Taiwan's list of Chinese original golden songs in 2003-Steve Chou's "By My Side" and "Singing for You"

-In 2004, he was hired as the music director of China Light Communication Entertainment Center and made the theme song for it.

-In 2004, the large-scale ticketing concert "I am with you" was held in Singapore, Steve Chou.

-2004 Singapore Y.E.S 933 Intoxicated Golden Melody Award-Annual IFPI Sales Champion (competitors Jay Chou, Tao Jiji and Stephanie in the same year)

-Joined Universal Records in 2004 and released the album Sea of Men.

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Albums over the years

1989 438+02./ collection of nobody.

-[Winner of Youth Star Campus Creation Competition]

1990/ Gemini Dialogue-Green

-[Days without you/rainy season of life]

1990. 12./ finally learned-green

-[I may be a joke/lose everything/I finally learned]

199 1.8/ Reluctant to let you go-Green

-[SAYONARA/ I can't bear to leave you/Dust]-Give a wink.

1992.4/ Xiaogang's world of flowers and flowers-Green

-[Hasa Yaqi/Send you a rose]-Make it look good.

-Huahua World Poker is on sale simultaneously.

1993.3./ Silk Road Photography-Green

-[Accompany me to the end of the world/dry my sadness/say something]-Let it look good.

-Photos and videos &; Synchronized photo album

1994.3/ Discovery-Green

-[Go home/send love far away/hold your hand]-Make it look good.

1995.4./ Half of love-one hundred generations of descendants of Yi Ke Bai Dai

-"Half Love/Leaving You for the 77th Time"-produced by Border Town

-Script+music video released simultaneously.

1995. 1 1./ Starting from the heart-a hundred generations of seeds of Yike.

-"Don't ask me how to live after breaking up/tell me you don't love me"-produced by Border Town

-Simultaneous release of music videos

1997. 1./ My heart is too chaotic-the EMI seed of EcoEMI

-"My heart is too chaotic/warm wind/hold me tight/hollow"-produced by Border Town

2000. 12.28./ Transfer-Sony

—— Forgetting/Selling/Lonely Bombing/Notebook/Dusk —— Produced by Hasayak

200 1. 1/ Selected Steve Chou Music Notebook-Fumao

-[Dry my sadness/I can't bear to leave you/Hasa Yaqi/Notepad/Lonely Bombing]

2003. 10.7./ dubbing-Ai Hui

I'm By My Side/Singing for You/Love Me for One More Second/Flowers/Hasayach 2003/ Dusk-Produced by Hasayak

2004. 1./ Steve Chou gave you a limited number of songs and videos-national TV culture.

I'm with you/A song for you/Love me for another second-produced by Hasek

September 2004/Steve Chou's Singaporean Concert "I'm By My Side" DVD- Universal.

-"Dusk/I'm around/A song for you/Hasek"-Hasek produced.

2004. 1 1./ Steve Chou's "Ocean Man" remix-global.

-"Other worlds/men". Ocean/When I Love You Most/Restore Hasayake Production

June 29th, 2005/Steve Chou's Legend under the Starry Sky-Global.

Bad feelings/under the starry sky/the cold of lonely sandbars/the night dawn in Shanghai/the passing away/goodbye to the snow in the Arctic-produced by Hasek.

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Music making

Advertising soundtrack: Boka potato chips advertisement

Dongsen's easy-to-buy soundtrack

Stage music: screen performance of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom stage plays.

Screen performance courseware Peking Opera Apocalypse Stage Play

Music Series (Mainland): My Brothers and Sisters-[Liu Xiaoqing, Kristy Yang, Li Youbin, He Bing]

Idol TV soundtrack: Betta TV soundtrack-[Guo Pinchao, Lan Zhenglong, An]

My Secret Garden Ⅱ-[Zhang Tianlin Ariel Lin]

Lavender TV soundtrack-[Ambrose, Chen Yirong]

See also the TV soundtrack of orange blossom scenery-[Chen Sihan, Yang Youning, Zhang Zuze, Guan Ying]

MVP couples TV soundtrack -[5566, Angela Zhang]

West Street Youth TV soundtrack -[5566, Wallace Huo, Cyndi Wang, Liu Pinyan]

Strictly come to dance with TV soundtrack-[Hong Jialing, Chen Yufan]

Dolphin Bay lovers TV soundtrack-[Ambrose, Wallace Huo, Angela Zhang, Lin Weijun]

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Advertising endorsement

77 chocolate upstart

SonyP 1 digital camera

Sulong sneakers

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Creative masterpiece

Dusk (Steve Chou), Forgetting (Steve Chou), My Heart is Too Chaos (Steve Chou), Hasa Aceh (Steve Chou), Warm Wind (Steve Chou), I'm By My Side (Steve Chou), Notebook (Kelly Chen), Snow in the Arctic (Kelly Chen, Von Delun). Start over (Richie Jen), Gunfire (5566), Legend (5566), True Love (5566), I am sad (5566), I am sad (5566), Being (5566), Waiting (5566), Youth Dance 2001(B.A. That year, we 17 years old (Peter Ho), wanted to listen to it again (Tao Liping), practice it (Kawashima Makiyo), be lonely (Zhang Dongliang), unusual (Lu Yi), you said (Song Xinni), stay away from me (Pin Guan), and be trustworthy (Guo Pinchao). ......

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An artist who collaborates in music production or creation.

Na Ying (Mainland), Kelly Chen (Hong Kong), Richie Jen (Taiwan Province), Emil Wakin Chau (Taiwan Province), Adu (New), Sun Nan (Mainland), Lu Yi (Mainland), Xu Zhian (Hong Kong), Su Yongkang (Hong Kong), Feng Delun (Hong Kong), Zheng Yijian (Hong Kong), 5566 (Taiwan Li Yijun (Taiwan Province), Yu Taiyan (Taiwan Province), Huang Weide (Taiwan Province), BAD (Taiwan Province), R&B (Taiwan Province), Dawn (Hong Kong), Cockroach (Taiwan Province), Articles (Taiwan Province) and Xie Lijin (Taiwan). ......

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Personal introduction

Don't want to be a bad boy of Little Tiger.

Like most musicians who laughed at the past after becoming famous, Steve Chou talked about the beginning of his musical career: he had musical dreams and talents in his childhood, so he was easy to sing since he was a child. However, his poor family made him have a more difficult growth history than others. Listening to Steve Chou's relaxed words without exaggeration, he felt a different kind of bitterness in peace.

He said that because of the poor family environment since childhood, his family did not recognize his ideal, because he felt that the artist became famous after his death and suffered a lot before his death, so his parents wanted him to study hard and thought that studying science and engineering was more promising. Just when he was in the third grade of middle school, his mother suddenly separated from his father and never disappeared. Some male chauvinist fathers think this is a rather shameful thing. Their hair turns white overnight and they run away from home. Since then, his family has been ruined, and his brothers and sisters studying in different places have started to work to support themselves. Later, I saw media reports that Steve Chou, who attended the CCTV Mid-Autumn Festival in Beijing, said that he never celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival because his mother's birthday was the Mid-Autumn Festival. For the whole family, the Mid-Autumn Festival is not a reunion, but a discrete memory.

Family changes made Steve Chou a work-study student at the age of 16, and he wanted to earn tuition. He said that he had a sense of crisis from the year his mother left: what should I do in the future? That made him precocious than the average person, but he probably didn't think that such a sense of crisis would run through his later life.

Young Steve Chou did a lot of work. Besides attending classes and working in the YMCA of Taiwan Province Province, winter and summer vacations are good opportunities for him to work and try different industries. He used to drive a taxi with his brother's license plate. His brother drives at night and he drives during the day. He set up a stall to sell earrings, went to the factory to wholesale raw materials and came back to make all kinds of earrings himself, so that a pair of earrings could be sold for 100 yuan at a cost of 100 yuan, which actually sold well. He smiled and said, "It's for mature female guests." Steve Chou, a minor, worked in a restaurant, worked as a decorator, electrician's assistant, truck driver and younger brother, and also worked as a swimming coach. He is thin and often does some dangerous manual work. However, looking back with a smile, he said that he had experienced a lot at that time, and instead of feeling hard, he was very happy, because no one was in charge and he spent all the money.

In this life, Steve Chou began to learn a variety of musical instruments at the same time, and began to form a band with his classmates. 1987 began to participate in the inter-school music creation competition. He didn't get excellent results in the competition. However, he said, "At that time, there were a number of new talents in the competition. It's strange that I grew up writing songs commercially. My first song was very commercial, so my song became the first title song. " The name of that song is Dust and Smoke. It was this song that got him into the recording industry.

Introduced by a friend, Steve Chou entered the record company that initially tried to create the famous "Little Tiger", and he laughed and called it the "Little Tiger" generation zero member. /kloc-started to do dance training in the company at the age of 0/8 and found that the company wanted to be a pure idol group. He is bent on being a "strength faction" and feels "very humiliated and afraid of being laughed at". In addition, he thinks it is troublesome to coordinate with each other and it is not easy to do things. So, he bid farewell to the upcoming super idol "Little Tiger" group and entered another record company.

At that time, Steve Chou was a "very troublesome" newcomer. Most people think that it is a good thing to have a company to sign a contract, but Steve Chou, who is better than a singer, always has more ideas and demands. When he signed the contract, he asked him to create his own records, asked him to learn how to make them and finally made his own records. In his mind, he hopes to have achievements like famous producers, bugs, Yang and Niu at that time. But in the end, some companies didn't think of Steve Chou's "trouble", accepted his idea and signed a contract with him.

Young Steve Chou was positioned as a gentle and clean student singer and quickly became an unexpected student idol singer. The era of Xiaogang has begun.

Xiao Gang full of sense of crisis

"Xiaogang" is a nickname for Steve Chou. He likes the name very much. From the first day of school, when each child introduces himself, he writes "Xiao Gang" on the blackboard. When he was about to release his first record, the boss thought that the name "Steve Chou" sounded like an old man, and many strokes were hard to remember, so he decided to give him a stage name. There are many names, but none of them are ideal. Finally, he decided to call it "Xiao Gang". The name is a little different, but it will soon be remembered.

When the second album "Finally Learned" came out, Xiao Gang saved fire in Taiwan Province. The business director of the company came to him and said, "Your records are out of stock." Because the owner of a small shop said that whoever can give him a thousand Zhang Xiaogang records now will marry his daughter to that person. At that time, Steve Chou 19 years old knew nothing about this situation. The company arranged a publicity activity for him to go to a department store in Taichung. When he passed by by car, he found a sea of people and traffic jams. He was still thinking, "Who's coming today?" I didn't know all these people were looking for him. He doesn't know how popular he is or why he is. He just has confidence that the singer can go on.

At that time, Steve Chou was still studying. As a singer and a student, he has been very busy. Every day, he has to consider how to coordinate his study and time as a singer and how to avoid being expelled from school. Because he has to do publicity and be on the show, he is either busy taking time off after noon every day, or sometimes he simply skips class. His school is in the mountains, and he wants to promote it in the city. Steve Chou bought a car with his newly earned money and drove to the city after class at noon every day. In the car, he was busy taking care of everything, so while driving, he had to make up for dinner, so that he could record the program as soon as he got there.

At the same time, his success made him a man of the hour in the school. His classmates and teachers are either proud of him or look on coldly, but he still enjoys his success. But being busy and happy didn't make him give up his studies. He thinks it's basic to finish the book. What if the record doesn't succeed? From the beginning, he told his boss that he could not be forced to drop out of school. The boss also supported his idea and even helped him communicate with the teacher when he was absent from class. He always seems to have more plans for the future, which he was forced to learn from the year when his mother left.

He said that he couldn't see the future because he took the road of music. He chose this road just because he liked it. At that time, I often heard people say that he was an idol artist, which made him think about what he should do. So he used his popularity to learn to make music, so that he could continue to make his favorite music when the record failed. He also thought that if not, he could go to a bar as a pianist. This is a great thing! Think clearly about yourself and you can go on like this.

The road to reality seems to be specially prepared for his sense of crisis. When Steve Chou was popular for three or four years, and the fifth album "Accompany me to the End of the World" came out, this thoughtful guy found the internationally popular world music style at that time very interesting, and simply made a record of this style by himself, using many elements of traditional China music. Moreover, in order to match the style of his album, he also pulled the music video and photos of his album to the northwest Silk Road in the mainland for shooting. Unfortunately, this groundbreaking work has not been favored by the market, and the sharp decline in record sales has dealt a blow to Steve Chou for the first time since he entered the recording industry. The rise of world music and Chinese style in China music came after 1997. Steve Chou's first music, Waterloo, took place in 1994.

At that time, he had just graduated from school, and it was time to take the first step in society. This record is also the first one he made himself. He and his boss, who have been working well together, have a bad relationship because of their unsuccessful record. He complained that the boss didn't do a good job in publicity and distribution. The boss blamed him for his poor music, so one refused to do it and the other refused to distribute it, and he was frozen there for a year. This is the first time that Steve Chou realized the horror of not having to make a record. He doesn't know what to do next, and the direction is completely unclear. So he chose to study languages abroad and music in England. A year of cold silence made him mature and calm. But he did not expect that a more severe test was yet to come.

Days in the Shadow of "Old Enemy" Jeff Chang Shin-Che Shenche

Although the sales volume of the record is not ideal, the production of this record and his trip to the Silk Road in the Mainland have brought far-reaching influence to Steve Chou. Especially when traveling in the mainland, he saw the opening of the world and different lifestyles. He said that this made him have his own outlook on the world and life for the first time, and made him feel that people's unhappiness or what music they need does not depend on the complicated conditions that people usually attach, but a more essential feeling. So, he started an avant-garde move that other singers in Taiwan Province Province wouldn't have, and decided to travel to Yunnan, the mainland. Before, he negotiated with the record company and he came up with a record of world music. However, after he came back, the company refused to release the album. Up to now, the music he collected is still in his hand. He said that his idea may be too avant-garde, and it may not be time to make such a world music record in Taiwan Province Province until now. At that time, he still enthusiastically believed that making music meant doing what he wanted, regardless of the market. However, to be a singer, a record company should first consider the market.

At that time, Steve Chou's contract with the original company expired, which coincided with EMI Records, one of the five famous record companies in the world, spreading its battlefield in Taiwan Province Province with great fanfare. Steve Chou, who was at a loss about the future, made a decision, and now he seems to have a problem. Jeff Chang Shin-Che Shenche's agent came to him and made a good deal with him and Jeff Chang Shin-Che Shenche. The two signed a contract with EMI at the same time. At that time, someone reminded him: "You are too similar to Jeff Chang Shin-Che Shinichi, and your agent is too good to Jeff Chang Shin-Che Shinichi. Will it be bad for you to sign this company together? " Steve Chou said, "There are so many singers in such a big company. I don't think so. "

Facts have proved that this is indeed a wrong decision. Steve Chou and Jeff Chang Shin-Che Shenche are "old enemies" in the record market. Jeff Chang Shin-Che Shen Che made her debut earlier and became popular as a student singer. Unexpectedly, he went to military service when he became popular, leaving a market vacancy. When Steve Chou signed a contract with the record company, the boss clearly said, "I just want to be your replacement for Jeff Chang Shin-Che Shenche." Thus, a white, bespectacled and lyrical campus ballad like Jeff Chang Shin-Che Shenche came out. In those two years, Xiaogang really stopped the market. When Jeff Chang Shin-Che Shencher returned from military service, the first two albums could not return to the market in any case. Until one day, Steve Chou heard Jeff Chang Shin-Che's new song on the radio, and Jonathan Lee specially wrote Love Like Tide. "I heard it, it's over, it's not good. That's when I started running down. " Steve Chou smiled now.

Singers of the same type signed a contract with the same company, and the other party was obviously strong, and everyone's energy was concentrated on Jeff Chang Shin-Che Xinche. Steve Chou also released an album, but also faced the problem of how to transform from a student artist when he grew up. The company positioned it as a world singer and collided with the transformed Jeff Chang Shin-Che Shen Che, so the good opportunity will naturally turn to the strong side. At first, life in Steve Chou was very difficult, and I thought it was also very difficult to live in the shadow of Jeff Chang Shin-Che.

He began to think about how to make marketable records. He began to think about what pop music is and what the nature of the recording industry is. He said that he found that the recording industry was doing commercial applications. Music and records were for people to listen to. So he began to try to transform to commercial production and determined to be a commercial producer. "My Heart is Too Chaos" is an album that has gradually matured in the process of exploration. That record didn't get much favor. I didn't expect the album to sell well in the mainland. The mainland invited Xiao Gang to do publicity, but there was no response from Taiwanese companies, because Steve Chou was already a singer on the "blacklist" of EMI.

Those years were Steve Chou's most painful experience as a singer. As an artist, he is coming to an end, but he doesn't know where to go. His contract with EMI has also expired. At this time, it is catching up with the tide of Hong Kong artists entering the Taiwan Province market in large numbers and succeeding one after another, and the market living space becomes more difficult. At that time, the media began to flourish, the singer's publicity expenses began to become higher, and the record investment was larger than before. Most record companies would rather spend money as newcomers than as established Mesozoic singers. In this tide, the market value of many famous singers has become very low. In order to make a living, many people have changed careers, some acting, some hosting, and so on. Steve Chou's record career is almost desperate, and he is also faced with the choice of survival. He thought about it for a long time, and finally felt that if he turned to acting and hosting, he didn't like it himself, and he had little chance of winning. He decided to do what he liked best-making records.

He said that he decided to remould himself. If he couldn't remould himself, he would find someone else, that is, change the lives of all his artists and be behind the scenes. Xiao Gang became a thing of the past, and Steve Chou's music life began.

This is how Steve Chou was tempered.

Steve Chou became a "self-employed" and decided to write songs. He thinks it should be good to write his own songs, and people should not. "But I didn't expect that people really didn't want it at first." Steve Chou couldn't help laughing again. Later, he went to ask people why it was not good, and they told him that his audition tape was too rough and rotten to notice. Among those retired songs, many are popular golden songs that became popular in Chinese-speaking areas later. This lesson made him the best musician in Taiwan Province province since then. He did his best to write lyrics, arrange music, harmony, etc. before he showed it to people. So far, he proudly said, "Just send it directly."

The days of writing songs also depressed him for a long time. Finally, one day, Fumao Records called him and asked him to make a transition record for singer Zhang Kefan. He worked hard for half a year. After the album came out, "Lonely Bombing" became popular, and many people in the industry were asking: "There is a new producer. Who is Steve Chou? " As a result, Hong Kong singers Kelly Chen and Xu Zhian want to enter the Chinese market.

Steve Chou found all Kelly Chen's records to listen to and found that her voice was more suitable for piano. He collected all the information about Kelly Chen, studied her personality and saw what kind of songs she sang. He said that only when the singer sings with emotion can the audience feel. According to Kelly Chen's personality, he specially tailored the song Notepad for her-a song that he once contributed everywhere but nobody cared. This song made Kelly Chen very popular in the Taiwan Province market. This began to establish a position as a commercial producer in Steve Chou.

Kelly Chen's records were made in Hong Kong, and the working style of Hong Kong and its business also taught Steve Chou a lesson, which made him understand the important concept of cost. The other party didn't talk about reception, only gave an address, let Steve Chou go to the recording studio with a box. In the meantime, the agent called and said, "I signed a contract with an artist for money." Can you finish recording quickly? " Finally decided to let him record four songs in three days. Steve Chou, who once wanted to polish his works slowly, got an experience, that is, how to make good things in the shortest time.

Since then, as a producer, the situation in Steve Chou has gradually opened up. Na Ying's "Betrayal", Richie Jen's "Forever Night" and Emil Wakin Chau's "Is there a song that reminds you of me" and other songs are popular, making Steve Chou a famous network producer. His songs are lyrical, catchy and pleasant to listen to, and they sing very fast, which also won him the reputation of "godfather of love songs". Later, he made music for two idol dramas "Lavender" and "mvp Lover", which were very sensational in Taiwan Province Province, winning the popularity of Ambrose and 5566 in one fell swoop and establishing his authoritative position as a commercial producer. At the moment, no one in the record market remembers the young singer Xiaogang. The industry only knows that there is a hot record producer, Steve Chou.

However, he didn't give up his record, but once he released it, his bumpy fate came again.

Twilight is full of stolen pirates.

I have written more golden songs for others and accumulated more. Sony Records found Steve Chou and decided to give him an album, which was released in Taiwan Province in 2000. The new release just happened to catch up with the high-level changes of Sony Records, and it was reorganized. As soon as this record was released, people sank into the sea, so Steve Chou told his boss to cancel the contract.

However, in May 2002, he found his collection of works very popular in the Mainland. In 200 1 year, Steve Chou was invited by Sony Music Director Chen Yaochuan to produce Man Wenjun's album "I Need You" in the mainland. After the album was finished, he found that there were pirated copies of his album in the video store in Beijing. He felt very strange: "Is there a pirated me here?" At the same time, I thought it was fun, so I bought it as a souvenir. I didn't expect other record stores to find three or four different pirated copies. He was surprised and kept buying. As a result, he collected more than a dozen pirated copies of the same record. At the same time, he met different people and they said to him, "Your song Twilight is very popular!" He thinks everyone is complimenting him. Therefore, Anhui TV found the provincial TV station and asked to record Steve Chou's "Song Friends". He was very surprised. After being invited to Anhui, he was surprised to see so many enthusiastic fans in the studio. A friend said to him, "Let's go on more programs and see what's going on." So he walked around the mainland concert and went to all the places. It suddenly dawned on me that I was already a very popular singer in the mainland, and the song "Twilight" was really popular. And all this is actually thanks to piracy! He walked around the mainland and found that there were more than 100 pirated copies of his records. A friend did a survey for him in Anhui. In this place alone, his pirated records have sold more than 5 million copies. However, this collection, which was neglected in Taiwan Province and never released in mainland China, brought Steve Chou unexpected gains in the form of piracy, and made him re-enter the stage as a singer. How can such a life experience not make him feel!

Steve Chou expressed his fear about his dark red in the mainland, because as a trader with rich business experience in the record market, when he was frustrated repeatedly as a singer, it was incredible that he succeeded in this way now, even he could not understand it. And he began to study why his "My heart is too chaotic" to "Twilight" will become popular, so that the new album will have new dedication.

In July this year, Steve Chou held his own solo concert in Singapore, during which he cried three times. On the stage, he had a passage that moved many people to tears. The article says, "Hey, have you ever had a dream? Or I lost my dream. I did, but it was broken. From playing (music) group college students to Xiaogang period, to writing and making songs, for a time ... I thought I would never record again, until one day, on the street in a foreign land, I heard a song of my own, which was constantly played on the street, because it changed me and made me believe it.