In 2003, the Voice of Taipei launched the "100 Popular Songs of the Twentieth Century Chinese World" voting activity, with 180,000 people participating in the vote, and Faye Wong's "I Do" topped the list.
In 1994, Faye Wong launched the album "Fan", and the company's original title song was "Obsessed Without Regrets".
Under Faye Wong's strong opposition, "I Do" became the main hit.
This song pushed Faye Wong to the throne of "diva" in one fell swoop, and the album sold more than 2 million copies in Asia.
not only achieved Faye Wong, but also achieved another person.
He is the composer of "I Do", Huang Guolun.
Xin Xiaoqi's "Taste" and Fan Xiaoxuan's "Tears" were both created by Huang Guolun.
But the gold medal producer has always had a dream of becoming a singer in his heart, and he has also been saddled with a huge debt of 11 million for this.
Huang Guolun was born in Taiwan in 1962 and has formed an indissoluble bond with music since childhood.
When he was in middle school, Huang Guolun joined a guitar club at school and became the president not long after.
After graduating from high school, Huang Guolun was admitted to the Department of Management Science of National Chiao Tung University.
On the university campus, he used his spare time to find a folk song restaurant and served as a resident singer.
It can not only subsidize the family, but also pursue the dream of music.
In 1983, Huang Guolun united some students who love music to form the "Spring Rain Orchestra".
By chance, Huang Guolun saw a recruitment information for a talent show called "University City", and he signed up with the mentality of giving it a try.
In the competition, Huang Guolun's "Spring Rain Orchestra" not only defeated the duo of Li Ji and Lin Zhixuan, but also defended the championship ten times, and finally won the championship.
After the competition, a record company noticed Huang Guolun and threw an olive branch to him, wanting to package him to sing other people's songs.
At that time, Huang Guolun wanted to be an original musician, but declined.
After graduating from university, he worked for a beverage company called "Black Pine Soda".
I go to work during the day, and when I come home at night to write songs, the candles burn at both ends.
After a long time, Huang Guolun couldn't stand it anymore, and he asked himself: This is the life I want?
Huang Guolun decided to give it a go, quit his current job, and devote himself to music.
He agreed with his parents that for a period of four years, if he couldn't do well in music, he would go back to be an office worker for the rest of his life.
In 1991, Huang Guolun, who had nothing, borrowed a large sum of money, rented a small house, bought some expensive musical instruments, and was bound to write a shocking musical composition.
Every day, he rode the dilapidated "old wolf" motorcycle to Taipei to deliver songs to the record company, but he was returned for reasons such as boredom and superficiality.
In that golden age of the Chinese music scene, the tear-jerking love songs of the Four Heavenly Kings were in power, and the works written by Huang Guolun had neither sensational melodies nor fierce drum beats, which seemed particularly out of place.
In the past four years, he wrote and retired, and continued to write.
Finally, in the last year of the four-year period, his career took a turn for the better.
The record company told him that a singer named Wang Jingwen is coming to Taiwan to develop, if you don't write a song for her, she is very good at singing.
At that time, Huang Guolun was deeply shrouded in frustration for four years, and he no longer knew how to write songs.
There were two voices in his heart that clashed fiercely, and one voice said: Don't write, it won't be popular, give up.
Another voice said: Kneel down and pray.
Huang Guolun chose the latter, he reverently knelt on the ground, and made a pure wish to God: I don't want to write a song for fame and fortune and myself this time, if I can, I want to write a song for love and for you.
Heaven seemed to give him a response, Huang Guolun heard a melody in his heart, and he quickly found paper and a pen to memorize this melody.
The next day, he gave the song to the record label.
At that time, Huang Guolun never thought that "I Do" not only made Faye Wong popular all over the Chinese regions of the world, but also made him jump from an unknown little transparent to a hot producer.
In 1995, Wong Kwok-lun was awarded the title of "Best Creator of the Year" by Hong Kong Commercial Radio, and in the previous seven years, only Li Zongsheng and Luo Dayou had two winners.
Since then, his creative talent has been completely unleashed, and he has successively created popular songs such as "Taste" and "Don't Say It to Her", and each album has easily exceeded one million sales.
The theme song of the same name composed by Huang Guolun for the movie "Half Life" won the "Best Original Film Song Award" at the Golden Horse Awards.
The good times did not last long, the problem of piracy became more and more serious, the record market gradually declined, and the entire record industry fell into an unprecedented winter.
With the support of the owner of Rolling Stone Records, Huang Guolun founded "Keli Music" and released his own double album "Heaven and Earth" in 2000, but in the end it was still unable to resist the cold current of the market.
Huang Guolun, who was not confused in his old age, was on the verge of bankruptcy, he sold his recording studio, worked as a DJ in a small radio station, and barely made ends meet.
In 2007, Huang Guolun met his current wife Kou Naixin, when Kou Naixin recorded "Kangxi is Coming", and the program wanted to invite music judges, and Kou Naixin recommended Huang Guolun.
Unexpectedly, the ratings of this episode soared, opening the door to a new career for Huang Guolun.
Huang Guolun became popular again, as a host.
After experiencing the ups and downs of life, things have changed and stars have changed, and Huang Guolun's music dream is still blazing.
During that time, Huang Guolun had a dream in which a coach asked him to jump up and touch the ceiling, from a 10-meter room to a 20-meter and 50-meter room, he miraculously touched it.
Eventually, he was taken to a huge gymnasium, where his coach still asked him to touch the ceiling.
Huang Guolun knew that he was in the Bird's Nest in Beijing, and he smiled bitterly: "Impossible, unless I am a superman who can fly!" ”
The instructor looked firmly at him and said, "You can fly, it's just that you don't know!" Jump! Go touch the ceiling! ”
Huang Guolun looked at the dome of the bird's nest with apprehension and jumped hard......
Later, I woke up from the dream.
It was the most real dream he'd ever had, and it still vividly remembers it.
This dream quietly took root in Huang Guolun's heart, and he wanted to do something.
Huang Guolun decided to hold a concert of his own, and the venue of the concert was the Bird's Nest.
Ordinary people dare not hold a concert in the Bird's Nest, and if the venue of 100,000 people is not filled, it will not only become the laughing stock of others, but also face huge risks.
For this concert, Huang Guolun and his wife Kou Naixin paid nearly 30 million out of their own pockets, invested a lot of energy and financial resources, and invited Huang Qishan, Deng Ziqi, Jin Zhiwen, and Zhou Huajian as concert guests.
Cui Jian, Su Youpeng, Deng Cuiwen, and Fan Xiaoxuan, who has not seen visitors in retreat, all cheered for Huang Guolun in a rare way.
The concert was not favored, and the outside world continued to question and ridicule, and many people said that it would be an "empty nest concert".
There are also some people who support him and leave messages and want to see it, but they don't have the money.
In order to allow more people to participate in this music feast, Huang Guolun launched dream tickets with 88, 188, and 288 prices despite the dissuasion of the team.
Not only to fulfill his own dreams, but also to fulfill the dreams of those who have heard his songs.
The number of people on the day of the concert far exceeded expectations, but compared with the investment in the early stage, it was insignificant, not to mention that Huang Guolun also sold the original price of 280 tickets at a price of 88 yuan.
The dream, after a bloody battle, was realized, but Huang Guolun was saddled with a debt of 11 million.
This incident has become a topic of conversation in the entertainment industry after dinner, and some netizens even said that only seven people actually attended his concert.
But whenever there is a variety show in which Huang Guolun participates, the concert will be taken out and slack.
"Other singers held concerts, and media reported that he made money; Huang Guolun held a concert, and the media suspected that he was doing charity"
"The Bird's Nest tickets are more than 100, and his tickets are 88, giving everyone a chance to visit the Bird's Nest!"
Huang Guolun was not angry at all about everyone's ridicule, and laughed at himself as "Bird's Nest Lun", saying that he really didn't lose much.
Huang Guolun said that he set the ticket price at 88 yuan, originally to sympathize with those who are more financially difficult, but he did not expect that in the end he became financially difficult.
Some people said that there were seven people at his concert, and Huang Guolun responded humorously in a video: There are 11 relatives who are present, and there are friends who come to support, at least 14 people.
Huang Guolun decided to know before the Bird's Nest concert that this would be a defeat, and he did it without hesitation.
Twenty-five years ago, Huang Guolun resolutely quit the "iron rice bowl", preferring to go hungry and ride a tattered second-hand motorcycle every day, but also to buy the top equipment.
He gets up early every day and travels back and forth to Taipei, just to send his works out and seek a chance to be recognized.
In the past four years, he was frequently rejected, and no one was optimistic about him, and all he thought about at that time was: I want to do this, regardless of the result, just leave no regrets.
Huang Guolun wrote a song for the Bird's Nest concert, called "Know or Don't Know", this song is a true portrayal of him: I don't know if I will be able to realize my dream in the future, but I know that I will fight hard.