One
Many years later, Lu Guanting still lamented his father's affair.
His father was Cantonese opera master Lu Haitian, who was in the same circle as Bruce Lee's father, Li Haiquan, and was also a good friend.
Lu Haitian grew a jade tree facing the wind, sang well in the play, and also let loose the skeleton, chanting "Tang poems" at an unfathomable level, and there were many "good ones" in the rivers and lakes.
"Goose goose goose goose" sings too much, will lay eggs. It is rumored that he laid 9 "eggs" outside, and Lu Guanting was only one of them.
It is also coincidental that there are hearts to plant flowers and flowers, and there is no heart to plant willows.
Lu Haitian's main room is cantonese opera Hua dan Tan Xiuzhen, whether the two sing opera chants together, or plant flowers and willows, after hard work, they are all grainless.
Seeing that there was no child under her knees, Mrs. Tan Xiuzhen decided to adopt a child.
Lu Haitian listened to the music, gladly accepted the order, the inner small abacus played quickly, immediately hugged back the 4 children, let the wife not be polite, choose at will.
Because these 4 children are actually his "species", which one he chooses is his child and his father, and the "sale" that makes no loss.
Tan Xiuzhen saw that 4 babies were hugged at once, 3 were crying, and only 1 did not cry, so she used the exclusion method to choose this one that did not cry, which was the later Lu Guanting.
No one expected that her seemingly absurd choice had actually changed Lu Guanting's fate.
Although the father is charming, his son Lu Guanting has not inherited his "high-quality genes" at all, and if he wants to eat by the face, he can only play the "clown".
What is even more unexpected is that this boy actually has "dyslexia", and reading is more difficult than ascending to the sky.
So far, there have not been many domestic studies on "dyslexia", let alone Hong Kong in the 1950s.
Studies in the United States have shown that the proportion of adolescents with this symptom is as high as ten percent, Einstein who does not do a small bench, Edison who can't even mix in elementary school... Are suspected patients with this symptom.
No one knows whether this was a congenital symptom or the circumstances of his childhood.
After all, after leaving his birth mother, Lu Guanting was very jealous of his adoptive mother, and he didn't even dare to ask his birth mother, let alone go to her... In his childhood, his young mind must have been traumatized.
Fortunately, Lu Guanting grew up living with his grandmother. At his strong request, his grandmother also spent 700 Hong Kong dollars to buy him a guitar, although it was not very good, but he also had a lot of fun.
No one expected that it was such an accident that sowed the seeds of changing his destiny for him.
Two
Fortunately, when Lu Guanting was 13 years old, his parents immigrated to the United States and took him with them.
After arriving in the United States, Lu Guanting, who already had dyslexia, encountered a problem that he had to face, that is, the language barrier, and he had to learn English from scratch.
So, at the age of 13, he was put into the class of children, although the children were not very friendly to him, but after all, his size was there, and he would not lose money in the fight.
What's more, Bruce Lee, who set up the "Zhen Fan Guoshu Museum" in Seattle at that time, was his family friend, and the two families often moved around, and if they moved out of this benevolent brother, no one would dare to bully him.
Lu Guanting, who is 10 years younger than Bruce Lee, lives in Seattle in the same room where Bruce Lee lived. When Bruce Lee went to shoot The Green Hornet, he gave him the room along with the contents.
At that time, he could not imagine that this big brother would become a sensational "Chinese kung fu" superstar.
He must not have imagined that Bruce Lee's brilliant life would be as short as a shooting star, and what he left behind would become a "rare treasure" in the future.
Years later, whenever Lu Guanting mentioned this matter, he deeply regretted it, perhaps because he did not cherish these items at that time.
What's more, at that time, he was in school, and it was extremely difficult for him to cope with the daily lessons.
Once, the teacher asked the students to recite a poem. Lu Guanting, who has dyslexia, is extremely difficult to just know the above words, and if he wants to recite and perform with emotion, it is simply more difficult than ascending to the sky.
Fortunately, he usually likes music very much, and when he has time, he listens to the music of the Beatles, Michael Jackson and others, and American country music is also his favorite...
So he said to the teacher with sincere trepidation: "Can I sing this poem in the form of a song?" ”
The black teacher said, "Why not?"
As a result, at a young age, Lu Guanting composed the first song in his life, which was applauded by teachers and classmates, and "toured" in several other classes.
Since then, Lu Guanting found that god had set up a great obstacle at the beginning of his life, and at the same time, he also secretly gave him a key to open the door of destiny.
Therefore, he grasped the key tightly and studied music more wholeheartedly...
Around 1967, 17-year-old Lu Guanting brushed countless plates in the United States, earned $1500, and bought his first professional guitar: L5 Gibson.
At that time, he must not have expected that decades later, this guitar that carried his youth and dreams would become an out-of-print antique and be hyped to 100,000 Hong Kong dollars.
Every day with the guitar, immersed in various types of classical music, so that Lu Guanting's brain is full of nourishment and energy, after school, he also went to the bar to sing.
At that time, Bruce Lee, who had a special skill, although he had already starred in "Green Hornet", was still one zou Wenhuai far from the start of the hit.
Three
In July 1973, bruce Lee, the "legend of a generation" who had created box office records for one movie after another in Hong Kong in just over two years, had not yet fully released his huge energy and collapsed on the bed of sexy actress Ding Pei.
And Lu Guanting on the other side of the ocean, although his academic performance is in a mess, he still stumbled into the university, in addition to making music, the rest of his time is also used to make a girlfriend.
During college, he also formed a band with two female classmates and wrote many songs. Unfortunately, due to the death of one of the female classmates due to a car accident, he had to disband, but his music creation did not stop...
In 1977, the 27-year-old Lu Guanting graduated from the Cornish School of Music in the United States, and he had been singing in the bar for 8 years, receiving the first commendation from God.
That year, Lu Guanting won the championship in the American Amateur Singing Competition. All 5 songs he wrote won awards, and each song received a $200 prize.
But when he ambitiously wanted to find a record company to make a record, he was turned away one by one. With nothing to do, he had to take advantage of the opportunity to compete and continue to hit the gate of fate.
Soon, he encountered a music audition competition, when 3500 songs participated, his song won the 40th place, but the organizing committee said that only 10 songs can represent the United States and participate in the finals of the "Yamaha Song Festival" in Japan.
After losing the election, Lo Guanting learned that the top three in Hong Kong could also advance to the finals of Japan.
So he returned to Hong Kong with confidence, but still lost by 2 points and won the 4th place, and the 3rd place was Chen Baiqiang, one of the "Three Princes of Central" (for details, see Wan Xiaodao's public account past selection: "The Evil Door Past of the Three Princes of Central").
Disheartened, Lo Guanting planned to leave Hong Kong, but before leaving, he received a call from the record company, saying that if he could create 10 songs, he would help him out of the album.
So Lu Guanting stayed behind as a resident singer in a large hotel, making a living while creating, silently waiting for the opportunity.
But God seemed to have made a big joke with him.
The following year, he continued to compete, but unfortunately, this time it stopped at 16th place. And the record company that promised to give him an album did not have the following.
Perhaps, God felt that it was too much to tease him like this, so he threw a sister to him as compensation.
Four
This girl is not an ordinary girl, she is the granddaughter of Tang Jiyao, the great warlord of the Republic of China, Tang Shuchen.
At that time, Tang Shuchen happened to be an executive of the hotel where Lu Guanting was stationed, and when he had time, he would listen to the singers sing.
Lu Guanting performed on stage and received few listeners. Once, Tang Shuchen took the initiative to talk to him and said sharply: "Your music, Hong Kong people don't like." ”
Lu Guanting replied lightly: "This is nothing, maybe this is a matter of taste, when I re-familiarize myself with Hong Kong, they will like me." ”
This guy, talent is beyond doubt, see God gave him this look is proof. And this calmness and self-confidence have deeply attracted the talented woman Tang Shuchen.
One after the other, the two became acquainted. Lu Guanting was also attracted to this bookish girl and began to pursue her.
He bought flowers and gave them to the beauties, but was thrown away by his sister as garbage.
Lu Guanting thought about it, after people are famous, are flowers not enough to express their hearts, and they seem too thin?
Therefore, he used the money he had accumulated for a long time to buy a necklace, and found a night of favorable wind and smoothness, and asked Tang Shuchen to go for a walk in the forest park.
The scenery went deep and the conversation was also very cheerful, and he took the opportunity to summon up enough courage to take out the carefully prepared necklace and give it to Tang Shuchen.
But when she saw the girl grab the necklace, like accidentally catching, she immediately threw it away, and then turned her head in anger and left.
Lu Guanting found that Tang Shuchen was a sister who regarded gold and silver as dung, just a necklace, and in her eyes, even garbage was not as good.
It was difficult for Qianjin to buy a smile, but it was easy to change the method and use his joyful face to amuse Tang Shuchen.
Lu Guanting, who suddenly opened his mind, seemed to have mastered the key to open the door of Tang Shuchen's love, exerted his comedic talent, and made Tang Meizi laugh often, and soon, he succeeded.
Years later, Tang Shuchen, who was already Mrs. Lu, said: "Making me laugh shows that you have a brain." ”
However, just as the two men's feelings were heating up like glue, a ban suddenly hit the Mandarin Duck and separated the two.
Five
One day, Lu Guanting and Tang Shuchen were dating at the hotel, having dinner together, and were discovered by the hotel executives, and soon after, Lu Guanting was fired...
Because the management of the hotel is very strict, employees are prohibited from having romantic relationships, and it is also clearly stipulated that low-level employees cannot eat with high-level employees.
Miss Tang Jia is a high-ranking person and naturally cannot move. And Lu Guanting, who sings, is the bottom and can only roll up and leave.
Who knows, the hotel's stick to beat the Mandarin duck, but let Lu Guanting be blessed by misfortune!
Although forced to separate, Tang Shuchen's heart is already inseparable from Lu Guanting, and she has done three things: one is to make a promise to each other, the other is to decide to fill in the lyrics for her boyfriend's music for the rest of her life, and the third is to change her boyfriend's name.
Because the Tang Dynasty talented daughter of "Ten Thousand Households in the Year of Dung Soil" really couldn't stand Lu Guanting's previous name, "Lu Guofu".
The "Lu Guanting" we know is the name that Tang Shuchen personally gave him.
With such a loud IP, and then form a CP with such a talented woman, it can be described as a combination of pearls, even if the fate is heavy, will it be so difficult to unlock?
Of course, it is still difficult. God will give you luck at the same time, will definitely let you be a lost dog first. Translated in Chinese, it is: "The heavens will descend upon the Scythians, and they will first suffer their hearts and minds, and work their bones and bones..."
After leaving the big hotel, Lu Guanting, who was banned by the major hotels, could only go to some small bars that did not fit in.
When he sings obsessively on stage, the stage is often mixed, some ancient puzzle boys can't move to fight, and the bottles are flying...
Faced with such a scene, Tang Shuchen did not dare to tell his family for a long time that his boyfriend sang in such a place.
Lu Guanting was also a little confused, and later, a friend told him: The following fight is so fierce, you can only sing it if you cover them with your voice.
Sure enough, his "Sky Bird" came out "like thunder", although this song regrettably lost to Lin Zixiang, but soon he got the opportunity to publish a record and came to prominence.
Sky bird Lu Guanting
Although Lu Guanting, who has dyslexia, can't even read the musical score, but with the help of Tang Shuchen, plus a lot of work can be done by computer, his music career is like a tiger.
He and Tang Shuchen have strong personalities, but after each quarrel and reconciliation, they "win the new marriage" and cherish each other more, so they are inspired.
"Accompany you" is after a fierce quarrel, Tang Shuchen filled in the words for him.
With the birth of these songs, Lu Guanting also gradually gained a foothold in the music world and did film dubbing work.
Friends in the circle found that he looked very happy, so they let him make some cameo roles. In 1984, in the movie "The Secret Order of the Queen of the Best Drag", he crossed a subway driver.
In this way, Lu Guanting and Tang Shuchen joined hands to unlock the Dao Dao difficulties that fate was blocking in front of them, and worked together to attack to a higher level.
Six
In 1985, the 35-year-old Lu Guanting played the leading role in "Half Love" and composed the theme song "Happy Honest Man" for the film, which made him receive a lot of praise in the music industry.
Happy honest man Lu Guanting
A year later, his "Who Loves Most" caught up with Zhang Aijia and Lin Zixiang's film "The Favorite", which was used as the theme song of the movie, sung by Lin Zixiang to the streets, and also won the Academy Award "Best Film Song Award".
Since then, Lu Guanting has stood on the first phalanx of the film soundtrack, and classic works such as Zhou Runfa's "Autumn Fairy Tale" have also been scored by him...
In 1987, Lu Guanting played "Ah Mao" in Shen Dianxia's classic movie series "Rich and Powerful", although the role is not much, but it is very interesting, and his comedic face is simply God appreciating rice, which makes him feel happy.
Subsequently, he and Tang Shuchen's "I Hope People Last" was favored by Zhang Guorong and was sung as a familiar cover.
Another song, "With Love", was widely sung by Chen Baiqiang and others. Later, Andy Lau, Mei Yanfang, Karen Mok, etc., also loved his songs.
It has to be mentioned that in 1989, the "ghost director" Wang Jing also found Lu Guanting and asked him to catch up with the musical post-production of "God of Gamblers".
Lu Guanting lived up to his trust, designed the domineering appearance music for the "god of gamblers" played by Zhou Runfa, which complemented the performance of the characters, and was natural and mutually accomplished, which was refreshing, and the afterglow went around the beam for three days.
Although acting is not his main business, every time he does it casually, he can make people unforgettable.
In 1990, in Liu Zhenwei's "Corpse Family Heavy Land", the "Teacher Lin" played by Lu Guanting stepped on the laughter every time he appeared, especially the meat passage of "that is not a belt", which cultivated the endless imagination of the melon-eating masses...
In 1991, Xu Ke was inspired by "God of Gamblers" and felt that the concept of character BGM was good, the protagonist could explode the audience's eardrums as soon as he appeared, and the comprehensive effect of the sound effect picture was excellent, which could make the audience remember the protagonist deeply.
Therefore, he also asked Lu Guanting to take another shot and design the soundtrack for the "Huang Feihong" series of movies.
Xu LaoWei gave the task, but did not explain what he wanted (or called the old monster). But Lu Guanting understood and lived up to expectations, once again using gripping music to make Jet Li like a tiger...
The Final Battle of Lu Guanting - Huang Feihong's Lion of the Western Regions; The pride of the second part of the martial arts music series
In the same year, Lu Guanting, Wu Junru and Huang Yishan cooperated in the funny ghost film "A Good Life" that received a good response, and he played a timid gambler in the play perfectly, which was also the second and last time in his film career as a protagonist.
Years later, when mentioning his performance, Lu Guanting always said very modestly that he could only give himself 70 points.
But it is also such a casual performance that makes him "the most capable bald singer in Hong Kong". After that, he gradually withdrew from the performance stage and focused on music creation.
That year, his Cantonese song "With Love" was covered into a Chinese song, and he did not want to, but also achieved another man's good life.
Seven
This man is 33-year-old Taiwanese singer Jiang Yuheng.
In 1991, Jiang Yuheng, who was in debt to an ass, brought a Chinese song adapted from Lu Guanting's "With Love" and written by Chen Lerong, which appeared on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, and quickly became popular in the mainland.
Relying on this song, he began to transfer, opened his "good life", and became a complex that men could not avoid when they "looked back" in KTV.
In 1993, 35-year-old Li Zongsheng, the "godfather of Taiwanese music", also came to lu Guanting and his wife. Soon, "Like the Wind Past", composed by Lu Guanting and co-written by Li Zongsheng and Tang Shuchen, was born.
"How can the road of life be difficult", a song "Like the Wind in the Past", like a cup of aging, the taste of life, are all in it, making people intoxicated.
In 1994, Liu Zhenwei, who was filming "Journey to the West" with Zhou Xingchi, was ambitious and invited Lu Guanting and his wife to Yinchuan, and in the hotel room, he told the story of "a love that has not borne fruit for 500 years"...
Despite the director's spit and imagination, Lu Guanting still got to the point of "a love that has not borne fruit for 500 years", and goosebumps all over his body, and on the plane flying back to Hong Kong, he held the guitar and completed the composition.
His wife, Tang Shuchen, also had a sharp mind, and the next day she completed the filling in the words, which is an insurmountable classic - "Life and Love".
Lu Guanting sent this song to the crew, just in time for Liu Zhenwei to shoot the last scene in Yinchuan City Tower before the killing, and the melody of this song was in his mind.
After Zhou Xingchi listened, he also changed his nonsensical performance, using the affectionate interpretation of the main drama and kissing Zhu Yin deeply, and the love legend of the two ended.
Such an ending song makes the film add a lot of color, after the end of the play, listening to such a song that turns a thousand times, the mind is still the unfinished love story of the Supreme Treasure and the Purple Xia Fairy, and the aftertaste is endless...
In the film, Tang Monk's "only you" is also Lu Guanting's teaching Luo Jiaying to sing through headphones, sentence by sentence, each sentence, is hilarious, the magic interpretation, people are unforgettable.
These classics are all the music genius Lu Guanting's thick accumulation and inadvertent expression of true feelings, and they are also rewards given by him to focus on music day after day, year after year, and God.
As everyone knows, all the gifts given by God come at a price.
Eight
In today's parlance, Lu Guanting is a typical "workaholic", and when he gets up, he works day and night, three days and three nights against the computer.
Once, one of Liu Zhenwei's films made him rush to the post-dubbing, and he did not close his eyes for three days and three nights in a row, and finally rushed out.
Tired and breathless, he saw the completion, especially excited, a happy to mistakenly put the delete button as the save button pressed, the result, the previous achievements abandoned, must start from scratch again, Liu Zhenwei also had to postpone the file period ...
Working on the computer for many years, Lu Guanting was infected with a strange disease.
In 1998, under the impact of the Hong Kong financial crisis, the entertainment industry was in a slump, and 48-year-old Lo Guanting also suffered from chemical sensitivity.
He was allergic to formaldehyde in dyes and decoration materials, and when he was severe, his chest burned, his ears were paralyzed, and he had to press the pause button on his career...
It was also at that time that he began to think about environmental protection and began to devote himself to environmental protection.
In 2001, when Zhou Xingchi filmed "Shaolin Football", he urged Lu Guanting to come out of the mountain. Lu Guanting was very emotional, so he took out "Boy's Chronicle", which was sung by Andy Lau very excitingly.
Boy Chronicle (original accompaniment) Andy Lau
Three years later, when "Xingye" filmed "Kung Fu" and asked Lu Guanting again, he refused on the grounds that he was "no longer young" and could not work for days and nights without sleep, because he had to leave the computer because of his physical illness.
And martial arts instructor Hong Jinbao was stared at by mosquitoes when "Kung Fu" was just started, couldn't stand it, and quit (for details, see Wan Xiaodao's past selection of public accounts: "The History of the Jianghu Love of Big Brother in the Hong Kong Circle").
Lu Guanting said: "Music, especially songs sung, is the only channel that can directly shock people's hearts; of course, some people will be touched when they see paintings, but music can directly make you cry." ”
Therefore, when the body gradually improved, when encountering good movies, Lu Guanting still couldn't help but shoot again.
In 2009, when Luo Qirui filmed "The Thief of Years", he invited him out of the mountain again, and took out two classic English songs for him to listen to, and added: "Without this quality melody, I don't accept the goods." ”
Faced with such a challenge, 59-year-old Lu Guanting took over. Soon, he wrote the song "Years of Light Madness", Luo Qirui personally filled in the lyrics, and won the "Best Original Film Song Award" at the 29th Academy Awards.
In 2013, "Star Master" still remembered the "love that has not borne fruit for 500 years" and filmed "Journey to the West to Descend the Devil".
And personally sang for Shu Qi's cover of "Love of a Lifetime", adding a sentence "From before to now, love is still there", which seems to be mourning his first love girlfriend Luo Huijuan (for details, see Wan Xiaodao's public account past selection: "The Mermaid Caught by Zhou Xingchi").
Lu Guanting, who is over the age of flower armor, is also a witness.
Although he did not have the glorious acting career of "Star Master" and did not catch so many "mermaids", his "love of life" has never changed, accompanied by a lifetime.
That is: his wife Tang Shuchen, and his beloved musical career.
As a "dyslexia" patient, Lu Guanting geniusly left so many classic works, there is no other shortcut, the only magic weapon is:
Poor and unshakable, rich and noble, unswerving, stick to their hearts, love all their lives!
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