When You Are Old is a song sung by Zhao Zhao, with lyrics adapted from the Irish poet Ye Zhi's poem When You Are Old, composed by Zhao Zhao , and included in Zhao Zhao's album When You Are Old released in 2015.
In 2016, the song won the ''2016 QQ Peak Music Festival'' Top Ten Hot Songs of the Year Golden Melody Award This song commemorates youth and love, warm and enduring, touching the heart. The arrangement of this song is very plain, no climax, the touch triggered by listening to it is not much different from enjoying a poetry recitation. The guitar arrangement and fiddle additions make the whole song move slowly, but in the slow movement, the feelings for the mother are united.
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Zhao Zhao (赵照), born March 17, 1979 in Liaocheng, Shandong Province, China, is a Chinese mainland indie musician, folk-rock singer-songwriter, music producer, and founder of the band Figs.
In 1998, Zhao Zhao began his career as a folk musician in Beijing, creating songs such as "You're My Most Wanted Girl" and "A Broken Guitar 1999", etc. In 2010, he published his solo album "The Great Warp Factory", which won the quarterly Top Ten Albums of the Huawei Music Media Awards, and in September 2012, he independently released the conceptual album "Rough", and in 2014, he participated in "China's Best Songs". China's best song" program, sang the adapted song "when you are old".
As a musician who started out as a rock musician, Zhao Zhao is a creative singer who doesn't bother to express himself in words and focuses on music creation. Zhao Zhao's attitude towards music is steadfast, able to accurately distinguish between superficiality and simple, rustic nature are very different concepts, he has done in-depth thinking from the perspective of human nature, historical origins and the inner music. Zhao Zhaozhao's songwriting emphasizes the indispensability of the "true self" when integrating every bit of life into the music, keeping the creation natural.