Yao Xiaoqiang, male, born in 1962, a member of the Chinese **** Party. Graduated from the Department of Music of Guangxi Arts Institute, majoring in piano, composition, the Chinese Musicians Association of the fifth session of the director, is currently deputy secretary-general of the Guangdong Provincial Musicians Association, "Lingnan Music" magazine legal representative and deputy editor-in-chief. Yao Xiaoqiang is a rising star in China's music scene, his musical works have a deep national heritage and a strong flavor of the times. With brand-new creative thinking, humanized artistic concepts and diversified musical forms, he has created a number of distinctive and unique character, both ethnic and fashionable works with Xiu songs, and has become one of the representatives of China's new folk songs. Created more than 500 songs, film and television music, dance music, electronic music batch, and has repeatedly won the national and provincial music awards. There are nearly 20 song works were filmed into MTV as well as many songs are widely sung.
A good song, people often only remember to sing its singer, as for the song lyricist, but rarely remembered. 2000, Sun Yue sang a relaxed and lively "How HAPPY? In 2003, Zuhai sang "Happy Mountain Song", which was also criticized by the media as "the most groundbreaking folk song in recent years". But who wrote these popular songs? If it wasn't for people in the music industry, I'm afraid no one would know.
Yao Xiaoqiang, a Guangdong musician, composer and deputy secretary-general of the Guangdong Music Association, is the author of these songs. He is, in fact, the composer of these songs. Of course, his works are far more than these two, and the famous singers who have sung his works are far more than these two. For example, "Ode to Auspiciousness" sung by Zhang Yuya, "High Yinna Mountain" sung by Yan Weiwen, "Kissing the Motherland" sung by Dai Zhiqiang and so on, all of these musical works came from Yao Xiaoqiang's hands. As a matter of fact, as early as in the mid to late 1990s, most of the famous singers in China cooperated with him, and almost all kinds of large-scale evening parties have Yao Xiaoqiang's works. So far, he has created nearly 800 pieces of music. The main song works are:
1, "Happy Mountain Song" sung by rent sea, won the 2003 State Administration of Radio, Film and Television CCTV awarded the MTV contest gold medal;
2, "how to HAPPY", sung by Sun Yue, won the 2000 MTV music channel CCTV CCTV approach to the Asian Golden Melody Award;
3, "Ode to Auspiciousness" sung by Zhang also In the CCTV large Olympic Games Gala, Guangdong Province, "Songs to the Party" song award-winning works
4, "Gathering Together" sung by Zhang also sung in the CCTV 2003 Spring Festival Gala performance, performed in 2004 in Nanning, Guangxi International Folk Songs Closing Ceremony;
5, "Happy! People please applaud", sung by Zhang Yan in the CCTV 2003 Spring Festival Gala;
6, "happy to come", sung by treble early CCTV 2004 Spring Festival Gala of the Ministry of Culture; Hunan Satellite TV Golden Eagle Award Gala works;
7, "Kissing the motherland", sung by Dai Yuqiang in the CCTV MTV program, all kinds of large-scale Gala works;
< p>8, "GaoGaoYangNaShan", sung by Yan Weimin at the 2003 Meizhou International Mountain Song Festival;9, "China Mountain Song", sung by Lei Jia at the 2004 Shanghai World Expo, the opening ceremony of the third "Golden Bell Award";
10, "Myth of China", a group of six songs
10, "Mythical China", a six-song suite, sung by Wei Wei for the album.
The Erhu Complex
Yao Xiaoqiang was obsessed with music as a child. At that time, his parents were sent down to a remote village in Guangxi for political reasons, and the only cable radio in the village that could emit musical notes became the happy time he looked forward to every day. He loved erhu music, and once he stood under the loudspeaker and listened to it obsessively. Once, he stood under the loudspeaker and listened to it obsessively, as if he didn't feel the torrential downpour; and the erhu in the hands of the town's folk artists was part of his dream to own an erhu. Yao Xiaoqiang said, his music teacher, is the town's folk artists, artists of the light, lively "in Beijing on the Golden Mountain" made the teenager Yao Xiaoqiang incomparable fascination. 12 years old, his mother finally saved money to buy him an erhu. However, he could not afford to hire a teacher. So he bought his own book and taught himself to play the erhu. Later, he relied on the erhu to get admitted to the county cultural troupe, the only expert in the troupe, a young man who had just graduated from the Guangxi Arts Institute attached to the allocation, he became Yao Xiaoqiang's teacher and role model, studying for further studies, became his pursuit of the ideal. Yao Xiaoqiang studied hard and learned by himself while working in the county cultural troupe. One year later, Yao Xiaoqiang was admitted to the Guangxi Arts Institute, and his dream became a reality. He majored in composition and piano. Before that, he had already played a good violin and a good guitar
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