growing experience

from the beginning of selling demo (demo) in Kenting, this Taiwan Province native girl has never stopped dreaming. And has been depicting her unique life with her works. In the past few years, Chen Qizhen was hard to be classified as mainstream or non-mainstream, instead, she walked out of the path that only she could walk. The world gave her abundant energy and created her own unique style. She will always be a girl,

because of her voice. Wearing a long dark blue skirt, holding a guitar, standing quietly under the light, childish, clear, simple, singing softly, expressing circuitous and gorgeous.

As a talented woman in music, Chen Qizhen has always maintained an excellent creative attitude. It takes an average of 2-3 years for her to release an album. She never wants to sing for the sake of releasing an album, because she wants to sing her own experiences and stories to others, so that she can create and have the wandering guitarist-Chen Qizhen. Every time Chen Qizhen's album is her emotional story and experience, it is her complete self-creation. It may be too slow in business thinking, but Chen Qizhen said, "Maybe the world is too fast ..." Never influenced by the outside world, she has been writing her life with her own pace and posture, and let people remember this stubborn and strong woman. She synchronized her life with her works, and the theme of flower posture is her thinking. She has never stopped dreaming and never changed her original intention, and she will continue to move forward quietly.

About Chen Qizhen

There are not many female singers like Chen Qizhen who are not shy about disclosing their age.

She is 35 years old and has been living in Taipei. She has lived with her mother since childhood. Her mother, an accountant, teaches children to play the piano after work to support her family. With her mother's expectation, Chen Qizhen began to learn classical music at an early age. She doesn't like classical music, just like most children who study piano, but her reason is different from most children-"Debussy's moonlight, Chopin's nocturne, how can you listen to such things for children? This should be a song for lovers to tell each other about loneliness." Chen Qizhen wrote in "The Darkness of the Whole World". She gave up classical music and practiced guitar with her classmates.

In p>1996, Chen Qizhen was 21 years old, studying philosophy at the National Chengchi University in Taipei. This year, she signed up for the second time to participate in the wooden boat folk song competition. The wooden boat folk song competition is equivalent to the "super girl" in the mainland today. Bobby Chen, Huang Shujun, Wan Fang, Youke Li Lin and Mai all started their careers from this competition.

last year, she was eliminated from the preliminary competition. In the second competition, more than 2, people signed up for the competition. Wu Bai, the "boss" of Taiwan Province rock and roll industry, was the judge. He insisted that Chen Qizhen win the first prize because "there are not many girls who play their own works".

She has been in the business for 13 years, but she has a group of loyal fans and a reputation as a "talented woman".

how talented is a talented woman? On February 7th, 26, Chen Qizhen published the second edition of 21' s illustrated book "Never Tired", which beat Haruki Murakami's new work "Strange Tales of Tokyo" and became the champion of the online sales list of Eslite Bookstore, the largest chain bookstore in Taiwan Province.

When Chen Qizhen first started singing in a folk song restaurant, there were not many listeners. She liked to talk between each song and talk about the feeling of the right song, which was a bit like a teacher's class. Usually, at the end of the performance, she always says: Today's singing is over, class is over!

Therefore, fans call her "Miss Chen".

On July 18th, 26, City Pictorial held a "Chen Qizhen Meets the City" song club in Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou. Tickets are only for sale. On the opening day, more than 1,3 people were crowded under the stage, including the foreign audience who paid 2-3 yuan for scalping tickets.

During the singing, the boys in the audience shouted in Cantonese: "Chen Qizhen, I love you!" The sound is getting louder and louder.

Chen Qizhen looked under the stage, lowered his head and said, "Go on, I'll think about what to sing."

"I don't think about putting on makeup until I get to the stage, and then I remind myself to say something on the stage, and I can't just bury my head in singing.

She often forgets that she is a singer. She likes writing songs very much, but she doesn't have any star dreams. She is more concerned about whether the songs she writes are sung by anyone.

When I first started, I thought I could do music-related things, but I was not confident enough to think I could be a singer.

She studied classical music since she was a child. At that time, the trend of studying classical music was to go abroad and go to Europe for further study. Her family's financial situation was not very good, and she could not support her further study, so she gave up studying in junior high school.

In high school, folk song restaurants were very popular in Taiwan Province. People in Taiwan Province love singing. At that time, there was no KTV, so everyone went to the restaurant and sang for everyone. At that time, bookstores often sold songbooks every month, and guitarists would sing them for you. The guitar club and popular music club in the school will let everyone learn those songs. At that time, I thought it would be a good thing to be a folk singer in a folk song restaurant one day. She started playing guitar in that guitar club environment.

you won't be nervous during the game. I remember waiting in the background for a long time. I don't know what happened. I waited for a long time. I was impatient with a group of people. It was my turn to start singing. For the first time, I found that the audience was so quiet that I could hear a needle falling to the ground. Only my voice was in the whole space. I think it's pretty cool. When you sing at school, the audience is noisy and no one listens to you.

After winning the first prize, the restaurant asked me to sing, but I couldn't sing even when someone ordered someone else's songs or Aaron Kwok's songs. Some folk singers have very thick songbooks, and their voices can sing anyone, but I just can't.

I began to think that if I want to maintain my interest in singing, I must write it myself.

Until that day, I won the Best Mandarin Female Singer Award at the Chinese Music Media Awards, and I was a little disappointed-why didn't anyone give me an award for composing or arranging music?

I will remember that I am a female singer from today. "

After singing in the folk song restaurant "Witch" for two years, Chen Qizhen finally signed a contract with a record company, and the owner is Magic Rock Records. Although Magic Rock is a Taiwan Province record company, its name is even louder in the Mainland. Magic Rock owns Dou Wei, Zhang Chu, He Yong, Tang Dynasty, which were all over China, and some unknown young people in Taiwan Province at that time. Chen Qizhen was the first female musician they signed.

At that time, all the singers of Magic Rock Records had personalities, but Chen Qizhen was still in college, so she couldn't be a student and pretend to be a personality at the same time, so she was positioned as the "voice of the city" to attract students.

Chen Qizhen has released three albums in Magic Rock, Let me Think, Still Lonely and Guitarist, with an average of one album every two years.

In p>22, Taiwan Province's record industry declined in a large area, and Magic Rock records were dissolved.

"In 1998, I signed a contract with Magic Rock.

At first, I just became friends with people from Magic Rock, and invited them to see performances together. In fact, we are all watching each other, and I am also watching what this company is doing, and they are also watching whether I am creating.

In fact, they don't own Taiwan Province singers, but mainland rock music such as Dou Wei, Zhang Chu and Tang Dynasty.

I want to say that it's good for them to make masculine music, but I haven't seen any other female singers. If they want to deal with my music, we'll give each other more space and see what they are going to do.

the first day of the official release was this time eight years ago. The record company thinks I am the voice of the city, positioning me as a girl who grew up in the city. They said they would make a stunt-distribute films in the most crowded places.

We arrived at an overpass in the middle of taipei main station. There were a lot of people coming and going, resulting in a traffic jam. We were given a ticket by the police, and we were driven away after singing a few songs.

Now that overpass is gone.

Actually, I sang in many strange places, such as underground tunnels and seaside ...

In 1998, Jacky Cheung and Faye Wong, any famous singer we knew, could sell 3, or 5,. Magic Rock was a minority at that time, although it was a minority, it also sold well, and it was well distributed, including rock tough guys, street teenagers and straight ...

I didn't expect to leave so soon.

It's really terrible after the dissolution of Magic Rock. Almost everyone who helped you was at a low ebb. In the past, you were covered by others. Although you still had to write your own songs, there were many thoughtful staff in the company who paid you.

once all these things are gone, when you write songs and sing, no one will tell you what performances to arrange today, what clothes to wear, what to say, whether to put on makeup or not, and you have to listen to your own opinions on everything. It's up to you from the inside out. If you ask others, others will take care of themselves. "

in p>23, Chen Qizhen set up his own "so stingy" music studio, and released three albums, including after 17, sentimental skill and the Meaning of Travel. In 25, she made the album Gorgeous Adventure with a loan, and sold more than 3, copies in two months.

Chen Qizhen's music production mode is unique: self-made-recording your own songs at home, distributing them yourself-sending them to record companies with CDs, and even taking care of storage-hoarding unsold CDs on your balcony.

On July 18th, the "Chen Qizhen Meets the City" concert ended with signing CDs and posters, and Chen Qizhen shook hands while signing. She thought she only needed to sign and shake hands for 1 minutes, but she didn't expect to sign for a whole hour-the fans' club sold 6 CDs that night.

"I have a small balcony with boxes of CDs piled up in the back.

the biggest difficulty in setting up a studio is that many things must be done by yourself: to obtain a license from the government; To sell something, you have to apply for a bar code; When the cover is designed, you should contact the printing factory, talk about the price, choose the paper and match the color; After the record comes out, you should talk to the boss who sells the record about the date when it will start selling, whether to hold an audition or not, whether to hold an activity ... You can hardly find an outsider to help you do these things. My mother helped me write the official document, and Xiaohu (Zhong Chenghu, Chen Qizhen's boyfriend) helped me to make music changes. The music was recorded by myself at home by the bedside ... < P > I really don't like people who do this kind of thing, and the owner of the printing factory received it. Won't someone help you do it?

I said, I'll make it myself. Do you want to make it cheaper for me?

sometimes the owner of a record store calls and says he wants 6 copies. I just took a box of CDs and ran to sell them.

Later, I gradually got better, and I found a former school girl to help me. Now it's just the two of us in our company.

she can send CDs, and help me figure out how many CDs are sold every month, and whether she has made any money.

I have a poor concept of numbers, and I can't stand fighting numbers. Now I can give these things to others, as long as I am responsible for thinking. "

Chen Qizhen's music studio, including her, relied on loans to produce the music album Gorgeous Adventure, which sold 3, copies in February.

Her Magic

Chen Qizhen once said confidently: I think I have a magic power to make everyone buy my genuine copy.

Just as she dared to write a book called Tireless, it contained a bunch of trembling and unintelligible pictures, followed by many pages of blank paper with no content, and even very personal graffiti, which contained a dozen articles of her own soliloquy, forming a thick book. As a result, it sold out. Limited edition, no trace can be found.

After that, she even presented her own words in a monologue on a disc called "DEMO3". It was full of her clear and high-pitched voice mumbling, and then "DEMO3" was out of stock again.

can you know what it is? The singers around her are worried about the sales volume, and when they are worried that the original copies will be hit, she still plays once every two years, and releases one album after another. She has a group of die-hard fans, and none of them will buy a copy.

she is the proud queen. In her world, she giggled at the outside world through the cat's eye. She knows the game of that world very well. She knows what is good, and then how to make good things never depreciate and sell at a good price. This year, she propped up her head and said, let's just release a single.

what? A single? How much risk does that mean for record companies? But she said, yeah. I think I've been making records for so many years, but in fact I don't know what I'm singing or saying after that. I really want to make a song. After several years, I can still understand the feeling and mood at that time. I think, just make a single.

so, in 23, Chen Qizhen's "track 1/sentinel kills" came out. A new English song, in a thin package, has seven pieces of paper with lyrics and drawings, and a CD, which is gone. There is only a girl lying in bed and killed by imagination, imagining that her head is separated from her body, and the female knight-errant blinds her boyfriend, pulls out her eyes and looks at SAYHI herself in the mirror. Very much like CHEER (Chen Qizhen's English name), a narrow-minded girl who protects her world well and then uses her own thinking to occupy each other's thinking.

If you think it's a pity that this disc is too simple, then the next Track2/ The Meaning of Travel should be her homework after listening to her opinions. The same song, but this time, she took a beautiful LOMO picture of her trip and put it in Track2. Then, with the launch of the disc, she uploaded 8mm travel DV records on her website. In it, she often flies in recent years to photograph the sky and clouds of different routes on the plane; The flight attendant stopped taking pictures over Hong Kong.

I have no idea to explain the quality of the guitar and the thickness of her singing skills in her two thin records. People who love Chen Qizhen always accept everything from the bottom of their hearts, including her spirit and bad temper. This is her unique magic. Yes, CHEER, you just have the magic power to let us look everywhere, and you are willing to pay for your simple disc, and it is completely genuine.

it's still an acoustic guitar, and it's always singing softly, but it seems that it won't get tired. Some voices give memories, others give ears a wake-up, but I can't find a word for Chen Qizhen, saying that she is holding an acoustic guitar, playing and singing, and walking, in the sun, in the shadows, and the raindrops are cool in the afternoon.

her voice is sweet and moist, and always quiet.

I can't remember when I started listening to her songs in the afternoon. The sunshine is warm, the faint whistle of the ship, and the girls in the dormitory are smiling gently. In a small space, with the taste of instant noodles, the coffee in the coffee Chen Qizhen concert and the faint fragrance of the toner are quickly melted. This is probably one of the most authentic and beautiful periods of school life, and her voice, the simple melody of her acoustic guitar, is so in tune with this life.

This is Chen Qizhen's second single, which is a new work with Chen Qizhen style after the last single "Track 1/Sentimental Kills". Beautiful and simple melody,