How do you evaluate Liu Huan’s singing skills and status?

T2, peak High C, the founder of early Chinese popular singing, non-professional background, became the top international popular singer.

Liu Huan, a well-known singer and even a singer, is actually not a music major. But he is an out-and-out wild enthusiast. Interests and hobbies, for Liu Huan, these four words are the core of his music. Unlike other singers, Liu Huan has shown a strong passion for music from his youth to his forty years. When audio production first began to spread to China, Liu Huan was one of the first people to use computers to produce music.

In terms of singing skills, Liu Huan's singing method was the founder of early mainstream Chinese pop music, and its significance for the times is more than the advancement of personal skills. Liu Huan combines a certain aesthetic knowledge of Western opera and classical music, and pays attention to popular emotional expressions in singing, rather than imitating European and American imitations. This fundamental aesthetic difference gives Liu Huan great personal emotional tension in singing. This is consistent with the personality and emotion of pop music as the core of charm.

This essential difference in expression later contributed to the establishment of popular music that the country recognized as essentially popular music. In essence, the growth of Chinese popular music has an inseparable causal relationship with phenomenal national music such as Liu Huan's "Song of a Hero" and "Start Over". New music genres have also been established and have begun to develop in university education. Therefore, Liu Huan's singing skills and personal skills are not the key. He still exists in Chinese pop music and represents the purest high-level aesthetic cognition itself. It is more important.

From a musical perspective, Liu Huan has extremely mature personal abilities in composing, arranging, and orchestration, and he is more inclined to the field of academic and serious artistic aesthetics. He himself is a music professor at the University of International Business and Economics in China, where he lectures on the history of Western music. But in fact, Liu Huan is not a music major, and relies entirely on his own musical interests to improve his personal knowledge and abilities.

The following is a brief explanation of Liu Huan's music development, singing skills and composition from three perspectives: 1: Liu Huan's music path: the ultimate form of hobby enthusiasts.

Liu Huan is a wild man. He has never received any systematic music education or vocal education. He embarked on the road of music based on personal preference. Liu Huan was born in Tianjin, which has a relatively high level of traditional culture. Liu Huan studied cross talk, Peking opera, and storytelling when she was a child. This type of Chinese classical pop music has a good cultural atmosphere for Liu Huan. This will have some potential help for Liu Huan's singing of "Song of a Hero" in the future.

When he was in high school, Liu Huan felt the charm of world music for the first time. At that time, a friend who was preparing to apply for the Central Conservatory of Music played Chopin's "Butterfly Etude" in front of Liu Huan. This etude was only one minute long and was essentially a technique etude. But for non-piano players, it still has a simple impact of showing off your skills. But Liu Huan was deeply shocked after watching it for the first time. The unknown charm of Western music theory and music content made Liu Huan feel the impact of the charm of music for the first time. From here on, Liu Huan began to officially love pop music.

During his studies, Liu Huan attended the School of International Relations, which is one of the six small-scale key universities directly under the Ministry of Education of the State Council. The core is a key university in foreign languages ??and international conflicts. Liu Huan studied French literature at the French Institute. Remember that Liu Huan majored in literature and has a strong educational background in humanistic ideas. While in college, Liu Huan started learning actively from a person who knew nothing about Western music. In 1983, Liu Huan saw that many of his classmates had guitars but rarely played them. I borrowed a guitar during the summer vacation. After the summer vacation, there was no one in the class who was better at playing guitar than Liu Huan.

After learning the guitar, Liu Huan began to have a basic understanding of Western music theory. Here he began to try composing music, and here Liu Huan also began to enter the ranks of guitar playing and singing. From 1983 to 1985, Liu Huan learned a variety of musical instruments, such as piano. Just after graduation, Liu Huan won the championship in the campus joint singing competition and performed three English songs composed by herself. Liu Huan's musical talent, composition talent, and vocal talent began to show from here.

Liu Huan taught for a year in 1985, and officially started his music career in 1986. Because she studied in the School of International Relations, which is directly under the Ministry of Education, and she also stole the show in the campus league song competition, Liu Huan received an invitation from CCTV in the first year after graduation to participate in a weekend art show called "Movie World" During the party recording, Liu Huan recorded for the first time, singing the English and French songs "Country Rock" and "My Way" as well as the theme songs of the movies "Tehran 43" and "Wild Geese". This debut laid the foundation for Liu Huan's musical career.

In 1987, Liu Huan recorded the theme song for the first time. In the same year, she was found by Lei Lei, the composer of "Plain Clothes Police". It is worth mentioning that Lei Lei is the daughter of the great Chinese composer Lei Zhenbang and participated in the direct creation of "Four Generations Under One Roof". Then Liu Huan's first phenomenal music appeared - the theme song of "Plain Clothes Police" "Young Aspirations Don't Say Sorrows".

In this song’s performance, Liu Huan expressed the charm of pop music while perfectly fitting the story script. The theme song of this TV series did not cause a large-scale phenomenon-level spread, and the singer was Yang Hongji, who was older than Liu Huan, the veteran singer who sang "The Rolling Waters of the Yangtze River East". Liu Huan's popular singing has greatly promoted the status of Chinese popular singers on TV screens.

The following year, Liu Huan gained savings and began to release personal cassette music albums. In 1987, Li Haiying wrote lyrics and music for the urban TV series "Crooked Moon", but no one was satisfied with the audition. Liu Huan appeared and won it in one fell swoop. Once again it became the second phenomenal piece of music.

As for the reason why Liu Huan can be so accurate, in addition to Liu Huan's own excellence, the biggest core reason is that Liu Huan can have a say in the arrangement of music. Other singers are just singers, but Liu Huan has certain arranger and composition abilities. He has more understanding of composition than other singers, and can make arrangement suggestions during singing to make up for the increased tension.

You know, in 1986, there was actually no concept of arrangement in the music of our TV series. "Young Aspirations Don't Say Sorrows" currently only has three personnel information: composer, lyricist, and singer. In fact, one of the reasons why we enjoyed listening to "Young Ambition Don't Say Sorrow" is that it has the perfect climax of the electric guitar. I personally guess that there must be Liu Huan’s participation and suggestions in the arrangement.

So in essence, Liu Huan is full of knowledge about music. He is willing to learn and study, which is fundamentally different from commercial singers. This is at the heart of his greatest achievement. 2: Singing skills; the hard strength is not T1, but the contribution is great;

In terms of vocal singing skills, Liu Huan prefers the singing methods of the last century and some opera-oriented ones. Different from other academic schools of Chinese singers who have a bel canto or ethnic orientation, Liu Huan's singing style is operatic. In terms of real voice power, it has a certain throat pressure, which is similar to bel canto, but the overall timbre retains the variability of pop vocal music. It is not a fixed timbre like Bel Canto and National.

So in essence, Liu Huan's singing represents a transitional stage of Chinese pop music, and is also the core stage of Chinese popular music - the aesthetics of true voice. The aesthetic core of popular music is the participation of real voice, which is the foothold of Liu Huan's singing method. Whether it's bass or treble, Liu Huan doesn't want other pop singers to have any falsetto involvement. This kind of aesthetic perception continues to the aesthetics of the CCTV Youth Song Competition.

In terms of timbre, Liu Huan’s timbre skills are: thyroarytenoid crescendo, strong mixing, and balanced mixing. Generally speaking, there are changes but not much, and it is still widely popular. It lacks the commercial edge of vocal cords and the aesthetics of falsetto and weak mix.

In terms of vocal range, Liu Huan’s peak vocal range is C5, but due to a high throat position, the ultimate standard pitch is around A#4 and B4. But there is still a high throat position.

In terms of cavity ability, Liu Huan is relatively good and has a high throat resistance ability. This is also the reason why Liu Huan can still maintain a high singing level even when he is older.

Generally speaking, Liu Huan's singing skills are not top-notch abilities in a strict sense, because to be honest, Liu Huan only started to contact music in 1983. His greatest talent for music lies in the aesthetics of composition and vocals. It’s not the technicality of the vocals.

In terms of vocal music, it is really difficult for him to make progress because it is basically dominated by Europe and the United States. With the presence of Liu Huan, he added a genre - the classical horn-style singing of "Song of a Hero". In "Song of a Hero", Liu Huan sang a lot of dialect-style singing. In standard vocal music theory, this should not exist. Because the essence of shouting is to speak with language, not singing. Simply put, Chinese classical Rap forms the core soul of "Song of a Hero". This is of epoch-making significance for the theoretical construction of Chinese vocal music, because starting from Liu Huan we have our own vocal content, which can lead to endless directions of exploration. 3: Creation; the most perfect artist;

From a creative perspective, Liu Huan belongs to the top class of Chinese, and can even be said to be a representative of mainland China. Liu Huan is one of the few people with artistic vocal recognition and expression abilities. His creativity is not limited to step-by-step, but can promote the construction of Chinese vocal music, which is perfect for the overall development.

From "The Ambition of Youth" to "The Crooked Moon", to "Song of a Heroic Man", then to "Start Over", and now "Phoenix Flying". Liu Huan's music is full of culture, connotation, and breakthrough. The biggest breakthroughs are the vocal music of "Song of a Hero" and the composition of "Phoenix Flying". The core breakthrough has already been expressed in Song of Heroes above. Let’s talk about “Phoenix Flying”.

"Phoenix Flying" is China's best "Chinese style" music. Jay Chou's Chinese style is the result of modern routines and chords, while Liu Huan's Chinese style is the result of serious and Chinese composition. In other words, Liu Huan's "Phoenix Flying" is extremely close to ancient music, and it has the potential to be a banner for future Chinese style music.

If "Phoenix Flying" is cut out separately, it is a standard bottom-level composition with Chinese five tones. If you understand it from the overall tune, you will find that this song uses a lot of Western classical parallel modes. This kind of Parallel modes are extremely scarce in the current field of music composition. From the perspective of composition, "Phoenix Flying" will become a Chinese-style university textbook template in the future.

As for Liu Huan's status, one fact can tell: he is the only top academic singer-songwriter in China who does not participate in commercial albums and only composes for national key films and television. He will be there when the country needs him.

Liu Huan once held a concert with Liao Changyong and Mo Hualun, and Liu Huan's voice could not be heard at all during the chorus. It has to be said that the gap between pop music celebrities and professional bel canto masters is too big. If it were Jay Chou, he would undoubtedly be beaten, but it would not hinder Jay Chou's status in the Chinese music world. Therefore, it is difficult to talk about the status of popular celebrities. They need market evaluation. There is no doubt that the singing skills are not as good as professional bel canto.

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