Liang Wenfu

Liang Wenfu

Liang Wenfu (1964 -), born in Singapore and native to Guangdong Xinhui, is an outstanding new ballad singer, famous music creator and writer. He is also an associate professor in the Chinese Department of Nanyang Technological University and the language director of xueeryou language center.

He is good at writing all kinds of styles. Besides prose, he has his own style in poetry, novels, fables and essays. Liang Wenfu has also won many literary awards, including the first Young Artist Award (Literature) issued by the National Council of Arts in 1992. He is also an outstanding new ballad singer and famous music creator. He built a bridge between literature and music. This is a comment given to Liang Wenfu by Guo Baokun, a famous senior dramatist in Singapore.

Personal experience

Liang Wenfu's father is a journalist and his mother is a doctor of acupuncture and moxibustion.

After graduating from public education middle school and Huazhong junior college in his early years, Liang Wenfu won the general degree of National University of Singapore in 1988 as the first place in the Chinese department and the first place in the school of Arts. He received an honorary degree in 1989, a research scholarship in the same year, a master of Arts in 1992, a research scholarship in 1994, a doctoral degree in the Department of Chinese culture and language of Nanyang Polytechnic University, and a doctor of Philosophy in 1999 Chinese literature.

In 1992, she married Liu Xiumei and has no children.

Liang Wenfu, known as the "Singapore school" creator, has been working hard for a long time. In literature, his prose, essays, poems, fables and novels have formed a style with many readers, rich harvest and frequent awards. The first Young Artist Award (Literature) (1992) was presented by the National Council of Arts of Singapore. Singapore Book Council Book Award (Essay) winner (1996).

In terms of music creation, his lyrics and music works have been highly recognized at home and abroad. Many famous singers in the Chinese world have performed his works in different countries, and have won many awards, including the highest honor award of the new music award, the best composer and lyrics Award (1987), the best lyrics and lyrics award of the new ballad Festival (1989), the highest honor award of the Golden Melody Award (1994), and the best local lyrics Award (1) 995）。

Liang Wenfu has set many records of "pioneering" in local creative circles, including the first new ballad singer and author to publish an album of his own lyrics and music works (gate, 1986), the first new ballad singer and author to hold a large-scale concert with his own lyrics and music works (name of love, 1988), and the first one to compose music with the works of the same poetry anthology and become a complete appreciation program Self acting local poet (actually I'm in love with time, poetry appreciation meeting, 1989). He is the first new ballad writer who takes his own lyrics and music works as the independent program of the National Music Festival. (Singapore pie, 1991). He was the first songwriter to create a large-scale Chinese Musical (rainy season, 1996). He wrote a theme song for the first film describing the struggle of local music creators (track, are you still here, 1997).

In addition to literary and musical creation, Liang Wenfu has participated in many voluntary cultural works over the years. He is a member of the Art Resources Committee of the National Arts Council, a member of the Advisory Committee on Chinese TV programs, and a member of the Advisory Committee on Chinese Book Services of the National Library of China.

In middle school, Liang Wenfu began to write and won the first prize in the national middle school students' literature and art competition many times. He is good at writing all kinds of styles. Besides prose, he has his own style in poetry, novels, fables and essays.

Liang Wenfu has also won many literary awards, including the first Young Artist Award (Literature) issued by the National Council of Arts in 1992. Published works include prose collection "the last ox cart water", "natural classmate", "once", new poetry "song full of cool", "in fact I am in love with time", "love poems", essay "criticizing eyebrows" and allegory novel collection "21 dreams of Liang Wenfu". Liang Wenfu is also an outstanding new ballad singer and famous music creator.

In the 1980s, there was a trend in Singapore. The young generation, especially the students on campus, began to write and sing songs by themselves, singing their attitude and understanding of life with their own voice. This is also the "new ballad" that flourished for a time. When he was 16 years old, Liang Wenfu wrote his first song "write a song to you" after he failed in the school debate competition. Since then, he began his new ballad career and became one of the "important pioneers and promoters" of the new ballad.

Later, many Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia singers in the Chinese music world chose to sing Liang Wenfu's works. It is not so much that they sing Liang Wenfu's songs that they are popular, but rather that Liang Wenfu writes them. He has also won many music awards, such as the new music award in 1987, the Golden Melody Award in 1995, the highest honorary award of the CI and Qu Writers Association in 1999, and many awards for best composer and composer.

In 1996, Liang Wenfu was in charge of the screenwriting and lyrics creation of the first large-scale Chinese musical "rainy season" in Singapore. The next year, he also wrote the theme song "are you still here" for the Singapore film "track". "He built a bridge between literature and music. "This is a comment given to Liang Wenfu by Guo Baokun, a famous senior dramatist in Singapore.

Indeed, without Liang Wenfu, there would have been no literary and artistic songs in Singapore. This shows that Liang Wenfu has a high musical attainments. When his works go deep into the hearts of the people, they do not lose the elegant literary sentiment; in the promotion of the concept of music and literature, they do not fall into the desolation of nobility -- I believe this is the so-called modern talent.

In the 1980s, he was a well-known student singer and creative talent in Singapore and Malaysia. He composed the local feelings and collective memory of a generation. In the 1990s, he was one of the important drivers behind the international trend of Singapore's music. He showed the characteristics of Singapore's music and literature to the Chinese world through his Ci and music. From "flowing water", "step by step", "Singapore school", "the eve of history examination" to "worry", "every time I wake up", "no one", "she came to listen to my concert"; from the last century to this century, the top artists and excellent singers of different generations in the three places on both sides of the Taiwan Straits have performed his lyrics and songs and become classics.

In 2007, the Chinese musical "come back when it's cold", which was written by Du Guowei and artistic director Guo Jianhong, was praised as the most successful Chinese musical in Singapore.

In 2010, the musical "rainy season" was staged again. Liang Wenfu greatly revised the script, wrote many new words, and wrote many new songs with Ye Liangjun. The director is Wu Wende, who has won many Drama Awards. She is starred by Singapore singer Chen Jieyi, Broadway renowned Tian Weihong and Singapore outstanding stage actor Liu Junwei in Hong Kong. The musical director is Chen Huiling. The play has been rated as "the embodiment of the specialization of Chinese Theatre" by the media, setting a new record of audience attendance in a round of performances of Chinese Theatre in the past 20 years.

In 2012, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Singapore's "make-up parade", Liang Wenfu was invited as a "special artist" to create the lyrics "love let you see" for the theme song of the event.

Main works

Book works

Once, 1984

1985 song of Sheng man Liang

The last water of ox cart, 1988

1989 "actually I'm in love with time"

1991 "a landscape and a song: 1980-1990 Liang Wenfu's Ci and Qu works"

Looking for a cat's smile: Liang Wenfu's 21 dreams

"Mei PI Qing" in 1993

1994 natural classmate

Love poetry, 1996

A half day's leisure, 1997

Want to fly in 2000

Prose @ Wenfu, 2001

2004 "write a song for you: Selected Works of Liang Wenfu"

2004 "new Ballad: our song is here"

Happy left hand in 2006

More distant, more clear, 2011

Music Album

Door, 1986

Beyond good and bad, 1987

The name of love, 1988

Singapore school in 1990

1991 selected reviews of where is our song, laughing about city affairs, and notes of feeling

Goeast Oriental thoughts, 1992

Full collection of 2007 complete album and selected works of "the world around the beam"

Original record of 2009 musical "come back when it's cold"

Original record of 2010 musical "rainy season"

2010 music album "please tell her"

Creative works

one thousand nine hundred and eighty-one

Liang Wenfu: a song of early China

one thousand nine hundred and eighty-four

Write a song for you

Yan Liming

one thousand nine hundred and eighty-five

Wu Qixian

Liang Wenfu and Yan Liming

May Yan Liming

First visit to Huang Huizhen

one thousand nine hundred and eighty-six

The rest of love

Zeng Yiling

Rocking ballad - water grass Trio

Dizziness of night

The last song

Row by row - Liang Wenfu, Huang Huizhen

Music in the door

Another face of years: Hong Shaoxuan

New clothes are better than old ones

Liang Wenfu

Where is our song

Playing a cool song - Hong Shaoxuan

1700 mood