张蔷
Zhang Qiang
中国 China
时间 Time
2018.5.18 21:30 - 23:00
场地 Venue
华侨城创意文化园北区B10现场
B10 Live, North District of OCT-LOFT
演出者 Artists
张蔷 Zhang Qiang - 人声 Vocals
冯冲 Feng Chong - 吉他 Guitar
张超 Zhang Chao - 鼓 Drums
王瀚一 Wang Hanyi - 贝斯 Bass / 电脑音乐 Program
许蔚天 Xu Weitian - 键盘 Keyboard
塔兔 DJ Tattoo - DJ
张蔷，中国内地流行音乐代表人物，传奇天才女歌手，80年代中国流行文化偶像符号，21世纪迪斯科回潮的新女皇。
从小深受从事音乐工作的母亲影响的张蔷，16岁便出道了。在那个原创音乐尚不发达的封闭年代，人们第一次听到来自欧美、日本和中国台湾的流行歌曲，相当一部分都是通过张蔷的翻唱。“张蔷的翻唱经常能干掉原唱——尖，亮，嗲，骚，不事雕琢也谈不上功底，就是一股冲天野劲，就像战斗机划破八十年代北京的万里蓝天。”（张晓舟）
张蔷第一盒磁带，是1985年推出的《东京之夜》，原定只制作60万盒，但一再脱销，最终销量高达250万盒；第二盒磁带《害羞的女孩》再创销量奇迹。张蔷到底出版过多少唱片，连她自己都算不清楚，她只记得1986年曾经一个月在中国剧院同一个录音棚录了四张唱片。张蔷是中国八十年代当之无愧的唱片销量之王，并和Whitney Houston、邓丽君等一起被美国《时代周刊》评为“全球音乐偶像”。
1987年，张蔷远赴澳洲留学，放缓了音乐节奏。一个时代远逝，正当人们仅仅将她当做一个怀旧符号的时候，2013年，张蔷忽然卷土重来，与新裤子乐队携手登上草莓音乐节的舞台，并推出了新裤子为她量身订造的新专辑《别再问我什么是迪斯科》，以令人惊艳目眩的迪斯科女皇形象征服了新一代乐迷。张蔷所到之处，现场都是一个疯狂的嘉年华Party。2017年，由新裤子乐队庞宽担任制作人和MV导演，张蔷又推出了一张强劲的专辑《北京女孩》。那个天真的北京女孩，依旧在引领潮流。
此次张蔷将带领一支六人乐队登上明天音乐节的舞台，除了唱歌，张蔷还将首次展现自己的另一个全新形象——DJ张蔷，一个浑身带电的迪斯科女皇。
张蔷是罕有的团结了50后、60后、70后、80后、90后和00后的人物。她的背后，是一个精彩的中国故事，一个时代传奇。
张蔷属于昨天，更属于明天。
Zhang Qiang, born in Beijing in 1967, icon of the 1980s Chinese pop culture, is a legendary diva and new queen of the disco rebirth in today’s Mainland China.
Influenced deeply by her musician mother since childhood, Zhang Qiang started out as a singer at the age of 16. Back then in Mainland China, it was a relatively closed time and original music was not developed, and most people got their first impression about pop songs of the Western, Japan and Taiwan from Zhang Qiang’s cover versions. Music critic Zhang Xiaozhou once commented, “Zhang Qiang’s covers can often surpass the originals, for her voice is high, shiny, dashing and enchanting. It is raw and somehow lack of training, but with the wildest power that could streak across the blue sky of 1980s Beijing like a warcraft.”
Zhang Qiang’s debut cassette album “Tokyo Nights” (1985) has been sold out several times, way more than the original 600,000 copies planned on sale, and was finally settled at 2.5 million. Her second cassette album “Shy Girl”(1985) also made a sales miracle. She has released so many albums that she herself has no idea about the exact number. What she can only recall is that she has recorded 4 albums within just a month in the same studio of Theatre of China in 1986. She is undoubtably the queen of record sales in 1980s China, and was titled “Global Music Icon” by the TIME magazine among names of Whitney Huston and Teresa Teng.
In 1987, Zhang Qiang went to Australia for further education and slowed down her pace in music, marking the end of an era. Just when people starting to regard her as a symbol of nostalgia, she made a stunning comeback in 2013 by staging on Strawberry Music Festival with famous Chinese pop-rock band New Pants, and soon released a new album “No Question of Disco” tailor-made for her by New Pants. Everywhere she showed up became a crazy fiesta, and the disco queen has totally captivated the new generation of fans. In 2017, she released another album “Beijing Girl”, Pang Kuan of New Pants being the album producer and MV director. It seems that the innocent Beijing girl is still leading the trend.
This time, Zhang Qiang will perform in Tomorrow Festival in a 6-piece band. She will also, for the first time ever, reveal her brand new image as a DJ, the electrified disco queen.
Zhang Qiang is the rare one who can unite generations from the 1950s to 2000s. What lies behind her, is a great story of China, a legend of times.
She belongs to yesterday, and more to tomorrow.