In fact, has been in the Chinese music scene for decades, and many musicians who have become singers from the medical profession or medical profession have emerged. Since then, there have been fewer talents in the medical field, and there have been a few more powerful singer-songwriters in the music world.
The "first" in the music world to abandon medicine and pursue music may be the first example of the music godfather Luo Dayou .
Luo Dayou came from a medical family. His father opened a clinic in Taiwan for many years, his mother was a nurse, his brother was a doctor of cardiology, and his sister was a pharmacist.
Luo Dayou, who was born in such an environment, naturally wanted to engage in the medical profession under the influence of his family and the education of his father.
is all the fault of the piano. Luo Dayou, who has an excellent family background, was asked by his parents to learn the piano in his spare time. Over time, he became obsessed with the notes, but he did not give up medical studies.
In 1980, after seven years of college medicine, Luo Dayou became a radiologist, which was his profession, but not his hobby.
Luo Dayou, who is very talented, wrote some songs when he was in college, until he met Zhang Aijia , whom he was infatuated with, Luo Dayou wrote the songs "Childhood" and "Story of Time" for Zhang Meiren and established Fruit Music with her studio.
At the same time, when making an album for Zhang Aijia, Luo Dayou persuaded his old father to give up his career as a doctor and devote himself to music creation.
"Among so many doctors, there is no need for another Luo Dayou, but in music, there is still a lot of room for development."
In 1982, Luo Dayou's solo debut "The One Who Loves You" became a "bomb" in the music world, refreshing fans. After albums such as
"Dance of Youth", "Future Protagonist" and "Comrade Lover", Luo Dayou became the music godfather of the Chinese music scene, influencing singers one after another.
has become a "music godfather" from a doctor, as well as the versatile Zhang Hongliang .
In 1984, Zhang Hongliang, who graduated from the Department of Dentistry of Taipei Medical College, chose to inherit his father's business and become the owner of a dental clinic.
The energetic Zhang Hongliang is most interested in learning music after work. Without systematic training, he just learned to compose, arrange, fill in lyrics and other things that professional musicians can do.
In 1987, in his spare time as a doctor, Zhang Hongliang spent his own money to release an album called "Sacrifice" on the Himalaya Records. Because the lyrics and music were too spicy, he was targeted, and "Sacrifice" suffered a fiasco in sales, but this did not hit him. Zhang Hongliang's enthusiasm.
In 1989, Zhang Hongliang made a comeback and released the single " Do you know I'm waiting for you ", and released the album "My Beloved Sister's Eyes" on Rolling Stone Records that year.
's song "Do You Know I'm Waiting for You" became Zhang Hongliang's famous work. Since then, there has been a love song godfather in the Chinese music scene. At the 1990 Top Ten Golden Songs Awards Ceremony, this song became a new award—— The Gold Award of the Most Popular Mandarin Song Award, Zhang Hong is able to beat Tong Ange and Wu Sikai, two musical talents.
Since then, Zhang Hongliang has also written love songs such as "Beautiful Flower Butterfly", "Heaven's Love", "Love in Hiroshima", " Why You Love Others on Your Back", consolidating his reputation as the godfather of love songs. .
However, Zhang Hongliang is not a "safe" person. In addition to medicine and music, he is also obsessed with human sociology and directing research, and has made great achievements.
After the new millennium, Zhang Hongliang returned to his old business as a dentist. In 2015, after being in the music scene for many years, his thoughtful song " Divine Comedy " won the top ten golden songs of the Chinese Golden Melody Award and the Jury Award.
There is also a well-known singer in Taiwan's music scene who gave up medicine to pursue music. He is the "Prince of the Rose" - Tai Zhengxiao .
Tai Zhengxiao was born in Hong Kong to a family of traditional Chinese medicine. After Tai Zhengxiao graduated from high school, his father arranged for him to study at Kaohsiung Medical College in Taiwan.
However, Tai Zhengxiao, who is very interested in music creation, put more energy in his college days.In terms of singing, although his Mandarin was not standard at the beginning, he still won the championship of the campus folk song competition. Because
can sing and write, and looks handsome, UFO Records signed a contract with Tai Zhengxiao as soon as he graduated, and was praised by the company like Zhang Yusheng and Yao Kejie . During the years of
in the UFO, Tai Zhengxiao did not become famous. In 1993, Tai Zhengxiao signed a contract with Fu Mao Records , an album that included his own creation of "999 Roses" and " Find a Word to Replace " composed by Xiong Meiling , making Tai Zhengxiao the same year as Zhang Xinzhe It became popular, and they became the momentary Yuliang of " Love Song Prince " in the Chinese music scene. Since then,
's songs "One Thousand and One Nights", "Thousand Paper Cranes", "Love Returns to Zero", " Heart Wants You to Hear " and other songs have made fans completely remember this prince of music, because many works With numbers, fans use the "Prince of Numbers" to distinguish him from Zhang Xinzhe.
HK Phil also has a powerful singer who gave up medicine to pursue music. She is the Queen of HK Phil who went to nursing school and turned from a nurse at Princess Margaret Hospital into a singer - Miriam Yeung .
worshipped her idol Chen Baiqiang . After working as a nurse in the hospital for a year, Miriam Yeung, who was unwilling to the status quo, bravely signed up for the TVB Rookie Singing Contest, and finally won the third place and became a signed singer of Huaxing Records.
Because of her straightforward personality and kind-heartedness, Miriam Yeung can be said to be smooth sailing in the music world. Except for Eason Chan , Zheng Zhongji , Hong Kong Phil's "Two Weiwen" regard her as "heart meat" and use her best lyrics All written to this optimistic and cheerful " laughing aunt ".
" Goodbye 2-chome ", " Girl's Prayer ", " Unfortunately I am an Aquarius ", " Kisses Everywhere ", " Wild Child ", " Small Town Events ", "If Let me go on", Miriam Yeung's songs still have a high reputation and popularity during the post-Hong Kong Philharmonic "Four Kings" period, and she has also become the most popular female singer of the three-time golden song , supporting more and more Silent HK Phil.
There are also two examples in the mainland music scene who have become famous singers from medical majors. It is worth mentioning here. One of
is Xu Song , who is known as a "music genius". Xu Song is a student of the Department of Health Management of Anhui Medical University. After graduation, he chose his hobby - music creation, instead of the medical major.
started from his first album "Custom", Xu Song's musical talent was gradually discovered and recognized by the music world.
Because representative compositions such as " Broken Bridge Remnant Snow ", " Rose's Funeral ", " Qingming Rain " and other representative compositions are mainly spread through the Internet, Xu Song became known as the "QQ Music Big Three".
Today's Xu Song is over 30 years old and is the music director of Taihe Music Company (formerly Haidie Records ). The young Xu Song has a bright future!
In today's Chinese music scene, which is increasingly lacking original songs, we can actually hear songs with textures such as "People Like Me", " Wrangler City ", and "Xiaoshou", which is really rare. The person who sang and composed these songs by
is Mao Buyi , one of the "New Four Heavenly Kings" of the mainland music scene that many netizens have commented on.
entered the music scene from the talent show in 2017, and became a new force in the Chinese music scene in just one year.
However, Mao Buyi was not born in music. He is a nursing student at Hangzhou Normal University. He was able to enter the music scene entirely because of his love and persistence in music.
In addition to the above 6 singers, what other musicians can you think of who gave up medicine to pursue music? Welcome to leave a message in the comment area. I believe you will pay attention to the author one day.
