Xu Song (singer)
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Xu Song (Chinese:许嵩), an independent musician in pop music in China. He was born in Hefei, Anhui Province, in 1986. His English name is Vae.[1]
Developments
Internet Experiences (2006--2008)
In 2006
Vae is a sophomore in medical college. In his spare time, he made some demos with a personal computer and microphone. Some of them are adaptions, and others are written by him and his friend. After he put these demos on the Internet with the name of "Vae", a growing number of people began to know him as a singer.
From 2007 to 2008
Vae kept writing and up-loading at least one song per month. 'The Funeral of Rose'(Chinese:玫瑰花的葬礼)is one of those songs in that term, sang by Vae and Li Yijie, which describes a young man missing his dead girlfriend. 'If You Become the Wind'(你若成风)is another, which is about a young mans desire for a girl to be his girlfriend.
To everyone’s surprise, Vae refused all performance invitations in order not to have a bad influence on his academic study. His songs and such behaviors attracted more people to become his fans and got a lot of praise for him. In 2005, Vae got the award as Chinese entertainment NET best male singer. In May, 2007 Vae got the chance to be the member of Anhui Musician's Association. One year later, he was selected to be one of the best 10 students in the whole Anhui Province.
In these three years, Vae changed from a music player to a professional popular musician. What’s more, he was not only a traditional Internet singer, but also the person who improved the level of Internet songs.
Though Vae was really popular on the Internet then, nobody knew where would be his future in 2008.
Musical Achievements (2009--2010)
After graduating from college, Vae spent about half a year preparing his first personal CD. Jan 10th, 2009 a CD named '自定义' came out.[2] Vae did all of the work in completing the CD, including composing, writing, recording and so on. Even the paper used in the package was chosen by himself. The CD has nine songs, including 'Why Not'(有何不可), 'Bad Kid'(坏孩子) and so on, most of which are blue but all are attractive.
The CD was sold in advance from 11 Dec, 2008 to 21 Dec and the number broke 10000 in just ten days. Another 200 were added then. What should be paid attention to was that the CD got popular only by fans but no commercial promotion. This attracted several musical companies. However, no company dared to accept Vae’s requirement that he wanted to publish another independent CD.
So, Vae refused all companies and began to prepare his second CD ‘寻雾启示’, which came out on Jun 6, 2010 and became another big success.[3] There are ten songs in this CD, including 'The Monn in Luzhou'(庐州月), 'The White Horse Is Not A Horse' (白马非马). One day after the CD being uploaded on the Internet, it became the most popular one in QQ music taking the place of Jay Chow, who had been the first for more than seven years.
Besides, Vae also composed a lot of other songs in this term. 'Two Tragedies' (两种悲剧)is one of them, telling a young man's mood after breaking off with his girlfriend. 'Your Mouth' (你的嘴)is a song Vae composed for a female singer, Jin Sha.
By then, Vae had made a musical legend on his own.
Changes (2011--?)
In March 2011 Vae finally got into a international musical company 'Ocean Butterflies'.[4] This time, the rules were changed for him that Vae was allowed to complete his third CD in the way as before while the company would be only in charge of promotion.
The CD '苏格拉没有底' was published on 1 Apr 2011.[5] Ten songs in this CD talk about philosophy in everyday life and love, such as 'In Imagination' (想象之中) and 'The Doctor' (医生). The Click-through rate soon broke 1000000, after only one song being uploaded.
After the publication, Vae started his traveling around the country to take part in the activities with fans. Beijing, Shanghai, Heifei, Nanjing are all included. Besides, Vae began to get in some commercial activities. He has been one of the spokesmen of an online game '天龙八部', which adapted from Jin Yong's novel.[6]
On the Internet, there is a saying that Ocean Butterflies has saved a big fortune for promoting a new singer because Vae is not a new guy. He has been popular on his own for a really long time.
References
- ^ "许嵩- 许嵩百科 官方发布—信息权威—迅速及时—丰富海量". Xusong.vaecn.com. Retrieved 2011-10-15.
- ^ "自定义- 许嵩百科 官方发布—信息权威—迅速及时—丰富海量". Xusong.vaecn.com. 2010-11-22. Retrieved 2011-10-15.
- ^ "寻雾启示- 许嵩百科 官方发布—信息权威—迅速及时—丰富海量". Xusong.vaecn.com. 2010-11-22. Retrieved 2011-10-15.
- ^ "许嵩重磅加盟新东家海蝶音乐 首度亮相破冰而出气势惊人 海蝶集团官方网站". Ob-i.com. Retrieved 2011-10-15.
- ^ "苏格拉没有底- 许嵩百科 官方发布—信息权威—迅速及时—丰富海量". Xusong.vaecn.com. 2011-03-28. Retrieved 2011-10-15.
- ^ "许嵩古装扮相曝光 千万代言金庸武侠网络游戏-搜狐音乐". Music.yule.sohu.com. Retrieved 2011-10-15.