Hu Weili, 49 years old, graduated from the China Conservatory of Music and taught successively at the Beijing Art Institute, the China Conservatory of Music and the Beijing Film Academy. Many of his compositions were used as teaching materials for the China Conservatory of Music. However, due to his poor family background, he was detained
Being labeled as a "white specialist", many of Hu Weili's works can only be signed as collective creations. Even when his works were performed in Zhongnanhai to listen to national leaders, the composers' signatures were still collective creations.
Hu Weili was once sent to the countryside. During this period, he fell into a well and broke his waist. He stopped playing the violin and continued to do odd jobs after returning to school.
After the ten years of catastrophe, Hu Weili began to create music again. He has written songs and soundtracks for many mainland movies, and has also composed songs for mainland singers such as Li Guyi, Guan Mucun, and Su Xiaoming.
It was not until this summer that Hu Weili came to Hong Kong from the mainland. He was impacted by Hong Kong's commercial creative atmosphere and began to change his creative ideas.
Kang Jianfei knew this person because he was so awesome. In another time and space, Hu Weili composed music for more than 300 episodes of TVB TV series every year, and at the same time he also wrote songs and music for singers and movies. Andy Lau,
Aaron Kwok, Lin Yilian, and Hacken Lee have all sung songs written by Hu Weili. In addition, the soundtracks of many movies such as "If There is Love", "The East is Undefeated", "Xiao Qian", "The Deer and the Cauldron", and "Drunken Master" were all composed by Hu Weili
, he is also the deputy principal of the Hong Kong Pan-Asia Symphony Orchestra, and has composed music for many orchestras in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
It can be said that Hu Weili has single-handedly dominated TVB's TV series soundtrack work for ten years.
Anyone who knows anything about Hong Kong's entertainment industry has heard of such a super music star. How could Kang Jianfei let him go if he met him?
Not only for TV series and movies, Hu Weili can also be used to score cartoons produced by Dark Horse Animation Company in the future. The soundtracks for cartoons such as "Afanti" in the Mainland came from this person.
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Kowloon Yimei Ballet School.
In the performance room, more than 20 children were dancing to the sound of music, and there were parents of students and community officials as the audience under the stage.
Hu Weili sat next to the stage, playing the piano and accompanying several other temporary partners to the children. After playing for more than two hours, the children performing ballet changed several times, but Hu Weili did not rest at all, and finally got to perform.
Finish.
The students were led out of the performance by their parents, and then a teacher from the school came over. He handed an envelope to Hu Weili and said, "Mr. Hu, this is your performance fee!"
"Thank you!" Hu Weili nodded to the teacher without looking at how much money was inside, and then left with his bag.
While standing on the side of the road waiting for the bus, Hu Weili couldn't hold on any longer. He held his lower back and leaned against the stop sign for a while before he finally regained his composure. This was when he was labeled as a rightist and was sent to the countryside. He fell into a well.
An old problem caused by falling. It hurts when it comes to rainy days or sitting for long periods of time.
Hu Weili came to Hong Kong to study three months ago, but after arriving here, he didn't want to leave because the creative environment here is more free.
Ever since, Hu Weili has gone from being a teacher at the Beijing Film Academy to a grassroots man in Hong Kong who is struggling to make a living. He teaches children piano and violin, accompanies choirs and dance schools, and participates in various informal performances. Anyway, as long as he can make money
Hu Weili was willing to do all the work.
Hu Weili has a brother who works in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. But he is just a junior member of the Legislative Council. He has no power and only looks good on the surface. He cannot give him much substantial help.
The letter of recommendation that Li Yufeng took out was written by Hu Weili's brother. He wrote letters to Radio Television Hong Kong, Commercial Radio, TVB, Phoenix TV and Oriental TV Production Company, hoping that these companies would appreciate Hu Weili's talent.
It is a pity that in the eyes of Hong Kong people at this time, mainland China is synonymous with poverty, backwardness and corruption. What good works can a composer who just came from mainland China write? "The East Is Red" has no market in Hong Kong.
Now Hu Weili has given up on the idea of joining a big company or a TV station. He just hopes to survive by his own efforts. By the way, he has also signed up for a computer class and has to learn computer operations every weekend.
The double-decker bus came ricketyly. After getting on the bus, Hu Weili took a nap. When he woke up, he had already ridden two stops, so he had to carry his bag and walk back.
When he returned to the rented apartment, the landlady suddenly called him: "Mr. Hu, two people are coming to see you today."
"Two people? Did you invite me to perform?" Hu Weili asked.
"No," the landlady changed her dead face from the previous few months and said with a smile, "Mr. Hu, if you get rich, don't forget us old neighbors."
Hu Weili was confused and asked: "Who is looking for me?"
The landlady said enviously: "One is Mr. Liu from TVB, and the other is incredible. He is Mr. Kang, who has a net worth of several billion. He drove to you personally this afternoon."
Hu Weili has been in Hong Kong for more than three months and is very familiar with Kang Jianfei's name. However, he is still a little confused and asked: "Why are they coming to me?"
"I don't know about that," the landlady said, taking out a business card. "But Manager Liu from TVB left a business card and asked you to go to TVB to find him next week."
Hu Weili took the business card, nodded and said: "Thank you, Mrs. Zhang, for your trouble."
The landlady added: "I don't think that Manager Liu is sincere at all. Mr. Kang is the big boss. He told me to call him as soon as you come back. No matter how late it is, he will come over in person."
Hu Weili became even more curious after hearing this: "Mrs. Zhang, please stop joking. How could a big boss like him come to see me at night?"
"It's true. When you arrived at the door just now, I called Mr. Kang and he said he would be here in half an hour at most." said the landlady.
"Really?" Hu Weili felt a little happy. It felt good to be treated as a corporal by others, especially when he was in the worst situation, it was even more valuable to be valued by others.
Hu Weili remembered that there was nothing to entertain guests at home, so he quickly went out and bought tea bags and some fruits. Then he sat in the living room and watched TV, waiting for Kang Jianfei to come to visit.
Only twenty minutes later, Kang Jianfei's car parked downstairs of his apartment. The landlady came out with a smile and said, "Mr. Kang, Mr. Hu is at home now, and I haven't seen anyone from TVB yet."
"Thank you, Mrs. Zhang!" Kang Jianfei pulled out a piece of golden Hong Kong paper and stuffed it into the landlady's hand.
"Mr. Kang, I'll take you up!" The landlady, who bought 1,000 Hong Kong dollars, suddenly became more attentive. When going upstairs, she reminded Kang Jianfei from time to time to be careful about the slippery stairs.
After sending Kang Jianfei up, the landlady looked at the thousand-yuan bills under the electric light. She felt particularly comfortable. She casually helped Kang Jianfei pass messages and ran errands and earned 1,500 yuan.
After putting away the golden Hong Kong paper, the landlady said to herself: "No wonder he can become a big boss. His actions are different. Just pass the word and you can get a tip of one thousand or two thousand. That Manager Liu from TVB, you can see it at a glance
I was asked to work for someone, but I didn’t even show a single sign when I asked my mother to hand me a business card. Bah!"
Kang Jianfei was not generous to anyone. He just came over in the afternoon. He heard that someone from TVB had already come, so he bribed the landlady with money just to be on the safe side.
The landlady is even more awesome. In order to earn Kang Jianfei's subsequent reward, she gave Hu Weili a handwritten business card and deliberately wrote the wrong phone number by two digits. Hu Weili couldn't get through the phone for the rest of his life. Moreover, Manager Liu from TVB
Hu Weili was asked to go to the TV station tomorrow, but when the landlady sent the message, she changed it to next week. By then, the day lilies would be cold.
"Dong dong dong!"
Hearing the knock on the door, Hu Weili quickly got up and opened the door, and then said enthusiastically: "Mr. Kang, please come in quickly. It's hard for you to come in person."
Kang Jianfei looked at Hu Weili carefully. He had gray hair, wore glasses, was thin, energetic, and had a good temperament. If he were in a Chinese tunic suit, he would look like a very capable old professor from the mainland.
Hu Weili hurriedly ran to make tea. Kang Jianfei glanced at the room and asked, "I heard from Mrs. Zhang that you just came back and haven't had dinner yet, right?"
Hu Weili smiled and said: "Not yet, I'll just have a bowl of noodles later."
"I haven't eaten yet," Kang Jianfei took out his mobile phone and dialed a number, "Zhenguo, order two takeaways, a bigger portion, and a few bottles of beer."
Hu Weili covered the tea cup and smiled sheepishly: "Mr. Kang, look at what this looks like. It costs you money to come to my house."
"It's just a meal, it's nothing," Kang Jianfei said without mentioning the invitation, "I have been admiring Teacher Hu for a long time. The "Afanti" I watched when I was a child was probably your old soundtrack. Also
"This is My Hometown" and "Love Song of the Four Seasons" sung by teacher Li Guyi, I also liked to sing them when I was in mainland China. These are your old works."
Kang Jianfei can be regarded as a person with status and talent, so his compliments were very helpful to Hu Weili. Hu Weili smiled and waved his hands and said: "I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed. There are still many shortcomings in what I wrote before. It's been an eye-opener since I came to Hong Kong.
.Not to mention anything else, Mr. Kang, I listened to your Tao Xun album "Original Scenery of Hometown" dozens of times when I was in Beijing, and it is much higher than my level."
"Teacher Hu, you are so humble." Kang Jianfei smiled and chatted about other gossip.
Not long after, Zhu Zhenguo came up with takeout and beer, and Kang Jianfei and Hu Weili sat around the coffee table, eating and drinking while chatting.
The two started talking mostly about things in the Mainland. Hu Weili mainly said that Kang Jianfei listened. As they talked, the topic turned to the Hong Kong music circle. At this time, Kang Jianfei said that Hu Weili listened.
The two chatted animatedly, and after finishing their fast food, they drank beer for half an hour with Hu Weili's fried peanuts.
After each had a few bottles of beer, Hu Weili started talking loudly, so he took Kang Jianfei to visit his studio.
The so-called creative room is actually just a vacated utility room. In addition to an electronic keyboard, there is only a small table and stacks of thick papers.
Kang Jianfei randomly picked up a piece of paper and looked at it, and found that it was not an ordinary music score, but a score written by Hu Weili. In Hong Kong, no one has written this thing except professional arrangers, and many musicians even read it.
I can't even understand it.
If you haven't heard of it, you really can't understand the score. At that time, many Hong Kong singers and some "composers" were limited by their academic qualifications and horizons, so many of them didn't read the score.
Seeing the music scores weighing hundreds of kilograms piled up in the room, Kang Jianfei felt that what was piled in front of him was countless banknotes. These music scores could be easily modified and used by Oriental TV Production Company and Phoenix Channel for several years.
Discovering that Kang Jianfei was interested in the music scores in the house, Hu Weili said: "This is the result of my decades of creation in mainland China. I didn't even bring any clothes with me when I came to Hong Kong. I had them all in my luggage bag."
Kang Jianfei finally extended the invitation: "I wonder if Mr. Hu would be willing to condescend to serve as music director at Oriental TV Production Company?"
Hu Weili stayed in Hong Kong for several months, doing unskilled work such as teaching children to practice and play the piano. He had long hoped to join a regular company to engage in creation. As soon as Kang Jianfei extended the invitation, he happily invited Wen Dao
: "I have my wish, but I dare not ask for my ear!"
As for the invitation from TVB, Hu Weili had long forgotten about it. Not to mention that both of them came from the mainland, only Kang Jianfei's performance as Corporal Li Xian tonight was enough for Hu Weili to make a choice. (To be completed.)
