| Wu Qing-feng | |||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 30 August 1982(age 41) | ||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Taipei, Taiwan | ||||||||||||
| Nationality: | Taiwanese | ||||||||||||
| Other Names: | Greeny Wu | ||||||||||||
| Alma Mater: | National Chengchi University | ||||||||||||
| Occupation: | Singer, songwriter | ||||||||||||
| Years Active: | 2001–present | ||||||||||||
| Agent: | The Harlequin's Carnival Ltd. | ||||||||||||
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Wu Qing-feng[1] (; born 1982), also known as Greeny and credited as Wu Tsing-fong, is a Taiwanese singer-song writer, composer, arranger, and lyricist. Born in Taipei, he is a founding member and the lead vocalist of Oaeen (Sodagreen) and is the major composer and lyricist of the band.[2] Aside from producing the music for the band, he also writes songs for numerous Mandarin singers. Having nominated at the Golden Melody Award, Global Chinese Golden Chart and so on, he has won several music awards, including the 18th Golden Melody Award for Best Composer in 2007 and the 27th Golden Melody Award for Best Lyricist in 2016.[3] Qing-Feng Wu started to go solo in 2018 to perform and release his works. In 2019, he released his debut solo studio album Spaceman, for which he was nominated in several categories at the 31st Golden Melody Award and won the 31st Golden Melody Award for Best Male Mandarin Singer. In 2021, he was, again, nominated for the Best Male Mandarin Singer for his second solo album Folio Vol.1：One and One.
Wu was born in Taipei, Taiwan and is the youngest son in the family. He went to The Affiliated Senior High School of National Taiwan Normal University (HSNU) and joined the school magazine club as the president and the art editor.[4] He applied to study in the Department of Chinese Literature of National Chengchi University (NCCU) in 2000, double-majoring in the Department of Advertising and minoring in the Department of Business Administration and in the Department of Education.[5]
Without receiving any formal training, Qing-Feng Wu taught himself piano and music theory out of interest. As Qing-Feng Wu's elder sister started to learn to play the piano when he was an elementary school student, he used to observe her playing and practiced secretly when no one else was home. Qing-Feng Wu enjoyed going to record shops and only listened to classical music, such as the works of Claude Debussy, Erik Satie along with several of his favorite composers.[6]
When he was in junior high school, he listened to Faye Wong's album Sky given by his elder sister, and since then, he "has started to listen to all kinds of genres". He talked about it in an interview:
"Retrospectively, that was the time when music was truly beautiful...from 1994 to 2000. To me, the songs of those years are the most impressive. It probably has something to do with my adolescence. Many of the songs from that time are even more trendy and edgier than those now".[7]Qing-Feng Wu is deeply inspired by the following music artists: Faye Wong, A-Mei,[8] Faith Yang, Jeff Buckley, Tori Amos, Björk, Ringo Sheena, Radiohead, Chyi Yu and Ai Jing. Qing-Feng Wu has often covered the works of the above artists in his performance.
Qing-Feng Wu has always been highly sensitive to words. At the age of 3 or 4, he was taught to write Chinese characters by his grandfather. Whenever there were visitors coming, his grandfather would have him recognize words and recite newspaper aloud as a performance. Qing-Feng Wu therefore was able to recognize a great number of words at a very young age. When he was an elementary school boy, he even edited a personal dictionary by comparing several dictionaries.[9] When in college, Qing-Feng Wu admired contemporary poets Hsia-Yu (Katie Lee, 夏宇) and Li Chen (陳黎). Qing-Feng's lyrics style has partially inherited the experimentalism and the deconstructive method linguistically and syntactically from the two poets. He also mentioned that the foundation of his lyrics writing may have been built along the process of word-recognition and his habit of reading Chinese dictionaries as a child.[10]
Qing-Feng Wu first tried to create music when he was in the third year of senior high school after participating in the school music competition Tien-Yun Award (天韻獎). Although he signed up for the competition without having any works ready, he soon wrote his first song Peeping (窺) and more than a dozen songs were composed one after another in the same month.[11] In the end, he won the championship in the Composition Category with his work Peeping and another championship in the Solo Singing Category by performing Tanya Chua's Ji Nian (紀念, Remember). Qing-Feng Wu once mentioned that if he had not won first prize at Tien-Yun Award for Composition Category, he would not have realized that he was able to write songs and might have never thought about writing any other songs.[12]
In order to sign up for NCCU Golden Melody (政大金旋獎) in 2001, he started the band Sodagreen with Claire Hsieh, Jyun-Wei Shih and his high school friend Xin-Ge (新哥). By covering Stefanie Sun's My Desired Happiness (我要的幸福), he entered the Solo Singing Final and the Composition Final at NCCU Golden Melody Award with his work Be Late For One Thousand Years (遲到千年).[13] In 2002 Sodagreen participated in NCCU Golden Melody Award again and not only did they win the championship in the Team Category with the work Audiovisual And Illusion In The Air, but also won three more prizes, including the championship, Best Lyrics and Best Composition in Composition Category with the work Flying Fish (飛魚). From2001 to 2004, Qing-Feng Wu completed more than 100 songs.[14] About half of them became the works for Sodagreen and the rest of the songs were successively used by other artists.
See main article: Sodagreen. On May 30, 2004, Sodagreen had the concert School Rock at NCCU and released the single Audiovisual And Illusion In The Air (空氣中的視聽與幻覺) as their official debut. Since then, Qing-Feng Wu has participated in various music collaborations as an individual aside from performing and releasing works with Sodagreen. The collaborations include:
On January 1, 2017, Sodagreen finished their final performance and went hiatus. After taking a break for a year, Qing-Feng Wu announced to embark his solo career officially in Spring 2018, attending Spring Wave Music and Art Festival (春浪音樂節) in May as the first performance of his return.[18] Since going solo, Qing-Feng Wu has dabbled in numerous new fields, including self-teaching formal music arrangement on computer, releasing the EP Everybody Woohoo that is pop-oriented, mentoring participants in the idol-oriented talent shows.[19]
Wu's lyrics have introduced the art of literacy to Mandopop. The topics range from the gazes at personal life experiences to the social depiction and its allegory.[22] In 2009, Qing-Feng's Be Late For One Thousand Years was selected to be a rhetoric material in the Chinese textbook for the second-year junior high school students.[23]
Qing-Feng Wu is good at singing with mixed voice (a mixture of true voice and falsetto voice close to head voice), and with his nasal resonance, he can transit between true voice and falsetto seamlessly. His singing technique has forged a genderless voice.[24] Qing-Feng Wu's way of singing also has something to do with his deviated nasal septum. His vocal range lies between A2 to C6, stretching over 26 intervals and owning more than 3 octaves, making him a singer with a very wide vocal range in Mandopop.[25]
Qing-Feng Wu does not celebrate his birthday in any form, let alone receive gifts. He is used to taking his birthday light because he sees the day of his birth as the day of his mother's suffering. Having his birthday mentioned by others agonizes him. He mentioned that his friends do know about his disinterest in celebrating his birthday.[26]
| Title | Publisher | Released Date | Track | |
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| 1st | Everybody Woohoo | Universal Music | June 22, 2018 | CD
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| 2nd | Peeping/When I am Missing You | Universal Music | December 6, 2019 | 8cmCD
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| 3rd | L'Après-midi d'un faune | Universal Music | July 22, 2022 | CD
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| Album # | Title | Publisher | Released Date | 曲目 | Notes | |
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| 1st | Spaceman | Universal Music | September 6, 2019 | CD
| Album | |
| 2nd | Universal Music | November 20, 2020 | CD
下冊 (CD 2)
| Works Collection | ||
| 3rd | Mallarme's Tuesdays | Universal Music | September 30, 2022 | CD 上冊
| Album |
| Year | Title | Released Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Jian Yu Fu Sheng"(剑雨浮生, also known as Hua) | September 6, 2010 | Digital single, duet with Ding-Ding Sa, the theme song of movie Reign of Assassins by John Woo Yu-Sen. | |
| "Gen Zhe Ni Dao Tian Bian" (跟著你到天邊, Follow You To The Horizon) | May 15, 2014 | Digital single, the theme song of movie Coming Home by Yi-Mou Zhang | |
| "Chuang" (窗, Window) | July 19, 2018 | Digital single, the closing theme of TV series Legend of Fuyao | |
| "Kong Wu" (空舞, Empty Dance) | July 24, 2018 | Digital single, duet with Li Chen. | |
| "Qing Ting" (請聽, Please Listen) | July 27, 2018 | Digital single, the theme song of Taichung World Flora Exposition | |
| Bao Bei Er (寶貝兒, Baby) | October 8, 2018 | Digital single, the theme song of movie Baby produced by Hsiap-Hsien Hou. | |
| Qi Feng Le (起風了, The Wind Rises) | January 11, 2019 | Digital single, cover song, original artist: Yu Takahashi, the theme song of TV series Mr. Fighting. | |
| "Feng Niao" (蜂鳥, Hummingbird) | February 27, 2019 | Digital single, the theme song of TV series Waiting in Beijing. | |
| "Ge Zhong Zhe"(歌颂者, Praise) | April 13, 2019 | Digital single, the commercial theme for 1MORE PistonBuds Bluetooth Headphone. | |
| "Zuo Wei Guai Wu"(作為怪物, As A Monster) | May 21, 2019 | Digital single, duet with Yuchun Li. | |
| "Right Here Waiting for you"(我在原地等你) | November 6, 2019 | Digital single, the theme song of movie Right Here Waiting for You. | |
| "My Shadow, My Shelter"(你的影子是我的海) | February 18, 2020 | Digital single, pp. 108–110 in Heroin, the poetry work by Miao Wang. | |
| "Zai Ye Bu Jian" (再也不見, Never See You Again) | May 15, 2020 | Digital single, duet with Zooey Wonder (黃玠瑋). | |
| "Hong Se De He" (紅色的河, The Red River) | July 23, 2020 | Digital single, duet with The Life Journey (旅行團樂隊). | |
| "Ling Ge Shi Kong De Ni" (另个时空的你, Another You In Another Universe) | November 20, 2020 | Digital single, duet with Misi Ke (柯泯薰), the closing theme of TV series Here Comes Fortune Star. | |
| "Ru Guo Sheng Yin Bu Ji De" (如果声音不记得, If The Voice Does Not Recall) | December 8, 2020 | Digital single, the theme song of movie The End of Endless Love directed by Luo Luo and produced by Jing-Ming Guo | |
| "Ya Shang De Bo Niu" (崖上的波妞, Ponyo) | December 21, 2020 | Digital single, duet with Lucky Lee, the Mandarin theme song of movie Ponyo (2008). | |
| "Bu Ku" (不苦, No Bitterness) | January 25, 2021 | Digital single, the theme song of movie The Soul (2021). | |
| "Shan He Fu Ying"(山河浮影, Floating reflection Of Mountains And Rivers) | March 12, 2021 | Digital single, collected in the album Palace Memories produced by Guo Feng Ji in collaboration with National Palace Museum. | |
| "Storm" | June 17, 2022 | Digital single, duet with Norwegian singer Aurora. | |
| "A Wanderer in the Sleeping City" | July 19, 2022 | Digital single, duet with Canadian singer Rufus Wainwright |
Qing-Feng wrote his first song "Peeping" in 2000 and won the championship at HSNU Tien-Yun (Heavenly Melody) Award when he was in the third year of senior high school. Since then, Qing-Feng has been very productive as his accumulated works, both published and unpublished, are over hundreds. 90 percent of the songs in Sodagreen are written by Qing-Feng. He also writes songs and lyrics for his fellow artist friends from Hong Kong and Taiwan, such as A-mei, S.H.E, Kay Tse, Alan Tam, Mr., Jolin Tsai, Coco Lee, Angela Zhang, Sandy Lam, Rainie Yang, JJ Lin, Yoga Lin, Jeff Chang, Eason Chan, Paige Su, Denise Ho, Mavis Fan, Waa Wei, Yolanda Yuan, Wan Fang, Jam Hsiao, Gigi Leung, Joey Yung, Aska Yang, Tanya Chua, Cyndi Wang, Stefanie Sun, Valen Hsu, Karen Mok, Ricky Hsiao, Lala Hsu, Rene Liu and others.
| Released Year | Artist | Title | Types of Collaboration | |
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| 2005 | Makiyo Kawashima (川島茉樹代) | Studio Album, Makiyo | Chorus. | |
| 2005 | Rene Liu | Studio Album, Heard | Chorus. | |
| 2005 | Nicholas Tse (謝霆鋒) | Studio Album, Release | Chorus. | |
| 2006 | Deserts Chang (張懸) | Music Video, Scream | Acting in the music video. | |
| 2009 | Eason Chan (陳奕迅) | Music Video, "Zhe Yang De Yi Ge Ma Fa" (A Trouble Like This) | Acting in the music video. | |
| 2012 | Deserts Chang (張懸) | Music Video, "Significant Others" (兩者) | Acting in the music video. | |
| 2013 | Priscilla Ahn | Music Video, "It Began With A Fallen Leaf" | Acting in the music video. | |
| 2018 | Wei-Ze Cai (蔡維澤), Yu-Ming Zeng (曾育茗) | "Bi Ci" (彼此, Each Other), a Live performance in the episode 5 of The Coming One 2 | Music arrangement. | |
| Wei-Ze Cai (蔡維澤) | "Ni Ma Mei You Gao Su Ni De Shi" (你媽沒有告訴你的事, What Your Mother Never Tells You), a Live performance in the episode 6 of The Coming One 2 | Collaborating with Wei Wei for the music and backing vocal arrangement. | ||
| 2020 | Various Artists | "Yi Zhi Dao Li Ming" (一直到黎明, Till The Dawn) | Participating in the cantata for the anti-epidemic song. | |
| 2021 | Xiao Re Chang (小熱唱) | Music Video, "3 Lovers" (三個愛人) | Acting in the music video. | |
| 2021 | Hebe Tien / Qing-Feng Wu/James Li/JJ Lin/Wei Bird/Shi Shi/Soft Lipa/Wan Fang/E.SO/Wei-Wei Tan/Tracy Su | "2021 Shou Qian Shou" (2021 手牽手, Hand In Hand) Song + Music Vide | Singing and acting in the music video. | |
| 2022 | Qing-Feng Wu / Aurora | "Storm" music video | Singing and acting in the music video with Aurora. |
| Year | Channel / Platform | Title | Notes |
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| 2018 | Tencent Video | The Coming One 2 | Attending China's talent show as a judge/ advisor known as "Xing Tui Guan". |
| 2019 | Hunan Television | Singer 2019 | China's talent show |
| iQIY | The Big Band 1 | China's On-Line talent show for music bands |
| Categories | Title | Released Date | Notes | Ref | |
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| Micro Film | Zhi You Ke Yi (Only Possible) | September 21, 2012 | Commissioned by : Mian Is...Director& Film Editor: Jimmy Cho Assistant Director: Nai Wei Liu Producer: April Lee Director Manager: Claire Hsieh Artist Assistant: Hsiang Huang Make up: Wan-Ting Chang Special Thanks: Jing-Yi Chen, Chicken Rice, Zoom In The theme song and the lyrics of micro film Zhi You Ke Yi (Only Possible) is written by Qing-Feng Artist: Sodagreen Recording and Mixing: Eugene Ke | ||
| Mini-series | The Pond | 2021 | Qing-Feng played the role of a student in The Pond |
| Year | Award | Category | Recipient(s) and nominee(s) | Result | |
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| 2000 | HSNU Tien-Yun (Heavenly Melody)Award | Championship for Composition Category | Peeping | ||
| Championship for Solo Singing Category | Singing Tanya Chua's Ji Nian (Remember) | ||||
| 2002 | The 19th NCCU Golden Melody | Best Lyricist | Flying Fish | ||
| Best Composer | Flying Fish | ||||
| 2007 | The 18th Golden Melody Award | Best Lyricist | Little Love Song | ||
| 最佳作曲人 | Best Lyricist | Little Love Song | |||
| 2007 HITO Music Awards | 2006 HITO 作詞人 | 2006 HITO Best Lyricist | Little Love Song | ||
| 2008 | The 19th Golden Melody Award | Best Composer | Wu Yu Lun Bi De Mei Li (Incomparable Beauty) | ||
| The 8th Chinese Music Media Awards | 最佳作曲人 | Best Composer | Wu Yu Lun Bi De Mei Li (Incomparable Beauty) | ||
| 2009 | The 3rd Freshmusic Awards | Best Duet Song | Bei Yu Shang Tou (Deeply Hurt By The Rain) / Qing-Feng Wu, Waa Wei | ||
| Best Composer | Dai Wo Zou (Take Me Away) (Artist: Raine Yang) | ||||
| 2010 | The 21st Golden Melody Award | Best Lyricist | Disappear (Artist: A-mei) | ||
| 最佳作曲人 | Best Composer | Disappear (Artist: A-mei) | |||
| The 10th Chinese Music Media Awards | Best Composer | Ta Xia Le Xia Tian(His Summer) | |||
| The 3rd Freshmusic Awards | Best Lyricist | Ge Zhan Ting Kao (Stop By Stop) | |||
| Best Composer | Jiao Xiang Meng (Symphonic Dream) | ||||
| 2011 | The 30th Hong Kong Film Awards | Best Original Film Song | Jian Yu Fu Sheng (also known as Hua) | ||
| The 22nd Golden Melody Award | Best Lyricist | Once In A Lifetime | |||
| The 1st Global Hits | 年度最佳作詞 | Best Lyricist Of The Year | Once In A Lifetime | ||
| The 5th Freshmusic Awards | 最佳作詞 | Best Lyricist | Once In A Lifetime | ||
| 2013 | 2013 HITO Music Awards | HITO Best Lyricist | My Dear (Artist: Raine Yang) | ||
| The 3rd Global Hits | Best Lyricist Of The Year | It's All About Love (Artist: Jam Hsiao) | |||
| The 7th Freshmusic Awards | Best Composer | Alzheimer's (Artist: Wan Fang) | |||
| 2014 | The 19th China Music Awards | 最佳音樂製作人 | Best Music Producer | ||
| 2015 | The 8th Freshmusic Awards | Best Lyrics: Album (The 2nd Place) | Departures (Artist: Karen Mok) / Yiu-Fai Chou、Qing-Feng Wu,Hai-Tou Wang, Francis Lee,Kar-Yeung Yee, Albert Leung, Zhen- Yi Chen and Shu Cui | ||
| Best Composition: Album (The 2nd Place) | Departures (Artist: Karen Mok) / Shilei Chang, Dennis Matkosky, Lee Anna James, Qing-Feng Wu, Anthony Lun,Jonathan Wong,, Keon Chia, Wei-Che Lin, Jian-Qing Li,Karen Mok and Arai Soichiro | ||||
| 2016 | The 27th Golden Melody Award | Best Lyricist | Tong Kuai De Ai Yan (Violently Sad and Beautiful) | ||
| Ta Ju Qi You Shou Dian Ming (He Raised His Hand to Make a Roll Call) | |||||
| Best Composer | Xia Yu De Ye Wan (Rainy Night) | ||||
| 2017 | The 28th Golden Melody Award | Best Lyricist | Murmur of the Tree Rings (Artists: Raine Yang) | ||
| 2020 | The 39th Hong Kong Film Awards | Best Original Film Song | FLY (Various Artists：YoYo Sham) / Ellen Joyce Loo, Qing-Feng Wu | ||
| 2020 HITO Music Awards | HITO Top 10 Chinese Songs of The Year | Spaceman | |||
| HITO Best Composer | Boy Zhuangzi | ||||
| Hit Fm Singer of The Year | Spaceman | ||||
| HITO Best Male Singer | Spaceman | ||||
| The 31st Golden Melody Award | Best Male Mandarin Singer | Spaceman | |||
| 最佳國語專輯 | Best Mandarin Album | Spaceman | |||
| 最佳作曲人 | The Best Composer | Spaceman | |||
| 年度專輯獎 | Album of the Year | Spaceman | |||
| The 13th Freshmusic Awards | Best Male Mandarin Singer | Spaceman | |||
| 年度十大專輯 | Top 10 Albums of The Year | Spaceman | |||
| Top 10 Singles of The Year | Death of Narcissus | ||||
| The 20th Southern Music Festival | Mandarin Album of The Year | Spaceman | |||
| Mandarin Song of The Year | Qi Feng Le (Song of The Wind) | ||||
| Best Male Mandarin Singer | Spaceman | ||||
| Best Album Producer | Spaceman | ||||
| Best Recording | Spaceman | ||||
| Artist of The Year | |||||
| 2021 | Hit FM | Top 10 Albums of The Year | Folio Vol.1：One and One | ||
| The 32nd Golden Melody Award | Best Male Mandarin Singer |