Long-awaited, Xiong Tianping’s ‘Ye Ye Ye Ye’ national tour concert in Nanjing will finally meet with the audience at Nanjing Sun Palace on the evening of December 31st. Let us together head towards the romance given by Xiong’s love songs and head towards the beautiful year of 2025! ‘Ye Ye Ye Ye’, ‘Matchstick Heaven’, ‘Love Danube’, ‘Your Eyes’, ‘Snow候 Birds’… These are all well-known, touching, and timeless songs created by him. He possesses an astonishingly clear voice, singing about the bitterness and confusion of love, as well as the persistence and hope of life. Without any sophistication, he is so sincere and pure, without any impurities. He is the famous music creator, the prince of love songs — Xiong Tianping. Xiong Tianping’s music is not just melody; they are the mark of time, the resonance of emotions. Behind each song, there is a story, a memory of an era.
There is a song that has been covered by many singers since its release in 1996, appeared in major competitions, and released a Cantonese version, becoming a must-play song in KTV for a generation. If there is a list of the most covered golden oldies, ‘Ye Ye Ye Ye’ would be at the top. Every time this song is sung, it evokes many people’s memories. A classic reappears in 1996, in Qi Qin’s album ‘Silk Road’, there are three songs created by Xiong Tianping, namely ‘Ye Ye Ye Ye’, ‘Cold Rain’, and ‘Matchstick Heaven’. Two of them have become Qi Qin’s classic representative works. In 1997, Xiong Tianping officially debuted with his first album ‘Love Danube’. In 2002, Liang Jingru’s cover brought this song back to the ears of the audience. In 2013, on the stage of ‘I Am a Singer’, Lin Zhixuan once again sang this well-known classic. In the 1990s, during the peak of Taiwan’s music scene, powerful singers emerged like mushrooms after rain, Xiong Tianping established himself in the music industry with astonishing creativity and a large number of popular music works. His first personal album ‘Love Danube’ was a great success, and he won the Best Lyricist Award in the 8th Golden Melody Awards for Pop Music with the song ‘Matchstick Heaven’ sung by Qi Qin. The theme song of the album ‘Love Danube’, with its soothing melody and heartfelt lyrics, carries a melancholic temperament. With his extraordinary singing skills, this song and he became famous overnight. ‘Matchstick Heaven’, when young and naive, was thought to be about the little match girl, but later it was known that this song was written by Xiong Tianping for his cousin who passed away in a car accident. The cousin was his confidant and loyal supporter, supporting him to persist in creation during the lonely and misunderstood period. ‘Fool’s Dock’ is also a song from the debut album ‘Love Danube’ and the theme song of the TV series ‘New Turbulent Times’.Xiong Tianping and Xu Ruyun have virtually dominated the music for this TV drama, with netizens dubbing it the ‘pinnacle of domestic drama soundtracks’. Although ‘Snow Migratory Birds’ was not composed by him, it is the most famous song among all his works. Xiong Tianping mentioned that this song is imbued with much of his personal emotions. Perhaps it is the spirit of the snow migratory birds that deeply moved him, resonating with his own feelings, making this song particularly special to him.
He possesses a unique timbre that belongs to the bel canto school, and music critics often compare him with Zhang Yu Sheng and Zhang Xin Zhe. In his world of love songs, there is no trace of the world’s sophistication and cynicism, like a child who does not know how to protect himself, being genuine and frank, without any impurities. In the complex and snobbish real world, such infatuation with love, naive to the point of being out of place, foolishly persistent without regret, appears especially precious. His songs clearly sing of the hope and confusion of love, frankly unfolding the persistence of emotions. Even when creating dreams, they stay away from indulgence in illusions, from the brief happiness of anesthesia, and from the pathological freedom of indulgence. His songs, suffering or rejoicing genuinely for love, make lingering yet direct and true expressions for all the emotions in reality, still continuing to search in reality, continuing to pursue simply and healthily. Now he is coming to Nanjing, bringing his creations and songs to the stage, stepping onto a well-produced stage, and taking us to relive the classics. Xiong Tianping is back, still the talented Xiong Tianping; Xiong Tianping is back, still the Xiong Tianping with the voice of nature; Xiong Tianping is back, still the charming Xiong Tianping. Opening time is December 31st, Tuesday, with the show starting at 19:30, and the exact duration will be determined on site.
