Chen Hung-ming

Chen Hung-ming is a Taiwanese campus folk singer, songwriter, and member of Little Crow from Penghu. His most famous song is "Forgotten Times" .

Life

Folk style singer and songwriter

Chen Hung-ming lived in Penghu up to age seven, when he moved to Taipei.

Chen’s works were also performed by other singers and included in the Folk Style series compilation albums. Several of his songs, including "Forgotten Times" and a song that is literally translated as "Morning Book" , were recorded in the debut album Farewell My Country by Tsai Chin, who competed in the second Folk Style competition.

Later developments

Chen graduated from the Radio and Television Division of what is now Shih Hsin University.

In 1993, he joined with Pao Chih-ching to create the Little Crow and Wild Dove duet, with whom he published one album.

In about 2006, with the encouragement of Lee Ming-yang , he started writing Taiwanese Hokkien songs. Since then, he has written at least 200 such songs.

After the movie Internal Affairs , which included his song "Forgotten Times," aired, the production company sent him a DVD of the film. Upon hearing his music, he reminisced on old times, and around 2010 he moved back to Penghu. There, he started a coffee shop and Judao Music Corporation ,

The Song "Forgotten Times"

When he was writing "Forgotten Times," Chen Hung-ming was only a high school junior. He was learning English at the time and reminiscing on his time living in Penghu as a young child. Because it seldom rained in Penghu, his happiest memory from childhood was hearing the sound of rain dripping on glass. It happened that at this time he had a guitar nearby, and he thereupon wrote this song. He originally planned to call the song "Who is Tapping on My Window" .

After hearing Chen sing this song in the performance hall at the Folk Style competition, Tsai Chin expressed her interest in singing the song. She recorded this song in her 1980 personal album Farewell My Country.

The 2002 film Infernal Affairs set off a craze for this song, and the French version of it was thereafter used in the 2008 film Flight of the Red Balloon by director Hou Hsiao-hsien.

Works

"Goodbye Clouds," which he recorded in 1978 into the Folk Style and for which he was the principal singer "Forgotten Time," which was recorded by Tsai Chin in 1980 in the album Farewell My Country "Dewdrop" ," which was recorded by in the album Your hands are so cold "Calling to You" , which was recorded by in the album Lost Dream "I Love you Taiwan" , which was recorded by Chris Hung in the album Good Luck Man