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Wu Qing-feng would go to the library for musical-form analysis, learning to analyze a song's motif and recapitulation. The original words were: "I have to hear those few notes on that CD. Only when I have heard them am I content. This is a Virgo personality that searches every inch." The United Daily News feature series 500輯 records that not until junior high was there a "closed-door disciple" kind of music education, and that the music teacher and the art teacher of the time, seeing the boy's gift, coordinated with the form teacher and exempted the lunch break that felt like hard labor, so that on days one, three and five there was piano, and on days two and four painting with the art teacher. Looking back on that influence: "A strong sense of the picture affected my music. It is very possible that this was because, at the time, my music and my art were going on woven together."

In the early years Wu Qing-feng once played the piano in the assembly hall while having a cold, and sang "橄欖樹" an octave down.

In the first and second years of senior high Wu Qing-feng hung around the school-paper club and was "not familiar with the classroom", but as the student helper for the Chinese class had a very good relationship with the form teacher who taught Chinese. Senior high and university were finished with the mayor's prize and with first place in the department's overall results.

In 2000 Wu Qing-feng graduated from the Affiliated Senior High School of National Taiwan Normal University and, at school, entered the Tianyun Award. The United Daily News feature series 500輯 records that for a person afraid of strangers, singing in front of a crowd this time was indeed an important milestone. In the third year of senior high (2000), with the first composition of a life, "窺", Wu Qing-feng won a prize, and said that if this song had not taken first in the composition section of the school's Tianyun Award, Wu Qing-feng probably would not have found out about being able to write songs, and probably would not have written any other songs afterwards.

In 2001, in order to enter National Chengchi University's 金旋獎, Wu Qing-feng, with 謝馨儀, 史俊威 and a senior-high friend, 新哥, formed Sodagreen, entered the solo final of the 金旋獎 with Stefanie Sun's "我要的幸福", and at the same time entered the composition-section final with "遲到千年". Wu Qing-feng kept writing. The Chinese Wikipedia records that published and unpublished words and music add up to more than a hundred, and that more than ninety percent of Sodagreen's songs were written by Wu Qing-feng.

In 2004 "費洛蒙小姐", from the stage play "踏青去", was the first time Wu Qing-feng wrote both words and music for a lyric. The same year 楊乃文's "女爵" was the first time words and music were written to measure for a singer. From 2005 to 2007, besides works released through Sodagreen, personal demo recordings were also released on platforms including RockaCola and StreetVoice.

In 2009 the work "遲到千年" was chosen as rhetoric material in the second-year junior-high Chinese textbook. The Chinese Wikipedia records that the lyrics brought a literary quality into Chinese-language pop, and that the subjects run from a small gaze at a personal life to a large description and satire of social phenomena.

In the university years Wu Qing-feng liked the contemporary poets 夏宇 and 陳黎. The Chinese Wikipedia records that the later lyric style in part inherited the two writers' experimental spirit and method of taking language and syntax apart. Interest in pop came from Faye Wong's album "天空". Afterwards there was also the influence of Stefanie Sun, aMEI, 楊乃文, Karen Mok, Jeff Buckley, Tori Amos, Björk, Sheena Ringo, Radiohead, 齊豫, 艾敬, 朴树, Xu Wei and other musicians.

A personal reading list Wu Qing-feng offered includes "莊子", "山海經" and 嵇康's "嵇中散集". The way "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is written also affected the writing. The assigned group report that, at university, drew a sigh of misfortune was precisely 嵇康's "生無哀樂論". At the time it was swallowed whole and condensed into a report, and the only feeling was "嵇康, you talk too much nonsense!" After leaving school, 嵇康 affected the writing and the thinking.

The Chinese Wikipedia records that the range runs from low A2 to high C6, an interval of 26 degrees in all, more than three octaves, that in performance Wu Qing-feng is good at the middle and high notes sung in a mixed voice (a true voice leaning toward the head voice, fused with falsetto), that the resonance sits in the nose, and that the true voice and the falsetto can be changed without a trace. Wu Qing-feng's own account: "From childhood I never thought of being a singer, because I really have no way of facing people." After graduating from the Chinese department of National Chengchi University the plan was to look for work, perhaps as an editor. "Even now I do not feel I can be a singer. If one goes by singing technique, or by the popular definition of a 'vocal powerhouse', I do not count as someone who can sing."

On January 1, 2017, after finishing the last show, Sodagreen went on hiatus. After a year of holiday and rest, in the spring of 2018 Wu Qing-feng formally announced a return to the scene as a solo artist, and took part in the Spring Wave festival that May as the first show of the return. In 2019 the first solo studio album was released.

The first solo album, "太空人", released as Sodagreen went on hiatus, sings the seventeen years of life since debut. Central News Agency records that experimental arrangement and a use full of poetry made a work of a very marked character.

The Golden Melody king of Mandarin song at the 31st awards was given to Wu Qing-feng. Central News Agency records that before this a copyright lawsuit broke out with teacher 林暐哲. In the acceptance speech Wu Qing-feng said: "I thank myself that I was not beaten down. I thank myself for singing for my life, for praising in song for my life. You worked very hard." The first solo album "太空人" was nominated at one stroke that year for best male Mandarin singer, Mandarin album, composer and album of the year. The album holds twelve songs, six of them recent. The earliest song can be traced to 2002. The works all come from life, and most were written out of an understanding of the dark side of human nature.

Wu Qing-feng said that 2019 was, for Wu Qing-feng, very special, and that the task was "to redefine myself as a singer, and to redefine the good and evil, and the human nature, that I see".

Wu Qing-feng was nominated for the Golden Melody Awards many times and won, including album of the year at the 34th for "馬拉美的星期二", best male Mandarin singer at the 31st for "太空人", best composer at the 18th (2007) for "小情歌", best lyricist at the 27th (2016) for "他舉起右手點名", and best arranger for "痛快的哀艷" (arranged together with Sodagreen).

The principle of writing is not to go against the heart, and not to write what one does not want to write, and also to be glad to find pleasure and a connection inside an "assigned composition", then turn it into a language music can say. By Wu Qing-feng's own account, the wish is to write a song that, even if it is about oneself, can in the end be woven in the listener's ear into the listener's own story. The decision was that doing music happily was better than doing it in pain, and that before a day ended one would sit at the piano and set down, in notes, what the day had shown and felt. "It is not exactly going to compose, and it is not really writing lyrics. It is more like painting."

On the relation between the solo album and Sodagreen, the reminder was: "If you want to look for Sodagreen inside '太空人', then you have come holding the wrong imagination, and you will certainly be disappointed." Judging a solo work with that attitude is unfair to those songs. Every Sodagreen album also went through a moment when everyone was disappointed at the start. Many things need time to be digested. "I have been getting used to this process of everyone getting used to things, but it does not go so far as to affect what I want to do inside."

Through a description by friend Tanya Chua, Wu Qing-feng revealed: "My reserve is a veil, but it is easily lifted." The United Daily News feature series 500輯 records that what the audience sees on stage and off is roughly the same person. Besides Sodagreen's performances and releases, Wu Qing-feng has also, as a solo artist, joined many different kinds of musical cooperation.