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| Birth name | Chen Yupeng | ||||||||||
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| Born | January 15, 1984 Changsha, Hunan, China | ||||||||||
| Origin | Shanghai | ||||||||||
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| Years active | 2004–present | ||||||||||
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| Children | 1 (b. 2015)[1][2] | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 陈宇鹏 | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 陈致逸 | ||||||||||
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Chen Yupeng (Chinese: 陈宇鹏; pinyin: Chén Yǔpéng; born January 15, 1984), also known by his stage name Chen Zhiyi (Chinese: 陈致逸; pinyin: Chén Zhìyì), is a Chinese composer and music producer best known for writing the soundtrack of Genshin Impact, an open-world action role-playing video game by HoYoverse.[3] His work is known for its versatile style of integrating traditional Chinese musical instruments with Western orchestral arrangements.[4][5] From 2019 to 2023, he was a music producer at HOYO-MiX, the in-house music studio of miHoYo, and led the music production of the game.[6][7]
Chen was educated at Shenzhen Arts School and the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and studied under the tutelage of experienced musicians who influenced his work later in his career. While he studied in college, he was already involved in composing and producing film and television music. Even before his career, his musical works won awards at various events. Chen established the Yupeng Music Studio in 2014, which had cooperative relations with many recording studios and music groups in Beijing and Shanghai, and produced works for companies, including Click Music Ltd., Tencent, and NetEase.
In the early 2010s, Chen collaborated with the accoladed composer Chan Kwong-wing to produce scores for veteran film directors. Their score for Wong Jing's The Last Tycoon (2012) earned them a nomination for the "Best Original Film Score" at the 32nd Hong Kong Film Awards. The duo would not win an award until their work for The Founding of an Army (2017), which earned the Golden Deer Award for the "Best Original Music Score" at the 14th Changchun Film Festival. They also produced the score for Andrew Lau's The Captain (2019), one of the all-time highest-grossing films in China. Chen had scored several films by Raymond Yip, most being horror or thrillers.
- ^ 陈致逸 (July 24, 2021). "今晚陪女儿在PS5上...". Sina Weibo. Archived from the original on September 20, 2022. Retrieved August 28, 2022.
- ^ 陈致逸 (February 28, 2018). "陈宝宝3岁生日快乐...". Sina Weibo. Archived from the original on September 20, 2022. Retrieved August 28, 2022.
- ^ "Yu-peng Chen - Biography". IMDb. Archived from the original on August 24, 2022. Retrieved September 27, 2023.
- ^ Shamaly, Meena (October 16, 2020). "Anime, emotion & orchestral magic in Genshin Impact". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on October 25, 2020. Retrieved August 24, 2022.
- ^ Jiang, Sisi (October 5, 2021). "Genshin Impact’s Orchestral Soundtrack Is Unbelievably Good". Kotaku. Archived from the original on October 5, 2021. Retrieved August 24, 2022.
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VGMOInterviewwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ 陈致逸 (September 12, 2023). "非常抱歉打扰到大家！". Bilibili. Archived from the original on September 12, 2023. Retrieved September 12, 2023.