There are too many recent music talent shows, which have cost me old eyes, so I will not watch them anymore.
However, when the information of the 55-year-old Ren Xianqi's recent "Time Concert" as a "time friend" was obtained by me, I still had a little throbbing in my heart. Especially when Little Ziggy said that he would gather his group of Rolling Stone friends to have a music old friends meeting, the sense of urgency in his heart almost mentioned the throat eye.
How long have you not heard Ren Xianqi sing, can you still hum the melody of the song of Ren Xianqi who has touched you in those years?
Can't forget those summer hot, green grass afternoons, listening to Ren Xianqi's "Save the Heartland", drinking a certain brand of iced black tea, it is really a cool. Can't forget every Ren Xianqi released a new album, that rush to the video store, pointing to Ren Xianqi's poster, said to the boss: Quick, give me the yellow brand (Rolling Stone's LOGO) Ren Xianqi's "Bird" tape, to be genuine.
So many years have passed, and after Little Ziggy became famous, he went to make TV series, to act in movies, to participate in racing, and he was getting farther and farther away from music. But for many post-80s, they grew up in Ren Xianqi's singing, they listened to "The Girl On the Other Side Looked Over", "rubbed" "Orange Perfume", "stepped" on "Waves and Flowers", "shouted" "Can't Die" after being rejected by the opposite sex, only blamed themselves "Heart is too soft", in the fragment of "Tearful Your Face", young, in love, mature, and married.
In the rush of time, I can't forget Little Brother Qi, I can't forget the yellow logo, I can't forget the "girl who chased together in those years" in Ren Xianqi's song, and I can't forget the "exclusive memory" of "Xiaoxue" that belongs to me.
In 1990, Ren Xianqi, who was still a senior, was recruited by the New Grid Records born in the "Taiwan Folk Song Movement", but with the decline of the folk song movement, the New Grid Records at this time were about to fall. After joining Xinge, Ren Xianqi first released the collection album "Running to the Rainbow" (1990), and then recorded his own solo albums "Ask Again" (1990), "Indifference and Tenderness", "1991" and "Flying to Your Own Sky" (1991). At that time, Xinge Records was already unable to take care of itself, and there was no extra money to help Ren Xianqi's new album to be released. Therefore, in the three years of Xinge, it is not an exaggeration to say that Ren Xianqi is an unknown singer.
In 1993, Xinge Records was acquired by Rolling Stone Records, and in addition to the music rights of the singers previously signed by Xinge Records and the "Golden Rhyme Award" commemorative album (I introduced Xinge Records separately), Xinge Records only had "five tables and one singer", and this singer was Ren Xianqi. That's all Rolling Stone Records has to gain from New Grid Records.
At that time, the Rolling Stones did not expect that when they were "beaten" by international giants and local counterparts, ZTE himself was actually this "foreign monk" named Ren Xianqi.
Around 1993, the Rolling Stones were the absolute kings of the Taiwan record market, at that time, in addition to being jealous of flying saucer records, they were too lazy to raise their eyes for the "attack" of other record companies, and the Rolling Stones at that time, Chen Shuhua, Zhou Huajian, Zhang Xinzhe, Zhao Chuan, Xin Xiaoqi, Su Huilun, Li Zongsheng... Any artist who takes out a random artist is a "bombshell" in the record market.
Because there are too many queens of heaven, Rolling Stone is watching the "delicate daffodils open in the water" in his living room, but forgets that in the remote corner of his backyard, the singer named Ren Xianqi is looking forward to "the spring of wild lilies".
At that time, after joining the Rolling Stones, Ren Xianqi only helped the company's popular singers to do chores, produce copywriting, sing DEMO, and occasionally make a cameo appearance as a program host. When Xinge was acquired by the Rolling Stones, the company's executive Xiao Worm (henceman Chen Huanchang, one of the three major music godfathers in Taiwan) noticed Ren Xianqi and agreed to take the time to help him produce an album, and then forgot his original commitment to Ren Xianqi because of too many things at hand.
In this way, from 1991 to 1996, Ren Xianqi did not have a single record for 5 years, and he gradually gave up his dream of being a singer, just waiting for the contract with the Rolling Stones to end and then find another way.
In 1996, when Ren Xianqi's contract was about to expire, and Ren Xianqi was ready to lay the groundwork and leave, an executive of Rolling Stone Records ridiculed The worm: Didn't you promise to help Ren Xianqi make a record, now that everyone is leaving, who did you give the record to?
The little worm who remembered this stopped Ren Xianqi before he left his job and made his first yellow card record (Rolling Stone) album for him, "Rely on".
"Reliance" was released in June 1996 and sold about 200,000 copies after its release. Although this is a very good result for the average singer, it is a impossible achievement for rolling stones that are accustomed to selling more than 1 million copies. At that time, the Rolling Stones witnessed the undercurrent of the Taiwanese record market and was also adjusting their business strategies, if Ren Xianqi could not come up with more eye-catching results, the Rolling Stones would not renew the contract with Ren Xianqi.
The little worm who has formed a relationship with Ren Xianqi is also a teacher and friend, how to make Ren Xianqi's album sell better, so he gave Ren Xianqi the song "Heart Is Too Soft" written after his experience of gambling and losing money in Las Vegas, and then created songs such as "Romantic Hand in Hand", "Cry a Pain", "I Love You" and other songs, and produced the song for Ren Xianqi that later sold more than 26 million and was hung on the American Gold Record Celebrity Wall with Michael. Jackson's album juxtaposed "Heart Too Soft."
King Zhuang of Chu, one of the "Five Hegemons of Spring and Autumn", once left behind the feat of "not flying for three years, soaring into the sky; not making a sound for nine years, and making a splash". More than 2,000 years later, after 6 years of dormancy, Ren Xianqi finally became popular throughout the Chinese world. "Little Brother" Qi Qin once said: Once he went to a small village near the waters of the Brahmaputra River in Tibet to record a record, but he heard children in this area who were very backward at that time singing Ren Xianqi's "Heart Is Too Soft" and came home from school.
When "Heart Too Soft" became popular all over the country, Ren Xianqi did not fade like some singers, he continued to work hard, and came out with albums such as "Very Hurt", "Love Like the Pacific", "Taiwan Boy", "For Love to Go to the End of the World", "Angel Brothers Little White Face", "Flying Bird" and other albums, his "Very Hurt", "The Girl Opposite Looks Over", "Sad Pacific", "Ren Yaoyao", "Tianya", "Can't Die", "Flowers Too Fragrant" and other songs have become "national songs" that everyone can hum.
You have to ask who the most popular singer was after 1996 and before Jay Chou, not Jacky Cheung, not Andy Lau, not Zhou Huajian, or Ren Xianqi, who became a late bloomer. It can be said that in the situation when hong Kong and Taiwan counterparts are being acquired by international giants one by one, some declining Rolling Stone records can stand alone, thanks to two singers: one is called Xu Huaiyu, and the other is Ren Xianqi. Look at the rolling stones' record sales during that time, saying that these two people fed the entire rolling stones is a bit exaggerated but also correct.
And Ren Xianqi's biggest influence on me was when I listened to his "Walking the World for Love" album in high school. At that time, I was still ignorant, at that time I was still a poor boy from the countryside, in the complicated after-school, with a good family to share headphones around the table listening to Ren Xianqi's songs, "Xiao Xue" listened to over and over again, the love calf was opened. Without a confession, I kept the love letter that was not sent for 20 years. Some time ago, I heard from a friend that she was still alone, thinking about the past that could never go back, and sighed in her heart. Perhaps, the regret in "Little Snow" will accompany the end of the old age.
After college, with the rise of a new generation of artists such as Jay Chou, I began to listen to songs by Sun Yanzi, Liang Jingru, Zhang Shaohan, etc., and slowly reduced my attention to Ren Xianqi. After watching Gu Tianle's version of "Divine Eagle Hero" and Lu Songxian's version of "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu", and then looking at the TV series of the same name played by Xiao Qi Ge, it is indeed a bit of a drama.
Later, I saw that Little Qi Ge followed the example of many Hong Kong star artists, and transformed into a film actor after singing songs and filming TV series. His "Hancheng Raiders", "Contract Lover", "Dragon and Phoenix Shop", "Fire Dragon Showdown", "Death Gold", "Tree Trick", "Silent Witness" I have seen, although the feeling left to me is no longer so unforgettable, but more than ten years of film actors to do down, Ren Xianqi's acting skills are also visible to the naked eye, watching him rely on "Tree Big Move" to nominate the Hong Kong Film Awards Film Emperor, although in the end there was no chance, but also in the heart for the little Qi Brother silently cheered. Life needs to be experienced, Andy Lau also won his first film emperor after 19 years from the film, Ren Xianqi, what are you afraid of, you are still young, there will be a lot of opportunities in the future, I look forward to your final gains in the film career.
The memory of life will slowly fade and blur with the passage of time, but the unforgettable memory will become clearer and clearer under the background of time. In the era of youth and madness, full of sincerity and purity, it is also a fortunate thing to meet Ren Xianqi, who has accumulated thick and thin hair.
Little Brother Qi, no matter how many years have passed, I still remember you, you filled my youthful memories at the age of eighteen or nineteen, and this kind of memory includes you, "Little Snow", there is the Rolling Stone, that is my "exclusive memory" that will never fade.