This year is the 31st year of Ren Xianqi's debut, and he has not appeared for a long time on the stage of Hunan Satellite TV's "Time Concert". In a new episode that airs this Friday night, six "Time Musicians" will perform his classics in a new way. In a recent interview, Ren Xianqi also had a new idea, "I want to organize a group of good friends of the Rolling Stones and also set up a music old friends association." It must be wonderful. ”
The 55-year-old Ren Xianqi has fallen through the trough and has also reached the top. In 1987, Ren Xianqi, who had just entered the university, found a job in the musical instrument shop and learned guitar while working. After saving a little savings, Ren Xianqi formed a band, played his own guitarist and lead singer, and later began to work as a campus DJ, participating in hundreds of campus singing. In fact, at that time, the band did not have a salary for the performance, but Ren Xianqi did not care, no matter how late the singing time, how far the location, the number of the audience, he did not live up to every performance opportunity.
In 1990, Ren Xianqi was discovered by the record company and recorded a compilation album "Running to the Rainbow" with other artists, officially entering the entertainment industry. Ren Xianqi released three solo albums in a year, and after gradually gaining fame, the company faced bankruptcy, "five sets of tables, one singer", Ren Xianqi and tables and chairs were sold to Rolling Stone Music together.
For the next three years, Ren Xianqi did not get the opportunity to release a new album, and every year he was included in the list of terminated singers by Rolling Stone Music, and it was the producer Xiao Worm who left him behind by the public opinion, on the grounds that "good character". In the three years of unambitiousness, Ren Xianqi did not go with the flow and degenerate himself, on the contrary, he insisted on writing lyrics and composing music in the company every day, and quietly practicing internal skills.
In June 1996, the 30-year-old Ren Xianqi released his first solo album "Rely on" at Rolling Stone Music with the help of Bugs, which eventually sold 160,000 copies. At the end of the same year, Ren Xianqi waited for the album "Heart Is Too Soft" tailored for him, creating a 26 million sales legend that has not been broken so far. Since then, Ren Xianqi has started his own peak decade - in 1998, he released the album "Love Like Pacific" to become the last album with sales of more than one million copies in Taiwan, of which the song "The Girl Across the Street" became a well-known love song and resounded throughout the streets, and the following year Ren Xianqi also debuted on the Spring Festival Gala stage with this song. Since then, "Ren Yaoyao", "Sad Pacific", "Spring Flowers Will Bloom", etc., have also possessed a very high national popularity.
In the upcoming fourth episode of "Time Concert", musicians will cover these classic old songs, including "Tianya", "Ren Yaoyao", "Heart Too Soft", "Very Hurt", "I Am a Fish", "Spring Flowers Will Bloom", "Sad Pacific", "The Girl Across the Way". In the face of other musicians' new interpretations, Ren Xianqi also expressed his expectations: "I personally think that the most difficult adaptation should be "Sad Pacific", because it is more masculine, so I am also looking forward to someone who can help me provide more ideas from different angles this time." ”
Although only two episodes of the program have been recorded, Ren Xianqi has deeply fallen in love with "Time Concert", "I want to use warmth, purity and touching to describe "Time Concert"" Ren Xianqi said that without competitions and competitions, musicians get together like family, which also allows them to pay more attention to the music itself and the spiritual core that the singer wants to express in a stress-free environment.
In addition to expressing himself through adaptation, Ren Xianqi also felt the inheritance of popular music in the process of recalling the musical time in "Time Concert". In the program, he can not only share music with music friends such as Tan Yonglin, Lin Zhixuan, Xu Ruyun, etc., who have not been seen for a long time, but also share the musical memories of different generations with excellent young singers such as Zhang Jie, Phoenix Legend, Yu Kewei, and Wang Sutaki.
"This way of singing friends makes people very relaxed and pleasant, which reminds me of the past, whether it is Zhou Huajian's big brother, and Li Zongsheng's big brother, Du Dewei, Huang Pinyuan, Cao Ge, Muji Liangpin, Ah Niu... At that time, everyone was like a big family, and if I had the chance, I really wanted to have a Rolling Stone friends concert. He admitted that "Time Concert" is not only a concert version of Friends for him, but also an exchange meeting for musicians of different generations to teach and learn.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Zu Weiwei
Editor/Ying Qiao