The time network news biographical movie "Mui Yanfang" was released today, making people reminisce about this Queen of Heaven in the Hong Kong music scene and film industry.
Mei Yanfang has starred in many movies in her life, such as "Rouge Buckle", "Man Forty", "Three Heroes of the East", "Kawashima Yoshiko", "Death Judge" and other films are all talked about by fans, and Mei Yanfang has won the Hong Kong Academy Awards and Taiwan Golden Horse Awards. However, compared with the film industry, Mei Yanfang, who debuted as a singer, has more achievements in music.
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Mui Yanfang began her singing career at the age of four due to her family's poverty, selling singing with her family in Liyuan and Kai Tak Playground. I dropped out of school after studying until secondary 1. In 1982, Mui Yanfang won the first rookie singing contest jointly organized by TVB and Huaxing Records with a song "Season of the Wind", and the star path began.
Mei Yanfang released more than 30 records in her lifetime. She is the first Hong Kong singer to receive the honor of China's national musical artistic achievement. At the age of 29, she won the only 14th Top Ten Chinese Golden Melody "Diamond Idol Award" and the Golden Melody Honorary Award, at the age of 31 she won the Top Ten Golden Rainbow Performing Arts Celebrity Award, at the age of 35 she won the Golden Needle Award, the highest honor in the Hong Kong music industry, at the age of 38, she won the Top Ten Golden Melody Tribute Award, and at the age of 40, she won the Artistic Achievement Honor of the China Golden Disc Award (National Music Award), and is the youngest lifetime achievement award winner in the Hong Kong music scene.
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People who know a little about Mei Yanfang's life know that Amei's life is very tortuous and bumpy, and it is not a movie that can be made. However, just like the movie "Bohemian Rhapsody", although the film's presentation of Freddy's life is a bit "seeing flowers in the fog", revisiting Queen's classic golden song on the big screen is also worth the ticket price. As a generation of divas in the music world, Mei Yanfang's representative songs are numerous, which one can be called Mei Yanfang's "Bohemian Rhapsody"?
"Sunset Song"
"Song of the Sunset" is a song written by Chen Shaoqi, composed by Ootsu Akira and MAKAINO KOOJI, and sung by Mui Yanfang, included in Mui Yanfang's album "In Brasil" released on August 1, 1989] And this song is also the theme song of the movie "Hero's True Colors 3: Sunset Song". In 1989, the song won the Top Ten Golden Melody Award.
Fans unfamiliar with "Sunset Song" may confuse it with Chan's "Song of a Thousand Thousand Ques," both of which are adapted from Japanese singer Makoto Kondo's song "Sunset Song" (Sunset Song).
Chen Huixian's "Song of a Thousand And One Thousand Ques" was released on July 20, 1989, and Mei Yanfang's "Sunset Song" was released on August 23, 1989, because the songs were the same and the release time was similar, so the competition between the two songs was fierce that year. At the year-end awards ceremony, these two songs were both selected as the top ten Chinese golden songs and the top ten golden songs. Although the album "In Brasil" (the album where "Sunset Song" is located) is inferior to Chen Huixian's "Always Be Your Friend" (the album where "A Thousand And One Songs" is located), the Golden Melody Gold Award at the year-end TVB Top Ten Golden Melody Awards Ceremony is still won by "Sunset Song".
It is worth mentioning that Mei Yanfang and the original singer of "Sunset Song" Kondo Makoto also had a relationship.
In 1985, Makoto Kondo came to Hong Kong for a concert, and the two met, and when they met again at the concert the following year, they began to communicate. Later, due to the relationship between Makoto Kondo and other actresses, the relationship ended without illness. She once said, "I treated him so well." However, before his death, he secretly visited Japan to "say goodbye" to Makoto Kondo. After Mui Yanfang's death, Makoto Kondo went to Hong Kong for three consecutive years to pay respects to her old lover.
A few months before her death in 2003, Mei Yanfang held the "Mei Yanfang Classic Golden Song Concert", and "Sunset Song" was also the finale song at the concert. Mei Yanfang wears a wedding dress on the stage, and Ming Zhi marries the stage. She lamented that "the sunset is infinitely good, but it is only near dusk", which is also a bitter sigh of her own life situation.
"Woman Flower"
"Woman Flower" is probably The most sung Mandarin song by Mei Yanfang. This song was born at the peak of Mei Yanfang's singing career.
In 1994, Mei Yanfang released the record "It's Like This", and since then, Mei Yanfang's past album sales have exceeded 10 million copies. Since then, she has launched albums such as "Mirror Flower Water Moon", "Woman Flower", "Bright Moonlight Before Bed" and so on, and her image is still breakthrough and changeable, and the song style is diverse. Among them, songs such as "Woman Flower" and "Love You a Thousand Times in a Lifetime" have become representatives of Mei Yanfang's Chinese songs.
"Woman Flower" is written by Lee An-suk and composed by Chen Yaochuan, included in Mui Yanfang's 1997 album "Woman Flower", and is also the theme song of the TV series "Oriental Mother".
Directed by Zeng Lizhen and starring Zhang Min and Tang Zhenzong, the TV series "Oriental Mother" depicts the life of Zhiqing and tells the unforgettable experience of Zhiqing Langtianya, a beautiful woman who went to the countryside in the 1970s. Mei Yanfang herself likes the drama "Oriental Mother", and Mei Yanfang believes that as a woman, it is easier to experience the selflessness of her mother. When she heard that "Oriental Mother" was launched on May 12, 'Mother's Day', as a gift to the mothers of the world, she did not say a word and unreservedly used her entire album "Woman Flower" to produce the background music of the TV series "Oriental Mother".
"Woman's Heart"
Because "Woman Flower" is too popular, many people may ignore that Mei Yanfang also has a song with a very similar name, "Woman's Heart".
"Woman's Heart", written by Lin Xi and composed by Lo Tai-yok, is the theme song of the Hong Kong film "Three Heroes of the East", which won the best film song at the 13th Hong Kong Film Awards in 1994.
"Three Heroes of the East" is an action fantasy film directed by Du Qifeng and starring Mui Yanfang, Yang Ziqiong and Maggie Cheung. Released on February 12, 1993, the film tells the story of three women from different backgrounds who go through a series of mysterious incidents of stealing babies and finally embrace justice and form a life-and-death alliance to fight against the forces of evil.
Although the response of "Three Heroes of the East" in that year was average, "Woman's Heart" brought Mui Yanfang the award for best film song at the 1994 Hong Kong Film Awards, and Mui Yanfang is still one of the singers who has won the most Golden Film Awards Best Film Song Award in the past year, a total of 3 times, the other two winning songs are the theme song of the same name at the 8th Hong Kong Film Awards "Rouge Buckle", and the 10th Hong Kong Film Awards Best Film Song "Double Bracelet" "It seems that the deceased is coming".
"Fanghua Absolute Generation"
The era of Mei Yanfang's singing world is also the era when Zhang Guorong is popular. As friends, the two superstars naturally cooperate in singing, and one of the representative works is "Fanghua Absolute Generation".
"Fanghua Absolute Generation" is composed by Huang Weiwen and composed and arranged by Wen Yinghong. The song is included in Mui Yanfang's music album "With" released on March 16, 2002 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of her debut. Mui Yanfang and Cheung Kwok Wing performed the song live at Mui Yanfang's Hong Kong Red Pavilion Dream Concert in July 2002.
Due to the status of the song "Fanghua Absolute Generation" in the Hong Kong music scene, many younger singers have tried to cover it, but this song is very difficult, and few cover songs have received praise. On February 14, 2012, Eason Chan and Ho Yunshi sang Mui Yanfang and Zhang Guorong's "Fanghua Absolute Generation" at the end of The Concert of Wong Wai Man's works, boldly imitating the scene of lust and becoming a representative of the future generations' cover songs.
It is worth mentioning that the MTV of "Fanghua Absolute Generation" was directed by Zhang Guorong himself, and Zhang Shuping was pulled to be the art director.
Bad Girls
The title song of the same name from Mui Yanfang's fifth Cantonese studio album " Bad Girl " is a controversial song by Mui Yanfang.
On January 7, 1986, the album "Bad Girls" was released, and the content was full of controversy, and even banned for a while, but the record set a record of 720,000 copies sold in Hong Kong. In December of the same year, he held his first solo concert at the Hong Kong Coliseum in Hung Hom, performing 15 consecutive performances, setting a record for the youngest female singer to enter the Red Pavilion, hold solo concerts and have the largest number of performances.
In 1995, Mei Yanfang first started a mainland tour, Mei Yanfang could not resist the enthusiasm of the fans, the tail scene temporarily sang the forbidden song "Bad Girl", although the sensitive lyrics were taken with "la la la", it was still found to be illegal, the rest of the shows were forced to cancel, and Mei Yanfang lost the qualification to hold personal concerts in the mainland for seven consecutive years.
"Like a Year of Flowing Water"
As a singer, Mei Yanfang not only has a variety of styles, but also has a kaleidoscopic style, and many styles have set off a trend.
For example, in the album "Like a Year of Flowing Water" launched in 1985, Liu Peiji (the character played by Gu Tianle in the movie "Mei Yanfang") packaged Mei Yanfang as a "boy", and Mei Yanfang in the shape of a suit gave people a very heroic feeling. As soon as the album was released, it became a platinum record. In addition, "Like Water Flowing Year" won the Seventh Top Ten Chinese Golden Melody and Top Ten Golden Melody Awards.
In 2002, six female singers (Zheng Xiuwen, Miriam Yeung, Joey Yung, Leung Wing-chi, Chan Wai Lin, etc.) sang "Like Water Flowing Year" to pay tribute to Mui Yanfang.
Two years after "Bad Girl", Mei Yanfang's singing style further evolved, "Like Fire Tango" and "Flaming Red Lips" 2 records came out, Mei Yanfang performed with a sexy image, after which she set a record for the highest number of concerts held in the Red Pavilion, known as "Mei Twenty-Eight" and "Mei Thirty", representing her to open 28 and 30 concerts in a row. Among them, Mei Yanfang's "riveted battle robe" when singing "Flaming Red Lips" is also a classic.