Speaking of Rowan, perhaps most young people feel strange, but his singing voice must be no stranger to you, "A Laugh in the Sea", "Iron Blood Dan Heart" and many other classic Jin Yong film and television theme songs are from his hand.
As the godfather of the Hong Kong music scene, Rowan not only led Hong Kong pop music, but also pushed the unpopular Cantonese songs into the mainstream song ranks.
He spent his life running for his beloved music and opera career, never married, and died of illness at the age of 57.
Why did such a music godfather, who was praised by everyone, be collected by the rich man Liu Luanxiong at his funeral?
Today we will talk about the story of Rowan, the godfather of music!
Luo Wen, formerly known as Tan Boxian, was born in Guiping, Guangxi in 1945, due to the unstable environment at that time, so the Luo family went south in 1947 and lived in Guangzhou and Hong Kong.
Rowan's mother is very fond of Cantonese opera and is a Fan of Cantonese opera, so Rowan has watched Cantonese opera with his mother since he was a child and has different feelings for Cantonese opera.
At the age of 17, he went to Hong Kong alone to develop, and when he first arrived in Hong Kong, he frequently ran into walls, in order to survive, Rowan worked as a tailor, handyman, bank trainee and so on.
Born optimistic, he was not overwhelmed by the current predicament, but experienced the world in this life, laying the foundation for his subsequent creations.
At that time, Rowan's favorite thing to do was to listen to the radio, and whenever the radio played the Beatles song, he would sing and dance along with the music, adding some fun to his life, and his life seemed to be quite happy.
In 1967, Rowan and his friends formed a choir called "Rowan Four Steps", often singing in bars, and since then he has started his singing career, and Rowan, who sings in bars, has gradually gained a little fame.
By chance, I met Wang Fuling, a composer who composed famous songs such as "My Chinese Heart", and Wang Fuling liked Rowan's singing voice very much, so he recommended him to the TV station.
After that, he sang the theme song for many TV series and movies, including the Chinese theme song of Bruce Lee's posthumous work "Game of Death", and the theme song of the movie "The Great Thief Song King", "Diamond".
Gradually, Rowan's popularity became higher and higher, and in 1971, he and Shen Dianxia formed a "couple choir", which went overseas to perform many times and was loved by overseas audiences.
Later, due to Rowan's personal development, the "couples choir" had to be disbanded.
In 1973, Rowan became famous overnight with the theme song of the same name of the TV series "Under the Lion Rock", and the phrase "let go of the contradictions in each other's hearts, and the ideal goes after each other" sang the voice of many fans, which made many people feel empathy.
The song "Under the Lion Rock" was also once known as Hong Kong's "city song".
Those that have been popular until now, such as "A Laugh in the Sea", "Iron Blood Dan Heart", "The World Is Always Hello" and many other classic songs are sung by Rowan, and he and his later partner Zhen Ni almost covered all the songs of Jin Yong's film and television works.
Since then, Rowan has also become an important figure in the Hong Kong music scene step by step, known as the godfather of the Hong Kong music scene.
1985 was a Grand Slam year for Rowan, who was not only invited to the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, but also became the first singer to sing in Cantonese at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, and the first Hong Kong singer to hold a concert in the mainland.
As a superstar in the Hong Kong music scene in the 1970s and 1980s, half of the singers in the Hong Kong music scene were his disciples, and Joey Yung, Zheng Yijian, Zhou Haimei and others were his protégés.
Luo Wen has a deep friendship with Huang Xia and Gu Jiahui, and is also a teacher and friend, and is known as the "Iron Triangle".
The three of them got together because of "Family Change", and then because of each other's talents, Huang Xia once said that he and Gu Jiahui's concert can lack anyone, but they can't lack Rowan.
At that time, although Rowan's singing voice was full of masculinity, he always liked to dress himself in a very exaggerated way, walked in the forefront of fashion, and performed on the stage in a very fashionable way, so he was called "a generation of demon kings" by Huang Xia.
Probably influenced by his mother when he was a child, Rowan especially liked traditional Chinese operas and dances, so in 1981, he set up a "Pai Art Society" at his own expense, and once could not make ends meet.
Even so, Rowan still insisted on his love, cultivated many young people who loved stage performances, and the Cantonese song and dance dramas "The Legend of the White Snake" and "The Book of Liu Yi" that he funded and rehearsed won the love and recognition of the audience.
Rowan has only loved his first love girlfriend all his life, although the two have not been together for various reasons, but Rowan has never forgotten her, so he has never married in his life, and has been busy with his music career and song and dance career for a lifetime.
In 2001, the 56-year-old Rowan was diagnosed with liver cancer, was hospitalized many times, constantly fought against the disease, and has been actively cooperating with the hospital's treatment, even so, Rowan still did not defeat the disease, in 2002, he left forever.
What people did not expect was that at Rowan's funeral, the reason why the rich man Liu Luanxiong appeared was actually to collect debts.
According to Liu Luanxiong, during his medical treatment, Rowan once asked his assistant to borrow a million from him, and we don't know what the truth is, but it is indeed unsightly to collect debts at funerals.
Although Rowan's life was short, it was very rich, he was busy at the bottom of society when he was young, and after he became famous, he always insisted on being himself, no matter what the outside world's voice was.
He is one of the few good teachers in the music world, he never skimps on his students, he can give everything for them.
A year before his death, he also braced his body tormented by illness to come to the concert site of Ai Tu Rong Zu'er to cheer her up and witness the most important moment of Ai Tu.
Although Rowan has left, just like the altar written for him by Mr. Jin Yong, "the song is in the world".
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