I don't know when the name Zhou Chuanxiong seems to have become synonymous with sadness.
On the way home at night, Zhou Chuanxiong's "Dusk" suddenly came out of the radio, looking at the sunset in front of him, his heart unconsciously became sad.
What is sad is not only the desolation expressed by Zhou Chuanxiong's singing, but more importantly, his encounters over the years and the nostalgia for the "godfather of love songs" who suddenly disappeared when he was extremely popular.
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On the open-air stage of a small city, unprofessional sound equipment, the audience of threes and threes and twos looked at it indifferently, no one applauded, and no one responded to help.
If you don't look closely, you may not know that this person on the stage is actually Zhou Chuanxiong, who was once popular all over the streets.
Even so, Zhou Chuanxiong still sang hard. The thin figure, the face full of vicissitudes of the scum, compared with the glory of the past, the middle-aged man in front of him is too painful.
You may ask: Is this really Zhou Chuanxiong? Wouldn't it be a "cottage"?
Yes, no one dares to believe that it is him, how did the "godfather of love songs" who had been shoulder to shoulder with Zhang Xinzhe come to this step?
Fate may be like this, some people get what they want without effort, and some people are extremely poor but can't get out of the current predicament.
Zhou Chuanxiong at dusk is obviously the latter. Although he tried to fight against fate, although he used all the residual temperature to shine and heat, he could not get rid of the shackles that fate gave him.
Back in the 1980s, Zhou Chuanxiong, who was still studying, developed a strong interest in music. But his parents didn't approve of him making music, and they always felt that it was not a proper job.
It was hard to survive his parents' opposition, but he ushered in a greater challenge in life.
At the age of 16, his mother ran away from home without saying a word, and then his father left him. At that time, Zhou Chuanxiong was helpless, but he still had a love for music.
In order to protect this little dream, Zhou Chuanxiong worked and went to school at the same time. You see him at school during the day, and you may see him on construction sites, on the street, in factories at night...
For him, the difficulty of life is nothing, compared with dreams, the difficulties in front of him are small things. Perhaps, as the saying goes, "Your burden will become a gift, and your suffering will illuminate your way."
Heaven did not fail a person who worked hard, and soon after Zhou Chuanxiong became a candidate for the Little Tigers because of his excellent results in the singing competition.
However, Heaven prefers to joke, and obviously the dream is already very close, but it suddenly pulls him far away.
The company wants him to go to the idol faction, but Zhou Chuanxiong, who has always had a dream of singing, is willing to go to the idol faction. In this way, Zhou Chuanxiong missed this opportunity, and the newly established Little Tiger Team took only one year to spread across the taiwan strait and three places.
Talented people shine everywhere. In 1989, Zhou Chuanxiong officially debuted under his nickname "Xiao Gang". In the same year, he released the singles "Fireworks", "Finally Learned" and "Gemini Dialogue".
At that time, the Little Tigers were already popular throughout Asia, and compared with it, Zhou Chuanxiong had been tepid in the first few years of his debut. But what is certain is that Zhou Chuanxiong should never regret it, after all, he insisted on his dream.
Another 3 years passed, until the release of a song "Hasa Yaqi", Zhou Chuanxiong had a place in the music world.
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Zhou Chuanxiong, who had just gained a foothold, did not expect that the recording industry had come to a cold winter at this time. Although he made music with great care, he released several albums in a row and received a mediocre response.
Coupled with the fire of Zhang Xinzhe at this time, the company decided to hide him in the snow and support Zhang Xinzhe.
Zhou Chuanxiong, who has an obsession with music, is naturally unwilling to resign himself to fate, so he chooses to go to England for further study. When he returned again, he gave up his previous stage name "Xiao Gang" and officially returned to Zhou Chuanxiong, and transformed from a single singer to a music producer.
But the transformation of Zhou Chuanxiong does not seem to be welcomed, the record is constantly rejected by major companies, and no one is willing to listen to the singing.
Until he made a song for Zhang Kefan, "Lonely Bombing", which was popular all over the Chinese music scene, everyone knew that there was such a person as Zhou Chuanxiong in the Original Chinese music scene.
Later, Na Ying's "Betrayal", Zhou Huajian's "Is There a Song That Reminds You of Me", Xu Zhi'an, Chen Huilin... They all came to him. In addition, he has also produced theme songs for various TV series, such as "Flowers" in "Lavender", "I Am Sad" in "Dolphin Bay Lovers"...
Watching the songs he made catch fire one by one, Zhou Chuanxiong finally had the courage to make his own records, after all, that was his dream, what he really pursued.
In 2000, he released a new album, including the now-familiar Twilight.
However, the song did not catch fire that year. It turned out that when he saw his head out, fate once again joked with him. Because of the company's top management adjustment, the song did not get much publicity, and the sales were even more dismal.
From the once young teenager to the middle-aged man who is now full of vicissitudes, Zhou Chuanxiong has walked away for 11 years. He could never figure out how his life was so difficult and so tortuous.
There is no way out, and the next year the turnaround appeared. At that time, he came to the mainland to help Manchu Wenjun produce a new album, and he found that his "Dusk" was playing in the streets of the mainland.
It may be hard for you to understand the joy of being hit again and again, only to see hope in a casual moment. Seeing that his music was so popular, Zhou Chuanxiong was also deeply touched by the mixed feelings in his heart, and once again found the confidence that he almost lost.
In the following years, he successively released songs such as "Lonely Sandbank Cold", "Man Ocean", "Blue Flower" and so on, and almost every capital was so popular in the mainland that adults and children could sing a few words casually.
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In July 2004, Chow held his first concert in Singapore. After stumbling in the music world for more than a decade, Zhou Chuanxiong, who was 35 years old at the time, finally waited for this moment.
At this moment, he had waited too long and too long.
Looking at the full scene, Zhou Chuanxiong choked several times and sang his "Dusk" affectionately:
"I still remember to say goodbye from your mouth as firm as iron, and there is an illusion of the scorching sun in the darkness..."
After surviving the darkness again and again, he thought he had finally seen the light, but he did not know that the light of the dusk was always short-lived.
Because of his concentration on creation and irregular eating and drinking, Zhou Chuanxiong suffered from stomach disease. At first he didn't pay attention to it, but he still devoted himself to creation, but by the time he found out, it was too late.
In 2014, when he reappeared in front of the media, he weighed only 40 kilograms at 178. In just a few years, he lost a full 40 kilograms, and the whole person was as thin as a "paper man".
Looking at the deteriorating body, although he was reluctant to think of the stage, he still had to choose to withdraw from the circle.
During that time, in addition to suffering physical torture, Zhou Chuanxiong also had to experience gossip from the outside world. Some people say that he is so thin because he sucks du, some people say that his life is short... In short, there are all kinds of remarks.
He didn't care about any of this, what really made him sad was the stage that haunted his soul.
Later, his body recovered and he planned to return to the stage. However, at this time, the vicissitudes of the Chinese music scene have already undergone great changes.
In the era when traffic is king, although Zhou Chuanxiong painstakingly produced a new album "Time Does Not Know Home", it did not arouse too much splash. After all, there is no publicity, no so-called traffic, who can know this?
Later, we saw him in short videos, or in a third-tier small city, or in an unknown county. Whether there was an audience or not, he sang hard...
He had been shattered countless times, but he still tried his best to give himself a new life.
No one watched the commercial performance, no one listened to the album, and he participated in the variety show. But on the variety show, he is already in his fifties and has become a "student".
Looking at the young "mentors" in front of him, Zhou Chuanxiong did not complain, as he did after repeated setbacks, he just quietly picked up the microphone and sang his own songs.
In the end, the "Xiao Gang" who once supported half of the Chinese music scene was still eliminated. After a song "I'm Sad", Zhou Chuanxiong left the scene.
"The wind and frost that cannot be repaired over the years seems particularly bleak... Like cheap throughout the season...
Experience all kinds of tastes in life, be abandoned by fate again and again, and ignite hope again and again. In our view, Zhou Chuanxiong's life is tragic and unfortunate.
But isn't this the truest life? Life has so many smooth sailings, but the real warrior is like Zhou Chuanxiong, who has been tricked by fate again and again, but he is still full of love for life.