In the Taiwanese music scene of the last century, the stars were shining and the stars were gathered.
In 1988, Zhang Yusheng's song "My Future Is Not a Dream" spread throughout the song world.
Fei Yuqing was taking a shower when he first heard this song, and his first reaction was to rush out of the bathroom, trying to see what kind of sacredness was on TV and could have such a high-pitched singing voice.
Zhang Yusheng signed a UFO album with a wealth of talents and released his debut album "Thinking of You Every Day", which sold 350,000 copies.
Look at the big boy on the cover of the record, read and write, a student atmosphere. However, the well-behaved boy seems to be far less topical than the "vicissitudes of the man".
A year before the release of "Thinking of You Every Day", Qi Qin released the album "Winter Rain", and at the same time, a Wang Jie appeared, debuting in the music world as a single father.
Look at the gloomy tones of the album cover of the two, showing half of the face or the side of the face, revealing the coldness of isolation from the world.
But it was these two people who became a "super whirlwind" at that time, sweeping the entire Chinese music scene.
This pair of "Gemini stars" once became the existence of "east evil and west poison" in the music world.
Looking back at Qi Qin and Wang Jie, not to mention that they are both "record overlords", their fate trajectory is also quite similar: the "prodigal son" who has never been recognized by the world has become the king of the pop music world.
The price of fame ensued, and their love was like a mirror flower.
When they were young, there were too many legends to write about, and the middle-aged situation was full of sadness, when they fell off the "altar" and ushered in the ebb tide, the "legend" was always blown away by the rain and the wind.
Is it the artificial "character determines fate", or the back wave beats the front wave, and the music world cannot tolerate the "king of the past"?
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Qi Qin's father was a civil servant who was busy with official duties all day and had no time to take care of his family.
Mothers like to play cards, leaving money at the dinner table and letting the children solve the problem of food and clothing by themselves.
Because of the lack of parental discipline, Qi Qin's personality became more and more arrogant during adolescence, running away from home, fighting, and doing anything rebellious.
During this period, Qi Qin also mixed into the campus gang, although he wanted to find a patron to avoid the middle school students' own being bullied by high school students. But after all, as a "bastard", the outside world seems to have ruined its future.
When Qi Qin was 16 years old, his parents went to the United States, and his eldest brother studied in Japan, leaving only Qi Qin and his sister Qi Yu at home.
At this time, the stubborn Qi Qin committed an accident, and he, who was a regular visitor to the police station, was sent to the correctional hospital.
At the age of youth and freedom, Qi Qin lived a closed life of re-education through labor.
Wang Jie, who was two years younger than him, lived a life of upheaval and displacement.
Wang Jie's parents, Wang Xia and Xu Yu, are both actors from Shaw's company. He grew up on the set.
Sometimes the crew is short of people, and Wang Jie will be caught by the director and go to guest roles in several children's roles.
But unlike today's child stars, each one is a treasure held in the palm of their parents' hands.
In Wang Jie's body, the traces of his parents' love for him are pitiful, more often he is beaten, herded, thrown a few coins, and taken the money to eat by himself.
The bitter past of the two heavenly kings is as long as a cloth.
Qi Qin entered the correctional institution.
Every day, when I pass through the dense barbed wire fence and see the towering wall, I long for the care of my family. But when it was time to visit his relatives, the only person who came to bring him food and clothes was his sister Qi Yu.
On the other hand, Wang Jie was sent to a church school because his parents divorced and flew separately, leaving his son to survive alone.
Obviously, his parents are still alive, but they have become "orphans", which is Wang Jie when he was young.
At this time, the one who changed their destiny appeared. However, the legendary nobleman is actually a "musical instrument".
The correctional institution where Qi Qin was staying had a classroom for entertainment. In the corner of the classroom, Qi Qin found a guitar with a broken string, idle and nothing to do with it, and when he was interested, he couldn't control it.
Later, Qi Qin looked for his elder sister who came to see him every week and asked her to carry guitar teaching materials and a few new guitar strings. The self-taught Qi Qin looked at the mountains outside the correctional courtyard and wrote "The Outer World", which has been sung to this day.
As for Wang Jie, the school he attended stipulated that students must practice a musical instrument. Wang Jie thus learned piano and then came into contact with guitar.
Through studying music, both Wang Jie and Qi Qin found a way to express their bitterness.
At a garden party, Wang Jie held a guitar and murmured, and the first original song "The Doll is Crying" was born.
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In the early 1980s, Luo Dayou had not yet issued his cry of "The One Who Cares", and Su Rui had not yet used "The Same Moonlight" to question the numb hearts of modern people.
The Taiwanese music scene has experienced a vigorous folk song movement, and the music lyrics are filled with a fresh literary atmosphere.
Among the popular singers in the folk song era, there is Qi Qin's sister: Qi Yu.
At that time, Qi Yu's "Olive Tree" won an award in Hong Kong. After getting the 10,000 Hong Kong dollar bonus, Qi Yu did not spend it on himself, but spent 7500 Hong Kong dollars to buy a Yamaha guitar for his brother.
Before Qi Qin's debut, his sister poured out his heart to help each other, and his good intentions were even more deeply affectionate.
With the end of Qi Qin's labor re-education, Qi Yu took his younger brother to meet his mentor Li Taixiang, and then took him to the recording studio for probation, thinking of bringing him positive life guidance in the trough stage of Qi Qin.
One after another, Qi Qin also sang and made his debut.
In 1981, Qi Qin released his first album "See Her Slippery Again". Because of his military service, Qi Qin temporarily slowed his musical pace.
Qi Qin is "luckier" than Wang Jie, and he has friends and relatives around him to help him step into the music world. Wang Jie seemed to be unaccompanied and could not see the hope of debut!
After leaving the church school, Wang Jie ran back to Taiwan alone. In order to survive, he worked as a stuntman, cement worker, dock coolie, painter...
One night, while passing by Ximending, Wang Jie bumped into several bullying girls. Out of the psychology of seeing righteousness and courage, he went forward and dragged the girl's hand, pulled the other party to escape, and ran a whole road.
As if it is a movie bridge, the male and female protagonists meet and rub out the spark of love. Later, Wang Jie married the girl, and the two held a simple ceremony under the overpass.
Soon, the girl became pregnant and gave birth to a child. Wang Jie also faced the problem of military service. So he entrusted his wife to his mother.
I just didn't think that the mother would become the "initiator" of her son's "unfortunate life".
During Wang Jie's departure, the daughter-in-law could not stand her mother-in-law bringing a group of men to the house to play in the middle of the night, and even asked her to dance and drink together, and finally left her infant daughter and left.
When Wang Jie returned with great anticipation, he was greeted by cold air and his babbling daughter.
As for the child's mother, she has long since disappeared.
How do single dads support their daughters?
When he was poor and depressed, Wang Jielian added a brine egg to his daughter's noodles, which was a stretched matter.
Holding the belief of "buying a big house for his daughter", Wang Jie did all the dirty work and tired work, and tasted the cold and warm taste of human feelings.
During the bar work, Wang Jie's musical dream sprouted in the cracks of reality.
It turned out that whenever the song ended up, Wang Jie just used the instruments in the store to record a few songs for himself, try to send them to the record company. But perhaps the production was rudimentary, and Wang Jie did not get a response.
At that time, Li Zongsheng was like Li Zongsheng, who had mixed with Qi Qin in the folk song restaurant, and had just entered the Rolling Stone Records as a producer. Because qi Qin's singing voice is very familiar, Li Zongsheng's interview singer will use Qi Qin as a standard.
Receiving Wang Jie's song, Li Zongsheng shook his head when he heard it, the song world has already caught fire with a Qi Qin, and this cannot be red again.
Yes, who at first expected that Wang Jie's limelight would overshadow Qi Qin?
In 1985, after Qi Qin returned to the music scene, the album "Wolf" changed the freshness of folk songs, tight AB pants, sunglasses, and long hair, which made Qi Qin a spiritual idol among teenagers.
Next, Qi Qin released the record "Winter Rain", setting a record for the title song to win the number one in the chart for 7 consecutive weeks.
Strong opponents are like storms, seemingly difficult to resist and surpass. However, if it is another storm, it will only make the wind of the music industry blow harder and harder.
The man who brought another storm to the music scene was named Li Shouquan.
After Wang Jie was withdrawn from the song many times, he was finally recognized by the music master.
In 1987, with the help of Li Shouquan's excavation, Wang Jie released the album that was later selected as "Taiwan's Top 100 Records": "A Game and a Dream".
The album was released by UFO Records, and the songwriting and production gathered a group of big-name musicians such as Wang Wenqing, Chen Zhiyuan, Chen Lerong, etc., and the quality of the records was excellent.
Yesterday's prodigal son, today's superstar. In 1988, Wang Jie's second album "Forget You Forgot Me", the main song won the first place in the chart for 8 consecutive weeks, and the record set by Qi Qin was broken by Wang Jie!
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In 1988, Qi Qin's records were introduced to the mainland, and Qi Qin, who was actually from the "wolf of the south", actually fed a group of pickpocket singers from the north.
Tu Honggang entered the studio to record songs in his early years, singing Qi Qin's "Original Me" and "The Outside World". Liu Huan also took Qi Qin's songs, and Teacher Liu looked like this at that time.
Soon, Wang Jie's song of the prodigal son also came across the ocean.
A program called "Tide, Song from Taiwan" was broadcast on the mainland. Among the popular classics, there is the song "A Game, a Dream".
From troubled youth to singers, Qi Qin and Wang Jie both ushered in their "career peak" in the early 90s.
Qi Qin became one of the first Taiwanese singers to perform in the mainland.
Everywhere the superstar went, fans flocked to applaud.
Qi Qin has unlimited scenery on the mainland, and Wang Jie is red in Hong Kong.
He landed on the Hong Kong music scene with his first Cantonese album and successfully took the position in the blank period after "Tan Zhang's Struggle".
When Wang Jie became popular in Hong Kong, the four heavenly kings had not yet "formed an army", and it was no wonder that he scorned the four heavenly kings in the future.
In terms of musical achievements, Qi Qin and Wang Jie are at the peak of the music scene side by side, but in fact, the development routes of the two sides are not the same.
The music of the early Qi Qin period is undoubtedly wonderful and exquisite, independent in thought, extremely experimental and avant-garde.
At the debut meeting, Qi Qin was dissatisfied with the musician model of "working and taking money and leaving", and turned around and formed his own rainbow band.
Of course, some people say that "fans are amorous and ruthless".
When the music scene is paying attention to Wang Jie's birth, it seems that fewer people mention Qi Qin than before: "Oh, Qi Qin has not produced a new song for a long time? ”
Qi Qin painstakingly engaged in creation, and there were fewer pop songs in his face.
At the same time, Wang Jie appeared to "win by numbers" and set a record of "publishing three albums in 13 months".
However, Wang Jie suffered from anorexia, lost weight, and often fainted and was sent to the hospital.
At that time, the doctor warned Wang Jie many times: "If you continue like this, you will not even have a life!" ”
Wang Jie later complained bitterly about that year, saying that which man did not want to have abs? However, because of his work, he was so thin that he only had skin and bones left.
There was a girl named Mo Qiwen who walked into Wang Jie's life.
In 1993, the two met for filming the MV "Red Dust With You" and had the beginning of a love story.
At that time, the two not only came together, but also had a flash marriage.
After marriage, Wang Jie intends to return to the family, but also in order to recuperate his anorexia, he put down his career and left for Canada.
The good times did not last long, and the peaceful days came to an end within four years.
Wang Jie and Mo Qiwen divorced due to personality incompatibility, and the two got into a court of law, and the scene was quite embarrassing. As for the specific reasons for the breakup, the two always have their own words, and outsiders have no way of knowing the inside story.
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Before leaving Hong Kong, Wang Jie claimed to be a rich man who bought a building on royalties, but as he paid huge alimony and repaid his mother's debts, most of his accumulated wealth was hollowed out.
Facing the woman again and saying love to him, Wang Jie was afraid and would only rush to avoid: "I am very poor." ”
Asked about his views on love, Wang Jie did not have the naïve belief in the past, and all that came to mind was the sad experience of being cheated and dumped: "Girls who like me are not sincere. ”
Even the king of the music scene cannot escape emotional distress.
For Qi Qin, his bumpy love road is also an indelible mark on the road of music.
In 1991, Qin Qi became the first General Manager of EMI's Asia division in Taiwan. As a result, Qi Qin found that he was not a material for doing business, and he was not good at management, so he had to withdraw from the commercial market.
Career bottlenecks, feelings are even more frustrated, Qi Qin's music in the object of love Wang Zuxian, at this stage broke up with Qi Qin, and turned into the arms of others.
The love story of Qi Qin and Wang Zuxian at that time developed towards the script of "Golden Boy and Jade Girl".
In 1986, the career gap between Qi Qin and his ex-girlfriend Fang Meifang widened, and the contradictions were irreconcilable, ending in a breakup.
Qi Qin, who sang and played you, became the male protagonist of the movie "Yerba Buena Bi Lian Tian".
The film side let Qi Qin choose the heroine himself. Among the actresses such as Maggie Cheung and Zhong Chuhong, Qi Qin chose Wang Zuxian, who is still a newcomer.
Wang Zuxian, who had heard Qi Qin's singing earlier, learned that Qi Qin had invited him to film, and he agreed, and the servants rushed back to Taiwan from Hong Kong.
Later, the two fell in love because of the drama and started a love run. But I don't want to kill Cheng Jin halfway, a rich businessman named Lin Jianyue chased after Wang Zuxian.
In 1994, during the breakup of King Zuxian of Qi qin, Lin Jianyue was rich and wealthy, and successfully captured his heart.
Hearing that Wang Zuxian had a new love, the old love Qi Qin's heart was like a knife, and he never forgot it.
Fortunately, love seems to have taken care of him again, so that his love affair with Wang Zuxian has not been completely broken.
At that time, after Wang Zuxian interacted with Lin Jianyue, he deeply felt that the water was deep and could not wait for "Fuzheng".
During the period, Lin Jianyue's mother has been obstructing from it, and the man's heart has not changed, which has allowed Wang Zuxian to find and understand that no amount of money can be exchanged for a free and sincere heart.
And the person who can give this feeling, go around and look back, Qi Qin is still the one waiting at the end of the lights.
In 1996, Qi Qin reunited with Wang Zuxian.
Qi Qin, who had lost and regained, openly showed his love, saying that he loved Wang Zuxian for "three lifetimes".
For love, Wang Zuxian also responded warmly this time.
She starred in Qi Qin's "Cliff" mv, in which she ran barefoot for 5 kilometers, and her feet were worn, but she didn't care, laughing and saying: "As long as Qi Qin Records sell well, everything is worth it!" ”
Love really led Qi Qin's career.
In 1996, Qi Qin won the Golden Melody Award for Best Chinese Male Singer with his album "Silk Road", and his career returned to the peak after being dormant and silent.
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At the end of the 1990s, Qi Qin and Wang Jie ushered in another wave of peaks in their careers.
Unfortunately, looking back, it was also the "last grand scene" of the two king of the song world.
On the one hand, Qi Qin's love is sweet, his career development is stable, although some urban lyric songs are less artistic, but after all, his Qi-style love songs are unique, and listeners still worship his pure voice.
Wang Jie also maintains his original singing skills.
After returning to the music scene after the divorce, Wang Jie was full of confidence in himself: "I Wang Jie started with a dollar, and now I don't want anything, I can still start with a dollar!" ”
In 1999, Wang Jie joined the Emperor and became a brother with the popular Xie Tingfeng.
In the Hong Kong music scene around the turn of the millennium, the popularity belongs to the teenager Nicholas Tse.
But Wang Jiebao is not old, singing his middle-aged stubborn "Sadness 1999", and is still proud of his record performance.
However, with the exposure of rumors of discord between the two new and old kings, coupled with the media's deliberate smear of Wang Jiebo's attention.
The public's attention to Wang Jie gradually shifted from works to private life, and the former superstars were gradually destroyed in gossip.
Wang Jie was made suspicious of his life by paparazzi gossip, and Qi Qin, who was originally close to Wang Zuxian's good deeds, was also troubled by the gossip scandal.
In 2001, Qi Qin's girlfriend, Fang Meifang, suddenly ran out and demanded child support in the name of her son, demanding that Qi Qin pay NT$5.26 million.
The reason for this accusation was like a thunderclap on the ground, because it was Qi Qin who "abandoned his son."
Time is the executioner, always showing the cruel side to the world.
As the paternity test became true, Qi Qin had to admit that he had an illegitimate child.
And this news defeated Wang Zuxian, and although she could understand Qi Qin's difficulties, she could not withstand the pressure of public opinion rolling in.
In 2004, the two calmly broke up after a long conversation.
Since then, Wang Zuxian has gone to Live in seclusion in Canada and healed his love wounds alone. This cross-century love did not end up with the world's expectations.
It should be said that the people who went to Canada at that time were not only Wang Zuxian, but also Wang Jie.
Wang Jie flew half the world in order to see his son, whom he had not seen for many years. But when he ran to school, his son, who had not been seen for many years, did not recognize him at all, and only cared about laughing and playing with his classmates.
It turned out that after divorcing his second wife, Wang Jie was asked by the woman not to be within 500 meters of his son, which led to the strange estrangement of father and son.
Regarding family affection, Qi Qin is still "rich".
Breaking up with Wang Zuxian, the two have been in love for many years. Qi Qin said that he regarded Wang Zuxian as his sister, and the two would still contact each other, but they would no longer bind them by marriage.
On the other hand, Wang Jie's family affection has always been a luxury in him.
And fate was very cruel to Wang Jie, and then even his proud singing voice had a problem, that is, his voice was "poisoned and dumb".
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By the time Wang Jie appeared frequently in public again, it was around 2010. Listening to Wang Jie's voice again, everyone actually found that the Heavenly King was struggling to sing hoarsely, where did the voice of the immortals go in the past?
Finally, on "Very Quiet Distance", Wang Jie blew himself up for the first time that someone poisoned the drink he drank, "Lead poison is a small amount of mercury." ”
But in 2014's "Phoenix Extraordinary Tao", Wang Jie said: "Forget what poison you are, only know that the poison will petrify the vocal cords." ”
Regarding who the poisoner was, Wang Jie's statement changed back and forth.
At first, he said he didn't know who the killer was.
Later, he said he knew who the killer was, but didn't want to ruin his life.
Therefore, the audience was indeed very distressed about Wang Jie in the early stage, but as everyone found that Wang Jie had too many contradictory places, there was gradually a question of "Wang Jie lying and paying attention".
To this day, this "poisoning theory" is inconclusive.
Of course, when it comes to Qi Qin, everyone has also lamented that his voice is no longer there, and his performance has become lackluster.
However, he lamented the "lowliness" of his body for his livelihood over the years.
After 2010, pop music entered the "variety show era", and both newcomers and veterans were crowded on the show to be exposed.
In 2013, Qi Qin participated in "I Am a Singer".
To say that Qi Qin started well and won the first championship. However, from the second period, his ranking fell and he was on the verge of bottoming out.
After the fourth game, Qi Qin suddenly proposed to retire from the game, giving the reason to return to the United States to accompany his mother.
This made the outside world speculate that Qi Qin was afraid and fled.
Like Qi Qin, who "walked halfway", there was also Luo Dayou, the "godfather of the music world".
In 2014's "The Voice of China", the program team has officially announced the lineup of mentors, namely Luo Dayou, Na Ying, Wang Feng, and Yang Kun.
However, not long after the recording, Luo Dayou stopped doing it, and the reason for leaving was still confusing, which led to speculation from all sides.
After Luo Dayou picked a son, it was Qi Qin who came to remedy the scene.
But unexpectedly, the King-level guests who came to save the program group did not get special favors.
On the reissued propaganda poster, Na Ying and Wang Feng were in the middle, and Qi Qin was on the side. According to the status of the music scene, some people questioned, why is not Qi Qin in the middle?
From the mentor position of the side station, Qi Qin once again boarded the "China Star", and his identity changed from mentor to kicking singer.
At that time, the judges he faced were Liu Huan, Cui Jian, and Lin Yilian.
On the show, Qi Qin encountered unexpected "embarrassment".
Originally, he took his band to adapt a song "Old Dream", thinking that he was sincere and confident of winning the game. But the next mentor commented on "punching" Qi Qin.
Liu Huan affirmed that Qi Qin's arrangement was very good, but the theme of the song was contrary, and finally gave an average score of 7 points.
Cui Jian directly did not save face for him, bluntly criticizing Qi Qin for relying too much on teamwork, losing his original characteristics, and playing the lowest 6 points in the whole game.
In fact, from the perspective of debut qualifications, Qi Qin is more "old qualifications" than any of the judges present here.
Such a rotation of feng shui really makes people sigh at this aging "wolf king".
Perhaps, compared to the pride of cherishing feathers, making money is a reality that everyone has helplessness.
Many people also pointed out that Qi Qin pulled down the face show and ran some local commercial performances, in fact, in order to make milk powder money.
Shortly after breaking up with Wang Zuxian, Qi Qin met singer Sun Liya, who was 24 years younger than him.
In 2010, the two registered for marriage and had a daughter and a son.
Life is not easy, the family burden is pressed on this middle-aged man, and the continuous setbacks on the variety show make Qi Qin feel that the back wave pushes the front wave, no more than that year, this year's comeback to earn milk powder money are difficult!
However, Qi Qin still has the arrogance of a heavenly king, saying that the game must be won or lost, and he will accept any ending, but hopes that he will not occupy the seat, so as to give the new singer a chance to show.
In the face of the ruthlessness of the years, there is also Wang Jie who has to serve the old.
In the face of fans expecting him to participate in "I Am a Singer", he also responded modestly: "I absolutely can't sing and can't sing these young little brothers and sisters now." ”
As a result, this "self-effacing" remark was sung down, and some black fans maliciously insulted Wang Jie and also scolded Wang Jie's mother, so angry that Wang Jie hung up this person on Weibo, saying that he would call the police to deal with it.
Later, perhaps the public opinion became more and more intense, Wang Jie was tired and did not want to deal with it anymore, so why bother himself in the complex network environment?
After posting a long post titled "I am worthy of myself," he emptied Weibo.
Nowadays, while Wang Jie has withdrawn from the music scene, he has completely faded out of the public's vision, no longer caring how many people still love him on the rivers and lakes, and how many people hate him.
Bidding farewell to the hustle and bustle and living a quiet life that no one pays attention to has become the destination of the kings of the music world.
It is undeniable that Qi Qin and Wang Jie once took advantage of the situation to reach the peak.
In the future, their personal circumstances will change, their personality will determine their fate, and the waves behind the Yangtze River will push forward the waves, all of which prove that they will eventually "bow down to this era" and "submit to it" in the future.
Flower applause, fame and fortune love, these are just the passing clouds of life, and no matter how bright the stars can not achieve eternal twinkling.
The former king created his own era, but in that era, that period of youth finally passed, leaving the world with a word of miss, leaving a generation of sighs on the two heavenly king singers.