"The Legend of the New White Lady" starring Zhao Yazhi and Ye Tong is an insurmountable classic.
Decades later, it is still worthy of being called a god's work.
And the theme song of this drama, "A Thousand Years and Waiting for a Time", has also been sung to this day,
There have been countless versions of the cover,
But no one can surpass the original singer Gao Shengmei.
As soon as her sweet and clear voice came out, she had already won.
In 1969, Gao Shengmei was born in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, to an aboriginal mother.
The father was half aboriginal.
Just because this half is not of aboriginal blood,
They do not receive subsidies specifically from the government to indigenous peoples.
There are four children in Gao Shengmei's family, she is an old woman,
From the time she remembered, the family life was very hard,
It was always a family of six who slept huddled on a large plank bed.
At that time, Gao's father was a policeman, and his monthly salary was only 1,000 Taiwan dollars.
It is difficult to support the family's expenses, and it is often in arrears of rent.
Often in the middle of the night, their family of six was driven out of the house by the landlord.
The family carried large bags and small bags around to find a place to live.
This fear of not having a home is deeply imprinted in Gao Shengmei's heart,
So when she had money, she always wanted to buy a house.
Later, the family moved to the police village, and life finally stabilized.
At that time, Gao Shengmei often lay on the window to watch her father patrol in a police uniform.
Although the Gao family lives in poverty, the children are very sensible.
Gao Shengmei also has an older sister and two older brothers.
Brothers and sisters take care of each other, and each one is obedient and sensible.
And several brothers and sisters have inherited the genes of the indigenous people who can sing and dance,
All have a good voice.
Especially the little sister Gao Shengmei, with deep facial features and a pointed chin,
She has been a little beauty since she was a child, and at the age of eight, she won the third place in the Kaohsiung District Singing Competition.
Although the family is poor, a few children are the biggest blessings in the family.
And the first to become a singer is not the little sister Gao Shengmei,
It is her sister Gao Qianping, who first worked as a singer on the Taipei runway.
In junior high school, Gao Shengmei had her own mango field at home.
Life gradually improved, so she took advantage of the summer vacation to go to Taipei to play with her sister.
Although my sister's work is also very hard,
But the glamorous stage deeply attracted her,
Makes her want to be a singer too.
Gao Qianping taught her sister singing skills without reservation,
He also often took her to the place where he worked to learn about typhoons.
After a summer vacation, Gao Shengmei's singing level has been greatly improved.
In high school, Gao Shengmei was successfully admitted to the training class of Huashi Singing Competition.
Receive more professional training to prepare for becoming a singer.
When I was 16 years old, this opportunity came suddenly,
When Gao Shengmei accompanied her friends to participate in the record company audition,
Instead, he was photographed and invited to sign a contract.
After consulting her parents' consent, she officially signed a contract with Shanghua Records.
Became the second singer in the family and the youngest singer in the company.
In the first year of signing, the company immediately helped her create the album "Edge",
At that time, the company offered a contract condition of 100,000 yuan for a record.
This price is the package price, regardless of sales,
As long as you send a film, you can get 100,000 yuan.
16-year-old Gao Shengmei handed over the 100,000 yuan that had just arrived to her parents.
It was the first time the family had seen so much money,
It was ten times Dad's annual salary.
Gao Shengmei is overjoyed that she has finally improved her family's life on her own.
But what she didn't know was that all of her records were selling well.
The company did not pay her the singing rights.
At that time, Shanghua Company was still a far-sighted company.
They took Gao Shengmei to Southeast Asia to promote,
She became the first singer among the singers of the same period to go out of Taiwan.
At that time, Takatsumi was like a doll,
Big eyes, sweet singing,
Generous typhoon, all received unanimous praise,
It was like a breeze blowing into the Chinese music scene.
Gao Shengmei's publicity in Southeast Asia is very successful,
At that time, she had not yet publicized it in the mainland.
The main energy is focused on overseas,
She was the first singer to go from abroad to China.
The following year, Shanghua Records continued to take advantage of the victory and produce records for her.
At the same time, she was arranged to participate in Taiwanese variety shows.
Gao Shengmei only caught fire in Taiwan,
She was called 'Teresa's successor',
In the third year of his debut, the record sold as many as one million.
It was a time when piracy was rampant.
Most of what I hear about in the mainland is pirated CDs.
In this case, it can also sell millions of sales,
It can be seen how red Gao Shengmei was back then.
The streets and alleys are almost playing this girl's song,
This big-eyed beauty can be seen everywhere.
Gao Shengmei's singing voice also attracted the attention of another person,
That era was also the era of Taiwanese TV dramas.
In the field of TV dramas, Qiong Yao is a godmother-level existence.
Qiong Yao has always liked girls with good looks,
From Lin Qingxia, Xiao Qiang to Chen Derong,
Taiwan's beauties have all been picked by Qiong Yao.
Qiong Yao likes Gao Shengmei very much, and also likes her singing,
He invited her to sing the theme song for his TV series.
At the age of 20, "Colorful Clouds with Seagulls" is the first cooperation between Gao Shengmei and Qiong Yao.
This TV series got very good ratings,
The album also sold very well on both sides of the taiwan strait.
At that time, Gao Shengmei's singing voice had already spread to the mainland,
The album sold 600,000 copies in the mainland.
At that time, mainland pop music was just emerging,
Rock music is mainly concentrated in Beijing,
Pop music is mainly concentrated in Shenzhen and is greatly influenced by Hong Kong and Taiwan.
The following year, Yang Yuying, who developed in Guangzhou, released her first album,
Sales reached 180,000 copies,
A year later her new album sold another 200,000 copies.
This achievement is already the best among mainland singers,
It can be seen that Gao Shengmei at that time was simply a god-level existence.
Subsequently, Gao Shengmei cooperated with Qiong Yao again,
Sang the theme song for her TV series "Six Dreams",
At the same time, she also cut off her long hair, showing the image of Qi Bangs' short hair.
Not only has Gao Shengmei's new image sparked a wave of imitation,
Qiong Yao's TV series has once again become the ratings champion.
Since then, Gao Shengmei has contracted the theme songs of almost all of Qiong Yao's TV series.
And these dramas, without exception, are all on fire.
When Qiong Yao opera spread from Taiwan to the mainland, the audience saw the beautiful crying drama of the heroine,
You can always hear The beautiful singing voice of Takatsumi at the end of the film.
The explosion of many TV series has made Gao Shengmei an eight-o'clock myth,
Because at that time, most of these dramas were played at eight o'clock in the evening.
So Gao Shengmei had the title of Eight Point Queen.
At the same time, she gained more recognition in music,
In 1991, 22-year-old Gao Shengmei defeated Taiwanese pop diva Hsu Kyung-soon,
Won the Golden Melody Award for Best Chinese Singer,
Declare that your musical age has arrived.
In 1992, "Green River Grass" and "The Legend of the New White Lady" were two popular dramas.
The theme songs of these two dramas are sung by Gao Shengmei.
'Grass by the Green River, leisurely and ageless'
There is also the singing voice of the yellow plum tune in the white lady,
Once again, Gao Shengmei won the reputation of 'Chang Sheng Song Queen',
Her theme song is almost a guarantee of ratings.
Gao Shengmei, who was just in her early twenties, has ushered in its heyday,
Mainland China, Southeast Asian cities are inviting her to perform,
Her schedule was too busy to queue up.
At the same time, she also released her autobiography "Sparrow Becomes Phoenix",
Also endorsed the shampoo commercial, called the most popular female singer in the eighties and nineties.
However, as Gao Shengmei came into contact with more and more musicians,
She only found out the irrationality in the Shanghua Records contract.
For so many years, she has been a record of 100,000 yuan,
I didn't know that she should charge royalties as a singer,
Not to mention the record share, the copyright fee should be the largest part of the singer's income.
And in ten years, Gao Shengmei sang hundreds of songs,
The copyright fee for these songs is also tens of millions.
When she first signed, she was sixteen years old.
I was young and didn't understand the reasoning.
But after she became an adult, and became the company's most profitable singer,
The company also did not take the initiative to ask for dividends and has been fulfilling the original contract.
Gao Shengmei once negotiated with the company,
However, the desired results were not achieved.
Gao Shengmei did not continue to pursue this,
After all, the company has cultivated her for more than ten years, and she only treats her as providence.
But in 1999, when the contract expired, she did not renew it.
Over the years, Gao Shengmei has made a lot of money,
She not only bought a house for her parents,
I also bought a house in Shanghai and lived very comfortably.
At the same time, Gao Shengmei also signed a new record label,
Start recording again.
But Gao Shengmei, who started again, did not create a miracle again,
Her records are no longer as big as they used to be.
At this time, the Taiwanese music scene has come to a new era,
Xiao Yaxuan and Jolin Tsai have made their debuts,
Jay Chou and Sun Yanzi became the newcomer king,
Taiwan's music scene is about to usher in the golden decade.
At the same time, Taiwan's film and television drama industry is declining rapidly,
Actors, investors and directors have gone to the mainland to develop,
And the theme song can no longer be sung by Gao Shengmei.
At this time, Na Ying, Sun Nan, Liu Huan and other singers in the mainland developed just right.
It was difficult to break through in music, so the company took over the business performance for her.
Relying on the previous golden songs, Gao Shengmei's commercial performances in the mainland are still soft.
Gao Shengmei's musical era has gradually become a thing of the past,
But her love affair has become the focus of attention from the outside world.
In 2003, Gao Shengmei was exposed to her boyfriend for the first time.
The other party is an outsider, and the relationship between the two is very stable.
In an interview, Gao Shengmei also generously admitted this relationship,
And said that the two plan to buy a house in the mainland,
I already have plans to get married, and my shy look makes people very envious.
However, this relationship slowly lost its results,
The love affair broke out again in 2009,
At this time, Gao Shengmei was already forty years old,
Her boyfriend is said to be 11 years younger than her.
It is said that her boyfriend is a cook, also from an Extended Aboriginal family,
There are many children in the family, the boyfriend and six sisters,
Gao Shengmei and his second sister are still classmates.
This seemingly very incompatible relationship once attracted attention,
The relationship between the two was also as expected by the outside world and did not last long.
Gao Shengmei later explained the reason for the breakup,
Indicating that the work, economy and values of the two sides are very different,
There is no way to maintain feelings, and such differences are expected.
After that, Gao Shengmei never heard any more scandals,
When the reporter asked her about her emotional situation again,
She replied with disgust that she had never had a boyfriend.
I am a well-behaved child, taking care of my mother at home,
Be with the cat every day and be a filial child.
However, in terms of career, Gao Shengmei did not usher in a turnaround,
Two years after joining the new company,
She carefully prepared her 59th album "Unforgettable",
But the album still sold poorly.
After her 60th album, has been preparing,
But it never came out.
Gao Shengmei shifted all his career focus to commercial performances,
It is mainly active in the mainland.
In 2007, Gao Shengmei held its own new book sale in Shanghai,
A crazy male fan rushed to the stage with flowers in his hand to propose to her.
He excitedly expressed his love for Gao Shengmei for more than ten years,
And engraved on the arm 'non-beautiful, not married' four big words.
Eventually the man was forcibly taken away by the security guards.
At that time, the scene was chaotic, and Gao Shengmei was also frightened.
In an interview with reporters, she firmly said that she was an unmarried family.
And hope that fans do not make excessive behavior.
At this time, Gao Shengmei was nearly fifty years old,
Her face still maintains a girlish look,
But her face quietly changed.
Gao Shengmei is a person who pays great attention to appearance,
As we age,
She began to adjust the condition of her skin through medical aesthetics.
However, after several injections, her face began to stiffen visibly.
A few years ago, when Gao Shengmei participated in a variety show in the mainland,
Her figure is still slender, and her hair is still moist and smooth,
But her face was badly sunken,
Only a pair of large eyes remained, and plump lips,
It looked very frightening, and it no longer had the brilliance it once had.
When she resung the classic song "Wait a Thousand Years",
The song is still sweet, but the whole face looks like a Barbie doll,
Very stiff, the expression is not very natural.
In January this year, some netizens met Gao Shengmei to participate in commercial performances in townships.
The stage environment is very simple, and the open-air venue has set up a simple stage.
Gao Shengmei still made up a delicate makeup,
Just because it was too cold, I put a down jacket on the outside of the purple dress,
It seems very cheap and difficult to associate with Chang Shenggehou.
When the video was transmitted to the Internet, it triggered a wave of sighs from netizens.
They all lamented that the songs of the past had fallen to this place, creating people.
And Gao Shengmei responded generously,
I still need to live, I also need to raise my mother,
There is no shame in making money out of business performances,
No matter what kind of stage should strive to show the best state.
Gao Shengmei's response has been endorsed by many people,
But it is still inevitable to feel sorry for her.
Singers who were once very popular, but did not get the pay they deserved,
With an angelic appearance, a heavenly singing voice,
But it did not end up with a good home.
On July 19, a recent photo of Gao Shengmei was exposed online.
Although the commercial performance stage is simple, Gao Shengmei is still very dedicated.
The 52-year-old insists on singing on stage is certainly respectable,
But I still hope that she can enjoy a better life.
In the music world, she already has the status of a judge of the Golden Melody Award,
There are masterpieces, there are honors and status,
I hope she sings for love, not for her livelihood.
| Nancy
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