Some singers are full of legends, but they are like shooting stars across the night sky, fleeting.
Chen Rujia is one of them.
This singer of the pre-pop era also had his own glory.
And his singing has both talent and hard work.
In 1964, Chen Rujia was born in Liwan, Guangzhou.
From an early age, he was full of love for music.
After attending elementary school, he joined the Liwan District Junior Home Choir.
and the Children's Palace Choir in Guangzhou.
The music and singing brought him not only excitement, but also joy.
And the development of the times is also creating real opportunities for every singer.
At the age of 18, Chen Rujia walked out of the gate of the campus.
At that time, on the streets of Guangzhou, young people not only popular wore flared pants and danced veneer dances.
More importantly, in the big stereo, all the pop music released was the first Typhoon of Hong Kong.
This was unimaginable to Chen Rujia when she was young.
The wave of openness suddenly poured into this southern city.
In particular, various pop music has sprung up like mushrooms.
In addition to covering the music of Hong Kong and Taiwan, young people in Guangzhou are also forming various bands.
However, there were not many singers at that time, especially full-time singers.
Most people play with the nature of the ticket, which makes many orchestras a shortage of singers.
Chen Rujia, who loves singing, saw the opportunity.
So, he went to a light music troupe in Yuexiu.
In the group, he was asked to try out singing for a month, and gave 4.5 yuan a night.
This was in the early 1980s, but it was a properly high income.
He never imagined that one day he would be able to easily make money with his hobby.
Soon a month passed, and the orchestra kept him.
The daily labor cost has also risen from 4.5 to 7 yuan.
A month down is 210 yuan, when the monthly salary of an ordinary employee is at most dozens of yuan.
He sang in the orchestra for a whole year and made a small profit.
At that time, there was no concept of packaging, and everyone went to listen to the song, just thinking that he sang very well.
More than a year later, he chose to leave the orchestra.
Because Chen Rujia found that the development of the orchestra is at most like this, there will be no better future.
After leaving, he began to choose to run everywhere, that is, to sing in different bars, hotels and other places every day, which is considered a free singer.
Compared to the orchestra, the daily income is a little more.
But because there is no team, the stability of the income cannot be guaranteed.
However, it is precisely because of the running field and singing on different occasions that he slowly practiced his ability to control different songs.
At that time, he mainly performed cover songs.
When something new came to Hong Kong, he sang along.
Later, Chen Rujia went to the Gongbei Hotel in Zhuhai, where she specialized in being a resident singer.
Chen Rujia's singing voice is simple and mellow, and his singing voice is very similar to that of Hong Kong singer Xu Xiaofeng,
The imitation was even more exquisite, and gradually, he had the name of Xu Xiaofeng in Guangzhou.
In Guangzhou and Zhuhai, he had a certain number of listeners.
In 1986, a new opportunity appeared before him.
A hotel owner in Shenzhen heard that there is a good singer in the Gongbei Hotel in Zhuhai.
So after listening to it in person, I felt that Chen Rujia sang really well, so I wanted to poach him.
One day, the foreman suddenly asked Chen Rujia, do you want to go to Shenzhen to develop?
The conditions prescribed by the boss were not bad, and Chen Rujia followed him back to Shenzhen.
The boss only let him be a resident singer, and the monthly labor fee was 2,000 Hong Kong dollars.
At that time, the income was not high.
As a result, after word of mouth, Chen Rujia's fame in Shenzhen and Guangzhou became louder.
But objectively speaking, as a resident singer in hotels and other places, Chen Rujia's career development has touched the ceiling.
If there are better opportunities for development, there must be new opportunities.
Just when he was 23 years old, the opportunity really came quietly.
At that time, Shenzhen wanted to organize an art troupe to go to Europe for commercial performances.
The number of people needed is not large, and the types of performances are diverse.
There are acrobatic shows, magic juggling, cross-talk sketches and song and dance performances.
Chen Rujia was actually selected.
As a singer, he performed with the troupe in four European countries for a time.
During this period, because of the ups and downs of music and singing, singing competitions were organized everywhere.
Shenzhen also launched the "Xinyuan Cup" song contest.
The first place was a piano.
In addition, the singers participating in the competition must not only be able to sing popular songs, but also be able to sing art songs and folk songs.
Chen Rujia signed up for the competition.
Among the many contestants, he belongs to the non-science class.
However, with a song "Cattle Grazing at Dusk", Chen Rujia won the first prize in the singing competition.
Objectively, this boosted Chen Rujia's popularity and fame.
At this time, his hometown of Guangzhou was also holding the "Dragon and Phoenix Cup" song contest.
Chen Rujia participated in the competition and won the "Most Popular Male Singer" award.
The judges of this singing competition are Jiang Dawei, Wang Kun and other singers who have long become famous.
This made Chen Rujia's singing gradually drift from several cities to guangdong province, and eventually to the whole country.
At this time, he had already won the grand prize in the local singing competition, and next, Chen Rujia was going to go to the whole country.
In 1988, the national young singer competition was held for the third time.
Previously, there have been many singers everywhere who have become popular with this platform.
Chen Rujia participated in the competition, and with a song "Love of the Old Garden",
Won the first prize of the amateur group popular singing method that year.
This year Chen Rujia was 24 years old, a moment worth remembering.
At that time, there was an unwritten rule in the competition, and all the winners had the opportunity to board the Spring Festival Gala.
In 1989, Chen Rujia stood on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala and sang "Love in the Old Garden".
A singer from a non-science class, his songs finally floated in the streets of China.
Nowadays, people have heard Liu Huan sing "Crooked Moon" and Mao Ning's "Late Autumn".
But many young people do not know that the original singer of these two songs is Chen Rujia.
And in this year, he also won the title of the top ten singers in the country.
With the popularity of the music world, he also starred in a Guangdong TV series "Love Demon".
At this moment, love seems to have inadvertently entered his life.
At that time, after winning the shenzhen singing competition championship, Chen Rujia launched her first album "Popular 88 Chen Rujia".
The record company was ready to give him a personal TV album, so it invited Zheng Puyu, the choreographer of Shenzhen Television Station, to direct the shooting.
In the subsequent shooting, Zheng Puyu was very attentive, which was after all one of the best opportunities to show Chen Rujia.
After the shooting, once the two people went to eat a supper together, Chen Rujia thanked Zheng Puyu for her efforts.
Zheng Puyu smiled and said, Your business is my business.
At this time, Zheng Puyu actually had feelings for Chen Rujia, but the latter did not feel it.
Subsequently, when he went to participate in the CCTV singing competition, Zheng Puyu was accompanied by the whole process.
Chen Rujia won the first place in the singing competition, while Zheng Puyu also represented Shenzhen Television and won the Bole Award.
The two men stood side by side on the podium.
At that moment, Zheng Puyu may have a deeper feeling for the man in front of him.
After returning to Shenzhen, one day everyone gathered together, and Zheng Puyu also accompanied Chen Rujia to go together.
After drinking, several friends got up and asked Chen Rujia if she had a favorite girl.
He said that he would find a girl younger than himself in the future, and she would have a better personality.
In the midst of everyone's coaxing, Chen Rujia was still talking, but he didn't know that Zheng Puyu's face on the side gradually changed.
I don't know if it's because of this,
At the end of 1989, when Chen Rujia was about to appear on the Spring Festival Gala, Zheng Puyu crossed the ocean and went to Belgium.
The spark of this love seems to have just emerged from a trace of Mars, and it is extinguished.
Zheng Puyu may have felt hurt, because she didn't know that Chen Rujia at that time had another person in her heart.
It was a girl named Wu Yanyun, three or four years younger than Chen Rujia.
The girl danced modern dance, and the two met when Chen Rujia came to Shenzhen to develop.
As Chen Rujia's fame grew little by little, the two also talked about their plans for the future.
Chen Rujia has a special love for his hometown of Guangzhou, and he also believes that Guangzhou and Beijing are the center of popular songs in China.
So he is going to settle in Guangzhou in the future.
This decision made Wu Yanyun a little disappointed, and she hoped that Chen Rujia could stay in Shenzhen with her.
However, Chen Rujia is introverted and will not easily change the things he has identified.
In the end, he returned to Guangzhou and maintained a love affair with Wu Yanyun.
Although Guangzhou and Shenzhen are close to each other, he rarely goes to Shenzhen.
Only when performing occasionally, can I go to Shenzhen to meet with Wu Yanyun for a short time.
At the same time, the appearance of Zheng Puyu also cast a shadow between the two people.
Wu Yanyun believes that the relationship between Chen Rujia and Zheng Puyu is ambiguous.
However, in Chen Rujia's view, he did not do anything out of the ordinary, so he did not have to explain it to Wu Yanyun.
As a result, between the two people, because of the actual spatial distance and the spiritual distance, they are getting farther and farther apart, and eventually a gap arises.
One day in the summer of 1993, Chen Rujia suddenly received a call from Wu Yanyun.
On the other end of the phone, she told Chen Rujia that she was leaving Shenzhen for Hong Kong.
Dawn's song and dance troupe needs an accompaniment,
In this way, with Wu Yanyun going to Hong Kong, the relationship between the two people has actually ended.
In this way, the two women in Chen Rujia's life have become passers-by in his life.
At the same time, with the popularity of Chen Rujia, all kinds of scandals are also overwhelming.
At that time, someone broke the news that the reason why Chen Rujia had not been in love or married was because he was gay.
Chen Rujia has never responded to this.
After each performance, he left in a low profile and basically did not accept any media interviews.
Another rumor that often accompanies him is that he is taking drugs.
It wasn't until an interview that he denied drug use.
He said he was actually very tired, had been singing for several years, and never rested.
And he felt that he was about to become a singing machine, so he wanted to rest for a while.
Chen Rujia also said that for various rumors, he has never stood up and said anything.
There is no need for this, because you are yourself and nothing will change.
At the time, there were even rumors that he had died of drug addiction.
In 1993, just when Chen Rujia's career could be further improved, he suddenly announced his retirement from the music scene.
And in the days that followed, Chen Rujia went to Australia.
Perhaps, as he had said before, he went to rest on his own.
For the next seven years, there was no news of him on the music scene.
At this time, the domestic music scene has long been a world-shaking change.
While in Australia, Wu Yanyun once called him and asked him to return to China to make a comeback.
In 2000, Chen Rujia finally returned to Guangzhou and appeared at a concert.
Although he has made a comeback, the music scene has long been human, and he cannot replicate the glory of 7 years ago.
During a commercial performance, Chen Rujia and Nicholas Tse appeared at the scene at the same time.
However, the latter's offer was far beyond his reach.
So sometimes he also said that if he hadn't left at that time, he didn't know what it would be like now.
In fact, the years when Chen Rujia faded out of the music scene were the years when popular music developed rapidly in China.
He left at his peak and in fact missed an opportunity for better development.
However, Chen Rujia is not too attached to becoming popular.
He once said that when he sings, he sings to people who like him.
However, in the spring of 2005, the news of Chen Rujia's death suddenly came out.
All kinds of news are overwhelming, and the outside world cannot find the parties to come out to clarify.
Subsequently, the media obtained a definite message by visiting the public security department and the funeral home.
Chen Rujia has indeed passed away, and it has been a full year since his death.
On January 12, 2004, he died suddenly at home in Guangzhou.
Afterwards, the outside world speculated about why the Chen family wanted to hide the news that he had died.
It has been pointed out that Chen Rujia may have died suddenly because of drug use.
Subsequently, in April of that year, Chen Rujia's former friend Ding Feng,
After obtaining the consent of the Chen family, the cause of Chen Rujia's death was announced to the outside world, and he died of a myocardial infarction.
The day Chen Rujia died coincided with the funeral day of Hong Kong star Mei Yanfang.
He regarded Mei Yanfang as an idol, and the family sat around watching TV.
The family did not hear what he said vaguely, and then Chen Rujia fell to the ground.
By the time the doctor arrived, Chen Rujia had already died.
Chen Rujia is the youngest child in the family, and Chen's mother cannot accept the fact that the white-haired person sends the black-haired person.
Therefore, after Chen Rujia's death, the family did not want to be disturbed, so they did not publicize it.
As for the drug abuse rumored by the outside world, Ding Feng did not find that he had taken drugs based on his experience with Chen over the years.
A singer who could have had better prospects for development has hurried away in a year of confusion.
Since childhood, I have loved singing, and in my short life, I have always regarded singing as my dream.
The music scene has left Chen Rujia's voice, and his purity of singing has also made this musical dream a masterpiece.
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