In the Chinese music scene in the 1990s, Hong Kong was undoubtedly the only one, with a large number of singers such as Tam Wing Lin, Cheung Kwok Wing, Jacky Cheung, Mui Yan Fang, Andy Lau and Li Keqin very active, and presented a lot of popular golden songs.
In the neighboring Guangdong song world, there is also a singer rising.
Although he cannot be compared with the aforementioned superstars in terms of popularity and influence, he is no less than singing.
He is known as the "King of Cantonese Love Songs" by fans, and he is Chen Rujia, a singer who was active in the Guangdong music scene from 1987 to 2003.
Sadly, on January 12, 2004, he left this world forever. According to the hospital, he died of a myocardial infarction.
What is very emotional is that a few days before his death, he was still performing and singing. It can only be said that the accident came too suddenly.
During that time, the Chinese music scene lost several superstars in succession:
(1) On April 1, 2003, Zhang Guorong committed suicide by jumping off a building due to a depression attack.
(2) On December 30, 2003, Mei Yanfang died of illness.
(3) On January 12, 2004, Chen Rujia died of myocardial infarction.
In just 10 months, three singers have left this world, which is indeed a major loss to the Chinese music scene, which has made many fans heartbroken.
When Chen Rujia's singing career was in full swing in the 1990s, she had retired for many years, and then died of illness not long after her comeback, which made people sigh.
Today I will tell the story of this Guangdong love song king.
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In 1964, Chen Rujia was born in Liwan, Guangzhou. Like everyone else, he went to elementary school and junior high school, and did not receive professional musical training, but only learned the most basic vocal music theory and singing in the school's music class.
But it was this one of the few opportunities to learn and perform that made him gradually like music.
Chen Rujia felt that she was born for music. At that time, he could not afford to buy an expensive tape recorder, but he also tried to collect all the information related to music and singing, and usually whispered when he had the opportunity.
He did have a talent for singing and a passion for singing. Love is the best teacher, who says it's not?
After he finished high school, before he turned twenty, he began to break out of society.
With his love of singing and his obsessive voice, he successfully joined a music troupe in Guangzhou's Yuexiu District.
The music troupe often performed in various parts of Guangdong, and the young Chen Rujia also followed, and each performance was only a few yuan. Chen Rujia didn't care about how much money he had, what he wanted was a singing opportunity.
From the beginning of the accompaniment, to the later gradually pick the beams, solo singing. Chen Rujia did not shy away from the stage, he enjoyed the feeling of being in the spotlight on the stage.
It is also this experience that chen Rujia learned a lot of stage performance experience, which is of great benefit to his future development.
A year later, the fledgling Chen Rujia left the orchestra with a low income. He sang in some bars and restaurants in Zhuhai, and his income began to increase.
Sometimes there are dozens of dollars for a night of performances and tips, which was a very high income in the 80s. His pocket began to bulge.
After singing in Zhuhai for a while, gradually gaining fame, people in nearby Shenzhen, Foshan, Guangzhou and other places have heard that "there is a restaurant singer in Zhuhai, surnamed Chen, who sings almost well."
A restaurant owner in Shenzhen also heard these rumors, and he took a boat from Shenzhen across the Pearl River to Zhuhai, went to the place where Chen Rujia sang, and sat down below to listen to him sing.
Chen Rujia's gentle singing voice was like a lark in the valley, and the restaurant owner listened to it like a mesmerized.
That night, he deliberately found Chen Rujia and invited him to sing in his restaurant in Shenzhen, with a monthly salary of 2,000 yuan.
He advised Chen Rujia: "You sing here in Zhuhai, your income is unstable, come to my restaurant in Shenzhen to sing, I will give you 2,000 yuan a month." And Shenzhen is next to Hong Kong, after you sing Cantonese songs will easily be popular in Hong Kong, Zhang Guorong Tan Yonglin They all know you. ”
Chen Rujia was persuaded by the boss.
He also often pays attention to the situation in the Hong Kong music scene, which is currently staging the drama of "Tan Zhang Fighting for Hegemony", and Tam Wing Lin and Cheung Kwok Wing are in the limelight.
Chen Rujia knew that going to Shenzhen was indeed more promising than staying in Zhuhai, so he went to Shenzhen and became a professional resident singer.
It is true that gold will shine everywhere, and Chen Rujia, with his pleasant singing voice, soon made a name for himself in Shenzhen.
Many people come to listen to him sing, and he has many hardcore fans in Shenzhen, Dongguan, Hong Kong and Guangzhou. Of course, the restaurant also prospered and prospered, and the discerning restaurant owner was very happy, glad that he had caught a thousand-mile horse.
People come to visit, including in Hong Kong, and many people have become his die-hard fans, coming to support him regularly.
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Chen Rujia is naturally not willing to be only a resident singer in a restaurant, and he is also looking for his own opportunities.
He actively signed up for various singing competitions held in Shenzhen and Guangzhou, and won several singing championships and the most popular male singer.
Chen Rujia is red!
Shenzhen TV also found this dark horse, began to seek cooperation with Chen Rujia, and recorded a personal album "Chen Rujia 88 Popular".
Also because of the recording of this album, Shenzhen TV's choreographer Zheng Puyu and Chen Rujia needed to have frequent contact and exchange views with each other at work, and over time, she found herself in love with the melancholy and talented Chen Rujia.
Chen Rujia felt Zheng Puyu's strong love, which made him a little overwhelmed. Because at this time he already had a girlfriend named Wu Yanyun, she was a dancer, with a graceful and colorful body, Chen Rujia was very obsessed with her.
Chen Rujia took the initiative to alienate Zheng Puyu and pretended not to understand the winks thrown by Zheng Puyu.
Zheng Puyu is also a woman who dares to love and dare to hate, she saw Chen Rujia did not understand the style, decided to bravely confess. But Chen Rujia was not moved, and clearly told her that he already had a sweetheart, so let's be ordinary friends.
In order to cut off Zheng Puyu's thoughts, Chen Rujia once said in public: "I like a gentle and considerate girl who is younger than me", and when Zheng Puyu next to her heard this sentence, her eyes darkened, because her age was two years older than Chen Rujia.
In early 1990, Zheng Puyu went to Europe to study under the arrangement of her family, and she told Chen Rujia before leaving. She hoped that Chen Rujia could keep herself.
Chen Rujia just wished her all the best, and had no intention of staying.
In this way, with unwillingness and loss, Zheng Puyu left him and went abroad. By the time they met again, it was a distant decade later.
Chen Rujia thought that zheng puyu was gone, and the relationship between him and Wu Yanyun would be stronger, but he did not expect that because there were fewer and more, their relationship would gradually become estranged.
Finally, one day, Chen Rujia received a call from Wu Yanyun.
She said: "Let's break up, I have come to Hong Kong to work, you have to take good care of yourself in the future, I wish you all the best." ”
Chen Rujia was a little stunned, and he remembered that he had wished Zheng Puyu all the best before.
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Although Chen Rujia has suffered repeated setbacks in terms of feelings, his career in singing has developed well.
The famous arranger Fu Lin tailored "Love in the Old Garden" for Chen Rujia based on his voice. At the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in 1989, Chen Rujia relied on this song to become popular all over the country, north and south, inside and outside the Great Wall.
At this time, he was 25 years old.
In the same year, he won the honorary title of "National Top Ten Singers" and became a leading figure in the Guangdong song world.
The leading figure can not only have a masterpiece, Chen Rujia sang a song "May you keep your heart", but it is a pity that it did not become red.
In 1992, Hong Kong singer Huang Kaiqin paid for the rights to the Cantonese version of the song and renamed it "Late Autumn", which became a hit. This song has also become a very classic song.
In this sense, Chen Rujia is the original singer of "Late Autumn".
In addition, Chen Rujia also has very classic songs such as "Crooked Moon", "Dusk Cattle Grazing", "Downstream And Reverse Current", which were also very popular at that time, and were all representative works of Chen Rujia.
During this time, Chen Rujia took advantage of the opportunity to launch several of his own solo albums, all of which were sold well, and Luoyang paper was expensive for a while.
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Before leaving Chen Rujia, Zheng Puyu acted as an assistant, helping him deal with the size of the matter, so that he could rest assured that he could focus on singing.
After she went to Europe, Chen Rujia needed to personally deal with a lot of chores and personal contacts, and there were some people around him who used his fame to desperately earn money, which made him feel very tired.
Some newspapers, magazines and anecdotal rumors began to spread rumors, saying a lot of negative news about him.
At the end of 1993, Chen Rujia, who was deeply bored, went to Australia with her family. He wants to stay away from the right and wrong place of the entertainment industry and stop paying attention to those troubles.
Chen Rujia spent a few years of leisure in Australia.
In the Guangdong song world, taking advantage of the time when Chen Rujia left, Mao Ning sang "The Sound of the Waves" and "Late Autumn", and Yang Yuying sang songs such as "Gently Tell You" and quickly became popular and became a new generation of singers.
It was not until 1997 that Chen Rujia decided to return to China and sing again.
But at this time, the changes in the domestic music scene have long been turned upside down:
The four kings of Hong Kong, Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Li Ming and Aaron Kwok, have risen in an all-round way.
Mao Ning, Liu Huan, and Na Ying in the interior are also in the limelight.
Chen Rujia, who had disappeared for several years, seemed to have been forgotten.
Once, he and Nicholas Tse appeared in the same place to perform, and as a result, fans shouted Tse's name one after another, and no one came to support Chen Rujia.
At this time, Tse Tingfeng was just a 17-year-old teenager, and Chen Rujia only knew that he was the son of Hong Kong star Xie Xian, and he did not expect to be so popular.
Chen Rujia felt very lost, if in the past few years, it should have been herself who enjoyed the biggest cheers from the fans. And now, I have become a marginal person.
In this way, Chen Rujia's comeback was not successful, he has become a second-tier singer, and his popularity and influence have dropped a lot compared with previous years.
In 2000, Chen Rujia participated in Hunan Satellite TV's "Happy Base Camp", but did not expect that the program team secretly arranged for Zheng Puyu to meet with him.
Chen Rujia was surprised and delighted, since Zheng Puyu went to Europe in 1990, the two have not seen each other for 10 years.
At this time, Zheng Puyu was married, and the 36-year-old Chen Rujia was still single.
The two had a thousand words, and they didn't know where to start, so they could only cry and hug each other, all without saying a word.
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On January 12, 2004, Chen Rujia died of a myocardial infarction. At that time, his family did not announce his death, and not many people in society knew that he had left this world. It's a quiet departure.
It was not until 2005 that the news of Chen Rujia had died began to circulate in society, a full year after his death.
The news of his death did not stir up a big wave, only some old fans in Guangzhou and Shenzhen spontaneously organized to pay tribute to him and present him with a few bouquets of chrysanthemums.
The Scythians are gone, and only his singing is still circulating in this world. Perhaps for Chen Rujia, this is enough.