Phoenix, phoenix, auspicious.
(i)
In the middle of summer in the southern country, Xu Xiaofeng, a hall-class singer who is nearly a year old, has opened 23 consecutive "Golden Radiance" concerts (including the supplementary performance on August 14) at the Hung Hom Stadium in Hong Kong, which is another major event in the Chinese music scene after the 35th anniversary concert of Feng Feifei in 2003 and the "Continue to Smile" concert in 2004.
As early as 1995, after eighteen concerts in the Lunar New Year, Xu Xiaofeng temporarily left the Hong Kong stage and took a ten-year break. In addition to the "Night of Return" party and the National Day gala in 1997, she rarely appeared in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, and then went to Atlantic City in the United States in the millennium, sang three times on stage to entertain overseas fans, and soon returned to retirement.
Another five years have passed, and now it has returned to the stage, immediately setting off a boom in ticket snatching, and it is difficult to meet the audience's wishes for four times.
2005 Xu Xiaofeng's "Golden Radiance" concert has come to a successful end, people eagerly expect that this is just an ellipsis, and sincerely hope that Xu Xiaofeng will not retire for a long time after bringing people long-lost spiritual enjoyment and true feelings. In these twenty-three days, so many spectators poured out of nowhere, rushing to Hung Hom like a festival, and many fans watched many shows in a row, and had sincere exchanges with the real singers in their hearts with laughter and tears. Xu Xiaofeng did not invite regular guests, every night she faced more than 10,000 enthusiastic audiences in a full state, one person sang for three hours, singing and dancing, talking and laughing, mobilizing the atmosphere and mastering the rhythm, which put forward extremely high requirements for the singer's physical strength and spirit, experience and quality. And from makeup preparation to the end of the meeting summary, and then meet with the fans waiting outside, it takes more than one o'clock in the morning to leave, the time span is as long as six or seven hours, Xu Xiaofeng is almost a year of flowers, twenty-three days are basically late and so, can not but be said to be a miracle.
Therefore, it is normal for concert levels to fluctuate occasionally; and she has been accustomed to retiring and resting at home for many years, and once she comes back, it is completely understandable that she may not be able to compare with the heyday of more than a decade ago. In fact, in such a marathon concert, on this huge stage surrounded by people on all sides, every night to maintain a stable high standard, looking at the music world (whether popular or ethnic, bel canto), no one can do it. Xu Xiaofeng can't either, but she does her best to provide the best performance for the audience, with rich experience and the quality of old artists, calmly coping with any accidents that occur on the stage, and repeatedly turning mistakes and dangers into invisible.
One of the most noteworthy is the seventh event of the concert due to "loss of voice" and "waist chopping". A similar situation occurred once twenty years ago, when the whole performance was completed, Xu Xiaofeng was not satisfied with the singing standard and offered to perform for free for the audience in the best condition. This time the situation is much more serious, Xu Xiaofeng said at the beginning that the sound condition is not ideal, to ask the audience to be more inclusive, singing to the halfway time has felt that the effect of singing again will only get worse and worse, and even there is a danger of "losing voice", neither can not stop the audience and can not explain to themselves, Xu Xiaofeng resolutely decided to interrupt the singing, free of charge for the audience to add a show. Afterwards, some viewers said that Xiaofeng was a fake singer, and everyone understood and supported it, but the organizer said that Xu Xiaofeng himself would never agree to this.
Do not cheat, this is the bottom line of dedicated artists, old artists have a sincere attitude towards the audience and art, and also know how to respect themselves and cherish the reputation of art. For Xiao Feng's decision, the audience held a warm applause, and then quietly left, no complaints or blames, some just understanding and pity, support and love, and a large number of fans who cared about her waited outside the field until late at night. The next day, all the major newspapers reported on the matter intensively, mostly expressing concern for Xiao Feng's body and understanding her decision. This kind of love and cherishing is the best reward for Xiao Feng's forty years of singing with her heart, communicating with music fans, and sincerely serving the arts and being sincere.
(ii)
Forty years ago, at the end of 1965, Xu Xiaofeng, who was about to turn seventeen, participated in the first "Hong Kong Warbler" singing contest, and the following year stood out among 2,000 people for singing a cover of Bai Guang's song "Fire of Love", winning the championship and receiving a record contract, and has since gained the reputation of "Little White Light". In 1968, Xu Xiaofeng officially joined the Cinderellas Ballroom, began his career as a rush singer in nightclubs and dance halls, and frequently participated in club tours in Nanyang. After that, he was promoted by the famous conductor Mr. Wen Zhengbo and began recording records in 1970.
Forty years of wind and rain, Xu Xiaofeng's thick and low voice, graceful and generous style, noble and solemn shape, elegant and generous demeanor, humble and easy style, calm and calm attitude, has been loved and admired by generations, and has also been recognized and praised by Yao Li, Wu Yingyin, Bai Guang and other predecessors. As early as the 1980s, she was affectionately called "Little Sister Feng" by her colleagues and music fans in the music industry, and like "Sister A" Wang Mingquan and "Fat Sister" Shen Dianxia, she is the golden sign of Hong Kong's performing arts industry for decades, and she is also the eternal spokesperson for the voice of Hong Kong citizens.
Standing in the music scene for forty years, releasing more than sixty records, countless classics and good songs, the people's style is well-known, Xu Xiaofeng can be described as a superstar among superstars and an evergreen tree in an evergreen tree. Her elegant song shirt is golden and brilliant, the atmospheric typhoon is radiant, the face is like a full moon with spring wind, hair like a wave cirrus clouds, bright eyes with a smile, willow waist slightly pendulum, she is a natural style, full of the charm of the old nobility, so to the stage, the atmosphere and charm of the pressure field is unparalleled, raising hands and feet, a smile, but also a graceful manner, symbolizing such a song and dance, prosperous and infinite era. But she is calm and solemn, and does not get caught up in the frivolity and vulgarity of the popular.
Unlike Rowan, Guorong, Top 100 and Ah Mei, Xu Xiaofeng is not the kind of star artist who was born to go to the stage, but she also has an excellent sense of stage. In life, she is dignified, slowly talking, slowly doing things, but on the stage she is witty and funny, witty, and the atmosphere is lively and warm, but she does not lose her measure. She also often makes slang and even very beautiful jokes, but it does not make people feel abrupt or disrespectful.
As a Hong Kong musician in the article "The Long Road of Xu Xiaofeng" said, Xiao Feng wore a Bobo skirt and danced tango in MTV, pushing down young dance partners, the neon flashes on the stage, if you change to another singer, you will feel that the stage design is tacky, but she stands there, giving people the feeling of arriving at Broadway or Paramount. It is true that watching her singing special, sometimes throw an eye, make a gesture, make a gesture, to change others will feel "riot", and even feel "demon" and "evil", but she will not, because her whole feeling has a righteous atmosphere, very generous, she can hold on. In the interaction with fans and guests at the concert, she will naturally and casually talk and laugh at any time in a specific situation, and even say some very charlatan and funny words, but even slang jokes are not excessive because of her proper handling. And these are based on her generous and upright image, elegant and calm demeanor as the premise and background.
(iii)
Unlike those multi-habitat stars who can sing and act and host, Xu Xiaofeng is an artist who stands firm in the art world by singing alone. She also claimed to lack talent for acting, and only knew how to sing seriously all her life. She has been singing like this for decades, singing the voices of countless listeners, becoming the voice of the times and the voice of the global Chinese world. The famous Fengfan website "Xu Xiaofeng Global Song Friends Network" (http://www.paulatsui.com/) published an article written by netizens "The Fire of Love Has Been Lit for Forty Years, Singing All the Sorrows and Joys of the World", summarizing the reason why Xu Xiaofeng's singing voice is permanent and moving, at least the following three reasons:
First, her unique low magnetic voice, like a mellow wine, the older the better, the tone is charming, the song is gripping, and the elegance is extraordinary;
Second, she speaks clearly (especially in Cantonese), constructs sentences smoothly and naturally and emotionally, and the effect of contrasting strength and weakness is handled just right and naturally;
Third, she pronounces herself accurately, breathes to extremely high levels (it is difficult to hear her breathing), and exhibits first-class "skill". Moreover, she held concerts and sang famous Chinese and foreign songs, including Cantonese opera, Peking Opera, Huangmei tune, Yue opera, Hakka mountain song, Shanxi drum music, Chinese era song, Chinese local folk song minor, Japanese art song, Malay folk song, English golden song... Her singing range is vast, and her concerts maintain the same standard as the studio, adding a lot of addictive "magic strokes".
On another famous Feng fan website "Can't Forget Xu Xiaofeng" (http://www.paulatsuifans.com/), fans have spontaneously written a heart song, or narrative, or lyrical, or express their deep love for her, or lyrical, or lyrical because of her people and her songs caused by life fun, life feelings; there are also many fans who sing a large number of cover Songs to pay tribute to her, which has become a column of "Good Songs for Little Fengjie", of which the most covered is of course "Down the Current Against the Current". " Behind the Wedding Dress", "Caprice", "Can't Love" and other classic songs, but there is no shortage of works such as "Autumn Wind and Autumn Rain" and "Reunion is a Dream", which are little known but have a high style.
Xu Xiaofeng has countless personal golden songs, with diverse styles, elegant and customary, difficult and easy, and different shorts, so it can often stimulate people's interest in cover songs. The number of people who have covered Xiao Feng's songs for decades is really innumerable. The list is as follows:
"Wind and Rain On the Same Road" (Ye Liyi, Huang Xingxiu, Zhen Ni, Huang Yaoming, Lei Anna, Liu Yali, Lu Shan, Liu Fengping, Chen Huilin, He Yunshi), Capriccio (Xu Guanjie, Zhen Ni, Tan Yonglin, Zhong Zhentao, Zhang Guorong, Chen Baiqiang, Mei Yanfang, Xia Shaosheng, Fat Ma), "Down the River" (Luo Wen, Cai Guoquan, Au Ruiqiang, Tan Yonglin, Zhang Delan, Mei Yanfang, Youya, Lu Shan), "Helplessness" (Teresa Teng, Zhou Runfa, Zhou Huajian, Liu Yali, Zhang Weiwen, Chen Huixian), "Season of Wind" (Mei Yanfang, Lai Rui-en, Liu Yali, Li Huimin, Zhang Weiwen), "Joyful Yangyang" (Luo Wen, Tan Yonglin, Twins and other imperial singers), "Life is full of hope" (Guan Zhengjie, Tan Yonglin, Zhen Ni), "Tycoon" (Ye Liyi, Zhang Guorong, Huang Yaoming), "Behind the Wedding Dress" (Liu Yali, Lu Shan, Zheng Xiuwen), "Three Points, Seven Points" (Tan Yonglin, Kaoruni), "The Wind and Rain" (Zhang Guorong, Andy Lau), "The Long Road Ahead" (Guan Zhengjie, Chen Huilin), "The Back of the Starlight" (Lin Zixiang, Lu Shan), Late Autumn LiLoutou (Ou Ruiqiang, Lu Shan), Telephone (Xu Guanjie), City Footprints (Ye Liyi), "Old Things Go with Dreams" (Guan Zhengjie), "The Call in the Wind" (Guan Zhengjie's song "Little One Home"), "Who Owes Whom" (Zhang Guorong), "Love Is Better Than Rain" (Mei Yanfang), "Sigh" ("Mei Yanfang"), "A Tale of Two Cities" (Wang Jie), "People Like Waves" (He Guoxi)...
In addition, Lu Shan in Hong Kong, Gu Xuan in Guangzhou and others all started by singing Xiaofeng songs, and Zhang Feng, Chen Rujia and others all had the reputation of "Guangzhou Xu Xiaofeng" in the 1980s. By the way, Chen Rujia, an excellent singer who died last year, sang Xiaofeng's songs in male voices, which was quite capable of gaining its charm, and I personally felt that it was much stronger than Gu Xuan, who deliberately imitated Xiaofeng.
(iv)
Xu Xiaofeng himself has countless classic songs, but he also dares to challenge himself, singing other people's famous songs, and the second degree of creation can be renewed, even better than the original singing, the most typical of which is the cover singing of Gu Mei's "No Love", Wang Mingquan's "Brave Chinese" and Xu Guanjie's "Voice of the Prodigal Son", in addition to Zheng Shaoqiu's "Oath to Go to the Sword Mountain", Guan Zhengjie's "Love in the Snow", Lin Zixiang's "In the Middle of the Water", Tan Yonglin's "Love in Late Autumn" and "Can't Forget You", Ye Qianwen's "Evening Wind", Tong Ange's "Who Can Predict" (Cantonese version of "A Heart-pouring Face"), Fei Xiang's "How I Cried" (Cantonese version of "What Year and Month") and so on.
Other cover songs can basically not lose to the original songs, such as the cover of Xu Guanjie's "Tower Lingyun", Rowan's "The Price of Love", Xandura's "Laughing Karma", Kaoru Ni's "Smile in the Wind", Chen Lisi's "Ask Me", Brother Xinni's "Music and Singing", Ouyang Feifei's "Passionate Desert", "Firebird" and "Yearning", Mei Yanfang's "Like Water Flowing Year", Zhang Delan's "Midnight Guitar", Huang Yingying's "Cloud River", Zhen Ni's "Drizzle Mengmeng Remembers the Year", Youya's "A Curtain of Dreams" and so on.
However, Xu Xiaofeng's cover song is not as perfect and impeccable as Teresa Teng's, of course, this is related to the selection of songs. Xiaofeng's cover works are still inferior to the original songs, but the number is very small, such as cover singing Teresa Teng's "Unforgettable First Love", the style is obviously not right; the cover of Pan Xiuqiong's "Lover's Tears", the understanding and interpretation of the song is not enough, singing is a little dumb, the whole song style is too stagnant; especially the cover of Qi Yu's "Answer" and "Olive Tree" (Cantonese version of "Happiness Road"), may be Xiaofeng's most failed of all cover songs, she is really not suitable for singing Qi's songs. However, Xu Xiaofeng dared to sing the people's artist Guo Lanying's "Nanniwan" full of revolutionary enthusiasm into a melancholy "Reunion" without a reason, and the new youth Cui Jian's bitter and sullen "Nothing" into the helpless "What About True Love", which has both courage and success.
It is worth mentioning that Xu Xiaofeng and Teresa Teng's many songs with the same repertoire can basically compete with each other, such as "The Moon Represents My Heart" Lijun version is of course a masterpiece, but the Xiaofeng version is also a new face; they have all covered Zhou Xuan's "Tianya Song Girl" and "He Rijun Comes Again", Li Xianglan's "Hate Not Meeting And Not Marrying", singing the style of different ages, it can be said that each has its own strengths, as for the cover of "Ten Sighs" of White Light and Wu Yingyin's "Bright Moon Thousand Miles of Sending Love", it should be Xiao Feng more suitable;
Xiao Feng also sang Li Jun's "Where is the Return Journey", "Where the Old Dream Is Found", and the Cantonese version of "Cooking Smoke Rises" "Miss You Every Day" and "Drunken Tango" Cantonese version of "Wipe a Little Sorrow", not inferior to the original song, personally prefer Xiao Feng's interpretation; Li Xianglan's "Night To Xiang", in Li Jun singing is the kind of intoxicating round and bright run, Xiaofeng 84 special edition and Lin Zixiang sing this song, the part she sang is really gentle and elegant, with the same heavy elegance as the lonely nobles in the old days, no one can compare; as for "No Love", , "Love in the Snow", "Voice of the Prodigal Son", etc., that Xiaofeng surpassed Lijun absolutely did not have to say.
Very interesting, the two major singers, Lijun only covered Xiao Feng's "Helpless", Xiao Feng but covered Li Jun's famous songs, including the style is not in line, obviously inferior to the original song of "Unforgettable First Love", can it be said that Li Jun is more cautious, the style is not the right way to work will not be easy to try; Xiao Feng is more enthusiastic in expanding the song road, willing to do, the courage to try. Reflected in the person, perhaps Lijun is also more reserved and careful, and Xiao Feng is frank and casual, thick and leafy, and can be opened.
(5)
Xu Xiaofeng has sung a large number of old songs from the 30s and 40s, especially white light works, such as "Sigh Ten Voices", "If There Is No You", "Unknown Qi Luoxiang", "Haunting Old Dreams", "The Fire of Love", "False Canon" and "What Words", etc., in addition to Zhou Xuan's "Tianya Song Girl", "Flower Good Moon Full Moon" and "Zhong Shan Chun", Wu Yingyin's "Bright Moon Thousand Miles Send Lovesickness", "I Have a Love" and "Listen to My Detailed Complaints", Yao Li's "Autumn Nostalgia" and "Peach Blossom River", Li Xianglan's "Hate Not Meeting And Not Marrying" and "Three Years" , Gong Qiuxia's "Qiushui Yiren", Li Lili's "Sister I Love You", Cui Ping's "How Precious Tonight", Zhang Lu's "Meditation and So on", Ling Bo's "Suburban Road", etc., although they dare not say that they are super seniors, but because of the fullness and strength of their voices, they can retract and release, and the calm and long breath can also sing their own unique vocal charm.
For example, in many versions of "Bright Moon Thousand Miles to Send Lovesickness", Xiaofeng version can say a "medium" word, calm and plain, not happy or sad, not complaining or hurting; Xiaofeng's version of "Fire of Love", "Without You" and "False Canon", compared with the original song, less white light style "wild" and "wave", more Xiaofeng's unique "strong" and "positive", but the style of white light is more in line with the requirements of the song, that kind of wave is really unique; but Xiaofeng version and Pan Xiuqiong's version of "Unknowing Qi Luoxiang" is comparable to the predecessors.
People say that Cai Qin is the terminator of the old song cover, which is not to understand the wind god and charm of those old songs, Cai's cover song certainly has its exquisite, in place, but in essence it is a pseudo-classical packaged by the trendy fashion style, her kind of "old" and "elegant" are made, and she sings a little "stuffy" and "board", listening to it feels panicked; Xiao Feng and Old Pan naturally bring out an old style, so elegant boudoir style rhymes are flowing out of the body, Only then did they truly interpret and convey the charm and style of the old era of such a night and night song. Cai, Xu and Pan all sing old songs, and the difference in temperament is like mechanical products and handicrafts, which are completely two feelings.
In general, Xu Xiaofeng's songs are typical "big road goods", the audience is very wide, there are a large number of songs that are easy to sing, and people like to hear and listen, but also a lot of high and low Yangchun white snow works, the content is extremely rich, the style is extremely diverse, from the children's love to the feelings of the family and the country, from the small bridge flowing water to the desert wind and smoke, from the people's livelihood slang to the classical charm, from the song and dance to the loose board slow song, or holding a heavy and calm, or cheerful, or deep love, or grand and fierce, in short, elegant and customary appreciation, young and old. Its fans range from children and teenagers to elderly people, from ordinary people and peddlers to famous and prominent people and business and political leaders, and have extremely wide representation.
Author: Snow Mountain Boat