I think most of us still vividly remember that in the early 80s, when we first heard popular songs, the lyrical melody, the beautiful singing voice shook our hearts.
Before that, we listened more to high-pitched revolutionary songs. Therefore, when we heard songs such as "Nostalgia" sung by Li Guyi, "Beautiful Heart" sung by Zhu Fengbo, "Sun Island" sung by Zheng Xulan, and "Jungang Night" sung by Su Xiaoming, our eardrums and hearts suffered a huge impact. Many friends, the first feeling after hearing these songs is: too good to listen to.
However, strictly speaking, these songs are not really popular songs, they are at best transitional works when we move towards popular music. Li Guyi, Zhu Fengbo, Zheng Xulan and Su Xiaoming are not popular singers, at that time, their names will be preceded by the title of soprano singer or mezzo-soprano singer.
The real sense of pop singers, we first listened to Teresa Teng and Liu Wenzheng, and later from the Haizheng Song and Dance Troupe out of a small Cheng Lin, she launched an album "XiaoLuo" in 1980, the singing method she used, and Li Guyi, Zhu Fengbo and other predecessors are completely different, what she used is the real sense of popular singing.
After the launch of "Little Conch" on the market, it was loved by many fans. Since then, mainland pop singers have sprung up in large numbers.
But then there was a very interesting phenomenon, that is, the singers, fans and listeners of these popular songs were very fond of them. Because their singing is intimate and natural, pay attention to the expression of emotions, and the performance form is also popular with the audience, unlike the previous actors who always "habitually hold it". So almost all of a sudden, pop songs swept across the land like a whirlwind. Curiously, however, many professionals in the music industry scoff at pop singers, believing that they are not doing their jobs. Many singers, including Li Guyi, Su Xiaoming, Cheng Lin, etc., have been severely criticized.
Yet pop music is still coming at us with an unstoppable surge. In the early 1980s, those singers, with their singing, brought us a new feeling, let us experience lightness and pleasure through music.
It was they who made us feel the true charm of pop songs for the first time.
But decades later, most of these singers have been forgotten by us. This cannot but be said to be a pity.
So, today, Yaqing would like to reminisce with you about the ten pop singers who emerged in the mainland music scene in the early 80s. Let's relive the feelings they have brought to us, and explore their development and changes over the years, and the current situation. I wonder if you remember them?
1. Cheng Lin
Cheng Lin was born on October 15, 1967 in Luoyang, Henan. Her parents were both Yu opera actors, and later founded the Luoyang Yu Opera Art School. Cheng Lin has heard about it since childhood and has developed a strong interest in music. She performed on stage at the age of 8 and was admitted to the Haizheng Song and Dance Troupe as an erhu player at the age of 11. In 1980, by chance, she sang a song "Little Conch" for the first time as a singer, and as a result, her natural and fresh singing style was immediately welcomed by the audience.
Since then, Xiao Chenglin, who is only 13 years old, has gone farther and farther on the road of singing popular songs. I think we still remember the songs she sang in albums such as "Little Conch" and "Little Rocker of Childhood" - "Wind, You Blow", "Spring Bend", "Willow Flute", "Little Boy", "Lilac Tree" and so on. None of these songs express love, but Cheng Lin brings us an incomparably fresh and beautiful feeling with her soft and childlike voice. Personally, I love the album "Little Rocker of Childhood".
Since then, Cheng Lin has sung many popular songs, such as "New Shoes and Old Shoes", "Panda Mimi", "If the Wine Is Sold Without", "XintianYou", etc., which are very popular. However, with the emergence of singers such as Mao Amin and Wei Wei, she seems to have some lack of stamina. Except for the occasional appearance on CCTV Spring Evening, we rarely see her performance figure again, and the new music works have not produced much influence.
However, over the years, Cheng Lin has not given up her musical dreams, and she is constantly exploring new ways of singing. In March this year, he also re-sang the song "While You're Young" at a small concert, and his voice was still so sweet and the way he performed was still so lively. Although she is 54 years old this year, her whole state is very relaxed.
2. Duan Pin Zhang
Nowadays, there are not many friends who can remember Duan Pinzhang, a female singer, right?
But her songs must be deeply imprinted in everyone's minds. Because, her singing is very distinctive, very soft, lyrical, like a natural sound, but also evocative.
In the early 1980s, many singers had imitated Teresa Teng, but the only one who could really do it was Duan Pinzhang. Her songs such as "Mu Gui", "Years Like a Stream" (the theme song of the TV film "Chinese Movie Star"), "Tell You, Tell Me" and other songs are still sung in our ears to this day.
Duan Pinzhang is a native of Anshan, Liaoning, but her singing career began in Dalian. In the early 1980s, she entered the Dalian Song and Dance Troupe and soon stood out with her unique voice and won the title of "Mainland Teresa Teng". I remember that in 1984, she held a "Duan Pinzhang Solo Concert" at the Shanghai Concert Hall, and then in the album "Mary" of which Zhou Feng was the lead singer, she also sang 5 songs.
In 1989, Duan Pinzhang entered the Second Artillery Literary troupe as a singing actor. At the same time, he sang many interludes from film and television dramas. Because I personally like old movies very much, so I loved to watch the TV movie "Chinese Movie Star" very much, and the interlude in the film made me remember it vividly - "The years are like a stream, the past is leisurely, and the time is not turned back..." At the beginning of the song, did zhao Dan, Yu Lan, Wang Xingang and other film performance artists of the older generation appear in front of your eyes? Did you quickly remember this beautiful melody?
Duan Pinzhang was also very popular in the 80s, but when she became popular, she chose to retire and went to Japan. In Japan, she has also been very low-key and rarely appears, so for so many years, many fans did not know where she went, thinking that she had disappeared. In fact, she occasionally participates in some performances. Some time ago, he also appeared in a show. Compared to when she was younger, she didn't seem to have changed much, and the whole person seemed very quiet and calm. When asked about her life over the years, she replied that she had a good life and would sing in a comeback if she had the chance.
3. Zhou Feng
The name Zhou Feng is the common memory of many fans, right? A lot of people fall in love with pop music because of his songs, right?
Especially for viewers who have watched TV programs such as "Kyushu Fangyuan" and "Family Fun", how can they forget his youthful and energetic face and innocent and sweet singing?
Saying that Zhou Feng was a top idol singer in the early 80s and a representative of the "small fresh meat" of that era, I don't think anyone will object, right?
Zhou Feng, a native of Bengbu, Anhui Province, was born in 1961, entered the Anhui Provincial Art School at the age of 7, entered the Haizheng Cultural and Labor Troupe as a dancer at the age of 17, and came to Shenzhen after demobilization in 1982 and became a pop singer.
Judging from the current judging standards, Zhou Feng's singing skills are not very deep, but he is better than the characteristics of his voice, affectionate and gorgeous and magnetic, and he is also milky and milky, and he is full of youthfulness. Coupled with the fact that others were also beautiful and in line with the aesthetic standards of that era, he quickly became popular, and the albums "Eye Charm" and "Billion Emperors" were also very popular.
In particular, his songs such as "Night Shade", "Walk with Me", "Pear Blossom And Open", "Friends", "Confidant Is Difficult to Seek", "Pure Heart" and other songs quickly spread and became popular songs of that era. Until now, it has often been covered by later singers.
In fact, there were not many media reports on Zhou Feng at that time (the reason was also that he "sang the sound of jingjing and danced a rogue dance"), but the majority of fans liked him very much, including the albums he launched, which often created super high sales. However, when he was just red, he suddenly disappeared.
It wasn't until later, much later, that we learned that he had gone to London. At the end of 2003, he quietly returned to China and suddenly appeared in the concert "Moving Shenzhen" on January 2, 2004. When the fans saw him again, they were very excited. In January 2007, as a special guest, he participated in the 2006 annual award ceremony of "Pengcheng Song Flying" and sang the song "Night Shade" again.
In fact, later Zhou Feng planned to make a comeback. Because he also wrote many new songs during his time in the UK, and even completed the recording, but unexpectedly, in the spring of 2011, his mother suddenly died of illness. It was a big blow to him. Originally introverted, he gave up his plan to launch a new album, chose to run away from home, and lived in a hotel in Shenzhen.
During this time in the hotel, Zhou Feng was in contact with his family, but soon after, he left the hotel without leaving any information and ran away from home again. This time, he and his family were completely lost.
After that, Zhou Feng's family looked for him everywhere, but there was no news. On June 15, 2012, Shenzhen radio host Liu Yang posted a message through social media saying that Zhou Feng had been found and had now returned to live in the UK. However, whether the news is true or not has not been confirmed. Since then, there has been no more news of Zhou Feng on the Internet, and he is like evaporating in the human world. This is undoubtedly a pity for fans who like him.
Fourth, Shen Xiaocen
Shen Xiaocen is also a name that fans in the 80s will never forget.
In 1982, a musician named Zheng Nan wrote the lyrics of the song "Please Come to the End of the World" in the guest house of Luhuitou in Hainan, and after Shen Xiaocen sang, the song quickly spread in the north and south of the river. The fresh lyrics, the brisk melody, and Shen Xiaocen's moving singing all make fans feel refreshed.
"Please come to the end of the world" made Shen Xiaocen, who was originally unknown, suddenly become red. She then sang many songs, but none of them were as famous as "Please Come to the End of the World". So she is also known as "a singer".
Born in Shanghai in 1957, Shen Xiaocen has loved singing since childhood. After graduating from high school, her work had nothing to do with singing, and she was a mason. However, in 1979, she participated in a singer competition and sang the song "Oops Mom", which was a hit. The Shanghai Ballet then recruited her, and she became a professional singer.
From the beginning, her singing style was very different from other actors. The other actors were standing in front of the microphone singing uprightly, while she was running all over the field, singing and dancing. However, this novel way of performing is deeply loved by the audience. So although she caused a lot of controversy at that time, she still became red in the end. In 1984, she also took the song "Please come to the end of the world" on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, thus becoming the first Shanghai singer to appear on the Spring Festival Gala.
However, Shen Xiaocen also left the Chinese music scene in the early 1990s. It turned out that she had met an English man named Martin, and after the two got married, she went to Australia. She also experienced some twists and turns abroad, but eventually gained a foothold with strength, often participating in Broadway performances.
In 2008, Shen Xiaocen returned to China to participate in the "Dance Forest Conference", and last year she also participated in the 35th anniversary commemorative concert "Light "Sound" Like Shuttle" held by the Shanghai Light Music Troupe with the famous singer Zhu Fengbo. Of course, what she sang was still the song "Please Come to the End of the World". Now she is 65 years old, because she has been living abroad for many years, so she is all "foreign style", which is very different from when she first debuted.
Fifth, Zhang Xing
"A road, no trace of fallen leaves, walk past me past you..." Hearing this song, I think many people first think of fei Yuqing, but Zhang Xing. Although Fei Yuqing is the original singer of this song.
In the early 1980s, Zhang Xing was a business card that could not be ignored in the mainland pop music scene. His singing of "Late" and "One Road" were once all the rage, and they were sung everywhere in the streets and alleys. So until now, as soon as we hear the melody of these songs, we will think of many scenes in those years.
Zhang Xing was born in 1962. After graduating in 1976, he began to learn guitar playing. In 1981, he became a worker at Shanghai Qunyi Radio Factory, and in 1984, he debuted and released the album "More Than One Road to Success" and achieved great sales. He became popular because of this. However, just when Zhang Xing just stepped on the peak of his life, he was exposed by many media to interact with different women and have a bad private life. He was sentenced to 3 years in prison for "hooliganism".
After his release from prison in 1988, he released albums such as "Sun And Rain" and "Zhang Xing three years later", but it was obvious that he no longer had the style of that year. Fortunately, after this, he also performed one after another, but his influence was much less than before. In 2006, Zhang Xing was suddenly sued by a gentleman surnamed Li because Zhang Xing was in arrears with Mr. Li's house payment. As a result, he was also on the list of untrustworthy people and became an old lai.
I think that a person, after becoming famous, should pay more attention to his words and deeds and set a good example for fans who like themselves. Zhang Xing is obviously not doing too well in this regard. But after experiencing such twists and turns, he has also changed a lot. Today, he has a good life with his wife, who is 27 years younger than himself, and their children are already in their teens.
6. Lü Nianzu
"Sleeping for a hundred years, the Chinese people have gradually woken up..." In the early 80s of the last century, a Hong Kong drama of "The Great Hero Huo Yuanjia" set off a ratings boom in the mainland, achieving the effect of thousands of empty alleys, and the theme song of the play also instantly swept the streets and alleys. The singer of this song was Lu Nianzu, who was only 24 years old at the time.
Lü Nianzu is a native of Shandong and was born in 1957. When he was young, he came to Guangzhou with his parents from Dalian, Liaoning Province. In the winter of 1978, the first music café in mainland China was born in Guangzhou. And Lu Nianzu is the first singer of this music café. Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that he opened a precedent for popular music in Guangzhou.
Then he sang an interlude for "The Great Hero Huo Yuanjia" and sang the theme song for the TV series "Grace of the Earth". In 1984, together with Zhou Feng and other singers, he participated in the recording of CCTV's "Kyushu Fangyuan" program, in which he sang two songs, "Road of Hope" and "The Road in Our Hearts". In 1985, he appeared on CCTV Spring Festival Gala and sang "The Great Wall Never Falls", which made his fame reach its peak.
It seems that at that time, in the eyes of many people, pop singers were "eating youth meals", so pop singers in the 80s changed their careers after they were older. The same is true of Lü Nianzu. At that time, Guangzhou Television Station had just been established, there was a shortage of hosts, and Lu Nianzu, who had acted in dramas and could sing, became an important candidate, so he stood in front of the camera and began his anchor career.
In 2002, Lu Nianzu was transferred to the Cultural Bureau of Baiyun District, Guangzhou, and successively served as deputy director, director and party secretary. Since then, I have been away from the lens. In September 2010, Shen Xiaocen held a solo concert in Guangzhou, and Lu Nianzu appeared at the concert as a friend, but he did not expect that this would be his last appearance in front of the public.
It turned out that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer several years earlier. He died of illness on October 2, 2012 at the age of 55.
Many people who are familiar with Lu Nianzu say that he is not only a good singer, but also a good person, conscientious in his work, kind in life, kind and amiable, and is an example for many singers to learn. Unfortunately, he left too early, which made many fans who liked him feel uneasy.
7. He Liou
In 1984, we also saw the figure of Shenzhen singer He Liou in the TV show "Kyushu Fangyuan". The song "Shenzhen Love" that she sang also left a very deep impression on us. It's just that she has been very low-key for so many years, and there are few media reports, so many fans know very little about her.
He Liou is an authentic Guangzhou beauty, who worked as a singer at the Guangzhou Music Cafe with Lu Nianzu in the early 1980s. In 1983, she left Guangzhou for some special reasons and went to Shenzhen to develop, becoming the earliest running singer in Shenzhen. At that time, she had to run several yards a night, and she was very busy. Because of her beautiful appearance and sweet voice, she quickly became red.
He Liou sang in Shenzhen for a total of 7 years, and as the earliest pop singer, she made some money. Later, because her husband is a Hong Konger, she immigrated to Hong Kong in the early 1990s. She didn't have many opportunities to appear on stage in Hong Kong, so she started a small entertainment production company and became a producer. Today, she works mainly behind the scenes, but still loves to sing, but she doesn't want to miss out on any opportunity to perform.
VIII. Wang Hong
I wonder if you remember Wang Hong, the singer?
She was the female singer who sang "Blood-Stained Style" with the combat hero Xu Liang on the spring evening of CCTV in 1987.
Originally a singer of the Guangzhou Warrior Song and Dance Troupe, she came to Shenzhen in 1983 to develop and is one of the earliest music café singers in Shenzhen. Her voice is very unique, the range is wide, and the singing style is also very exciting and explosive. In 1986, she won the third prize in the professional group at the second Young Singers Grand Prix for singing "Don't Send Me Off", on a par with Mao Amin.
And in the song "Let the World Be Full of Love" sung by hundreds of singers, the loudest sentence is "Aaaah, year after year, ahah, we are moving towards tomorrow, ah, ah, year after year, ah, ah, we are moving towards tomorrow." "It was sung by her.
Since then, she has starred in the movie "Emerald Mahjong", which is one of the earliest film and television songs in the mainland.
However, she also left our sights in the 90s. It is said that she was brought to Hong Kong by Lau Ka Cheong, but the album released was unremarkable. And after the packaging, Wang Hong is also very different from the previous image, and many fans do not accept it. After that, she disappeared and was not heard from for a long time. Until 2006, CCTV's "Art Life" program held a special review program of "100 Singers Concert", and Wang Hong appeared in front of everyone again.
Later, I learned that Wang Hong had been living in Guangzhou all along, but instead of singing, she set up an advertising company. Life is still satisfactory.
9. Wu Diqing
Wu Diqing is a Wenzhou native, with a unique character of Wenzhou people, dare to break through and fight, and quite business acumen.
He was originally born into an intellectual family, and his parents hoped that he would become a teacher or scholar, but he liked to sing since he was a child, so he was admitted to the Wenzhou Song and Dance Troupe on his own initiative when he grew up. In 1983, he was seconded to the Zhejiang Provincial Song and Dance Troupe. However, he was not happy in the days of the song and dance troupe, mainly because there were too few performances, so in 1984, he still quit his job, went south to Shenzhen, Guangdong, and began to work as a resident singer in some dance halls.
In 1985, he released his debut album "Meilan Meilan I Love You", which sold more than one million on the market, and Wu Diqing became famous and immediately became a popular pop star in the 80s. Seeing that the market is good, Wu Diqing, who has business acumen, quickly launched a second album "Shenzhen Red Singer Wu Diqing Song Selection", of which songs such as "Ten Thousand Miles on the Road of Love" and "Alibaba" also resounded through the streets overnight.
Wu Diqing left his beloved music scene in the early 1990s because he discovered business opportunities with the unique keen eye of Wenzhou people, first opening the first clothing supermarket in Wuma Street, Wenzhou, and then representing many brands, including jewelry and clothing. In the business sea, he has also done a good job, and now he has become a business elite, playing a role in billionaire wealth and becoming a billionaire.
In 1998, he launched the song "Fireworks March", which won the love of the majority of fans with its moving melody and soulful singing, and also won the gold medal of the first China Tourism Song Grand Prix.
Now Wu Diqing is 60 years old, although he has not appeared in public for a long time, but we know that he is still singing, because music is his lifelong pursuit.
10. Qian Bennie
The name Qian Beini has now become unfamiliar to many old fans, right?
But in fact, in the 80s, her songs were also popular. Although she was still very young at that time, her singing voice left a deep impression on people. In particular, these songs such as "Season of the Wind", "Don't Care Too Much", "Friends Cherish" and so on, were really popular at that time.
But the fate of this girl, alas, how to say? It's hard to put into words.
She was originally from Shanghai, but grew up with her parents in Portugal and returned to Shanghai at the age of 13. Immediately arranged by her parents to participate in a child star concert held by Shanghai Television, Qian Beini was the last to appear, sang an English song, and her ethereal and innocent voice immediately attracted people's attention.
In 1985, she released Haro! The album "Danny" also takes the cover route, but songs such as "Don't Care Too Much", "A Small Umbrella", and "Season of the Wind" are sung uniquely. Her voice, sweet and free, pure and full of affection, so as soon as this album was launched, it was loved by fans, and she became a red singer. She was 15 years old.
She then went with her parents to the United States, where she met a man named Hou Wei, and that was the beginning of her nightmare.
Hou Wei was originally a drama actor, but after arriving in the United States, he did not follow the right path and specialized in some illegal things, so he had an irreconcilable conflict with the local gangs. This has laid the groundwork for the tragedy to occur. Moreover, Hou Wei was already married and had a husband, but Qian Beini's parents did not prevent their daughter from associating with him.
On June 27, 1990, there was a shooting on the streets of New York, in which two Men and Women of Chinese Descent were both shot in the head and died. And these two men and women, the male is Hou Wei, and the female is Qian Beini. She was 19 years old.
According to people familiar with the matter, the two are likely to have died in a gang dispute.
But qian beni, she should have had a more gorgeous life, but because she recognized the wrong person and took the wrong road, she caused her own young age and died prematurely. Who is to blame for this? Strange fate? Blame her parents? Blame herself? I think there is an unavoidable responsibility, right? Do you think so?
Now let's talk about the ten singers who were very popular in the 80s, the same time, but their life paths and life destinies are different. Some people retreat, some people disappear, some people become billionaires, and some people die on the street, if they are written in the same novel, the story of sadness and joy should also be able to arouse more people's deep thinking, right?
Do you remember the ten former singers we are talking about today? Whose song was he most familiar with? Welcome to interact with more netizens through the message area. I am Yaqing, thank you again for your attention, we will meet again tomorrow at the same time.
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