In 1980, Radio Television Hong Kong aired a gangster-themed film.
Once launched, the alley was empty.
The boys all wanted to become Xu Wenqiang, and even began to imitate "Xu Wenqiang".
Looking forward to meeting my own "Feng Chengcheng" as soon as possible.
The girls put on braids, looking forward to meeting their own "Xu Wenqiang" sooner.
The theme song of the same name is even more popular.
There is no "strong brother" on the street who can't sing "Shanghai Beach",
Everyone has to hum a few words to show themselves.
And the original singer Ye Liyi became popular with this song.
In 1985, "Shanghai Beach" was released in the mainland, becoming the first Cantonese song to be popular in the mainland.
Of course, with the broadcast of TV series, "Brother Qiang" and "Feng Chengcheng" have also appeared in the mainland.
Originally, I thought that after this song, Ye Liyi could bring better works.
Unexpectedly, this time, it was the peak moment of her life.
01
Born in 1948, Ye Liyi has loved music since she was a child.
However, because her family was poor, Ye Liyi chose to teach herself.
The parents thought that they could not survive after learning music, so they enrolled their daughter Ye Liyi in an English class.
After graduating from high school, Ye Liyi was faced with the choice of work.
Do you want to go into the factory or continue to study music?
At this time, the parents saw the bank's recruitment information in the newspaper, and the requirements were very strict.
After consultation, the parents believe that the daughter's conditions meet the conditions of the bank's recruitment.
Then, the father signed up for his daughter.
She didn't know the news until the bank told Ye Liyi to go to the interview.
When Ye Liyi came to the interview place, Ye Liyi found that there were many excellent peers.
But in the end, Ye Liyi successfully advanced with a fluent English and pure appearance.
Become a bank clerk.
Every day at two o'clock and one line of life, let Ye Liyi, who loves to sing, after work every day,
She sings several songs a day to relieve her stress.
Until 1969, seeing the news of the radio station holding a singing competition, Ye Liyi could not sit still.
Although she sings every day, Ye Liyi still hopes that her singing voice can be heard by more people.
Li Liyi, who relied on self-study, went all the way through the barriers and finally won the championship.
Even judge Gu Jiahui praised talent.
Ye Liyi stepped into the music circle and couldn't believe that she had actually changed from a clerk to a singer.
Since the music at that time was dominated by Western music,
Ye Liyi, who had just become famous, was unsurprisingly arranged to sing Western music.
Although Ye Liyi sang Western music, there has been no improvement.
On the contrary, because of his pure appearance, he became a rookie in the advertising industry.
And signed a contract with the British EMI to become its artist.
After the filming of "Shanghai Beach" began, the theme song of the film and television drama did not move.
The radio station approached Gu Jiahui and hoped that he could create a theme song that fit the theme song of the film and television drama.
After thinking about it, he finally wrote this song, but he was not good at the lyrics.
Gu Jiahui couldn't wait to finish the song, so he contacted his good friend Huang Chen.
But I didn't expect that Huang Zhun was going to the toilet because he had a bad stomach.
Gu Jiahui didn't care what the situation was with Huang Chen, and directly put the music to him.
When Huang Chen heard this song, he immediately forgot to go to the toilet and composed the music intently.
It took 20 minutes to write the song.
After the two hummed again, Gu Jiahui felt that his voice could not express the emotions in the song.
After thinking about it for half a day, I suddenly thought that Ye Liyi's voice and this song were perfectly matched.
A song of the same name called "Shanghai Beach" was born quietly.
Whenever the audience hears the music,
The surging melody and the vicissitudes of the shanghai beach come to mind.
Ye Liyi's thick and clear voice vividly shows the love and hate in shanghai beach.
As the TV series became more and more popular, Ye Liyi's little transparent also became popular overnight.
It has pushed Cantonese music to a new level.
Since "Shanghai Beach" became popular, various concerts, commercial performances and other concerts have rushed to invite her.
Every time there is a performance, as long as there is no singing of "On the Beach", the audience will definitely not leave.
And Ye Liyi has traveled to more than 30 countries, and each country has sung "On the Beach" more than once.
This song Ye Liyi has sung almost tens of thousands of times on five continents.
Following "Shanghai Beach", Ye Liyi released more than 80 albums.
Among them, there are representatives such as "Heroes of the Towel" and "Smiling Proud of the Rivers and Lakes".
It's just that the glow of "On the Beach" is too great to block other songs.
1977 Hong Kong Handover Party,
Ye Liyi presided over the "British Farewell Ceremony" in bilingual, explaining to more than 80 countries.
He also gave 2 concerts at the Hong Kong Coliseum. Please come to the Hong Kong Orchestra to accompany you.
In 1987, Ye Liyi took to the stage of the Spring Festival Gala and sang a song "We Meet and Break Up" to impress the public.
No matter where Ye Liyi performed, her concerts were full and crowded every time.
And with the passage of time. The Cantonese music scene has changed from Ye Liyi's unique to today's thousands of purples and thousands of reds.
Ye Liyi's career can be described as smooth sailing.
However, her love life has been full of twists and turns.
02
At that time, Ye Liyi was not yet famous, just a small clerk in a bank.
Once a friend had a birthday and met a guitarist with the surname Yu.
The same hobby made the two strangers quickly become good friends.
Ye Liyi also gradually fell in love with this Yu classmate.
At that time, her mother was very strict with Ye Liyi's dating.
She felt that her daughter was only 20 years old and couldn't tell who was a good person or a bad person.
And asked Ye Liyi to go home before ten o'clock every night and go out to tell her what to do.
However, the young Ye Liyi felt that her mother was too strict and did not even give her freedom.
At first, Ye Liyi offered to rent a house because there was no private space, but her mother felt that it was not necessary.
When her mother scolded Ye Liyi again and again for coming home late and reprimanding her.
Ye Liyi chose to live with Yu. Although he was much older than she was.
But Ye Liyi believed that Yu would take good care of her.
Despite her parents' objections, Ye Liyi married Yu.
However, after getting married, Ye Liyi found that her time with Yu was too short and she did not know Yu very well.
Their three views and views are completely different.
I often quarrel over a small matter. Later, Ye Liyi gave birth to a son.
Ye Liyi, who thought she could live a stable life.
However, he found that her husband Yu was still constantly rubbing against himself.
Although Ye Liyi has a child, she has not given up her dream of singing.
Ye Liyi, who saw the radio singing competition in 1969, chose to register.
And Ye Liyi, who chose a career, has a more and more cold relationship with her husband.
When Ye Liyi was busy because of the fire of "Shanghai Beach", her husband's dislike for her became deeper and deeper.
Husband Yu hopes that Ye Liyi will not become a singer and be an ordinary person.
However, Ye Liyi was reluctant to lay the foundation she had worked so hard to lay.
The relationship between the two became more and more frosty, and finally chose to divorce.
After the divorce, the child was not awarded to her for support.
Gives her the freedom to pursue her own music career.
However, a bad news suddenly came and broke her down.
Ye Liyi, who had a normal physical examination in 1996, went back to work after the examination.
As soon as Ye Liyi returned, she received a call from the hospital. Told of breast cancer.
Ye Liyi, who thought it was a spoof phone call, did not care, and directly said that they hit the wrong person.
I just got back from the hospital. Feel very healthy. When he finished, he hung up the phone.
Before I could put down the phone, the doctor called again.
The doctor was afraid that Ye Liyi would not believe it, and told Ye Liyi the time and project of today's physical examination, so that Ye Liyi believed the doctor's words.
The doctor asked Ye Liyi to go to the hospital again to check in case the machine made a mistake.
As soon as Ye Liyi listened, she took the phone and asked her assistant to drive herself to the hospital.
On the way, Ye Liyi was silently thinking that the hospital must have checked wrong.
Words such as being healthy.
As a result, after re-examination, Ye Liyi was still diagnosed with breast cancer.
Ye Liyi felt the sky spinning and fainted.
This year Ye Liyi was 48 years old.
After being diagnosed with cancer, Ye Liyi's life has undergone earth-shaking changes, and she has insomnia all night long.
However, fortunately, it was detected early, or benign, and there is a possibility of successful cure.
Putting down the work at hand, Ye Liyi threw herself into the fight against cancer.
The doctor told me not to eat or touch anything far away.
Far from work, Ye Liyi changed the fast-paced life of 24 hours a day,
Sing at home every day and dance occasionally.
Cure the disease in such a slow-paced life.
Ye Liyi, who has been insisting on exercising in this way, quickly cured her cancer and recovered her health.
03
But Ye Liyi, who had just recovered, heard that her son was getting married.
Emotional instability caused by cancer caused her to suffer from depression.
She felt that her son was married and that she was left alone, and she felt very lonely.
Fortunately, Ye Liyi's side had David to take care of her.
It was he who accompanied her, took care of her when she was most sensitive and low, and let her get rid of the disease.
David, who was still a public relations officer for Cathay Pacific, invited Ye Liyi to record a record as a gift for employees.
Coincidentally, David is the one in charge of docking Ye Liyi.
The two people who met for the first time, after seeing each other, were both bright-eyed. They have a crush on each other.
Later, Ye Liyi needed to go to London to record a record, but david heard the news and took the initiative to ask to go to London for publicity.
As time went on, the feelings between them grew deeper and deeper.
David couldn't bear to be separated from Ye Liyi and took the initiative to ask to be Ye Liyi's agent.
Two people who hit it off. Began a cohabitation life.
After Ye Liyi suffered from depression, the doctor told David,
All the knives and medicines in the house must be put away, and she must not leave the people around her, and always pay attention to her.
Because depressed people, when they are depressed, they will become very sensitive and easy to think wildly.
Many patients are because of the negligence of their families, which leads to the patient's wild thinking.
David listened to the doctor's words and was very concerned about Ye Liyi's emotions.
Every day I would take her out for a walk and bask in the sun.
Under David's careful care, Ye Liyi finally recovered after three years of struggle.
Ye Liyi, who restored her health, did not return to the previous 24-hour continuous rotation habits.
Instead, he listened to her husband, David.
Ye Liyi watched her husband grow old and wanted to have a child for her husband.
At the age of 36, she began experimenting with artificial insemination.
The experiment lasted seven years. If it weren't for the fact that her mother-in-law was sick and needed to be taken care of, Ye Liyi would continue to try.
Ye Liyi, who failed to give birth to a child for her husband, was very guilty.
But fortunately, the grown son did not resent himself.
04
However, Ye Liyi had just lived a happy life when she was told that her grandson had cancer.
Not long after birth, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor.
Today, husbands, sons, and daughters-in-law are all in the hospital to take care of their grandchildren.
Ye Liyi, on the other hand, takes care of the children at home.
Although the grandson's body has recovered from many surgeries, his intelligence has been greatly affected.
He can't walk, doesn't talk, and can only use a wheelchair.
Although in the special school, he had learned to call Daddy and Grandma,
But Ye Liyi was still very distressed about her grandson.
So Ye Liyi will pull her husband and take her grandson out for a walk every day.
Let your grandchildren bask in the sun more, and exercise with your husband and you.
In her lifetime, although there was only one song "On the Beach".
But it's unforgettable. No matter how the TV series is filmed, how to change.
The most classic theme song of "Shanghai Beach" is the version sung by Ye Liyi.
Now, in addition to taking care of her grandchildren in Sydney, Ye Liyi occasionally returns to the UK with her husband for a while.
Relieve your husband's homesickness.
After so many tribulations, Ye Liyi feels that her life is very good now.
Recalling the smooth sailing when he debuted, he was selected by Gu Jiahui to sing "On the Beach" and burst into flames,
To meet this husband who knows and loves each other. Although a lot happened in the middle.
But compared with the current happiness, it is a kind of tribulation.
At his side, he was accompanied by grandchildren.
There is also the husband's doting on himself.
Although she regrets not being able to give her husband a child, she still feels that she is very happy now.
Now, Ye Liyi lives a happy life, in addition to being with her family,
Occasionally, I will also participate in some favorite movies and evenings.
Ye Liyi, who is now 74 years old.
No longer young, enjoying the joy of the world.
I also wish this woman who has gone through so many tribulations to be happy
Always healthy and happy.