One day in 2000, Zhang Qiang received a phone call: "I am from CCTV, and I would like to invite you to sing a song "Acacia Riverside". Zhang Qiang replied: "I can go", but then put forward a condition.
Zhang Qiang was born in a family with a strong literary atmosphere, her mother was a violinist in the Symphony Orchestra of the Chinese Film Orchestra, and her father was an English proofreader of the Chinese Medical Association.
Zhang Qiang's musical classical music foundation comes from her mother's words and deeds, but she gradually rebelled in the process of developing on this foundation.
Especially after foreign pop music poured into the mainland market, Zhang Qiang was hit by a series of punk and other music genres that seemed to be "new and peculiar" at the time.
Especially in a magazine, after seeing Barbara Streisand's explosive head style, this hairstyle has been "welded" to Zhang Qiang since then and has become her symbol.
At that time, Zhang Qiang and Faye Wong recorded songs together, and both of them were cover songs, she covered Japanese sweet songs, and Faye Wong sang Teresa Teng Lijun.
Zhang Qiang's cover album "Tokyo Night", standing at that time node, "dot hole" touched the "disco soul" of young people, and 600,000 albums were sold out in an instant.
To this end, the record company has hurriedly added more than a million copies, and many dealers have lined up at the door with money, afraid that they will not be able to grab it.
Zhang Qiang, 17 years old, became popular overnight and became a "ten thousand yuan household".
In a year and a half, Zhang Qiang recorded 15 cover albums, with a total sales of 20 million copies, surpassing Teresa Teng and even beating Whitney Houston.
Since then, her album has exploded one after another, and Zhang Qiang has also appeared in Time magazine, becoming one of the 6 "Most Popular Female Singers in the World" and the "Disco Queen" who is popular all over the streets.
But the maverick Zhang Qiang did not roll in the heat, but chose to press the pause button at the best time to learn further study.
But even if the sister is not in the jianghu, there is always a legend of the sister.
In 2000, the choreographer of CCTV's "The Same Song" called Zhang Qiang and asked her to sing "Acacia Riverside" at the party, when Zhang Qiang had been teaching her husband for a long time.
There is no strong desire for this comeback opportunity, the most important thing is that she feels that "Acacia Riverside" does not represent her own style, and she firmly believes that only "Love You in the Heart" is the style that belongs to Zhang Qiang.
So he replied firmly and politely: "If you don't let me sing "Love You in My Heart", I won't go." ”
The choreographer listened to her and said, "Then you send a re-arranged "Love You In your Heart Is Hard to Open" to come over, and I will listen to it." As a result, after listening to it, he didn't even think about it, and immediately contacted Zhang Qiang: "You come over, just sing this song." ”
This singing was unbearable, a large number of record companies came to sign a contract with Zhang Qiang, and the phone number of the TV station's visit also exploded.
Zhang Qiang created many firsts in the history of Chinese pop music: the first to sing a strong song style, the first to dress so avant-garde on the cover, the first to appear in Time magazine...
Zhang Qiang has too many marks of the times, but she has always been like a teenager, jumping, unrestrained, free, casual, and most importantly, dare to insist on herself.
Her charm not only stayed in the 80s, Peng Lei, who was "new pants" in 2013, could not help but specially tailor an album for Zhang Qiang, "Don't Ask Me What Is Disco".
A song called "Tractor Driver": "Who will fight for ideals, who will sacrifice for love" is enough to cycle dozens of times.
The 46-year-old Zhang Qiang made an appearance and won the "Top Ten Chinese Record Awards".
The 54-year-old Zhang Qiang is still "riding the wind and waves", which is not only amazing about her singing voice, but also her figure, state, especially the enviable hair volume...
Although Zhang Qiang takes the route of "niche", she has become a label, and she is different as soon as she appears, which is the so-called real skill.
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