I wrote an article before to explain why the golden melodies were piled up on the spring evening of 1995. The reason for this is that in 1994, there was a "Great Leap Forward in The Song World" in Chinese mainland, and countless singers and golden songs poured out.
In fact, that generation of singers has a common code name, called "94 new generation", today we will talk about them, including the glory of the year and where they went after the climax.
Not long ago, there was a controversial topic on the Internet called "whether an artist is a commodity or not", in fact, an artist who is signed, packaged and promoted to the market, its essence is indeed a commodity. The artist signing system Chinese mainland officially began in 1993-94. The new generation of 94 is the first generation of "finished products" of the Chinese pop music industry.
During the period from 1993 to 1994, hundreds of companies in the north and south of China have produced their own singers and launched catchy original songs.
Let's start with the southern side --
<h1>Li Chunbo</h1>
Li Chunbo should be counted as the number one representative of the 94 new generation. In 1993, he was also known as "Li Chunbo Nian", he was a northern man, ran to the south, with a song "Xiaofang" knocked on the door of the China Singing Guangzhou Company, the album was released a few months after the sale of millions of sales, swept the top of the charts around the world. In 1994, he achieved another good result with "A Letter from the Family".
<h1>Chen</h1>
Like Li Chunbo, Chen Ming, who is also a subsidiary of China Singing Guangzhou, launched "Loneliness Makes Me So Beautiful" in 1994, and she was also a girl who ran from the north to the south to find her dreams, becoming one of the main singers of the "94 new generation" southern camp.
<h1>Mao Ning & Yang Yuying</h1>
Guangzhou New Era Audio-Visual, since 1992, has been packaging Mao Ning & Yang Yuying, the pair of "Golden Boys and Jade Girls", is also very successful, the image is good, the work has a high degree of singing, whether it is a combination or individual development, it has reached the status of a national idol red star.
<h1>Lin Yilun</h1>
After Mao Ning & Yang Yuying, New Era Video has launched another idol singer, Yilun Lin. With songs such as "Love Bird" and "Moon Through Flowers", he has become popular all over China.
<h1>Gao Linsheng</h1>
Gao Lin was born in 1993 to sign a contract with Guangzhou White Swan, and then sang a song "The Person Who Cares About You is Me" to the streets. Unlike Li Chunbo, Mao Ning, Lin Yilun and other "Southern Drifters" from the north, Gao Linsheng is a native of the South singer.
<h1>Li Jin</h1>
A song "Are you okay in other places" sang the voice of countless wanderers, this song has been popular since 1993, quickly spread throughout the country, sung by guangzhou Pacific Media singer "bald head Li Jin".
<h1>Prince Ming</h1>
In 1994, Wang Ziming signed a contract with Chen Luo, Xu Jianqiang, Li Haiying and three musicians to jointly establish the Guangzhou "Tiandiren Studio", and then swept the song world with a song "Sad Rain", whose gentle and magnetic singing voice and sunny and handsome image won him the reputation of the Prince of Love Songs.
<h1>Gan Ping</h1>
Gan Ping, a famous singer who sang songs such as "How Are You Big Brother", "Three Monks", and "Damp Heart", is also an important member of the southern camp of the new generation of 94. However, at that time, she was a solo singer belonging to the Guangzhou Military Region Song and Dance Troupe. In 1993, she won the gold medal of "Best Female Singer" in Guangdong Province, and in 1994, she won the bronze medal of the Youth Song Competition, and is a professional military singer.
Let's look at the Northern Camp --
In fact, the singer signing system in China, the first person to eat crab is Su Yue, he learned this packaging method in Japan at the end of the 80s, and set up his own company in 1991, signing Gao Feng and Chu Qi & Chu Tong brothers. Except for Chu Qi & Chu Tong, who had a small fire for a while, which did not cause much repercussions, Gao Feng later left his company.
As the signing system continued to heat up and spread in the South, the North also followed suit. The main singers launched are:
<h1>Yellow grid selection</h1>
Su Yue transferred to Beijing Audio-Visual in 1993 and signed a new artist Huang Gexuan to launch the album "Sadness is an Unspeakable Pain", which contains songs such as "Spring Water Flow" and the album's eponymous song; Huang Gexuan became a hit, because of the song path and image, becoming another "love song prince" who directly benchmarked the southern camp Prince Ming.
<h1>Xie Dong</h1>
Xie Dong's fame is enough to show how opportunistic the new generation of 94 is, he was originally a camera of CCTV, worked for ten years, has been thirty years old, and his image is ordinary. But in 1993, because a friend wrote a song called "Smiley Face", and then let him try to sing it, and later broadcast by CCTV's "Oriental Time and Space 95 New Song", it spread all over the country.
<h1>Chen Lin</h1>
Chen Lin signed a contract with Wang Xiaojing's Star Disc Culture and released "Your Tenderness I Never Understand" in 1993, with sales of 1.5 million copies. This song is like a thunder on the ground, exploding the door of the long-shackled mainland pop music scene, and the strong band style shown by the song also makes the music more live and infectious, which is very shocking.
<h1>Sun Hao</h1>
Sun Hao's fame is somewhat similar to Xie Dong, he himself entered the industry as an actor, but riding on the "outlet" of popular music of the 94 new generation, he suddenly sang with a "Chinese Folk Song". In an instant, he changed from a dragon suit actor eighteen lines away to a big red singer. However, his strength is stronger than Xie Dong's, and he also won an award at the Youth Song Competition that year.
<h1>Gao Feng</h1>
Gao Feng is an original musician, after leaving the Pu'an company in Suyue, in 1994, he sang a song of his own creation, "Great China", which immediately became popular. In fact, he has written many songs for others and has produced many albums himself, but personally, only this "Great China" is the most widely known.
<h1>Campus folk camp</h1>
After signing a series of singers in the mainland, Dadi Records launched the compilation album "Campus Folk Song 1" in 1994, followed by "Campus Folk Song 2", the names of Lao Wolf, Yu Dong, Shen Qing, Li Xiaodong and Gao Xiaosong quickly became widely known, and songs such as "You at the Same Table", "Brother Sleeping on the Top Bunk", "Winter Campus" and other songs became popular and became classics of the era.
<h1>Rock camp</h1>
The 94-generation lineup of rock circles is even stronger. First, the Red Star Production Society praised Zheng Jun. Zheng Jun became the first popular rock idol, and his first album "Naked" was completely popular, and many songs such as "Cinderella", "Naked", "Back to Lhasa" and so on were very popular. There was also Xu Wei, although he was not yet on fire at that time, he wrote a song "Persistence" to Tian Zhen to sing, which made Tian Zhen reinvigorate his majesty and become famous throughout China. In addition, the new generation such as Cobra and Paradise Band are extremely popular.
In addition to Chen Jiantian's Red Star Production Society, there is also the Magic Rock Culture founded by Zhang Peiren from The Rolling Stones in Taiwan, which also included Dou Wei, He Yong and Zhang Chu in 1994, known as the "Magic Rock Three Jie", the most famous event was the leading of the Magic Rock Three Jie expedition to Hong Kong, exploding the stage of the Red Pavilion, provoking the Four Heavenly Kings, which can be described as a sensation and the last highlight of the Chinese rock era.
The names listed above are only a small part of the list of the 94 new generation. In just one to two years, so many singers and new songs have sprung up, which is really dizzying. I heard that at that time, as long as the film was issued, it was difficult to think about whether it was red. This is indeed a "Great Leap Forward" in the Chinese pop music scene.
<h1>After the hustle and bustle, only loneliness and money are left</h1>
Everything is prosperous and declining, there are ups and downs, and after such a sudden great leap forward, it must be a long downhill. We found that most of these singers, after singing a song, became silent in the song world. After 95 years, there was a wave of termination, and then southern singers went north. After a brief shuffle, there are very few 94 new generations that are still firm in the music world.
But if you underestimate them because of this, and think that it is just a flash in the pan and nothing remarkable, you are wrong. As long as you became popular at that time, even if your fame is short-lived, everyone is full of money. And the most profitable way is to "go to the hole".
At that time, the singer went to the hole, that is, through the "hole head" to contact the performer, the income did not take away most of the claims of the agency as now, the company they signed only made money by selling records, and the hole was the personal behavior of the artist. You finish recording, the company is fine, you go to your hole. At that time, Li Chunbo went to an offer of about 15,000, Mao Ning and Yang Yuying, these were about 8,000, and generally sang 2-4 songs.
Like Li Chunbo, who was particularly popular at that time, he went to more than 400 times a year. If you do the math, 400 games is 6 million. You know, at that time, the people's wages were thirty or fifty yuan a month. As long as you want to pick up, you can get more. Li Chunbo once revealed that once he really did not want to pick up, he casually quoted a sky-high price of 200,000, and the other party actually agreed.
There is also a "cave head" Palace Sea that experienced that golden age, recalling the "grand situation" of that year is still excited, "once off the plane, someone sent me money, no less than seventy or eighty people sent money a day, at that time the competition was small, the performance was easy to do, there were 35-40 performances a month, from big cities to small counties, each place to take one or two singers to go on the line, a maximum of more than 1 million yuan, in 1996 I had more than 10 million deposits." ”
Therefore, as long as it was red in the past, even if it was not red later, the money was almost earned.
It is reported that after Faye Wong became popular in Hong Kong that year, she returned to Beijing in the mid-90s to party with a group of friends in the music circle, and she thought that she should be a good mix, so she wanted to be a guest. Later, I found out that in fact, she was the poorest one, and after a few years of not seeing, those friends became local tycoons. Knowing this, Sister Fei still went to Hong Kong to do something.
<h1>End</h1>
In this way, the "94 new generation" first had money, and second, from overnight popularity to no one's attention, material sufficiency and spiritual loneliness (of course, there are other reasons and accidental factors), many years later caused a series of after-sales problems (if they were "commodities"), such as Xie Dong, Han Xiao, Yin Xiangjie, Jing Gangshan, etc. have been involved in drugs, Pan Jindong was sentenced to prison for entering the room and injuring people, Hongdou was sentenced to prison for child molestation, Chen Shaohua was cut, Mao Ning was stabbed, Yang Yuying was involved in the Yuanhua case, Han Xiao was involved in the car accident. Gao Feng died of illness, Xie Jin and Chen Lin jumped off the building... What else is "Zhang Chu is dead, He Yong is crazy, Dou Wei is immortal"...
Too many unexpected things have happened beforehand, and it can even be said to be shocking!
Of course, there are also successful transformations, such as Lin Yilun and so on; there are many more who no longer appear in the public eye, but enjoy low-key happiness... Once the new generation, the same brilliant starting point, a different destination, perhaps, this is the fate. <END>