Seventh Master Wen ✎
Edited ✎ the Seventh Street Winery
The entertainment industry has such a "god-level combination", men and women eat young and old, although the song is very popular, it has been established for 24 years, and the most admirable point is that "there has never been any contradiction between the members".
I don't know if anyone guessed that this combination is the Phoenix Legend, the creator of the "Square Dance Divine Comedy".
The Phoenix Legend is made up of Ling Hua and Zeng Yi, and there is also a well-known "relationship" between them.
In the group, Zeng Yi willingly served as the "green leaf" next to the lead singer Linghua.
People who have heard the phoenix legend song know that Zeng Yi is always responsible for "yo, yo" in it, there are no serious lyrics, but Ling Hua is the one who is "tired and tired".
Because of this, many fans and even friends in the circle have begun to ridicule Zeng Yi.
Gong Linna, the queen of the Divine Comedy, said, "Zeng Yi is very similar to the appendix in the human body, as long as he does not get sick, it is good to keep it."
Talk show prodigy Li Shi said, "Linghua is the pride of our Inner Mongolians, and Zeng Yi is the pride of our Inner Mongolians who raised you."
Although such words have a joking tone, they will more or less hurt people's hearts, but I did not expect that the party Zeng Yi did not care at all, and he even made his own jokes.
"Once at a performance, I had an injury in my leg, and the organizers rushed over to see it and breathed a sigh of relief, 'Fortunately, the Phoenix Legend didn't hurt the point.'"
Obviously, he always faced such unfair treatment, why could Zeng Yi and Linghua coexist so friendly for 24 years.
And the cooperation between the two has so far maintained the "five-five-point account" model, how to say that Linghua is also the one who contributes more in the combination, has she never felt "unwilling" in her heart.
It turns out that both Ling Hua and Zeng Yi are very satisfied with their respective current situations and have never thought that anything is unfair.
Predecessor of Phoenix Legend
Speaking of the composition of the Phoenix Legend, it is completely a coincidence, and no one could have imagined that a singing group of maintenance workers and an electrical appliance salesman could achieve such good results.
Zeng Yi was an ordinary Hunan man, because the family's economic conditions were not good at that time, so he dropped out of school early and went out to work to subsidize the family.
And this time he has not yet dreamed of being a singer, after all, when food and clothing are in question, any "dream" is just an empty talk.
At the beginning, Zeng Yi did chores in various industries such as moving bricks, repairing television, and repairing computers, but later for a long time, he deeply felt that part-time work was not a long-term solution after all, and his daily income was not stable.
So he later found a factory job, with a fixed salary of up to 80 yuan a month, while also working part-time outside to earn extra money, because it could maintain the basic family livelihood.
In this way, during that time, Zeng Yi was a factory worker during the day, and at night he became a "little prince of the night scene", an amateur resident singer in the dance hall.
It is precisely because of this that Zeng Yi's fate has undergone earth-shaking changes.
When Zeng Yi's friends learned that he was singing in the song and dance troupe, they clamored to go over to him to give him a show, perhaps they had never officially heard him sing, and when Zeng Yi sang on stage, his friends were amazed by his singing.
At that time, Zeng Yi's friend was also doing this in Shenzhen, so Zeng Yi was stopped by his friend as soon as he stepped off the stage, "You sing so well, follow me to Shenzhen to develop, the salary is much higher than this."
Hearing the invitation of his friend, Zeng Yi did not hesitate to agree, not only to earn more money but also to satisfy his own interests and hobbies.
In 1998, Zeng Yi gave up his fixed job and joined a friend who ran the Golden Age Dance Hall in Shenzhen.
Here, he not only served as the music director, but also met an old partner who would work together for most of his life.
Compared with Zeng Yi's amateur singer background, Ling Hua is an art student who graduated from an art school majoring in dance.
She was born in Ordos, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, to a father who was a judge and a mother who was a literary and art worker.
Probably under the influence of her mother since childhood, or perhaps the people of the steppe have a talent for singing and dancing, Linghua has unsurprisingly become one of many talented people.
This is why she later devoted herself to literary and artistic work.
Just after graduating from art school, Linghua's parents did not want their daughter to go too far, so they arranged a job for her in Inner Mongolia - an electrical appliance salesman.
At first, although Linghua did not want to listen to her parents' arrangement, she still couldn't bear their worries in the end, so she first complied with her parents' requirements, but this did not make her give up her inner pursuit of art.
After selling electrical appliances for two years, Linghua finally couldn't help but say to her parents again that she wanted to go out and struggle alone, and under the debate of her three inches of uncorrupted tongue, her parents still reluctantly agreed.
In order to make up for Linghua's travel expenses and living expenses to Shenzhen, her parents also deliberately sold a few sheep, and then Linghua embarked on the "road of chasing dreams" alone with bags and coils.
However, the successful realization of dreams is particularly difficult.
Linghua, who was originally full of ambition, was caught off guard by the cruel reality, and successively registered for the examination of literary and art groups such as Window of the World and Folk Village, but was not admitted, and the living expenses were also spent.
Linghua, who saw that she could not eat, had no choice but to seek opportunities while working.
It just so happened that she saw the recruitment notice of the Golden Age Dance Hall, so she thought of going in and trying it, and it was Zeng Yi, who was the music director at the time, who interviewed her.
At the first sight of Zeng Yi, Linghua's "appearance disease" was committed, and her first impression was "this man's real ugliness".
And this sentence is still linghua herself said on a certain program many years later, that is, I don't know how Zeng Yi felt when he heard his old partner's first-glance evaluation of himself.
Although Linghua did not have a good impression of Zeng Yi, Zeng Yi greatly appreciated Linghua's resume.
Since then, Linghua has become a member of the Golden Age Dance Hall, and she and Zeng Yi have also begun to cooperate.
In 1998, the Korean singing group "Kulong" was highly sought after in China, and Linghua and Zeng Yi were also one of them, so Zeng Yi proposed to set up a group in the dance hall.
In May 1999, Zeng Yi pulled Linghua, who had just signed a contract, and another colleague, Zhang Jie, to form a "nerve" group.
As for why it is called this name, Linghua once explained, "Because we have just formed a combination, if we can't afford a loud name, I am afraid that everyone will not remember it, so we gave this name, which also has the meaning of rejuvenation."
It's just a pity that no matter how good the meaning of the combination name is, it can't make this combination go further.
Less than a year after its establishment, Zhang Jie withdrew alone, which instantly disrupted Zeng Yi and Linghua's plans, and they also had to take a break for a while and think carefully about how to develop in the future.
It has to be said that although Zeng Yi's later contribution to singing in the group was not great, his talent in music and organizational leadership cannot be underestimated.
Although the combination of hair nerves did not excite, this did not prevent Zeng Yi from starting another combination, that is, the later "Cool Fire Combination", which was the most primitive "predecessor" of the Phoenix Legend.
Accumulating the experience of the previous combination, this time Zeng Yi put a lot of effort into the cool fire.
The so-called "Emperor Tian does not live up to the painstaking people", under the choreography and directing of Zeng Yi, the performance of the Cool Fire Group in the dance hall was very lively and prosperous, and it was supported and welcomed by many people.
In addition, Kuhuo has also become a pillar of the Performing Arts Center and a golden signboard in the Shenzhen performance market, which has successfully launched the reputation of "Kuhuo" in various parts of Shenzhen, and laid a solid foundation for the development of the Phoenix Legend later.
Later, in order to let more people see the cool fire combination, Zeng Yi and Linghua went to participate in the "Radio and Television Music Festival" held in Guangdong and successfully entered the final finals, and were once again successfully seen by the entire people of Guangdong.
Watching the cool fire combination develop better and better, and the money is more and more earned, Ling Hua is both excited and distressed.
Because before officially becoming a phoenix legend, it can be said that Zeng Yi was fully responsible for the combination to set off the atmosphere, planning, choreographing and director, while Linghua simply sang a few words and danced a few dances during the performance.
So in such a case, the final account of the two should be different.
Perhaps because she did not want the little girl who was far away from home and pursued her dreams to suffer losses, but also as the care of her brother who was 8 years older than her, Zeng Yi insisted on "five and five points" from the beginning of the establishment of the group.
For Zeng Yi's care, Ling Hua was naturally very moved, but she also knew that Zeng Yi's family conditions were not good, and most of the money he earned was sent back, and these were all exchanged for his own sweat.
Therefore, once, Linghua proposed to distribute the dividends according to the labor paid by the two people, but in the end Zeng Yi still did not agree.
Since then, the two have continued this "rule", and this is why Ling Huaming "sang" more than Zeng Yi later, but insisted on taking the same money as Zeng Yi.
Moreover, if Zeng Yi had not signed Linghua, she would not have what she is today, and without Zeng Yi's full efforts, she would not have created a well-known "cool fire combination" at present, and Linghua would not have been fortunate enough to be appreciated by music producer He Muyang.
Only this situation was reversed in the later stages, when Ling Hua was favored by a company executive for singing He Muyang's songs, and insisted on asking Zeng Yi to be signed together, so that there was today's square dance originator Phoenix Legend.
Therefore, the relationship between Ling Hua and Zeng Yi is actually mutual achievement, mutual giving, and inseparable.
After the official establishment
In 2002, sarcosm suddenly broke out in Shunde, Guangdong Province, and the whole country panicked, but it was also united and willing to contribute to the fight against this cruel infectious disease.
For example, the famous songwriter He Muyang, although he is only a musician, but like Mr. Lu Xun's writing is like a knife, he also hopes to use music to bring spiritual comfort and encouragement to the suffering Chinese.
He Muyang
For this public welfare song against SARS, He Muyang felt that only singers with high-pitched voices could express their emotions if they sang.
It just so happened that the popularity of the cool fire combination was steadily rising at that time, and Linghua's voice conditions were also in line with He Muyang's requirements, so she wanted to find them to cooperate.
In this song, Linghua's voice was originally the focus, but in order not to let this group have a sense of lack, He Muyang specially added a "rap" for this purpose, that is, the part that Zeng Yi wanted to sing.
This song is exactly "Above the Moon", which is still being sung throughout the country.
It's just that this opportunity is rare for Zeng Yi, but it undoubtedly brings him a huge challenge, because he has never been exposed to such a novel thing as rap at that time.
It turns out that challenges can be extraordinary.
In 2003, as soon as the single "Over the Moon" was released, the number of plays soared, and the perfect combination of ethnic music and rap music made the audience feast their ears, and the cool fire group became famous again, and also got a chance to be famous throughout the country.
The popularity of "Over the Moon" successfully attracted the attention of Chen Rentai, the owner of Peacock Records, who deeply felt that the singer of this song was a malleable talent, but he only referred to one of the singers, Linghua.
When Chen Rentai found Linghua and invited her to join her company name, Linghua was naturally excited, perhaps because she was so excited that she didn't realize that people only wanted to sign her alone.
After that, Ling Hua told Zeng Yi the good news for the first time, and she made a request: unless Zeng Yi was also signed, she would not sign the contract.
Looking at Linghua so happy, Zeng Yi is a "sad eyebrow" look, because he is not as young as Linghua, dare to gamble on an uncertain future, and his family is still supported by his current high salary.
But perhaps infected by Linghua's heart that dared to fight hard, or perhaps he wanted to accompany his sister who had cooperated for many years to complete his wish, Zeng Yi followed Linghua without saying a word.
The two successfully signed peacock records in 2004 and changed the "Cool Fire Group" to "Phoenix Legend".
In July of the same year, Phoenix Legend was selected to participate in the popular singing method of the 11th National Young Singers Grand Prix (Professional Group) of CCTV, and successfully won the Top Ten Outstanding Singers Award in the Professional Group.
However, this award did not allow Phoenix Legend to bring more benefits to the company, plus because they were newcomers to the company, the salary they received was also very small.
At that time, the two people were even so poor that they didn't have money to eat, and each time Zeng Yi went to a friend to borrow money, and then the two spent it in half.
It is said that businessmen are heavily profitable, so it can be seen that capitalists are indeed very realistic.
Fortunately, Phoenix Legend first appeared on the stage of the "Walk of Fame" in 2005, which must be a great opportunity for the two "grassroots" debuts.
Combined with the experience of the previous singing competitions, Phoenix Legend has been cautious and careful at every step of this competition.
However, in the last competition of the Walk of Fame, Ah Bao, who sang Shaanxi folk songs, won the championship throne, and they only won the runner-up place, so Ling Hua and Zeng Yi were once again covered by the champion light.
It was not until the advent of the CRBT era that the Phoenix Legend truly ushered in the peak of its career.
At that time, the download volume of the song "Above the Moon" even surpassed that of Grandmaster Fei Yuqing's "A Thousand Miles Away", and was declared by the SP departments of the two websites to set a record high of 79 million CRBT downloads.
Since then, the name of the Phoenix Legend has begun to be known to the people of the whole country.
Immediately after, the 2007 CCTV Spring Festival Gala invited phoenix legends to sing the song "Above the Moon".
This should have been an exciting piece of good news, to be able to appear on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, which can be said to be a "glorious ancestor" thing in any era.
However, just after the 5th round of rehearsals at the Spring Festival Gala that year, the Phoenix legend's song "Above the Moon" was reported for allegedly plagiarizing the Song "All Rise" by the British singing group BLUE.
Suddenly, not only Ling Hua and Zeng Yi were frightened, but their brokerage firm was also caught off guard.
They rushed to organize experts to identify it overnight, and found that in fact, the two songs only had some similarities in the rap part, and did not constitute plagiarism.
Subsequently, the Phoenix Legend held a press conference at the first time, denying the alleged "plagiarism", but it was all too late.
When they were reported for "plagiarism", they lost the opportunity to appear on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, but fortunately, CCTV did not question the professional ability of the Phoenix Legend.
In 2008, Phoenix Legend once again got the opportunity to appear on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, still singing "Above the Moon", and then participated in the CCTV Lantern Party to sing the song "Free Flight".
Since then, the Phoenix legend has entered thousands of households, and Linghua and Zeng Yi have become well-known big stars.
Friends are relatives but not lovers
Seeing that the Phoenix Legend has not come to this day, fans and friends are happy for them, but they also question the model of the two people's "five-five accounts".
So the fans of the two families began to complain about it again, after all, the money the two are making now is not comparable to that of before.
In fact, later Zeng Yi also talked to him about the allocation of funds like Linghua before, and proposed the distribution of benefits according to the proportion of individuals in the portfolio.
However, Ling Hua also did not agree, and was more determined to say to Zeng Yi, "We are still five or five points like before, this point is not negotiable."
Perhaps it was because Ling Hua and Zeng Yi had both confided in each other in this way, so they both knew that the other party had that heart, and at the same time they all knew that the Phoenix Legend could have achieved today's achievements, not by one person.
That's why they insist on "five-and-five accounts" and never have any quarrels, because this is the most correct and fairest thing for them.
However, at the same time, some people also asked about the relationship between them, whether the two had not produced a "spark of love" after working together for so long, and would not they have a long-term relationship.
Maybe ordinary people will do this, but Ling Hua and Zeng Yi have always stressed to the outside world that they "never thought about it."
Linghua has a bold personality, Zeng Yi is delicate in his mind, and it sounds like a good match, but Zeng Yi often complains that Linghua has a big temper and does not like to dress up, and Linghua always dislikes Zeng Yi for cutting the door, and so on.
Although some love is to hate each other to rub out the spark, but such a premise is that the two are willing to change for each other, otherwise if they really live together in the future, the current occasional dislike will inevitably become the "fatal point" that hurts each other.
Probably LingHua and Zeng Yi knew that it was impossible to be together with their personalities, so they never thought of changing the relationship between the two.
For them, being able to be each other's most tacit partner, the closest friend, and even become each other's relatives is the best "setting" for the relationship between the two.
The phoenix legend's deep friendship of mutual understanding and mutual achievement also confirms to people that the original entertainment industry also has the end of not being entangled in interests and eventually leading to parting ways.
However, such friendship is rare and difficult to maintain in today's era, and I only hope that when I encounter such friendship, I still cherish it.