In the 1980s and 1990s, the three major record companies of Rolling Stone, UFO and PolyGram were in charge of the bull's ear of the Chinese music scene, and Warner, EMI, Xinli and BMG took the camp step by step. In addition, some local brands cultivate in the regional market and keep their own "one acre and three points of land", such as the Red Star Production Society in the mainland, Huaxing and Feitu in Hong Kong, and dianjiang, blue and white in Taiwan.
For the competition for the "three bosses" of record companies in the Taiwan market, combined with the performance of the 80s and 90s, Shanghua and Fumao are very strong contenders.
In the Taiwanese music scene where rolling stones have "three godfathers of large, medium, and small" and "five Chen and two Lee" and "five Chen and two Lee" and other top behind-the-scenes musicians, there is a record company that is not inferior to the rolling stones and flying saucer production lineup, which is Shanghua Records.
Shanghua, founded in 1986, because it was not established in the best era, so it could only catch up after the rolling stones and flying saucers, but because there were a number of musicians such as Zuo Hongyuan, Chen Jinxing, Li Fuxing, Lü Guoliang, Xu Changde and other musicians who subdivided the market, they cultivated "Changsheng Tianhou" Gao Shengmei, "Love Song Singing Diva" Li Yijun, "Miss Weather Forecast" Meng Tingwei, Jade Female singer Chen Mingzhen, and the later "Second Queen" Xu Ruyun and Xu Meijing, so that Shanghua had a considerable weight in the Taiwanese music scene.
Today, I would like to talk to friends about a Shanghua Records musician who is very much appreciated by the editor, in the "carving" of female singers, he has the strength of Li Zongsheng, who is proficient in lyrics, composition, arrangement, production and singing, he is not inferior to the "three godfathers of large, medium and small" of the Rolling Stones, however, he is a name that cannot be compared with the "Five Chen Er Li" of the flying saucer and the Luo Dayou, Li Zongsheng and Xiao Worm of the Rolling Stones in terms of fame. He is the music master in the editor's heart - Chen Jinxing.
If friends are interested in searching for this name, you will find that the criminal of the same name in Taiwan," the "Kidnapping Case of the Daughter of Bai Bingbing", is far more popular than the musician named "Chen Jinxing", the editor's mood is complicated, it is sad, for this "unknown" musician who has delivered so many excellent works to the Chinese music scene, I personally still want to do my best to let more friends know more about him.
Perhaps, when the editor shares his work, everyone will suddenly realize: Oh, it was him!
A brief introduction to the life of Chen Jinxing, who was born in Taiwan in 1961 in the same year as Andy Lau, entered Taiwan's Gelin Records at the age of 18 (1979) to work behind the scenes in music, and wrote songs for Liu Wenzheng. In 1986, after writing the song "Applause Sounded" for Feng Feifei, he jumped into the newly established Shanghua Records, and after pulling the industry "Taidou" Zuo Hongyuan town field, he studied next to Master Zuo while cultivating singers for Shanghua. In 1996, after producing the album "Sea of Tears" for Xu Ruyun, Chen Jinxing switched to Rolling Stone Records, writing songs and producing albums for Chen Shuhua, Xu Jingchun and Huang Yiling. In 2002, when Jay Chou brought a "revolution" in the Chinese music scene with new music, under the wave of R&B and electronic music, Chen Jinxing, who adhered to tradition, was gradually forgotten, and fewer and fewer people invited him to sing. In 2015, Due to a serious illness caused by a cold, Chen Jinxing died in Taiwan at the age of 54.
The musician who has always insisted on creating, covered Zhang Zhenyu's song "Don't Hurt Me Again", and his last wish before he was born was to produce his own personal album, and the demo of the album songs had been stored in the computer hard disk, but he suddenly passed away, leaving himself with a regret that could never be repaired, and also left a sigh to the Chinese music scene.
Today, walk into the music world of Teacher Chen Jinxing and see what the music masters in my heart have brought to the Chinese music scene. Xiao Lizhu, Feng Feifei, Li Bihua, Gao Shengmei, Meng Tingwei, Li Yijun, Chen Mingzhen, Qiu Haizheng, Pan Meichen, Liu Xiaohui, Xu Ruyun, Chen Shuhua, Li Wei, Xu Jingchun... These powerful female singers in the Chinese music scene have one or more famous works or masterpieces from Teacher Chen Jinxing.
Below, ten works by Teacher Chen Jinxing are selected for the sake of forgotten thoughts.
10. "Sensible" Lin Zhixuan, 1997
Chen Jinxing has not cooperated with many male singers, and the editors remember Liu Wenzheng, Li Maoshan, Wang Zhongping, Huang Pinyuan, Lü Fang, Lin Zhixuan, many of whom are famous songs such as "Lone Bird" and "Bear". If I recommend a song, I personally give Lin Zhixuan the song "Sensible" composed by Mr. Chen in the album "Scatter It" released by Sony Xinli Records in 1997.
The melody of the song "Sensible" is beautiful, He Qihong's words are both artistic and philosophical, Lin Zhixuan's voice is clear and affectionate, and the song and song are combined, it is difficult not to feel this song.
9. "Paradise Lost" Chen Shuhua, 1998
This is a song and an album that the editors least want to mention, because as soon as this album came out, it marked that Chen Shuhua, a rare generation of divas in the Chinese music scene, ushered in her own "curtain performance", and since then, she has abandoned all her personal names, including comrades-in-arms and fans, and become a "rolling red dust" that will not return.
Speaking of the album "Paradise Lost", this is an album with mixed praise and criticism, and the detractors say that Chen Shuhua's transformation is good and abrupt; People who praise will say that from the rap of "Shuhua Blooming" to "Paradise Lost", Chen Shuhua makes people see a new self.
Chen Shuhua has maintained the principle of one specialty a year for many years, never excessively and excessively consuming her own brand, except in 1996, because of physical reasons, she did not issue a new specialty. "Paradise Lost" was completed by Chen Shuhua and Chen Jinxing, at this time Chen Jinxing, who switched to the Rolling Stones, used the pen name of "Chen Pin" to create. The lyrics of the title song of the same name , Paradise Lost " , he did it all, what he had to do was to change with Chen Shuhua , perhaps accustomed to listening to the melody written by Li Zongsheng and Xiao Worm for Shuhua , and then listening to this "Paradise Lost" is somewhat difficult to adapt, but just like wine tasting, old wine needs to be tasted slowly.
8. "Ice That Refuses to Melt" Pan Meichen, 1989
Chen Jinxing has written songs for the three leading singers of blue and white, Zhou Zihan's "Love Flower", Fang Jiwei's "Don't Hate", "You Say", and "First Sister" Pan Meichen's "It's You" and "Ice That Refuses to Melt".
The song "Ice That Refuses to Melt" is the title song of the album of the same name, which was very "anti-fight" on Taiwan's Golden Melody Dragon and Tiger Chart that year, and this song wrote Pan Meichen's tenacity and persistence. At that time, the neutral-style huck was very eye-catching and controversial, but The Huck who insisted on being himself finally became a shining star in the music world, shining the first Golden Melody Awards the following year and becoming popular across the Taiwan Straits.
7. "People Like Me Who Value Feelings" Qiu Haizheng, 1991
The three singers who mentioned blue and white, why not mention the "Three Sisters of the Flying Eagle". Among the three, in addition to Yi Nengjing, who did not cooperate with Chen Jinxing, Fang Wenlin and Qiu Haizheng both sang Chen Jinxing's songs.
In 1991, after Liu Wenzheng announced the closure of Flying Eagle Records, Qiu Haizheng, the eldest sister of "Flying Eagle Three Sisters", did not follow the trend to enter the flying saucer that was closely related to Flying Eagle, but joined Shanghua Records. Although the head of Shanghua at that time was Gao Shengmei, the company still attached great importance to Qiu Haizheng at the beginning, and released a new album for her that year.
In 1991, Chen Jinxing composed and Qiu Haizheng sang the song "People Like Me Who Value Feelings" was released, and the hoarseness and bitterness in Qiu Haizheng's voice, with Chen Jinxing's songs and Huang Yixiong's words, her first masterpiece moved fans in this way.
6. "Wings of Changing Hearts" Chen Mingzhen, 1990
In 1990, Shanghua Records signed singers Chen Mingzhen and Meng Tingwei, when Zongyi Records did not return to its original glory, jade female singer Yang Lin also fell silent, fortunately, Shanghua sent Chen Mingzhen and Meng Tingwei, plus blue and white Fang Jiwei, and the jade female singers in the Taiwanese music scene gathered together.
Shanghua Records, Zuo Hongyuan favored Gao Shengmei, Xu Changde favored Xu Ruyun, Chen Jiaming's best works were only given to Xu Meijing, and Chen Jinxing's heart was not Chen Mingzhen.
"Wings of a Changed Heart", "A Lover Who Never Forgets", "A Vest", "Falling in Love with Someone Is Equal to Falling in Love with Loneliness", "Where to Find Such a Good Person", "Loving Someone Is a Very Hard Thing......... In addition to the song "Love Debt", almost Chen Mingzhen's well-known works are all chen Jinxing's works.
Of course, Chen Mingzhen also has a widely sung song - "I Love You in My Own Way", because there is another arrangement later, Chen Mingzhen's masterpiece is given to "Wings of Changing Hearts", which is also the beginning of many fans falling in love with Chen Mingzhen.
5. "Why My Truth In Exchange for My Pain" Gao Shengmei, 1993
Gao Shengmei is the most important singer of Shanghua Records, and she also opened the road of Shanghua's manufacturing queen, "the mother of Shanghua" and "Chang Shengtian queen" are titles that refer specifically to Gao Shengmei.
Gao Shengmei is also the most valued disciple of Zuo Hongyuan, and the best works of the old master in the 80s and 90s have been given to her. Inside Shanghua, Gao Shengmei has the best resources, basically the best songs must be given to her first, she chooses to fall down before she gets the turn to be sung by others, such as Huang An's "East, West, South and North Winds" is written by herself and handed over to her sister, who did not look at herself before singing.
Gao Shengmei has sung 21 songs written by Chen Jinxing, such as "Wangfu Cliff" and "Qingqing Riverside Grass" (arranged by Chen Jinxing), from 21 first choice representative songs, the editor gave the 1993 song "Why My Truth in Exchange for My Pain".
4. "A Man In Love with Romance" Meng Tingwei, 1991
Meng Tingwei is a singer discovered by Shanghua Records in the early 1990s, and Yaya Sister in The Shanghua period is also the best stage of her singer career.
Chen Jinxing wrote many songs for Yaya, such as "Autumn Tears", "You See the Face of the Moon" (arrangement), "Dumb and Yaya", "Silent Rain", "Arrangement", "Winter to Taipei to See the Rain" (arrangement), selected representative works, and the editor gave it to "A Man Who Loves Romance".
3. "First Love", Liu Xiaohui, 1991
How many people will remember Liu Xiaohui because of a song "First Love", a "First Love" makes Liu Xiaohui become a Poly Gold "Seven Little Golden Flowers", and also leaves a golden song for Hong Kong Music.
In fact, this "First Love" is the Cantonese version of Chen Mingzhen's 1991 song "I Love You in My Own Way", Chinese song was created by the old duo of Huang Yixiong and Chen Jinxing, and after BaoLijin bought the copyright of this song, Jane Ning filled in the Cantonese lyrics.
2. "Who Did Many Lovers Give Their Souls to" Li Yijun 1993
Inside Shanghua, in addition to Chen Mingzhen, Chen Jinxing's favorite singer is Li Yijun, the "queen of love songs".
"The Spirit of Acacia", "The Blessing of Silence", "Love is a Discolored Autumn Leaf", "My Heart is the Light Rain of March", "Your Background Blocked in the Heart of your Eyes"... Too much too much.
Li Yijun also has many highly sung songs, among which one is from Chen Jinxing, which is a song that the editor likes very much - "To whom do many lovers give their souls".
1. "Applause Rings", Feng Feifei, 1986
In the Taiwanese music scene, there are not many divas who can be on a par with Teresa Teng, Feng Feifei is one of them, and the inspirational story of Feng Feifei has written the legend of "ugly duckling turning into a white swan", which makes many people who are not fans of "Hat Queen" have to admire.
In 1986, in the 16th year of Feng Feifei's entry into the industry, Chen Jinxing wrote the song "Applause Ringing" for the "big sister" of Gelin Company and the diva of the Taiwanese music scene, which was filled in by Chen Guifen. This song, Feng Feifei has enough qualifications to sing; This song, only a singer like Feng Feifei is eligible to sing.
How about the song, the editor will not say much, Mao Amin, Andy Lau, Rowan, many people have sung this song, and the significance of singing this song is very significant. This is a heavy song, and with the singing of many song legends at the end, it also infected the artists on the stage and the audience on the stage.
Because the peak period of the career lasts for a long time, the post-70s and 80s fans who are not familiar with Feng Feifei are not particularly familiar with the songs of this big sister in the music world, but Chen Jinxing's "Applause Rings" and Luo Dayou's "Dream Chaser" must be familiar to everyone.
Li Bihua's "Floating Watermark", Xu Ruyun's "Sea of Tears", Li Wei's "She Wept Before Going to Bed", Xu Jingchun's "Moon Lady of the Zenith"... There are many excellent works of teacher Chen Jinxing, and I will not list them here.
Unlike many well-known musicians who have stopped creating at the beginning of the new millennium, Chen Jinxing has always insisted on creating in his own style, and has also compiled many of his own works into Taiwanese versions. Perhaps, compared with the works of Jay Chou and Wang Lihong, Chen Jinxing's works have a strong sense of age, although they are good, but they are not in the mainstream. The new wave of music was set off, and it was not only Teacher Chen Jinxing who was "photographed on the beach". Some people have achieved fame and know that they will receive what they see, and some people have a true love for music, even if the road to creation is becoming more and more lonely.
Perhaps, fans can remember the works of Teacher Chen Jinxing, but forget himself. When he left, it was quiet, and not many people sent him off. Today, I will list some of Teacher Chen's works, hoping that everyone will always remember him.
May I work twelve points hard, in exchange for your attention and likes!