Shortly after the launch of "Phi Ge 2", some netizens sent out the first question of the deafening:
"Was this man really hot back then?"
Here to answer this netizen: it is true, more real than pearls.
In fact, many people's first reaction when they see this question is: Well, this big guy doesn't know, a bit lonely, right?
But on second thought, I was relieved, because the biggest man was most popular 20 years ago, after all, he was called "the last king of the twentieth century".
But there is one thing, even if some post-00s and even post-10s can't remember his name and can't recognize his face, they must have heard his songs:
"The girl on the other side looks over, looks over, the performance here is very wonderful, please don't pretend to ignore it" "The girl on the other side looks over"
"You are always too soft in heart, too soft in heart, crying alone until dawn" "Heart is too soft"
"A wave is not too late, a wave has long passed, a lifetime, like a dream to wake up" "Sad Pacific"
These songs are about love and the collective memory of a generation.
【1】
After the first stage of "Phi Ge 2", the audience made a love vote.
As a result, Ren Xianqi's audience personal favorability ranked first, surpassing Su Youpeng, the "popularity king" of the same period.
Someone was surprised, how could it be him?
There are also people who are not surprised, of course it is him.
After all, when he was most red, he was more red than Faye Wong.
A generation of diva Faye Wong has had many famous scenes.
For example, at the award ceremony of the 2004 Golden Melody Awards, she took the trophy and said a thank you speech from no one before or after the ancients:
"I know I can sing this, so I also give full affirmation to the affirmation given to me by the Golden Melody Awards judges."
Another example is in "Super Saturday" a serious statement to reporters: "Now my biggest trouble is ..... emm... It's too red.".
But it is such an arrogant and unruly Faye Wong, when the reporter asked her in 1997 whether she was the most popular singer in the mainland, she could only sigh and say:
"The most popular is Ren Xianqi and his 'Heart Too Soft', and this song is playing in the streets and alleys."
"Heart Too Soft" is Ren Xianqi's most popular and best-selling album.
A total of 26 million copies of "Too Soft Heart" were sold throughout Asia that year, not counting the pirated and burned CDs.
At the same time, this is also the most sold album in the Chinese music scene, and this record has not been broken so far.
There will even be reporters who write headlines such as "Too soft heart royalties can buy the Forbidden City".
Not only that, on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala in 1998, a generation of comedians Zhao Lirong and Gong Hanlin also compiled this song "Heart Too Soft" into the sketch "Kung Fu Order", which attracted applause from the audience.
But in fact, the year when "Heart Too Soft" became popular was also the year that Ren Xianqi originally planned to give up singing.
【2】
Ren Xianqi was born in Taiwan in 1966.
The father who was a teacher thought about it for a long time and decided to name his son "Xianqi".
The Analects have clouds, "Seeing the wise and thinking together, seeing the unwise and introspecting within."
Father Ren's plan is that the son who calls this name will know how to look up to the sages in the future.
But it's true that some of the laws of names are weird.
For example, a person with wealth in his name may not be rich, a handsome boy in his name is not necessarily handsome, and a person with "sage" in his name may be a naughty egg.
Ren Xianqi has two older sisters above him, and he is the son that the family has been waiting for for a long time.
Therefore, playing little Ren Xianqi will come at will.
The school requires boys to keep small flat heads, and he will comb small braids;
Tell him that he is in danger and not to play cannonballs, so he runs to burn cannons with his older brothers;
Telling him to be naughty for a limited extent, he dared to make a barbecue on the temple's golden stove.
......
Because of these mischievous things, Ren Father did not beat him less.
But Ren Xianqi always ran very fast, as long as one ear heard Ren Father start to chase and scold, he would grease the soles of his shoes and run out.
Later, on the Radio Television Hong Kong radio program "Keeping The Mercy under the Guard", Ren Xianqi triumphantly mentioned that his childhood life belonged to playing in the fields and catching fish in the river.
As well as the running specialty that was chased by his father.
Ren Xianqi was not thinking about grades, and high school began to tinker with guitar and music in order to chase girls.
Later, he failed to pass the university examination several times, and finally he was guaranteed to the physical education department of the Chinese Culture University by relying on the specialty of running.
After entering the university, Ren Xianqi loved music even more, and even formed a band with several classmates.
In his fourth year of college, he was excavated by Xinge Records, signed a contract, and became a member of Xinge Records.
At that time, he and Shi Xiaoqian sang "Girlish Feelings" in the compilation album "Running to the Rainbow" and debuted as one of the members of snake.
Xinge also deliberately cultivated him, helping him to release three albums in one go, and Ren Xianqi postponed his enlistment for his singing career by a year.
But a year later, Ren Xianqi's singing career still did not improve, but the gag played "Unforgettable" became a hit.
When he returned from his enlistment as a soldier, Xinge was also acquired by the Rolling Stones.
The company collapsed, but Ren Xianqi's contract was still there, so Ren Xianqi was also "acquired" to the Rolling Stones.
At that time, the Rolling Stones were just like the sun, although Ren Xianqi was packaged and sold to the Rolling Stones because the contract did not expire, but at that time, there were countless singers who wanted to join the Rolling Stones, including Zheng Jun at the same time.
Therefore, this kind of encounter is also a blessing for Ren Xianqi.
But because Ren Xianqi's grades in The New Grid were mediocre, he walked with the tables and chairs benches of the old company.
When he arrived at the new company, people were unloading goods and moving things, and he was also used as a courier for delivery, until he said "I am also a singer", and then the crowd suddenly realized, and then laughed.
Don't blame people for laughing.
Because the Rolling Stones would not care about this nameless pawn at all.
Li Zongsheng, Zhou Huajian, Zhang Xinzhe, Wu Bai, Lin Yilian...
Almost all the singers who can find their names on the Chinese music scene are signed under the Rolling Stones.
After joining the Rolling Stones, Ren Xianqi released a new album while filming, incidentally hosting, playing racing, learning to pull bells, learning juggling, and learning Peking Opera.
It sounds cool and beautiful and leisurely, but this "freedom" is precisely because he is not red enough.
The company didn't have time to take care of him, he could only find things for himself, otherwise once he left the Rolling Stones, how he would make a living would be a problem.
Every year, Ren Xianqi's name will appear on the company's "termination list", but every year, a music producer in the company named Xiao Bug will leave him behind.
This process cycled for seven full years.
In the last year, Bug finally freed up and decided to create an album for Ren Xianqi by hand.
And this album is the "Heart Too Soft" that later became popular all over Asia and made Faye Wong sigh.
At first, Ren Xianqi's idea at that time was that if the album still had no response, he would become a journalist himself.
The Rolling Stones also gave him an ultimatum, and if the album wasn't a hit, the company wouldn't keep him.
Fortunately, Ren Xianqi and "Heart Too Soft" are both red.
【3】
After "Heart Too Soft" became popular, less than two years later, Ren Xianqi released the album "Love Like the Pacific".
Among them, the singles "Sad Pacific", "The Girl Across the Street Looks Over" and "I Am a Fish" have all become popular songs in the streets.
And the significance of this album is also extraordinary, it represents that Ren Xianqi is really popular by strength, not an accidental album.
When people became popular, some film and television works came to him to ask him to sing the theme song, and even some producers extended an olive branch to him and asked him to be the main actor.
Thus, there was Ren Xianqi's version of Yang Guo and Chu Liuxiang.
Although the appearance is not as good as "ordinary and no ancient Heavenly Music", as the "last Heavenly King", Ren Xianqi has his own idol filter and does not invite scolding.
But presumably red is really metaphysics.
When Ren Xianqi was not red, he looked at the red-haired Wu Bai and others and sighed that it was not the right time.
When he was red, Jay Chou and others also looked at him with envy.
And when Jay Chou, who sang "Double Knuckle Stick", Ren Xianqi, who sang love songs and played a wonderful man, was also forced to transform.
Du Qifeng glanced through the shell of Ren Xianqi's love singer, and saw that he was also evil and mischievous, so he handed over the villain role in "Big Event" to him.
Ren Xianqi finished very brilliantly, and Du Qifeng was very satisfied, but he did not expect that Lin Chaoxian also looked at him after watching "Big Event" and came to greet Du Qifeng and grab people.
The final result is that Ren Xianqi will play an ignorant little policeman in Lin Chaoxian's film, and he will play a fierce villain in Du Qifeng's film.
But it has to be said that although Ren Xianqi crossed the border from singer to actor, his acting skills are extremely outstanding, and he is many times stronger than the so-called cross-border traffic now.
This is probably also the most precious point of the entertainment industry in that era, without strength, it cannot be mixed anywhere.
【4】
At this point, according to the law, we should talk about Ren Xianqi's emotional life.
But compared to the "playboy" Zheng Jun and Du Dewei I mentioned in the previous article, Ren Xianqi's love life is really a bit unwatchable.
Because he is really too single-minded.
When Ren Xianqi was playing a band in college, he and his sister Tina fell in love.
The two, like couples of the same age, make an appointment to press the road, eat, play wildly, occasionally quarrel, and then reconcile.
Since falling in love, the two seem to have never had any third-party incidents, nor have they ever been divided and merged under the spotlight.
Tina has accompanied him through the new grid, the Rolling Stones and later his acting career.
In 2002, six years after Ren Xianqi became popular, he and Tina got married.
After marriage, the two have a son and a daughter, and they are as sweet as ever.
This is Ren Xianqi's emotional history, monotonous as if he had just glanced at it.
But the two spent hand in hand, walking through the lows of Ren Xianqi, the years of popularity and transformation together, and there were not a few words to say.
Therefore, I can only express my thoughts here with a slightly sentimental copywriting - "love can withstand the long years".
The story of the "Last Heavenly King" that belonged to Ren Xianqi's peak moment was over.
But his real life continues.