Do you believe a story about a Japanese singer feeding half of the Chinese music scene?
In 1983, PolyGram Records approached Teresa Teresa and recommended a Japanese song to her, which was a big seller. Who is Teresa? The hottest female singer of the 70s "where there are Chinese, there is Teresa Teresa". Being able to ask Teresa Teng to do a cover song is simply a difficult one with asking Jackie Chan to do a group performance.
However, Teresa agreed, because the author of this song is called Miyuki Nakajima.
In May 1983, Teresa Teng's new song "Walking the Road of Life" was released. Its original song is Miyuki Nakajima's "Habitual Solitude", a song that sold 400,000 albums. Teresa Teresa did not look away, and once "Walking the Road of Life" was released, it directly won the first place in the Hong Kong Chinese Golden Melody Dragon and Tiger List. At the concert held at the Hung Hom Stadium at the end of the year, some fans fainted after listening to the excitement.
If Teresa's adaptation also has a celebrity blessing effect, then Faye Wong's popularity is completely dependent on Miyuki Nakajima.
In 1992, the 23-year-old Faye Wong returned from the United States, and she was at the trough of her career, so she casually flipped a song of Aunt Xue's "Lipstick"; Original song, fill in the words, burst the fire, all in one go. This new song is called "Vulnerable Woman", and the market is cut off when it is launched, and sales are close to platinum. Silently here dare to say, anyone who likes Faye Wong can't not have heard of it.
This is not the end, 5 years later, the record company asked Aunt Xue to tailor the song "Human World" for Faye Wong, which laid the status of Faye Wong as the queen of the Hong Kong music scene.
The third singer of Miyuki Nakajima's popularity is called Ren Xianqi. Many people think that he relied on "Heart Too Soft" to catch fire, but in fact, Ren Xianqi's peak work is "Sad Pacific". The original song is "Happiness" composed by Aunt Xue for her friend Apricot Kobayashi in 1997. Just a year later, the quick-eyed Rolling Stones bought the rights and handed him over to Ren Xianqi.
How popular was the song at the time? From Sanlitun in Beijing to Ximending in Taipei, eight of the ten VCD stores are playing "Pacific Ocean". It was a weather vane, the last platinum record of the 20th century Chinese music scene, which was composed by a Japanese singer.
The last time Aunt Xue won the red singer was probably Fan Weiqi in 2004. A song "The First Dream", singing how many frustrated young people cried. However, the birth of this song is full of coincidence, when Fan Weiqi was chasing a Japanese drama called "Goto Doctor Clinic", and the theme song "Riding on the Back of the Silver Dragon" happened to be sung by Miyuki Nakajima.
Fan Weiqi was greatly impressed, and he approached the company to negotiate with Miyuki Nakajima, hoping to buy the copyright of the theme song. However, after the copyright was bought, Fan Weiqi could not find the feeling in the TV series, and she could not sing it in tune. Until a trip to Hualien, the plane saw the boundless sea, and the "Dream" that influenced two generations was born.
Refusing to complete statistics, Miyuki Nakajima wrote more than 500 songs in her lifetime, of which more than 70 songs were covered into more than 300 Chinese songs. Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau, Zhou Huajian, Zhang Guorong, Lin Jiaxin... In the Hong Kong and Taiwan music scene in the 1980s and 1990s, most of the singers were members of the "Nakajima Miyuki Hanhua Group".
So the question is, what is the charm of Miyuki Nakajima's songs?
In 1972, the fledgling Miyuki Nakajima was asked a question by the Japanese poet Shuntaro Tanigawa: "What does it mean to be a singer?" ”
Miyuki Nakajima couldn't answer, but she spent her life searching for an answer to that question. "Habitual Loneliness" is a lifelong unmarried Miyuki Nakajima, a beautiful imagination of love when she was young. "Lipstick" is inspired by a woman from the street who travels from the countryside to the city to find a husband. "Happiness" was written by her friend Apricot Kobayashi, encouraging her to be positive, optimistic and open-minded. "Riding on the Back of the Silver Dragon", comparing the scalpel to the silver dragon, praises the greatness of the doctor's profession.
Yes, the meaning of being a singer is narrative, lyrical, praise, encouragement. But in the end, it's about expression. Joy and sorrow, love and hate. As the Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi said: "Articles are written for the times, and songs and poems are written for the sake of things." ”
Moving without pretentiousness, simple without losing elegance; Perhaps, this is the secret of the genius Kazuhime Nakajima Miyuki, who has been prosperous for a long time.