One
Once, Anita Mui came over and said to Li Keqin: "Young man, I really think you are very arrogant, so arrogant that I want to hit you." ”
Anita Mui is the eldest sister of both virtue and art in the Hong Kong music scene, and has promoted many juniors, why did she tell Li Keqin so much?
All this starts with Li Keqin's tortuous musical path.
In 1985, 18-year-old Li Keqin was obsessed after listening to Alan Tam's song "The Root of Love", and ran to the "Rookie Singing Competition" to sing this song, but did not even enter the top fifteen, he was very angry, thinking that the competition was shady!
At that time, he must not have imagined that many years later he would also become a mentor in a music talent show, and might face the same doubts...
However, although Li Keqin is very unhappy, his classmates and teachers are very happy: just after losing, Li Keqin can finally come back to study well!
However, although Li Keqin had the heart to read, a beautiful woman he met at the "Rookie Singing Competition" did not agree.
This beauty is the later famous Zhou Huimin. During the competition, the two brothers and sisters did not enter the top fifteen, and they pity each other and pity each other, and they became good friends after coming and going.
After the "rookie" ended, Li Keqin had signed up to study abroad, and Zhou Huimin called over: "There is an amateur singing competition in the 19th district of Hong Kong, the last champion is Jacky Cheung, are you interested in participating?" ”
At that time, Zhou Huimin was still a little baby fat, with a big bow tied on her head, so cute that Li Keqin's heart rippled. It's hard to say whether Li Keqin signed up for the competition again for Zhou Huimin or for singing. Anyway, he signed up again.
Who expected that Zhou Huimin released the pigeons, and 18-year-old Li Keqin passed all the way and won the championship of the "2nd Hong Kong 19 District Amateur Singing Competition" with a song "Love in the Fog" by Alan Tam, and successfully signed a contract with PolyGram.
The following year, 19-year-old Chow Wai-min participated in the "RTHK Amateur DJ Competition" and won the runner-up, and then joined RTHK to work, which made a twist and turn into the entertainment industry.
Usually a group of people go out to play, Zhou Huimin always said that he wanted to go home to sleep, Li Keqin had no chance to make a move, plus he didn't expect Zhou Huimin to be so standard after a few years, so he gave up casually.
Missed Zhou Huimin, but Li Keqin was eyeing a man.
Two
Alan Tam was also at PolyGram at that time, and Li Keqin was excited for several nights when he thought of being a colleague with his idol.
Unexpectedly, the first time the two met was in the gym.
Alan Tam was on the treadmill, suddenly a skinny boy ran to him, looked at him with very strange eyes, saw his shoulders from his face, and saw his chest from his shoulders, Alan Tam felt that this kid had bad intentions and didn't want to deal with him at all.
This thin man is Li Keqin. Li Keqin failed to chase stars, but he was not very sad. Because more sadder things are yet to come.
In 1986, 19-year-old Li Keqin released his first EP "Li Keqin". When recording, one of the lyrics handed in, the handwriting was all on the paper, but the lyricist could not be contacted, he had no way, so he tried to fill in the lyrics himself.
In 1987, he released his first solo album "Symbols of Destiny", the song "Half Moon Serenade" in the album was still selected by himself, and later became one of his masterpieces.
A newcomer in his 20s has seen musical talent for the first time at this time, but unfortunately, the two albums are not selling well, and they are not even familiar with each other.
Li Keqin is very unhappy, but his father is very happy: his son can finally go to school.
Seeing this kind of achievement, Li Keqin also withdrew and prepared to continue his studies and study abroad.
However, coincidentally, when he was about to leave, TVB suddenly threw an olive branch to him and asked him to film a TV series.
Li Keqin didn't know what acting was at that time, and he was scolded every day when he started work, and finally got the hang of it after a month of scolding.
After the TV series was broadcast, the ratings were very good, and the audience finally knew that there was such a character as Li Keqin in the entertainment industry.
Popularity has come up, and record sales have come up. The album "Summer Myth" was released next, which became Li Keqin's first platinum record.
In 1989, the 22-year-old Li Keqin was even more proud, and his song "Life Remains the Same" won the "RTHK Top Ten Chinese Golden Melody Awards Ceremony" and "TVB Top Ten Golden Melody Awards Ceremony" Golden Melody Awards Ceremony.
The "Top Ten Golden Songs" sponsored by TVB was a coveted award for Hong Kong singers at that time, and whoever could be shortlisted for the work could basically "become famous overnight".
Alan Tam was also full of praise for Li Keqin at that time, saying that Li Keqin was a new singer who could be his successor.
However, this sentence made Alan Tam regret it for more than ten years.
Three
The 22-year-old guy, the Golden Melody Award in hand, and the king superstar personally named the "baton taker", everyone is waiting to see if Li Keqin is the next "Golden Melody King".
However, fate this guy is always unexpected, and he especially likes to tease people.
In 1991, Dawn, who was under PolyGram with Li Keqin, became popular with the TVB drama "People on the Edge", and Jacky Cheung, who had been silent for a long time, also walked out of the trough with the song "Love You More Every Day".
Li Keqin, who was ready to show his strength, felt that he was not valued by the company, and he fell out with the company when he was young and vigorous.
At this time, Andy Lau was nominated for the "Academy Award Actor for the second time" with the film "The Biography of 500 Million Inspector Lei Luo", and Kwok Fucheng's Chinese album "I Can't End My Love for You" sold more than 1 million copies in Asia...
In 1992, Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Kwok Fucheng and Liming were named the "Four Heavenly Kings" by the media, and their influence spread throughout China and Asia.
Throughout the nineties, on the stage of the "Top Ten Golden Songs", four people took turns to monopolize the "Most Popular Male Singer Award". And Li Keqin hosted, sang, and even presented awards on this stage, but almost never took away the trophy again. This taste must be difficult to say.
There is another saying about Li Keqin not winning the award: it is too easy to offend people.
When Liang Rongzhong was filming the youth program "Summer Vacation to the End" on TVB, he saw Li Keqin for the first time and found that Li Keqin's head was always raised high and his nostrils looked at people, and he wondered at that time: Why is the head of this youth idol singer like this, is there a problem with the neck?
Later, Liang Rongzhong learned that when he was not familiar, Li Keqin looked at people with nostrils, and when he was familiar, he treated people sincerely. A few years later, Liang Rongzhong fell out of love, Li Keqin accompanied him to drink, chatted to the sad place, Liang Rongzhong fell on Li Keqin's lap and cried.
But at that time, the entire Hong Kong circle and the media were saying that Li Keqin had no one in his eyes.
Even Anita Mui, who has always liked to promote her juniors, felt that Li Keqin was arrogant and proud, and after meeting Li Keqin at karaoke, she was slightly drunk and taught this kid a lesson with a straight heart.
Hearing Anita Mui say that he was arrogant, Li Keqin was shocked at that moment: Why does a senior who has not worked with him feel like this?
So, he began to reflect: if you still want to do it in this industry, you need to change. Soon, fate changed.
Four
For Li Keqin, what happened in 1992 was a bit much.
The "Four Heavenly Kings" dominate the music scene, and he has a lot of time to do other things, going to TVB to shoot TV series and host programs...
When filming "He Comes from Heaven", Li Keqin not only starred, but also was responsible for writing the theme song.
That day, Li Keqin had not slept for several days, and the crew urged the song tightly, and he wrote songs in the parking lot of the TV station after finishing work at three o'clock in the morning.
Writing that at six or seven o'clock, other artists slept enough to go to work, Li Keqin suddenly came from sadness, and Wen Siquan wrote: "Even if fate is upside down, even if fate is twists and turns, even if fate intimidates you, it's not interesting to be a person..."
If there is divine help, Li Keqin refills the lyrics, and "Red Sun", which is adapted from the song "それが大事" composed by Toshiyuki Tachikawa and sung by MAN of the big event, finally ushered in his own super hit song.
This song inspired a lot of people.
There is a fan, the college entrance examination mock exam is very bad, she copied the lyrics of "Red Sun" and pasted them on the desk, read the lyrics every day to beat herself blood, and her score rose by 100 points in the college entrance examination.
Blind football player Chen Shanyong sings "Red Sun" every time he is tired from practice, and the fighting spirit of "Red Sun" has helped him win medals one after another on the football field.
Even in the future, when Li Keqin himself in concerts, when he felt that he was not doing well, he would sing "Red Sun" on the spot to motivate himself.
This year, TVB held the "Hong Kong Sister" beauty pageant and invited Li Keqin as a guest performer, and the Hong Kong sister champion was called Lu Shuyi.
25-year-old Li Keqin saw 19-year-old Lu Shuyi, his heart was pleasant, and he chatted about it by taking advantage of his position, and he talked about people as his girlfriend.
At that time, the parents on both sides were not very optimistic, and the man's family wondered if a "Hong Kong sister" champion could look up to you as a little singer. The woman's family thinks that Li Keqin is a person in the entertainment industry, is it really fake? Is it serious?
Li Keqin showed his loyalty and wrote the love song "You Are My Sun" for Lu Shuyi, and Lu Shuyi completely withdrew from the entertainment industry and became the woman behind Li Keqin.
The following year, Li Keqin switched to Starlight Records, and Alan Tam wrote a song "Thinking of You All My Life" to Li Keqin in order to express his love for Li Keqin.
As soon as the album "Thinking of You All My Life" came out, Li Keqin's singing career was revived, and the song "Looking Back" won the Golden Melody Award of the "Top Ten Golden Songs" in 1993, making him into the top five of "Most Popular Male Singer".
In addition to being happy, Li Keqin also filled in the lyrics "Favorite" for his old friend Zhou Huimin, helping Zhou Huimin win the bronze award of the "Explosive Female Singer Award".
At the end of 1993, 26-year-old Li Keqin held his first solo concert at the Hung Hom Stadium in Hong Kong, and the concert venue was full, adding several in a row.
The love career is proud, and the public began to stretch their necks again to see if Li Keqin was going to take Alan Tam's class.
But Li Keqin's luck is like a June day, and it changes when it is said.
Five
Because the concert in 1993 was too successful, in 1995, Li Keqin held a second solo concert and decided to open ten concerts in a row.
However, after 1993, the development momentum of the Hong Kong recording industry gradually declined, and by 1995 it was not very prosperous.
There are more than 12,000 seats in a game, thousands of empty seats every night, and the worst one even has a 40%-50% seating rate, making Li Keqin afraid to go to the Hung Hom Stadium every day.
The direction of the wind changed instantly, and many ugly words reached his ears, "I said he couldn't do it earlier", "ten consecutive scenes, he deserves it", and even some relatives who did not often meet him talked about it.
In difficult times, it was Alan Tam who supported him.
Alan Tam, who was originally going to work in other places, suddenly appeared in front of Li Keqin after Li Keqin finished singing a song and said to Li Keqin: "The scene tonight is not good, but in the future time you have to work harder, tell the audience friends who did not come tonight, you can sing, next time you must come again." ”
The 1995 concert box office failure, like the domino effect, had a great impact...
In 1996, Li Keqin changed record companies again, because he had an unpleasant experience changing record companies last time, and this time he changed companies, Li Keqin found the most expensive lawyer in Hong Kong to write a contract as thick as a telephone book, and the contract even wrote clearly what to eat out.
And his fame declined after the concert, the record did not sell well, and he made such a troublesome request, the company simply did not give him a record.
But the contract period has not expired, Li Keqin can not leave the company, only find another way to TVB to shoot TV series.
Li Keqin has only one purpose, hoping to increase exposure, maintain popularity, and sing the theme song of the TV series when the series is launched.
In 1998, coinciding with the World Cup, Li Keqin was appointed as the host of TVB's broadcast of the World Cup football match, and the theme song of the program naturally fell into his hands again.
Surprisingly, the theme song "Fan Adventure" was so successful that almost everyone in Hong Kong could sing two lines with their mouths open.
The spring of Li Keqin's career seems to be coming again?
No, there are 3 more years. This is also thanks to Alan Tam.
Six
In 2001, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra invited Alan Tam to give a concert, but Alan Tam was not available and recommended Lee Keqin.
When the orchestra came to him, Li Keqin thought that they might have come to him by force. Come and do a good job of this business.
Li Keqin proposed to the boss to record the concert live to produce an album, the boss said that he was very old-fashioned in this way, and the two broke up unhappily, and finally Li Keqin still insisted on his own set.
What Li Keqin did not expect was that the concert received a warm response, opening four times twice, and all four were full, which was widely praised.
What the boss of Li Keqin did not expect was that the record "Hong Kong Music" recorded on the spot won the "IFPI Hong Kong Record Sales Award", and the boss was overjoyed and immediately asked Li Keqin to eat to make amends for him.
In 2002, 35-year-old Li Keqin ushered in the harvest year.
This year, he and Guo Keying cooperated in the TV series "Legal Open Yiren", which was rumored to have done a fake drama, and Guo Keying later fell out with the agent, and the agent broke out that Guo Keying had repeatedly moved the idea of marrying Li Keqin at that time...
This scandal did not follow, but Li Keqin won the "My Favorite TV Character Award" at the TVB celebration award ceremony with his role as "Gao Zhilang" in "Legal Open Yiren".
This year, Li Keqin, who was carrying the mountain of "Alan Tam taking over the baton", accompanied and hosted on the award stage for many years, and finally won the "Top Ten Golden Songs Most Popular Male Singer Award" for the first time.
The person who presented the award to Li Keqin happened to be Alan Tam, and the moment he read Li Keqin's name, Alan Tam breathed a sigh of relief and said with emotion:
"I once felt guilty for a sentence for more than ten years, when that sentence did not expect to hurt you and put you under so much pressure, today I can finally say very comfortably, I have found my baton taker."
At the celebration party after the award ceremony, Alan Tam and Li Keqin hugged and cried together, and Li Keqin finally dared to say the words that were suppressed in his heart to the idol: "When a person tells you that he is optimistic about you, I have not been able to deliver the ideal results for many years, and I am not at ease, so I said on stage just now that I have lived up to your expectations of me." ”
The second year when Li Keqin won the award, by chance, Alan Tam suddenly had a big deal with him.
Seven
In February 2002, 35-year-old Li Keqin and 52-year-old Alan Tam held a concert at the Hong Kong Coliseum at the same time, and both concerts responded enthusiastically, so they prepared to hold a press conference to announce the additional performance.
The two thought that everyone wanted to hold a press conference, but it would be better to hold it together. So they held a press conference together to announce the additional scene.
A reporter who came saw the announcement with the title of "Alan Tam Lee Keqin Concert Press Conference" and asked them if they were co-organizing the concert.
This question made Alan Tam see business opportunities.
Alan Tam and Li Keqin hit it off and immediately began to think of a name for the group, the original name was thought up by Alan Tam, quite imposing, called "Double Dragon to the Sea".
Li Keqin felt too shocked, but persuaded Alan Tam not to move, or moved the rescue soldiers so that Alan Tam finally adopted "left lin right Li".
In 2003, the "Zuo Lin Right Lee Concert 2003" world tour was launched, and since its establishment, it has held more than 100 concert tours in Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Australia, the United States and Canada.
Through this cooperation, the relationship between the two has become deeper and deeper, and Li Keqin's name for Alan Tam has become "old bean".
And Li Keqin's twisted story is far from over.
Eight
In 2006, when the 39-year-old Li Keqin won the "Most Popular Male Singer Award" at the "Top Ten Golden Melody Awards Ceremony", he announced on the spot that he was about to marry Lu Shuyi, who had been patting for 13 years.
When he got off the stage that day, he met Chen Zilian, known as the "mother of Hong Kong sisters". Chen Zilian looked at him with tears in her eyes, pulled him and said: "I'm so happy to hear that you two are getting married, I'm actually worried that you are not serious and drag down my daughter."
This year, Li Keqin gave Lu Shuyi "Hejiu Must Marriage", and at the wedding banquet, "Old Bean" Alan Tam and Li's father sat together at the main banquet.
In 2014, Li Keqin contributed several "god-level scenes" on "I Am a Singer", his breath was very stable when he sang, and he was praised by netizens for "I can hear the sound of ventilation and count me as losing", and the era of this veteran golden song king seems to have just begun.
In 2019, Li Keqin joined Dragon TV to compete in the variety show "The Voice of Chinese Dreams, Our Song", and partnered with Zhou Shen and finally won the title of "Golden Voice Partner".
Li Keqin and Zhou Shen's "There is a Lover in the World" is popular on the Internet, and the 53-year-old Li Keqin is in a state of "harmony" most of the time, lifting weights lightly to set off Zhou Shen's high-pitched and clear, and the perfect cooperation has given birth to a cross-era group "Qin Shen".
Debuted at the age of 18, witnessed "Tan Zhang Fighting for Hegemony", competing with the "Four Heavenly Kings", over forty years old, Li Keqin, who was the "Heavenly King Successor", once known as the "Fifth Heavenly King", finally walked to the center of the stage.
The classic Cantonese songs he sang back then, such as "Half Moon Serenade", "Life Unchanged", "Red Sun", "Old Joy Like a Dream", "Flower Messenger", "Deep Deep" and so on, finally became popular again.
Many people hold grievances for him and regret that he lost the aura of the "Four Heavenly Kings" under the tease of fate, but Li Keqin said lightly on the "Spit Conference":
"Because of fate, I didn't become the Four Heavenly Kings, but I think I'm doing well now."
That's right, since taking the "Hong Kong sister goddess" into her pocket and holding the beauty back, Li Keqin and Lu Shuyi have a deep relationship and have two sons. There were almost no scandals in the long years, both worldly happiness and dreams.
In the past two sessions of "The Voice of China", Li Keqin has won the championship mentor for two consecutive years, and Andy Lau, the former "Four Heavenly Kings", personally attended the scene to congratulate, "Congratulations to Mr. Li Keqin, it's amazing!" You've become this season's champion mentor, congratulations. ”
Time flies, many years have passed, and Li Keqin, who was once "very arrogant", has finally become a mentor in the Chinese music scene who guides the rivers and mountains and preaches the truth and is confused by karma.
Perhaps, this is the inheritance, Alan Tam, who is sitting in front of the TV, must be very pleased to see this scene. If Quanxia knows, Anita Mui, who taught Li Keqin a lesson, will definitely feel pleased.
May the Chinese music scene be passed on to the rest of the day!
The author of this article: Wan Xiaodao, writing celebrities, writing gossip, with evidence; The image is positive and the shadow is oblique, all taken by themselves, welcome to pay attention to @Wanxiaojiaotiao
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