What would you do if, one day, you were wandering the streets and suddenly Luo Dayou appeared in front of you, invited you to join his company, and wanted to fully praise you as a singer? Nonsense, of course, is to get up and drink water to suppress the shock, continue to dream.
However, there is a person who really met such a good thing in reality, her name is Yuan Fengying.
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Yuan Fengying, born in 1965, has a brother on the top and a brother on the bottom, and her childhood and adolescent life is not ideal and harmonious, and the reason comes from her parents.
The union of Yuan's father and Yuan's mother is a typical arranged marriage. When Yuan's mother was 17 years old, she married Yuan's father under the mediation of her family, and the two had no feelings to speak of, even if they had three children in a row, they could not maintain an estranged and strange relationship.
Therefore, Yuan Fengying grew up in the constant quarrels of her parents and lived a very unhappy life. By the time she went to middle school, her parents finally couldn't bear it, and they felt that such a day was difficult to settle, and it was better to break up. After the divorce, Yuan Fengying followed her father and lacked care, especially when she was 17 or 8 years old, her father remarried, and she became a "superfluous" person. Go back to your mother, there is another family over there, and avoid her. In the days that followed, Yuan Fengying could only rely on herself.
Such an experience has led to Yuan Fengying's lonely, introverted and unsociable personality, and this kind of personality has seriously affected the singing career in the future. However, because she came from a broken family, she has always been curious about human nature, and after quitting the music scene, she went to read psychological counseling, hoping to help others get out of the shadows.
This is a postscript.
Depressed and without friends, Yuan Fengying only finds comfort in music, the so-called "love to sing since childhood", some are really interested, and some are full of bitterness.
At the end of her studies, Yuan Fengying entered the society and became an office clerk, working nine to five every day, and she could not help but get bored for a long time.
In 1986, the rookie singing competition was launched as scheduled, and Yuan Fengying felt that it was a good opportunity to change her destiny, so she signed up for the competition and reached the finals in one fell swoop.
This rookie singing contest is the fifth anniversary of its establishment, and the theme is "The Fifth Anniversary of the Echo of The Stars", so it is grand and grand. In the finals, Gu Jiahui, Li Xiaotian, Liu Peiji, Lin Yanni, Lin Minyi, etc. sat on the jury; Zhen Ni, Lu Guanting, Jacky Cheung and the previous four champions Mei Yanfang, Lü Fang, Zhang Weijian, Du Dewei served as guests; Zhang Guorong, Chen Huixian, Mak Jiewen and others watched the game... The scene is really brilliant, living up to the name of "Star Radiance".
A total of seventeen players, including Yuan Fengying, entered the finals, including Dawn who returned from overseas, xu Zhi'an and Huang Yi, who were young and young, and Deng Ruoxian, who was beautiful, and three "PeiLing" - Wen Peiling, Zhao Peiling, zhong Peiling - It seems that this name was more popular that year, just like the current Zi Xin and Zi Tong. They were stepping on the "corpses" of Guan Shuyi and Lin Junxian and standing on the stage. Among them, if it were not for Guan Shuyi not taking the game seriously at all, and if she was not fully prepared, she would open her voice, so that she would be eliminated in the middle of the run, and it was not certain who would die in the deer.
Group photo of the 5th Rookie Singing Contest in 1986: Left Liming, Left Huang Yi, Left Xu Zhi'an; Back Row Left One Wen Peiling, Left Second Yuan Fengying
Yuan Fengying's entry song is Lin Yilian's first famous song "Indulgence", but her interpretation of "I am empty, I am lonely, I am cold" is not as good as Dawn's "emptiness", dawn is "Absolute Emptiness", not to beat Wen Peiling's "Ice and Cold" ("Dream Companion") and Xu Zhi'an's "Eyes are also full of tears" ("Love of Fog"). As a result, Wen Peiling, Xu Zhi'an and Li Ming won the top three of this competition, and Yuan Fengying could only "indulge" once in vain.
Yuan Fengying was in the finals of the Rookie Singing Competition
After the competition, Yuan Fengying, who did not get the rank, did not step into the singing world as desired, but the rookie singing contest is very famous on Hong Kong Island after all, and the participating singers are not awarded prizes, which is an honor and resource, even if there is no record company signing, casually sing a song in the bar, and the big poster of "Rookie Singing Contest Charm New Star Miss XX Singing" is also attractive enough. Therefore, Yuan Fengying took this road and sang on stage in the lounge. During this time, she also participated in the SEAL Theater Company and performed stage plays.
However, Yuan Fengying was unwilling, and in line with the principle of "where she fell, she got up", in 1988, she signed up for the future idol battle of ATV.
Obviously, the future idol competition founded by ATV in 1986 was aimed at TVB's rookie singing competition, which not only had rich prizes, but also adopted the method of direct criticism of the contestants by the judges, creating a precedent in the form of judges of the Hong Kong Singing Competition.
After the first two trials (the first champion Zhang Liji, the second champion Zhen Chuqian), the future idol competition has a certain response, and in 1988, the third session, ATV decided to get back the "big". This year, it expanded the scope of the competition to Guangdong and Macao, playing the name of "Provincial Hong Kong and Macao", just like it took "Miss Asia" against TVB "Miss Hong Kong", no matter what the quality, the name must definitely be overpowered.
Yuan Fengying once again reached the finals. In the finals, ATV was unequivocal, inviting big names such as Luo Dayou, Xu Guanwen, Feng Baobao, Lin Minyi and other big names to serve as judges, and the guests of the performance were the British trio JOHNNY HATES JAZZ and Huang Yingying, hosted by Zeng Zhiwei.
The competition designated song link, Yuan Fengying sang Kwong Meiyun's "Stay with Me", she sang and danced, lively and cute; in the song selection link, she still selected Lin Yilian's song - "Gray Makeup", only to see its black short skirt, wild and sexy, Luo Dayou and Xu Guanwen looked, oh no, listening to it like a drunk, constantly wiping glasses.
In the end, the winner of the competition, the "Idol Award", was won by Li Dada from Guangdong, who won both the "Most Entertaining Award" and the "Styling Creativity Award". Sponsor Xie Ruilin personally hung the prize, a diamond pin worth 60,000 yuan, on his chest.
And Yuan Fengying, who won the "Most Prominent Typhoon Award", accidentally spent it when receiving the award, I don't know if it is excitement or disgust. That's not bad, at least much stronger than another contestant, Cai Jiwen.
To be fair, Yuan Fengying's loss to Li Reach was not unjust at all. You know, at that time, Li Da, who had been in the Pacific Art Troupe for more than three years, was selected and sent by the Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture's Foreign Art Exchange Center, and the strength was not to say, winning the unanimous approval of the judges, and even Rowan wanted to accept him as an apprentice.
Later, Lee signed with ATV and Warner to release the album "Again", and in 1989, together with Zhou Huimin, he was awarded the Outstanding Newcomer Award at the Top Ten Chinese Golden Melody Awards.
However, as an "outsider" and in a weak platform, it is a pity that Li Dada did not further develop in the Hong Kong music scene.
Lee reached
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With the future idol battle "Most Prominent Typhoon Award" in hand, Yuan Fengying successfully signed ATV, she fantasized that the door of the entertainment industry would open. Who knows, a "contract" lawsuit shattered her dream.
This lawsuit, Rong sold a pass, will be mentioned later, in short, Yuan Fengying and ATV immediately terminated the contract. This incident made her discouraged and continued to return to the company as a clerical, at least stable.
It is said that one day Yuan Fengying had nothing to do, strolling through the streets of Wan Chai, and happened to meet Luo Dayou, who was also here to believe in the reins. When the two are in the future idol battle, one is a singer and the other is a judge, and they naturally know each other and greet each other.
Yuan Fengying asked Luo Dayou what he had been busy with recently, and the "godfather" had a serious face and replied that he was going to open a company, use music as a weapon, issue a declaration of battle, and save the sons and daughters of Hong Kong who lived worse than death under the iron hooves of the bourgeoisie. For this kind of esoteric question, Yuan Fengying naturally could not understand, so she diverged from the topic and asked him whether the company he ran had a suitable singer. The "godfather" sighed and said that well-known singers have contracts and can only dig up new people. After saying this, Luo Dayou's eyes suddenly lit up - it was really a place to step on the iron shoes, and the person opposite was not looking for? He patted Yuan Fengying's shoulder and solemnly issued an invitation: "Xiao Yuan, come to me, I will make you more popular than Madonna and richer than Li Ka-shing." Yuan Fengying listened, and her heart was flustered, and she quickly bid farewell to the crazy Luo Dayou and ran home to calm her mood.
Luo Dayou
How did Luo Dayou come up with the idea of opening a company in Hong Kong? It's a long story.
In 1985, under great pressure, Luo Dayou ran away from Taiwan to live in New York, the United States, and two years later, he ended the retreat and re-emerged from the jianghu, but he did not return to his hometown, but chose Hong Kong as a new starting point for his career.
On why It is Hong Kong and not other places, Lo Saidu said: In 1986, he was invited from New York to Hong Kong as a guest of honor for a music competition, and found that Hong Kong was facing something that had never been seen before in human history, called "97", which immediately made him feel promising and could not be missed.
If you don't say that Luo Dayou is sensitive to society and the current situation, otherwise he will not become the "godfather of the times" music, only by keeping the pulse of the times and being in the midst of great changes, Luo Dayou's creation will be like a fish.
In addition, Hong Kong's good institutions, such as perfect copyright protection, the establishment of a songwriters' association, and a free environment, are all things that attractEdu.
Similarly, Hong Kong also needs this master figure, not only as a matter of supporting the façade, but also as a good thing to prosper the music scene, expand the genre, increase cooperation, and upgrade the file.
In 1986, Luo Dayou wrote a "love letter" to Hong Kong - "Pearl of the Orient" (Cantonese version, sung by Kwan Cheng Kit), looking at the reaction, Hong Kong was expected to be very popular, and gently threw a wink at Luo Dayou and called softly: "Kang Busy North Nose." The following year, Luo Dayou couldn't wait to enter the house, and "directly made Hangzhou a state of Bizhou", which had a tendency to be anti-guest.
In Hong Kong, Lo first set up a personal recording studio, in addition to producing his own works, he also participated in the creation of a large number of film music, such as "Comrade Lover" in 1988, which he completed in four recording studios in Hong Kong and Taiwan, including the Hong Kong recording studio.
Composing music for the film is the main way for Luo Dayou to integrate into the local area and the means of earning money, so he enjoys it tirelessly, from "Flowers on the Sea" and "Confused Love" to "My Days in the Underworld" and "Lover Comrade", all of which are his main business. Of the five works nominated for "Best Film Song" at the 1990 Hong Kong Film Awards alone, three were written by Law Tai-yok, who eventually won the prize for "Eight Two Golds".
At the end of 1989, Luo Dayou was not willing to make a small fuss and decided to upgrade the Hong Kong recording studio to a company, which had the story of recruiting soldiers and buying horses and fancying Yuan Fengying.
After saying goodbye to Luo Dayou on the street, Yuan Fengying's already calm heart rippled - maybe this time she could really enter the music scene!
Therefore, soon Luo Dayou called and asked Yuan Fengying to go to his office no matter what, and Yuan Fengying gladly agreed.
Entering the office, Yuan Fengying met a foreigner in front of her, and Luo Dayou enthusiastically introduced that this was fabio, an Italian, Chinese named Hua Biao, who was mainly responsible for arranging music. Unexpectedly, Yuan Fengying's face changed drastically, and she turned her head and left, making Luo Dayou's second monk confused, and he rushed to catch up and ask why.
When he understood the situation, Luo Dayou laughed. It turned out that Yuan Fengying's original contract company had an "indirect relationship" with Hua Bi'ao.
Flowers are more proud
Back in time, things have to start after Yuan Fengying participated in the rookie singing competition in 1986.
In that competition, Yuan Fengying found nothing, just when Geng Geng was pregnant, there was a female singer F (Yuan Fengying so called, who is unknown), found her and three other girls, said that they want to make them into a girl group debut. In order to become famous, the four signed a contract with F.
F promised Yuan Fengying and others, follow her, future records, movies, calling the wind and rain, bright prospects, must be more popular than Madonna, richer than Li Ka-shing. However, 4 people need to pay her some money as training, publicity and early investment, which is called reluctance to let the child not be able to trap the wolf, reluctant to the daughter-in-law can not catch the hooligan. Yuan Fengying waited to hear, hey, it makes sense, and he gave her hundreds of thousands of dollars back and forth without hesitation.
In order to convince them of the authenticity of this matter, F also led 4 people to the recording studio, pointed to a foreigner through the glass and said that he was the famous Italian musician Fabio Carli (Huabio), and he was invited to record them with a lot of money. The girls immediately cheered and took the initiative to take out a sum of money to thank F for his cultivation.
You know, Hua Bi'ao is a "celebrity". In 1987, "Waiting for dawn" composed by him for Du Dewei won the "Favorite Cantonese Golden Melody Award". In that year, he also produced "The Inaudible Call" for Lü Fang, which also made fans suffer. No wonder the girls were overjoyed to hear about the cooperation with him.
However, just when Yuan Fengying and others were preparing to do a big job, F suddenly disappeared and could not find anywhere. At this moment, they realized that they had been deceived and had passed.
In 1988, Yuan Fengying participated in the future idol battle and signed a contract with ATV, who knew that F suddenly jumped out and claimed huge compensation from ATV and her (Yuan Fengying and F signed first), and finally ATV was very unhappy to lose money, and the contract with Yuan Fengying was also declared invalid. Yuan Fengying was thus devastated.
Now, seeing Hua Bi'ao again, can you say that Yuan Fengying can not be angry? Good you Luo Dayou, in the name of the master, but like F, he specializes in deceiving the little girl!
Luo Dayou hurriedly explained that he and Hua Bi'ao were both serious people who could not be more serious, and Hua Bi'ao must have been fooled by F and used as props. "Hua Bi'ao is absolutely fine," Luo Dayou patted his chest to guarantee.
Speaking of which, Hua Bi'ao is indeed a legend. Born in the Italian town of Lenchi in 1951, he founded a band called Cobra in 1967, which toured Europe. In 1980, he left the band and began traveling the world from the Americas to Japan, from Dubai to Australia and the Far East, until 1985, when he came to Hong Kong. At first, he planned to stay in Hong Kong for a few months, but he quickly fell in love with it and eventually stayed for 11 years.
When he first arrived, he named himself "Hua Bio", mixed in the Hong Kong music scene, composed and arranged music for a living, the aforementioned "Waiting for dawn" and "The Inaudible Call", which were widely popular. In 1989, Luo Dayou composed the theme song and soundtrack for "Eight Two Gold", and found Hua Bi'ao to arrange a song, "Reincarnation", which was admired by Luo's godfather, and specially invited him to eat at the Rigoretto Restaurant in Wan Chai. Under the introduction of Hua Bi'ao, Luo Dayou ordered a bottle of Amarone red wine from 1983, and Hua Bi'ao taught him how to taste wine and how to hold the wine between his lips and teeth. Luo Dayou recalled that this moment was as careful as they later studied the displacement of guitars in the left hand chords in the studio.
"Eight Two Gold" soundtrack album
Luo Dayou and Hua Biao
With this wonderful experience, Luo Dayou and HuaBiao became confidants, and when he opened the company, it was natural for HuaBiao to join.
In addition, the name "Hua Biao" was also raised after he joined Luo Dayou's company, and once, Luo Dayou asked the anonym named "Dream" what suggestions he had for the translation of "Hua Biao"? The anonym believes that "Ao" is a bit too mysterious, at a glance to know that it is a foreigner, it is better to change it to "proud", not only complete in sound and meaning, but most importantly, it is very Chinese: with hua bi pride, like the mood and name that appear in the poetry and song. Well, fortunately, Hua Bi'ao is a foreigner, otherwise the Chinese really can't control this name.
Hua Bi'ao and Luo Dayou
Luo Dayou teamed up with Hua Bi'ao to produce the album Chasing Dreams in 1991. After the death of Hua Bi'ao in 2013, Luo Dayou deeply remembered him as "my brother in the music of the world"
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Yuan Fengying listened to Luo Dayou explain the original reason, and her doubts were swept away. Don't say anything, and then you will mix with the godfather!
Luo Dayou first arranged for Yuan Fengying to sing the interlude "A Little Candlelight" in the film "Jixing Arch" produced by him at the end of 1989. This song should be Yuan Fengying's first solo.
The director of "Ji Xing GongZhao" is Du Qifeng, whose musical collaboration with Luo Dayou began in 1988's "City SWAT", and then "A Lang's Story" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Score and Best Film Song, making the cooperation between the two closer.
In the Hong Kong film circle, the most frequent cooperation between Luo Dayou is Du Qifeng, a total of 9 times ("City Special Police", "Ah Lang's Story", "Ji Xing Gongzhao", "Heavenly Love", "Three Heroes of the East", "Underworld", "Goodbye Ah Lang", "Revenge", "Gorgeous Office Worker"), the reason why they have become good partners at work, good friends in life, probably stem from the spleen and stomach, are restless lords, all want to say something through the work, have a strong desire to express. "Underworld" is a typical example, a Pili Yangqiu, a big voice Ruoxi, absolutely complement each other, adding to each other's voice.
After "Ji Xing Gong Zhao", it is followed by "Heavenly Love", and the theme song of the same name of the film is Yuan Fengying's famous work.
Poster of "Heavenly Love"
In 1990, the well-known director Wang Tianlin retired from TVB, and his son Wang Jing and his apprentices Du Qifeng and Lin Lingdong were inspired by Zhang Che's disciples the previous year to shoot "Righteous Courage and Courage" to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his master's retirement and give it to his master at the box office as a pension, and also wanted to shoot a movie to express his heart.
It is said that Wang Jing took out a script outline called "Casino Boy", probably wanting to continue his "God of Gamblers" not long ago and fire it again.
This story, which has no novelty, is naturally opposed by Du Dacang and Lin Fengyun, after all, these two are people with pursuits. Wang Jing's fat hand stall, yes, then you get an idea. I didn't forget to mutter, "I don't know whose father it is."
Du Qifeng and Lin Lingdong also made trouble, the whole "The Story of Ah Lang 2 Erlang's Story"? Or the whole "Wind and Clouds Again"? Or a combination of the two, the whole "Alang Re-Battle"? Oops, cigarettes smoked pack after pack, hair is almost bald, just no good ideas.
Wang Tianlin and his son Wang Jing, Du Qifeng, Lin Lingdong and other disciples
At this time, Wang Tianlin's apprentice and Du Qifeng's apprentice Chen Musheng contributed an idea: Why don't we shoot a racing car theme?
Chen Musheng has loved cars since he was a child, is a racing fan, his first job after graduating from high school is to sell cars, usually participate in motorcycle parties, so he is too familiar with this field. In order to prove that this was feasible, he took Du Qifeng to Saigon to watch a drag racing competition, which opened Du Sir's eyes. Excited, Du Qifeng decided to shoot this and let Chen Musheng be the director.
After careful polishing, Chen Musheng and screenwriter Ruan Shisheng spent a week to write a touching love tragedy between a social who likes racing cars and a rich family, the title of the film is Heavenly Love.
Wang Tianlin, Du Qifeng, Chen Musheng
The script is there, the director is fixed, the rest is to choose the actor, the male protagonist is played by the youth idol Andy Lau, absolutely out of commercial considerations. In those years, Andy Lau's acting skills are not bad, the box office has been good, or it will not be a bad film, or someone let him act, some Taiwanese filmmakers clearly stated that as long as there are andy Lau films participating in the film, they will buy 8 million, you know, Andy Lau's film remuneration was only one or two million, the total cost of a film is only three or four million, in other words, as long as Andy Lau's name appears, it has not yet started to earn two or three million. So, between 1988 and 1992, when his films were prolific, he made 61 films in 5 years (10 in 1988, 16 in 1989, 12 in 1990, 13 in 1991, and 10 in 1992).
Andy Lau starred, and it is very likely that Wang Jing's proposition, from 1986's "Magic Jade" to 1989's "God of Gamblers", the two got along happily. If You let Du Qifeng and Lin Lingdong choose, Hua Tsai does not enter the eyes of the law at all, thinking that when Du Qifeng filmed the Taiwan Qing drama "Yang Jiajian" on TVB, he had a disagreement with Andy Lau, and when he arrived in "Heavenly Love", he was once unaccustomed to Andy Lau's small action of stroking his hair, and finally he couldn't bear it, broke his mouth, and the two sides were vicious.
"Big Guy" Du Qifeng
As for the heroine, of course, Wang Jing wants to praise Qiu Shuzhen, Du Qifeng refuses, the male protagonist listens to you, and the female protagonist also listens to you? What a good thing! In fact, Du Qifeng already had a favorite candidate, that is, Chen Songling, but Chen Songling resigned on the grounds that he was too busy with his studies. Du Qifeng was very humiliated.
Du Qifeng's violent temper ah, well, Hong Kong actress one do not! He asked Zhang Aijia to help find information from Taiwan, Zhang Aijia collected a large number of people's information, Du Qifeng picked a girl who looked "very stubborn" in the photo, yes, this girl is Wu Qianlian.
Chen Musheng and Wu Qianlian
Wu Qianlian was a college student at that time, half-working and half-studying at Rolling Stones, and after being selected, she flew to Hong Kong, and even Li Zongsheng wrote a song for her, which was rumored to be called "When Dreaming and Waking Up".
Wu Qianlian did not want to sing, but Andy Lau wanted to sing but could not. As the star of "Heavenly Love", he once hoped that the crew would let him sing the theme song, and the reply was: You can act with your heart, don't shoot and sing again. As soon as this was heard, Du Qifeng's tone was really offended by the "director" (Du Qifeng, who is a producer, pointed fingers on the set every day, and Chen Musheng's sense of existence was extremely weak, so that Andy Lau always thought that Du was the director), and there was no good fruit to eat.
Don't let Andy Lau sing the theme song, so who sings it? As already explained in the front, it is the newcomer Yuan Fengying.
In fact, the singer of the theme song of "Heavenly Love" was not Yuan Fengying at the earliest, but Beyond. In "Auspicious Star Arch", Beyond participated in the performance, and also sang "Midnight Complaint Song", which impressed Du Qifeng, so "If There is Love in Heaven", Du Sir once again asked them to make music, Beyond wrote "Gray Track", "No Regrets", "Yes and No More Distinctions" three songs, Du Qifeng should choose one of them as the theme song.
But when Luo Dayou created a song called "Voice of the Heart" (composed by Luo Dayou and filled in by Li Jianda) for the film, Du Qifeng loved it and immediately changed his mind and released beyond pigeons.
Yuan Fengying admitted that when recording "The Voice of the Heart", there was no special feeling, and she did not remember this matter after singing, but Beyond's interlude was extremely impressed. Later, she learned that "The Voice of the Heart" became the theme song of the film, and changed its name to "Heavenly Love", which was simply overjoyed.
It also made her wonder that the song "Heavenly Love" would be equated with her in the future.
Stills from "Heavenly Love"
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The box office of "Heavenly Love" reached more than 12 million, although the performance is not too prominent, but it does not affect becoming a classic.
At the 1991 Academy Awards Ceremony, the film won the Best Supporting Actor Award (Wu Mengda), and at the same time won the Best New Actor (Wu Qianlian) and the Best Original Film Song Award, the Best Film Score Award, which shows that the music has added a lot to it and has been recognized by everyone.
The original soundtrack of "Tianruo Youqing" launched by Xinyibao includes three songs sung by Beyond for the film and Yuan Fengying's "Tianruo Youqing", and the sales exceeded platinum, driving Yuan Fengying's popularity to soar.
"Heavenly Love" soundtrack album
When "Heavenly Love" was released in Taiwan, Yuan Fengying sang a Chinese version, which was called "Youth Without Regret", written by Luo Dayou himself.
As for the later Luo Dayou added four lyrics to "Youth Without Regret" and changed it to "Dream Chaser" sung by Feng Feifei to mourn Sanmao Yunyun, it is no longer within the scope of this article.
However, I am still very interested in Wu Qianlian, and I might as well talk about her again.
It is said that one buddy listened to Andy Lau's "Chinese" and was puzzled, and what puzzled him was this sentence: "Wu Qianlian's wind and rain, how many dreams are hidden." How much Hua Tsai loves Xiao Qian, he will write her into the song, which is obviously a moldy style.
This is not the end, a certain Andy Lau concert, in the face of Wu Qianlian kneeling on one knee, this matter immediately exploded on the Internet, the title is full of strange and schadenfreude "Andy Lau proposed to Wu Qianlian was rejected". Obediently, if Andy Lau kneels down is to propose marriage, then tan Yonglin has not already become Liu Tai?
Everyone asks Andy Lau and Wu Qianlian to "be together" the mind is completely understandable, after all, the two have cooperated in as many as 5 movies, but also a pair of the best screen couple, unfortunately, Andy Lau likes Guan Zhilin's long hair fluttering big-eyed beauty, Wu Qianlian single eyelids, squinting eyes, really not the heavenly king's dish, moreover, when he made two films, Wu Qianlian and Yu Zonghua were in love, and did not take the heavenly king seriously.
Yes, Wu Qianlian is so dragged, she has never had an idol, no matter the four heavenly kings or Zhou Runfa, Liang Jiahui, Liang Chaowei, who cooperates with them, they are all calm, never you are more famous than me, I will listen to you for everything. As she said: "I like to talk openly and honestly about everything with people, because everyone has their own position, and it is very boring to be too aggrieved with their own wishes." 」 ”
Wu Qianlian is definitely a person with a lot of personality in the Entertainment Circle of Hong Kong and Taiwan, her appearance is not beautiful, but she is extremely temperamental; her acting skills are not excellent, but she is more fresh than a vase; the big stars appreciate her, but she is not complacent; and Yu Zonghua broke up, did not complain to the other party that he was not gentle enough... In short, this person has depth, connotation, and taste, which is simply a clear stream in the paper drunken gold fans.
Wu Qianlian
Relatively speaking, Yuan Fengying is inevitably a bit "vulgar", she "actually" infatuated with Andy Lau! A single "Heavenly Love", I watched it five times, deeply intoxicated by it, and hated not being able to incarnate the role played by Wu Qianlian and being with Hua Tsai.
With such a high goal as Andy Lau, it is conceivable that Yuan Fengying's emotions must not be smooth, and the fact is true, since she entered the industry, until now, for more than 30 years, she has always been alone, has not been dragged, in fact, over the years, she has seen handsome, talented and seen, but her own requirements are too high, all missed fate. Hey, it's really "a sight of Hua Tsai mistaken for life" is.
Yuan Fengying is still single
Of course, saying that Yuan Fengying is because of Andy Lau and how, some speculation and shallow, the real reason, perhaps as she said, people's pursuit is different, what she pursues, is the meaning and value of life, love is secondary, encountered, encountered is not forced, moreover, she no longer sings after engaging in educational work, has dedicated all her love to students, accompanied by students, life is not lonely.
Yuan Fengying and Andy Lau, the two have always been friends, in 2017, Andy Lau fell off a horse and was injured, she visited for the first time, Andy Lau sent a text of thanks: "Thank you, a group of old friends, thank you!" Huang Debin, Yuan Fengying, you make a group of perfect friends more perfect! "It can be seen that their friendship is very deep.
Years later, Yuan Fengying imitated back to "Heavenly Love"
Pulling a little farther, back to the point.
Luo Dayou Luo sent Yuan Fengying to join his company, Yuan Fengying had the opportunity to sing "Heavenly Love", at this time, the actual Luo Dayou's company has not been registered, and Yuan Fengying's identity is also OL (office female staff).
So, when was Luo Dayou's company founded? Is it deceiving Yuan Fengying? Don't worry, after "Heavenly Love", Luo Dayou's company officially opened for business.
In 1990, Lo Dayou and Rolling Stone jointly established a "Music Factory" record company, located on the 17th floor of Costa Road in Mong Kok, with a unique design, about 20 pyeong of "factory building", the lower part of the original brick, the upper part of the glass compartment. "I want everyone to know what other people are doing and not hide it." Luo Dayou said.
For the origin of the "music factory", Luo Dayou explained that music can not rely only on inspiration, a song from the arrangement, production, recording, mixing, publicity to marketing must go through a series of processing and packaging, not a person can complete, there must be all kinds of professional talents to work together, and he opened this "factory" only produce music or music-related sounds, so it is called "music factory" - "the factory has a clear banner, to produce products with rich Chinese characteristics in line with Hong Kong market conditions as the highest instruction." Our factory is the only factory that insists on creating a sound wave to beautify the microclimate and protect the environment. ”
Music Factory
Since the company has opened, it is necessary to recruit a wide range of people, and soon, Luo Dayou gathered a group of fox friends around him, although it is not as loud as the 108 general of Liang Shanbo or the 36 friends of Wagangzhai, but it is also a small scale, and each one is an elite in the circle and a leader in the industry. In terms of production, the production is mainly based on three people, With Luo Dayou as the boss and composer, Anon. as the creative director (later promoted to general manager) and lyricist, and Hua Bi'ao as the production manager and arranger. In terms of singers, anthony who flew solo, Yuan Fengying, who quit his job, Taiwan's veteran dolls — and even a singer named Wang Jingwen.
This past about Faye Wong and the music factory can be summed up as "the godfather rose to New York, and the queen of heaven angrily tore up the contract."
Here's the thing:
In 1991, a major change occurred in New Yibao, and one of the shareholders, New Art City, disintegrated and withdrew from the film and music markets, resulting in new Yibao being completely taken over by PolyGon, and personnel adjustments were made accordingly. When Wang Fei's manager Chen Jiantian saw the chaos, he took it upon himself to "sell" her agent to the music factory for about 2 million yuan.
This can make Faye Wong angry, Niang Xipi, the artist is a profession at the mercy of others, the old woman is not dry, to go to the United States to study! The music factory is in a hurry, can't say that the stall will be the stall, ah, we have spent money, well grandma, first follow you, go to the United States to dissipate gas, learn to come back quickly. The music factory paid for Faye Wong to go to New York, accompanied by dolls.
In New York, Faye Wong, still full of hatred, expressed her dissatisfaction in an interview, scolding record companies and agencies as capitalist vampires, treating artists as slaves and cash cows, insulting and squeezing artists. Luo Dayou was furious when he saw the report, and immediately flew to the United States, asked Wang Feixing about the crime and proposed to terminate the contract. Afterwards, she sang a night of karaoke with dolls and others without concern, which counted as a goodbye. In this matter, the angry Dayou Godfather almost had a heart attack
Unexpectedly, Luo Dayou and Faye Wong actually had such a mixture of enmity and resentment.
Later generations have poems praising:
Two superstars in the world of music,
One old and one small.
Mars hits the Earth,
The godfather counts as a bird.
Doll, Hua Biao, Zhang Aijia, Faye Wong
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In July 1991, the music factory launched its first album "Queen's Road East" after its establishment, bringing together huang xia, Mei Yanfang, Tao Jie and other big names to interpret the works produced by the factory. Among the stars, Yuan Fengying enjoyed exclusive preferential treatment and sang two songs, and Luo Dayou took full care of his family.
These two songs, the popular "Heavenly Love" will definitely not fall, and the other one is "Deeper Love".
"Deeper Love" is the theme song of the movie "Comrade Lover", originally sung by Luo Dayou and Zhong Chuhong, until it was published and released, probably Zhong Chuhong did not have confidence in singing, and it was not known whether she refused to record it. Hey, Hong Gu is still thin-skinned, unlike Wang Zuxian and Maggie Cheung...
Queen's Road East
In the same year, the music factory produced her debut album "If You Could Hear" for Yuan Fengying, in which "Rolling Red Dust" and "Heart Sutra" received attention, both of which were cover songs.
"Heart Sutra" is the Chinese version of Feng Feifei's "Heart liver baby", and "Rolling Red Dust" has Chen Shuhua Zhuyu in front, yuan Fengying resisted the pressure, interpreting different tastes and artistic conceptions, which is not easy.
With the outstanding performance of many songs on the album and the compilation album, Yuan Fengying won the 1991 Top Ten Chinese golden songs most promising newcomer award.
Yuan Fengying, a rising star in the music world, is often seen in various activities, such as the 1991 Hong Kong Top Ten Health Image Awards Ceremony, Yuan Fengying sang as a health ambassador to help celebrate; in 1992, TVB jade singer He Taiqing, she also sang with Zhou Huimin, Liu Xiaohui and Tang Bao.
Yuan Fengying's debut album "If You Could Hear"
The following year, the music factory released "Capital", and the previous "Queen's Road East" and "Yuanxiang" (1991, Luo Dayou's Hokkien album), which was called niu X flash "China trilogy" by the good people, in which the obscure or straightforward political direction made Luo Dayou turn from a social critic to an opinion leader in one fell swoop, attracting attention.
Yuan Fengying continued to pick the beams, and one person sang two and a half songs: "Lover's Eyes" from Feng Feifei's "Look at Your Eyes"; "Don't Care" is actually "Care"; and half of the songs, "As Long as It's Love" sung with Luo Dayou. Luo Dayou has always made full use of resources, turned his head to refill a word, and sang the Chinese version of "Now is the Only One" with the doll.
In "Capital", the famous DJ and singer Zeng Rud sang "Mother", and Yuan Fengying became acquainted with her, learned singing from a teacher, and her singing skills were greatly improved.
Zeng Ruth and Yuan Fengying
In 1992, TVB held the first Children's Song Golden Melody Awards Ceremony, and Yuan Fengying's performance of "Xianle Everywhere Floating" won the award. You don't know, Yuan Fengying singing children's songs is also a good hand, in the next two children's song golden melody awards ceremony, Yuan Fengying and "Open the Window of the Heart" and "The Story of A Flower" Lianzhuang. In 1994, the music factory produced a series of children's song album "Children's Paradise", which included the above three children's songs. The style and taste of Godfather Luo are really elusive.
Music Factory 3 Children's Playground. The cover shows Huang Xia (1), Zhou Huajian (2), and Yuan Fengying (3) when they were young
Fast forward to 1993, Yuan Fengying continued to work hard and released her second album "Fan Lover", the title song of the same name and Huang Yingying's "Burial of Heart" are the theme song of the movie "Ruan Lingyu" (Chinese and Cantonese versions). I think at the beginning, Yuan Fengying participated in the future idol battle, Huang Yingying as a guest of performance, singing "Snow is Burning", technical pressure on the audience, and now, it is an honor to be able to perform the same song with her predecessors.
In addition, the "Love Difficult Solo" in the "Album" is an interlude for the movie "Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng" (the Chinese version is the doll's "She"), listening carefully, the charm is endless.
Hua Bi'ao, Yellow Warbler, Luo Dayou
In 1994, Yuan Fengying sang and saw the song, and the song had the album "Unconsciously", which was regarded as a guest appearance in the TVB drama "No. 1 Royal Court III", playing a victim and singing the interlude "Don't Love Too Badly".
It can be seen that the music factory is fully supporting Yuan Fengying, and Yuan Fengying has also performed quite hard, but she is not popular.
The reason for this is nothing more than the following:
First of all, the music factory is a small label after all, although the works have nothing to say, but the packaging, publicity and distribution is not larger than the company, the promotion is weak, the impact is limited, so that Yuan Fengying's development is hindered.
Secondly, Yuan Fengying's songs are less original, more covers, you see the above mentioned songs, most of them have Chinese versions, especially her third album "Unconsciously", the entire cover of Taiwan's Golden Rhyme Awards works. Logically, with Luo Dayou, the boss, it is not difficult to get some originality, but somehow, the godfather is very lazy for her, just a makeover of the previous works. You say, these songs that lack novelty, who is interested in listening?
Yuan Fengying's third and final album "Unconsciously"
Finally, Yuan Fengying personally caused, due to family reasons, she played a small personality lonely, will not bend to cater, like an elm knot, and even psychological "distortion", once suffered from "forced shopping disorder", constantly buying things, no money to borrow, in order to resolve the insecurity in the heart. Regarding the situation of Yuan Fengying, Luo Dayou saw it very clearly, and he commented: "Yuan Fengying has no problem in the acting and singing parts, but she is not very good at expressing and handling interpersonal relationships. That may be to blame me, I did not arrange her well in this regard, this is not my strong point, such a boss, of course, can not help her to find some PR or brokerage to help her, because I am too unsophisticated. ”
Bosses and employees generally look, this is the so-called "things in groups, people in groups" and "not a family does not enter a door", so Yuan Fengying is difficult to get ahead, and the music factory gradually retreated in the 90s, and the brilliance was no longer there, until it faded out of the market. Another theory is that Luo Dayou's ex-wife, Li Lie, lost 10 million yuan in business, thus engaging in a "music factory". I think that everything is a product of the times, and when the times are over, the mission is over, and this is a law of nature, and there is nothing to do.
From left to right: Jiang Zhiguang, Lun Yongliang, Mei Yanfang, Luo Dayou
During the music factory period, Luo Dayou's concern and enthusiasm for the current situation and society were the consistent embodiment of his personal interests, and at the same time, he also catered to the understanding and views of some Hong Kong people on the "97" and the mainland, you cannot deny the status and value of these works, nor can you deny the majesty and profundity of Luo Dayou's thought, but it is indeed more or less mixed with speculation and commercial elements, after all, at this time, Luo Dayou's identity is the boss. I think that a boss who only has ideals but does not know how to make money is not a good boss, and from many things, Luo Dayou is definitely a smart person, and he cannot be unaware of this truth. As he says in the copy of Queen's Road East: "Living here, I feel like a broker, making the biggest deal between history and the future." ”
As the music factory fell silent, Yuan Fengying also had no intention of fighting, so she quit the music scene in 1995. Only in 1999 and 2000 did the singles "Flowers and Grass DreamLand" and "I Am a Scarecrow" be released.
In 1998, she opened a Peace Love Music Performing Arts Training Center in Tsim Sha Tsui to teach students to sing, but due to disagreements with the joint venture, the school closed down less than a year later. It is rumored that there is another hidden plot in this matter, that Yuan Fengying "believes in a cult," which caused the school's reputation to be damaged and it was closed.
For entrepreneurial failure, especially all kinds of gossip, Yuan Fengying can not accept, a collapse, two weeks do not get out of bed, do not see people, even do not eat, want to seek short-sightedness, fortunately the volunteer brother with the heart to enlighten, she only out of the maze, returned to normal, and shake the spirit, in 2003 to learn child psychology, and then in the children's group association engaged in moral education and psychological counseling, and professor singing, very popular with parents and children.
Yuan Fengying's retirement is not completely isolated from the world, she will occasionally shine on the stage to share with everyone the unforgettable years and unforgettable melodies.
In 2004, Luo Dayou held the "Engage in The True Meaning" Hong Kong concert, and the old partners of the music factory all appeared to help, as the godfather's beloved disciple, Yuan Fengying naturally had an unshirkable responsibility. With the accompaniment of Luo Dayou's piano, she sang "Heavenly Love", and the song said: Thank you for still enjoying this song, I hope to take this opportunity to thank Mr. Luo Dayou, what I want to do most at this moment, and sing a classic work "Rolling Red Dust" with Mr. Luo Dayou. The music sounded, and the ears echoed with "coming and going, decades of human travel; easy to separate and difficult to gather, love and hate of the eternal sorrows", making people feel like a world away, suddenly feel the red dust, and sigh.
For Yuan Fengying's song sea floating and sinking, Luo Dayou has always been apologetic, very sorry, but some things pay attention to a "life" word, and he can't do anything.
Yuan Fengying at Luo Dayou concert
From 2017 to 2018, Yuan Fengying's frequency increased, and she successively participated in the concerts of "Sunday Beautiful Voice King", "50 Years of Popular Golden Songs" and the 20th anniversary of the return of the motherland, and also participated in the stage play "Looking for Happy Times 2017", and also made a solo guest for Li Jianda, recording psychological analysis programs for TV stations.
But now, there is less news.
Yuan Fengying participated in the event
Yuan Fengying performed
Luo Dayou once said: The shortest distance between two points is not a straight line, nor a struggle, but a dream. Yuan Fengying has realized her musical dreams, in fact, there are no regrets, but we are still struggling with her red and not red, comeback and no return, but in vain to increase the trouble.
There is no perfection in the world.
If the heavens are affectionate, the heavens are old, and the moon is as long as the moon without hatred.