This year is the 37th year of Jacky Cheung's debut singing.
In 1984, 23-year-old Jacky Cheung sang a song "Grace of the Earth" in the first "Hong Kong 18 District Amateur Singing Competition", and after singing, Lu Guozhan, a judge who wrote lyrics for "The Great Wall Never Falls", waved his hand and said: "Don't score it, it must be him." ”
In this way, Jacky Cheung, a former airline ticket attendant who did not receive any training in science, won the championship in one fell swoop, won a set of speakers worth 7,000 yuan, and a Polaroid record contract, and officially debuted as a singer.
In 37 years, he released about 108 records, according to the International Record Association's incomplete statistics in 2006, these records sold 120 million copies, ranking second in the world, after the late American singer Michael Jackson, the first chinese. He has won the "Most Popular Hong Kong Male Singer in the Asia-Pacific Region" three times, won the Golden Needle Award, the highest honor in the music scene in Hong Kong, China, in 2000, and was also awarded the "Fugitive Nemesis".
However, after singing "Spring Wind and Autumn Rain", "Li Xianglan" and "Love is Eternal" at the 2021 Hong Kong Sisters Finals, and helping the Hong Kong Sisters final, which was dubbed Jacky Cheung's concert, to achieve good ratings, the Chinese music god was once again questioned by singing.
Director Liu Weng angrily criticized Jacky Cheung on the social platform, saying: "Singing is so uncomfortable, why can't you sing it properly?" The sound is used too outrageously. ”
He also taunted in the comments section: "It is better to see Li Sijie play Jacky Cheung singing." ”
Fans of the ViruTV idol group MIRARROR in Hong Kong, China, said on the Internet forum: "Song God" Jacky Cheung will only show off his skills, and his emotional expression is not as good as MIRROR member Liu Yingting! “
According to Hong Kong media reports, this new idol group was only officially established in 2018. On the message board, many people left messages saying that "Xueyou really can't move me, Jer is different, his every tone, every lyric has ups and downs, his voice can be surging and can be gentle, so it can move many people", "Jacky Cheung from debut to big red, can only sing love songs, A jer's solo songs are all masterpieces with artistic depth and substance, and the persistence and persistence of the artistic level have been better than Jacky Cheung.".
It's like overnight, everyone can spit out a sentence, "Jacky Cheung, singing is just mediocre", all fans dare to claim that their brother's artistic depth has surpassed Jacky Cheung.
The once radiant god of song now seems to have become a carnival of a small group of people.
MIRROR fans said, "The Four Kings have long passed, and now it is the era of MIRARROR."
It seems that Jacky Cheung has probably been a long time, but I still want to take the time train again.
Back to that Chow Sing Chi "King of Destruction", a group of fans lined up overnight to buy Jacky Cheung concert tickets at the door, and then shouted for the song god of "Singing Ping Ping": Xueyou Xueyou, always support you!
His title of god of song has long been certified by the two superstars.
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Jacky Cheung was born in Hong Kong, China in 1961 to a seafarer who was an alcoholic and gambler.
Jacky Cheung, who has not been cared about since childhood, is a well-known trickster in the neighborhood.
He and his cousin imitated the bridge section in the martial arts film, and as a result, he accidentally lost his hand and was injured, leaving a scar on his face, and since then he has been teased by his classmates, he began to become introverted and shy, and his only interest when he was young was to sing along with the disc.
Because his family was poor, he came out early to work and worked as a ticket clerk in an airline until the singing competition that changed his life.
In April 1985, Jacky Cheung released his first album "Smile". The sales of 200,000 are already very good for a newcomer, and then he officially quit his job at the airline and became a full-time singer.
The second Cantonese album "Distant Her Amour" won the Top Ten Golden Melody Awards for the title of the title song "Distant Her", and the album sold a total of 300,000 copies.
Jacky Cheung quickly became popular.
In August 1987, he gave his first solo concert at the Red Pavilion in Hong Kong, China. There were 10 concerts in a row.
Compared with today's traffic idols, Jacky Cheung is really qualified to say that it is an overnight hit.
Young and crazy, Jacky Cheung also had. In his own words: "At that time, I thought there were no songs that I couldn't sing. ”
Vanity Fair is full of wine, his father is a good drinker, he also loves to drink, since then in various bars, all kinds of negative news, even reporters can't help but advise him to "stop drinking."
This was followed by a continuous decline in record sales.
Regarding the sales of Jacky Cheung's 3-6 albums, because of its age, it has become a topic of contention among fans, one way of saying that the third record sold 50,000; the fourth record sold 20,000; the fifth record sold more than 10,000. By the time of Last Night's Dream, only a few thousand copies had been sold in Hong Kong.
But another way of saying it is that it's not that miserable at all.
Among these albums, which are said to have sold dismal, also include the annual hits such as "Love Has Passed" and "Sun and Stars".
The so-called sales of "Last Night's Dream" once occupied the top spot in the Hong Kong album list for three weeks.
But a well-established fact is that 1988 was indeed the trough in Jacky Cheung's life.
In order to help Jacky Cheung quit drinking, luo Meiwei, a girlfriend who has been in love for three years, used a radical method: suddenly packed up everything and left, and publicly announced the breakup in the newspaper.
After he became famous, he has been helping the gambler brothers to repay the money, and finally it is really unbearable, and the brother breaks with him.
Jacky Cheung, whose career love was severely damaged, began to reflect on himself, "Young and vigorous do not know the height of the sky, lost his way after overnight fame."
He began to abstain from alcohol and promised not to drink until he was 40 years old. He said: "I don't like to be a person who can't control everything by myself. ”
In 1989, he sent out his first song , "Old Letters, Old Dreams" that he wrote, which included a sentence, "Empty wine glasses turn and tears touch lightly, and repeated thinking is difficult to change."
After regaining control of life, it coincided with Tan Yonglin Zhang Guorong's double fading out of the award ceremony, and the era belonging to the four heavenly kings was coming.
In 1991, Jacky Cheung's song "Love You More Every Day" swept through various award ceremonies, dominating the top spot of the Golden Melody Chart for more than half a year, and he walked out of the Red Pavilion and became the first singer among the four kings to launch a global concert tour.
In 1993, TVB's celebration was star-studded.
Andy Lau, Li Ming, Jacky Cheung, Aaron Kwok and Faye Wong, Ye Qianwen, Kwong Meiyun, Lin Yi lotus-style singing golden songs, and Jacky Cheung sang the song that caused doubts about the singing ability at the Hong Kong Sister Final 28 years later - "Li Xianglan"...
On the evening of January 17, 1993, the 1992 Top Ten Golden Melody Awards Ceremony was held, and Wireless invited Yu Zheng, the director of the commercial station, as the guest of honor.
Yu Zheng said: "There are many teenagers, and his influence will be greater than their teachers, social workers, and even their parents. I hope that he will set a good example and continue to support locally created works, so that he will not only be expected by all, but also deserved to be the successor of the "god of song" in the 1990s - Jacky Cheung. ”
Since then, the name of the song god Jacky Cheung has not gone away.
Many years later, Andy Lau talked about the three major song gods in his mind in an interview. The first is Xu Guanjie, the second is Jacky Cheung, and the third is Eason Chan.
Andy Lau said that the three song gods are all his favorite, different eras have different requirements, and the reason why they become gods is because of their dedication to music.
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In 1993, Jacky Cheung created a myth of more than 4 million annual sales with his album "Kiss Goodbye".
It is said that one out of every 20 Taiwanese people bought this record that year.
This young man will never be able to understand why so many fugitives risk being caught and also have to listen to a 60-year-old man singing, knowing that his brother's singing is the best.
That's because they haven't experienced the era of Jacky Cheung, when the karaoke halls in the streets and alleys played Jacky Cheung's songs day and night, "Kiss Goodbye" became a street song, and the songs that must be sung for lost love: when they graduated, everyone sang "In the Wind and Rain of Lovesickness"; people with crushes loved to sing "I waited until the flowers were thankful".
Some people say that Jacky Cheung can only sing love songs, but those love songs are like resentment, so many golden songs in the love, sorrow, bitterness, and hurt, singing the bitter voice of a generation of grassroots men, completely relying on moving people to stay in people's memories.
The new generation of young people open their mouths and say that he sings only skills and no emotions, that is really strange, why are generations of people moved by the deep feelings he sings that have been betrayed, the hot hopes that have been snubbed, and the loneliness and emptiness that are everywhere in the long night of growth?
Is Jacky Cheung really singing without emotion, or is the ear of a generation broken?
Regarding Jacky Cheung's singing skills, there is a superstar who has made a public certification, he is Zhang Guorong.
Although being chased by younger generations has never been a pleasant thing, Zhang Guorong has publicly said: "Jacky Cheung is the artist I admire the most, and his influence has exceeded all the singers of the previous generation." It's something no one has compared in decades.
Xueyou's singing skills are first-class, and it is not an exaggeration to be rated as an Asian singer. He is a very hard worker, working things and things. The voice is delicate and elegant, let people listen to the endless aftertaste, I think, the singer's singing level should be flowing, Jacky Cheung not only that, but also the delicate silky voice makes people intoxicated. ”
When the Black Panthers went to Hong Kong, China to hold a concert, they talked about the four kings with disdain, but added only one sentence, "Jacky Cheung is still a singing singer."
How about Jacky Cheung's singing skills?
The so-called singing skills refer to the comprehensive ability of singing, which is composed of basic skills such as pitch, range, volume, timbre, sound quality, resonance, breath, vocalization, biting words, and musicality.
Jacky Cheung's pitch is unmatched among Chinese singers, singing breath control, true and false tone switching, high and low tone conversion and other skills are very skillful and natural, and the emotional expression is very delicate and in place, breath, resonance, biting words are rarely flawed, so people often say that his concert scene and listening to CDs are the same, such singing skills, is not a new generation of love beans can compare?
Just from the fact that Jacky Cheung always likes to sing with the microphone in his mouth when he sings, you can see his singing skills.
Because this singing method is very prone to murmurs and broken tones, it is necessary to master the breath control extremely perfectly, which is why few singers imitate Jacky Cheung's singing method, of course, except for Eason Chan, who loves to imitate him the most.
Later, this also became a prominent symbol of Jacky Cheung along with the orchid finger. The real king of songs is that he leads the trend, not goes with the flow.
Of course, this set of singing methods is not necessarily in line with the aesthetics of this generation of young people, but I know that there is a classic comment about Jacky Cheung's singing skills, which comes from a lyric of Jacky Cheung:
"He sang my heartbreak, he sang my heart intoxicated.".
How many people in the new generation of singers can still sing a generation of people who are broken?
In 1997, Jacky Cheung's "Snow Wolf Lake", which was supervised, directed and starred, swept the box office.
Because of this gorgeous performance, the Chinese music scene has the first original modern musical that can be used.
Now the fans of the new generation of idol groups say that their brother's artistic achievements have surpassed Jacky Cheung across the board.
I'm sorry, I also want to say that Jacky Cheung's musical achievements are incomparable to the current 100 top-notch brothers combined.
You guys, that's so funny!
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But what really makes Jacky Cheung invincible is not talent, but concentration.
There is an old saying in the Hong Kong circle: there are two things that are most underrated, one is Liang Chaowei's singing skills, and the other is Jacky Cheung's acting skills.
Among the four heavenly kings, Jacky Cheung's acting skills are the earliest familiar, the black fly in "Carmen in Mong Kok", the Zhiqiu Yiye in "The Ghost of Qiannu", the fake Lin Pingzhi in "Laughing Proud of the Jianghu", and the Ah Hui in "Blood Street", each character is loud.
But in 1995, after filming "Rats and Dragons", Jacky Cheung once disappeared. The reason behind it, one is for the family, and the other is to put more energy into the music.
When Eason Chan debuted, the record company packaged him as Jacky Cheung's successor, although Eason Chan loved Jacky Cheung very much, but he was quite unhappy with this arrangement, leaving a golden sentence: He did not leave work, how do I take over!
Now 60 years old, Jacky Cheung, in addition to record sales, holds the second highest record in the world, and is also the holder of the highest number of touring times in the Chinese music scene.
In 2012, he broke the Guinness World Record for the number of concertgoers in a 12-month period. That year's "1/2 Century Concert" tour attracted more than 2.04 million people.
Over the years, he has also become the "strongest undercover" installed by the police in the entertainment industry. So far, the police have caught a total of 55 fugitives at his concerts. With absolute superiority to suppress the second Jay Chou (a total of 2 fugitives arrested), the third Mayday (a total of 1 fugitive arrested), the most supernatural one, 7 concerts in succession to capture 7 fugitives, the police as long as they open the net quietly listen to Jacky Cheung concert, there will be gains, this is the legendary "seven kills".
Many fans who can't buy tickets sigh: "If you can listen to Jacky Cheung's concert once in this life, even if you are caught, you will have no regrets in this life." ”
Jacky Cheung's reply to the fugitives caught at the concert was both humorous and warm: "You were not caught at my concert, and you will be arrested when you go to a convenience store to buy something, and I thank them for coming to see my concert."
Jacky Cheung opened a concert, is really singing, people in their 50s from the beginning to the end of the song jump, do not lower the KEY, do not use the teleprompter.
Many people say that with his position in the entertainment industry, there is no need to work so hard, but he said that he is just a singer, and what he hopes to do is to always stand on the stage and sing for fans.
He said: "I believe that good songs have good rewards, and I want to sing until I am 70 years old. ”
At a concert in Beijing, 55-year-old Jacky Cheung sang and danced for two consecutive nights after a bad state of health, when singing "I Am Awake and Dreaming", the treble part rarely appeared broken, he apologized to the fans, said: "I am older, not as good as before, I know you will not mind, but I will mind." “
Some fans brushed their tears and came down.
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Called "Song God" for many years, Jacky Cheung himself responded with a smile, "What a song god, I am just a nerve that loves to sing." ”
This man, in addition to singing and acting, is really boring.
The paparazzi in Hong Kong, China are unparalleled in the world, when they followed Aaron Kwok Dawn, there was always no shortage of new headlines, followed Andy Lau for many years, and finally followed a hidden marriage and a child, only with Jacky Cheung for so many years, nothing to gain, and they did not follow for a long time.
There are always people who say that men will become bad once they are famous, but Jacky Cheung is like a different kind.
In 1986, when he made "Crazy Me", director Gao Zhisen asked him to stand with Luo Meiwei to see if he was right, and the two newcomers stood together shyly.
Gao Zhisen said: You look at each other.
At the moment of looking up, both of them blushed, and Luo Meiwei said, "At that time, I probably knew what electrocution was." ”
The two loved to run for ten years before finally becoming a family, on February 15, 1996, they registered their marriage and directly announced the marriage, Jacky Cheung said: "At first I was worried that my career would be affected, and then I thought, I am not an idol, I am a strong faction." ”
After more than 20 years of marriage, Jacky Cheung has never had a scandal and has shouted to the media who constantly harass his family:
"So far, as Luo Meiwei's husband, I can only score 60 points, and as a father, I can score 70 points. So I decided to focus on my family, and if anyone interfered with my plans, I would quit show business without hesitation. ”
Although he is an old husband and wife, he still wrote songs for Romevi, and gave the asteroid a chance to name his wife.
Luo Meiwei has a serious cleanliness fetish, once set an amazing record of firing 21 Filipino maids in 3 years, Jacky Cheung himself went to see a psychologist to learn how to get along with cleanliness patients.
The media asked him if he wanted to give up? He said, yes.
Then, the days went on.
Over the years, Jacky Cheung has been singing quietly and quietly, although the record is not very out, but every time there is a big disaster, he always launches new songs, such as "Waiting for the Wind and Rain" to be included in "Chinese Doctor" and made a movie theme song.
The Chinese record industry is sluggish, and variety shows are the most effective and fast way to increase celebrity exposure and make money.
In 2015, when "I Am a Singer" was a hit, he invited him to participate, but he refused, and he was famous on the Internet for his words to intimidate the judges of the show, in fact, he also said another paragraph: he did not want to participate in the competition, because he had participated in too many competitions in his life.
The Voice of China invited him to be a mentor, but he also refused.
It seems that what he loves most is still singing quietly.
How old will the god of song be sung, he may have given the answer at the 2018 concert: "Recently, some people are spreading that this is Jacky Cheung's last concert, don't believe it, this is fake, I really like to sing, I am 57 years old this year, I hope that when I am 67 years old, I will still stand here and sing to everyone!" I will sing until I am 80 years old! You're not going to come!" ”
However, after 2019, Jacky Cheung has not held a solo concert again.
In January this year, Jacky Cheung recorded a video to cheer for Hebei, in which he is obviously old.
Later, a group of photos were revealed by netizens, which were photos of him awarded the honorary doctorate title of Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. In the photo, Jacky Cheung's sideburns have begun to turn white, and his face has left many traces of age.
The scenery no longer seems to belong to him, but he still did what he said: "My goal is to be a good person, if not the best, to be good, not to be sorry or hurt people, to be a husband and a father." 」 ”
Now everyone says that the black fly brother of that year now has a kind face.
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But the kind Jacky Cheung still can't escape the fate of being ridiculed.
There are rumors that zeng zhiwei, who took office as a new official, personally invited Jacky Cheung to come out of the mountain in order to save Hong Kong sister's ratings, to which Jacky Cheung denied in an interview: "I just want to help this industry."
On the night of the Hong Kong Sisters Final, 60-year-old Jacky Cheung wore a low-key black suit, and the intoxicated expression and "orchid finger" when he closed his eyes and sang were still the same as yesterday, but his face added a few traces of age. Singing, still the same steady.
After sending a Weibo question about Jacky Cheung, Liu Weng quickly deleted the controversial remarks, but many young netizens still believed that Jacky Cheung's singing style was outdated, not as good as some young idols.
Most of the people who debated for Jacky Cheung were middle-aged netizens.
People born in different eras have found it difficult to reach a consensus on musical aesthetics.
Hong Kong media reports later pointed out that some netizens compared Jacky Cheung with the new generation of popular boy band MIRROR, pointing out that the group member Liu Yingting (Jer) is a "new song god", and also said that Jiang Tao's popularity is better than Jacky Cheung.
Mainland netizens are confused: Who is MIRROR, and who is Jiang Tao? Is it red?
Red, naturally, is very red, but after so many years, how many popular meteors have been in the Chinese music scene, it has long been uncountable.
But in the United States and Canada in the 1990s, a chinese record store in a single ordinary neighborhood could sell thousands of his records.
Legend has it that "as long as there are Chinese people, there will be Teresa Teng's singing, as long as there is a wind blowing, there will be his music", how many young idols have done such achievements and evaluations? The answer is: zero.
The past was zero, and the future may not be anymore.
MIRROR has not even rushed out of Hong Kong, China, how dare fans say that the artistic achievements of the brothers have surpassed Jacky Cheung?
However, mainland fans have already made similar statements: "Jacky Cheung has been praised too high, and he obviously sings well."
In the final analysis, for the new generation that firmly believes that "traffic is everything", Jacky Cheung, whose data has long been unable to play, what kind of song god is it?
But if you really want to talk about traffic data, how can this year's brothers compare with the four kings who stood at the peak of the Chinese music scene?
In addition to his own hardware guarantee, a generation of singers also relied on the golden age of the Chinese music industry to create a legendary divine power, upgrading his 98-point hardware to 100 points.
And that kind of Chinese music scene, there is no more.
At that time, there was such a sentence in the Chinese circle - singing to learn Jacky Cheung, dancing to learn Aaron Kwok, low-key learning Dawn, and learning FromCey Lau.
Even if all kinds of fans "kill" the sky is dark, fans also tacitly acknowledge that the four kings have their own strengths and are not perfect.
And now in the eyes of this year's rice circle star chasing girls, singing and dancing low-key people, do you still need to learn four people? It's enough to have one brother! My brother is the embodiment of perfection.
Just as the so-called times create heroes, history chooses a certain person to be a god, not someone else, there must be its internal logic, but the hero also depends on the situation.
At that time, Jacky Cheung's debut singing skills were not so high, because the Chinese music scene was as strong as a forest, and then he failed miserably in his records, his life fell into the bottom, and the concert was booed, forcing him to continue to improve, experience life toss and turn, and become a god of song.
And this year's brothers obviously can't sing and dance, and their appearance depends on the filter, but they have long been perfect in the eyes of fans, and they are also oblivious, what else do they have to do?
Rather than saying that today's Chinese music scene can no longer create heroes, it is better to say that heroes are no longer needed, and fans just want a perfect idol in their hearts.
So Jacky Cheung is doomed to be obsolete.
It's just that the era of the god of song has come to an end, newcomers have appeared, and the Chinese music scene, but there is no god of song.
Fortunately, he once used his singing voice to write a strong stroke in the hearts of our generation,
Back in 1984, after Polaroid Records signed Jacky Cheung, it did not arrange a job for him for a long time. While he went to work and waited for the notice, he practiced hard to sign, Jacky Cheung said,
"In case it's on fire tomorrow, the signature can't be too ugly."
Later, singing and works became the stepping stones of his life.
And today's Chinese music scene, there is no work and no singing skills of the beauty, joined hands to downgrade the song world to a hollow and plastic singers paradise, it seems that every fan can say a word, Jacky Cheung singing skills are mediocre.
Is this the sadness of Jacky Cheung or the sadness of the Chinese music scene?
Unfortunately, in the end, Jacky Cheung, who "sang mediocreally", still became an orphan in the golden age of the Chinese music scene.
Finally, I gave an old song "Old Love" to today's Chinese music scene: looking back at everything on the day is like a bubble, the original heaven and wasteland will always be the relentless years of relentlessness May you come and relive the beautiful evening star.