Zhan Wenting: I was kicked out of the group by my teammates, and my return is still expected

Recently, 42-year-old female singer Zhan Wenting has been "in business" frequently, she has often participated in some variety shows since last year, and also sang the love theme song "Secret Love" for the TV series "Canglan Tips".

Especially at the beginning of this year, Zhan Wenting participated in the recording of "Hello, Saturday", "Music Carnival" and "Baichuan Music Time and Space".

In an interview, she said with a smile: "It seems that you have been taking business too seriously recently, will you get tired of it?" ”

But in fact, every 80 or 90 audience who heard Zhan Wenting sing "Our Love" will be excited for a while and bluntly say: "Ye Qing back!" ”

It's just that this period of youth that belongs to many people, once because of Zhan Wenting's "unexpected exit", seems to have an additional gap-

Indeed, more than 10 years after working for the Feier Band, where he used to be the lead singer, the group broke out due to internal contradictions, causing Zhan Wenting to post that she had been "kicked out of the group".

Since then, "Fei'er" has been missing in the "Fei'er Band", and although the lead singer has changed, it seems that all aura and luck have been drained.

And Zhan Wenting also fell into the low tide of her career, until now with her super singing skills, she has returned to the public's vision, but everything seems to be different.

1. Debut is the peak

Zhan Wenting, 42 years old this year, was born in a wealthy family in Taiwan, and her family is said to be in the supermarket chain business, and her grandfather is a director of a beverage company.

In addition to being born with a golden spoon, Zhan Wenting has also had a unique talent for music since she was a child.

She chose Catholic Fu Jen University when she was in college, and was in the same class as the future "diva" Jolin Tsai.

But unlike Jolin Tsai, who had an idea about being an artist early on and began to form a band in high school, Wenting Zhan initially made music "just for fun".

In an intramural singing competition, she was discovered by Chen Jianning, a musician 10 years older than herself.

Chen Jianning has been working as a producer, and has written works for famous singers such as Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Xu Ruyun, etc., especially because Zhang Huimei wrote the song "Blue Sky", which became a household name overnight.

At the stage when Zhan Wenting was in the picture, Chen Jianning was preparing to go it alone, when he invested tens of millions of capital and founded his own production company.

In 2002, 21-year-old Zhan Wenting, Chen Jianning and Huang Hanqing (stage name Aqin) formed the Fei'er Orchestra and served as the female lead singer of the orchestra.

The reason why the band is called Fei'er is the abbreviation of the English name of the three people, and it can also be interpreted as Fairyland in Reality (Fairyland in Reality), and the abbreviation is F.I.R.

It means that those who work hard in real life want to live a colorful life, and they are full of hope and love.

However, because Zhan Wenting's English name is Faye (fly), since she withdrew, some fans were dissatisfied and blunt: "The Fei'er band has less Fei'er!" ”

Ah Qin is 1 year older than Zhan Wenting, and has been deeply influenced by Japanese music since she was a child, and is good at playing acoustic guitar, keyboard piano, etc.

There are rumors that Zhan Wenting actually knew Ah Qin for a long time, and the two met on a college campus, and they were friends who appreciated each other at that time.

However, although the "Fei'er Band" uses Zhan Wenting as the lead singer, the actual captain is Chen Jianning, the initiator and keyboardist.

At that time, the Chinese music scene was in turmoil:

In addition to Zhan Wenting's classmate Jolin Tsai, Sun Yanzi, Jay Chou, Liang Jingru, Xiao Yaxuan, Lin Junjie and other future "Heavenly Kings and Queen of Heaven" have arrived.

In terms of combinations, the girl group has S.H.E; THE BOY GROUP HAS 5566, Kemi Kid, and F4, which is sung by You, but there is no combination of men and women.

In 2004, two years after its formation, the band Feier was born as a dark horse.

Their debut album "F.I.R" contains 13 songs, among which songs such as "Our Love", "Lydia" and "Your Smile" are classics.

The album soon achieved a breakthrough success after its release, with physical sales exceeding 900,000 copies, especially after the ending song of the idol drama "Fighting Fish" "Lydia" was broadcast with the show.

How popular is this album?

It is said that sales once exceeded Mayday, and Jolin Tsai's "Castle" was tied, only slightly inferior to Jay Chou's "Qilixiang".

Perhaps, many viewers who have seen "Fighting Fish" can still clearly remember:

The scene where the protagonist "Yu Hao" in the play rides a motorcycle through the tunnel with "Little Swallow", and the background music immediately sounds, full of atmosphere.

"You will see fog, you will see clouds, you will see the sun, and the cracked earth repeats sorrow..."

2. Work and feelings are confused

In fact, this song was written by Zhan Wenting herself, and the intention was that she herself has a female friend named Lydia, who is herself an optimistic and cheerful girl, but she has become extreme because of emotional failure.

In order to encourage and comfort her friends, Zhan Wenting wrote this song with her name as the title of the song, hoping to encourage friends and all those listeners who could not face the difficult situation.

After 20 years, listening to this song today, many audiences will still be moved - not only the melody, singing skills and other factors, but perhaps the powerful power and humanistic care contained in the song itself.

And these may be the main reasons why Fei'er Band could rise to prominence and become popular overnight at the stage of the most popular and competitive stage in the Chinese music scene.

Among them, Zhan Wenting's unique timbre and calm temperament are indeed very rare and scarce, so they are also particularly important.

In 2005, the year of the continuous explosion of the band Feier, they released their second album "Infinite" while the iron was hot.

It includes songs such as "Millennium Love", "Infinite", "Promised Land" and other songs, which are also classic, and although they were questioned at the time about the lack of novelty, the pre-sale of 2 million is still a miracle.

Since then, the trio has frequently appeared at major award ceremonies and won numerous awards.

— The change happened in 2006.

At that time, due to rampant piracy, many singers began to change direction, such as Mayday, who took the lead in reacting and focused on concerts.

But the band still worked the record, and released their third album "Flying Tribe" in July, although this time there were still 11 good songs, but the response was not as great as before.

In addition, as the relationship deepened more and more, Zhan Wenting and Ah Qin of the same band fell in love for a long time.

The following year, the band released their fourth music album "Love Song Ji", one of which "Crescent Bay" became popular again.

At the concert in October of the same year, Ah Qin suddenly proposed to Zhan Wenting in a public and high-profile manner, and she also smiled and readily agreed, and the sentence "I do" made CP fans extremely excited.

But there is one person who is not satisfied with this relationship, that is, Chen Jianning.

In his eyes, his positioning for Zhan Wenting has always been a cool and mysterious "Oriental singer", which is obviously very different from the image of a sweet happy little girl.

Because of this, a gap slowly developed between the three members of the band.

Indeed, during that time, Ah Qin and Zhan Wenting, who were in love, put all their passion on falling in love, even if they were creating, they were mostly linked to the bits and pieces of love.

Even if it is an interview, the topic they can talk about is the story of getting along between the two, which inevitably makes Chen Jianning, who is sitting next to him, look embarrassed.

Over time, Chen Jianning stopped participating in the orchestra's external activities.

In 2008, the little couple of Ah Qin and Zhan Wenting participated in the release of the album "Let's Smile Together" as producers for the first time.

But the album does not extend the previous peak, and it can even be said to be unremarkable.

What is even more sad is that in the creative process, they will inevitably have contradictions and rifts due to different musical concepts, which also affects their feelings.

Chen Jianning, who gradually "withdrew" from the orchestra, is founding the "Infinite Extension Music Club"; Ah Qin also began to start his own business, opening an entertainment company and training trainees.

Only Zhan Wenting has been sticking to the "Feier Band" and is looking forward to and waiting for another brilliant arrival.

However, she did not wait for the desired result.

3. Goodbye is still expected

In 2010, Zhan Wenting and Aqin's three-year relationship came to an imperfect end, and the man responded to the reason with a sentence of "feelings faded", and the woman could only wet her eyes on one side.

The relationship is lost, and the career is not much better - because the popularity of the album is not as good as one, the news about the "Fei'er Band" Jiang Lang is exhausted.

Due to the breakup of Zhan Wenting and Ah Qin, the outside world began to speculate that they would "go their separate ways".

Although the three people firmly stated at the time that "the group will never disband", by 2013, everything began to be irretrievable.

At that time, Zhan Wenting's throat problems needed treatment, and the album "Better Life" released in the same year did not cause too many splashes, so this also became the final chapter of the group's lead singer is Zhan Wenting's era.

At the end of the following year, Ah Qin gave birth to a daughter with Li Wenjing, a trainee who had recently fallen in love, and then registered her marriage with the other party.

Also this year, Zhan Wenting's voice has not yet recovered, and she is also facing the expiration of her contract with Warner.

Therefore, the conflict between the three completely broke out - Zhan Wenting hoped to create glory with Warner again, but Ah Qin and Chen Jianning hoped to change to other companies and seek to break the game.

After that, fans saw the "big change" of the band Feier, but in fact, it was mainly the change of lead singer.

In 2015, Chen Jianning and A Qin found female singer Peng Jiahui and collaborated on the opening song "Fire of the Heart" of "Flower Thousand Bones", and then suddenly fell silent.

Until three years later, Zhan Wenting posted a self-explosion, saying that she was "kicked out" of the group without knowing it, and even the qualification of "fan group administrator" was removed.

In the face of doubts from netizens and fans, Aqin, who once had a sweet relationship with Zhan Wenting, posted a response, saying that everyone's creative concepts have been incompatible for several years, and he has no idea about her withdrawal.

But the magic is that in October of that year, the "Fei'er Band", which did not disband, reappeared, but the lead singer became the 22-year-old female singer Han Rui.

Some fans found that Han Rui is somewhat similar to Zhan Wenting in terms of vocal conditions and style, and even has similarities in singing.

What's more interesting is that Han Rui's English name is "Lydia", which is obviously consuming feelings.

Although Han Rui did suffer a lot of criticism for this, Zhan Wenting, who was kicked out of the group, seems to be even worse, she was once photographed by fans, and after losing her job as Fei'er's lead singer, she could only continue her acting career by walking holes.

In 2021, Zhan Wenting released her second album "Faye Zhan Wenting Dancing on the Clouds", but the response was still very flat.

At the same time, Fei'er's new band appeared on "The Voice of God 2", and Han Rui's singing was immediately complained by Ding Taisheng, Tao Zhe and other judges:

"No matter how much you sing like Zhan Wenting, you can't become Zhan Wenting."

Fortunately, since last year, Zhan Wenting finally chose to come out, she said: "I understood during that time that everything should rely on yourself, as long as you can persevere, there will always be." ”

With the recording of variety shows, Zhan Wenting's popularity began to rise, and this time, she chose not to take off by "Fei'er", but to use her name as a support.

It has been nearly 20 years since her debut, but Zhan Wenting said: "I am still getting used to my new identity again. ”

I also hope that the song "Lydia" she composed back then can encourage herself:

"He can't take your paradise with him, and it will leave rainbow tears after drying!"