In the 80s, if anyone was the most representative and influential female singer, Su Rui was definitely a representative of the Chinese music scene. Lian Luo Dayou praised: Where there are Chinese in the world, there will definitely be Su Rui's voice.
What is her status in the Chinese music scene? Some people said: "Su Rui used her own style to break the sweet song style in Taiwan at that time, if it were not for Su Rui, Teresa Teng would have been on fire for at least ten years."
She is an idol of many popular singers. However, with the passage of time, the singers who used to be popular all over China now seem to have no news.
How did this big sister in the music world, who is known as the "queen of black songs", get to the peak of the song world?
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Looking back at Suri's childhood, she will find that there is no connection between her and singing, and even says that she never thought she would become a singer.
When she was a child, with her excellent athletics and basketball, Su Rui dreamed of becoming a physical education teacher and living a peaceful and stable life. But when she was 16, things took a turn for the better. Su Rui's voice from childhood is unique and recognizable. By chance, Su Rui skipped class to participate in a singing competition, only to be directly selected by a singing group with her unique vocal conditions. What Su Rui did not expect was that this singing troupe gave her a new life and took her into the road of music.
Slowly, Su Rui gained some singing experience, joined the Action Choir, and gave herself a Julie English name. Su Rui followed the choir around Taiwan, and this performance experience allowed Su Rui to change her original dream and have a clearer life plan.
She wants to be a singer, an influential super singer, she loves her music career and is determined to go on. In order to realize her dream, Su Rui, who graduated from high school, gave up her studies and went to Taichung and Taipei to work as a resident singer.
During the residency, Su Rui brought out her unique voice to the fullest. Su Rui is good at bursting out her own extremely high-pitched voice. It is precisely because of this different soft and weak rock voice that she has been loved by everyone.
Soon after, Su Rui became the first female singer in residence at the Taipei Hilton. She thought her singing career was finally about to spring. But reality always backfires. She went to the Hilton Hotel in Hong Kong to sing for 3 years. But it has not improved, she even thought about giving up, but she is so strong in nature that she does not allow herself to give up halfway. In this way, she has been singing in obscurity.
It was not until 1976 that Su Rui, who had been a resident singer for 8 years, finally ushered in the first spring of her career and successfully signed a contract with Hong Kong House UFO Records. At the same time, she also broke through the music world as a formal singer, and what awaited her was her own song legend.
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After that, Suri showed off her musical talents and soon released her debut album What a Difference a Day Makes.
However, this album did not bring any improvement to Su Rui's career, and even Su Rui had to go to various restaurants and bars and radio stations to make a living.
In fact, Su Rui has been singing for many years, and she has long accumulated a lot of singing experience and extraordinary strength, but she has missed the opportunity to become popular twice.
In the 1970s, Taiwan's popular is sweet love songs and small fresh school songs, most of the singers at that time are gorgeous and dignified, and their voices are delicate and sweet; but Su Rui wears short hair, wears black clothes, has a neutral and cold image, and sings English songs full of vicissitudes and shouts, especially black soul songs.
This keeps Suri in a tepid state.
When Liu Jiachang wanted to sing the song "The Past Can Only Be Remembered" to Su Rui, Su Rui saw that it was a soft and weak love song and refused. As a result, Yuya sensationalized the Chinese song scene with "The Past Can Only Be Remembered" and became a generation of "Jade Girl Singers".
Not long after, Liu Jiachang found Su Rui again and wanted to sing the song "Yun He" to Su Rui, but this time Su Rui saw that it was this kind of small love song again, and still refused to sing. Liu Jiachang gave "Cloud River" to the Yellow Warbler in one breath, and the Yellow Warbler became famous in one fell swoop.
Famous music: Liu Jiachang
When everyone around her became popular by singing love songs, Su Rui still sang in the bar and stuck to her own style. After another 7 years of wandering, Suri was at an unprecedented low on the road to music.
From the age of 16, she began to sing, and su Rui, 31, has been immersed in it for 15 years. Thirty and standing, perhaps Su Rui's persistence touched the heavens.
In 1983, the famous UFO records came to her, and she wondered how she was just an obscure resident singer, how she could be seen by UFO records. However, due to the first two missed opportunities to become popular, Su Rui resolutely signed a contract and began a new musical road. In order to make herself look new and appear in front of fans with a new attitude, she changed her original name to Su Rui.
Since then, Suri has become a memory of the times.
After signing the contract, UFO Records sang all five songs from the movie "Hitchhiker" to Su Rui, which surprised Su Rui. However, she did not expect that this singing would open the door to her career.
The touching plot of the movie combined with Su Rui's heroic and affectionate singing voice throughout caused a huge sensation at the time. Therefore, the movie "Hitchhiking" became Taiwan's "crowning work", setting a high box office of more than 40 million Taiwan dollars at that time.
And "If you sell nothing", "Please come with me", "The same moonlight", "Change" and "Whether" sung by Su Rui have also become popular in the streets and alleys of Taiwan with the movie.
Therefore, Su Rui published a very important and influential super album - "Hitchhiking Movie Soundtrack". This is also her first Chinese album, which sold more than one million directly after the album was released, and it resounded throughout the music world. To this day, this album is still a landmark work in the Chinese music scene, and its influence is extremely far-reaching.
That year, Su Rui was 31 years old and completely red.
Behind this popularity and fame is what Su Rui spent 15 years in exchange for, which can be described as a late success. For the late success of the big instrument, she said humbly: "Singing depends on both strength and luck, and I am a fool and a fool, so the big instrument is late." Since then, the Chinese music scene has set off a Su Rui rock wind, and she has also completely opened up a new era of music.
Since then, the epoch-making "Queen of Black Songs" has been born and has swept the two sides of the strait and three places. Su Rui has become a rock goddess in the hearts of countless people, and her masterpieces continue to be good.
When she was most popular, many singers regarded her as an idol, even Na Ying, Yu Chengqing, Huang Qishan, Zhang Huimei, etc. were her fans. Even Na Ying, who is now the eldest sister of the music world, debuted by imitating her.
At that time, Na Ying had been rubbing Su Rui's heat not only to cover Su Rui's songs, but even to become a cottage version of Su Rui, changing her name to "Su Bing" and "Su Ran".
Left: Su Rui (album cover) Right: Na Ying (album cover)
It wasn't until Na Ying became famous that he changed his name back. Later, Na Ying also said that when she first debuted, she was an imitation of Su Rui, and Su Rui was also her eternal idol.
In the face of these behaviors, Su Rui was considerate of the newcomer, did not have a mustard for Na Ying, and generously forgave. However, such an influential diva is not emotionally satisfactory.
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Su Rui had two marriages in total, but the results were not satisfactory.
In the early years, Su Rui was not famous, and met the Hong Kong drummer Arwen when she was singing. The two people fell in love for a long time, supported each other in that difficult time, and became the closest lover. In 1979, the two married for love, and Su Rui also began her first married life. Originally, Su Rui thought that she had found someone to accompany her all her life and would live happily ever after. But then su Rui was disappointed.
In order to take better care of Arwen, Suri even temporarily gave up her music career to be a good wife at home. But not long after such a day, Su Rui found that her former husband had betrayed him and found a third party.
This was undoubtedly a huge blow to Suri, who was born proud and strong, so she did not hesitate to divorce her husband and end her first marriage. Although the marriage only lasted for about a year and then collapsed, Arwen left Su Rui's last words at the time of the divorce: I want a wife who is going on and going side by side, not a nanny.
This marriage changed Su Rui's mind, and she was determined to focus all her attention on her career and stop talking about feelings. During that time, she developed a great fear of love and marriage, lest she avoid it. Without the bondage of emotion, Su Rui can devote herself to music. Until she was 31 years old, she not only had a breakthrough in her career, but also had a new turnaround in her feelings.
It turned out that TV producer Liu Weilin had long had feelings for Su Rui, so he spent a huge amount of money to ask UFO Records to sign a contract with Su Rui. And this is just Liu Weilin's fierce pursuit of Su Rui. In the face of Liu Weilin's actions, Su Rui's strong heart began to waver a little, and Su Rui, who originally thought that she would not marry again, fell into the long river of love again.
In 1985, Su Rui remarried and married Liu Weilin, and began to be full of infinite expectations for the new marriage. With a successful career and a happy marriage, Su Rui has become a winner in life at this time. It didn't take long for Suri to give birth to a lovely son and then get back to music.
After having children, Su Rui did not return to the family, but continued to work hard in her career. She not only debuted at the Spring Festival Gala, but also released a heavyweight album "Holding Hands". The album sold more than 1.5 million copies in the mainland, and the glory is still the same at the age of 40.
Originally, Su Rui's life was so complete, her career and family were both harvested, but the marriage was once again rifted.
Liu Weilin is a strong man, who is particularly uncomfortable in the face of the marriage of strong women and weak men, and even resents being called Su Rui's husband by others. Moreover, Su Rui's music career is particularly busy, and she can't take care of her family at all, and the feelings of the two people are gradually drifting apart. In 1999, the two men broke up and divorced completely, ending a 14-year marriage.
That year, Su Rui was 47 years old and became a middle-aged single mother. The failure of two marriages made Su Rui completely dead to love. Since then, Su Rui has never been married again and is still single.
Just like the song "Whether" sings: "Love to the depths of people lonely."
The marriage is no longer there, Su Rui is gradually aging, and the singing career has faded away from the style of the year. Last year, when she was 68 years old, she appeared in a commercial performance, simply dressed in red, bringing one classic after another to the audience, even if it rained lightly that day, it could not extinguish Su Rui's enthusiasm for singing.
Today, Su Rui is 69 years old, and in the blink of an eye, she has reached her old age. Looking back at the past style and loss, Su Rui's life has bittersweet and sweet, sad and happy, but it can also be said that she has lived out the appearance she wants.
Looking back now, no matter how the times have changed, Su Rui is still the most brilliant superstar of that era.
Text/Awkward
Editor/Deer Hunt Entertainment