Slightly younger friends may be unfamiliar with the name Xia Shaosheng, and the estimation familiar with him is also because he played Chen Jinnan, the chief helmsman of the Heaven and Earth Society, in Chen Xiaochun's version of "Deer Ding", and he did not know Chen Jinnan, so he called him a hero in vain.
Xia Shaosheng was an active rock singer in Hong Kong in the 1970s and 1980s, known as the "Godfather of Hong Kong Rock". His musical works are remembered by countless fans, and he is a musician who cannot be ignored in the Hong Kong music scene.
Xia Shaosheng, whose original name was Wu Zhikun, was born in 1952 and officially said to have debuted in 1968. I remember reading some interviews with him in his early years, claiming that his education was not high, he began to work before graduating from high school, and his love of music was exercised from singing in the lounge. It wasn't until 1979 that his first record, Childhood, was published, and he was 27 years old. With this record, he also won some awards, but it never made him popular.
Although Xia Shaosheng failed to become popular, he never gave up his music career and sang many good songs in the streets with a husky unique singing voice. For example, "Intersection", "Empty Stool", "When the Guitar Is Crying" and other golden songs, Zhang Guorong called him the big brother of the music world.
In 1998, his self-published album "Zen", with the theme of recording high-quality non-synthesizer music, began a cover journey. In the Beginning of the downturn in the Hong Kong Guangdong song market, his album was touted by audio enthusiasts as an audiophile disc, and the sales far exceeded that of many mainstream star singers.
In his career, Xia Shaosheng has not been able to become popular; in married life, he is a wanderer, and at the age of 67, he has been married four times, and the number of times can be said to be more than the so-called "old hooligan" Xie Xian.
The most bizarre divorce experience is his fourth divorce, to know that her fourth wife is the daughter of the former richest man in Vietnam, and the appearance is quite high, typical of bai fumei, and the reason why Xia Shaosheng divorced her was that he thought that xiaojiao's wife was too clingy.
However, Xia Shaosheng and the bai fumei wife who has been married for nine years did not ask the other party for a penny after divorce, it is still a bit manly, when the media asked why he did not share the rich wife's family property, Xia Shaosheng smiled and said, "Money is not important, the most important thing is that uncle is happy." ”
Putting aside his married life, in the Hong Kong music circle, Xia Shaosheng's insistence on rock music and later his promotion of jazz music are very respectable.