The heyday of the Cantonese music scene in Hong Kong is roughly divided into three stages: the third stage is the 90s of the four kings; the second stage is the Tan Zhang controversy period in the mid-to-late 80s; and the first stage, that is, from the mid-to-late 70s to the mid-80s, represented by Hui Guanjie, Lin Zixiang, Xu Xiaofeng, Luo Wen, Zhen Ni, Ye Liyi, Yip Chun Tong, etc., and there is another one, which is a name I want to talk to you about today: Kwan Cheng Kit.
Kwan Is a very influential singer in the history of Hong Kong music, but now every time he mentions those shining names, Kwan Is always easy to ignore. Why? Because Guan Zhengjie is very special, unlike other singers.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" what song did Kwan Chung-jae sing >? </h1>
Let's take a look at what works Guan Zhengjie has, for people who pay more attention to Hong Kong music and Hong Kong opera, there are simply too many, such as "Thousands of Rivers and Mountains", "The Grace of the Earth", "Two Forget the Smoke and Water", "The Silkworm Changes", "Drunken Red Dust", "Fishing Boat Singing Late", "When People Shed Tears on the Journey", "Tianlai... Galaxy Legends...
The reason why he can sing so many martial arts classics is because his voice is very suitable, and it seems that only he can sing the kind of chivalry and strength that shakes people's hearts. Jacky Cheung has sung several of his works, not denying Jacky Cheung's singing skills, but the taste is still inferior to Guan Zhengjie.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > What is special about Kwan? </h1>
These superstars in the Hong Kong music scene that we can call famous may only be about Zheng Jie not being a professional singer. Yes, he is an "amateur" singer who works as an architect. But professional amateurs do not represent amateurs at the level, or there will not be so many brilliant achievements.
Kwan graduated from the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong and naturally worked as an architect after graduation. But he had a penchant for music, and he formed a band in middle school, where he mainly sang English folk songs. So Guan Zhengjie will still work part-time as a singer. As singers such as Xu Guanjie actively advocated Cantonese pop songs, Kwan Zhengjie also began singing Cantonese songs in 1976. Since then, he has sung a series of well-known TV series and movie songs.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > What honors has Guan Zhengjie had? </h1>
From 1979 to 1984, when the first generation of Hong Kong singers won major awards ceremonies, "amateur" singer Kwan Cheng Kit was not as popular as other singers, but the honors won made others ashamed. In recent years, he has won the most abundant singer in the "Top Ten Chinese Golden Songs", and has been selected as one of the Top Ten Chinese Golden Songs a total of 9 times, which is unparalleled. In addition, it has been selected as one of the "Top Ten Golden Songs" three times.
Kwan Is not only the biggest winner of the "Top Ten Chinese Golden Songs" in recent years, he also won the "Top Ten Outstanding Young People of Hong Kong" in 1982, and was also the first male singer in the Hong Kong music scene to receive this honor (before that, only female singer Wang Mingquan won).
In 1985, Kwan was awarded the Medal of Honor by the British government.
The most worth mentioning honor is also the honor that every Hong Kong singer dreams of - the Golden Needle Award, but it is interesting that he actually refused to accept it. It was 2006, the 29th Top Ten Chinese the Golden Needle Award, and intended to give him this award, and invited him to return to China to receive the award. Guan Zhengjie rejected the award on the grounds that he "did not want to lose weight in order to come back to receive the award".
Compared with the "Andy Lau refused to accept the Golden Needle Award" that was circulated, Guan Zhengjie was a truly credible refusal.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Why did Guan Zhengjie disappear without a trace? </h1>
After years of glory, Kwan faded out of the singing scene in the late 1980s and returned to his main business as an architect. He was indifferent to fame and fortune by nature, and did not care too much about everything in the entertainment industry, plus Tan Zhang was in charge at that time, and most of their generation of singers also retired.
But whoever retired was not as thorough as Zheng Jie's retirement, and since then he has never appeared in the circle again, completely disappearing from everyone's field of vision. He has moved to Seattle since 1991 and continues his construction and real estate business. A few years ago, fans who returned from the United States revealed that Guan Zhengjie has a building in Seattle and can live a rich life by collecting rent.
Guan Zhengjie, who was born in 1949, is now 71 years old, his hair is already all white, but his spirit is very good, and he and Guan Tai live a plain and happy life over there.
Seeing such an indifferent Guan Zhengjie, we can understand why he can easily say no to the Golden Needle Award. After seeing through life, these false names are simply not worth anything.
Looking at the entire Chinese music scene, with guan Zhengjie, a singer who quickly retreated after experiencing glory, only he and Liu Wenzheng and Tong Ange, no matter how glamorous they were, the kind of "waving their sleeves and not taking away a cloud" when they left, and the determination to never come back after leaving, together with their works, forever remained in the memory of fans.