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She was once a popular host of CCTV in the streets and alleys, won the unparalleled honor of the broadcasting industry "Amy Award", and was a well-deserved "CCTV sister" in the 80s.
However, she is also a rare talented female player in the history of Chinese rock, and cooperated with Gao Qi to form a well-known breathing band, which was rated by the authoritative media in the United States as the world's most worthy rock female voice that year.
Now she has disappeared and will always be placed in the most restless, rebellious and glorious era of Chinese rock...
Her name is Wei Hua, a name that every Chinese rock fan will always remember.
First taste of rock 'n' roll
Like countless rock musicians of that era, Wei Hua was born into a military family.
Her sense of music is very good, and she can sing the model plays of that year at a young age, and at the same time, she also eavesdrops on some operas like "Sister Jiang" and "La Traviata" behind her parents' back.
But just that, it simply didn't satisfy this little girl's thirst for music. In the early 1980s, she was admitted to the Beijing Broadcasting Institute, and with the relaxation of the political environment, she began to be exposed to a variety of unheard of new cultures and new ideas, including Western rock music.
Once this avant-garde rebellious music was introduced, it captured the heart of this female college student like a flood of beasts, who was obsessed with The Who, Rush and other bands, she said: "I have all the albums of Rush, and I like it very, very much. ”
Female anchor career
In 1984, she graduated from Beiguang and was assigned to China Radio International. Her voice Shaya, her voice line is very low, and her voice conditions can be said to be no advantage compared with many hosts at that time, so many people laugh at her for being a good announcer with such a voice.
Curiously, such a voice has become a major feature of her, especially when broadcasting English news, her dignified appearance and standard pronunciation quickly conquered the audience of the whole country, whether they understand English or not, they inevitably became her most loyal fans.
Wei Hua was undoubtedly the most beautiful female anchor of that era. In order to pay tribute to this predecessor, Lu Yu once wrote several paragraphs in his book.
"In the early 1990s, my favorite TV anchor was Wei Hua, who was the sister of the international journalism major of the Department of Foreign Languages of our Guangyuan Academy. The first time I saw Wei Hua on TV, I knew what heroic shortness of breath was. At that time, I really didn't know the height of the sky. ”
"One Saturday night, I came home from Guangyuan for the weekend. After dinner, take the TV remote control to change the station frequently. Suddenly, my hand stopped. A particularly foreign female host appeared on the TV... Impeccable. I had a feeling of near despair in my heart. ”
Wei Hua does not dress, does not groom, is ordinary, has a black face, and is not very tall, but "foreign qi" has almost become synonymous with her, which contains appearance, temperament and a style.
Typhoon Weihua likes to speak some light-hearted vernacular, never recites the hymn of the line, and refuses to be inexplicably sensational. This quality of "rejecting kitsch" may be something that today's presenters rarely possess.
Rock 'n' Roll Actress
Despite the heavy task of CCTV, Wei Hua still can't let go of her favorite rock music, she will endure great fatigue and record her own songs after work.
In addition, she also guest starred in the live performances of many domestic rock bands, such as the Mayday Band formed by How Yong and Zhang Ling, and the White Angel Band of the Tang Dynasty Old Fifth and Zang Tianshuo.
In 1989, Wei Hua joined the band formed by Gao Qi and Cao Jun, named "Breathe", and they tried to perform in some foreign-related hotels and clubs.
Once, the breathing band took the stage in Beijing's "Maxim", and the female singer startled all the audience who came to the scene as soon as she opened her voice, including the Rolling Stones executives who were present at the time. The Rolling Stones went to great lengths to sign the band and helped them release their first album, The Sun Rises.
For some reason, Wei Hua quit CCTV in the nineties and threw all her energy into rock and roll, and the rebellion and anger in her body all exploded at that moment, out of control.
After many years, someone asked her if she regretted the past. She said: "No regrets, never regretted, not the slightest bit... Life under the mercury lamp is easy to confuse, but what I need is more challenges! ”
On February 17, 1990, the milestone of Chinese rock, the 1990 Beijing Modern Music Concert was held as scheduled in the first body, and the Breath Band performed on the same stage with the Tang Dynasty Band and the Cobra Band as heavyweight guests, with unprecedented pomp and circumstance.
Not only did she host the entire concert, but she also sang three songs in a row as the lead singer of the breathing band, "Stop Trying to Stop Me", "No More Busy" and "The Sun Rises", and the songs were scattered, and she actually burst into tears on the stage.
Breathing band is undoubtedly precocious, and the price of precocious puberty must be premature aging, the work is not mature enough, the musician's concept is not unified, coupled with the withdrawal of the soul figure Gao Qi, in July 1993, the "Olympic Light" concert, Wei Hua and the band ushered in the biggest failure in their lives.
She once said, "That time was a performance that I was embarrassed to mention." Soon after, the band disbanded and was not made public.
At this time, someone said to him: "You feel so good, why don't you try to write your own songs?" As soon as the words came out, It startled Wei Hua.
Although she was not from a science class, she decided to try it. She listened to the record, then picked up the guitar and started writing, only to have her thoughts well, writing four songs in a week.
She has made great efforts to move closer to masculinity, but in the end she found that she is a woman, so she should look at the problem from a female perspective and express it in her own way, which is the most basic condition for being a thoughtful female singer.
"There are a lot of very good female rock musicians in the world, and their achievements are no worse than those of men."
"Moreover, women are inherently more sensitive and delicate than men, and the content contained in their music is often more thorough and impactful. As a woman, I should make music like this. ”
In 1995, she released her original solo album "Modernization", which depicted the cruel past, the struggle against fate, and the sadness of looking back on the past.
Wei Hua's most admired rock singer is Alanis Morisette, who has just won two Grammy Awards, and she feels that this girl has done a great job in some aspects, so when the foreign media compared her "Modernization" with Ilanice's work, she knew that she was on the right path.
After the publication of the second album "Acid Rain", Wei Hua chose to disappear completely, and since then there has been no news.
People tried to find out only a few words about her from various sources, but to no avail. Some people say that she went abroad and started an antique business; some people say that she is abroad and quietly marries and teaches her children; others say that she is still playing music in a low-key manner, running around all year round...
In the past, I have been lamenting that if the high flag of that year had not left the breath, the breath band would probably have stood at the top of Chinese rock like Black Panther and Tang Dynasty. However, I was shocked that even these bands that had once reached the top of the altar could not avoid premature aging after exhausting their last bit of energy.
The black panther is no longer the color of the past, and the Tang Dynasty finally cannot come up with a work comparable to "Dream back to the Tang Dynasty". Someone once said: "The once-mighty Beijing rock did not succumb to the high pressure of politics, but it did not overcome itself." ”
Wei Hua liked Milan Kundera so much that I thought of a sentence from this writer that fit so well with the rock and roll past behind her:
"It is not the weight that overwhelms her, but the lightness of life that cannot be borne."