In the 1980s, the Stars of the Chinese pop music scene were brilliant, and Shen Xiaocen was one of the brightest red singers. Her masterpiece "Please come to the end of the world" is popular throughout the country, and more people understand the end of the world in Hainan through this song. This song has also become a beautiful business card of Hainan. Now, more than 30 years later, Shen Xiaocen, who has long disappeared from the public eye, what is his living situation?
Shen Xiaocen was born in Shanghai in 1957, and his mother is an actor in the literary troupe. She liked to sing and dance since she was a child, but due to the influence of the times, her parents opposed her to becoming an actress. After graduating from high school, Shen Xiaocen was assigned to the Shanghai Real Estate Bureau as a construction worker. While working, she studied vocal music assiduously, and learned the Italian pharyngeal singing method under the famous artist Liao Yiming.
In 1978, Shen Xiaocen was admitted to the Shanghai Ballet Choir and fulfilled his dream of being an actor. In 1982, Shen Xiaocen released his first solo album, with a circulation of more than 2 million copies. Among them, the song "Please Come to the End of the World" was originally a number, but it was quickly sung and became Shen Xiaocen's representative work.
In 1984, Shen Xiaocen was invited to participate in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, and sang three songs solo: "Please come to the end of the world", "Welcome the New Year", and "Mother taught me a song", which quickly became popular in the country. Since then, she has sung "Little Boy" and the Indonesian song "Oh Mama", which is also popular among fans. Shen Xiaocen won the title of "China's Top Ten Singers" and won the "China's First Golden Record" Award, and also took the lead in holding a personal concert, reaching the peak of his career.
Shen Xiaocen got married very early, and when he was a construction worker in the real estate bureau, he met And Yang Jingwei and wanted to love. Yang Jingwei is also a Shanghainese, 9 years older than her, proficient in music, and plays the guitar well. Due to the age difference, the Shen family's parents firmly opposed it. Shen Xiaocen broke through many obstacles and married Yang Jingwei naked in 1981.
After marriage, Yang Jingwei was transferred to Macao to work, and Shen Xiaocen and him were separated. During this period, Shen Xiaocen proposed several times to be transferred to Macao to work, and the husband and wife were reunited, and Yang Jingwei used various excuses to shirk it. In 1986, Shen Xiaocen was in a car accident when she went to perform in a foreign country, and as a result, her fetus was miscarried when she was 4 months pregnant. During Shen Xiaocen's treatment in the hospital, Yang Jingwei did not return to Shanghai to see his wife on the grounds that he was busy at work. Shen Xiaocen's heart was completely cold, and he proposed a divorce to Yang Jingwei. After more than a year of civil litigation, in November 1987, the Shanghai Luwan District People's Court ruled that the two were divorced.
After the divorce, Shen Xiaocen was deeply shocked and his mood has been unhappy. Soon after, her brother died unexpectedly in a car accident and her sister-in-law went to Australia. In order to let his nephew live with his mother, in 1992, Shen Xiaocen went to Australia to study, and took his nephew with him by the way. In order to earn tuition, Shen Xiaocen worked as a singer in a club in his spare time. In 1994, she met The Englishman Martin, a software engineer who founded an IT company that was acquired by Bill Gates.
In 2001, Shen Xiaocen married Martin and went to live with her husband in the United Kingdom. In order to promote Chinese culture, she was active on the Broadway stage on her own strength, and the audience affectionately called her "China Shen" and respected her very much.
In 2008, Shen Xiaocen returned to China to participate in the "Dance Forest Conference" held by Oriental Satellite TV and reached the final in one fell swoop. Because she fought too hard, she fractured her back and was in pain, but she gritted her teeth to complete the last game.
Shen Xiaocen with his parents
In an interview, Shen Xiaocen said emotionally: "Although I live overseas, I have a Chinese heart, and I love China." Indeed, every spring festival, Shen Xiaocen has to post the Spring Festival at home, Chinese New Year's Eve night vigil, make dumplings, and watch the CCTV Spring Festival Gala. Martin loves his wife and loves China. Many actresses have divorced when they marry abroad, but Shen Xiaocen and Martin's marriage has always been happy and stable.
In December 2018, the song stirred for 40 years - the Chinese Golden Melody Ceremony celebrating the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up was sung in Shanghai. Shen Xiaocen was invited to return to China and sang on the same stage with Zhu Mingying, Zheng Xulan and other stars of the same era, and the audience gave them the warmest applause. Shen Xiaocen's eyes were filled with tears.
In February 2020, Shen Xiaocen and Martin have been married for 19 years, and after years of running-in, the gears of their marriage are completely aligned. In Shen Xiaocen's view, love has no borders, and marriage is fate. But no matter where you live, you can never forget your roots, you can't forget that you are a Chinese with yellow skin and black hair!
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