In 1997, at the Hung Rin Stadium in Hong Kong, Zhou Run sent out the concert scene of a singer.
When he was invited to the stage and gave the flowers in his hands to the singer, he actually knelt down respectfully and prostrated his head deeply, frightening the singer to quickly kneel down and return the salute, and supported each other with both hands. However, Zhou Runfa did not get up and sniffed deeply at her again.
Coincidentally, in 2004, at the singer's concert, the same scene appeared again. As a guest, Andy Lau, after taking the stage, directly knelt down to show his admiration and respect for the singer.
Zhou Runfa debuted in 1974, and in 1997, he was already a big man in the entertainment industry.
When Andy Lau opened his concert in Chongqing in 2004, there were 130,000 people on the scene, and the degree of popularity was unique in the entertainment industry.
So, who is the singer who can make these two top celebrities kneel?
She is Xu Xiaofeng, a hall-level singer with a reputation on a par with Teresa Teng in the Chinese music scene.
The entertainment industry has a sea of stars, many stars have long been lost in the past, but Xu Xiaofeng is like a yellow rose, leaving the magnificent and elegant fragrance in the memory of most people.
Xu Xiaofeng was born in Wuhan, Hubei Province in 1949, and when she was two years old, she followed her parents to settle in Hong Kong.
Due to the busy business at home, Xu Xiaofeng, as the eldest in the family, dropped out of school after only the second grade of middle school, helping his parents take care of their business and taking care of their five younger siblings.
Xu Xiaofeng has a quiet and assertive personality and is a powerful helper for her parents. She loves to sing and always hums pop songs in her mouth when going in and out of the house.
People around her praised her for singing well, and she also felt that her voice was special, and no matter what song came to her mouth, it had a unique taste.
What she did not expect was that it was this "uniqueness" that opened a skylight to the clouds for her.
In 1965, 16-year-old Xu Xiaofeng and his friends participated in the "Hong Kong Warblers" singing competition, originally holding a playful mentality, but unexpectedly passed the hurdle and won the championship with a white light "Fire of Love".
With this honor, it means half a foot into the entertainment industry.
As soon as the excited Xu Xiaofeng told his parents the good news, he was splashed with cold water: "Girls show their faces, 'sell and sing' everywhere, what a look!" ”
Her parents had a traditional view that singers were not legitimate professions and strongly opposed her singing on stage.
Although the stage when she participated in the competition seemed to have been magically cast and became the place where Xu Xiaofeng's soul haunted, she did not fall out with her family for this, but tried to persuade them.
She told her parents about her growth experience as a favorite singer, pulled them to see concerts, and changed their misconception that singers were "selling songs".
After three years of water milling kung fu, Xu Xiaofeng finally persuaded her parents to agree to her singing.
When she first debuted, the heat of the singing competition had long passed, she was not impatient, and everything started from scratch.
At first, she sang in nightclubs, and any song, through her cover, always had a new charm.
It didn't take long for her to become the most popular singer in nightclubs. As her fame grew, several nightclubs competed for invitations, and at most, she rushed 13 times a night.
In 1969, under the recommendation of the artist Wen Zhengbo, the 20-year-old Xu Xiaofeng successfully signed a record company and officially entered the Hong Kong music scene.
In just two days, she recorded 12 songs, released in three albums. He has become a well-known singer with a song "Selling Tangyuan".
Just like being born on the stage, without marketing and without packaging, Xu Xiaofeng has broken out of the music world without hurry.
In the 1970s, the stars of the Hong Kong music scene were brilliant, but Xu Xiaofeng shone with a unique light.
She did not sing and dance like other singers, showing her youth with vigor, but singing softly, singing and singing, full of charm.
Her singing gives people a lazy and comfortable feeling, like a breeze gently passing over the heart, making people tremble slightly, and unconsciously immerse themselves in it.
With such a magical voice, almost no one can stand out.
And on any occasion, she will wear a classical long skirt with a tunic, showing a thin waist, and her grace reveals femininity.
With a very magnetic voice and elegant typhoon, Xu Xiaofeng has become a label figure in the Hong Kong music scene.
Since then, she has won the Golden Melody Award of the Top Ten Chinese of Radio Television Hong Kong with a "Caprice Song", laying the foundation for the status of the hall of fame in the music world.
Fans compared her to Teresa Teng, who was popular all over the country at that time, so that a popular saying was: "There is Teresa Teng in Taiwan, and Xu Xiaofeng in Hong Kong."
At the height of the limelight, her appearance fee was higher than that of The "Four Heavenly Kings" at that time, Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Li Ming, and Aaron Kwok combined.
Not only in Hong Kong, Xu Xiaofeng's sales of records in Taiwan have also ranked first for many years, which has become a miracle.
She is also the only one who makes an exception for the CCTV Spring Festival Gala.
CCTV Spring Festival Gala has issued invitations to Xu Xiaofeng many times, which is the dream of many stars, but she had to decline due to lack of skills.
In order to have her program at the Spring Festival Gala, the CCTV program team finally decided to change the rules for her party - ask her to record songs in Hong Kong, and then play her singing videos at the Spring Festival Gala.
As a result, on the spring evening of CCTV in 1989, Xu Xiaofeng became the first female singer to appear in front of the audience in the form of video. Such a way of performance, for the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, is unprecedented.
However, such a special honor is not the peak of Xu Xiaofeng.
In the entertainment industry, female artists in many cases fight for youth and appearance, but Xu Xiaofeng is "older and more popular".
In 1992, at the age of 43, she gave 43 concerts at the Hong Kong Hung Hon Coliseum, a record that has not been broken, not even Jacky Cheung, known as the "God of Song".
Since his debut, Xu Xiaofeng's life has been like a hanging, and fame and fortune have rolled in. But she always pays the appearance of "glory has nothing to do with me", treats people with low-key humility, and never shows it.
Others are afraid of being surpassed, but she is very willing to share her experience with others, and she is willing to promote future generations.
Mei Yanfang debuted by singing her "Season of the Wind" and regarded her as a mentor and idol.
Both Chow Yun-fat and Andy Lau have thanked Xu Xiaofeng for her help in public, and Andy Lau has called her "Mother".
She also has no shelf for her peers and the media.
Once at Xu Xiaofeng's concert, Hong Kong celebrity Zha Xiaoxin tentatively asked: "Can you accept my interview first?" ”
Xu Xiaofeng, who never promised easily, agreed: "You are the first person to ask for an interview tonight, and I promise you." ”
A few days later, Xu Xiaofeng did call and discuss the interview with Zha Xiaoxin.
After that, Xu Xiaofeng went to other TV stations for interviews, all of them were the same costumes, outfits, and even handbags were the same, to show fairness.
It is this kind of behavior that makes Xu Xiaofeng, who is highly regarded on the stage, has very little negative news, and it is even more isolated from gossip.
It seems that heaven will never throw all the good luck on a person, and Xu Xiaofeng, who is smooth in his career, has not found his "true destiny" in his whole life.
As early as 1974, she and her first husband, Zheng Yongfu, were married in a low-key manner. Unfortunately, only five years later, their marriage came to an end.
To this day, Xu Xiaofeng has not said the real reason for the divorce between the two.
The only relationship That Xu Xiaofeng highly admits to is her marriage to her second husband, Liao Hui, in 1980.
She and Liao Hui met from a car purchase experience, like meeting the right person at the right time, the two fell in love at first sight, and soon fell in love.
After dating for a while, Xu Xiaofeng happily announced the marriage news with Liao Hui.
However, this marriage, which was blessed by the public, lasted only half a year, and then came to an end.
It turned out that after marriage, Liao Hui asked Xu Xiaofeng to give up his career and go to the United States with him to settle down, and he had to change his nationality.
Xu Xiaofeng believes that she can't do it, she can't do without her beloved singing career, and she is even more reluctant to change her nationality.
After the final negotiations were fruitless, the two ended in divorce.
For this marriage, Xu Xiaofeng has regrets and regrets.
"I wanted to retreat with you, but it is not easy to go here..." Her poignant lyrics in "Helplessness" are the true portrayal of my heart at that time.
Two emotional traumas allowed Xu Xiaofeng to wrap herself more tightly. After a few decades, she never opened her heart to anyone again.
Once, Xu Xiaofeng was interviewed, and the reporter asked her: "Will you feel lonely when you live alone?" ”
"It's hard to find someone who is in love, but if you really miss it, you don't have to force it," she said. Think about getting so many people to recognize, and be lucky to encounter some good songs, these lucky, overshadowed a lot of helplessness. ”
Some people are unhappy because they always see "loss", but Xu Xiaofeng can always see "gain".
Therefore, in the eyes of others, "loneliness will end up", for Xu Xiaofeng, it is a calm and calm "not will".
In the eyes of outsiders, Xu Xiaofeng will never fight or grab, and he will look calm and relaxed.
It is also this calmness that makes her "prosperous fortune".
In the 1980s, as the money became more and more earned, how to manage money became a problem faced by Xu Xiaofeng.
At that time, people were frantically speculating in stocks, and they invested a lot of money into the stock market, and the benefits were very rich.
Xu Xiaofeng saw that those who speculated in stocks were in a hurry all day, running around with a BB machine in their hands, thinking that it was extremely undignified, and especially did not want to become one of them.
So, she followed her mother's advice and invested money in the property market, and gradually, she had 16 properties such as residences, shops, and villas.
She rented these properties to people with different needs, and over the course of a year, the rental income was considerable.
By the 1990s, Hong Kong property prices soared, xu Xiaofeng's house prices continued to double, and she soon had assets of over 100 million yuan and became a veritable rich woman.
Because she did not blindly follow the trend, nor did she rush to make quick profits, she did not have the heart to plant willows and willows, and earned a lot of money.
After the fame and fortune, Xu Xiaofeng became more and more low-key and cautious.
She once said: "It is better to be an ordinary person than to be an ordinary person." Therefore, there was no solemn announcement, nor a high-profile retreat, but it was natural to gradually withdraw himself from the entertainment industry and shift the focus of his life to other places.
When a few years later, someone saw Xu Xiaofeng again, and in front of her was an ordinary woman with a graceful and rich state and a happy and peaceful face.
Xu Xiaofeng, who is now 72 years old, lives a comfortable and comfortable old age, does not have a bad life because of no children and no daughters, reads books, listens to music, and gathers with friends every day, and her spiritual and material life is very rich.
Some people say that Xu Xiaofeng seems to have received the favor of heaven and has a smooth life, which is enviable.
In fact, life is not about whether you can catch a good hand, but whether you can play the highest level.
Want to work hard, cherish when you get it, don't indulge in the past, don't dwell on the future, and what you can really achieve is to do a good job in the present.
This may be the secret of Xu Xiaofeng's happiness.
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