Some people say that since he left Rolling Stone in 2000 and went north, he is no longer the godfather of Chinese music who "understands women's hearts best", although his "Song for Myself", "Hills" and "Newly Written Old Songs" can still make people cry.
Some people say that since the 90s of the last century, she has not been one of the best singers in the Taiwanese music scene.
He is Li Zongsheng.
She is singer Zheng Yi.
They are each other's first love.
Perhaps, for the Chinese music scene, his relationship with her is a dusty past that is too far away.
The two of them became acquainted because of the folk song movement.
The two of them, because of the change of music trends, have been strangers since then.
Ten years later, he became the godfather of love songs in the Chinese music scene.
Ten years later, because her personal career focuses on radio hosting, she does not have the support of well-known musicians, and can only rely on covers of the works of music masters such as Luo Dayou, Liang Hongzhi, and Xiao Worm to prove that she was once very popular and relied on hard power.
Ten years ago, she was a popular force in the music industry, and he was a little famous because of his identity as "Zheng Yi's boyfriend".
Many years later, many fans can't remember the name "Zheng Yi", but they can only rely on the name of "Li Zongsheng's first girlfriend" to attract the attention of a small number of fans.
For many people, the female names associated with the godfather of music, Li Zongsheng, are almost all famous, from Zhang Aijia, Chen Shuhua, Lin Yilian to Xin Xiaoqi, Mok Wenwei, Liang Jingru, and even Huang Yunling, Doll (Jin Zhijuan), Bai An, only "Li Zongsheng's first girlfriend" is too curious.
If you know the Taiwanese music scene, if you know Zheng Yi, you will recognize the author: Zheng Yi, she doesn't need to rely on "Li Zongsheng's first love girlfriend" to attract people's attention, she herself is an absolute strength in the music industry.
For example, Zhang Qingfang, although she is not as famous in the mainland as Meng Tingwei, Gao Shengmei and other singers who were popular in the 90s, she is a local "undefeated in the East".
And Zheng Yi is Zhang Qingfang in the 80s, or Zhang Qingfang is Zheng Yi in the 90s.
Zheng Yi, born in 1961, she is a top student of the History Department of Tamkang University, at the age of 18, she participated in the 3rd Golden Rhyme Award Folk Song Competition because of her love of singing, and won the honor of winning singer, which attracted the attention of the music world.
In 1980, Su Lai, the winning singer of the 4th Golden Rhyme Award, wrote a song "Yueqin" (composer, lyricist is Lai Xi'an) based on the life experience of Mr. Chen Da, a folk song master, which he wanted to give to Li Jianfu, the "best folk singer" in his heart.
At that time, Zheng Yi was Su Lai's roommate next door, and when she came to Su Lai's residence to visit, she heard the demo of Su Lai playing and singing "Yueqin", and Zheng Yi, who likes to sing, "cut off" "Yueqin", thus turning this song into her own label.
In 1981, Xinge Records published a compilation album for Zheng Yi, Wang Xinlian and Ma Yizhong, the three winners of the Golden Rhyme Award in '79, which was the second "three-person exhibition" after Rolling Stone published a compilation album for Wu Chuchu, Pan Yueyun and Li Lifen, and included the song "Yueqin".
After Qi Yu's "Olive Tree", Zheng Yi's "Yueqin" and Cai Qin's "Out of the Stopper" have become works of art that transcend time and space sung by female singers of the folk song movement.
"Sing a piece of thought, sing a piece of thought, sing a piece of Tangshan ballad, the endless bumpy road, just like the steps of the ancestors... ”
In 1984, 18-year-old Zhang Qingfang sang Zheng Yi's "Yueqin" to participate in the college singing competition, and was spotted by Gui Mingyu, thus creating a decade of glory for the record.
Zhang Qingfang and Zheng Yi were called "the singers with the brightest voices in the music world" by Li Zongsheng that year, the difference is that Zhang Qingfang is sweeter, while Zheng Yi is more simple and sincere.
In the eighth album of the Golden Rhyme Award series published by Xinge Records in 1981, the duo of "Ma Ye" Ma Zhaojun and Hong Guangda gave Zheng Yilai the song "Once Upon a Breeze" written when he was in college.
"The morning breeze, we set off into the distance, the past is like smoke, don't look back. ”
Fans who like Taiwanese campus folk songs, of course, know the status of "Once Upon a Breeze" in the folk song industry, and basically every important node folk song commemorative concert will have a folk singer sing this classic.
Zheng Yi did not have the idea of continuing to develop in the music industry after participating in the Golden Yun Awards, she originally planned to go abroad for further study after graduating from university, but was awakened by the words of Tao Xiaoqing, the "mother of folk songs": "Zheng Yi, it would be a pity if you don't record records, at least you should make your voice have a certain value." ”
In 1982, after graduating, Zheng Yi was signed by Lap Record, and the company also produced an album for her in the first year of her contract, and the master musician Hou Dejian was responsible for the album production.
However, due to personal matters, Hou Dejian "ran away" back to the mainland shortly after taking over the production of the record.
The production rights fell to Li Zongsheng, one of the members of the acoustic guitar choir of "Zheng Yi's boyfriend" at the time.
At that time, Zheng Yi, like Qi Yu, was the best female folk singer, and Li Zongsheng was not a "stinky fart" at all.
In order to prove himself, Li Zongsheng used all his talents to tailor an album for Zheng Yi, which was "Light Rain Came at the Right Time", which ranked 30th on the Taiwan Top 100 Records (1975-1993) chart.
In the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in 1988, Fei Xiang, who sang Gao Lingfeng's original song "A Fire in Winter" in the first year, covered Zheng Yi's 1983 song "Light Rain Came at the Right Time".
The songwriter of this song was a little-known worm who was serving in the military at the time, and it was still 6 years before Li Zongsheng and Worm got together in Rolling Stone.
The song "Light Rain Came at the Right Time" ranked first on the song hot list in Zhang Xiaoyan's program "Variety 100" for 13 weeks, and Zheng Yi was also recognized as the "best singing and best-selling" female singer in the Taiwanese music scene in the 80s.
In this album, it also includes a song written by Li Zongsheng and sung by Zheng Yi - "The End".
"What the hell do you want, you never tell me, is this the end ... ”
Could it really be a prophecy, just a year and a half after the release of this album, the two really "ended".
In 1984, in Zheng Yi's second album "Go, My Love", Li Zongsheng wrote the song "Go, My Love" for her and sang "Shallow", after which the two really chose Bye bye.
In 1985, after more than half a year of trimming and adjusting, Zheng Yi released her last album of record making and the last album of the "Love Trilogy" - "Awakening".
The lyrics of its title song read: Don't be anesthetized and wake up quickly, because time can still determine winners and losers, let us welcome the dawn to fly, unrestrained and free is what everyone expects, and we must arrange our own destiny.
In the same year, after participating in the recording of the choral song "Tomorrow Will Be Better", Zheng Yi chose to retire from the music scene for a short time.
In 1986, Zheng Yi chose to open her voice again, this time she joined the newly established Kedeng record company with a piano keyboard logo.
In Kedeng Records, Zheng Yi is the undisputed "first sister", whether it is the first singer to join Qu Youliang, or the musical genius Wu Sikai, Zheng Zhihua, as well as Yu Taiyan, Huang Dawei, Huang Xiaohu, in front of Zheng Yi, they are all small characters.
In 1986, Zheng Yi's first album "Want to Fly" in the new owner was produced by Chen Fuming and Cao Junhong, two bosses, almost the whole company.
The title song "Want to Fly" is a work by folk song master Liang Hongzhi who understands the state of mind of his friend Zheng Yi.
"I want to fly in autumn, the cold wind blows through the maple leaves and falls, what am I still nostalgic for here, the heart of autumn is suitable for experiencing alone... ”
In the album "Want to Fly", Zheng Yi and Wu Sikai also sang the song "Me and You" written by Li Zongsheng, and Li Zongsheng also created the song "The Past Things", the two songs are Zheng and Li's summary of their emotional time for more than three years.
Zheng Yi, who is optimistic and cheerful by nature, faded out of the music scene after a few years, and then got married and had children, living a peaceful and fulfilling life.
And Li Zongsheng finally married RTHK DJ Zhu Weiyin after being ignorant and ambiguous with his "eldest sister" Zhang Aijia, and then embarked on his own road of "godfather of the music world and prodigal son of love".
Zheng Yi may really be born for folk songs, her voice is simple, transparent, and loud, just like the freshness and humility of folk songs, so she is favored by a lot of folk song creation masters.
In 1987, Zheng Yi released her highest-grossing record of Cordon Records, "Mood", which sold 80,000 copies in January, and the title song of the same name "Mood" topped the song chart for 8 consecutive weeks.
"Can you use the cloudy you to help me hide myself, can you use a different you, so that I can show my mood, my heart, my feelings. ”
"Mood" is a song created for Zheng Yi by the well-known songwriter and advertising director Lu Changming, and it is also an advertising song for Seabird Shampoo, and Zheng Yi, who is not particularly fond of showing her face, also became popular throughout 1987 with this song.
In order to produce the "Mood" album, Kedeng Records spared no expense to let Zheng Yi follow the crew to Egypt to shoot locations.
Since 1987, Zheng Yi, who is tired of the music scene, has only released two new albums, which are the 1988 album "Runaway" and the 1991 album "Paradise".
During this time, Zheng Yi left good songs in the author's cognition including "Knocking My Heart" (Xiong Meiling song, Lin Qiu's lyrics), "Running Away from Home" (Lu Changming's lyrics), "Yang Hua" (Peng Jikang's lyrics), "Heaven" (Zheng Huajuan's lyrics), etc.
After 1991, Zheng Yi basically said goodbye to the music world, and she chose to become a radio DJ like Tao Xiaoqing, the ideological guide.
In 1993, Zheng Yi, who had an itchy throat, made out the "Master's Journey" series again, singing more than 30 masterpieces of other famous singers, paying tribute to Luo Dayou, Liang Hongzhi, and Xiao Worm.
Therefore, for fans, the 90s of the last century was the peak of the Chinese music scene, but Zheng Yi almost disappeared from the music scene at this time.
When people talk about Zheng Yi, they will only call her "Folk Song Queen", and she was shortlisted for the Best Female Singer Award at the first Taiwan Golden Melody Awards (1990), but she really missed too much.
Many years later, I saw Zheng Yi who is nearly 60 years old in the video again, she is fat-prone and has been several laps older, although the performance in the treble area is no longer so stable, but it is enough to see this legendary singer who has been out of the circle for many years open her voice.
Do you like Zheng Yi, do you think she is worthy of the title of a powerful singer in the Chinese music scene, welcome to leave a message in the comment area.