I don't know why, there are so many young singers now, but they can't sing the taste of the older generation of singers. The reason why the older generation of singers used music to record the history and culture of an era is that they sing not only in the form of music, but also in the embodiment of values, a cultural symbol, and the emotions of that generation.
Today, the older generation of singers are no longer alive, and each of them has good works that have been sung to this day, and the songs they sing, each of which has its own unique attraction and is worthy of our treasure and inheritance. Let's take a look at their stories!
Crimea
On the stage, Kerim has the title of "master of emotional expression", and he has integrated Xinjiang's distinctive folk dances into his singing, and every performance can bring freshness to the audience, no matter where he goes, Kerim can receive full applause.
Kerim was the first person to sing "Lift Your Hijab" in Chinese, "If you marry, don't marry someone else, you must marry me, bring your dowry, sing your songs, and come to ...... in that carriage."
He is the first Uygur singer and actress of the General Political Song and Dance Troupe, Kerim through his singing voice, as well as the unique humorous style, perfectly show the unique customs of Xinjiang, his main works are "The Girl of Dabancheng", "Xinjiang Good", "Song of Avanti", "Tarim River" and so on.
In his later years, Kerim was keen on public welfare activities, and he appeared on the stage of CCTV Spring Festival Gala twice. In 2016, Kerim was awarded the honorary title of "Top Artist" at the 10th Hundred Flowers Award Art Conference. On March 3, 2020, Klim died of heart failure in Beijing at the age of 79.
Meng Guibin
"Send you to the side of the road, Jun's kindness will never be forgotten, the hearts of farmers and villagers will be bright, and they ......will always look at each other across the mountains and rivers" This is the episode "Farewell" in the movie "Angry Tide" sung by Meng Guibin, many people know this song, but not many people really remember the original singer.
Meng Guibin joined the Eighth Route Army in 1940, and in 1951 he entered Tibet with the army and sang "Singing Erlang Mountain" for the soldiers. In 1958, Meng Guibin graduated from the vocal advanced class of the Central Conservatory of Music, and then served as the leader of the solo group of the General Political Song and Dance Troupe.
On June 8, 2015, Meng Guibin passed away due to illness at the age of 89.
Cheng Zhi
Cheng Zhi is a famous tenor singer and a first-class actor of the People's Liberation Army General Political Song and Dance Troupe.
In his singing career of more than 40 years, Cheng Zhi's voice has become more and more beautiful and magnetic, and his representative works include "In That Distant Place", "Cold Little Hands", "Nobody Sleeps Tonight", "Return from Target Shooting" and so on.
In his career, Cheng Zhi has made great achievements, and it is a little bumpy in marriage, his ex-wife is the singer Yin Xiumei, after their divorce, whether Cheng Zhi remarried is different, what is certain is that he lived alone in his later years, and his friend Wang Ning once replied to netizens.
In 2020, Cheng Zhi went to the hospital for examination due to physical discomfort and was diagnosed with acute intestinal obstruction.
On March 29, 2023, Cheng Zhi passed away of rectal cancer in Beijing at the age of 77.
Cheris
Xie Lisi is a national first-class actor of the China Film Orchestra, she is a milestone figure in the music world, and enjoys the treatment of experts of the State Council.
Xie Lisi and her partner Wang Jieshi
Back then, Xie Lisi and her partner Wang Jieshi created countless glorious moments for the music industry, and many classic music works they sang have been passed down for a long time, such as "Night in the Oil Field", "Why Are Flowers So Red", "When Will We Meet", "Morning on Campus" and so on.
She won the "Skylark Award" from Pacific Audiovisual Publishing Company for four consecutive years for her album "He Rijun Comes Again". In 1997, Xie Lisi was diagnosed with multiple lacunar cerebral infarctions, and in the third year after her recovery, she returned to the stage and was invited by "The Same Song" to sing "Young Friends Come to Meet" with Wang Jieshi.
In 2010, Cheris's daughter contracted cancer and died in 2014, at the age of 67. On January 13, 2023, Xie Lisi passed away in Beijing at the age of 76.
Li Guangxi
Not only a tenor singer, Li Guangxi is also an opera performance artist, he has repeatedly performed on stage to sing "Toast", "Ode to Beijing", "The Most Beautiful Hymn to the Party", "The Sun Comes Out Joyful" and other songs, he also played the male protagonist Alfred in New China's first Western opera "La Traviata", and became famous with his wonderful performance.
Li Guangxi has starred in many operas, including "The Merchant and the Miss", "Ayiguli", "Liu Hulan" and so on. In the 60s, Li Guangxi sang "On the Songhua River" in the musical and dance drama "Dongfang Hong", which is also a classic work that has been sung to this day. In 1989, he won the first China Golden Record Award, and since then he has been active in various literary and artistic activities.
As long as he stands on the stage, Li Guangxi is full of vitality, and he also sighed that he has performed on the stage for 68 years and feels very honored. At the age of ninety, he still sang loudly when attending events, but because he was too old, he couldn't sing the soprano part, and he said that even if I couldn't sing, I would really sing.
In his later years, someone once asked Li Guangxi: What is the most proud thing in this life? Without hesitation, he replied calmly and confidently, "One is to find my favorite profession, and the other is to find the person I love the most as a wife." On March 13, 2022, Li Guangxi passed away in Beijing at the age of 93.
Lu Xiumei
"Where's the spring? Where is spring? In the spring in the verdant mountains and forests, there are red flowers, there are green grass here, and there are ...... "When the post-80s were in elementary school, they should have heard this song "Where is Spring", and during the June 1st party, there were many friends who choreographed cheerful dances with this song.
The person who sang this song was the singer Lu Xiumei, and she also sang classic songs such as "Ode to the South Lake", "Villagers in the Village", "I Want to Kiss", "Look at Yangge", "Jinsuo and Yinshuo". Lu Xiumei has participated in many large-scale national performances and served as a soloist, and she has won many professional awards such as the "Silver Peacock" Cup Award, the Outstanding Actor Award in the National Opera Performance, etc.
It's a pity that Lu Xiumei's life is not always smooth sailing, with her husband being sentenced to prison for taking bribes, her singing career has also been greatly affected, and the appearance fee has dropped from 50,000 yuan per show at its peak to about 1,000 yuan, and later even to the point where there is no song to sing.
Originally, life was miserable, and she was diagnosed with rectal cancer in 2008, because she didn't want her family to worry too much, so Lu Xiumei concealed her condition. The following year, her husband was released early for good behavior and has been with her since he returned to fight cancer. But on March 1, 2012, Lu Xiumei passed away due to ineffective medical treatment at the age of 55.
Hu Baoshan
When Hu Baoshan is mentioned, he can't get past his song "I Love This Blue Ocean", which won the "100 Songs in Praise of China" Excellent Song Award in Guangdong Province, and was selected into the list of 100 excellent songs by the Central Propaganda Department to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Hu Baoshan graduated from the Sofia Conservatory of Music in Bulgaria, and is a baritone singer of the former Haizheng Song and Dance Troupe and a national first-class actor. Since 1950, Hu Baoshan has participated in the literary and artistic work of the army, and studied vocal music with Professor Cai Jingyi.
"I Love This Blue Ocean", written and sung by him, had a wide impact as soon as it came out and has been sung to this day. Now there are not many people who know Hu Baoshan, but more people are not strangers to his son Hu Jun. On September 13, 2019, Hu Baoshan died of illness at the age of 84.
Li Xinchang
Li Xinchang, who graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music, is one of the first generation of vocal artists trained by the mainland, and he is also one of the representatives of the Italian vocal school in China.
Li Xinchang has made important contributions to the construction and development of modern vocal art, and he has successfully cultivated a large number of outstanding students with excellent majors in his teaching career for decades, including Liu Weiwei, Zhang Jianyi, Zhao Dengying, Zhu Jinzhuan and others.
On May 23, 2021, Li Xinchang passed away in Beijing at the age of 85 due to ineffective medical treatment.
Guo Song
Tenor Guo Song, a tenor singer with a strong "northeast wind", has pushed the art of black soil folk songs to an unprecedented new height, and has gained full of honors along the way, and his masterpieces "New Merchant", "Ussuri Boat Song", "I Love These Young People", etc., all have distinctive national styles and regional characteristics.
In 1984, Guo Song participated in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala and sang "Sweet in Our Heart". Since 1991, Guo Song has served as the head of the Hainan Provincial Song and Dance Troupe, and worked in the song and dance troupe until his retirement.
Since 2011, Guo Song has been commuting back and forth between home and hospital due to health problems such as fever, lung infection, and complications of high blood pressure and diabetes. On May 19, 2016, Guo Song died in Beijing at the age of 85 due to ineffective medical treatment.
Liu Shufang
In the fifties and sixties of the last century, Liu Shufang was already a well-known soprano singer, and has visited dozens of countries in Europe, Asia, South America and other regions with the National Art Troupe. She has participated in the translation and dubbing of hundreds of foreign songs, and has been praised as a "cultural messenger".
At the same time, she also promoted many domestic songs to foreign countries, and every time she went to perform abroad, she would sing a few Chinese songs to foreign audiences. Liu Shufang's repertoire is extensive and rich, including excerpts from famous operas, folk songs, and art songs at home and abroad.
Liu Shufang's main works include "Baby", "Pigeon", "Little Gift", "I Ride a Horse Through the Grassland" and so on. Since 1978, she has held solo concerts almost every year for 20 consecutive years, accumulating more than 100 performances. In 2008, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 6th Golden Bell Awards from the Chinese Musicians Association.
On November 14, 2022, Liu Shufang passed away in Beijing due to illness at the age of 96.
Dedemar
Born in Ejina Banner, Alxa League, Inner Mongolia, Dedema is known as the "nightingale on the grassland" and is especially good at singing grassland songs. She skillfully blends the melodiousness of Mongolian long tunes with the grandeur of bel canto singing to form her own unique singing style.
Dedema's representative works include "The Beauty of the Prairie at Night", "I Come from the Prairie", "Beautiful Prairie My Home", "The Carved Saddle", "The Wind on the Prairie", etc., each of which is like a mellow wine, which makes the listener fascinated, and she has made brilliant achievements in her singing career and won numerous awards.
In 1998, Dedema suffered a cerebral hemorrhage while performing abroad, and it was not until the end of 1999 that he completely recovered, and then returned to the stage, and was named "National Advanced Worker" the following year. On November 28, 2023, Dedema passed away due to illness at the age of 76.
Akira Yanagiishi
Liu Shiming is not only a tenor singer, but also an opera performance artist, he has won the performance award issued by the Ministry of Culture for playing the role of Dou Tianzhang in the opera "Dou E's Injustice", and his opera works also include "Little Erhei Marriage", "Liu Hulan", "White-Haired Girl" and so on.
In 1962, after graduating from the Central Academy of Drama, Liu Shiming was assigned to work at the Central Experimental Opera House.
The song "There is a Beautiful Legend" created by Lu Yuan of the Haizheng Song and Dance Troupe was sung by Liu Shiming, and his solid singing skills, wide vocal range, and full timbre gave this song a soul. He also sang songs such as "Walking on This Happy Anling", "Youth Dance", "Hymn", "You, You", etc.
Liu Shiming had a short failed marriage, and the two had no children at the time of the divorce. Since then, many people have taken the initiative to introduce him to him, but they have been rejected by Liu Shiming one by one, and after the divorce, he has been dependent on his mother, but he has also lived comfortably.
On August 8, 2017, Liu Shiming died at the age of 80 in Beijing Friendship Hospital due to ineffective treatment for cancer.
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