In the Chinese music scene, Tong Ange is probably the most underrated singer and has long been on the verge of oblivion.
One is that there is too much low-key when it is red, and the other is that it quietly retreats when it is at its peak.
And his light was never obscured.
At that time, together with Qi Qin, Zhou Huajian and Wang Jie, he was called the "Four Heavenly Kings of Taiwan".
Known as the "Heavenly King Killer", even Zhou Huajian regarded him as an idol.
Tong Ange, known as the "Prince Charming of the Song World", do you remember?
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Tong Ange was born in Kaohsiung in 1959 as the only son in the family.
His father was a well-known cartoonist, and his mother was also engaged in oil painting.
Tong Ange's artistic cells are all in music, and he has a high talent for singing since he was a child.
When he was 5 years old, he went to kindergarten and joined the "Matsue Angel Choir".
At the age of 6, he entered elementary school and joined the school choir.
Represented the school in the Kaohsiung Elementary School Solo Group Competition and won the second place.
At that time, Tong Ange was a singing "little prodigy" who was valued and loved by teachers.
In addition to music, comics also have strong genetic genes.
At the age of 13, he participated in the "Safety of the Line" comic contest held by the school and won the third place.
In 1975, 16-year-old Tong Ange was admitted to the Department of Revival Business and Industry. (This is a very famous art school)
At school, he served as an orchestra conductor and joined the Singing Club as a teacher singer.
At that time, he could draw, sing, and became a red man in school.
Coupled with his elegant appearance, temperament, shy and shy bookish temperament, he has become a "campus male god" in the hearts of many girls.
During his time at school, he also formed a "Traveler Trio" with a love of music.
It was also his first attempt at professional music.
I ran off to do small singing when I had nothing to do, and a year later I put on a record called the "Voyager" trio album.
At the age of 19, he published his own musical works.
If you continue along this path, you will certainly have a bright future.
But at this time, my mother was too angry when she saw him.
At the age of 20, Tong Ange enlisted in the army.
When he retired from the army in 1981, he actually wrote more than thirty songs in two years.
Such genius and heat also made Tong Ange highly appreciated on the musical road since then.
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After retiring from the army, Tong Ange first entered the society, did not have any social experience, and his work was once unsettled.
I had no choice but to find a cartoon company and work on cartoons.
This is closely related to his fine arts major in college.
However, in his heart, music is the only career he wants to pursue.
During his time at cartoon companies, Tong Ange did not forget his own music creation.
He had been waiting for a door to open his musical dreams.
After that, relying on dozens of music works that had been accumulated, he finally entered the "Poly Gold" record company.
At first, I just sought a job as an assistant producer.
But gold is always gold, and it always shines when it suits.
While working as a behind-the-scenes music assistant, Tong Ange's musical talent began to gradually reveal.
In 1982, Tong Ange published two songs, "This Love Never Stays" and "Night".
Among them, "This Love Never Stays" was specially created for Fei Yuqing, which made it a great acclaim.
At this time, Tong Ange decided to plan an album for himself.
In 1985, Tong Ange released his first solo album "Thinking of You".
It contains a total of 10 songs, of which "Thinking of You" and "Who Can Predict" made him start to emerge.
And Tong Ange's peak music road has just begun.
After gaining a little fame, he participated in the Chinese television unit drama "Kite" and played the male lead.
And then released the second album "Woman" and the third solo album "I Once Loved".
At this time, people found that this singer who sang tactfully and was full of literary atmosphere was so elegant and unique.
Tong Ange has become a high-profile musical talent in the Taiwanese music scene.
When he released his fourth album, "Follow Me", he began to make a career full of music, working as a film score writer.
He worked as a film score producer in two films, "Wandering Boy Road" and the film "Good Boy" directed by Zhu Yanping.
Among them, "Follow Me" made Tong Ange a campus idol for a time.
Leading the trend of song and dance, he is known as the "Prince of Campus".
In 1987, Tong Ange won the Taiwan Voted Most Popular Male Singer Award.
His popularity soared, and he was also appreciated by film directors.
In 1988, he starred in the TV series "New Love" directed by Li Yuefeng and served as the male lead.
And this year, he also happened to introduce a person into the show business circle, this person is Wu Qilong.
And the peak of his career, which truly belongs to him, will soon come.
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In 1989, Tong Ange released his fifth solo album", "Actually, You Don't Understand My Heart".
This album established Tong Ange's status as the "Heavenly King" in the Chinese pop music scene.
Known as Tong Ange's "god"-like album, it is also his first record to enter the mainland.
It can be called a milestone in tong ange singer's career.
The album became popular all over Taiwan in less than a year, becoming the first male singer in Taiwan to sell records of the year.
Songs such as "In fact, you don't understand my heart", "Tomorrow you still love me", "Can't forget", "Let life wait" and other songs have become widely sung classic songs.
Later, "Do You Still Love Me Tomorrow" sung with Mui Yanfang entered the Hong Kong music scene in one fell swoop.
Hong Kong singers began pouring in to him for songs or cover songs from his albums.
And his heyday also erupted like a tidal wave at this time.
The sixth album released in the same year, "Where Dreams Begin", won IFPI's Platinum Record Award in one fell swoop.
And the classic "Yeria Girl" was created by him when he was a soldier.
Imagining a beautiful legend of Xinjiang is a work of genius.
There was a girl far away
His name is Jería
Someone was saying that her eyes were in the air
Watching makes you younger
If you get her hugs
You'll never get old
For this magical legend
I'm going to try to find it
Liu Wenzheng had already taken a fancy to the song and included it on his solo album released in 1983.
And then Tong Ange himself sang it again.
This song won the "Silver Award for Chinese Songs" of Hong Kong Radio's Top Ten Songs.
The beautiful story of the mysterious Yeria is still sung in the hearts and dreams of countless people.
At this time, the mysterious child Ange was also known as the "Prince Charming" and "Prince of Love Songs".
Temperament literary, calm, easy-going and elegant.
The status of the music world, together with Qi Qin, Zhou Huajian and Wang Jie, is known as the "Four Heavenly Kings of Taiwan".
Four of them, Tong Ange, was the most popular that year.
As Li Zongsheng said:
"Tong Ange is the closest I think music is to my true personality, listening to songs is like seeing people, his songs are as romantic, smooth, innocent and easy to get along with, in the melodic arrangement of writing songs, rarely use strange scales, always very soft and comfortable." 」
In 1990, Tong Ange released his seventh solo album "Petal Rain".
This is an album that tries to break through the internationalization of its own music, and the musical style is extremely delicate and avant-garde.
Among them, "Perfume City" is not only full of exotic styles, but also incorporates flamenco elements.
There's a classic and special song that you must have heard.
It is the song of great love full of family and country feelings and blood affection, "Keep the Roots".
Tong Ange said: "As an oriental pigeon, do my best to create the works of oriental people. ”
In 1990, Tong Ange won the "Best Composition Award" of the 13th RTHK Top Ten Chinese for "Sunset Drunk".
And that song "Keep the Roots" won the "Excellent Chinese Song Award" in one fell swoop.
In the following 10 years, Tong Ange worked hard to create almost at the speed of one album a year, and became popular all over the Taiwan Straits and three places.
In 1991, the ninth solo album "Love of a Lifetime";
In 1992, he released his tenth solo album "Love and Sorrow";
In the same year, he was nominated for the Golden Melody Award for "Best Chinese Male Singer Award".
In 1994, he released his eleventh solo album "Now And After", which won the "Top Ten Most Popular Singers in China Award" for consecutive years;
In 1995, he released his twelfth solo album "Listening to the Song of the Sea" and the thirteenth album "See what is different about the future";
In 1996, he released his fourteenth album "Take In", and Tong Ange, who was at the peak, immigrated to Canada.
After a brief return to the music scene, he found that the big waves were sandy, and the time passed.
After releasing his fifteenth solo album "Youth Hand Scroll" in 2001, Tong Ange began to fade out of the music scene.
Since then, he has hardly appeared or sung in public.
About his peak retreat, it has also become a mysterious legend of the "Yeria Girl".
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Tong Ange had two marriages.
In 1986, Tong Ange married agent Chen Meixin.
The two met in a filming scene.
Tong Ange was an extra at the time, and he met and fell in love with Chen Meixin, who loved to perform.
At that time, he was in the ascendancy of his career, and the company did not want him to marry early, for fear of affecting his career.
He said: "Home is my foundation, without which I can't have anything." ”
After marriage, she gave birth to a pair of children, the female child Yu Chen, and now she has become an all-round artist of actors and singers.
Chen Meixin not only took care of the family only in a disciplined manner, but also became Tong Ange's right-hand man in the early stage of her career.
However, looking at the emotionally stable marriage, it gradually revealed irreconcilable contradictions.
The two are not only husband and wife in life, but also overlap in their careers.
Over time, the complexity of life and career is interspersed, and the contradictions in career have rushed into married life, and they are deepening day by day.
In the end, the contradiction has reached a stalemate affecting the life and growth of children.
In 2004, Tong Ange and Chen Meixin ended an 18-year marriage.
After the divorce, the children lived with Chen Meixin.
Later, when talking about this marriage, Chen Meixin said:
"We are all very hard, he is out of order, he is out of shape, all the wrong demonstrations, all the deception in disguise, will cause the child to fall into greater pain; why not give him full blessings? Give him the right to choose his life or love again? ”
In 2010, at the age of 51, Tong Ange remarried and married Liao Haili, the current agent and assistant.
After marriage, Tong Ange put his career more and more low-key, and lived with all his heart without being disturbed.
It is precisely because he is too low-key that he has had a lot of rumors of mysterious whereabouts over the years.
Tong Ange, who is already 61 years old, completely "disappeared" in the song world of that year, and rarely appeared.
There is nothing to learn musical instruments, practice calligraphy, spend time with your family, and live in seclusion.
The "Prince Charming" who once sang a long-cherished song has also gradually aged.
But whenever I hear his songs, the rich texture of youth is still thick and pure.
That faint and sad breath of books, through the red dust, but also soothed all sentient beings.
Tong Ange, the "old man of the jianghu", we have met and met each other.
As the song "Can't Forget" sang:
Why in the blink of an eye
Time flies like electricity
Years that can't be seen clearly
The indelible past
It's like a gust of wind
Blowing off grace and resentment