Preach in words. - Don Tears
Strictly speaking, Aaron Kwok's public impression does not belong to the category of Hong Kong music.
The three big hit Chinese records during the newcomer period basically fixed the public's memory of him.
In particular, the first two title songs, "Can't Finish Loving You" and "Should I Walk Away Quietly", are extremely popular.
Aaron Kwok, who was 25 at the time, had a sense of youth that did not match his age.
Two songs, one fast and one slow.
The singing voice at this stage is also not skill-heavy, and it comes almost straight.
However, it can reflect the characteristics of its wide range, long breath and strong explosiveness.
For example, there is a song "I like to think of you like this".
Very folk, simple and clean sound.
Its singing method, which is close to the limit of the voice, is difficult for ordinary people to control.
Interested music fans can try it.
In 1992, Aaron Kwok returned to Hong Kong to release his first Cantonese album "Can't Dance, Love Can't Finish, Sing Can't Finish".
The album still highlights the advantages of singing and dancing, with "Fourth Night Mood" as the main hit, but there is also a high-quality slow song "Why I Let You Go".
Overall, it basically continues the style of the previous Chinese and has not changed much.
Xiaomei's name is already in the filler column.
When the two knew each other in a small way, the friendship was indeed not comparable to that of ordinary entertainment circles.
In 1993, Aaron Kwok released his second Cantonese album, Without Your Love.
Based on the debut Cantonese album, the surprise came from slow songs.
There have been significant improvements in breath control and head cavity resonance.
The breath is longer, the sound stability is improved, and the rounded and magnetic qualities begin to stand out.
The entertainment industry is Vanity Fair, and the sound and color of dogs and horses and lights are standard.
Some people are abandoned, some people grow.
This is also the norm.
At the beginning, Aaron Kwok had no vocal skills at all.
But he spent three years shooting advertisements, picking up movies, running publicity, and practicing singing hard, and finally laid a solid foundation.
Then began the rapid transformation and growth of singing.
In 1994, two Cantonese albums were released.
One is "Wild City," known as the "blockbuster."
From the image to the style is almost 180° reversed.
The mushroom head is gone. Under the cover of wet hair, the eyes changed from soft to manly.
It seems that overnight, a teenager completed his metamorphosis.
The voice begins to be slightly lower, and with the wild dance, it is dazzling.
This year, "Wild City" won three awards: Top Ten Golden Songs, Top Ten Chinese Golden Songs and Supreme Songs in the Music Scene.
Another Cantonese album, "The Temptation of the Iron Curtain", ushered in a significant transformation of singing skills.
False voices and vibrato, two iconic singing techniques, began to appear in his song interpretations, especially the false voices.
The singing voice is cleaner and cleaner, and the treatment of the sound becomes more delicate.
And only a short month later, another metamorphosis began.
In March 1995, Aaron Kwok released an EP, "You Are My Everything."
Ray Songde's name appeared.
He was very angry and wanted to do something that all Hong Kong musicians had never done.
And Aaron Kwok himself has always tried to innovate.
The two hit it off right away.
This EP has four songs, in fact, it can be said that it is two, "You Are My Everything" and "Wangxiang" and the adaptation.
These two slow songs make people feel a kind of transformation.
The breath is completely calm, and the bottom of the voice becomes thicker.
His voice is more condensed, smooth and soothing, high and low.
Ray Songde also completed the transformation of the film soundtrack to a music producer with this shot.
On May 23, 1995, The Legend of Innocence was released.
Composing and arranging, almost by Lei Songde alone, Tan Guozheng, who created "The Temptation of the Iron Curtain", only dedicated one song "Yes and What?" 》。
The lyricists are also all temporary junjie, including Xiaomei, Lin Xi, Huang Weiwen, Lin Zhenqiang and Pan Yuanliang.
Even Aaron Kwok himself created a song called "Small Town Story Budali".
The album's style is rigid and soft, blending jazz and rock into one furnace.
The quality is extremely high, and every capital can be pushed strongly.
And the most shocking, of course, is the title song "The Legend of Innocence".
True high pitch arrived at Bb4.
Aaron Kwok is easy to navigate, and there is even a strong vibrato treatment at the very top.
Aristocratic temperament, song style avant-garde, the first to open the atmosphere.
Even twenty-six years later, it never feels outdated.
The song explores Aaron Kwok's vocal limits.
In The words of Lei Songde, Aaron Kwok will be deeply involved in creative suggestions, such as trying to sing high octaves again.
The combined efforts of many parties have created a classic.
Another inspirational song, "Strong", is also well known in Hong Kong.
If you have heard these two songs.
There will be a clear understanding of the strength of Aaron Kwok's true voice.
Its original version is extremely difficult to cover.
This album won the 1995 Ifpi Award for The Album.
Since then, Aaron Kwok has embarked on a path of constantly challenging himself.
His songs not only have a high range, but also require the use of true vocal strength and false sound proficiency, and the control of breath is also extremely demanding.
Therefore, if we talk about the comprehensive difficulty of the song, it can be called the "four heads".
Two vignettes.
One is that after the popularity of "The Legend of Innocence", Dawn secretly sent Qiu Bo to Lei Songde, but Lei Wan refused.
The other is that the young and vigorous Lei Songde and Xiaomei have a gap due to their work and run away in a negative mood.
All encounters are predestined.
King Li Tianwang, who had not been able to ask for Lei Songde, ushered in a windfall.
The only cooperation between Aaron Kwok and Lei Songde is a stone-breaking and exceptionally successful.
However, looking at Aaron Kwok's song road, the so-called lei songde helped him "wash the bottom" seems very funny, and the strength is obtained only by hard work.
A few months later, Guo Tianwang released his sixth Cantonese album , Memorandum , which is unparalleled.
The "Iron Triangle" of Aaron Kwok, Xiaomei and Tan Guozheng took shape.
This year, if you talk about singing, in fact, it has become a great achievement.
Start here.
Aaron Kwok's rise in the Cantonese music scene has been unstoppable.
Higher peaks.
Not far away, quietly waiting.
Beyond the floating clouds of awards.
The foundation of a singer should always be determined by singing ability and song interpretation ability.
The essence of life is also self-experience.
You have chosen a direction, you should try your best to do it to the extreme.
From this point of view, Aaron Kwok is indeed exciting.
Along the way, its strong rise in the three fields of song and dance.
It's all nothing more than that, and the water will come to fruition after the effort.
It is also a "benchmark" revelation.
Applicable to anyone.