Thirty-one years ago, on July 6, 1990, Dawn released her debut solo album Leon. Friends may not know that around this album, there are too many wonderful stories in front of and behind the scenes.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="2" > rejected many times, and Li Tianwang's past is unbearable</h1>
In 1986, Dawn, who had just returned from studying in the Uk, participated in the "Fifth Rookie Singing Competition". He was lucky enough to pass the hurdle and won the third place in the final with a cover of Cai Fenghua's work "Absolute Emptiness".
Dawn when participating in the race
According to the competition contract, the top three of the competition signed manager contracts and singer contracts with Huaxing Records and Television Broadcasting Co., Ltd. respectively, but Huaxing Records was not optimistic about Dawn's singing career and suggested that he appear in TV dramas to brush his popularity.
Change to another singer, maybe honestly admit it.
When starring in the TV series "The True Colors of Boys", he became a disciple of the famous musician Dai Sicong through the actor Lin Junxian in the same drama.
The mentor valued Dawn and offered him the opportunity to audition at other record labels on several occasions. Although Dawn was repeatedly rejected, Dai Sicong introduced Dawn to PolyGram Records in 1989.
This time, Dawn met another nobleman, who was Xiang Xuehuai, the supervising producer of Poly Gold Records at the time.
This big coffee was not conquered by Dawn's singing skills at the first time, but felt that the appearance and voice of this newcomer were quite good, and it was the idol singer that Polygin lacked. Coupled with the fact that Dawn grew up in Beijing, the level of Chinese was an innate advantage in the Hong Kong music scene at that time, which was convenient for the record company to launch Chinese albums for him.
By chance, Xiang Xuehuai made a decision on this, officially signed Dawn, and began to plan his first solo album for him.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="32" > the same fate, the first three of the competition can not escape the pit</h1>
Debuted in 1986, only released his first solo album in 1990, Dawn's path to singer, initially did not go smoothly.
Li Ming, Wen Peiling, Xu Zhi'an
However, looking back at the singers who participated in the "Fifth Rookie Singing Contest" with Dawn and defeated Dawn to win the first two places, we have to admit that Compared with them, Dawn is already a lucky one.
With a cover of Mei Yanfang's work "Dream Companion", Wen Peiling won the Gold Award and the Most Prominent Typhoon Innovation Award. However, although she recorded many songs between 1986 and 1989, Huaxing Records did not release records for her. It was not until Huaxing chose to terminate her contract peacefully that Wen Peiling left Huaxing and joined EMI Records.
Unfortunately, missing the best fame realization period, Wen Peiling has long been forgotten by fans. Her "Wen Peiling" and "Fighting Spirit" albums in 1989 and 1990 did not stir up any waves, and she reluctantly bid farewell to the music scene in 1992.
As the runner-up of this tournament, Xu Zhian's luck was not much better.
Xu Zhi'an and Dawn during the competition
Many people do not know that Xu Zhian actually debuted at the same time as Dawn. However, although he defeated Dawn in the race, his subsequent personal development was far from Dawn's scenery, and he only won at the starting line.
What's even more tragic is that after Huaxing signed Xu Zhi'an, he only arranged some performances in restaurants and lounges for him, and his attitude was extremely perfunctory.
Xu Zhi'an when participating in the competition
It was not until the accompaniment of Mei Yanfang's "Splitting the Iceberg" that Xu Zhi'an was recognized by the public again, and released his first solo self-titled album in May 1988.
Don't look at this album so that Hui Zhi'an won the "Most Promising Newcomer Silver Award" of Radio Television Hong Kong, but the album sales were not satisfactory, and it was rumored that Xu Zhi'an was once threatened by Huaxing Records to terminate the contract, which can be described as humble to the extreme.
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For Dawn's debut album, PolyGram Records is more important. Before they could officially sign their contract, they recorded "Flying Across the Rain" for Dawn, and the rest of the album's songs were completed between October 1989 and May 1990.
The album was produced by Chen Yongming, who also collaborated with Dawn for five consecutive years, and before Lei Songde and Dawn befriended, he was Dawn's best musical partner at that time.
In view of the fact that this is the first solo album of Dawn's debut, under the suggestion of Chen Yongming, the album includes many works with different styles, and the classification of fast songs and slow songs is particularly obvious. Chen Yongming hopes that this album can complete the role of throwing stones and asking for directions, first testing the audience's recognition of Dawn's works, and then determining the direction of Dawn's subsequent musical development based on the information collected.
Because of this, six of the album's songs are based on other songs, and only four are truly completely "original".
Among the only four remaining works, there is also a song that is completely incompatible with the overall music of the album, "Flying Across the Rain". Dawn was said to have objected to including the song on his debut album, but later accepted the label's arrangement, considering that it was his first song he had recorded under The PolyGram, which was of special commemorative significance.
At that time, no one could have predicted that this album of throwing stones and asking for directions actually made Dawn a hit.
With the crazy slaughter of the title song "Meet in the Rain", the album "Leon" helped Dawn win almost all the newcomer awards in the Hong Kong music scene that year, including the Silver Award for the Most Promising Newcomer Award of the Top Ten Chinese Golden Songs in 1990, the Silver Award for the Most Popular Newcomer in the 1990 Song World, the Silver Award for the Most Popular Newcomer in the 1990 TVB Top Ten Songs.
A year later, in 1991, Dawn released the Cantonese album "Close to You", the Chinese album "Will You Come Tonight" and the Cantonese albums "Is Love, Is It" and "Your Feelings", all of which were blockbusters and made him famous.
By 1992, Li Ming, Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau and Aaron Kwok had been created by the Hong Kong media as the Four Kings.
At this time, he completely confirmed that sentence, which was "The golden scale is a thing in the pool, and the dragon changes in the wind and clouds." ”
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