When she was a child, she liked to listen to Faye Wong's songs.
Years later, the name of the first album was "I Love Faye Wong".
Jiang Meiqi's musical dream began by listening to tapes every day.
In 1980, Jiang Meiqi was born in Taoyuan City.
The process of her growth is accompanied by the beginning and peak of music.
At that time, a singer's album could sell hundreds of thousands or even millions of copies at any time.
Therefore, when she was a child, Jiang Meiqi developed a strong interest in music and singing.
The radio at home was almost bought specifically for her to listen to songs.
Various musicians and singers' tapes, she scoured a whole bunch, especially like Faye Wong.
Years later, she still remembers coming home from school every day as a child, and the first thing she did was to turn the switch on the radio.
Familiar melodies and sounds sound, and your mind can also fly with the music.
However, her realistic life plan and singing have no intersection.
She graduated from a private high school majoring in clothing, just thinking about what she could do in the future.
An opportunity to realize her musical dreams emerged.
At that time, the music talent shows of major television stations appeared in an endless stream,
Jiang Meiqi also held the mentality of trying, and participated in a singing competition program.
A newcomer who has not previously undergone any specialized vocal training,
After layers of screening, she finally achieved a fourth place result.
Fortunately, after participating in the competition, the well-known lyricist Yao Qian found her.
At that time, Yao Qian was preparing to do another big job in the music industry, and he had just established the Viking Music Company.
At first, I heard that the music company wanted to sign herself, and 18-year-old Jiang Meiqi was naturally very happy.
However, after calming down, I found that the music company had just been established, and there was not a single singer under its command.
The more I looked at it, the more I felt like this company was like a leather bag company that had nothing.
Jiang Meiqi was shaken, hesitating whether to sign the newly established company.
However, Yao Qian was very optimistic about her, and with invitation and encouragement, she became the first singer signed by Viking Music.
Because Jiang Meiqi is not from a science class, the company conducted intensive training for her for the next six months.
Moreover, it also came up with a budget of up to 40 million yuan to package Jiang Meiqi.
The company hired Lin Xi and other music bigwigs to write songs for Jiang Meiqi, and also filmed five MVs.
In addition, the books around the music are also launched,
At that time, Jiang Meiqi became the most exposed newcomer in Taiwan.
It is with the help of this strong lineup that at the age of 19, Jiang Meiqi's first album "I Love Faye Wong" was released.
At the time of the album's release, the company didn't know how it would sell after that.
She was also asked, if it doesn't sell well, one day you can't be a singer, what will you do?
For such a question, Jiang Meiqi did not know how to answer for a while.
She didn't think about it herself, but just wanted to sing wholeheartedly.
Fortunately, the first album received a good response,
Although it is difficult to set off the same frenzy as in the past, it has been highly praised in the industry.
This means that she does not have to worry about the way out in the future.
Six months later, her second album was released.
At the age of 20, her first album won her Golden Melody Award for Best Newcomer.
Jiang Meiqi gained a firm foothold on the stage of music.
At the same time, the company wants to produce the corresponding songs for Jiang Meiqi according to her own voice characteristics.
Because Maggie Jiang's singing voice has a certain explosive power, the company hopes that she can develop in the direction of rock and roll.
This led to the album's popularity, but the sales could not go up.
Seeing that the forty million that fell down might be adrift, Yao Qian decided to amplify the move.
When the third album was released, the company played the slogan of "rescue Xiaomei".
This kind of publicity strategy is similar to playing the sadness card in today's variety shows.
In various promotional activities, Jiang Meiqi also said that even if no one buys her records, she will continue to sing.
At that time, the TV series "April Day on Earth" was in intensive production.
The producer has negotiated with Viking Music, and its singer Lin Yilian sang the theme song,
The ending song is sung by Rene Liu.
In order to push Jiang Meiqi, Yao Qian told the producer,
The ending song must be sung by Jiang Meiqi, otherwise Lin Yilian will not be allowed to sing the theme song.
At that time, the song sung by Jiang Meiqi was "How I Envy You".
In order to convince Rene Liu, Yao Qian also let her listen to this song.
At this time, Rene Liu had already recorded the ending song, and after listening to the song, agreed to give up the position to Jiang Meiqi.
More importantly, Jiang Meiqi's singing style at this time has also changed long ago.
Instead of continuing the rock 'n' roll style, it opens up a lyrical healing mode.
Under this all-round assist and publicity, Jiang Meiqi's third album was released.
At that time, Yao Qian privately estimated that if the sales volume did not reach more than 100,000, the immortals might not be able to save Jiang Meiqi.
This means that no matter how badly the new record sells, Jiang Meiqi will really leave.
However, just when Jiang Meiqi and the company were uneasy, the company's propaganda offensive began to have an effect.
Some of Jiang Meiqi's fans began to do joint activities offline,
Call on everyone to buy Jiang Meiqi's new album to avoid Jiang Meiqi really can't sing.
This joint event in Taiwan at that time even attracted some well-known figures to participate.
Moreover, the propaganda offensive of this matter has gone out of Taiwan, and the entertainment circle in the mainland has gradually fermented.
All of this has directly affected the sales of new albums.
At that time, the album had just been released, and it dominated the top of the album sales chart for two months, and the sales volume easily exceeded 100,000.
And the final sales reached 150,000 copies.
Although such achievements cannot be compared with the past peak era of music,
But for that time, it was already very good.
At the same time, Jiang Meiqi did not have to leave the company.
As sales of her third album increased, she released three more albums in a row over the next three years.
Her singing style has completely changed, and the gentle healing style is unique.
The new album has also sold well since then.
At Viking Music, Xiao Yaxuan is the best singer who sold albums, and the second is Jiang Meiqi.
What surprised her even more was that the album released in 2001 also received good sales in the mainland.
The album sold second on the annual chart that year.
The first is her idol, Faye Wong.
The increase in sales means that her style has gained a lot of recognition.
However, at this time, the record market has long been in a miserable state with the impact of the Internet.
In 2004, Jiang Maggie applied to the company to release a new album, but it was not approved.
At that time, the company only issued a selection of the past.
At that time, her contract was about to expire.
Seeing that his career is about to be affected again, there is no way out.
Jiang Meiqi was discovered by a Taiwanese opera actress, Cai Qin.
At that time, Cai Qin was performing the song and dance drama "Running Angel", and she invited Jiang Meiqi to play Luo Meili in the play.
Unexpectedly, this song and dance drama has been popular in Taiwan.
There were 30 consecutive performances that year, all of which set the highest record for the box office and number of performances of Taiwanese song and dance dramas.
At the same time, the selected albums released by the company also sold well.
It sold 120,000 copies, even surpassing Xiao Yaxuan's selected albums.
At that time, Viking Music Corporation was not going to renew her contract.
The singer is not a member of his own company, and naturally will not publish an album for him.
When she first discovered her, Yao Qian did not think so,
He persuaded the head office, and finally got the company to agree to release Maggie Jiang's latest album without a contract.
It can be seen that Yao Qian attaches great importance to Jiang Meiqi from beginning to end.
The production of the album is very high, li Zongsheng wrote a rock song for her,
Wu Sikai also took out his own work at the bottom of the pressure box.
At the same time, Yao Qian also invited many cross-border artists to help.
After the album was released, sales in Taiwan were not good.
However, the album was once sold out of stock in the mainland.
In the end, after five additions, the sales volume was the largest sold by Jiang Meiqi in the mainland.
After the release of the album, Jiang Meiqi also left Viking Music, and she did not know where her next home was for a while.
In 2006, on the recommendation of Wu Kequn, she entered Seed Music, and on the road of music, she met Guangliang.
Six months later, the first album to join the new company was released.
Previously, Jiang Meiqi was only a singer and had never created.
This time, with the encouragement of her friends, she also began to try her creation.
She once said in an interview that she always thought that writing songs was very lonely and boring.
However, after trying it, I found that creation is not limited by time and space, and the key is to look at your own expression.
In addition to her own lyrics and composition, her colleague Guangliang and Wu Kequn, who recommended her, also helped her create.
Moreover, Lin Junjie, Fang Wenshan and others also wrote songs for her.
However, at the time of the release of the album, it coincided with Jay Chou's new album.
The latter is a big winner in the music industry, and the outside world is worried that the sales of the album will not be good.
However, the album was the second best seller at the time, and it can be said that it is very good to achieve such results.
With the album selling well, with the help of the company, 26-year-old Jiang Meiqi finally opened her first concert.
Later, in 2007, she tried her hand at cabaret again and also served as the heroine.
Just like the name of the song and dance drama "I want to be famous", Jiang Meiqi in this period is actually very entangled and embarrassing.
The new owner did not release a new album for her, and she could not eat the old book indefinitely.
So in this case, she re-starred in the song and dance drama, trying to copy the glory created by the previous "Running Angel".
However, this time, Jiang Meiqi miscalculated,
After the performance of the work, it did not achieve good results, and it is said that the attendance rate at that time was less than 40%.
The song and dance drama can not reverse the decline that Jiang Meiqi is facing, and at this time, her decline in music is even more obvious.
For the entire year of 2007, she had no new album releases or new songs.
It wasn't until the spring of 2008 that she reluctantly released a song.
Moreover, it was released with the company's music compilation.
After another year, Jiang Meiqi did not release new songs.
At the same time, her three-year contract with Seed Music expired.
Seeing that he is about to lose his job of singing,
Just at this time, Guangliang's contract also expired, and the two people did not have a home for a while.
A year later, Guangliang set up his own music company, and Jiang Meiqi naturally became the first singer in his company to sign.
Later, in 2010, the new company released three singles for her.
At this time, Jiang Meiqi was also immersed in creation.
Two years later, she released her latest album, Rooms.
Nine of the songs were written by Maggie Jiang.
At this time, the record market shrank further,
For a singer, how to transform and transform in the future is a problem in the entire industry.
At that time, Jiang Meiqi was still single, and she should also consider her personal problems.
In 2014, she went to Malaysia for a show where she met guitarist Lim Chun-yi.
The two people have a sense of seeing each other and hating each other, and after being in love for half a year, in January 2015, Jiang Meiqi got married.
Later, in September of that year, her son was also born.
Due to marriage and childbirth, she completely said goodbye to the music scene for more than a year after that.
It wasn't until 2017 that she signed to Sony Music again, and released a new album that same year.
Subsequently, Jiang Meiqi released a new album again, and in 2019, she also held a 20th anniversary concert.
In the 20 years since her debut, her whole energy has been on singing, and she has not developed in many fields like other singers.
In addition to appearing in two stage plays, Jiang Meiqi only starred in one TV series in 2001.
While other singers are divorcing, gossiping, and doing all sorts of things,
Around Jiang Meiqi, in addition to music or music.
In the few scandals in the early years, it was said that she and Guangliang were together.
But it's clear that nothing has happened in other ways than getting closer to each other than musically.
It is because there is no scandal, so that when participating in the music variety show of Hunan Satellite TV this year,
Wang Yuan at the scene actually said that he did not know who Jiang Meiqi was.
At that time, in an interview with the media, Jiang Meiqi said that the times have changed, and the way of singing is also changing.
It's not that there are no good songs anymore, but it's because the form of mass listening to songs has changed from the tapes of the past to the Internet.
Traffic on the Internet is too fast, and for each song, it will not be listened to repeatedly like the tapes or records of the past.
As for the issue of good songs and popularity, she said that her favorite, of course, is to achieve a balance.
But obviously, this is a binary alternative.
After so many years, many of her songs have been sung by people, but she herself has been tepid.
Maybe as she said, the work is deeply rooted in people's hearts.
Text | twenty-two
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