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◯ Life is a mistake without music ◯
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Many people look at the slightly impetuous entertainment circle today and can't help but miss the Hong Kong music scene in the 80s and 90s of the last century.
It was an era of talents and flowers, and a large number of singers emerged.
But with the passage of time, many of them who once influenced the music scenes of the two sides of the strait and the three places have gradually disappeared from the public's field of vision and have their own lives.
△ The "Four Heavenly Kings" of the Hong Kong music scene
Maybe one day we suddenly hear a familiar melody, but we can't tell whose voice it came from.
Speaking of Li Huimin, many people may not have any impression, but she has been on a par with Faye Wong, Zheng Xiuwen and Peng Ling, and is known as the "Four Queens of Heaven" in the Hong Kong music scene.
Today, Zheng Xiuwen is still active in the Hong Kong music scene, although Peng Ling quit the music scene, but the family is happy and happy, and faye Wong lives independently.
On "City of Illusions", he performed the song "Dream Man" with ease, and even bluntly said in the show that he came to participate only because the show was relaxed.
This kind of freedom and frankness is really what everyone wants to have, but in Li Huimin's body, there is only resentment and resentment left.
△ Li Huimin
In 1988, 17-year-old Lee Hye-min was featured by music producer Ren Yong and took her on the path of a singer.
At that time, the Hong Kong music scene was popular in the form of a group debut, and Lee Wai Min formed a girl group with Au Helen, echo band debuted.
At that time, Echo mainly played cheerful love songs, and in the Hong Kong music circle at that time, this type of group was rare.
△ Echo combination
In 1992, the musical development direction of Lee Wai Min and Au Helen was different.
The Echo band ended with disbanding, and Lee Wai Min developed in the music scene as a one-man girl band, Girl Friends.
During the solo flight, Li Huimin went to work on the radio station and co-hosted the program with Huang Weiwen, and it was this opportunity that allowed her to know Huang Weiwen.
At that time, Huang Weiwen was still a nobody, and Li Huimin's career was also in a bottleneck period.
It may be because of similar circumstances that the two not only talk very well on the show, but also become very good friends in life.
Li Huimin must not have thought that this boy who seemed to be sitting next to her and gag on the radio program had made her reach the peak of her career.
△ Huang Weiwen and Li Huimin
In 1995, the talented Huang Weiwen wrote two straight-hearted songs" "Live Better Than You" and "You Don't Have Good Results" because of a relationship that ended in disease, and he took these two songs to his friend Li Huimin to sing.
It was also in 1995 that Lee Joined Happy Records.
Happy Records created a second solo Cantonese album for Lee Wai Min, "Yokohama Farewell Love".
Unsurprisingly, the song "Live Better Than You" made Li Huimin known to more people.
△ Lee Wai Min's second solo Cantonese album "Yokohama Farewell Love"
Subsequently, Happy Records quickly created a third album "Secret" for Lee Huimin.
Among them, the song "You Have No Good Results" made Li Huimin famous and laid the foundation for her irreplaceable position in the Hong Kong music scene and even the Chinese music scene.
△ Lee Hye-min's third album "Secret"
The success of these two albums is not only because of Huang Weiwen's sharp and spicy lyrics, but also because of Li Huimin's singing voice that contains resentment, and she sings the resentment after being abandoned in a slightly hoarse voice.
"Give you back the feeling of inferiority on that day, the feeling of helplessness on that day, so that you can know the torment I tasted, and let me know for myself that there is a cause and effect in everything."
At that time, most of the Hong Kong love songs were blessings for her predecessor to do better, but she used her songs to express the resentment when her old lover left, and perhaps it was this maverick style that made her stand on the spire of the Hong Kong music scene.
As soon as Li Huimin's album was launched, the sales volume reached 800,000 copies, and she was also known as the "queen of sales", at that time, she was above Faye Wong in terms of popularity and status in the music world.
In 1998, at the party celebrating the first anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland, Li Huimin sang the song "Pearl of the Orient" with Liu Huan on behalf of Hong Kong.
△ Li Huimin and Liu Huan sing "Pearl of the Orient"
That kind of stage is not something that ordinary singers can sing on stage, and Li Huimin's status in the Hong Kong music scene at that time can be imagined.
After Lee Hye-min's contract with Happy Records expired, Universal Records' predecessor, Polaroid Jinhao, threw tens of millions of dollars to dig up corners.
At that time, Li Huimin was interested in joining a large company, hoping to get better resources, but things did not go as she wished.
Li Huimin joined PolyGram for only one year, when the company was acquired and reorganized into Universal Records, followed by a reallocation of resources, and the company devoted most of its resources and time to the popularity of Chen Shaobao and Cecilia Cheung.
Li Huimin, who could have received a large number of announcements, was thus "beaten into the cold palace", and the record plan was repeatedly delayed.
She also communicated with the company, but it has not been given the attention it deserves, and after 2 years of tug-of-war, she and Universal Records terminated their contract.
Although she was finally no longer constrained by the record company, Li Huimin wasted a whole 2 years.
This was the best 2 years of her career, but it was changed by an unexpected restructuring.
In addition, Li Huimin was found to be a cocoon in the vocal cord as early as 1997, and although the operation was successfully completed, the voice could no longer control the enviable high note, and was even rejected by many brokerage companies.
In order to return to her position 2 years ago, Li Huimin did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to ask Zeng Zhiwei to be her agent.
She thought that this would be a good opportunity for a comeback, but Zeng Zhiwei was in the ascendancy of his career, busy managing the company with Tan Yonglin and Chen Baixiang, and making cameo performances in major movies and film and television dramas.
Let Li Huimin, who has been immersed for 2 years, completely disappear from the public eye.
At that time, Li Huimin also seemed to be tired of years of running, although she did not officially announce her withdrawal from the show business circle, but once almost disappeared from the Hong Kong music scene.
Life after retirement does not seem to be as easy as imagined.
In order to make a living, she began to do fashion design, clothing wholesale, jewelry, so she often personally stood for the store, and at the end of each month, she had to worry about rent and payment.
Although retired from the singing world, Li Huimin seems to be unable to let go of the spotlight on the stage, and she has tried to make a comeback many times without success, until she meets Mei Yanfang.
In 2002, Mui signed Li Huimin to her company and promised to give her a new album.
But fate seemed to have played a joke on her, and on December 30, 2003, Mei Yanfang died of cervical cancer.
With the departure of Mei Yanfang, the company has also fallen into a situation where no one is operating, and Li Huimin's plan to return has been indefinitely postponed.
From 1998 to 2003, the five years of Hong Kong singers' popularity in the mainland, Faye Wong appeared on the stage of the 1998 Spring Festival Gala and became a popular object for fans in the three places across the strait.
The song "The Girl With Wings" also made Joey Yung a well-known female singer, and Li Huimin did not catch up with this era of Hong Kong music.
In 2004, Li Huimin retired again, but this retirement was 8 years.
Until 2012, Li Huimin was invited to participate in the "Concert YY Huang Weiwen Works Exhibition", and Li Huimin appeared on the "Huang Weiwen's Most Important Person" session.
She used "You Don't Have Good Results" and "Live Better Than You" to sing all the longings for the stage and the resentment of the bumps in the star road over the years.
It was also this opportunity that allowed Li Huimin to regain her confidence, and she decided to pick up the microphone again and stand on the stage.
Two years later, Lee Hui Min held her first solo concert in 26 years since her debut, "Forever Love2014".
The concert was not the Hung Hom Stadium that Hong Kong musicians dream of, but she still regarded the concert as the most important performance of her life.
For the fans who love her, this concert came too late, a full 26 years late, but it still came!
Li Huimin's life is as tragic as her songs.
At the time of the popularity, it was found out that it was called a cocoon, and it was hidden in the snow because of the company's acquisition and reorganization, and after the termination of the contract, Zeng Zhiwei was invited to be an agent, but he was unexpectedly snubbed and re-signed, but the nobleman died of illness and sank.
Fate is uncertain, ups and downs!
Faye Wong, who debuted in the same period, has retreated several times but it is so smooth, but she still sits firmly in the position of a sister.
Li Huimin, once the queen of heaven, her hoarse voice left not only nostalgia, but also sighing.
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