Since the song "Under the Lion Rock" was born in 1979, whenever it is a difficult time, the whole city will think of it and sing it. And the first person to sing it, to this day, has been gone for a full 19 years.
Rowan, an increasingly forgotten name. However, before the Four Heavenly Kings, the ruler of the Hong Kong pop music scene was him. During his lifetime, the most expensive record ever produced in Hong Kong was created for him. Asked why he spared no expense, the head of the record company said only six words: "Who made him Rowan?!" ”
In 1962, the mother, who was suffering from nasopharyngeal cancer, was deteriorating, and the three sisters and brothers in the family were about to face the problem of independence. Therefore, at the suggestion of his relatives, Rowan decided to go to Hong Kong alone to seek development.
He applied to Hong Kong on the grounds that his family was seriously ill and wanted to go to Hong Kong to buy medicines. Although he bought a round-trip round-trip ticket before leaving, in fact, he had already made up his mind to break through the sky in Hong Kong. This decision, leaving home, allowed him to "return" to the right place.
Rowan is a famous powerful singer in Hong Kong from the late 1960s to the early 1990s, because of his Cantonese music roots, his singing voice is known as "the right way to go round", and he is the master of many singers of the new generation in Hong Kong, with the reputation of "the godfather of the music world", and some people call him "Song Saint", surpassing the "god of song" Hui Guanjie.
In 1968, Rowan and a few friends organized a band to sing English songs, and later they were favored by shaw film production company, and composer Wang Fuling gave them Chinese songs, and Rowan began to sing Chinese songs. In 1971, he and Shen Dianxia officially performed on stage. His story has become a model for Chinese mainland newcomers who have just come to live and live in Hong Kong.
Rowan has always been known for his loud voice and clear bites, and in the early days he mainly sang Chinese pop songs, and later he turned to non-love songs in Cantonese pop songs (at least the songs he is more familiar with belong to this category). In 1976, he became a hit with the theme song of the lead Japanese dubbing drama "Bright Future".
The subsequent "Little Li Flying Knife", "Under the Lion Rock" (the theme song of the TV series of the same name on Radio Television Hong Kong), "Laser", etc., are all extremely prestigious non-love songs, and have become classic songs. At the 14th Golden Melody Awards Concert of the 14th Chinese, RTHK presented Rowan with the highest honorary award, the Golden Needle Award, in recognition of his outstanding achievements in the Hong Kong music scene.
Such a singer is really called a god of song!