In that era of "all overheated, all crazy", as a singer of the "Ancient Divine Beast" level, Lin Zixiang was too low-key in a group of "song kings", "song queens" and "heavenly kings".
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On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival on September 21, several David TV competed for the "Autumn Evening". Among them, the Mid-Autumn Festival Film music evening in the Greater Bay Area has mentioned a number of Weibo hot searches.
Faye Wong sang the theme song "Bay", and sang Cantonese songs after many years; the "Greater Bay Area Five" with countless fans in "Brother Who Cut Through Thorns" reunited, a song "Real Hanzi", a bullet screen "YYDS"; Twins combined to bring "Moon Hazy Bird Hazy"; "Immortal Goddess" group Zhao Yazhi, Li Ruotong, Wen Bixia, Chen Songling sang "Moon Half Serenade".
"Like You", "Walking the Road of Life", "What to Ask for in Life", "Late Autumn", "Want to Blow the Wind with You", "Spend a Good Full Moon Night" Golden Songs continuously; Zhang Mingmin, Jackie Chan, Tan Yonglin, Zhong Zhentao, Lü Fang, Yang Qianwei, Li Ming, Deng Ziqi, Chen Weiting have been on the same stage for several generations...
In a wave of memory killing, 74-year-old Lin Zixiang sang "Dare to Love dare to hate", the original key interpretation, full open Mai no repair tone ↓↓
Jackie Chan fans in the audience raised their hands to call ↓↓
Young netizens were amazed: "I can walk out like this at the age of 74 and become Amitabha Buddha." "This lung capacity, can eat two of me." ↓↓
Lin Zixiang, a "post-80s special offering" name, every time it appears, it can magically set off a young renaissance and "archaeological fever".
The originator of hip hop and skewers
Unlike most of the typical Hong Kong people who offer Buddhist shrines and listen to Cantonese music, Lin Zixiang, who was born in the 1940s, has a somewhat Westernized family. His father was a doctor and his mother was a yogi. Both parents loved music, and there was a piano at home.
As a teenager, Lin Zixiang studied at an elite boys' school, and his most famous alumnus was Sun Yat-sen. Later, he went to study in the Uk, where he stopped school, lived in a snail house, and worked in a fast food restaurant. On Hong Kong Island at that time, young people were obsessed with Western songs. The nightclubs are full of Elvis Presley, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones. Lin Zixiang on the other side of the ocean is also obsessed with the Beatles, and those songs are full of confusion and wandering.
He then spent six more years in the United States, working for stock companies and as a tennis coach. For a time, he didn't work, did nothing, lived on social assistance, and experienced a bohemian life.
In 1975, Lin Zixiang returned to Hong Kong. This small fishing village has begun a rapid economic boom. A year later, the 29-year-old Lin Zixiang signed to EMI Records, released his first English album "Lam", and from this time on, he grew his impressive beard.
Cover of Lin Zixiang's first English album "Lam".
Lin Zixiang bumped into the era of Cantonese songs and personally participated in and changed history.
1980's "Minutes Need You", making "salted fish and cabbage also delicious" an excellent description of happy feelings, and its status among Hong Kong people is comparable to "Under the Lion Rock". In "Golden Rooster 2", the BGM of Wu Junru and Jacky Cheung kissing is this song; in "Little Reunion in the World", the little nurse Cai Jie sang this song downstairs for Zeng Zhiwei with affection; it is the song sung by Zhang Jiahui to his daughter on the way to escape in "Macau Storm 2", and it is also the era song "sung" by deaf and dumb people in "Inaudible Speech" in sign language.
1985's "Ten Twelve Inches" is the first string of songs in the Chinese music scene, 20 Cantonese golden songs regrouped and arranged, and all rose to key, the difficulty coefficient far exceeds Gu Juji's "Love Song King" 23 years later.
1986's "Digital Life", with a series of disorganized numbers, sang out the confusion of Hong Kong people addicted to the stock market: "Fill your life, it's all numbers, look at the count of a few hostages." ”
In the same year's "A Lam Diary", Lin Zixiang sang rap again. 30 years later, variety shows have once again set off a wave of hip-hop, and many people have mentioned that Lin Zixiang is the originator of "old school" rap.
1987's "Dare to Love dare to do", covered from the classic song "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" of "Jefferson Plane", the original chorus was completed by the female lead singer, and Lin Zixiang single-handedly took on the two parts of the male and female vocals. Singing female tone is a difficult operation, Lin Zixiang not only completed, but also performed full of masculinity.
Not to mention the theme song of the movie "Huang Feihong" "Boys Should Be Self-Reliant", and the love song with Ye Qianwen singing "Choice". These two songs resounded through the streets of China in the 1990s, and to this day, they are still popular options for nostalgic songs in KTV.
Lin Zixiang and Ye Qianwen.
In 1994, Lin Zixiang won the "Golden Needle Award", which represents the highest honor in the Hong Kong music scene. This is not a random, symbolic flood of awards, and if there is no suitable candidate, it is better to choose a vacancy.
Before him, the winners were Xu Xiaofeng, Luo Wen, Huang Xia and Zheng Guojiang; after him, it was Teresa Teng, Tan Yonglin, Mui Yanfang and Zhang Guorong.
Lin Zixiang just connected the two eras.
Chorus killer, forever dripping god
Huang Once said: "There are two people in the Hong Kong music scene who have excellent singing skills, no matter how difficult it is for them, they can sing them." These two people, one is Rowan and the other is Lin Zixiang. ”
Throughout his life, Lin Zixiang rarely used false tones. Wikipedia explains his singing skills this way:
Lin Zixiang had all the conditions that a baritone should have, and the treble area extended up a lot. Ordinary singers always use false tones to pull up, and some even if they use the real tone to pull to the treble area, the voice will become sharp and thin, it is difficult to be like Lin Zixiang, even if the treble is pulled to the limit, it is still full and powerful. ”
Let me give you an example. When it comes to male singers with "high tone", everyone will think of Zhang Yusheng. But in front of Lin Zixiang, Zhang Yusheng is also the "general singer" mentioned above.
Jacky Cheung once said: "As long as Lin Zixiang is still there, don't call me 'God of Song'." ”
However, in that era of "all overheated, all madness", as a singer of the "Ancient Divine Beast" level, Lin Zixiang was too low-key in a group of "song kings", "song queens" and "heavenly kings".
His nickname is "Ge Yin", which is like a sweeping monk in the Hong Kong music scene. I don't attend parties, I rarely go on TV, and I rarely see anyone except when I launch new works.
"When cars stop at a red light, most cars rush out when they are about to turn to the green light. But I won't, no matter what the speed of others, I will still maintain the speed I want to do. As soon as I drove, it was the speed I wanted. ”
Unexpectedly, Lin Zixiang, who has been "traveling at the wrong peak" all his life, has no shortage of fans among young people. "Post-90s" and "Post-00s" gathered in the B station, several of his classic scenes, often millions of plays, 5000+, 7000+, 10,000+ bullet screen paste all over the screen.
【Famous scene one: "Ten Twelve Inches"】
In 1985, at the Hong Kong Top Ten Golden Melody Awards Ceremony, Lin Zixiang sang "Ten Twelve Inches" for more than 9 minutes. He sang with Zhang Guorong, Tan Yonglin and Su Rui on the spot, and there were also superstars such as Luo Wen, Mei Yanfang, Jackie Chan, Xu Guanjie and other superstars sitting on the stage, as well as the fledgling Jacky Cheung and Lu Fang.
Lin Zixiang ran high-pitched with a walking belt, and was pushed around by the audience, and the sound of ventilation could not be heard throughout the whole process.
In 2001, the concert of Lin Zixiang and Eason Chan was the finale of "Ten Twelve Inches". Halfway through the song, Eason Chan sweated like rain and began to paddle; Lin Zixiang never changed his color. In the barrage, Eason Chan's fans brushed their positions: "I am an E fan, but your uncle is your uncle after all." ”
Eason Chan changed the words of "Monica" to pay tribute to Lin Zixiang.
【Famous scene no. 2: "Dare to Love and Dare to Do"】
In 2005, at the Hong Kong Top Ten Golden Melody Awards Ceremony, Lin Zixiang sang "Dare to Love and Dare to Hate", and none of the singers in the audience dared to sing.
Eason Chan lived like his own song: that year eighteen, the alma mater dance party, standing like a bitch; Joey Yung held wheat in his hand, but did not sing. Gu Juji took the microphone, his voice was basically covered, and he sang a lonely song.
【Famous Scene No. 3: "Digital Life"】
In the final of "I Am a Singer" on Hunan Satellite TV in 2016, Lin Zixiang and Ye Qianwen appeared as Li Keqin's supporting guests. The three sang "Dashing Walk", "A Lam's Diary" and "Digital Life". That year, Lin Zixiang was 69 years old, Li Keqin was about to lose his breath, and he was relaxed and directly soared to High D.
These "famous scenes" are commonly known as the "your uncle or your uncle" series. Young people with poisonous eyes and diverse tastes have been poisoned by various car accidents and fake singing scenes for many years, and have been poisoned by the performances of various traffic idols "singing and dancing indiscriminately", looking back at archaeology, only to find that the "inner volume" of the entertainment circle in those years was so wonderful: Lin Yilian rose 9 keys in a row, still smiling; Ye Qianwen and Wang Fei sang while doing sit-ups, and the whole process was so stable that they could not hear the breathing; even the idol faction "Four Heavenly Kings" who were often criticized in those years also hung up on a lot of small fresh meat today.
Lin Zixiang, the "Great Devil King" who has been hidden for many years, was discovered by netizens as "Treasure Grandpa".
The "Spirit in Heaven" of the Hong Kong Music Scene
In addition to the "god-level" technology, young people like Lin Zixiang, but also because he has the feelings of the older generation of Hong Kong stars.
In 1984, China and the United Kingdom signed a joint declaration that Hong Kong would return to the motherland in 1997. That year, Xu Ke, who was born in Vietnam and studied in the United States, had the idea of putting Huang Feihong back on the big screen.
"Hong Kong people have forgotten where our roots are for so many years, and I made Wong Fei Hung to tell everyone that Chinese family concept, collective life and mental state."
Xu Ke hired musician Huang Xia to write the theme song. Huang Xiatuo went to Taiwan to look for two months, found the general score of the ancient song "General's Order", listened to it for two consecutive months, condensed the long tune of more than 500 beats of opera into a hundred beats, and then filled in a section of stirring "Proud to face ten thousand heavy waves, hot blood is like that red sun..." This has a legendary work - "Boys should be self-reliant."
Xu Ke (left) with Huang Xia.
Huang Xi invited Lin Zixiang to sing. At the time, the studio was accompanied by only one piano. Huang Xia danced with his hands on the side: "Ah Lam, please imagine that there are thousands of troops and horses, there are na, violin, drums, Chinese drums, all the drums in the north and south!" Lin Zixiang nodded, and as soon as he opened his mouth, everyone was stunned.
When recording "Boys Should Be Self-Reliant", Huang Xia danced and sang along. Those "huh" and "ha" in the song are hey. Lin Zixiang sang to the end and was also sincerely engaged, directly shouting up the high octave, and then countless heroes folded on those few sentences in KTV and shouted and split their throats.
Ma Weidu later said that Lin Zixiang's "Boys Should Be Self-Reliant" is unmatched.
In 1991, Lin Zixiang participated in a movie "The Night Banquet of the Giants". There are also hundreds of popular stars co-starring, with only one purpose, to help compatriots in the mainland who have suffered floods to prepare donations.
Two years later, on April 18, 1993, a large-scale charity performance entitled "Disaster Reduction and Poverty Alleviation and Tomorrow" was staged in the Great Hall of the People. This is the first time that the Great Hall of the People has held a charity performance at home and abroad, and it is also the first time that first-line artists from Hong Kong and the Mainland have performed on the same stage.
Lin Zixiang participated in this performance, and a song "Boys Should Be Self-Reliant" was matched with the performance of the Chinese martial arts team, and he was full of pride.
In 1997, at the party of Hong Kong's return to the motherland, Lin Zixiang, dressed in Tang costumes, sang "Boys Should Strengthen Themselves" again. The back wave of the Yangtze River pushes the front wave, and at this moment, his era has come to an end.
Today's Lin Zixiang still maintains his old living habits. In order to protect the throat, do not smoke or drink, every night early rest, the next morning at four or five o'clock, walk to the old neighborhood, in the familiar tea restaurant to drink a cup of milk tea. He had four or five luxury cars, but he liked to take the bus and got an elderly card for two dollars at a time.
At the Mid-Autumn Festival Gala in the Greater Bay Area, the tune of "Boys Should Be Self-Reliant" was played again. For more than 30 years, Lin Zixiang has sung this song countless times on different occasions. Although his energy and function are declining day by day, he never lowers the key, and every time he ends up, he roars up at a high octave.
In 2017, in the "I want to sing with you" program, 70-year-old Lin Zixiang sang "Boys Should Be Self-Reliant".
In the era when Jay Chou and Sun Yanzi have become "past artists", Lin Zixiang has long been the "spirit in heaven" of the Hong Kong music scene. 30 years ago, he was surrounded by Xu Guanjie, Luo Wen, Zhen Ni, then Zhang Guorong, Tan Yonglin, Mui Yanfang, and then Eason Chan, Gu Juji, and Yung Zu'er. To this day, he shares the stage with TFBOYS, Zhang Jie and Deng Ziqi, interpreting what a real singer should look like.