Li Shi once told such a paragraph in the "Spit Conference", and the whole audience laughed.
Once, he and Chi zi entered the elevator together, and suddenly the mobile phone ringing of "Above the Moon" rang in the elevator, so he turned to Chi Zi and said, "Hey, your phone is ringing." ”
Unexpectedly, Chi Zi was anxious at that time: "Who do you say the phone is ringing?" Your phone just rang! ”
Li Shi was also anxious when he heard it: "How do you talk about this child?" Say whose phone is ringing? ”
At this time, Li Tian's mobile phone really rang, it was the Phoenix legend's "Lotus Pond Moonlight".
The audience was silent when they laughed, and earlier, if anyone said that they liked the song of phoenix legend, it would be doubted about its taste.
However, contempt turned to contempt, and still could not suppress the explosion of the Phoenix Legend.
In the era of CRBT popularity, someone has done a statistic, as of 2010, the cumulative downloads of the Phoenix legend's "Above the Moon", "Free Flight", and "Lotus Pond Moonlight" have exceeded 300 million.
Equivalent to every 4 Chinese people, one person uses the song of the Phoenix Legend as a color bell, which is really staggering.
Let's put it to another test:
I'm looking up/above the moon/How many dreams are flying freely
You are the most beautiful cloud in my sky / Let me leave you with my heart
I'm going to fly forward /I'm waiting for the rose of love
Do you have friends who can't help but hum?
So that's the magic of Phoenix Legends, you may not be a fan of them, and you haven't specifically listened to their songs, but as soon as the melody or song comes out, you can keep up.
How popular are the songs of phoenix legends? Up to the seventy or eighty grandmothers, down to the seven or eighty-year-old children, all can not hum a few words.
No wonder some netizens commented:
Speaking of the origin of the combination of Phoenix Legends, it is quite interesting.
01 Acquaintance in micro-time, that "golden age"
Linghua, whose real name is Yang WeiLinghua, was once a shepherd girl.
In 1995, at the age of 17, after graduating from art school, she never found a suitable job as a dancer.
Just when she was worried about her future, she happened to meet a job as an electrical appliance salesman, and in order to live, she went to work as a salesman.
But Linghua was not happy with this job, because such a life was not what she wanted.
In 1998, Linghua resolutely decided to resign and go south to Shenzhen to find more opportunities at the forefront of the pop music scene.
And Hunan boy Zeng Yi, once a professional home appliance maintenance worker, and Linghua, he also has a hot artistic dream in his heart.
Zeng Yi loves singing, and during the day he will fix every electrical appliance with his heart, and run to the performing arts center to stay at night.
In Zeng Yi's heart, the biggest wish is to be able to sing on the big stage one day.
The dream drove Zeng Yi to the vibrant city of Shenzhen and became the music director of the "Golden Age" dance hall.
After Linghua came to Shenzhen, she failed to fail the list several times in the art troupe, and she had to go to the "Golden Age" dance hall that was more famous at that time to apply for a singer.
Zeng Yi fell in love with Linghua's unique "prairie voice" as soon as he heard it, and immediately signed Linghua, making her a signed artist in the dance hall.
02 The "Cool Fire Group" was established and its reputation gradually rose
In 1998, the two formed the music group "Kuhuo", on the one hand, they especially liked the Korean group "Kulong", on the other hand, they also felt that their style was very suitable for themselves, so they named their group "Kuhuo", which is also the predecessor of the Phoenix legend.
For this reason, Zeng Yi specially shaved his head and put on sunglasses; Linghua got an explosive head and put on earrings.
The two began by imitating and singing other people's songs, and the days were particularly hard at the beginning.
Without an accompaniment belt, she erased the original sound as an accompaniment, but she couldn't erase it, and Ling Hua covered the original sound with her own big voice;
A show usually lasts from 9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m., then rehearsals start again at 2 a.m. until 6 a.m., and then rehearsals resume at 2 p.m.
At that time, in addition to singing in the song hall, they would also actively participate in various commercial performance activities, although it was hard, but with the increase of performances, they gradually became famous in Shenzhen.
03 The phoenix begins to take off
In 2003, the outbreak of SARS, the whole people fought against the epidemic, and people were panicked.
The creator He Muyang created a public welfare song, and among the participating singers, Linghua was also there.
Ling Hua's high-pitched and explosive voice immediately attracted He Muyang's attention, and he found the pair quite interesting.
One is an Inner Mongolian girl with a vast vocal range and strong voice penetration, and the other is a Hunan boy known as "China's first rap emperor", and the combination of the two produces a wonderful chemical reaction.
So he tailored the song "Above the Moon" for them according to the characteristics of the duo.
At first, the song didn't catch fire, but the two weren't discouraged, because it was their first song, which was a luxury for them before.
In 2004, the two participated in the Youth Song Competition and won the title of "Top Ten Excellent Singers";
In 2005, the two participated in the Walk of Fame and eventually won the good result of the annual runner-up.
Their excellent performance was favored by the discerning Peacock Records owner Chen Rentai, who wanted to sign them as artists of his own company.
For signing a record company, Zeng Yi has his own concerns.
Because the "Cool Fire Group" was already on the right track at that time, re-signing with the record company meant taking unknown risks, coupled with the fact that he had to provide for the house and pay for his brother's tuition, he felt a lot of pressure for a while.
But Linghua was very interested and wanted to break out of a new career.
Zeng Yi could not bear to give up his companions and decided to accompany LingHua to the world.
When the two first signed the contract, the income was very unstable and the life was relatively difficult.
Zeng Yi constantly borrowed money to make a living with his friends, and every time Zeng Yi borrowed money, no matter how much, it would be divided equally with LingHua.
In the most difficult moment, Zeng Yi once said to Linghua, "I will accompany you to the end!" This sentence made Ling Hua feel full of strength.
In this way, the two passed through the trough of several years.
Until 2005, the Supergirl Draft was popular all over the country, and after the supergirl Ji Minjia sang the fire of the two's masterpiece "Above the Moon", the two began to be slowly known.
04 It began to become popular, but it was also labeled as "earth"
In 2011, a fitness video originating from the United States with the music of "The Most Dazzling National Style" quickly spread on the Internet, and since then the era of square dance in China has also followed, and a wave of square dance has been set off across the country.
The Phoenix Legend has caught fire again by square dancing, but the label of "earthy taste" has also followed.
Their songs were once regarded as songs that only big aunts and uncles liked to listen to, and if anyone among young people dared to mention that they liked the phoenix legend, they would definitely be scorned by other companions.
Ling Hua herself said a passage:
There was a young girl listening to a song on the subway wearing headphones, and suddenly the headphones accidentally fell off, and from inside came the song of the Phoenix legend, when the people in the carriage looked at him with disbelief, and she herself felt ashamed.
Ling Hua said that she had been depressed for a long time because of this matter.
Is phoenix legend really "earth"? Not really.
Just because their songs are too high, the streets and alleys, shopping malls and restaurants, mobile phone ringtones, square dance songs, everywhere, filled with people's ears, slowly everyone's hearing fatigue, they feel "soil".
How popular was the Phoenix Legend of that year?
2013 can be described as the "Phoenix Legend Year", that year, the Phoenix Legend appeared as the opening guest, with a record of 7 Consecutive Spring Festival Galas, and in April, the Phoenix Legend held a concert in the labor body that can accommodate 40,000 spectators, and it was full.
In that year, in the face of people's questions about why they were so angry, Zeng Yi simply shared the thirteen military rules of the Phoenix legend on Weibo for those who ridiculed and questioned them.
Two of the most impressive ones are:
"If you can really sing, don't return the sound, this is persistence", "You can listen to applause, you must also be able to breathe, this is temperament." ”
Zeng Yi once said in an interview: "Both of us were very difficult when we debuted, and it is the result of perseverance to get to this day." The two words of legend in the combination are not high-profile, but want to tell everyone that as long as you stick to your dreams, you can become your own legend. ”
In 2014, Phoenix Legend and the China Philharmonic Orchestra held a symphony concert at the Beijing Century Theatre, and the video of this concert scored as high as 8.7 points on Douban, which shows that the standard is quite high.
Therefore, the song of the Phoenix Legend is actually not earthy at all.
05 There is a friendship called Phoenix Legend
Please answer in the comment area, which star is the fan from left to right in the picture below?
Zeng Yi has few lyrics and most of them are "yo yo yo" and "na na na" at the beginning, resulting in a very low sense of existence, and even being called "yoyo brother".
In the eyes of most viewers, phoenix legend = Linghua + a man.
Once a big aunt met the Phoenix Legend on the road, recognized Linghua at a glance, did not recognize Zeng Yi, did not say, and also regarded Zeng Yi as a passerby to help take pictures.
Looking at Zeng Yi's obedient shooting, it was funny and sad.
Zeng Yi made a lot of efforts to make himself sing more, and talked to his boss, but the boss told him only one word, "forbearance".
Another time, after dividing the words, Zeng Yi made a request in a stinging voice: "I will also come to this song part!" ”
The cheerful Linghua immediately agreed: Ok, these two "come" words, you sing!
thereupon:
Some fans who like Zeng Yi will complain for him: Is Linghua too domineering?
In fact, what many people don't know is that if it weren't for Ling Hua's righteousness, the combination of "Phoenix Legend" might not exist.
At that time, the two were favored by the "Peacock Gallery Records" company after participating in the Green Song Competition, but the boss only wanted to sign Linghua alone, and Linghua immediately refused: "The two of us are a combination, if you want to sign it, you will sign it together, or I will not come!" ”
In this way, Zeng Yi became a "buy one get one free", and he later learned the truth by chance in a liquor bureau, when his heart was turning over the river and the sea, and the five tastes were mixed.
There was once a hot search that # Zeng Yi was forcibly kissed and still insisted on rap #, what is going on?
In 2012, Phoenix Legend was singing "Free Flight" on the stage, suddenly an audience member rushed to the stage to offer flowers and forcibly kissed Zeng Yi, Ling Hua was bent by this sudden unexpected laugh, Zeng Yi still did not miss his rare singing opportunity, still calmly singing: yoyo, it's me, I'm in love...
This professionalism must be praised!
Another time, Zeng Yi finally got a lead singer opportunity, is it that the smile in his eyebrows is about to overflow the screen?
Although Zeng Yi has few lyrics, phoenix legends have insisted on earning 55% of the income for many years.
Han Hong once joked in a show that Zeng Yi is "the easiest male singer to make money in all of China." ”
Many viewers were curious about the income distribution between the two people, and some good people asked Linghua:
Zeng Yi only has a few words such as hum, or ah ha, and his five or five points of income don't you feel very lossy?
Ling Hua warmly responded:
Zeng Yi was my teacher, originally he was more famous than me, at the beginning we were five or five points, and then we continued this way, there has been no contradiction.
Although such a lyric distribution seems to be unfair to Zeng Yi, it has to be said that Linghua's unique high-pitched voice from Inner Ordos is indeed more suitable for becoming the lead singer, and Zeng Yi rap's unique style makes the song more flexible and rich, becoming a major feature of the Phoenix legend, and the two cooperate seamlessly and are indispensable.
Not only that, Linghua sometimes forgot words or had a small situation, Zeng Yi would find out in time and flexibly save the scene.
For example, after the two initially participated in the "CCTV Young Singers Television Grand Prix" to reach the final, Ling Hua was nervous and led to singing the song two beats slower, until Zeng Yi began to rap, he deliberately accelerated the speed of rap, only to bring the rhythm to the right track, and finally saved the song.
Because the two people perform together for many years and have a tacit understanding, they have been misunderstood by the audience for a long time as husband and wife.
In fact, they all have a happy family:
Linghua's husband, Xu Mingchao, is the current owner of the group, and Zeng Yi's wife, Li Na, is a beautiful Xinjiang girl.
Coincidentally, Ling hua and Zeng Yi were both married in the same year, and they were children in the same year.
Linghua gave birth to the girl in July 2014, and Zeng Yi had a son in October 2014.
The two children are 7 years old this year, and some people joke that they can form a small phoenix legend again.
06 Flying against the wind, phoenix nirvana
This year, Phoenix Legend participated in a music program and covered a song called "Under the Sea".
This song was originally to depict the depressed and helpless inner world, the lyrics depict the process of numbing and determined to go to the deep sea for the girl who has no nostalgia for the world, and the original version sounds like a deep feeling of suffocation;
The phoenix legend sang this song out of hope, feeling that on the endless sea, suddenly shone into a beam of light, the girl who was originally disheartened seemed to hear someone on the shore calling her, she slowed down the pace of going to the sea, nostalgic for the bright four seasons of the world.
Phoenix Legend said that the reason for adapting this song is to convey to the audience the positive energy of "there is still hope for tomorrow".
Indeed, after listening to the original and adapted versions, everyone expressed their feelings:
There is a message from a netizen that makes people's nose sour:
This is the power of music, sincere songs, must be able to touch the bottom of people's hearts.
The song "Under the Sea" has reached an incredible 19 million views, and the B station where young people gather is a god of war, and the screen full of bullet screens is full of praise, and it is the first in various charts.
After "Under the Sea", the Phoenix Legend is called "YYDS", many people say that through this song to re-understand the Phoenix Legend, found that before it was their own mistake, the original Phoenix Legend song is so good, so touching.
Even the post-90s and post-95s have begun to fall in love with the Phoenix Legend, and finally, everyone is no longer ashamed to admit their love for the Phoenix Legend.
The funny thing is that before on the show, phoenix legends not only scored the lowest score in the whole game, but also rated various ridicules.
This song "Under the Sea" is equivalent to an opportunity to help the Phoenix Legend complete Nirvana and wash away the label of "tacky" that was previously disliked.
For being labeled "soil", Ling Hua said a particularly good paragraph.
Music is not meant to be evaluated, music is meant to bring happiness to everyone.
Can make the uncles and aunts in the square dance happily;
I can make ordinary people around me sing happily;
I think that's the biggest takeaway for both of us.
A netizen once shared such a scene:
At nightfall, people who had been tired for a day on the construction site came to the stalls, ordered a bottle of cheap beer and small dishes, took out their mobile phones while playing the song of the Phoenix legend, humming a small song, drinking and eating vegetables, and the tired body was completely empty at this moment.
Seeing this scene, he suddenly felt particularly real, isn't this just human fireworks?
Although he later learned music after going to school, he also liked Chopin and Charlie Parker, but it did not prevent him from still liking it every time he heard the lotus pond moonlight.
Recently, Hunan Satellite TV Variety Show was revised and launched a music program called "Singing Caravan".
This show changed the style of celebrities singing on the stage in the past, pushed the stage to the streets and alleys of the city, and even the fields, and the singing protagonist became an ordinary person who was active in all walks of life, which was very grounded and also received praise and welcome from the public.
The guests invited in the first phase of "Singing Caravan" are the Phoenix Legends, and this group is also the most popular group in the hearts of the public.
Ling Hua and Zeng Yi both wore loose T-shirts and plain faces, and there was no big star shelf at all.
The two opened with a song called "Lady Of Luxury", and soon the atmosphere was enlivened.
The audience also began to be eager to try, so there were online car drivers, real estate sales work dads, chef brothers who were ready to start their own businesses, etc., have joined the singing camp and showed their singing voice.
The laughter and cheers throughout the show continued, and everyone's interest was very high.
Many people on the bullet screen said that it was the show that Chong Phoenix Legend came to see, and it seems that the popularity of the two is still high!
No wonder even CCTV likes the Phoenix Legend so much, CCTV producer Liu Zhengju once said that in the three sets of CCTV, as long as there is a performance of the Phoenix Legend, the ratings of this program will be several times higher than other singers.
At the 2021 CCTV New Year's Eve Ceremony, phoenix legend's "Over the Mountain" won the ratings championship again.
The reason why Phoenix Legend can become a "legend" is the luck of the times, the ability of professionalism, and the persistence of never giving up.
Just think, if Zeng Yi had walked away because he couldn't stand the grievances of changing identities, and Linghua was discouraged because he couldn't stand the public's evaluation of "soil", how could there be today's phoenix nirvana?
So dear friend, even if you have despaired to the bottom, don't give up.
Remember: there is always a light that will illuminate you, there will always be someone who loves you, survive the cold winter, and you will wait for the warm spring.