#Dream of the Red Chamber ##经典电视剧 #
In 1987, a national audience voted for the "Top Ten Most Popular Singers." The winners are Jiang Dawei, Liu Huan, Yin Xiumei, Mao Amin and others, including a singer named Chen Li. Now it sounds very strange name, who is she?
She is the singer of the theme song and interlude of the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber". That is to say, we hear so many female vocal songs in the play, such as "Frowning Eyebrows", "Funeral Flower Yin", "Qingwen Song", "Flesh and Bone", etc., all sung by Chen Li alone.
Being selected as one of the top ten singers in the country shows how popular Chen Li's singing was that year. However, this is also the peak of Chen Li's music career, and within a few years since then, she has disappeared from the public eye and rarely appears in public now.
So, why did Chen Li, who was extremely popular, give up singing later? Where did she go?
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Like many singers, Chen Li, whose family is in the northeast, was also versatile when he was a child, especially liked to sing. After graduating from middle school, Chen Li was admitted to the Changchun Peking Opera Troupe and sang many model plays on the stage, as well as some Peking Opera songs. In addition to singing on stage, Chen Li also deliberately learned a lot of vocal knowledge and refined his singing to a certain extent.
Unfortunately, during one performance, Chen Li accidentally fell and injured herself, which made it impossible for her to sing Peking Opera on stage, and then turned to Changchun FAW to become a laboratory inspector.
Fortunately, FAW had a literary troupe, with Chen Li, who had a clear voice in Peking Opera, and soon became the main actor of the literary troupe, and from this time on she began to sing popular songs.
The local TV station had a "Daily Song" program, and once it played a song sung by Chen Li. At that time, the composer Wang Liping happened to be on a business trip in Changchun, and when he accidentally saw Chen Li's singing, he ran to find Chen Li together and proposed that they could cooperate together in the future.
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A few years later, when Wang Liping became the music composer of "Dream of the Red Chamber", he remembered Chen Li, who had a unique voice, and wrote a letter inviting her to the Beijing crew to participate in the singing. In this way, Chen Li bid farewell to his family and entered the crew, and like other actors, signed a four-year contract in the group. In today's view, it is inconceivable that the singer will also have to reside in the crew.
In fact, choosing Chen Li to sing still takes a certain risk. Because she is not well-known compared to many female singers, fortunately, Wang Liping supports her, and director Wang Fulin also recognizes the singing of this newcomer. By the end of 1986, Chen Li began to officially record the music of the whole play, the first song was "Funeral Flower Yin", which only sang once to meet the requirements.
And "Qingwen Song" is a small chorus, they are on the ground, Chen Li sang seven times in a row, and then synthesized them into a song. "Flesh and Bones", which shows Tan Chunyuan's marriage, is the most difficult for Chen Li to sing, and it has been sung many times in a row at night.
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Later, it turned out that the music in "Dream of the Red Chamber" was extremely successful, adding too much color to the whole play, and Chen Li became one of the most well-known singers. However, for Chen Li, she knew what she had experienced in those four years. In those years, her husband died of illness, and her daughter was only a few years old and could only be raised by the elderly, so it can be said that Chen Li sang these songs in the midst of suffering.
These experiences also made Chen Li have another idea about the music career, she believes that fame and fortune are not so important, and she prefers to choose a career to spend more time with her family. So in 1989, Chen Li participated in the operation of a new company, but the development was not very good, and she herself got into a lawsuit. After the truth of the case came out, Chen Li immigrated to Canada in 1990 and has lived in Vancouver until now.
After arriving in Canada, Chen Li was even more away from his once beloved music career. A few years later, the crew of Qiong Yao's drama "Grass by the Qingqing River" invited her to sing the theme song, saying that she had completely returned to her family and stopped singing.
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Fortunately, many years later, the elderly Chen Li stood on the stage many times and sang the old songs in "Dream of the Red Chamber" with a sense of nostalgia. Especially in 2007, "Art Life" held a reunion of the "Dream of the Red Chamber" crew, Chen Li appeared on the stage surprisingly, and also sang the classic songs in the play.
The traces of time made Chen Li's appearance change a little, but when she opened her mouth and sang the sentence "One is Langyuan Xianbao, one is beautiful jade flawless", the voice has hardly changed, or it is so soft and transparent, pulling people back to more than 30 years ago.