The 27th Golden Melody Awards, which has great influence in Taiwan and even the entire Chinese-speaking circle, was held at the Taipei Arena on June 25. That night, Taiwanese singer Huang Yingying, who has been in the music scene for more than 40 years and has released 51 records, won the "Special Contribution Award" of this year. The "voice of memory" returned to the stage many years later, as if it were also a reproduction of a golden age, and the emotions of decades ago suddenly surged up and stirred up the heartstrings of many people.
Young fans may be a little unfamiliar with the name Ofsa Huang Yingying, that era is indeed too good, the classic credible hands that crossed the ocean to the mainland, Taiwan has such as Teresa Teng, Luo Dayou, Li Zongsheng, Su Rui, Qi Yu, Pan Yueyun, Feng Feifei, Hong Kong has Zhang Guorong, Chen Baiqiang, Mei Yanfang, Tan Yonglin, Lin Yilian and so on. In contrast, the voice of the Yellow Warbler is not well known to young mainland fans at present, but even so, we can still find many memory points, such as a sentence in "Tomorrow Will Be Better" "Sing your enthusiasm, stretch out your hands" is sung by the Yellow Warbler, Jacky Cheung's "Can't Dream of You", Ye Qianwen's "Autumn comes and goes" and other classic songs Chinese original version is also from The Original Version of Yellow Warbler's album. Of course, this name is more of a memory that belongs to the seven-hundred-eighty-zero, and the hearts of this group of people have always left a place for this goddess - the music wave has gone through generations, and there are very few sounds that can stand the test of time and can linger in the ears for a long time, and the yellow warbler must be one of them.
Huang Yingying won the "Special Contribution Award" of the 27th Golden Melody Awards
In 1974, Huang Yingying debuted under the stage name Huang Luyi, and was appreciated by Liu Jiachang, the godfather of the pop music scene, and coincidentally sang the theme song of the same name of the "Yunhe" movie originally prepared for Zhen Ni, which became a hit and laid the foundation for its development in the Chinese music scene. However, after the release of the album "Deep in My Heart" that year, Huang Yingying married singapore until 2 years later, when he joined EMI and announced his return.
Huang Yingying's Era period (1976 – 1981) focused on the Singapore and Hong Kong markets, so most of them were English-language songs, such as "I Don't Want to Talk about It", which established itself as "the first Asian singer to release an English album in Australia". Compared with The English album, the albums of the Yellow Orioles in this period, which were mainly Chinese popular, were more eye-catching. In 1979, Hong Kong composer and Chinese pop master Wang Fuling composed 4 songs for his album "Teardrops of Love", and found the famous lyricist Chen Dieyi to fill in the lyrics, coupled with the empty singing voice of Huang Yingying, making this retro album stand out in the late 80s when disco dance music was popular. Although Singaporean musicians Tam Kin Chang Xiaoxuan and his wife added some Western elements to this album, the album as a whole was still dominated by Chinese pop, until 2 years later, "Whisper", they boldly tried to add guitar arrangements to the album and increase the level of vocals, thus opening the way for Huang Yingying to "invest in the domestic music industry with the roots of Western music construction". Unexpectedly, the audience immediately accepted this novel musical form, and in Taiwan in the 80s, the streets and alleys could hear this unique style of "Whispering".
In 1982, Huang Yingying left EMI to join PolyGram (1982 – 1985), clearly focusing on the Taiwanese market, a golden sign in the record industry that brought him a small peak of his musical career. Huang Yingying's first Chinese album "Only Separation" in PolyGram was composed by newcomer Cao Junhong, tragic lyrics, beautiful melody, so that the album once on the market to get a huge feedback, swept the major charts, the popularity of the album, officially laid the Huang Yingying in Taiwan's local recording industry superstar status, Fei Xiang, Cai Qin and others have also covered this song. At the same time, the success of "Only Separation" also made Cao Junhong, and his creative talent gradually attracted attention, which also led to the subsequent cooperation with Chen Baixiang, Wu Sikai, Cai Qin and others. In 1983, in order to open up the overseas market of Huang Yingying, Polygram and another singer under his umbrella, Guan Zhengjie, sang Elvis Presley's "Always On My Mind" with another singer, Chinese song called "Always in My Heart", although other songs in the same period, such as "How to Keep You" written by Lu Guanting and Ma Zhaojun, overshadowed this cover song, but as the starting point for Huang Yingying to be the lead singer in Cantonese, it is still worth mentioning.
In 1986, Huang Yingying signed to UFO Records, and the biggest change during this period was that her songs were more gentle, and there was a great leap forward in arrangement and recording, and there was a significant trend towards new Japanese music in style. In the 1986 album "The Gambler", Huang Yingying changed his previous stage performance style, and the lyrics paid more attention to the heart, saying that he was sad about the urban emotions at that time. This year, the CCTV tv special program "Tide - Songs from Taiwan" was broadcast, and musicians such as Jiang Yuheng, Little Tiger Team, Zhang Yusheng and other musicians triggered a wave of campus songs among young people in the mainland for a time, which was also the second fermentation of Hong Kong and Taiwan songs in the mainland after Teresa Teng. It was also in this program that mainland listeners heard "Snow Is Burning" for the first time and officially knew about the Yellow Warbler for the first time.
There is another classic in "The Gambler" that must be mentioned - "The Story That Can't Be Kept". This Chinese song, directed by Yang Fan with the Cantonese version of "The Last Rose" sung by Zhen Ni, is adapted from Yi Shu's novel "The Story of the Rose", a Taiwanese version, a Hong Kong version, and one movie has achieved two classics. "The Story That Can't Stay" has also been used to commemorate The Taiwanese composer and composer Chen Zhiyuan, who died in 2011, and the two collaborated on "Ri'an, My Love" in 1989, and Chen Zhiyuan won the "Special Contribution Award" as early as the 19th Golden Melody Awards in 2008. In the album "Ri'an", Huang Yingying also cooperated with Zhou Zhiping, Chen Lerong, Xiao Worm, Lin Qiuli, Xiong Meiling, Zheng Huajuan, Yin Wenqi and other the best songwriters in Taiwan that year, and Huang Yingying also won the Golden Tripod Awards of that year because of this album. The album 'Dream Can't See You' was included in Zhou Zhiping's debut album of the same name the following year, and Jacky Cheung also sang the Cantonese version of "Dream of You", a man and a woman, a country and a Cantonese, which is still a classic in the minds of many people.
In 1991, Huang Yingying left the flying saucer and established Cuixi Studio, who was in charge of the album production, handed over the distribution rights to the Rolling Stones, and in the same year, he cooperated with Xiao Worm on the film music "Burial of the Heart" of "Ruan Lingyu", in order to achieve the nostalgic effect, Huang Yingying also specially imitated the singing voice of the 40s girls and recorded different versions of "Burial heart". After that, no matter how many singers performed, it was still difficult to reach the bleak nostalgia of the original version.
In 1995, Huang Yingying returned to Baidai, when the musical atmosphere of the mainland and Hong Kong experienced great turmoil, and the mainland music represented by Moyan Sanjie began to be exported, and the Taiwanese pop music at this time also turned a new page. In the ever-changing musical environment, Huang Yingying collaborated with new musicians such as Zhang Yu, Chen Xiaoxia, Guo Zi, Zhang Hongliang, etc., who later played pivotal roles in the Chinese music circle. At that time, Huang Yingying and Guo Zi cooperated in "Spring Light", which was recorded in many places, so the album was almost perfect in tone, coupled with the pleasant melody, slightly enchanting and feminine style, the popularity of the album was naturally natural.
After the millennium, The Yellow Oriole has published some anthologies, until 2012, when the cover album "Lullaby" was released, with 51 records in more than 40 years, which is really a rare prolific musician. As he said in his speech after winning the Golden Melody Awards:
"Thanks for the Golden Melody Award! Thank you to the jury for presenting me with this award. There are countless nobles around me along the way for decades! There are really a lot of people I want to thank. They have reached the pinnacle of my singing career, and they have created many unforgettable classics for my musical record..."
Yellow Warbler Golden Melody Award Speech
Huang Yingying's musical career has been too many nobles, she has also become a lot of people's nobles, a fan sighed after many years, "she is an eternal goddess, do not eat the singing voice of human fireworks, will not lose a point with the growth of time, but because of the distance of time to increase the infinite sense of mystery", this Golden Melody Award will be "Special Contribution Award" awarded to Huang Yingying, more like a goddess who grew up with pop music back to the public eye - in the older generation, is the memory of youth; in the younger generation, it is the classic circulation.
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