Pictured: 40 Years of Singing - Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Reform and Opening Up, China's Golden Melody Ceremony Was Sung in Shanghai (Official Photo)
A few days ago, a "40 Years of Singing Stirring - Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Reform and Opening Up" was sung in Shanghai. A series of golden songs of the times that are full of sound, tracing the golden years of Chinese pop music for 40 years. That night, Zheng Xulan, Zhu Mingying, and Shen Xiaocen, who won the title of "Charm Golden Voice", realized the same frame that they had been missing for a long time, sitting in the background, they each looked back on forty years, laughed and cried, and walked out of the spotlight is life.
Zheng Xulan was also hovering on the brink of life and death
In the movie "Shaolin Temple", Zheng Xulan sang the interlude "Shepherd Song" is the memory of a generation, when she was "yellow flowers are young, waist and courage". "I didn't see the movie before I sang this song, I just gave me some video clips." Decades later, Zheng Xulan recalled, "If it were not for the reform and opening up, the mainland and Hong Kong might not have had the opportunity to co-produce "Shaolin Temple". Zheng Xulan also heard that the movie was released two years after recording this "Shepherd Song", she only bought a ticket, and for the first time in the movie theater, she heard her own voice, "However, I felt very dissatisfied after listening to it, and there are many places where I can sing better." ”
Photo: Zheng Xulan (official photo)
"Actually, I'm already famous for 'Island of the Sun.'" In 1983, Zheng Xulan and "Shepherd Song" on the Spring Festival Gala, more people knew her, at that time walking on the road, there were people behind her talking about her, "Is it her?" "It seems to be. But it felt a little short, and it seemed to be taller than her on tv. ”...... However, when her career was in full swing, she chose to study abroad alone, and she had no news. "At that time, I was at home with my children, I also worked for life, I also studied clothing design, and then I saw the foreign clothing industry, and the people you thought of had already been designed, and the people you didn't think of were also designed." In 2003, because of a surgical error, she hovered on the edge of life and death, thanks to the company of her boyfriend, but there was an unexpected storm, her body had not yet healed, the boyfriend was found to be in the late stage of malignancy, two people in love were lying in two different hospitals, the new home that had just been arranged could not be lived in time, and the boyfriend died.
After a heart-wrenching journey, Zheng Xulan still survived strongly, "My last lover is music, and I want to sing to the end of my artistic life." When she stood on the stage again and sang "Wind and rain shoulder to shoulder..."
Zhu Mingying There is a song that always makes me cry
At the Spring Festival Gala of CCTV in 1984, Zhu Mingying sang "The Sea, Ah Hometown" and "Back to The Mother's Home", especially "Back to the Mother's Home", which is even more playful and interesting, which can not be forgotten for a long time. This time she came to Shanghai, but she brought "The Sea, The Hometown", a song that has a special meaning for her.
"When Wang Liping found me singing this song, it may also be because I am not a professional singer. He told me not to use technique, but to sing with emotion and like a speech. At that time, Zhu Mingying did not quite understand, "Later, when I was abroad, every time I sang this song, I couldn't help but cry." When the melody sounds, I will think of my motherland, my hometown. Zhu Mingying said, "This song has also been translated into English, French, German, Italian... Foreigners also like this song. The longing for my hometown is the common sentiment of all people all over the world. ”
Illustration: Zhu Mingying (official photo)
Over the years, she has also worked, almost any hard work, tiring work she has done, but also done business, and cultivated her son Wang Jue into a well-known figure in the music world. "Now I'm teaching singing in schools, and we've got the classics in the past, and now we have to study the fifteen or sixteen-year-olds, what music they like, and sing more classic songs." Zhu Mingying said.
Shen Xiaocen has been away from home for too long and it is difficult to change his hometown voice
This time when she came to Shanghai to participate in the "Golden Melody Festival", Shen Xiaocen said that she was returning to her mother's home - she was an authentic Shanghainese, but she went to settle abroad in her early years, and every time she returned home, although she was already a little crappy, she had to try to speak Shanghainese.
Children after the 80s, no one can not sing "Black Cat Sheriff" The theme song is "Aha, Black Cat Sheriff", this song is sung by Shen Xiaocen. A few years ago, "Black Cat Sheriff" made a big movie on the screen, in order to restore the memory of 30 years ago, the film producer also specially asked Shen Xiaocen to reinterpret this classic, she still remembers that at the moment of receiving the invitation, she could not hide the excitement in her heart, and even asked a few "Is it true" and "There is a feeling of time travel." ”
Photo: Shen Xiaocen (official photo)
In fact, the "Little Boy", "Please Come to the End of the World", and "Oh Mother" that were popular throughout China in the 80s are all from Shen Xiaocen. In the past two years, Shen Xiaocen has toured the country with the musical "Mamma Mia", "I have been singing musicals abroad, and now I can return to my motherland to sing musicals, which is really my dream." (Xinmin Evening News reporter Wu Xiang)