Is Chi Zhiqiang an actor or a singer? This problem is indeed a problem for many people, in fact, whether as an actor or a singer, Chi Zhiqiang has been popular all over the country, on the fame in a certain period of time in the country few people can compare with it, no exaggeration, in the eighties of the last century, Chi Zhiqiang's reversed life can be described in one sentence: "Life rises and falls too fast, it is too exciting!" ”
First, movie stars, star prisoners and well-known singers, three times popular throughout the country
Chi Zhiqiang was born in Harbin in 1958, his appearance was relatively handsome, and after graduating from junior high school, he was recommended to Changchun Film Studio and successfully passed to become a member of the actor training class. He began starring in movies at the age of 15 and starred in an important film "Entrepreneurship" at the age of 16.
In 1979, Chi Zhiqiang starred in his first masterpiece "Small Characters", when he was only 21 years old, he was full of style, handsome and clean appearance was very eye-catching. As a light comedy, "Little Characters" was also a popular film for the audience that year, and this film won the Ministry of Culture Excellent Film Award, which was quite important in that year.
In 1980, Chi Zhiqiang won the title of "Outstanding Young Actor of the Ministry of Culture" with his performance in "Small Characters", and he was also awarded by Tang Guoqiang, Liu Xiaoqing, Chen Chong and Pan Hong.
In the next three years, Chi Zhiqiang shot a series of movies, the most famous of which was "Xizhao Street", in which Chi Zhiqiang was the male number one, Chen Qiang and Chen Admiration father and son were supporting roles, Chen Peisi played the "second son" for the first time in the film, and hong Jiantao, the little fresh meat of the year, starred in the film.
Throughout the early 1980s, Chi Zhiqiang became popular all over the country as a movie star, and the limelight was unparalleled. Unexpectedly, he was arrested and imprisoned at a certain time due to misconduct in his life, and he quickly changed from a movie star to a hated prisoner, and became well known to the people of the whole country in another way.
In 1987, Chi Zhiqiang was released early for meritorious performance, returned to Changchun Film Studio to work as a small worker, and then met his lover and moved to Hangzhou to settle down. Chi Zhiqiang, who originally thought that it would be so ordinary, ushered in another popularity.
In 1988, a series of "prison songs" represented by "Tears in the Iron Window" became popular throughout the country, and songs such as "Ten Shouldn'ts" and "Banknotes" became songs with a very high degree of singing in the streets and alleys, and as a singer, Chi Zhiqiang, because of his long-standing fame and the topic of real imprisonment, once again attracted the attention of the people of the whole country.
It can be said that since 1988, chi zhiqiang's impression left by the audience has changed from a movie star and a star prisoner to a singer Chi Zhiqiang, and he has once again ushered in another peak of his life.
Because chi zhiqiang's name is printed on every tape of "Tears of Regret" and "Embracing Tomorrow", Chi Zhiqiang has also become the spokesperson and biggest beneficiary of "Prison Song", which makes many people always think that he is a singer and forget that he was once a popular actor.
"Prison Song" allowed Chi Zhiqiang to turn around, and after that, whether he was an actor or in business, he was smooth sailing, although his fame could not be compared with the 1980s, but at least he was re-emerging.
Twenty years later, the truth came to light
On Double 11 in 2008, a blog by the famous music producer Zhou Yaping, "The Beginning and End of the Popularity of the 'Prison Song' Twenty Years Ago", attracted widespread attention and caused an uproar across the country. Because Zhou Yaping recalled in detail the process of his leading the production of the "Prison Song" album, he also made it clear in the article that the original singers of songs such as "Tears of the Iron Window" that were popular at that time were not Chi Zhiqiang, but Zhai Huimin.
Zhou Yaping recalled that when he first made the publication topic, he set the theme of "prison song", which actually existed very early and has been sung in the gray areas of some cities. He asked Chen Fuli of Changchun and Jia Ding and Huang Xiaomao, who were not famous at the time, to re-fill in the lyrics, and the tune was collected directly from the streets and alleys and slightly adapted.
Zhou Yaping keenly linked the prison song with Chi Zhiqiang, who had just been released, and he thought that the combination of the two could multiply the commercial effect, so he looked for Chi Zhiqiang everywhere, and finally found him in Hangzhou, the two talked and signed a contract directly, and Zhou Yaping paid a deposit of 20,000 yuan.
However, when Chi Zhiqiang entered the recording studio to start recording, Zhou Yaping found that his five tones were incomplete, and it was impossible to successfully record a song, and its effect was difficult to improve in a short period of time, and at that time, the order meeting of the prisoner song series tapes was already imminent and there was no time to spend time to train Chi Zhiqiang.
So Zhou Yaping thought of the method of transferring flowers and trees, on the one hand, he let Chi Zhiqiang record the recitation, on the other hand, he went to the northeast to find Zhai Huimin, who was only seventeen years old at the time, and he thought that only Zhai Huimin's voice could sing the prisoner song with its proper taste.
Due to the existence of competition, Zhai Huimin's offer to Zhou Yaping was high and high, from 100,000 to 500,000, and Zhou Yaping repeatedly gave in and finally even prepared to ask Li Xiaowen to record on the bench. Li Xiaowen is the original singer of "big masters love to sing".
However, the matter was finally resolved smoothly, Zhai Huimin finally completed the song recording, in addition to Li Xiaowen sang one in the male voice part of the tape, the others were sung by Zhai Huimin, the female voice part was completed by Zhang Xiuyan, and Chi Zhiqiang only retained the recitation part.
However, because Chi Zhiqiang is the most famous and most obvious on the tape, most people have attributed the singers of the albums "Tears of Regret" and "Embracing Tomorrow" to Chi Zhiqiang's name. Chi Zhiqiang did not have any explanation, Zhai Huimin did not say this publicly, and Zhou Yaping, who made money, and the audio-visual agency had no reason to say it.
Even in 2005, when Chi Zhiqiang and Zhou Yaping went to "Lu Yu Has a Date" together, lu Yu asked Zhou Yaping whether some of the songs on the album were sung by other singers, and Zhou Yaping was vague in the past, but only emphasized that these songs were Chi Zhiqiang's voice. Zhai Huimin, who watched this interview, was upset in his heart, and immediately said that he was the original singer, but he was ignored by the media because of his small words.
Until 2008, Zhou Yaping, a key figure who knew the whole process of the matter and was also an authority, published the matter in a blog post.
Because the content of What Zhou Yaping wrote is very detailed, and the facts are very clear, Chi Zhiqiang also admitted Zhou Yaping's statement in an interview, as for who knows who does not know in the middle, who knows who knows in the first and so on, the details are not important, the audience only knows that Chi Zhiqiang once again "deceived" the masses, he belongs to another form of "false singing".
In fact, for Zhai Huimin to sing on behalf of this matter, Zhou Yaping explained very clearly, that is, everything was for commercial considerations, Chi Zhiqiang's five-tone singing could not be complete, and he could only record recitations, zhai Huimin, although young but talented, his voice was very suitable for the artistic conception of "prison song", so he finally adopted chi Zhiqiang's name and Zhai Huimin's singing combination mode.
Zhou Yaping deliberately stressed to reporters that all decisions were made by himself and the leaders of the audio-visual company at that time, and for Chi Zhiqiang and Zhai Huimin, they were both victims.
For this matter, the author's opinion is that Chi Zhiqiang knows that he is not the original singer, and on many occasions he has not explained the situation, this matter is like the incident in which he was imprisoned that year, there are moral flaws, but it will not be on the line. The reason why Zhou Yaping chose to suddenly publish the truth in 2008, on the one hand, there is indeed a suspicion of taking advantage of the opportunity to hype Zhai Huimin (the two signed a contract at that time), on the other hand, Zhou Yaping's act of publishing the truth to meet the public's right to know is still worth advocating.