Recently, the well-known female singer Xin Xiaoqi released a new single "Remote Delivery", to my surprise, she mentioned in the copy that this is a new song to commemorate the 35th anniversary of her debut.
What, Xin Xiaoqi debuted 35 years ago? In my impression, didn't she become famous after singing the song "Understanding" in 1994? It's only been more than 20 years, how come it's been 35 years?
Check it out, it turns out that Xin Xiaoqi debuted in 1986, and it is indeed the 35th anniversary.
Above are the primers. The protagonist of this article today is Li Zongsheng, the godfather of music.
We know that Li Zongsheng has achieved many female singers of the Tianhou level, and Xin Xiaoqi is one of them. After I got to know these female singers, I was surprised to find that they had one of the biggest things in common, that is, when they came to him, these female singers had been debuting for many years (but they were not popular or needed to break through), not the kind of young singers who had just debuted.
Believe it or not, let's review:
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="7" >1, Zhang Aijia, 32 years old, debuted 13 years</h1>
Zhang Aijia was born in 1953 and entered the show business circle in 1972. It started out as a film, and it's unclear when she started singing, but in 1981, she released her debut album, Childhood, at the Rolling Stones.
"Childhood" is Zhang Aijia's album, but it is also the early creative accumulation of producer Luo Dayou, which is expressed through Zhang Aijia. The classic of the album is unquestionable, ranking 20th in the "Taiwan Top 100 Records".
In 1985, such a 32-year-old female singer, who had been deeply branded with Luo Dayou's mark, was handed over to Li Zongsheng. At that time, Li Zongsheng had just entered the Rolling Stones, he was only 27 years old, as a newcomer, taking over such a case, the challenge was not ordinary.
Li Zongsheng created a new album "Busy and Blind" for Zhang Aijia. He downplayed the humanistic color originally given to her by Luo Dayou, integrated autobiography and role playing, and described a day for an urban woman, like a voice biographical film, which opened the trend of concept albums in the Taiwanese music scene. "Xiao Li" finally lived up to Sister Zhang, and this album ranked 19th in the "Taiwan Top 100 Records", successfully surpassing "Childhood".
More famously, many years later, Li Zongsheng once again created a new album "The Price of Love" for Zhang Aijia, and the title song of the same name became a Chinese classic. This is also the last album of Zhang Aijia's singer career.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="13" >2, Chen Shuhua, 31 years old, debuted 16 years</h1>
Born in 1958, Chen Shuhua entered the music scene as a child actress in 1973, and has joined companies such as Seisan Records and EMI, released many albums, and also worked as a host, but has not been able to make a big breakthrough. It wasn't until 15 years later, after joining the Rolling Stones, that Chen Shuhua finally waited for the person who changed her singing career, that is, Li Zongsheng, who was the same age as her.
After much deliberation, Li Zongsheng decided to change the style of the song for Chen Shuhua and reshape it in the direction of a mature woman. In 1988, I first tested her a picture of "Woman's Heart", which was the right direction.
In 1989, he devoted himself to creating a "Tell You To Hear You" album for Chen Shuhua, which was the first million-selling album in the history of Taiwanese records, which was of landmark significance. Chen Shuhua swept the song world with a song created by Li Zongsheng, "Dream Awakening Time", 31-year-old, from the previous tepid, rose to the position of Tianhou in one fell swoop, was the most popular singer of the Rolling Stones at that time, and was even known as "the Queen of Heaven in the Queen of Heaven".
Chen Shuhua's success also officially established the status of Li Zongsheng's musical godfather.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="18" >3, doll, 27 years old, debut 10 years</h1>
Born in 1964, Doll (Kim Ji-juan) debuted very early, entering the rock circle at the age of 17, forming the Qiuqiu Choir and serving as the lead singer. At the age of 18, he released his debut album with the orchestra and became popular in Taiwan with a song "Just Tonight". She has been called "the first Taiwanese rock singer".
In the following years, dolls released two albums with the orchestra, and then Singlefed out 4 albums in a personal form, always showing the image of a punk girl, but has not been able to break through the previous state in the orchestra.
Until 1991, after the doll joined the Rolling Stones, Li Zongsheng took over the doll's sixth solo album "Heavy Rain". It is through this album that he successfully transformed the rebellious image of the doll into a deep-feeling urban woman's style, especially a song "Crossing the Ocean to See You" created for her by Li Zongsheng himself, which is a classic.
The 27-year-old rock singer, who debuted 10 years ago, not only transformed successfully, but also pushed her singing career to a higher peak again.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="23" >4, Lin Yilian, 27 years old, debuted 10 years</h1> ago
Born in 1966, Lin Yilian became a DJ in 1982, signed to Xinli Records in 1983, and released her debut solo album "Lin Yilian" in 1985.
Over the next six years, Lin Yilian released 10 Cantonese albums in Hong Kong. But the impact, in the invincible song world of Mei Yanfang's dominance, she has always been powerless to resist. Since 1990, she has been in Taiwan to develop, releasing her debut Chinese album "Falling in Love with a Man Who Doesn't Go Home" on UFO Records, achieving a commercial record of 2 million copies in Asia.
Subsequently, the story of her and Li Zongsheng began. First of all, he was invited to sing with Li Zongsheng the theme song of the movie "Farewell to the Overlord" "When Love Has Become a Thing of the Past" and officially got married. Lin Yilian then joined the Rolling Stones, and Li Zongsheng began to build her next Chinese album "Don't Care Who I Am".
In 1993, the album was launched, 27-year-old Lin Yilian under the operation of Li Zongsheng, subverted the previous image, the title song of the same name "Don't care who I am" tells the helpless heart of the lonely and haggard metropolitan woman, establishing a new image of the metropolitan woman spokesperson for her. Lin Yilian's career has ushered in a new height, and the story of the two people has become more and more exciting.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="28" >5, Xin Xiaoqi, 32 years old, debuted 8 years</h1>
Xin Xiaoqi was born in 1962 and debuted in 1986 with his debut album "Lonely Winter". Until 1992, she had released four records, and her strength had been recognized in the industry, but she had been unable to open the situation in the music scene. As a lecturer in Yamaba Music Class, she already had the idea of quitting the music scene at that time.
It was at this time that Li Zongsheng found her and recommended her to sign to Rolling Stone Records.
Xin Xiaoqi stayed in rolling stones for two years, perhaps at that time Li Zongsheng's mind was on Lin Yilian, until 1994, Li Zongsheng remembered Xin Xiaoqi. He created the song "Comprehension" for her, and in the same year, the self-titled album "Comprehension" produced for her was released.
After the album was launched, it was a mess, and this song "Understanding" touched countless people, and also made the 32-year-old Xin Xiaoqi successfully turn popular in her career and gained the reputation of "healing queen".
In addition to the above female singers, in fact, the male singers created by Li Zongsheng are basically the same, such as:
Zhao Chuan, when Li Zongsheng created "I Am Ugly, But I Am Gentle" for him in 1988, Zhao Chuan was 27 years old and had formed a rock band for 6 years. In the end, Li Zongsheng successfully transformed into a "small person with a soft outer appearance" style, followed by "I finally lost you" and "I am a little bird", which made this ordinary appearance a small person into a legendary singer.
Zhang Xinzhe, who debuted as a student singer in 1987, also achieved some success, and later returned as a soldier and faced transformation and breakthroughs. In 1993, Li Zongsheng created the album "Heart Matter" for him, which became popular with a song "Love Is Like a Tide", and the reputation of the prince of love songs has only belonged to him since then.
There is also Zhou Huajian, debuted in 1984, out of singles and albums, but stumbled all the way, career did not improve, until the signing of the Rolling Stones, in 1987 Li Zongsheng produced the album "The Direction of the Heart" for him, which made the 27-year-old get attention for the first time; and Li Zongsheng later produced "Let Me Rejoice and Make Me Worry" for him again, which directly pushed Zhou Huajian to the position of the king of golden songs.
In the Chinese music scene, we have seen too many singers who debuted and became popular, but they were not popular in the back. And so many of the above singers are just the opposite, before coming to Li Zongsheng, they are basically singers who have debuted for many years without being popular or have a fixed style that is difficult to break through, and finally after Li Zongsheng's tuning and transformation, they will be reshaped one by one into the song of the king of songs.
So, let's consider a question:
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="39" > which is more difficult to win a new person or to reshape an "old man"? </h1>
Undoubtedly, the latter is more difficult.
The new person is a blank piece of paper, strong plasticity, there are more possibilities, the new person is also more obedient, you want to get how to get it. After the launch of the market, it also has a fresh feeling for fans and is more acceptable;
The "old man" is different, ta debuted for many years, the style is basically fixed, the plasticity is weak, and the tuning is even hindering. For example, Zhao Chuan once resisted Li Zongsheng's setting of him, and Li Zongsheng was anxious to kneel down to him at one point.
For these "old people", the unchanged words are waiting for death, and the changed words may be looking for death (not classless, the market does not accept). Therefore, the average company would rather support new people than spend time on a tepid "old man". Because the probability of the former becoming popular is much greater than that of the latter. Whether you have never been red, or you have encountered a bottleneck after being red, after many years of transformation and turning red and ushering in the peak, this possibility is really unlikely, but Li Zongsheng has helped others to do it again and again.
Therefore, taking over the "old man" singer, whether it can be successfully transformed is quite a test of the ability of a producer (creator). At this point, we can't help but admire Li Zongsheng's greatness as the "godfather of music".