The Hong Kong and Taiwan pop music of the 1980s was the musical enlightenment of many people who had passed the age of establishment. Today, these melodies still have an impact.
However, tracing back to the source, many familiar melodies are cover songs from the Japanese version. While the originality is relatively scarce, but it is necessary to meet people's growing demand for musical culture, cover songs have become a unique historical product of the Hong Kong pop music scene.
Among them, the male singer with the largest proportion of cover songs is Koji Tamaki, while the female singer must mention Miyuki Nakajima. Well-known singers such as Faye Wong, Xin Xiaoqi, Zhen Ni, Mao Amin, and Xu Xiaofeng have all covered the works of Miyuki Nakajima.
Miyuki Nakajima, a Japanese singer of the highest rank, has also left a strong mark on the Chinese music scene.
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For contemporary young people, the name Miyuki Nakajima may be a little unfamiliar. However, even if you haven't heard her singing, I believe you have heard a copy of her Chinese.
For example, Faye Wong's "Vulnerable Woman", Fan Weiqi's "The First Dream", Ren Xianqi's "Tianya", Liu Renying's "Originally You Were Here", including one of Teresa Teng's most representative Cantonese works, "Walking the Road of Life".
These popular songs are all translated from Miyuki Nakajima.
Miyuki Nakajima is probably the Japanese singer who has been covered the most by the Chinese music scene, so in recent years there has been a saying on the Internet that "Miyuki Nakajima feeds most of the Chinese music scene".
Although the statement is slightly exaggerated, Miyuki Nakajima, who has been bound to music all her life, has become a legend in the music world with her extraordinary strength and talent.
Up to now, she has released more than 40 albums, composed more than 500 songs, of which more than 70 have been covered by Hong Kong and Taiwan singers, and even become famous works of many Hong Kong and Taiwan singers. So even listeners who don't know her will have a sense of déjà vu.
Once upon a time, Fan Weiqi's "First Dream" resounded throughout the streets. "If pride is not photographed by the cold of the real sea, how can you know how to work harder to go far" Yao Ruolong refilled the words, inspiring and high breath to inspire every listener.
The original version of the song was "Riding on the Back of the Silver Dragon.". Once the theme song of the hit Japanese drama "Goto Doctor Clinic", it is very different from the romantic mythological appearance of the song title, where "Silver Dragon" alludes to the doctor's scalpel.
"Riding on the back of the silver dragon, flying in the air, flying to the sand desert of destiny" The artistic conception is magnificent and magnificent, free and heroic. Miyuki Nakajima's soft singing voice does not lose its strength, and the atmosphere created is solemn and domineering, with reverence for life, respect for doctors, and love for dreams.
Miyuki Nakajima's songs are not only available in Chinese, but also in Cantonese cover versions.
Teresa Teng's "Walking the Road of Life", a Cantonese-singing voice, condenses the feeling of life into each note. "Enjoying the snow in the wind, enjoying the flowers in the fog, happy to swirl, no need to calculate" Life is always frustrated and lonely, but you can't forget to start again.
Compared with Cantonese, the original Japanese version of "Habit of Solitude" shows a different attitude. The song was written and sung by Miyuki Nakajima herself. "Although we once loved each other, now we have flowed into the sea of separation", using rain as an image to tell the loneliness and bitterness in the hearts of separated lovers. The roundabout and gentle singing voice makes it difficult for people to calm down for a long time...
As a Japanese temple singer, Miyuki Nakajima is also a first-line singer against domestic cover singers. Such as Tianhou Faye Wong, "Vulnerable Woman" has resounded in all corners of Hong Kong. The ethereal singing voice is deeply unforgettable, and Faye Wong also quickly became popular, standing at the top of the Hong Kong music scene overnight.
The original Japanese version is "Lipstick", which is different from the remake of love, but here depicts the complex state of mind of the wine girl. "Every time you put on lipstick, your heart will have more than one point" The lights are red and green, and the original heart has long been stained by the environment. It's hard to say. Miyuki Nakajima sang the depth of her life with a mellow singing voice.
Although Miyuki Nakajima's fame in the mainland is not very high, through the blessing of these first-line cover singers, it also gives us an outlet to know her. The unique voice, talent, and charm of Miyuki Nakajima, few people can resist.
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In fact, what represents Miyuki Nakajima is far more than those cover songs that are red to other countries.
Her subject matter is extremely extensive, such as bitterness, rock and roll, worldly human feelings, poetry and speech, the politics of the times, the philosophy of life... Wait a minute. There is no shortage of masterpieces in every style.
The musical style is changeable, which contains her reflections on the world. From the sad love song that was the main line of writing at the beginning to the discussion of human nature in the later stage, the lyrics became sharper and the intention became more profound.
When she first debuted, Miyuki Nakajima created this time-honored "Era" that has endured to this day.
People who embark on a long journey
It is because I firmly believe that I will be able to see my hometown again one day
So even if you fall to the ground tonight
Push the door and get out, too
The background of the environment is that Japan is in an economic crisis, and people in a depressed social environment are full of indifference. And this song by Miyuki Nakajima contains upward power. Countless frustrated listeners were deeply soothed by Miyuki Nakajima's singing.
In-depth works such as "Give Me a Lie Forever". Takuro Yoshida asked Miyuki Nakajima for a song when his creative power was exhausted, and the request was "a song like a suicide note".
Even if you are asked over and over again, "Why"
Please also be sure to shake it off
It's as dashing as the wind
After the failure of the left-wing movement, those students who lost their future were in a difficult situation. Miyuki Nakajima took a humanistic point of view and composed this memory into the lyrics. The somber style hides her delicate and compassionate mood.
In the depiction of emotions, Miyuki Nakajima also has a unique perspective.
Released in 1992, "Line" is still counted as a wedding must-have.
The vertical line is you, the horizontal line is me
Intertwined cloth, one day there may be someone
Will be protected from harm
The feelings of two people are cleverly compared to intertwined lines, vividly and figuratively unfolding the delicate relationship between lovers. Miyuki Nakajima's delicate singing voice dyes this surging emotion to the extreme. The words are full of tenderness, affection and timelessness. The listener is touched by its gentle colors.
In addition to memorization and love, Miyuki Nakajima also has a large number of songs, such as this "Bamboo Song".
From green to yellow to green with the flag that is constantly changing
Unpredictable, never fade
Listen to nature and admire its beauty. Profound insight has given her sensual literary accomplishment, and she has given pure emotion to life, in the music world of Miyuki Nakajima, she can always see the macroscopic with small and macroscopic, leaving people with endless reverie and aftertaste.
Taiwanese poet Zeng Shumei once said in her book "The Weeping Soul": "The lyrics that Miyuki picked up with her hands are like snowflakes floating in the palm of her hand, and they are about to disappear in a flash, very affectionate and sad."
In The musical world of Miyuki Nakajima, the touch of those lives can be transformed into beautiful things and personalities such as silver dragons, flowers, clear streams, sky, and sea, and stored in musical notes. There are wandering and lost, there are also inspirational upwards, there are emotional sighs, and there are also rational depths.
Therefore, she is like a treasure in the music world.
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Miyuki Nakajima began to be exposed to music at an early age, began to learn piano at the age of 5, and tried to compose music in the second grade of elementary school, this bold idea was supported by her family, but the repertoire she made was evaluated as worthless by the teacher at the time, but Miyuki did not interrupt her dream because of this, but became more diligent.
In 1970, Miyuki Nakajima was admitted to the Department of Chinese Literature at the Faculty of Letters of Fuji Women's University, and came from the National Literature Class, which can be seen in her literary skills. He later participated in the National Song and Music Festival, and officially debuted a few years later. As a singer, I began to bond with music for a lifetime.
As the first hall-of-fame song in the Japanese music scene to span four generations, she was not only very popular in the 80s, but also has many fans today, and the number is still increasing.
As a singer, her style is not limited, in addition to winning numerous awards, she has also received 6 songs that have entered Japanese secondary school textbooks, and as a poet, she has published 14 novels, short story collections and poems from the 1980s to the present.
Her music is suitable for all ages, and the fan base is not limited to the batch when she debuted, from the elderly to the elderly, down to the young people in their twenties and thirties, who are her loyal fans.
Perhaps it is the continuous thinking and exploration of life and life that can write such a profound and popular work. People of all levels, ages, can find resonance in her songs.
This is also the reason why Miyuki Nakajima has stood in the Japanese music scene for more than 40 years and is still loved by everyone, she is the evergreen tree of the music world, the queen of Japanese halls of fame, and the musician who has a profound influence on the mainland music scene.