When it comes to singers who are good at singing and dancing in the Hong Kong music scene, there are not many who can be called "Hong Kong dance kings", I believe that the first thing that comes to everyone's mind is either Aaron Kwok or Du Dewei. But in fact, before Guo Tianwang became popular, there was a singer who also had the reputation of "Hong Kong Dance King", and his dancing skills were not lost in the city at all, he was Zhang Liji; unfortunately, at the peak of his career, he buried a good acting future due to emotional problems, and sighed!
Zhang Liji, who has not appeared in public for a long time, rarely gave an exclusive interview to Hong Kong media on the evening of June 23 to expose his latest situation. In the picture, only to see the 53-year-old Zhang Liji dressed in Hip Hop hip hop, the whole person is a circle fatter than when he was young, and the middle-aged fortune is obvious. In an interview, Zhang Liji revealed that he is "a leisurely retiree now"; he was asked "have you changed your (retirement) ideas"? He reluctantly responded, "I don't want to be singing 'Electric Girl' until I'm seventy." In fact, as early as last month (May) Zhang Liji appeared in the singer's girlfriend Li Yufei online concert, he revealed that he retired at the end of the year at the latest (2021)!
Born in 1967, Zhang Liji registered for the "First Future Idol Competition" of ATV in 1986 and made his debut in one fell swoop, and because of his superior dance skills and good musical potential, he was given the opportunity to study in Japan. In fact, Zhang Liji was already famous before signing up for the draft, and he joined Li's dance training class as a student as early as 1979, when he was only 12 years old. Later, Li's dance group was disbanded, and Zhang Liji transferred to Haicheng Nightclub to dance (there was no red hall at that time), and served as an accompaniment dancer for the artists in the circle, performing with the singer Ye Liyi all over the world, and her dance skills were quite recognized!
Perhaps it is the accumulation of stage experience in the past 7 years that Zhang Liji easily broke through successfully in participating in the idol competition, signed a contract as a singer under EMI Records, and successively released four albums. After the appointment with ATV, through the introduction of Jackie Chan manager Chen Ziqiang in 1990, he switched to wireless Tvb, and launched the "When the wine is over" album in the same year, of which the title song "Electric girl" was extremely popular, dominating the major music charts, obtaining "three platinum" sales, and climbing to the peak of his career!
Unfortunately, Zhang Liji just made a name for himself, but suddenly disappeared into the music world, without a trace, and the outside world rumored that he encountered emotional problems and was mentally trapped, and once depressed and had the idea of taking his own life. Years later, Zhang Liji was invited to the show by the "fat mother" Maria, and on the occasion of the millennium, he announced his comeback and released the record "Snake Dance", but the response was average and the comeback was not large. In a wireless interview program, Zhang Liji tearfully said the truth of "Shen Yin" for many years, it turned out that he was deceived by his girlfriend outside the circle, "people and money are empty" depressed to the extreme, so he hid in Shenzhen to heal his emotional wounds, and he hid for 8 years!
Before this, Zhang Liji had a pure first love relationship with the star Ye Yuqing. When the two met in Wei, when Ye Yuqing was dancing with Heyin and Zhang Liji in Haicheng, the two young people felt sorry for each other and came together to hug each other for warmth. In an interview, Zhang Liji recalled that "she (Ye Yuqing) did not like to talk and socialize in private, and her personality was introverted and relatively pure", which was diametrically opposed to her own personality of loving to play and love the whole deception, and a pair of small couples with complementary personalities stayed in Haicheng for a long time to chase dreams.
In 1985, Ye Yuqing suddenly wanted to participate in the first "Asian Sister" beauty contest, although her boyfriend Zhang Liji did not approve, but she saw her girlfriend's love for the stage, so she accompanied her as a dancer to perform talent performances, and finally won the third place title. The following year (1986), Zhang Liji also signed up for the ATV Idol Championship to follow his girlfriend's footsteps, and the two were still dragging after entering the show business together. However, as Zhang Liji and Ye Yuqing became more and more busy in their acting careers, the two gathered less and more, and their feelings became weaker, and finally broke up.
After the former couple broke up, each of them found their own happiness, Ye Yuqing married Hu Zhaoming, a wealthy Chinese-American businessman, and gave birth to three children for her husband's family, and after marriage, the family moved to the United States to live. After Zhang Liji met someone unladylike, he met singer Li Yufei, and the two fell in love for many years with stable feelings and no marriage plans. After half a lifetime, 53-year-old Zhang Liji has encountered love scenes, depressed suicide, brilliant and low tide, this decision to retire, is not known whether it is gain or loss! (Picture source network, infringement must be deleted)