Fei Yuqing (born July 17, 1955), Taiwanese male artist, singer and host, real name Zhang Yanting, nicknamed "Little Brother", was born in Taipei, Taiwan, born in Tongcheng, Anqing, Anhui, the younger brother of Taiwanese host Zhang Fei and former female singer Fei Zhenya. The songs sung, including Mandarin, Taiwanese old songs and pop songs, were closed in November 2019 and retired after completing their contract work in January 2020.
Acting career
At the end of August 1972, Fei Yuqing participated in the "Star-to-Star" singing competition held by china Television Corporation and won the championship of the second stage (a total of six stages) of the competition; on March 9, 1973, he broadcast the finals, and he won the fourth place with a song "Smoke and Rain Slanting Sun", officially debuted, and became a basic singer of China Television. A month before Fei Yuqing enlisted in the army, Fei Zhenya was introduced to the famous nightclub "Dis Corner Nightclub" on Nanjing East Road in Taipei City at that time, which was well received.
In the 19th Golden Bell Awards in 1984, Fei Yuqing won the Male Singing Actor Award of the Golden Bell Awards on Television, and has since been known as the "King of Golden Bell Singers". From 1993 to 1998, Fei Yuqing co-hosted the Taiwan television variety show "Brother Dragon and Brother Tiger". In the "Variety Big Brother" program, Zhang Fei is called "Brother Fei", so Fei Yuqing is called "Little Brother". In 2006, Fei Yuqing sang "A Thousand Miles Away" with Jay Chou, and included it in Jay Chou's album "Still Fantasia" in the same year.
On September 27, 2018, Fei Yuqing issued an open letter announcing that he would officially retire in May after the 2019 World Farewell Tour (in fact, it was postponed to November due to the addition) and bid farewell to his 47-year singing career. On February 8, 2019, Fei Yuqing starred in the first farewell concert in Taipei, and issued a "declaration of sealing wheat" at the beginning of the concert, he said: "There is a big question mark for future life, it may be very wandering, or lonely days are waiting for me, and the memories you bring to me will be in the depths of my heart." On May 11 and 12 of the same year, concerts continued to be held at the Kaohsiung Dome. On November 7, Fei Yuqing completed the last farewell concert at the Taipei Arena. In the same year, due to the existing contract, he still participated in the last show "Our Song" before the closure in October, extending his acting career until January 2020 to the end of the show.
In June 2020, "A Cut of Plum" became a meme because of the Chinese mainland actor Zhang Aiqin, whose net name "Egg Brother", mistakenly sang it, and reversed into the Top 50 Brainwashing Song List of Spotify in Europe, America and New Zealand.
Personal life
Fei Yuqing graduated from Mingchuan Primary School, Yongchun Junior High School, xiehe senior industrial and commercial vocational school, the youngest (third) in the family, the older sister is Shi Hengshu (former artist Fei Zhenaya), and the older brother is the artist Zhang Fei. His father, Zhang Wuxi, a native of Tongcheng, Anhui Province, was elected to the 35th National Model Father in 2009 and died on September 21, 2017 at the age of 96. Her mother, Tan Xiuxia, a native of Anhua, Hunan, died on July 17, 2010 at the Age of 85 at the Age of 85 at the Age of 17, 2010.
Fei Yuqing once passed by marriage, in his twenties he met a Japanese actor Yasui Chie, in 1981 the two sides held an engagement ceremony in Taiwan; but Fei Yuqing went to Japan to meet the woman's parents, because the woman's parents wanted Fei Yuqing to enter the marriage and the marriage was abandoned, and since then Fei Yuqing no longer has the idea of marriage.
Performance style
sing
Fei Yuqing's early stage name was "Fei Yuqing", which was later changed to "Fei Yuqing"; before that, he always sang at a 45-degree angle. Fei Yuqing pays great attention to appearance in public, wearing a suit every time he appears on stage (before the 1980s, it was a suit or Zhongshan suit), which has never changed since his debut, so he is called a "civil servant in the show business circle".
Fei Yuqing was well known for singing "patriotic songs" and "purification songs" when he first debuted, and by 1979, when he was still in the era of the old three stations, the patriotic song "Guo En Jia Qing" (the theme song of the three radio simulcast Chinese series "Guo En Jia Qing"), Fei Yuqing's popularity was greatly expanded. Later, Fei Yuqing repeatedly obtained the singing qualification for the theme song of the eight o'clock drama of China Television, such as "a cut of plum", "porter", etc., such genres are mostly popular songs with emotional orientation.
In 1980, Fei Yuqing also released three albums of cover folk songs in overseas regions, such as Singapore and Malaysia. Two more folk albums were released in 1981. In the same period, Fei Yuqing cooperated with Tony Agency to launch an album of cover songs Chinese old songs every year.
In summary, in the process of singing, Fei Yuqing's style covers various styles such as "patriotic songs", "purification songs", "folk songs", "old songs" and "pop songs". In the pop music scene, Fei Yuqing is revered as the founding father of the revival of the traditional style of Chinese pop songs in the 20th century. His songs have a strong Chinese style and have an important influence in the Chinese area.
preside
When Fei Yuqing hosted the show, his specialty was to imitate other singers to sing, so he was called "Nine Official Birds". In the runway era, Fei Yuqing was famous for telling yellow jokes, and his ability to tell yellow jokes made him known as the "Yellow Emperor of the Show" in the show business circle. In 2012, Fei Yuqing was a judge on the Tianjin Satellite TV imitation show "The Return of the King", Fei Yuqing told a yellow joke, and the host Zhao Zhongxiang said bluntly, "I am afraid that you can't broadcast this joke, I can't pick up the conversation for the first time in so many years." After 2015, Fei Yuqing's yellow joke compilation album was widely disseminated on Chinese mainland social networks, and was called "Fei Yuzu" and "Dirty Demon King" by netizens and the media.