Maybe many friends have not heard the name of Zhang Mingmin, many friends may not be familiar with it, but he sang "My Chinese Heart", "We have a name called China" everyone must have heard, he is the first person in Hong Kong, China to board the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, but also the first person to open a concert in Chinese mainland, but what you can't imagine is that before the Spring Festival Gala, Zhang Mingmin was just an amateur singer, and today I will tell you the story of Zhang Mingmin.
Zhang Mingmin, born in Hong Kong in September 1956, he likes to sing since he was a child, and his dream of growing up is to become a singer, but the ideal is beautiful, the reality is cruel, Zhang Mingmin participated in countless singing competitions, but did not achieve good results, forced to make a living, Zhang Mingmin became a small electrician in a watch factory.
In February 1983, Zhang Mingmin was invited by the Hong Kong Youth Federation to record "My Chinese Heart", and there is such a story about the song "My Chinese Heart", and in 1980, Deng Xiaoping and Mrs. Thatcher began to talk about the return of Hong Kong to 1997. Under such a happy event, The owner of Eternal Records with a strong sense of patriotism, Tang Bingheng, believes that this is an opportunity that cannot be missed, and at this time, some patriotic songs should be sung to narrow the distance between Hong Kong and the mainland, and he found a Hong Kong ghost Huang Zhun to fill in the lyrics Chinese. At that time Chinese the price of filling in words was much lower than in Cantonese, and although Huang Zhun offered the same price as Cantonese, Deng Bingheng agreed without hesitation.
At that time, there was no market for this kind of main theme song in Hong Kong, so no one was willing to sing, Zhang Mingmin volunteered to record the song in the past, and then returned to work in the factory, in 1984 Zhang Mingmin sang this song again at the invitation of Huang Yihe, the director of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, Zhang Mingmin used his mellow and metallic magnetic voice to successfully interpret the love of the world's Yanhuang Descendants for the motherland, making countless overseas Chinese surging and boiling. Zhang Mingmin became a hit in the mainland with this song, and this performance has become a milestone in the course of his life.
However, the mainland entertainment industry at that time was not prosperous, after recording the Spring Festival Gala, Zhang Mingmin returned to Hong Kong to develop, but in Hong Kong, Zhang Mingmin was still an ordinary person. At that time, the Hong Kong music scene was still the world of Tan Zhang Meichen, Zhang Mingmin wanted to change his career as an actor, but he was bluntly said by a director that he was not acting material, and finally had no choice but to return to the factory to work.
In the early 1990s, Zhang Mingmin gave up singing and started business, opened dance halls, bars, and worked as an advertising company, but all ended in bankruptcy, fortunately, with "My Chinese Heart", Zhang Mingmin made a lot of money in the mainland, until recent years, Zhang Mingmin became the executive director of a biotechnology listed company in Hong Kong, living a worry-free life.
Today, Zhang Mingmin is not only an executive director of a listed company, but also a deputy to the National People's Congress. In addition, he is also a member of the Guangxi CPPCC Committee, a director of the Beijing Overseas Friendship Association, etc., and I have to say that the song "My Chinese Heart" has changed his life. Now his career is smooth, the family is living a happy and happy life, and he is a winner in a proper life.