On the day of February 5th, in the early morning, I watched the shrimp music to say goodbye, and finally waited for "Lonely Taste" to go online during the day and afternoon to watch it quickly, and when I finished watching "Lonely Taste", it was already dinner time.
Fan Xiao Yu sent a message saying that Shen Yan, who sang "A String of Hearts", has passed away!
Uncle Feng chuckled in his heart, Shen Yan, who sang "Stepping on the Waves", died?! I remember that she left the music scene very early, and now she is almost 60 years old.
This kind of news, or have to go to Weibo, get the news, is certain.
This photo of Shen Yan is basically used on the Internet, but in fact, this photo is not beautiful.
At present, the news summarized is that Zhang Beixin, a female singer who was in the same record company as Shen Yan, recently posted that some artist friends have passed away, and they are very reluctant. Someone ran to ask her if she was Shen Yan? Zhang Beixin did not answer.
Shen Yan's friend Zhang Beixin is different from her path, taking a more lively and wild route.
And Jiang Ling, who belonged to the same Golin Records Company as Shen Yan and was also a red jade female singer, also said that she had heard about this matter. Jiang Ling's representative work "My Little Sister" is also the heroine of Hou Xiaoxian's third directorial work, "Grass on the River".
The last to confirm the news is the agent of the artist Yang Qinghuang, the agent said that these days Yang Qinghuang and American friends chatted, only to learn that Shen Yan died peacefully in his sleep before Christmas in 2020, at the age of 60, and only knows that the cause of death may be related to the heart.
Yang Qinghuang is also a famous singer and actor, unlike Shen Yan and Jiang Ling, who left the show business early after getting married, Yang Qinghuang is still doing acting work, and his most recent work is Taiwan's highest-grossing suspense blockbuster "Falling: Zong Evil 2" in 2020.
Yang Qinghuang was also popular in the mainland at that time.
Shen Yan was born in 1960, his original name was Zhou Meilin, in fact, this name is also very good. She made her debut at the age of 19 when she attended a training class for China Television. The stage name Shen Yan takes the meaning of "sinking fish and falling geese" (Shen is the original character of Shen). At that time, the singers were all going to visit the "old three Taiwan" docks in Taiwan, Shen Yan was a graduate of the Huashi training class, belonged to the basic singers of Huashi, of course, he was praised by Huaxing, and the record contract was signed to the very powerful Gelin Records of that year.
How good was Gorin back then? Although Teresa Teng signed to the international major record company Poly Golden Family's Polydor at that time, the records in Taiwan could only be released by Golin, so at that time her album had two versions, the Taiwan Geling version, and the overseas Polaroid version.
Teresa Teresa's "If I Were True" Golin edition.
When Shen Yan first entered Gelin, Gelin's eldest sister was Feng Feifei, who had just released the famous album "Geese in Linxiao", which was the royal singer of Qiong Yao's film at that time.
At that time, Liu Wenzheng, the first male singer, had just left Gelin and switched to Tony Agency.
At that time, singers made records, more or less related to movies, especially literary and art films. Ge Lin's first album "Treading the Waves" for Shen Yan is actually a collection of songs from the movie "I Step on the Waves".
From the cover of "Treading the Waves", it can be seen that Shen Yan was taking the route of healthy youth and dream girls at that time.
This "I Came on the Waves", although not a Qiong Yao movie, is indeed a film in the Qiong Yao style love movie trend at that time, and the planner is also Qiong Yao's royal director Liu Lili, starring Qin Han, Lin Fengjiao and child star Ou Di (not the later Ou Hansheng). Shen Yan also made a cameo appearance and appeared at the bottom of the poster.
Shen Yan belongs to the kind of singer who became popular in the first song of his debut, and the lyrics of "Treading waves" are also the two most commonly used by Qiong Yao, the composer is Gu Yue (that is, Mr. Zuo Hongyuan), and the lyrics are Zhuang Nu.
"Stepping on the Waves" was sung in the streets and alleys where there were Chinese people.
Speaking of the popularity of "Treading Waves" in the mainland, it is necessary to say that Zhu Fengbo, the famous singer who first introduced this song to the mainland. Teacher Zhu Fengbo is the founding father of modern Chinese pop music. In the early 1980s, she introduced Taiwanese campus songs to mainland listeners, covered many works of taiwanese folk songs, in 1980, she produced a tape of taiwanese campus songs in Guangzhou Pacific Video, called "My Love Poems", the first song on the B side of this tape, is "Treading waves", many people still think that this song is really a Taiwan campus song (in fact, it is not a song of the Taiwan folk song era, but the fresh and simple style is more similar)
In addition, Zhu Fengbo also sang Shen Yan's "I Stepped on the Waves" in the first song of the "Light Question" album released at the same time.
However, no one thought that the song "Treading the Waves" would take two 20 years to affect two different generations of listeners.
In January 2000, 2000, 20 years after the advent of "Treading the Waves", Xu Huaiyu, a taiwanese idol singer who was very popular at the time, put "Treading the Waves" in the last song in her "LOVE" album and adapted it into a dance style, but she did not expect that this song had been circulating in the mainland for many years, and its popularity was even no less than Xu Huaiyu's "I Am a Girl" and other divine songs. The younger generation has not heard of Shen Yan's version of "Treading waves", and most of them know this song through Xu Huaiyu.
Xu Huaiyu's 20 years have also experienced ups and downs, she came back to the mainland to perform, the stage effect is the best, and the must-sing of each performance is the square dance divine song "Treading waves".
In January 2018, Xu Huaiyu participated in the mainland variety show "Extraordinary Change" and became a "legendary singer", and the "honorable singer" Iklam on the stage sang an adapted version of "Treading Waves".
Xu Huaiyu was also surprised to hear that he was going to sing this song.
At that time, Zhao Yingjun, who was a guest, still stood up and shouted Anke, three years later, Brother Xiao was no longer there, may he rest in peace.
Uncle Feng also has a Polydor record of "The Song of Shen Yan", which is actually an overseas version of "Treading Waves".
In 1980, Shen Yan released an album in Gelin called "Here", but to be honest, these songs were tailor-made for the jade female singers of the time, and they still sound quite the same.
Polydon's overseas version of "Here".
In 1980, because of her beautiful appearance, Shen Yan became an actress who was competing in the Taiwanese film circle and acted in several love movies.
This "Flowers Flying Flowers and Dancing Spring Full City" is about the marriage and love concept of young people in Taiwan at that time, starring Shen Yan and Li Liqun, who was still very young at the time, and Jiang Houren, who later became a first-line student in Taiwan television.
Shen Yan's beauty really belongs to the dream type, but at that time, Qiong Yao's movie had already begun to decline, otherwise she should be a heroine type that her aunt liked very much.
This "Heartache" is a kind of Republic of China tragic movie, Shen Yan plays a woman with a miserable fate, but such a role must be controlled by an acting actress like Lu Xiaofen, and Shen Yan is still thin. Of course, the theme song "Sea Goose" is also sung by Shen Yan.
The comedy film "One Line, Two Stars Attack" is actually a movie about young policemen, and it is a political propaganda drama. The film was one of the few feature films in Taiwan's provincial film studios at that time, which was mainly documentary, and many popular Taiwanese stars participated in the performance, including Shen Yan.
In the comedy film "The Good Period Turns the Heavens Upside Down", Shen Yan and Ah B Zhong Zhentao play a married couple, and it took four tosses before they finally got married.
Shen Yan has many scenes in the film wearing a wedding dress, and she was only 20 years old at the time.
At that time, Zhong Zhentao was very popular in Taiwan, and his partners were all popular actresses.
At that time, Zhong Zhentao and Shen Yan cooperated more, and the two also performed on the same stage in Hong Kong and became singers of the same record company. After that, A B's Wenna Five Tigers also cooperated with Shen Yan in a Hong Kong-Taiwan co-production film "Ghost Horse Five Lucky Stars".
In 1981, Shen Yan signed a record contract in Taiwan to Zongyi Records, a record company that had a close relationship with Hou Xiaoxian of Ah Xiaogu, and a few years later Hou Xiaoxian also made a "Nile Daughter" for Yang Lin, a female singer who was praised by Zongyi.
As soon as he entered the roundup, Shen Yan starred in the film "Bouncing a String of Hearts", written by Hou Xiaoxian and directed by Chen Kunhou, with partners Zhong Zhentao, Gao Lingfeng and Huang Zhongkun. This movie is average, but shen Yan's theme song "A String of Hearts" for this movie has become her masterpiece.
Overseas edition published by Warner.
Immediately after, Shen Yan and Zhong Zhentao also starred in Hou Xiaoxian's screenplay, Chen Kunhou's "Pretty Like Colorful Butterflies Flying", Shen Yan once again put on a wedding dress and A B to play a couple. This movie was actually a typical Qiongyao-style romance film at that time, but Hou Xiaoxian and Chen Kunhou integrated a lot of realistic elements into the movie, which was more cannibalistic fireworks.
Shen Yan also published an album of the same name with the film.
But shen yan did not act after acting in the movie "Girls' School" in 1982.
In 1982, Taiwan's "Old Third Station" variety show was also in a fight, and Shen Yan, as the host, hosted a large-scale variety show named after her on Taiwan Television, "Geese in the Forest", but this program only lasted for half a year before stopping.
Shen Yan's "Light Sorrow" album published that year sang the theme song of the same name of "Wild Goose in the Forest".
At that time, a young man named Hu Zixiong from Miaoli served as Shen Yan's assistant host, and they often performed short plays together.
This young man named Hu Zixiong was the later presiding king Hu Gua. On February 5, when the news of Shen Yan's death came, Hu Gua was having a New Year's dinner with the media, and he was very shocked and said: "I miss her very much, thank her for her." ”。
In 1983, Shen Yan sang the theme song and interlude for liu Jiachang's film "Hanjiang Autumn Water", which was the first collaboration between the two sisters Zhen Zhen (Zhang Jiazhen) and Yin Xia (Zhang Jiaxing). Yinxia is also a jade female singer with the same name as Shen Yan and Jiang Ling.
In 1984, Shen Yan published a "Castle in the Heart" and then left Zongyi Company.
That year, Yang Lin, a new generation of jade female singers of Zongyi Company, became popular, and although Yang Lin and Shen Yan, who were also known as jade women, were only five years apart, they were already two generations apart.
Two years later, in 1986, Shen Yan published the "Four Seasons" album on Guangmei Records, which obviously matured a lot.
After that, Shen Yan, who was only 27 years old at the time, completely left the show business circle, moved to the United States and got married, opened a flower shop, gave birth to two children, and completely cut off contact with the show business circle.
Years later, Taiwan's PolyGon integrated Poly One Records, and Universal Records acquired Poly Gold. In 2001, Universal authorized Continental to produce a global superstar cross-century singing series and published CDs and tapes. Because "Treading Waves" is too popular, Shen Yan was named "Treading Wave Elf" in this series. But in fact, this selection does not have "Treading the Wave" at all, because the copyright of "Treading the Wave" is in the hands of Golin Records, and although Golin has not released a record, it actually still exists, because there are still a lot of classic record rights in the hand to live.
This selection is actually all songs copyrighted by Zongyi, but not even "A String of Hearts"!
It wasn't until 2005 that Ge Lin, who held the ace in his hand, finally made a move, publishing a compilation album called "Meet Shen Yan Here", a double CD containing 38 songs (including three accompaniments), of course, the first song of this set of records, is "Treading waves".
In 2009, Gelin released a cheap version of the Gelin Superstar Classic Replica Disc series, and Shen Yan ranked no. 22 in this series, including 15 songs.
I think the best memorial to Shen Yan is to publish a replica of the "Treading Waves" and "A String of Hearts" albums, and I hope this wish can be fulfilled!
Text/Falling Wind
The picture in this article comes from the network.