The mainland music scene in the 1980s was also an era of dragon and tiger fighting.
At that time, music creators already understood the combination of Chinese and foreign countries, which was the standard of popular fashion.
Zhang Guorong's "Monica" and Xu Guanjie's "Japanese Doll" are standard fashion pop songs.
(Chen Rujia)
I remember that a domestic singer Chen Rujia also sang a song "Annie in the Heart", which is also a similar song.
In the 1980s, the popularity of Hong Kong and Taiwan was so, in fact, the mainland music scene was not to be outdone, especially the music scene in Guangdong, which successively launched well-known singers such as Mao Ning, Chen Rujia and Liao Baiwei.
Chen Rujia said today, you may not know, but you must know the songs he sang.
Mao Ning sang "Crooked Moon" and "Late Autumn", he was the original singer.
But his more classic songs are "Love in the Old Garden" and "Cow Herding at Dusk".
Chen Rujia is also one of the few singers in China who can sing Yodel, and he has sung well.
When I overheard "Anne in the Heart" again, I couldn't help but sigh that the mainland popular music at that time was also at the forefront of the Renaissance.
Bold words, Chinese and Foreign lyrics, straightforward language, no longer euphemistic.
Maybe that's the outbreak of silence, we have been troubled by the white gray age for a long time, then use more colors to decorate the boring everyday.
So flared pants, Teresa Teng, Liu Wenzheng, Xu Xiaofeng and other literary and artistic elements quickly occupied the world of young people.
Zhang Xing sang "Late", Zhang Qiang covered "The Little Girl Under the Street Lamp", and Chen Rujia covered "Down the Current".
(Chen Rujia and music friends)
After listening to Chen Rujia's cover of "Down the Current and Against the Current", many people felt that this young man sang very his own characteristics, so they called him Xu Xiaofeng's second, or Xu Xiaofeng, who was many lovers.
Chen Rujia, who was born in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, has a pair of melancholy eyes, that personality full of personality of the plane head, from an aesthetic point of view is definitely a handsome singer.
After graduating from high school, he joined the 80s fashionable light orchestra and got a good workout.
Although not from a musical family, Chen Rujia has a strong ability to learn on his own, and during his time in the Red Cotton Light Music Team, he constantly borrowed, studied and observed the singing methods of other singers.
Later, Chen Rujia went to the song hall in Zhuhai as a resident singer, and through hard work, she also accumulated a lot of popularity.
But one boss suggested to him that if he wanted to break through his own red, he had to go to Shenzhen to develop.
In 1984, Chen Rujia went to Shenzhen and sang through the introduction of friends between major song halls, bars and cafes.
It was at that time that he became famous for imitating and singing "Down the Current", and it is said that many Hong Kong fans also fell for his cover version and wanted to come to see him.
After becoming popular, Chen Rujia also joined the art troupe, and performed with the troupe in Europe and other places, looking at his photos at that time, he was happy like a child.
In 1987, after singing for many years, he finally released his first music MTV album "Popular 88, Chen Rujia's Song".
Because of Chen Rujia's fame, he was also invited by the producer of the Hong Kong ATV TV series to sing the theme song, which shows how popular he is.
By 1988, he also won the Most Popular Singer Award of the Shenzhou Dragon and Phoenix Song Contest, and his popularity increased greatly.
Shenzhen's song world has such an excellent singer, Shenzhen TELEVISION naturally will not let go, so he chose to participate in the CCTV Youth Song Competition, and finally he won the first place in popular singing with "Love in the Old Garden" and cover of Qi Qin's "The Outer World".
In 1989, Chen Rujia appeared on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, sang "Love in the Old Garden", and won the title of the top ten singers in the country.
Chen Rujia has really become popular throughout the country since then, and the song "Love in the Old Garden" has also been sung by everyone, and it is also his proudest representative work in the future.
At the age of 24, he is already a famous singer in the country and has become a dazzling star in the Guangdong music scene.
In 1988, Chen Rujia sang a song "May You Keep Your Heart", although it could not be compared with the popularity of "Love in the Old Garden".
But after a Hong Kong singer, Wong Kai-qin, overheard his singing, she decided to cover it and changed the title to "Late Autumn".
Huang Kaiqin's Cantonese version of "Late Autumn" has made him really gain a firm foothold in the Hong Kong music scene, in fact, he also has a credit to Chen Rujia.
Later, Mao Ning also covered the Chinese version of "Late Autumn", which quickly became popular, and many people thought it was his original song.
In addition, the famous song "Crooked Moon", the first song was Chen Rujia, but the producer at the time, Li Haiying, felt that he was not singing properly, so he found Liu Huan to sing.
But listening to Chen Rujia's version of "Crooked Moon" today is just as beautiful, and it is a little more clear innocence.
In 1993, Chen Rujia, who was tired for many years, had a decline in physical fitness, fell seriously ill, and failed to fall in love.
(Chen Rujia and Mao Ning)
Under the persuasion of his mother, he went to Australia to join his brother, help him take care of the business, and also study music at the same time.
Chen Rujia's departure also created better conditions for Mao Ning, Yang Yuying and others to become popular, and many mainland singers became popular around 1994, such as Lin Yilun, Li Chunbo, Gao Linsheng, Na Ying, Luo Zhongxu, Sun Yue, Wang Ziming and others.
It can be said that Chen Rujia was a leading figure in the mainland music scene at that time, but unfortunately, the "overseas wind" had an impact on his star path.
In 1999, on the stage of the commemorative concert of the 20th anniversary of the Guangdong music scene, Chen Rujia announced her comeback with an old song "Crooked Moon".
But he left the music scene for a few years, and he has already made new people, and he seems to have become unfamiliar with this music scene.
After returning, Chen Rujia became more busy, and various announcements and performances continued, whether it was CCTV, satellite TELEVISION, or the scene of commercial activities and public welfare activities, you can hear his singing.
However, since 2004, everyone has not been able to find Chen Rujia.
Just under everyone's speculation, in 2005, his family broke out that Chen Rujia had died of illness.
And it has been more than a year since his death, it turned out that Chen Rujia died of a myocardial infarction at home on January 12, 2004, coincidentally, it happened to be the funeral day of Hong Kong superstar Mui Yanfang.
Chen's family did not disclose the news of his death at that time, perhaps just to deal with the aftermath in a low-key manner, but Chen Rujia was a public figure before his death, and in the face of everyone's doubts, he still published the truth.
Classic years, the song flows.
When we sing "Late Autumn" and "Crooked Moon", do we still know that there is a singer named Chen Rujia?
These songs turned out to be sung by him.
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