October 10 is Mei Yanfang's 58th birthday.
It has been 18 years since Ame died in 2003.
For so many years, there has been no large-scale commemoration like Zhang Guorong.
I really owe this "Hong Kong daughter".
In fact, Mei Fans still miss her,
Only because I am afraid of Mei Ma's pass,
So the commemorations are kept very low-key.
As soon as Mei Yanfang debuted, we became friends.
Use this article to record the little story of our relationship,
As a remembrance of her.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="143" > this gust of wind and sent her to the throne of The Queen of Heaven</h1>
Mei Yanfang participated in the first rookie singing competition in 1982.
At only 18 years old, she won the championship with Xu Xiaofeng's golden song "Season of the Wind".
Dressed in a golden suit, she began to sing the sound of everyone's "whoosh".
The voice is like a very small phoenix,
Coupled with the typhoon strength, the eyes that shocked the audience, the smooth dance steps, the starry flavor, the champion was finally her.
The gust of wind in "Season of the Wind" sent her to the throne of the queen of the music world.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="144" > my first interview with Yanfang Mei</h1>
One of the great pleasures of doing media is to test your own vision of people, predict which newcomer will become popular, and help the newcomer when he first debuts.
At that time, I took a fancy to Mei Yanfang and knew that she would become a star of tomorrow.
At that time, I was the director of an interview at a magazine called Hong Kong Weekly, so I asked the editor-in-chief to visit her.
Mei Yanfang was accompanied by her eldest brother Mei Qiming to make a visit. She was shy, unconfident, and often kept her head down.
Answering simple questions also requires looking at the big brother with a distressed look, and the big brother will nod her head and signal her to answer by herself, and Mei Yanfang will answer. When I really don't know how to answer, Brother Mei will answer on behalf of me, and Mei Yanfang will be relieved.
She later confessed that she knew that she did not study much, and she was afraid of saying the wrong thing and being disrespectful to others.
It can be seen that she trusts and relies on Big Brother Mei.
However, shortly after her debut, Brother Mei said that he wanted to open a dog farm and asked Mei Yanfang to fund him.
As a result, the dog farm lost a lot of money, and Brother Mei constantly asked Mei Yanfang for hard-earned money to pay the arrears, which made Mei Yanfang lose confidence in him and lose her sense of security.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="145" > for Ame to solve the puzzle</h1>
Near the end of the visit, she warmed up, we began to commit, and she told me about her worries.
She said that everyone pointed to her singing voice like Xu Xiaofeng, saying that Mei Yanfang was a copy of Xu Xiaofeng, and she felt that she was living in the shadow of others and worried that her style would be buried.
Many people around her have pointed out that this is her hidden worry about the development of the music scene.
I took the opposite view, telling her that the most important thing about being an artist is that the audience remembers who you are.
Xu Xiaofeng's image is healthy and her status is high, and Xu Xiaofeng's reproduction is a good label, and it is even more gospel for newcomers.
Encourage her, to make an analogy with her, we are new to writing brush words, we have to follow the copy of the word paste stroke by stroke, and slowly write our own style. The point is to work hard and constantly add value to yourself. She listened and agreed.
In this first interview, I suggested that as a singer, she should go and make her teeth whiter.
Since the 60s and 70s, many drugs contain tetracycline, the side effect of tetracycline is to make the teeth turn gray-brown, Mei Yanfang ate tetracycline in childhood, so the teeth became light gray.
It is known that her mentor Liu Peiji also said so, and before long, her teeth have become snow white and neat.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="146" > guess the holy hand Mei Yanfang</h1>
She was 4 years old in the Garden Playground to sell songs, living in the adult world, without childhood, so that there is an indelible sense of vicissitudes on her face, but in fact, she is still a little girl in her heart.
At the beginning of her career, our group of friends of more than ten people often went to a friend Du Zhenzhen's house to play, and must play guessing boxing, fifteen, twenty.
At that time, everyone was not economically stable, very frugal, and if they lost, they would not be punished with drinking, but for painting their faces. The winner draws a pattern on the loser's face with an eyebrow pencil or lipstick.
I often lost to Mei Yanfang, once she used her eyebrow pencil to draw a large butterfly on my face, and when she drew, she was like a naughty little girl, smiling and happy.
She was smart and quickly guessed what would happen to her opponent, so she won every odds and kept her face clean.
She was a guessing holy hand, and even Jackie Chan lost to her, and everyone named her a "lightning hand". Really lightning, you have lost before you have decided.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="147" > a presentation for Ame's first concert</h1>
She quickly got rid of Xu Xiaofeng's shadow. In the year after his debut, the lead singers " Heart Debt "Red Doubt" and "Hand Over My Heart" won several music awards.
Coupled with Liu Peiji's design of her versatile image, Mei Yanfang laid the foundation for her unique image and song path.
In 1985, 3 years after her debut, Mei Yanfang debuted in the Red Pavilion to open a solo concert, and 15 "Mei Yanfang Shows Glory" New Year's Eve concert.
She started singing in December, and Zhang Guorong opened her first concert in the Red Pavilion four months earlier.
At that time, Zhang Guorong asked me to make a field magazine for him. I think the field magazine should be reserved for the fans who entered the film as a souvenir, so the field magazine was made into a mini photo album, and the famous photographer Gu Cangshi was invited to take three series of very interesting photos for his brother, the effect was very good, and the reputation was very good.
Mei Yanfang read it and liked it, and when she started singing, she also asked me to do a field magazine for her.
I also asked Gu Cangshi to take 3 series of photos for her.
At that time, Mei Yanfang's work was densely packed, and in order to let her have more sleep, the photo time was extended from 12:00 noon to 3:00 pm.
First, one series of indoors should be filmed in the restaurant, and then two series outdoors, and the outdoors must be shot in daylight. In winter, the sun goes down at six o'clock, that is, there are only more than three hours of shooting, and the process is quite intense.
But Mei Yanfang is very professional, has high comprehension, and changes clothes and makeup quickly. Swinging, expressions, eyes in place, three hours to take nearly a thousand photos, each can be used.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="148" > No contraindications Mei Yanfang</h1>
Without childhood, she entered the entertainment circle, still childlike, very playful, and has no taboos.
One year, on her birthday, she had a party at Canton Disco, playing a game that turned out to be a very unlucky punch.
Tell her, today's birthday, guess other fists, she said proudly: what are you afraid of? Without restraint!
Mei Yanfang is famous for filial piety, since her debut, every year on Mei Mama's birthday, she will set up a birthday banquet for Mei Ma, I have also participated in several times, she and her sister Mei Aifang every year left and right to accompany Mei Mama to cut birthday cakes.
Since Mei Aifang passed away due to cancer, there have been few large banquets on Mei's mother's birthday.
Mei Yanfang knew that she had cancer and had been hiding it, that is, she was afraid that Mei Mama was worried.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="149" > love to be lively because they are afraid of loneliness</h1>
Fame and fortune bring her satisfaction, but also bring her sadness.
She said that someone stewed bird's nest was delivered to her home, she thought it was out of concern, but the other party told her: This bird's nest is very expensive, the price is expensive, in order to stew bird's nest for you to use up the money.
The purpose behind the concern is to ask for money, which makes Mei Yanfang's heart ache and makes her more insecure.
Mei Yanfang is just soft on the outside and soft on the inside, and when she encounters unsatisfactory things, she will only lock herself in the room alone and hide and cry. When facing everyone, she always acted happy and did not want her friends to worry.
She is extremely afraid of loneliness, so she loves to be lively, although she enjoys being surrounded by a large class of friends, and she needs that warmth. She likes to be a big sister to take care of people, so she often pulls the team to spend the night, and the family is like a club, always a large class of people.
She is arrogant and righteous, and everyone likes her, so she has many friends.
In the circle, Amei has the most respect for Liu Peiji.
The best friend is Zhang Guorong, they partner out of the port on stage, at night Amei is afraid of the dark, do not dare to sleep alone, to Zhang Guorong to accompany her until she falls asleep before leaving.
She listened to Andy Lau the most, she twisted and refused to take the medicine, the assistant will notify Andy Lau, Andy Lau opened her voice, she obediently took medicine.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="150" > Ame's Mr. Right</h1>
She owed only one man in her life, Paul Chan Chan, who was close to becoming her husband.
In 1990, Mui Yanfang made a major decision, after she completed 30 "Mui Yanfang Summer Glory Concert", she announced that she would no longer receive any awards in music, in order to give the rising star more opportunities to win awards, and she shifted her development focus to film and charity.
Remember, after she announced this shocking news, she sang "Walk Alone in My Way" in the finale.
Mei Yanfang, who was only 27 years old at the time, although she had only been famous for 8 years, don't forget that she was already singing in The Garden at the age of 4. For her part, she had been in the industry for more than twenty years, and she was tired and wanted to get out of the line of fire and organize her own home.
The object is Paul.
Paul, a few years younger than her, is a British international student, returns for summer vacations, and meets Ame in the fitness room.
At that time, Paul did not know that the plain-faced Ame in front of him was a diva of the music scene, and he chatted with Ame like an ordinary person, and the two hit it off.
When it was announced that she would not accept any music awards, she and Paul had been filming for half a year, Paul also appeared in concert, and Ame sent him the song "Hold You for Ten Centuries".
At the celebration banquet, Paul was very attentive to Ame's vegetables and shrimp shells.
Ame looked happy, and everyone was happy to find Mr Right for Ame.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="151" > owes only one man in his life</h1>
They have reached the stage of talking about marriage, Ame has also met Paul's parents, and even the wedding format has been discussed, and Ame has announced that the wedding party will be a big banquet.
They intend to marry in 1992 after paul graduates from the University of England in two years.
But her insecurity shattered the marriage.
After the summer holidays, Paul returned to the UK to continue his studies.
As soon as he left, Ame's insecurity was strange, Mei's mother went to ask God for her, Bu Wen pointed out that Paul has many girlfriends in the UK, and he is not sincere about Ame, Ame and Paul keep arguing, the two are separated by two places, the misunderstanding is deeper, and the result is a breakup.
Ame owes only one man in her life, and that is Paul.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="152" > sing from the age of 4 to the age of 40, completing the mission of the mortal world</h1>
Two months before her death, Ah Mei was on TVB's program "Mei Yanfang Really Got Together".
Speaking of love,
She said:
Man is not as good as heaven,
God has given me the love of the whole world,
The only thing was for me to lose my love, as if in exchange.
In Mei Yanfang's short 40 years of life,
Started singing at the age of 4,
Sang until his death at the age of 40,
Almost all my life on stage,
Bring the audience extraordinary performances,
Leave behind a series of good songs that have been passed down from generation to generation,
Complete her mission to fall into the mortal world.