In 1998, Hong Kong and Taiwan star Andy Lau sang the song "Great China" on the spring evening of CCTV, which became popular overnight, and since Hua Tsai sang this song, "Great China" has become a song that is being praised in the streets and alleys of China, and what many people do not know is that in the fourth year after the song was officially famous, its original author had died
Gao Feng, formerly known as Zeng Yanchi, Chinese mainland singer and independent musician, has composed song lyrics for many well-known singers in China, and Andy Lau's famous "Stupid Child" is Gao Feng's representative work
Gao Feng before the age of 20, for music do not know anything, because from childhood like art and sculpture, Gao Feng's parents sent him to a special interest training class for further study, in 1986, Gao Feng was admitted to the Central Institute of Arts and Crafts with excellent results, majoring in sculpture, after entering the university, Gao Feng had more time and resources to see new things, and it was in that year that Gao Feng first came into contact with domestic popular music and lyrics, and had a very strong interest in this art
In 1990, Gao Feng graduated from university, with an excellent condition and love for music, was valued by Su Yue, signed as a musician of the brokerage company, but the development of Gao Feng who first entered the music industry was not smooth, after becoming a signed musician, Gao Feng's inexperienced shortcomings were also exposed, because there was no band experience, even the most basic music theory knowledge Gao Feng could not understand, so in the past year, they were re-learning
In 1991, Gao Feng began to contact music creation, published his first music album "The Night After You Left", but unfortunately the popularity of this album is not high, it belongs to the test of the water, because of personal album problems, Gao Feng's life in the agency is also getting more and more difficult day by day, in 1993, due to the perennial creation of works, Gao Feng and the agency terminated the contract and became an independent music creator
After no work shackles, Gao Feng's creative career instead opened the spring, not only for the singer Huang Ge to create "Spring Flowing Water" but also for the domestic singers Li Yuling, Xie Xiaodong and other people who were in the domestic fire at that time to create a lot of classic songs, in this period Of Gao Feng, do not sing, only do behind-the-scenes songwriters
Until 1994, after a year of precipitation, Gao Feng came out of the mountain again, signed a contract with EMI Records, and launched his second music album "Love over there in the sky" and the music single "Great China" in the same year, after the release of the music album, the MV of "Great China" was played in the domestic "Oriental Time and Space" series of programs, because of the deep feelings and simple music, Gao Feng exploded overnight and became a famous songwriter in China
In The words of Gao Feng: the creation of "Great China" is a burst of inspiration, because from the desire to create to the final song finalization, Gao Feng only took less than two hours, in early 94, gao Feng signed a brokerage company, took a car to travel in the mainland, when the train just passed through Beijing Station to stop, Gao Feng got off the train to rest, looking at the clock outside Beijing Station is about to reach the hour and the classic "Oriental Red" music playing on the square, a patriotic feeling suddenly emerged, after the train started, Gao Feng looked at the mountains and rivers of the motherland flashing outside the window, Creative inspiration bursts forth
After the train arrived at the final station, the first thing Gao Feng did when he got off the train was to find someone to borrow pen and paper, he buried his head in the small hotel near the train station for two hours, and the lyrics of the song included the famous landmarks in the country, including the Great Wall, the Yellow River, the Yangtze River, Mount Everest, and attributed these to the country, the opening lyrics "We all have a home" have a strong sense of substitution
In 1996, Gao Feng with the original song "Great China" on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, in order to celebrate the next year's return to Hong Kong, this song lyrics are clear, patriotic feelings are warm, Gao Feng not only became famous overnight, "Great China" was also included in the national calendar CCTV Spring Festival Gala repertoire, in 1998, after the return of Hong Kong, Andy Lau joined hands with Mao Ning and Zhang Xinzhe to sing "Great China" again as the three representative singers of the mainland, Hong Kong and Macao, expressing the good wishes of the domestic people to unite as one
The last time I appeared at the Spring Festival Gala was in 2020, when artists from different parts of the country, including Zhang Guoguo, Song Dandan, Mo Wenwei and others, sang again, when the rhythm of "Great China" sounded again, Gao Feng, the original author, had passed away for nearly 20 years
Gao Feng's last surprise to the world was to predict his own death
In the middle of 2002, singer Gao Feng began to cough, chest tightness, physical discomfort and other reactions, but because of the problem of the album and the itinerary, Gao Feng did not care about the abnormal condition of his body, but insisted on working, busy for the new album, a few months later, Gao Feng suddenly fainted at work, was rushed to the hospital for rescue, diagnosed as viral pneumonia, and the body was seriously infected, has reached an advanced stage, and the medicine stone is useless
What is even more strange is that in the face of his own illness, Gao Feng behaved calmly and unusually, as if he had long known that he was leaving, and just a few days before his illness, Gao Feng launched his last album "Beautiful New World", and the album cover of this record was created by Gao Feng himself
The album depicts Gao Feng, whose head is separated from his body and a transparent plastic pipe underneath
Surprisingly, this image actually coincides with Gao Feng when he was treated in the hospital
And when naming his new album at the end, Gao Feng also chose to use "Beautiful New World" to hint to the world, which instantly reminded people of zhao Yingjun, a singer who unfortunately died of liver cancer some time ago
When the media who had received public opinion at that time wrote about Gao Feng's death, they also associated the cover of his new album with Gao Feng's illness
It was also from then on that many people understood why Gao Feng smiled silently when asked why he chose this strange style of painting at his new song launch
On the afternoon of September 19, 2002, because of the aggravation of the disease, Gao Feng's lungs have been seriously infected, unable to maintain physical function, a ventilator can only aggravate his degree of pain, after the doctor explained the reason to Gao Feng's parents, Gao Feng in the case of unable to speak, in the palm of his parents' palms wrote the word "death", died peacefully, at the age of 34
However, although Gao Feng has died, various speculations about him are still circulating, especially a few months after Gao Feng's death, Gao Feng's former friend Yao Rong also wrote a gossip and love article about Gao Feng and star Zhang Ziyi, in this article, Yao Rong broke the news that Zhang Ziyi and Gao Feng had a relationship, and they were both first loves
It's just that At that time, Gao Feng had been famous for a long time, and Zhang Ziyi was still an unknown small actor, preparing for the examination, because the problem of identity gap was coupled with the disagreement of Zhang Ziyi's parents, Gao Feng had been clearly warned by Zhang Ziyi's parents not to get too close to their daughters, and the fate of the two came to an abrupt end
However, even if there is no result, Gao Feng has always been obsessed with Zhang Ziyi, and has even been reported by the media as an infatuated man
At that time, after this news was exposed, it attracted the attention of many domestic netizens, but then this matter was also urgently refuted by Zhang Ziyi, who said in public: she and Gao Feng did not have a relationship at all, because after becoming famous, many people were rumoring that they had a relationship with others, and they did not respond, but this time they actually said that they had a scandal with a person who had passed away, which was unacceptable to themselves, so they had to stand up and clarify
From a personal point of view, no matter what kind of purpose yao Rong was in that year, Yao Rong released this article, and regardless of whether Zhang Ziyi had this experience, from the perspective of the situation at that time, the credibility of Zhang Ziyi's words was still very large, perhaps it was just Gao Feng's wishful thinking, after all, things have passed for so many years, who is right and who is wrong, it has long been unclear
I don't know what my friends here think about this matter?