Zhou Xun
Speaking of Zhou Xun, which classic role does she portray?
Jiu'er in "Red Sorghum", princess Taiping in "Daming Palace Words", sun na who is ambitious in "If Love", Ling Yanqiu in "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" who is full of arrogance...
On October 18, Zhou Xun, who had just celebrated her 47th birthday and was 30 years after her debut, the classic images she created had long been rooted in people's hearts.
Talented actors, "three golden queens", "Asia's greatest 25 actors"... These dazzling achievements have gradually forgotten Zhou Xun's other identity - a singer.
Zhou Xun's time with music is very early, starting from childhood.
At that time, Zhou Xun was a member of the school's children's choir, code-named "Little Lark", and his future dream was to be a musician.
Later, when he grew up and entered the period of voice change, the teacher found that Zhou Xun's voice became abrupt in the choir: "Your voice can no longer be a little lark." ”
Losing his innate sweet tone, Zhou Xun was kicked out of the choir.
Fortunately, frank and cheerful, her passion for music has not been extinguished.
The hoarse and neutral voice, with a little vicissitudes, is extremely magnetic and recognizable, such an alternative timbre may be a gift from God to her.
Time has proven that when you meet the right music, this kind of voice will add points.
Before becoming famous, zhou xun, a newcomer to the north, was stationed in a song hall called Letterman, singing three or four songs a night and earning 150 yuan.
She likes to sing Zhang Aijia, sing Chen Jieyi, and also like to sing Faye Wong.
She and Dou Peng have been in love, and she has also played with Mars Radio, joking about being the lead singer.
After five years together, Zhou Xun and Dou Peng parted ways.
Later, Zhou Xun entered the rising period of his career, successively starred in Chen Kaige's movies "Wind Moon" and "Jing Ke Thorn Qin Wang", and was also starred in "Daming Palace Words" by Li Shaohong, starring in Lou Ye's movie "Suzhou Creek", and she emerged at home and abroad, becoming the "Four Little Flowers" of the showbiz circle.
The experience of early acquaintance with rock and roll also laid the groundwork for the musical taste and musical temperament that ran through Zhou Xun's life.
In 2000, Zhou Xun released his first single "Fluttering" as a singer. Even if countless people have covered it, no one can express the melancholy core of "Fluttering" like Zhou Xun, who has a melancholy voice.
With this song, Zhou Xun won the "Best Male and Female Newcomer Award" in the 2001 China Original Music Pop Chart.
In 2003 and 2005, at the peak of her acting career, she released two music albums, "Summer" and "Chance Encounter".
The title song "Look at the Sea" in the album "Summer" is popular throughout the streets, and the song in the other album "Encounter" is emotional and introverted, brave and subtle.
In the years that followed, even though she didn't release a new album, the singing voice never seemed to be absent.
In 2005's "If · "Love", Zhou Xun sang "Outside";
In "Li Mi's Conjecture", he also sang Dou Wei's "Outside the Window";
By 2019, Zhou Xun also sang a cover of "Waiting for a Lifetime" when filming "Keep Silent".
In 2019, Zhou Xun released a cover album "1227".
This "1227" song selection looks casual, unexpected and reasonable - old wolf's 2002 "Tiger Mouth Escape" is reasonable to be loved by Zhou Xun, Huang Yingying's 1995 "Spring Light", Ouyang Feifei's 1980 "Lost Love", as a generation of literary and artistic youth, it is also an imaginable choice, Zhou Xuan's 1937 "Tianya Song Girl", Li Xianglan's 1944 "Night Coming Incense", Teresa Teng's 1972 "South Sea Girl", three times golden songs have also been reinterpreted by Zhou Xun.
These songs were very important to her, and each capital was sung by her to sing her own kind of special.
From "Summer", "Chance Encounter" to "1227", as a singer, Zhou Xun is a rare treasure in the Chinese music scene, not only the so-called "acting and excellent singing", her own interpretation method has long broken the boundaries between actors and singers, professional and non-professional, she uses her keen sense of music, transmits rich emotional tension, with recognizable voice lines and bite words, and achieves the unique auditory experience of "singer Zhou Xun" - not in line with the conventional definition of "perfect", but with real agility, Irreplaceable beauty.
In acting, she has peak skills; Zhou Xun, who sings, doesn't seem to need much affirmation, because she doesn't need to be someone else, just be herself.
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