Mention the name Zhou Feng, the post-60s and post-70s may still have some impressions, and the post-80s and younger fans have basically never heard of this male singer who once played the song world in the 80s of the last century. Zhou Feng has only released three albums, the last album is called "Billion Emperor", and the release of this album was in 1989, when China's population exceeded 1 billion. Dare to use such a bold name to name the album, which was only Zhou Feng dared to do this at that time, which can be described as no ancient person before and no one after that. Zhou Feng is known as the brightest superstar of the 80s, and some people once said that he was Jay Chou of that era, although it was a bit exaggerated, but it also confirmed his popularity at that time.
Zhou Feng, whose ancestral home is Bengbu, Anhui, was born in 1961 in Gulangyu Island, Xiamen, the "island of music". He studied at the Anhui Provincial Art School at the age of 7 and began to learn dance at the age of 9. Two years later, he was recruited as a trainee by the Haizheng Cultural and Labor Troupe, so he went to beijing alone to study culture and business. At the age of 17, he completed his studies with excellent grades, and was retained in the Haizheng Cultural and Industrial Troupe, becoming a formal dancer, and his tall figure appeared on the stage of the capital and on the decks of naval ships. By chance, he made a cameo performance of a song full of talents, and the warm applause made him almost unable to get off the stage. In the barracks, which has always been masculine, Zhou Feng opened up a different singing style from the high-pitched and loud, his singing voice is gentle and handsome, and every performance is very popular.
In 1982, Zhou Feng was demobilized from the army and took a few pieces of luggage to Shenzhen, which had just become a special economic zone.
At that time, the earliest batch of music cafes and dance halls in Shenzhen were booming, people were gradually rich, with a lot of entertainment needs, and a large number of singers were urgently needed to sing some popular songs.
A better opportunity was the opening of the Guoshang Building on Luohu Guest Road, a joint venture between the mainland and Hong Kong, where Hong Kong investors contracted a dance hall with lavish decorations and brought in audio from Hong Kong.
Under the introduction of friends, Zhou Feng began to take the stage at the Xiangjiang Restaurant. As a result, as soon as he took the stage, Zhou Feng shined and became more and more famous, and it was not long before he was favored by Hong Kong Wenzhi Records, and co-released the music album "Night Shanghai" with Zhou Yunjuan.
In the second half of 1984, Zhou Feng released his first solo music album "The Charm of the Eyes". The masterpiece of the album "Pear Blossom And Open" will continue to be reinterpreted by singers, like Chen Ming and Han Hong, who have covered this song in "I Am a Singer".
The name that really let the people of the whole country know his name was CCTV's "Kyushu Fangyuan" literary and art evening in October 1984, at which Zhou Feng sang a song praising Shenzhen, "Night Shade Shan".
As soon as the program was broadcast, Zhou Feng's "Night Shades" quickly became popular throughout the north and south of the river.
After recording the program, Zhou Feng returned to Shenzhen, when Shenzhen people used to watch TV and watch Hong Kong channels, Zhou Feng did not know that he had become popular. It wasn't until he once returned to his hometown and found that the streets and alleys were playing the song he sang, "Night Shade", and everyone would hum two sentences, that he realized how hot he had become.
What made Zhou Feng even more well-known was the Spring Festival Gala in 1985. This is one of the most controversial Spring Festival Gala, and the venue of the party was first chosen at the Beijing Workers' Gymnasium. Huang Yihe, director of the Spring Festival Gala, asked Zhou Feng to participate in the role by name. Zhou Feng, who had a small beard, wore a white space suit and sang a song "Heart of the Naked Son" at the party. The song once again became the hit hit of the year.
In June of the same year, Zhou Feng participated in the "Top Ten Singers of Shenzhou" Grand Prix in Wuhan, Hubei Province, and was successfully shortlisted for the top ten singers.
In 1986, the United Nations International Year of Peace, in order to show the world the style of Chinese pop music, lyricist Chen Zhe and composer Guo Feng and others created a large-scale group song "Let the World Be Full of Love", and almost a hundred young singers who had influenced at that time participated in the concert, including Zhang Qiang, Sun Guoqing, Fu Disheng, Tu Honggang, Wei Wei and so on. The song "No Change Since Ancient Times" in the first paragraph of this song is sung by Zhou Feng.
In the same year, Zhou Feng released his second album "Ma Li", which is also the pinnacle of his singing career, and is still praised by the industry. This is an album that is ahead of its time, and the production of the album is amazing, even if it is not out of date even in the present. The "Ma Li" album has a total of 14 songs, Zhou Feng sang 7 of them, and the remaining half was left to the two newcomers at that time, Tian Zhen and Duan Pinzhang. Most of Zhou Feng's seven songs are Cantonese works that cover the singers who were so popular in the Hong Kong music scene at that time, such as Cheung Kwok Wing's "Monica", Chen Baiqiang's "Deeply in Love with You" and Cai Guoquan's "My Love God", and changed to Chinese sung. With the characteristics of a clean and clear voice, a clear high pitch and a gentle bass, Zhou Feng reinterpreted these songs very well.
There is also a highly sung song "I am a lonely boat" in this album, which has touched the hearts of countless fans. In 1986, a young man with long hair in Xi'an who loved popular music participated in the Xi'an Guitar Playing and Singing Competition and won the first place. That's the song he sang. This young man later became the bearer of Original Chinese music, and he was Xu Wei.
After the release of the "Ma Li" album, it was a great success, and in the era when the Chinese general monthly income was one or two hundred, the circulation of "Ma Li" tapes of 10 yuan per box reached a staggering 8 million boxes. Zhou Feng's singing career reached its peak.
It is worth mentioning that the cover design of this sensational album was very bold at the time, and Zhou Feng, who dyed a blonde hair, opened his chest, melancholy and seductive eyes, and a debauched appearance, which was really deviant in the Chinese mainland of just reform and opening up.
Just when his acting career was at its peak, Zhou Feng suddenly chose the road of studying abroad, going to England and staying away from people's sight. Three years later, in 1989, Zhou Feng recorded his third solo album "Billion Emperor" in the United Kingdom, and was officially released through the Shanghai Audio-Visual Company in the same year.
The album "Billion Emperors" contains two famous works by the later famous rock singer Zang Tianshuo: "Friends" and "I Pray". Perhaps many fans do not know now that Zhou Feng is actually the first singer of these two songs. There are a total of 8 works on the album, and apart from these two songs, the other songs are not very impressive.
On the cover of "Billion Emperor", Zhou Feng cut his long hair short, wore his favorite white shirt, and his eyes were still melancholy. Compared with the previous "Ma Li" album, the cover design level of this album has dropped several grades.
After the release of his third album, Zhou Feng once again shelved his acting career to a surprise and moved to London, England with his mother in 1989.
From his first album in 1984 to his third album in 1989, Zhou Feng was actually only in the music scene for 5 years, but his contribution and promotion of Chinese pop music was very important. Many old fans have fallen in love with pop music after listening to his songs.
At the end of 2003, Zhou Feng, who had lived in the Uk for 14 years, returned to China in a low profile and returned to the stage on January 2 of the following year to participate in the "Moving Shenzhen" concert held in Shenzhen. In January 2007, he participated in the "Pengcheng Song Flying 2006 Annual Awards Ceremony" as a special guest, and sang songs such as "Night Shade" on stage.
In 2010, Zhou Feng, who was in his 50s, returned to Shenzhen from the United Kingdom again. He prepared some of his original and completed new album tracks in the UK, and began looking for a record company to release it. Unfortunately, in the spring of 2011, the new album had not yet been released, and his mother died of illness. Zhou Feng, who was not good at talking, was mentally shocked and ran away from home alone to live in a hotel in Shenzhen. After some time, he left the hotel and disappeared from his family. His relatives reported the case to Shenzhen police in June, but Zhou Feng himself had not been found.
On June 15, 2012, Shenzhen Radio host Liu Yang posted on Sina Weibo that Zhou Feng had been found by local police in Hong Kong and had now returned to the UK.
Zhou Feng has never had a girlfriend and has been living with his mother since his debut. After the death of his mother, Zhou Feng, who was already silent, was even more reluctant to associate with people. This point can't help but be reminiscent of Taiwan's Tianhou singer Chen Shuhua, who also lost the spiritual pillar of life after the death of her mother, faded out of the singing world, lived in simplicity, and ignored the world.
Since 2012, there has been no news about Zhou Feng in the media or on the Internet. The popular pop music star seems to have disappeared into the world, and there are still obsessive fans who inquire about Zhou Feng's whereabouts on the Internet.
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