"You and I agreed not to mention the sad past, and promised never to let the other party worry, to be happy to take care of themselves..." The melodious melody and sweet voice can always touch people's hearts at the first time.
Not long ago, "The Voice of Heavenly Gifts" ushered in an old face - Zhou Hui, although Zhou Hui is not the original singer of "The Agreement", she is the person who has re-given this song life.
Her voice combines Faye Wong's spontaneous nature, Xu Meijing's tranquility and gentleness, Fan Xiaoxuan's sweet wisdom, Xu Ruyun's pure beauty in one, and her singing voice has a healing power and gives people spiritual comfort.
But her life experience is far less warm than the song, yin and yang mistakenly gave up the professional choice of music, all the way was criticized for poor appearance conditions, fortunately with the help of the teacher overnight fame, became one of the "four little days later". However, when he was popular, he was betrayed by the mentor's agent and was "hidden" by the company for three years, and he missed the golden stage of career development.
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In 1996, Zhou Hui graduated from the drama major, originally planned to go to the United Kingdom to continue her dream of stage drama, but she did not expect to be inadvertent, but embarked on the road of music.
Zhou Hui has liked to sing since she was a child, and her classmates near graduation are thinking of leaving something as a souvenir, Zhou Hui did not say a word, and recorded her favorite song into a CD as a graduation commemoration, and this CD knocked on the door of her music.
Coincidentally, the noble man still did not know the studio owner, he accidentally heard the singing inside, was fascinated by this good voice, and immediately recommended it to Ji Zhongping.
Who is Ji Zhongping? A veteran musician in Taiwan, he is also a music producer of many record companies, has produced albums for big-name singers such as Pan Yueyun and Qi Qin, and is also an important contributor to the popularity of many singers such as Xu Ruyun and Zhang Huimei.
One day after the CD was made, Zhou Hui received a strange phone call, the end of the phone claimed to be a music producer, heard Zhou Hui's cover CD, admired her voice, and directly asked her: "Are you interested in being a singer?" "
Zhou Hui was suddenly confused, and she seemed overwhelmed by this sudden invitation, because she had never thought that she would have any development in music, and she still had to study drama.
After a fierce ideological struggle, Zhou Hui finally listened to her inner voice, "In the end, between interest and professionalism, I experienced a difficult choice and decided to enjoy this gift from Heaven - to be a singer." ”
Under ji Zhongping's needle-piercing line, the top management of Fumao Records heard this clear and pure voice, and the two sides signed a contract smoothly.
Everything went too fast, Zhou Hui said: "This whole process, now in retrospect, is still like a dream, I became a singer in such a vague way." ”
In this way, Zhou Hui, who had already planned to study abroad, was cut off by Ji Zhongping halfway and mistakenly stepped into the Chinese music scene!
In 1999, the turn of the century. The Chinese music scene is booming, new albums are emerging in an endless stream, and Zhou Hui also released her debut album "Zhou Hui Selection" in this year, but strangely, the album cover is not the singer himself but a cartoon character.
Some people say that Zhou Hui's voice is sweet and good, but her appearance has become an important reason why she is not optimistic, and the company is afraid that the image will affect sales, so it uses comic dolls instead.
The young woman who just started the two words was told that the ugly appearance conditions were not good, and it was not a good taste for anyone to listen to it. And in the early years of the interview, the media still clings to this topic, has asked her many times about her appearance, helplessly she had to generously admit to the camera that her appearance is not good, please pay more attention to her voice.
Whether it is because of appearance problems or out of consideration to stand out from many albums, the use of cartoon dolls as the cover, we also do not know.
But what is certain is that the album has sold more than 1 million copies and occupied the top of the music chart for half a year.
Among them, the cover song "Engagement" has become a classic song that has been sung so far, and it has been interpreted many times by Jacky Cheung and Eason Chan in concerts, and even Jackie Chan has enshrined her as an idol because of this song.
In 2002, she took advantage of the chase and released "Zhou Hui Selection 2", the album sold 200,000 copies in less than 3 weeks, although the momentum is not as strong as before, but the sound is still clean and clear, but also added a bit of quiet, idyllic taste.
This year, she was known as the "Four Little Heavenly Queens" together with Sun Yanzi, Jolin Tsai and Xiao Yaxuan.
The harvest in her career also brought peach blossom luck in love, and Zhou Hui confessed her love in a high profile at the album launch, announcing that she was waiting for Prince Charming! At that moment, Zhou Hui seemed to be the object of public envy, with honor and success on stage, sweetness and happiness offstage, and all of this was inseparable from his mentor Ji Zhongping.
At that time, Zhou Hui could not have imagined that Ji Zhongping would ruin her acting career for her own selfish desires!
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2004 was the darkest year of Zhou Hui's life and the beginning of her unfortunate life!
It turned out that Zhou Hui and Fu Mao's contract expired, and the more powerful BMG record company fell in love with her after a close investigation, so he secretly negotiated with Ji Zhongping about the "transfer".
At that time, the temptation Ji Zhongping faced was NT$24 million (about 6 million yuan), and BMG's request was to produce 3 albums, and in the face of money, Ji Zhongping lost his former sanity and morality and became a gold-sucking beast.
Ji Zhongping took a blank piece of paper to sign for Zhou Hui, and in the spirit of trust and dependence on the master, she signed her name with a big stroke, not expecting that her defenselessness would beat her into the abyss.
Any previous performance activities and announcements were ji Zhongping taking a blank piece of paper for her to sign, and then going to complete other contract contents. Zhou Hui thought that this time was no different from the past, and she did not pay attention to it.
As a result, Ji Zhongping, with this contract signed by Zhou Hui, received a "transfer fee" of 24 million yuan from BMG and disappeared, neither giving Zhou Hui a penny, nor helping her write a song.
At the beginning, when Ji Zhongping signed Zhou Hui, he promised to produce 8 albums in 5 years, and there were still 3 albums left before the expiration of the contract. In the contract with the new company signed Zhou Hui's name, Ji Zhongping not only did not make up for the difference of the three, but also gave Zhou Hui a pit, but he took the money and flew away, so Zhou Hui inexplicably wanted to carry the pot for him for three years.
Originally, BMG had the intention to build Zhou Hui, but because the money was swept away, and the company merged with Sony that year, the company was reluctant to take a penny out to package Zhou Hui.
Working for 3 years without compensation, unable to release a new album, no record income, zero exposure, in desperation, Zhou Hui missed the golden period of career development and was slowly forgotten.
In that situation, Zhou Hui had a particularly difficult life, not only financially, but more importantly, psychologically, for a musician who loved to sing and had stood on the peak, it was worse to not be able to release a new album for three years than to kill her.
"I always say that next week it will be fine, next week it will be fine, but I know very well that I don't know where it ends." During that time, Zhou Hui tried to minimize her work and was "not in the mood."
"I was in pain and wanted to jump off the balcony. Shut yourself in your room, don't want to go out, sleep all night, for half a year. ”
In those three years, Zhou Hui was almost depressed, but it was the benefactor who deceived herself, so Zhou Hui could not bear to go to court with him, and only wanted to survive these 3 years to start over.
Fortunately, relatives and friends are there, and they have accompanied Zhou Hui through the trough of life. Su Rui supported her, as long as it was her own solo singer, she would definitely invite Zhou Hui as a guest; the owner of the former company Fumao Records graciously invited her to the celebration and told her, "You can't lose trust in the people around you who care about you because of one thing, and you can't lose confidence in life." ”
Slowly, Zhou Hui opened the door of her heart and embraced everyone around her again.
In 2007, her contract with BMG expired. Under the recommendation of Jay Chou, Zhou Hui signed a contract with Giant Room Music. In the same year, Zhou Hui released a new album "Bloom".
I thought it would be a sunny day after the wind and rain passed, but the haze refused to go away for a long time. Due to contract issues, Zhou Hui's new album could not be released in the mainland.
In 2009, the contract dispute finally came to an end, and Zhou Hui did not want to indulge in a sad past anymore, turning to face the sunshine.
At that time, Jolin Tsai and Xiao Yaxuan, who debuted at the same time, became tianhou-level figures, and Zhou Hui came out of the chaotic dispute and had to start over in the face of all this.
She held tours in the mainland and wrote what she saw and heard in her blog, and the words were fresh and energetic! Just as she was rushing forward with full firepower, the bad news came again.
My father died and my love affair fell!
In Zhou Hui's heart, her father was the only man in the world who completely loved her, and he was still a rotten good person. But now, just when his career is improving slightly, the people who can share the joy are no longer there.
"During that time, the blows were wave after wave, and the days were really difficult, but I had to pretend to be calm in front of my mother, hide in my room in the middle of the night and cry, and after crying, I could only face it."
A series of blows brought Zhou Hui's work to a standstill.
Perhaps the father felt his daughter's torment in heaven, so Tomon told her: "Bravely go forward, what are you waiting for?" ”
Soon after, the new album originally scheduled for Valentine's Day was postponed for half a year and re-released.
For the pain in love, she also chose to release, "Love is nothing more than two results, one is marriage, the other is breakup." I gave myself four weeks to get out of the haze and finally woke up completely. ”
Go with the flow, it's yours after all, it's not yours that you insist on not coming!
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Later, she began to make frequent appearances on mainland variety shows, of course, she also faced some controversy, and when releasing the new album "Time not to be forgotten", because the songs in it were cover songs, it was questioned by netizens that there was no sincerity.
In the "Voice of Heavenly Gift", the high-level performance crushed Yuwen, and even the sharp Ding Taisheng praised it, but as soon as she turned around, she was criticized by Hu Yanbin for not keeping up with the times, without breakthroughs and changes, and even many viewers thought that she chose the wrong stage.
Although this musical road is bumpy, we wish Zhou Hui a smooth comeback and a return to the glory of the past!
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Author: Yifan
Editor-in-charge: Zeria