She is the only female singer who can match Teresa Teng, and is a well-deserved "big sister" in the Chinese music scene, even Zhang Guorong, Mei Yanfang, and the Four Heavenly Kings are her fans. In order to pay tribute to the idol, superstars such as Chow Yun Fat and Andy Lau even knelt down to her. She is known as the "warbler of Hong Kong", Xu Xiaofeng.
Although the acquaintance is shallow, it seems to be a long time! In this issue, Xiao Xiang takes everyone to understand Xu Xiaofeng's legendary life.
Xu Xiaofeng, born in 1949 in Wuhan, Hubei Province, moved to Hong Kong with her parents when she was two years old. Since childhood, Xu Xiaofeng has a good voice, and she likes to sing very much, and whenever she opens her voice, the audience is eager to yearn.
In the second year of junior high school, because her parents were too busy, Xu Xiaofeng was forced to drop out of school to help take care of the business in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and became a strong woman in the shopping mall when she was a teenager.
In 1965, Xu Xiaofeng was invited by a friend to participate in the large-scale singing competition "Hong Kong Warblers". Although she is only a fledgling, she won the crown with a white light "", which can be described as a blockbuster.
After becoming famous in world war I, Xu Xiaofeng became more determined in his pursuit of singing career, but was strongly opposed by his parents. After all, in that era, singing has always been criticized by everyone as "the next three abuses" and "not doing the right thing", and can not climb the elegant hall.
Hindered by all kinds of obstacles, Xu Xiaofeng could only hide his dream in his heart, until he was 19 years old, he successfully persuaded his parents to embark on a difficult "back start" music road.
At that time, due to the lack of backstage support, Xu Xiaofeng could only travel to major nightclubs to sing, and his footprints had spread all over Mong Kok, Tsim Sha Tsui, Haicheng and other places. Although she sang for up to six or seven hours a night, and could only get a salary of 600 yuan, as long as she could sing, she was happy no matter how tired she was.
Unlike those singers who rely on high notes to become popular, Xu Xiaofeng is good at mezzo-soprano, and her style is somewhat similar to Cai Qin. However, in that era, this voice was not very popular, but she gradually let her magnetic voice be accepted by everyone, and even became a symbol of the times.
In the first few years, Xu Xiaofeng has been in a state of "drifting", until 1969, when she performed in Kuala Lumpur, she was immediately appreciated by the head of the Southern Experimental Theater Troupe, and released 3 albums such as "Wall", "Fire of Love" and "Autumn Night", and finally entered the music scene.
Since then, Xu Xiaofeng's thick and deep voice has quickly changed everyone's positioning of the female singer's delicate voice line, and even Teresa Teng, who is known as the "sound of mesmerizing", has a gap with her.
In 1973, Xu Xiaofeng signed a contract with Eternal Records, and in the following three years, she successively released albums such as "", "Story by the Sea" and other albums, and she also formed her own performance style, the songs "Bobby's Song", "Farewell to My Love" and "Ocean" were widely sung.
Since 1977, Xu Xiaofeng has begun the process of winning awards and getting soft hands. At the first Hong Kong Golden Disc Awards ceremony on March 26, Xu Xiaofeng won the Golden Disc Award for "", of which "" and "" were awarded the Platinum Record Award.
The following year, Xu Xiaofeng began to work for Xinli Records, and the album "Full of Hope" released in the same year included Cantonese songs such as "Voice Full of Hope", "", "", especially the song "Tycoon", which won her a full house.
It is worth mentioning that the Song "Selling Tangyuan", which is full of Chinese style, made Xu Xiaofeng famous in the mainland market, and "Wind and Rain on the Same Road" gave everyone a taste of her changeable singing style.
In 1979, Xu Xiaofeng's singing career reached its peak again, and the album "" released, although mainly based on Japanese songs, perfectly interpreted the creative concept of the famous singer "Five Rounds of True Bow", many songs were introduced to the mainland, and soon a tornado blew up, walking into every street and alley, you can always hear Xu Xiaofeng's highly recognizable singing.
Two years later, Xu Xiaofeng achieved another good result, and the albums "Runaway" and "New Songs and Selections" were once sold out of stock, and "" became a monument in her singing career.
In the 80s, when the film and television song "A Hundred Flowers Bloomed", among all female singers, Xu Xiaofeng has always been in the position of the king, and has never been angry.
In 1982, after joining Kang Yi Chengyin Records, Xu Xiaofeng once again proved himself to be the deserved "queen", and the album "Xu Xiaofeng's New Song Collection I" won the Platinum Record Award, and the song "Star Question" won the Top Ten Chinese Golden Melody Award.
In January of the following year, during a solo concert at the Elizabeth Stadium, Xu Xiaofeng expressed her desire for Hong Kong's return to the motherland with a song "", which resonated with countless patriotic Hong Kong people.
In the special era of the "Pearl of the Orient" suffering from colonization, everyone deeply remembers this hero.
Time to February 1985, the 36-year-old Xu Xiaofeng more and more laid the status of the queen of the song world, but also held 10 "can not stop the dynamic Xu Xiaofeng concert" in the Red Pavilion, since then the heat has not decreased, and opened 8 consecutive games, even so, the fans are still unfinished.
In the era of underdeveloped network, Xu Xiaofeng conquered countless fans with her full singing skills and personal charm.
In 1989, CCTV invited Xu Xiaofeng to participate in the Spring Festival Gala in the mainland, but because she was so busy, she had no choice but to politely refuse.
In order to invite Xu Xiaofeng, CCTV made an exception to change the live broadcast to a recording, asking her to record two or two songs in Hong Kong and then play them at the Spring Festival Gala. For all stars, this is unprecedented.
In the 1990s, the development of Hong Kong's entertainment industry reached its peak, although the competition once reached a white-hot, but Xu Xiaofeng was equally hot, and she set a record of 43 concerts in a row in the Red Pavilion, known as "Xu 43".
It is understood that during the most popular period of the four heavenly kings, the appearance fee of the four people has been frighteningly high, but the sum is not better than Xu Xiaofeng.
In 1987 alone, Xu Xiaofeng's personal income exceeded 10 million, making her one of the most profitable stars in Hong Kong.
Unfortunately, her career was smooth sailing, but Xu Xiaofeng failed to harvest a beautiful marriage, which became the biggest regret in her life.
In 1973, Xu Xiaofeng and The Canadian Liao Hui met and fell in love, and the two announced their marriage in 1980.
Originally a very beautiful marriage, Liao Hui strongly asked Xu Xiaofeng to move to the United States with him. Unwilling to give up his Chinese nationality, Xu Xiaofeng resolutely gave up this relationship.
Perhaps because she was hurt too badly by her feelings, since then, Xu Xiaofeng has been single, and now she is 71 years old, although she has left too many marks by the years, she is still a "hall-level diva" in the Chinese music scene, an unparalleled legend!