When it comes to Zhou Chuanxiong, perhaps many people have a vague memory. The name of this post-60s uncle must have existed in the youth of thousands of 80s and 90s.
It may be hidden in some "Dusk" of your youth, it may be hidden in "The Secret of Winter", it may be a "Blue Flower", a "Notepad", it takes you to "Blue Turkey" to see "Man Ocean", you smell "Flowers" through that "Closed Window", the time you are "Betrayed" by your lover, you feel "Lonely Sandbar Cold"...
I don't know when zhou chuanxiong's three words became synonymous with sadness.
Perhaps it began when he stood on the simple open-air stage of the small county town, and he sang vigorously on the stage, next to a bunch of unprofessional music equipment, and offstage was a cold-faced crowd of onlookers.
He was thin and thin, with a mottled beard all over his vicissitudes face, a face full of stories that we couldn't read.
Almost no one in the audience listened to him sing seriously, but they scrambled to hold up their mobile phones and kept pressing the shooting button, they only knew that the one on the stage was the "godfather of love songs".
The onlookers were just watching the lively "audience", not a single "listener", so there was no one to applaud him.
The microphone in his hand has a rough and inferior sound, but his voice is still sincere and moving, in order to show everyone his best side, this middle-aged man sings hard, and everything around him seems to have nothing to do with him.
In the cacophony of the crowd, no one knew what he was thinking.
Zhou Chuanxiong in the dusk, no matter how you look at it, makes people feel desolate.
Known as the "Godfather of Love Songs", Zhou Chuanxiong is a rare singer-songwriter in the music world, but at the same time, he has experienced an unsatisfactory and bumpy fate.
Zhou Chuanxiong's original family conditions were not rich, and when he was a teenager, in order to earn tuition, he worked as a taxi driver, a restaurant waiter, a street vendor, an electrician, a decorator...
In 1988, in the Taiwan Campus Singing Competition, Zhou Chuanxiong became famous and was selected to participate in the "Little Tiger Team". But when it was learned that the "Little Tigers" were going to take the idol route, Zhou Chuanxiong refused. For him, the goal of becoming a singer-songwriter has long been clear and firm.
The following year, he released his first single "Dust and Smoke", and officially debuted under the name of "Xiao Gang".
In the 1990s, Zhou Chuanxiong suffered two record company failures, and he retreated behind the scenes in frustration and produced an excellent work: Chen Huilin's "Notepad", Na Ying's "Betrayal", Ren Xianqi's "Eternal Night"...
Until 2001, Zhou Chuanxiong came to the mainland as a music producer to help others produce albums.
In his spare time, he walked the streets of Beijing, and every few steps he heard his own "Dusk", "Still remember to say goodbye from your mouth resolutely like iron, and there is an illusion of the scorching sun in the darkness..."
When he walked into a video store, he actually saw a pirated version of his previous album. He felt very strange, and went to more than a dozen video stores in succession, and found that there were even pirated records of his, and some people even said to him: "Your "Twilight" is very popular in the mainland now!" It turned out that Zhou Chuanxiong's pirated sales had reached more than 5 million copies in the mainland at this time! The previous album of Shi Shenhai was disseminated in a special way, allowing Zhou Chuanxiong to appear in the mainland music scene as a singer.
In 2004, Zhou Chuanxiong recalled this experience at a concert:
I used to think I wouldn't make any more records
Until one day, on the streets of a foreign land
I heard a song of my own
The song is played non-stop in the streets
Because of this song, it changed me
Because of this song, let me believe
Just stick with it
Even in the ice and snow, beautiful flowers will bloom
From "Dusk", the music scene began to enter the era of Zhou Chuanxiong. Classic songs such as "Blue Flower", "Blue Turkey", "Closed Window", "Winter Secret" and other classic songs began to sing to every corner of the continent.
The script of fate is never merciless.
In 2015, some media exposed the photo of Zhou Chuanxiong's face emaciated, in the face of netizen speculation and fans' worries, Zhou Chuanxiong told the real reason: he suffered from stomach disease caused by Helicobacter pylori infection.
Zhou Chuanxiong's height of one meter seven or eight, due to the torture of illness, instantly lost 40 kilograms, the whole person took off the phase, in order to make the disease not continue to worsen, he chose to withdraw from the circle.
He began to focus more on his family and his family. In the MV of "Sakura Blowing Snow" launched later, he invited his wife to appear on camera and complete the trilogy of love between the two. "I have such a partner by my side to face the future hand in hand with me, and I feel very happy and lucky."
At the beginning of this year, 52-year-old Zhou Chuanxiong participated in the music variety show "The Voice of Heavenly Gifts", and he was one of the most concerned contestants.
Wearing a white shirt, he has aroused the memories of many people and caused a lot of controversy. 23-year-old Meng Meiqi sat on the "mentor chair", no one knows what masterpieces she has, no one knows how many songs she has written...
The most speechless thing is that when Hu Yanbin, Zhang Shaohan, Tao Zhe and others praised Zhou Chuanxiong for a round, it was he who was eliminated.
Zhou Chuanxiong finished singing "I'm Sad" and left in disgrace.
The back of his departure humiliated everyone present, and some people said that such an ending unveiled the fig leaf of the Chinese music scene.
In the face of capital and flow, simple and unpretentious good works become worthless. Times are sloppy and no one really cares about people who are serious about making music.
In this way, today, when new songs are released almost every day, we can hear less and less good music. First-class musicians, first-class recording equipment, first-class production team, diversified to explosive publicity channels... That's it. The only thing lacking is a first-class original.
Zhou Chuanxiong returned and soon left the long-lost stage, some people felt resentful, some people were sentimental about this musician who had influenced a generation, and lamented that his life was not timely.
In the complex entertainment industry, Zhou Chuanxiong has been creating without distraction, but no matter how he looks at it, it makes people feel lonely, just like what he wrote in his song:
"The wind and frost that cannot be repaired over the years seem to be particularly desolate, and when the wind comes, it stirs up the sorrows of the past, like the cheap carnival of the whole season ..."
In fact, for Zhou Chuanxiong, red is not red, it is not important to be angry, he only hopes that he can always make his favorite music and enjoy the pure music world. Now that he has passed more than half a hundred weeks, he still adheres to the path of music. Thirty-three years of ups and downs did not consume his love of music, but made him more determined.
"In the heyday of the record, I was making music; the market environment was not good, I was also making music; when I encountered setbacks and lows, it made me write more about life... I've been singing for thirty-three years, and it's good that someone wants to listen to my song."
Yes, in the face of long years, in the face of twists and turns in life, we are not powerless. Zhou Chuanxiong chose to use music to resist the years and use songs to freeze youth. Let the time be polished, the baptism of the years, still maintain the original intention, indestructible.