Tam Wing Lin has always been a musician who the author likes and admires very much, and is one of the main representatives of the golden age of the Hong Kong music scene.
The author still remembers that in the hottest summer in Beijing, at the open-air concert, Principal Tan sang and danced on the stage in a full suit for three hours, and his sweat-soaked eyes flowed into his mouth, so that he could not continue to sing, but each song remained of a high standard. It is hard to imagine that an old singer who is nearly 70 years old, full of breath, every tone is accurate to the extreme, pick up the wheat and open the whole, or even do not have to listen to it.
The audience is full of male hormones, which is a concert scene that has not been seen in many years!
Recently in the music program "Time Concert" broadcast by Hunan Satellite TV, Yu Kewei sang Tan Yonglin's classic song "Flowers in the Water", when the chorus, accidentally entered the wrong shot, but the band and Yu Kewei reacted very well on the spot, and the very tacit band no longer accompanied, Yu Kewei continued to sing "This flying flower", and then sang it again and continued to sing to the end.
It is the oratorio of these five words that makes Yu Kewei's clear voice and superb singing skills more prominent, and also makes the chorus part more layered. It is also such a careless mistake that coincidentally made a classic. Nowadays, these two sentences have become a very popular background music for short video platforms.
Yu Kewei himself did not expect it, obviously it was a mistake, but it was more like a carefully arranged plot design, and perhaps many wonderful moments were achieved in this way.
In fact, this song "Flowers in the Water" was first sung by Tan Yonglin in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in 1991, the Cantonese version was published as early as 1988, but because the CCTV Spring Festival Gala can only sing the Mandarin version, so I asked the famous Taiwanese lyricist doll to fill in the Words of Mandarin, that is, the "Water Flower" we now listen to, and then this song exploded in the mainland, and this fire is 30 years.
In fact, in addition to Yu Kewei, Li Jian's cover version is also very good. Li Jian is a loyal fan of Tam Wing Lin, but also the enlightenment of his Cantonese songs, it can be said that Principal Tan has hundreds of songs, Li Jian has come to hand, which shows the degree of love for Tan Wing Lin.
On the stage of "Our Song", Li Jian and Tan Yonglin sang "Flowers in the Water", and even the author felt that Li Jian's strong cultural temperament of singing was more suitable for this song. If Yu Kewei's singing is a soft and emotional confession, then Li Jian's singing is an ink painting, as if he is the party, but a very rational understatement, making people calm.
Thanks to Yu Kewei and Li Jian for making this classic popular again, so that today's young people can also recognize the classic song of "a long history".