Some time ago, "Former Tianhou" Zhou Hui was originally scheduled to hold in Shanghai in July. The wherever" concert was forced to be cancelled on the grounds that less than 30% of the tickets were sold, which was too bleak.
It is said that the original seating of the concert hall was only more than 1,000 people, which means that Zhou Hui's concert only sold less than 300 votes, which was simply miserable.
Perhaps, many young viewers do not know who Zhou Hui is, after all, she has not released a new album for 8 years.
But anyone who has heard her sing will praise: "This voice is amazing!" "Even if that person has seen the world's kung fu superstar Jackie Chan.
Fingers crossed, Zhou Hui has been debuting for 22 years, and once swept the major lists of the Chinese music scene in 1999 with a song "Engagement", which is also the youth memory of many people.
However, at that time, she was at the peak of her debut, perhaps did not think:
His singing career lasted only 5 years, but he was delayed because of the various complicated people and things around him, and now that he thinks about it, he still feels extremely sorry.
In 1977, a middle-class family in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ushered in a baby girl who fell to the ground, and later her parents named her Zhou Hui.
She liked to sing since she was a child, but because her personality was relatively low-key and introverted, she always took the gentle route.
At the age of 19, after graduating from the China Art School, Zhou Hui planned to continue studying stage plays in the UK.
It was also at this time that she, who liked to sing, planned to record a CD as a souvenir during the holidays, but unexpectedly received the appreciation of the studio owner and recommended her to the musician Ji Zhongping.
Ji Zhongping has been involved in album production since 1987, and has helped Qi Qin produce "Cliff", as well as Xu Ruyun's "If the Clouds Know" and "One-Man Show".
He was immediately "amazed" after hearing Zhou Hui's CD, and then gave it to Li Yaming, the Chinese director of Fumao Records, who was also a professional singer, and was immediately moved after hearing this voice, and quickly decided to sign a contract with him.
Zhou Hui also hesitated between interest and major, and eventually she gave up her study abroad program because she liked to sing and chose to be a singer.
"I can experience it first, and if I fail at best, I'll go back to study, but if I miss this opportunity, I may never come back."
That's what she thought at the time.
After a period of professional training and polishing, the 22-year-old Zhou Hui signed a contract with Ji Zhongping for 8 albums for 5 years in 1999, and released her debut album "Zhou Hui Selection" in the same year.
Because this album collected too many classic songs, the agency believed that each song could be taken out as the main song, so it was finally named "Zhou Hui Selection".
At that time, there was a saying that because Zhou Hui felt that her appearance was not beautiful enough, the agency decided to replace the photo with a comic image for the album cover; it was also said that it was because Zhou Hui wanted to be a "virtual singer" and only wanted to communicate with the audience with her voice.
Subsequently, Zhou Hui's agency also invited international illustrator Jeffrey, after hearing her singing, specially designed a set of comic characters called "Hui'er Dolls" for her as a cover.
Unexpectedly, this album set a staggering sales of more than 1 million copies as soon as it was released, occupying the top spot in the music chart for more than half a year.
Songs such as "Don't Want You to Know", "Convention", "Wind Chimes" and "Hate Yourself" in the album became popular overnight, and Zhou Hui also became a hot "Four Little Queens" with three other newcomers at the same time: Jolin Tsai, Xiao Yaxuan and Sun Yanzi.
Some fans once commented:
"Zhou Hui's voice blends Faye Wong's spontaneous nature, Xu Meijing's tranquility and gentleness, Fan Xiaoxuan's sweet wisdom, and Xu Ruyun's pure and beautiful voice, which makes people feel relaxed and happy."
There is no doubt that Zhou Hui's starting point is high, his strength is strong, and it is reasonable to say that the road he will take in the future is also very broad, which can be described as a promising future.
But what no one expected was that Zhou Hui's brilliance only "insisted" for a few years, and then he withdrew, and could only watch the other three "little queens" go farther and farther and fly higher and higher, but they could not do anything about it.
After becoming popular, Zhou Hui continued to work hard, and in 2000, she released "Zhou Hui Select 2 - Good to Love You", still using cartoon images as the album cover, which is more musical.
Many of the songs on this album have become the theme song or ending song of the film and television drama, and for a time Zhou Hui presented a kind of "hegemonic" strength.
And the album also created a "sales myth" that sold 200,000 copies in less than 3 weeks of release.
Because some viewers called her like the "female version of Su Yongkang", Zhou Hui was not annoyed, and even became a guest of honor at the other party's concert after she was just starting out.
Su Yongkang is also a veteran singer, with good strength, and Zhou Hui can sing on the same stage with him, which shows how outstanding his singing skills and talents are.
In 2001, Zhou Hui made her debut on the album cover in her third and fourth cover albums, "How Precious Tonight" and "I Want Your Love".
At this time, the audience has no more enthusiasm for her appearance, but melts into her sweet and crisp voice.
After that, Zhou Hui released two more albums, although she did not continue the "pop-up" style of the first two albums, but she still maintained its popularity in the Chinese music scene.
It is said that even kung fu superstar Jackie Chan was also a fan of Zhou Hui at that time, he once said in an interview that he was at home once, in the bathroom, he suddenly heard a song coming from the TV in the living room, felt very beautiful and rushed out, but only saw the end of the mv animation.
After that, he once bought 60 albums of Zhou Hui in one go, gave them to friends and family, and more than once sang in public to praise Zhou Hui: "Zhou Hui is one of the few singers I like!" ”
However, in the fifth year of her debut, Zhou Hui ushered in the "Waterloo" of her career, and this turn was inseparable from her mentor Ji Zhongping.
In 2004, Zhou Hui's contract with Fumao Records expired, and bmg Records then contacted Ji Zhongping, and finally signed a transfer contract with Zhou Hui for three years and three albums for about 6 million yuan.
Out of trust in her mentor Ji Zhongping, Zhou Hui signed her own "deed of sale" on the blank contract, but unexpectedly, the other party then swept away the production fee and disappeared since then.
After Ji Zhongping "disappeared", only Zhou Hui was left alone to face the unfulfilled content of the contract, but at this time, the brokerage company was no longer willing to pay for her packaging.
Since then, Zhou Hui has "disappeared overnight" in the entertainment industry.
As for why Zhou Hui did not take the legal route to protect her rights and interests, it was completely out of kindness and duty, she believed that Ji Zhongping was once her own Bole, so she was always unwilling to confront him.
In 2005, with the help of her friend Jay Chou, Zhou Hui finally reached a consensus with the agency to repay three albums with a new song + selection, and began to produce a new album, and her career also turned around.
Two years later, Zhou Hui finally released the album "Bloom", and in the same year, she made an appointment with the agency to restore her "free body", but at this time, Zhou Hui's position in the Chinese music scene was gone.
After three years of "stagnation", coupled with the new singers launched in various talent shows, Zhou Hui's album sales are much lower than before.
It was not until 2009 that Zhou Hui joined a new agency to launch the self-titled album "Zhou Hui", this time, she was also a producer, producer, singer and other multiple identities, from song selection to release are involved.
In this album, she also sang a song "My Own Movie" with Jackie Chan, and the mv was fully filmed by the Chengjia class.
Just when everyone thought that Zhou Hui's life would turn around, her family had a major change.
At that time, during the promotion of her new album, Zhou Hui also announced that she and her boyfriend had a stable relationship and were about to enter the palace of marriage.
In fact, in 2008, Zhou Hui's boyfriend Mr. T was once exposed to the media camera, and she once said happily: "His height is just enough to join 183club." ”
It is reported that Mr. T is a rich second generation, his father is engaged in construction, automobile industry, can be regarded as a southern wang family, the two met through the singer Peng Jiahui's husband matchmaking, and later began to fall in love.
But at the stage when Zhou Hui was deeply involved in the contract problem, what she did not expect was that Mr. T, who had been in love with her for 7 years, suddenly proposed to break up on the phone, and she then learned that the other party had another girlfriend, and the timeline of love still coincided.
It is said that Zhou Hui's original plan was to sing enough for 10 years, that is, to get married and have children in 2009, but she did not expect to be "broken up".
After breaking up with Zhou Hui, Mr. T quickly married another woman, and Zhou Hui was greatly devastated.
In order to get rid of her negative emotions, she once chose to travel and ran to the Jokhang Temple to pray for blessings to soothe her wounded heart.
During this period, Zhou Hui's father also fell ill and died - "the two very important men in life have suddenly left", after a long time, Zhou Hui talked about this stage, and she will be heartbroken and sad.
At one stage, Zhou Hui lived very hard, facing all kinds of trivialities of the new album every day, but also resisting various "problems" in the mood, and when she returned home, she had to beat the spirit to comfort her mother, and sometimes she would hide in the room and cry secretly.
"I was struggling, standing in front of the camera, enduring the pain of my father's death, and laughing brightly. My father had just left, how could I laugh? ”
Later, it was her mother who enlightened her, saying, "Be brave and do what you should do, and your father will understand."
At the saddest time, a friend who had been together for a long time woke her up: "Don't forget the whole world because of one person."
In 2011, Zhou Hui joined Jackie Chan's son's music room and released the album "My Own Room", but it was not coincidental that the other party was later destroyed because of sucking D career.
Zhou Hui has ushered in her own "small transparent" era, although she will occasionally hold concerts or sing theme songs for film and television dramas, but they are tepid.
In 2013, she joined "I Am a Singer" and was ridiculed by the netizen group for "appearance without lower limit", which led her to recall that the program is not called "I Am a Beauty", which shows that this voice is still harsh to her.
Today, Zhou Hui is 44 years old and still alone, but she is happy with her 80-year-old mother.
It is said that in order to worry about the inconvenience of sangao's mother to see a doctor, he also specially chose the house near the hospital, and even smashed tens of millions of barrier-free spaces and anti-slip facilities in the home, and also installed cameras to facilitate the observation of the mother's state when going out to work.
In the face of netizens questioning her questions about how her popularity is not as good as before, how to afford to buy a mansion, Zhou Hui also responded generously and has been using the first bucket of gold to try to manage money.
In an interview last year, Zhou Hui also generously announced her experience of playing dating software, and even said bluntly that she chatted with 11 people at the same time, but none of the men were willing to meet her on a date.
When she said this, Zhou Hui "laughed" and said that she would continue to look for a partner who had a relationship.
But she also said transparently:
"I like my current state, at this age, if the other half must be able to add points to each other, rather than bring each other's burdens, I would rather live a relaxed life, which is the trend of women in the new era!" 」
Suddenly, I remembered a sentence: "There is only one kind of heroism in this world, that is, after seeing the truth of life, I still love life." ”
Zhou Hui is such a being.
Bless the "little queen of heaven" who was once hot, and now the "middle-aged girl" who is no longer hot but still cute, will surely harvest her own happiness after the ups and downs.
This happiness is not about the gift of others, but about the abundance and peace of one's own heart.