When I introduced the record company a few days ago, a friend who was interested in this theme asked me to introduce Taiwan's Xinge records, because he was a fan of Ren Xianqi, and Ren Xianqi's singer career began in Xinge. In order to give an explanation to my enthusiastic supporting friends, I came today to talk about Singular Records on my own cognition. Because of the protection of intellectual property rights, because of the lack of information in hand, because the author was not born when the record company declined, so I know very little, the professionalism of the article is not high, I hope that senior fans Haihan and add more.
Music is a high-level enjoyment that soothes the human soul, it has its own soul and attributes, and countless leaders from all walks of life are listening to the music of their own times and embarking on the road of achievement. Therefore, the nation needs music with its own spiritual attributes.
At this time, a group of aspiring, disapproving, and wanting to break the situation among young people carried out a huge "music revolution", of which the "folk song movement" set off by Yang Xian, Hu Defu, Li Shuangze and Tao Xiaoqing in Taiwan and the trend of singing Cantonese pop songs in Hong Kong's native spoken language pioneered by Hui Guanjie in Hong Kong were two landmark events. Since then, Chinese music has gradually had independent music based on its own culture.
Taiwan's folk song movement has too much influence, after the rise of the movement, countless outstanding lyricists and composers have integrated traditional Chinese culture such as Tang poetry, Song poetry, and modern poetry and prose into songs, and Liu Wenzheng, the superstar of Taiwan's song world, has thus turned out to be born. This folk song movement has sent a large number of outstanding musicians to the Taiwanese music scene, who either sing or create, and have become the mainstay of the Taiwanese music scene and the absolute merit of the prosperity of Taiwanese music.
Taiwan Xinge Records was born in this trend, it was founded in 1976, the owner is yao Housheng, an executive of the former Lifeng Records Planning Department. In the second year of the company's establishment, in order to support local musicians to "sing their own songs" and let local people "listen to their own songs", Xinge Records set up the Golden Rhyme Award (Youth Campus Folk Song Contest), selected the champion singers and winning singers, and signed singers with excellent performance to record records for them. In this way, countless musicians with dreams have the opportunity and stage to chase their dreams (like the "Supergirl" and "Fast Man" in previous years), and Xinge Records has also quickly opened up its popularity through such activities, and has also made the music of the Golden Yun Award singer into a record in Taiwan, achieving the purpose of maximizing business. However, cheng also golden rhyme award, defeat also golden rhyme award, when the boom of folk song movement dissipated, when the rolling stones, flying saucer, zongyi, point general, blue and white and other rising stars have emerged and cast their own laws, Xinge records did not stick to their own jiangshan, its singers, producers have switched to other record companies and shine, the serious loss of Newge records eventually disappeared in the vast sea of smoke, becoming the past in people's memories, Although it also discovered Li Zuxin in the later stages of its own operation and Ren Xianqi who later shone in Tamkang and the entire Chinese music scene. Fortunately, Rolling Stone Records, which was once like-minded with Xinge Records, took over the baton in the hands of Xinge in 1993, transferring all the copyrights and some singers of Xinge Records to its own, and continuing to move forward along the exploration and innovation path of Taiwan's local music.
The brilliance and death of Xinge Records are inseparable from the Golden Yun Awards that are closely related to it, and today I take this opportunity to take a look at Taiwan's Golden Yun Awards to see which well-known singers and well-known albums have been released by the Golden Yun Awards, which is basically the life trajectory of Xinge Records.
The Taiwan Golden Rhyme Awards have been held for a total of 5 times, and since 1977, 1978, 1979 and 1980 have been carried out normally, which is also the peak of Taiwan's folk song movement. Later, with the rise and shine of reality and humanistic singers Luo Dayou, Su Rui and others, major record companies and well-known singers have transformed, and the singing of campus folk songs has also fallen silent, and 1981, 1982, 1983 can not be held as scheduled, until the fifth and last session was held in 1984 (at this time, the Golden Yun Award can no longer speak on the same day as before), and the Golden Yun Award is over. Therefore, let's focus on the first 4 golden rhyme awards.
In the first Golden Rhyme Awards in 1977, the champion singer was Chen Mingshao, and the winning singers were Fan Guanghui, Bao Meisheng, Zhu Tianyi, Yang Yaodong and so on. Chen Mingshao won the championship with the song "Boundless Love", and then released albums such as "Let's See the Clouds Go", "The World Under the Umbrella", "Chen Mingshao's Song", "Floating Cloud Wanderer" and other albums, it is a pity that Chen Mingshao had no intention of developing in the song world, and bid farewell to the Taiwanese music scene in 1984 to live in the United States. Fan Guanghui, who came in second place, did not stay in the music scene for long, xinge records did not even publish a separate record for her, and all she left for fans was the classic song - "Farewell to Kangqiao". The most well-known singer of the first Golden Rhyme Awards is Bao Meisheng, who has newly produced four albums of "The Song of Bao Meisheng - You Wait for Me in the Depths of sunset", "Monologues Under the Long Sky", "That Pot of Fire", and "Wood Song", her masterpieces "Little Jasmine" and "Catching Loach" are still familiar today, but she has not insisted on the music world for long, and she has not appeared much in the music world after studying in the United States in 1980. Yang Yaodong is a new star who is more optimistic about Xinge, he released two albums of "Seasonal Rain" and "Saturday" in Xinge Records, because he did not sign too long a contract with Xinge, he switched to Tony Records after the appointment expired. Zhu Tianyi does not make an introduction because the information is incomplete. It can be seen that although the first Golden Yun Awards gave birth to many great musical works and discovered such excellent musicians as Hou Dejian, Xinge did not create his own superstar from it.
In the second Golden Rhyme Awards in 1978, the champion was Qi Yu, the strength diva of taiwanese music, who won the song as "diamonds & rust", and Wang Menglin, Li Jianfu, Huang Dacheng, and the Acoustic Guitar Choir were the winners of the outstanding singers. After Qi Yu won the championship, Xinge Records released the album "Olive Tree" for her in 1979, "Olive Tree" this song is not known to everyone, the top work in the folk songs, this album also has another world-famous song - "Happy Face", in the Taiwan Top 100 Records Selection, Qi Yu's "Olive Tree" album ranked third, and it is the first place in the Chinese Golden Melody Award "30 Years 30 Discs". However, Xinge did not keep Qi Yu, and she subsequently joined Golden Sound Records and soon switched to the Rolling Stones. Before participating in the Golden Rhyme Award, Wang Menglin was a taxi driver, after the Golden Rhyme Award, he was the most popular male singer of Xinge Records, and the theme of the folk song is different, Wang Menglin's music is biased towards the city, a bit of a meaning of speaking for the bottom, he has produced albums such as "Ame Ami", "A Happy Hundred Sorrows", "Happy Holiday" and other albums in the new grid, and his masterpieces "Scene in the Rain" and "Ame Ami" are even more sung by Liu Wenzheng again. Huang Dacheng is an excellent folk singer, and Xinge released two albums for him, "The Ancient Road of The Present Mountain" and "The People of Tangshan". Li Jianfu sang the song "Descendants of the Dragon" at the Golden Rhyme Awards, which is the golden song of Chinese pop music, in 1980, Xinge produced the "Descendants of the Dragon" album for it, and later Li Jianfu, who pursued creative freedom, and Li Shouquan, Jin Tiezhang, Cai Qin and the winning singer Su Lai of the Fourth Golden Rhyme Awards jointly established the "Tianshui Music Collection" studio, which was also the first of his own music studio, after which Li Jianfu gradually transformed into an elite in the IT industry, and he also had an identity as Wang Lihong's cousin. There are 6 members in the acoustic guitar choir, namely Chen Yongyu, Jiang Xueshi, Zheng Wenkui, Zhang Binghui, Li Zongsheng and Chen Xiunan, of which Li Zongsheng and Chen Xiunan became the souls of the Taiwanese music scene. This year's Golden Yun Awards has produced such excellent musicians as Li Taixiang.
In 1979, Wang Hailing won the Golden Rhyme Award for the English song "My Heart Belongs to Me", and Zheng Yi, Shi Xiaorong, Ma Yizhong, Luo Jizhen, The Four Little Choirs, Yang Fangyi and Xu Xiaojing won the Outstanding Singer Award. After winning the championship, Wang Hailing released albums such as "偈", "My Heart Is Like a Spring", "Don't Forget Who I Am" and other albums in Xinge, and then turned to the background and also served as a judge at the Taiwan Golden Melody Awards. Zheng Yi is an excellent folk singer, her song "Yueqin" in Xinge Records is very well-known, and after leaving Xinge, she sang the song "It's Time for the Little Rain to Come" to make Zheng Yi famous. Shi Xiaorong is a well-known folk singer, who has published four albums in the new genre, "Shi Xiaorong Album", "Chivalrous Guest", "Millennium Journey" and "Your Eyes", about full of uplift records, and his representative work "Return to Sand City" was covered by Liu Wenzheng, in addition to his songs "Visiting Spring" and "The Mood of July" are also well-known. Ma Yizhong's famous work is "Morning in the Wind", but she has not been on the road of singing for too long, and is now a well-known MTV director. Yang Fangyi and Xu Xiaojing's duet is the first female duo in the Chinese song world, and they have a profound influence on the later lily duet, southern duet, and splendid duet, and their representative works are "Listening to Spring" and "Night Rose". The 1979 Golden Yun Awards unearthed outstanding music producers such as Li Ziheng, Chen Zhiyuan and Chen Yang.
In 1980, the winner of the Golden Yun Award was Zheng Wenwen, and the winning singers were Su Lai, Li Mingde, Zheng Huajuan and so on. Zheng Wenren did not continue to develop on the musical road after winning the championship with the song "Breaking Dawn", but returned to his old line and became his flight attendant again. Su Lai is the most outstanding ability of this Golden Yun Award, he is an excellent folk singer, and later with Cai Qin, Li Shouquan and they formed their own "Tianshui Music Collection" studio, for Cai Qin to create her masterpiece - "Your Eyes". Zheng Huajuan is an excellent singer-songwriter, she can sing and write songs, she is more well-known for others to create songs, such as Chen Shuhua's "Smart and Confused Heart", Lin Zhixuan's "Mona Lisa's Tears", Tao Jingying's "Too Wronged" and so on. Lee Ming Tak is a singer, songwriter, host, and has also served as the production director of a record label, representing "Actually I Don't Want to Give Up".
Although the 1981 Golden Rhyme Awards did not proceed, in this year, Xinge Records did something meaningful, it discovered a band group, the QiuQiu Choir, which included the leader and guitarist Qiu Chen, the lead singer Jin Jijuan (doll) (the original song of "Across the Ocean to See You"), drummer Lin Junxiu, keyboardist Lee Yinglu and bassist Lee Shijie. This was the first band in the Taiwanese music scene and had a profound impact on the development of Taiwanese bands in the future. In 1982, the QiuQiu Choir released an album that came out of nowhere, "Just Tonight", the title song of the same name, "Just Tonight", which topped the Taiwan Variety Show Song Chart for several months as soon as it was leaked, and the songs "Big Rooster", "Carousel", "Fool on the Riverbank" and "Why Dream of Him" were also very popular. After listening to the warm folk songs, the Chochu Choir's rock-like singing style suddenly captured the hearts of the audience on Treasure Island. They could have become an epoch-making symbol of Taiwan's music scene, but the leader qiu Chen, because of the disagreement with the company's high-level concept and dissatisfaction with the overall environment of the band's performance, angrily quit when the band first became famous, knowing that he was the soul of the band, and he created the song "Little Jasmine" with great creative talent, and the main production of the music of the album "Just Tonight" was also completed by Qiu Chen. The Hill Hill Choir, which lost its backbone, released two more albums since then, but eventually broke up in 1984.
After three sessions of suspension, in 1984, the Golden Yun Award was held for the last time, this time the champion was Pan Zhiqin, and the winner singers were Yang Haiwei, Gao Huiyu, Ke Huizhu, Chang Xinyu, Yu Taiyan, Yao Daiwei, etc., because of the limited information, I will not go deep here.
By enumerating, we can find that the biggest problem of The New Grid Records is that they cannot retain people, many singers will seek another high after becoming famous, there is no creative ability and the signature singers who can rely on, blindly adding fresh blood can not solve the fundamental problem, coupled with the fact that people in the general environment have a fresh feeling of folk song competitions and folk songs, can not seek new changes, failure is inevitable in the end, even if Zhang Qingfang, Ren Xianqi such an excellent Heavenly King Queen, they bloom is not when the New Grid Records. Based on the fact that Zhang Qingfang is the signature of Dianjiang Records, Ren Xianqi is the face of Rolling Stone Records in the middle and late 90s, and will not be repeated here.
This is a family's words, words are more rash, but also hope that senior fans forgive and repair mistakes, thank you very much!