We always feel that today's self is trendy enough and fashionable enough, but turning to the title page of the former heroes, we know that their glorious past is beyond our reach, and even many of today's new trends are left over from when they play.
Whether it was the three major singers in the late 30s or the seven major singers in the 40s, Bai Hong was impressively listed, and she was also the first "singing queen" in the history of Chinese pop music, and of course, the first mainland pop star to hold a personal concert.
In the film industry, she and Bai Guang, Bai Yang, and called "Beiping Three Whites", for such a legendary figure, naturally from her birth to tell.
Bai Hong, formerly known as Bai Lizhu, born in 1920, she was a manchu Qing royal family Zheng Huangqi, grew up in Beijing, although she was born in a feudal family, but fortunately she grew up on the road, but was not bound by the family.
She grew up white and cute, a look is a beautiful embryo, but Bai Hong did not grow into a vase, she can sing and dance since childhood, in early 1931 Li Jinhui's Shanghai Mingyue Song and Dance Troupe came to Beijing to enroll, her father did not do the slightest obstacle, and her mother actively supported her daughter to engage in song and dance.
Therefore, Bai Hong, who has an outstanding image and excellent dance skills, was unsurprisingly admitted by the main examiners Li Jinguang and Yan Zhexi, and transferred to Qingdao with Yan Hua, Yingyin and other newly admitted members.
In the song and dance troupe, she is diligent and humble, so she is very popular with everyone, so she quickly gained a foothold in the song and dance troupe.
Although it is only a small song and dance troupe, it is also the place where the dragon and the tiger are hidden, and she learns music theory from Li Jinguang, vocal music from composer Zhang Hao, and dance from Russian teacher Masov.
Therefore, she gathered the strengths of each family to make herself more outstanding, and excellent children were always liked, so president Lai Kam-fai tried to give her the opportunity to perform.
In 1932, her first song "Tuberose" was born, and her first solo album, "Mother's Cradle Song/Little Baby", was released by you, and he still used his real name at that time, and then began to use the stage name Baihong.
Subsequently, in just one or two years, she sang songs such as "Memories", "Good Night to You", "A Kiss at the Beginning", "Whisper in the Middle of the Night", and she also became the object of the troupe's cultivation, which can also be regarded as a fame.
In the turbulent times, her troupe was once disbanded and reorganized, but the president once arranged them properly, did not worry about their livelihood, but also got a lot of experience.
Under the premise of satisfying life, Bai Hong did not forget to improve herself, and also entered the Nanyang High Business with Li Lili to read books for nearly a year.
In 1934, Shanghai's "Big Evening News" held a "Radio Singer Campaign", which was also the first chinese pop singer campaign in China, and it could also be described as a prosperous event in Shanghai's "entertainment circle", and it could also be regarded as a huge "Supergirl Competition".
Star chasing, no matter in which era is popular, at the beginning of the campaign, Bai Hong and Zhou Xuan took the lead, in the 18-day competition, the two were not divided, each other had a priority.
However, at that time, Bai Hong's fame was even greater, so he finally won the championship with an absolute advantage of 9103 votes, and won the title of the first "queen of songs" in the history of Chinese pop music, followed by Zhou Xuan and Wang Manjie.
Bai Hong recorded a total of more than 150 songs, second only to Zhou Xuan in number, and its influence is also extraordinary, in 1934, the 14-year-old Bai Hong completed his screen debut under the recommendation of Li Jinhui and starred in the movie "Fairy on Earth".
The film was well received, and she was able to shine in the film industry, and the theme song "Fairy on Earth" and the interlude "Silver Desolation" she sang in the film can also be described as popular.
Subsequently, she starred in films such as "Bodybuilding" and "National Color Tianxiang", and in 1935, with the reorganization of the Mingyue Opera Society, Bai Hong's career also reached a new peak.
In the song and dance drama "Peanut Rice", she shines, and the two interludes in the play composed by Lai Kam Kwong are also recorded by Bai Hong and are very popular.
Subsequently, in 1936, the Mingyue Song and Dance Society premiered the five-act song and dance drama "Peach Blossom Prince" at the 15th anniversary commemorative meeting held at the Jincheng Grand Theatre.
This drama can be described as a gathering of stars, known as "unprecedented", "blind to everything" of the momentum, by Li Minghui, Li Lili, Li Mingjian, Zhou Xuan, Yan Fei and other more than 60 stars jointly performed, but the lead actor is Bai Hong and Yan Hua.
At this time, BaiHong can be described as an infinite scenery, and there have been many song and dance interludes such as "Carnival Song", "Wine Talk", "Prison Song", "Youth Fashion" and so on.
With the fame of the drama club in the world, Bai Hong is a double harvest of career love, she not only has a thriving career and a far-reaching reputation, she and Li Jinguang have also suddenly developed from a teacher-student relationship into love and married.
From left: Bai Hong, Yao Li, Zhou Xuan, Li Xianglan, Bai Guang, Qi Zhengyin
Li Jinguang is the younger brother of Li Jinhui, the "father of Chinese pop music", is an excellent composer, known as the "King of Songs", "Night Come", "Shangri-La", "Pick Betel Nut", "Motherly Heart", "Meet And Don't Hate Late" and hundreds of popular songs are his works.
He is 13 years older than Bai Hong, in 1936 the two were happily married, they were talented and feminine, can be described as a very good match, after the marriage of the two lived a very happy and sweet time, they are really envious of others, but also gave birth to four children in a row (another child died prematurely).
However, Li Jinguang had a wife in the countryside before meeting Bai Hong, but because he appreciated Bai Hong's talent, he launched a passionate pursuit, and finally got his wish and embraced the beauty.
However, their marriage eventually came to an end quickly, and in 1950, they issued a statement ending the marriage, probably too early, too young, and not handling many problems in the relationship properly, which led to the eventual breakdown of the marriage.
Although their husband and wife fate was exhausted, the two still maintained a friendly relationship, and Bai Hong also made Nie Er fall in love at first sight, but for some reasons, this relationship did not blossom after all.
Middle white rainbow, right Nie Er
How red was the white rainbow back then? In 1945, the Yelaixiang Music Club signed a contract with Bai Hong for 400,000 yuan and invited her to sing on stage, and then she was signed by the Xianle Dance Palace for a huge amount of 1.5 million yuan.
Although today's money has also been depreciated repeatedly due to inflation, 1.5 million is still a huge amount of money today, which shows how important her position in the music world was back then.
In 1945, she held two "White Rainbow Singing Conferences" at the Lyceum Theater in Shanghai, becoming the first domestic pop singer to hold a solo concert, which also triggered a boom in major singers to hold personal concerts.
In terms of singing career and film world, Bai Hong can be described as an infinite scenery, but after the divorce, she returned to her hometown Beijing, and became a drama actor, and married Mao Yanhua, a drama student.
"Lin Zexu", "Voice of America", "Sunrise", "Growing Up in Battle", "In front of New Things", "Mother", "Dawn Shines on Moscow", etc., their husbands sang with their wives, and they starred in many excellent dramas together.
Film drama song, Bai Hong can be described as a three-habitat red star without shortcomings, although the society was turbulent, but the relationship between people was excellent, "silver voice" Yao Li was deeply cared for by Bai Hong, and also recalled:
There used to be a benefit to singers, not saying I'm jealous of you, you're red I'm jealous, why teach you, no. Like a family.
Bai Hong composed her own legend in her time, but fate is always merciless, in her later years, Bai Hong was diagnosed with cancer, and because of the doctor's misdiagnosis, the timing of treatment was delayed.
Fortunately, her husband Mao Yanhua has always been with her and pampered, and in the last days of her life, she lay on the hospital bed over and over again, listening to the songs she sang in her early years, reliving the stormy life that had walked for more than half a century.
In 1992, the 73-year-old Bai Hong died in Beijing, and her death also set off a "white rainbow fever" in Nanyang, and the newspapers and periodicals in the Philippines and Singapore also spoke one after another, making a high degree of affirmation of Bai Hong's singing.
Life is short, fleeting, we all hoped that in the limited life, compose their own brilliant scene, but more people can only come silently, go hard, and her life is colorful, full of legends of ups and downs, enviable, but also pitying.