China's popular music has actually traveled a not-so-short road, nearly a hundred years, following the footsteps of the road in a hurry, you can't get around such a name - Teresa Teng (1953/1/29/1995/5/8), who has been the most influential artist in Hong Kong and Taiwan. -1995/5/8).
Today is the 50th anniversary of the birth of Ms. Teresa Teng, looking back on her life, in the history of Chinese pop music is undoubtedly a generation of masters to carry on the past, the school, the songs she sang have become part of the world's cultural heritage, she is a wonderful Deng style singing and perfect singing skills, leading people into the realm of truth, goodness and beauty of the art of the realm of the so many years gone by, one billion applause is still the same. One billion applause is still the same, people heartily love her, unforgettable her, miss her.
Many years ago, a generation was y intoxicated by her sweet voice. Many years later, this generation of people in her song towards middle age, old age. Walking on the bustling streets, Teresa Teng's songs inadvertently drifted into your ears from a certain store, and you couldn't help but stop in your tracks, remembering your own youthful first love as if it were a lifetime ago.
There is no one like her in the past, and there will be no one like her in the future. China's popular singing scene may never find another singer like her who can accompany so many people like a shadow over such a long period of time. Although there have been many popular singers and singers since the 1980s, there are not many that are familiar to our ears, but Teresa Teng still shines brightly. She sang hundreds of classic songs in Mandarin, Cantonese, Minnan, Japanese and English in a variety of styles, enough to put to shame those singers who only sang one or two hits in their lives and then disappeared. And the biggest difficulty we have in appreciating Teresa Teng is that it's hard to find a difficult song to listen to. As Mr. Tian Wenzhong, the famous host of the Taiwan Television Corporation, said: Teresa Tang's songs are suitable for young and old, from two-year-old dolls who know how to speak to two-hundred-year-olds who love to listen to them!
Magical Teresa Teng, she condensed history, a person to complete the normal circumstances of several generations of people to complete the history of the questionnaire. The so-called personal style of many Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland popular singers in front of her pure and natural image are all seemingly ridiculous, the only seemingly feasible way is to bypass her from afar, and sometimes pretend to ignore her existence, but the heart must not be unconvinced.
Before this peak, many stars such as Anita Mui and Faye Wong can only be second best (at least Faye once confessed that the singer she would most like to learn from is Teresa Teng). As for Fan Xiaoxuan, who is regarded as a jade girl and highly respected, the level of singing "Sweet Honey" is simply not comparable. Although over the years there are always some people with the so-called "lounge love song", "woozy voice" to derogate her, but derogation after derogation, in addition to more reflect the unsurpassed Teresa Teng, the so-called diva camp so far has not yet seen the superstar can be compared with it.
Tang's songs have a kind of natural beauty, such as mountain waterfalls, babbling brooks. People appreciate her as long as the aesthetic instincts and do not need to rack their brains. In fact, the art of **** the same point is a minute on the stage, ten years of work off the stage. Work to nature, just like the opening of the evening primrose as logical, no axe marks, but also than any design and careful packaging to come more unexpected, appropriate, well thought out. Today, many singers sing songs lack of infectious, lies in the packaging belongs to too many things! This is just like the original appearance of the lady Mrs. mediocre hard by plastic surgery to add a few points, but always make people feel that the shortcomings of the substance.
I remember that I was once very appreciative of Gao Shengmei's songs, thinking that they were the best popular songs, and then I felt very embarrassed. In a nation and country that has Teresa Teng, it is sad to think that so many uninformed popular songs can be heard everywhere. Some movie and TV stars have never sung a song also come to a "performance and superiority of singing", more some singers won a little award on the blindly arrogant, even their own actually count the oldest are not clear, think they have done something amazing, in fact, half a dozen heel is still in the heart of the palm of the Ru Lai.
Fortunately, many of us are not destined to live in the same era with Teresa Teng, but modern high-tech so that we can go back to review Teresa Teng, shame, excitement. A Gu Gu pouring people city, and then Gu Gu pouring people country. In all fairness, on the beauty of Teresa Teng can not be said to be the most magnificent, but her songs are really difficult to refuse. However, Teresa Teng such a woman in today's is less and less, the streets of the woman more and more seductive, more and more sexy, to meet the men of the classical feelings of the woman is almost extinct.
This song should only be found in heaven, but how many times can we hear it on earth?
If Su Dongpo and Li Yu were still alive, they would have been amazed by Teresa's extraordinary renditions of "Wish You Were Forever," "The Beauty of Yu - When Will Spring Flowers, Autumn and the Moon End" and "Upon the Western Tower Alone. We have reason to believe that ten years from now, or even a hundred years from now, Teresa Teng's songs will still be sung by our descendants. Her voice will never disappear just because she has left us.
When will you come again
Fifty years are but a glimpse of a floating life. The waves have eliminated the heroes, not to mention the autumn wind and rain. In the long river of history, can be remembered in the name of the mainstay of the few and far between, but if you talk about Chinese singers, Teresa Teng deservedly stood in the twentieth century at the top of the singing world, on the singing on the talent on the influence, ask the land of the gods, who with the competition? If not for a trance in the late spring of 1995, Teresa Teng would have been 50 years old today, and she would have been jealous.
January 29, 1953, Yunlin County, Taiwan Province of praise Chung Township Longyan Village in the courtyard, Teresa Teng was born. "Lijun" this name, is Teng dad army robe proposal modeled on the Song Dynasty that became prime minister of the strange woman "Meng Lijun" and take, an ancient legendary name, in modern times do not let the continuation of the ancients.
In the last year of the 20th century, the Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) synthesized professional recommendations and public opinion elected the "Top Ten Chinese Songs of the 20th Century", Teresa Teng's famous song "The Moon Represents My Heart" was selected.
But I have an even deeper emotional attachment to Teresa's other famous song, "When Will You Come Again". It was 16 years ago when my parents came back from a trip to Hong Kong with a videotape of Teresa Teng's NHK Concert, but when they entered the country, they were censored and one of the songs was erased, which was "When Will You Come Again". This beautiful song unfortunately perished, leaving only a five-minute-long screen of snowflakes and the puzzlement of an ignorant teenager in front of an old-fashioned television set. Was such a poignant song doomed to this tragic end from the day it was born? The ill-fated nature of "When Will You Come Again" can also be considered a classic injustice of Chinese songs. The song, which has a strong tango flavor, was born in 1936, and was written by composer Liu Xuean, who has written countless patriotic anti-war songs, for an advertising and promotional song and dance film called "Three Stars and the Moon," and the director, Fang Peilin, let the choreographer, Huang Jiamu, fill in the lyrics without Liu Xuean's consent, which was a source of great dissatisfaction to Liu Xuean, but he didn't protest publicly for the sake of his friends, which sowed the seeds for his future fate.
In 1939, a Hong Kong anti-war movie "Island Paradise" chose "When Will You Come Again" as its interlude song (sung by Lily Lai), describing a young man's reluctance to let go of his girlfriend before joining the army, and the song's rhythm was just right. The song was then covered and recorded by Li Xianglan and soon became a household name, so many people still consider "When Will You Come Again" to be the classic song first sung by Li Xianglan.
During the Cultural Revolution, the song was popularized by people with ulterior motives and was accompanied by politically charged lyrics. Some people even said that this song, which was sung by Li Xianglan, was made by Liu Xue'an for the traitors. Liu Xuean was wrongly categorized as a rightist for the song "When Will You Come Again," and was locked up in a "cowshed" for 22 years, where he was tortured and blinded, and was only rehabilitated nine years after the end of the Cultural Revolution, which led to the injustice.
"When Will You Come Again" became popular again in the early 1980s because of Teresa Teng's cover of the song, but it was wrongly considered "spiritual pollution" and "traitorous song" and therefore banned, also a historical injustice. Now that Liu Xuean has been vindicated and "When Will You Come Again" has been lifted from the ban, the openness and tolerance reflected in it is something for the people to rejoice over, and change makes progress.
But in retrospect, "When Will You Come Again" is too much of a miscarriage of justice. Composer Liu Xuean created a large number of patriotic songs, including "Exile Trilogy", which won unanimous praise from the people of the country; the singer Li Lili, not only was a famous movie star at the time, but also known as the "Longtan Three Jie" of the outstanding *** Party members, Qian Zhuangfei's daughter; the movie "paradise on an isolated island" is even more of a patriotic movie based on the theme of the war!
May 8, 1995, Teresa Teng in Chiang Mai, Thailand, at the end of her beautiful and short life, when I saw the news from the TV, the first song that rang in my ears, is "Why not? This song can indeed be used as a micro-sculpture of Teresa Teng's life, the yearning for love, the lamentation of time, the dream of being ordinary people, and the sorrow of being a songstress, are all embedded in this short three minutes, the most pitiful thing is that this song is the same as Teresa Teng's, although they are all over the whole of the Chinese region, but shall not be allowed to enter the main door. The red face is thin, and so is the song.
Walking the road of life
More than ten years ago, I was a teenager living in a small county in the Yanbian area. At that time, the family borrowed someone else's a brick Sanyo record player, after school I do not have any entertainment on the drumming of listening to the radio, that era only began to popularize the Taiwan school songs, I know Su Xiaoming, Wang Jieshi, Xie Lisi what. In addition to listening to ripped dozens of times of poor quality tapes there is no source of songs, so I began to secretly listen to the then banned in the dead of night Taiwan radio, of course, I have no interest in politics, just want to listen to the songs. I first learned about Teresa Teng on the CBC Pop Network, and the first song I heard was "Love in a Small Village", followed by "When Will You Come Again" and "Empty Harbor" and "Goodbye My Love". That is a kind of never heard of felicitous as a soft female voice, it suddenly far and near, suddenly high and low, wave after wave of impact on me, entangled me, let me can not stop, almost every night in Teresa Teng's wonderful voice in my hut in the diffusion of the drift in the intoxication in the sleep.
I have this hazy involuntarily like the island love songs and Teresa Teng, later leading the tide of concentric people will be smuggled into the goods from Guangzhou, in the other people are eager to all kinds of strange electronic watch, I asked someone to buy some belong to the forbidden Teresa Teng tape, there is a colorful cover printed lyrics, although it is also poor quality pirated, but finally can hear more. There was no Internet in those days, so bringing tapes from Guangzhou was the only channel. After a few times, I had already collected a lot of Teresa Teng's tapes, so much so that I could sing more than 90% of Teresa Teng's songs. That was the first time in my teenage years that I became obsessed with an idol, and Teresa Tang was the first, and still is. No matter how tight my computer's hard disk space is, my collection of Teresa Teng's songs is never to be deleted.
I also admire Teresa Teng because she is fluent in a variety of dialects and foreign languages, I have heard her songs and concert version of the speech of Cantonese, Minnan, Mandarin, English, Japanese, French and Southeast Asia also do not know what the language.
Carlson's comment 'Teresa Teng's beauty, naivety with a touch of grace, everlasting irredeemable gentleness, and orchid-like temperament, made her songs and her person perfectly one and the same. She is always so flawless, you even difficult to find in her CD to change the sound, in addition to the flowers of the fragrance of the flowers of the posture of the flowers of the shadow, she did not want to leave us anything. For this era, Teresa Teng is the last classical. Classical is a kind of mood, is a kind of soul deep temperament, non-artificial axe and can be. Since her, no one can sing the ethereal in the water, can let people in the dolichos flying in the feeling of autumn frost disorientation.
It is said that where there are Chinese people, there is Teresa Teng's song. In the minds of many, Teresa is the most successful female singer China has ever produced, and she will always have that status.
In the afternoon of May 8, 1995, this talented singer died suddenly in Chiang Mai, Thailand, at the age of forty-two due to asthma, in the beautiful time of her life died suddenly, and left the people who loved her forever. A singer, died in the peak of art and life, such as a soft and moving melody in the climax of the stop, leaving people endless nostalgic feelings.
The new generation of people have their own aesthetic interests, their own idols, they have a lot of fancy clothes and hair fancy idol. And my generation will be old people are not like these, let Teresa's song, long accompanied by us, in her song, to find that belongs to their own youthful dreams and pursuits. Listen to her sweet song again, let the heart full of gratitude and nostalgia, miss Teresa Teng, miss her songs, miss the lost era, far away from the youth, miss that full of vigor full of fantasy years.
Teresa Teng, the former no one, the latter no one, forever the absolute song!