How do you feel about the fact that the singer's career has been turned upside down after they became famous in Taiwan after they couldn't make it in Hong Kong?
How fast is the "metabolism" of today's show business and trendy music scene? What's on the hot list a few minutes ago is likely to be off the radar a few minutes later. If you go back in time about 30 years, the four kings of Hong Kong used to "dominate" all of the 90's pop music scene, which is really a classic legend when you look at it nowadays!
Despite the fact that the four have not been on the same stage for a long time, and there have been many disputes over who is stronger or weaker, many people still love to have them together. Some people have protested strongly against their influence. For example, domestic rock music means: He Yong, in 1994, he and Dou Wei, Zhang Chu and so on all the way south to Hung Hom. The day before the tour, He Yong said: "In the four heavenly kings, in addition to Jacky Cheung, all clowns!"
Despite the chassis of others, this statement said "lack of emotional intelligence", but many people also found that the dive into the music to create speech, the peak can be said to be over the four kings of the world, another person. There are two Hong Kong singers, they ran to Taiwan to become famous debut, if you questioned them is in Hong Kong can not survive to go far to Taiwan singing, that can be wrong! Until they fierce dragon over the river happened in the Hong Kong singing situation, had a one-person force stirred up the Hong Kong singing world wind book afraid of turning the world, the four heavenly kings have been due to their happenings and taboo.
Wang Jie: the four heavenly kings are not easy to sing! Listen to Wang Jie's song, singing pure with pallor, meticulous without losing air. I don't know when, Li Zongsheng bias didn't look good not easy to jitterbug Wang Jie. At that time another corporate giant alien spacecraft also did not find Wang Jie, but instead and alien spacecraft have close collaboration Li Shouquan, digging Wang Jie's body qualities.
Born in Taiwan, Wang lived in Hong Kong as a child with his father and mother, whose father was a well-known actor in the Shaw Brothers movie business. The year he was twelve, after the long-feuding couple divorced, Wang Jie gradually ventured out on his own. At the age of seventeen, he returned to Taiwan to develop the trend, inadvertently saved a girl from a gang of ruffians, the two people also from then on caused a lightning like emotion. But in Wang Jie enlisted in the army period, the girl threw down to hold the daughter in the quilt to go away.
In order to better grow the daughter, Wang Jie opened a cab, in addition to the music company to send writings. Since childhood, he loved to sing, saw the rapid development of Taiwan songs at that time, perhaps singing is a development direction.1987, Qi Qin sang "about the winter", then the ranking charts become "a game a dream" of the world. With the gold medal producer Li Shouquan to build out, Wang Jie arrived in the singing world that became the overall champion, not only to get rid of Qi Qin's hegemony influence, but also program to get another piece of vinyl record sales market: Hong Kong.
Wang Jie returned to Hong Kong again in 1989, coinciding with the withdrawal of Leslie Cheung, Alan Tam awards ceremony, the four heavenly kings did not famous buffer period. This year, he sang the popular "Who knows the heart of the prodigal son", turned into the first Taiwanese singer to win Hong Kong's platinum record sales, and got the Hong Kong Top Ten Golden Songs, and he was on stage with Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui. The following year, Wang Jie opened six consecutive tours in Hung Hom, each at full capacity level. If you want to make him play a character role, over the top, millions of Hong Kong dollars per episode to consider.
Then think about what the four heavenly kings were doing at that time. Andy Lau is still in the film and television industry as a desperado, Aaron Kwok and Leon Lai ran to Taiwan, one debut acted in the electric locomotive advertising campaign, one due to be TVB snowballing another way out, and Jacky Cheung is three years away from the peak of his sales "Kiss Farewell". Two years ago, Wang Jie in the variety show put words "four heavenly kings are not easy to sing", a time of public opinion rose, think Wang Jie is too arrogant. But if you go through Wang Jie's singing resume, he does have the confidence to speak with his writings.
Chou Huajian: The title of "King of Kings Killer" is not blown out of proportion! Wang Jie was not favored by the Rolling Stones, but Zhou Huajian was very much in line with Li Zongsheng's aesthetic. The middle and high tones are mild and magnetic, and the high tones are full of explosive power. But like Wang Jie, Zhou Huajian is also a Taiwanese red to Hong Kong means. Born in Hong Kong, he has a more complete childhood than Wang Jie.
He went to Taiwan at the age of thirteen, not like Wang Jie was for a better life, just the top student's exotic school record. Zhou Hua Jian not only enrolled in the Department of Mathematics of the National Taiwan University, but also successfully stationed in the music producer appeared in the national songs of the western food store singing. It is also in the Western restaurant, Zhou Huajian encountered Li Zongsheng, but also understand their own exotic little fan girl, that is, the future daughter-in-law, really work feelings of fame and fortune.
After entering the Rolling Stones, Li Zongsheng gave them to create a character relationship, and is not a prodigal son sentiment, not spare tire love song songs, just "let me rejoice and let me worry", "sleep on a lonely pillow", "rain and wind" this kind of obsessed with the good husband line. In Taiwan a invincible, Rolling Stone and push Zhou Hua Jian to Hong Kong sales market.
In 1994, Zhou Huajian rushed to Hung Hom to open three consecutive tour, not only no water and soil conditions, still in Hong Kong this land resources, to create a martial arts music attributable to their own characteristics, such as "leaning on the sky to slay dragons" in the "sword such as a dream", "eight parts of the dragon" in the "difficult to read the scripture", "divine Eagle Warrior Couple" in the "world of lovers".
This year, the Hong Kong singing scene was already in the golden reign of the four kings. Zhou Huajian did not have the face of a fresh meat star, are not exciting folk dance, but only he sang quietly on the stage, thunderous applause, won thousands of awards, and if he issued a solo album, the four heavenly kings one after another to retreat, for fear of colliding with him to sell too much.
If this is not considered fire, then look at Zhou Huajian daughter-in-law's reflection, because Zhou Huajian in Hong Kong development trend is too good, schedule one after another, touring one after another, although Zhou Huajian is known as a good husband, but can not afford to eat Hong Kong paparazzi herbal concoctions gossip news to them, Zhou Huajian daughter-in-law was once in deep depression, a clear proposal for divorce, which makes Zhou Huajian realize how busy also do not forget the home, in the middle and late gradually withdrew from the singing world.
Naturally, the exit of the singing world are not only Zhou Huajian and Wang Jie, the four heavenly kings also gradually give way to the virtuous, to the young people a lot of opportunities around. In our review of the 90's, in which period of the marks, in addition to the four heavenly kings, Wang Jie, Zhou Huajian's fluttering color, in fact, there are a lot of understanding of the name of the understanding of the song has haunted each other's heart. Nowadays, perhaps the person who sings has long had no strength, hoarse voice, and even won't be announced again, but the beginning of these hits, has been fresh with the memory of happy youth! What do people think?