Phoenix Legend is a Chinese mainland singing group composed of Yang Wei Linghua and Zeng Yi.
The group was founded in 1998, and officially debuted in April 2004. 2005, the group won the first runner-up in the "Avenue of Stars", and in the same year, the group released their debut album "Above the Moon", which was the first of its kind to create a "national pop" genre.
In 2007, the group released the album "Auspicious". 2009, the group released the album "The Most Dazzling Ethnic Wind". 2010, the group held the "Lotus Pond Moonlight" concert in Beijing. 2012, the group won the Baidu Music 2012 Top Ten Golden Songs Championship with the song "The Most Dazzling Ethnic Wind". 2014, the group released the album "The Best of Times". 2016, the group released the album "The Most Dazzling Ethnic Wind". On December 5, 2016, Phoenix released the album "The Far Side of the Far Side or the Far Side".
Phoenix Legend's music blends elements of classic folk songs with electronic music and rap, combining ethnic singing with pop singing.
Chinese Name: Phoenix Legend
Foreign Name: PhoenixLegend
Nationality: China
Ethnicity: Linghua: Mongolian/Zeng Yi: Han
Birthplace: Linghua: Ordos, Inner Mongolia/Zeng Yi: Yiyang, Hunan
Occupation: Singer
Agency: Peacock Records
Representative works: Above the Moon, Flying Free, Moonlight in the Lotus Pond, Dazzling Ethnic Wind, I Come from the Grassland, Singing Out Loud, Lang's Temptation, Freedom, Mountains and Rivers
Major Achievements: Top Ten Singers in the 11th "CCTV National Young Singers Grand Prix"
In 2005, Linghua was selected as one of the top ten singers in CCTV "Starlight Grand Prix". CCTV "Avenue of Stars" Annual Runner-up
Won the "CCTV-MTV" Music Festival Best Group Award in Mainland China twice
Group members: Yang Wei Linghua, Zeng Yi
Date of Debut: 2004 Year
Fan name: Phoenix fans
Total album sales: more than 6 million copies
Publicity planning company: Phoenix Legend Studio (Hundred People Entertainment)
Early years
1995, Linghua graduated from the dance program of the art school, returned to her hometown of Ordos, and worked as an electrical appliances sales clerk. 1997, Linghua persuaded her parents to go to Shenzhen alone to find a suitable place for her to work, and then she was sent to Shenzhen. her parents to go to Shenzhen alone to find a suitable platform for herself. The Phoenix Legends, formerly known as the Cool Fire group, was formed in September 1997.
In 1998, Zeng Yi gave up his regular job to join his good friend who ran the Golden Age Ballroom in Shenzhen; at the end of the year, Linghua, who had unsuccessfully taken the exams for the Window of the World, Folk Village and other cultural and artistic organizations, applied for a job at the Golden Age Ballroom, and was admitted to the program as a contracted entertainer, becoming a colleague of Zeng Yi, who was the music director of this ballroom, and the two of them set up a singing group. Out of their love for the Korean group Cool Dragon, they decided to name the group "Cool Fire". The group became a pillar of the Performing Arts Center, the Golden Era Performing Arts Center's nightly four-hour show, also under Zeng Yi's choreography, direction, and became a signature of the Shenzhen performance market; the same year, they participated in the "Radio and Television Music Festival New Talent Award" held in Guangdong and entered the final round.
In May 1999, Linghua, Zeng Yi and Zhang Jie formally established the "Hair Nerve Group". Linghua explained: "Because we just formed a group, if we don't have a loud name for fear that people can't remember, so we came up with this name "Fat Nerve", which has the meaning of spiritually refreshing." Zhang Jie quit the group in 2000.
In early 2003, He Muyang, a Hunan-based musician based in Shenzhen, was looking for a female singer with a tense voice to sing a public service song he had written to fight SARS, and found that the duo's performance format was very special, creating "Above the Moon," which was a precedent for the combination of folk music and rap music. The group is well known in Guangdong and Shenzhen, and was invited to perform on CCTV's "The Same Song" program in 2003.
Entertainment experience
In 2004, the group signed into the Peacock Records, in July of the same year, was selected to participate in the CCTV 11th National Young Singers Grand Prix (vocational group) popular singing, the first sixteen groups of singers, won the vocational group of the top ten outstanding singers.
In 2005, the "cool fire" group officially renamed "Phoenix Legend", began their road to acting; the same year, to participate in the CCTV "Avenue of Stars", and won the annual runner-up; in April of the same year, the release of the group's first album "Above the Moon". Above the Moon"
In June 2006, China Mobile's first color bell TV patch advertising bidding, the major SP declared bidding. The SP departments of two websites declared "Above the Moon" recorded 79 million color bell downloads. Since then the release of "free flight", "waiting for the love of roses", "the most dazzling national wind" and other songs have also become popular color bell music.
In July 2007, the group released its second album "Auspicious"; in the same year, the group won the Golden Flying Dragon Award for "Above the Moon".
In 2008, the group sang the song "Above the Moon" at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala; in the same year, the group sang "Freedom to Fly" at the CCTV Lantern Festival Gala.
In 2009, the Second Artillery Cultural Corps; in the same year, "Freedom to Fly" was selected for the CCTV Spring Festival Gala singing and dancing programs, and participated in the rehearsal work, and ultimately was taken down due to the excessive number of programs; June 2 of the same year, the release of the combination of the third album, "The Most Dazzling Ethnic Wind", the album's song "I Love You in China" is the combination of the songs sung for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the country in 2009, and also after "Over the Moon" with the creator of the song "I Love You in China". Above the Moon" after the songwriter He Muyang's cooperation again; media comprehensive list of 2009 mainland singers for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the country's songs, network popularity voting. China I Love You" was ranked third; in the same year, the contract was renewed with Peacock Records; in the same year, Yisou's cell phone search list "All Love" ranked seventh in the year.
In 2010, in the CCTV Spring Festival gala singing the song "sky blue blue"; September 30 of the same year, the release of the combination of the first new song + selected album "I come from the grasslands", the main song "Lotus pond moonlight" "I come from the grasslands" became popular, of which the "Lotus pond moonlight" since its official launch on June 24, 2010, the major music charts in China to achieve good results; the song cell phone The number of applications more than 100 million people, the Phoenix Legend songs all color bell downloads also exceeded 100 million; the same year, October 2, 3 in the Beizhan Theatre, held the group's first concert "Lotus Pond Moonlight" Beijing concert.
June 15, 2011, the release of military theme single "green whirlwind", the song is the Phoenix Legend for the ninetieth anniversary of the founding of the party to build a special tribute to the work of the two weeks took a number of domestic music charts; August 2, the same year, the release of a single "love each other", the song won the "sing China's crowd favorite new song creation! "collection of selection activities of the top ten Golden Song Award; August 17, the same year, the release of the album "Singing Out Loud", the main song "Singing Out Loud" was launched in the major music sites listening to the amount of breakthroughs in the million, in the major charts is also to take the new song TOP100 and popular singers; the same year, held "Singing Out Loud" national tour "
In the same year, the National Tour was held; in the same year, he left the Second Artillery Cultural and Industrial Corps.
April 20, 2012, the release of the game "Dragon in the sky" theme song "Dragon back to the word ballad", the song in the music portal launched, won the Chinese new song list champion; in July of the same year, to participate in the singing of the song "Beijing Blessing you", and participated in the shooting of the song MV; July 24, the same year, the release of the dance music video teaching album "Dancing Miracle"; August 30, the same year, the release of the CCTV cooking reality TV show "Dance"; the same year, the release of the "Dance Miracle" for the CCTV cooking reality show "Taste of China" sang the theme song of the same name "Taste of China"; in the same year, in the CCTV Mid-Autumn Festival Gala sang "Autumn Painting"; on November 24 of the same year, the Phoenix Legend national tour kicked off (November 24th Shenzhen station began, December 1 Hangzhou station, December 8, 9 Taiyuan station, December 15 Wuhan station).
On January 24, 2013, the theme song of the same name "Open Door" for the CCTV puzzle variety show "Open Door" was released; on February 9 of the same year, "Taste of China" was sung at CCTV's Spring Festival Gala, and during the Spring Festival it was continuously performed at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, Beijing Satellite Television's Spring Festival Gala, Oriental Satellite Television's Spring Festival Gala, Hunan Satellite Television's Spring Festival Gala, Anhui Satellite Television's Spring Festival Gala, Shaanxi Satellite Television's Spring Festival Gala, Jiangsu CCTV Spring Festival Gala and CCTV Lantern Festival Gala and other eight Spring Festival Gala; on March 8 of the same year, the single "Sisters of the World" was released with Xu Qianya; on April 24 of the same year, the group was ranked 71st in Forbes China Celebrities list; on April 30 of the same year, the group held the "I am a Legend" concert in Beijing; on July 18 of the same year, it released the martial arts style single "Flying Sisters". On July 18 of the same year, they released the martial arts style single "Flying"; on September 19 of the same year, they sang the song "Ask the Moon" at the 2013 CCTV Mid-Autumn Festival Gala; and on December 16 of the same year, they released the single "Freedom from Freedom".
July 2014, the release of the single "feel happy you clap your hands"; July 3 of the same year, in cooperation with well-known domestic orchestras, the release of "the most dazzling national wind" symphonic version; July 30 of the same year, the release of the sixth album "the best of times"; October 4 of the same year, the Phoenix Legend hand in hand with the China Philharmonic Orchestra, in the Century Theatre in Beijing, held the "China Philharmonic Orchestra & Phoenix Legend Music Works Symphonic Concert", as the tenth anniversary of the group; this is the first public appearance of the Phoenix Legend after a year's hiatus, Zeng Yi guest host, the Phoenix Legend sang "accompany you for life", "bride to be married", "Flourishing Flowers" three new songs; after the launch of the live video, the one-week After the launch of the live video, the number of hits exceeded 20 million, known as "the public can understand the symphony concert"; December 26, the same year, the release of the animated film "Rabbit Warrior of the Legend of the Green Dawn" promotional song "Rabbit Warrior Kung Fu Exercise".
January 5, 2015, the release of the same name for the film "surprise all the way" sung promotional song "surprise all the way"; January 27, the same year, the release of the New Year's single "Chinese joy"; February 18, the same year, the group on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, with the Chopsticks Brothers, the Beijing Mass Museum of Fine Arts to perform the "most dazzling Little Apple"; February 19 the same year (the first day of the Lunar New Year), the group once again on the Hunan Satellite Television Spring Festival Gala stage, with Dazhang Wei *** with rendition of songs skewer, and chorus of "Chinese joy"; the same day, the combination also appeared in advance of the recording of the Oriental TV Spring Festival Gala, Beijing TV Spring Festival Gala, respectively, sang "Chinese joy" and "feel happy you clap your hands"; on March 4 of the same year, in the CCTV Lantern Festival Gala, performance of the song "Chinese joy"; on April 13 of the same year, the release of the spy war suspense drama for the Wang Dahua's Revolutionary Career" title song "Guandong female"; May 4 of the same year, to participate in the domestic first farmer song documentary reality show "Chinese farmers will sing" recording. On October 31 of the same year, the Phoenix Legend national tour started in Hefei Sports Center Stadium.
On February 1, 2016, the release of the single "Hopscotch", which combines elements of popular electro-dance music and Chinese folk music; on February 7, he participated in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, performing the song "Beautiful China Goes Up"; on April 8 of the same year, the release of the Chinese style single "Mr. Red Face", which combines elements of R&B, opera, etc.; on April 28 of the same year, the Release EP "Youngism"; May 6 of the same year, the combination of the second season of the "Chinese Farmers' Song Club" as a mentor, and with the writer Liu Zhenyun, Cai Guoqing formed a four-member mentor group; May 12 of the same year, attended the "Gai Shi Yin Xiong" of the press conference, and with Wang Leehom, PSY, YU Chengqing formed a mentor group, *** with the creation of the production by Jiangsu Satellite Television and Canstar, China's first EDM music program; December 5 of the same year On December 5 of the same year, the album "far away from far away or far away" was released, which combines rock, EDM, rap, folk, Chinese style and other music styles.
On January 20, 2017, the group participated in the Hunan Satellite TV Spring Festival Gala; on January 27 of the same year, the group participated in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala and sang the song Joyful Night; in addition, the group also appeared on the Oriental Satellite TV Spring Festival Gala, Beijing Satellite TV Spring Festival Gala, and CCTV Network Spring Festival Gala of the same year, and sang a number of old classics and two new songs, "Youngerism" and "Blossoming Flourishing"; on March 26 of the same year, the group Participated in the first season of the "Spitting Assembly" 10th in the Tencent video broadcast; April 10, the same year, the release of the single "Aiming at you love"; April 13, the same year, the release of the theme song for the online game "big green clouds OL" sung "green clouds"; June 23, the same year, to participate in the Shenzhen TV "Show of the Ages" recording, the scene interpretation of the "Poetry Edition "Above the Moon"; June 30 of the same year, to participate in the "Dream Night - green again" as the theme of the 2017 Hong Kong Youth Music Festival, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the return of Hong Kong; July 6 of the same year, to participate in the CCTV "Heart to Heart On July 6 of the same year, he took part in the CCTV "Heart to Heart" Art Troupe Nanchang sympathy performance.
January 22, 2018, the release of the movie "Demon Hunter 2" sung for the New Year's promotion song "together with the red fire"; February 15, the same year, in 2018 CCTV Spring Festival Gala on the opening song "Ten Thousand Purple and Thousand Red China Year"; March 21, the same year, the release of Tencent's "QQ Huaxia hand tour" sung the theme song "Legends of Huaxia"; November 24, the same year, the release of the single "Praise China". single "praise China".
On February 4, 2019, he sang the song "Chinese Happiness" at the 2019 CCTV Spring Festival Gala; on March 12 of the same year, he released the single "Mountains and Rivers"; on August 14 of the same year, he released the theme song "Blossom" for the first China Extreme Sports Conference; on September 13 of the same year, Phoenix Legend participated in the 2019 CCTV Mid-Autumn Gala , and sang the song "Don't Dong Da"; on September 20 of the same year, the single "Look at the Good River and Mountains" was released; on December 20 of the same year, the single "Down to Earth" was released.
On January 24, 2020, he sang the song "Embroidered Xiaokang" at the 2020 CCTV Spring Festival Gala; on May 1, he took part in CCTV's "Chinese Dream - Beauty of Labor - Tribute to Laborers May 1 Special Program", and sang the song "Rise" with Dong Jewel.
Personal life
The name of the group
"Phoenix Legends" is a combination of a man and a woman, and "Legends" originated from the online game "Legends".
Relationships and family
On April 25, 2014, Linghua revealed on Weibo that she was pregnant; on July 6, Linghua gave birth to a daughter, and Zeng Yi was reported to be pregnant.
On October 12, 2014, Zeng Yi exposed himself as a father on Weibo, and his wife gave birth to a son weighing six pounds.
Major works
Musical works
Sources of musical works:
Concert records
Variety programs
Magazine portraits
Award records
Social activities
On April 30, 2011 Phoenix Legend participated in the "Can't Live Without You" event held at the Wukesong Stadium in Beijing. "The performance was organized by the Beijing Mileage 25 Volunteer Team. The performance was initiated by the Beijing Mileage 25 Volunteer Team and collected 100 volunteers from all walks of life to provide various services for migrant workers, allowing them to have a colorful May 1 International Labor Day.
In the evening of December 30, 2011, she participated in the public welfare evening party of "Low Carbon, Saving Hebei" in Hebei Stadium.
On April 23, 2013, Han Hong revealed through her microblogging account that Phoenix Legend had donated 300,000 yuan to the Han Hong Love Fund for the relief work in the earthquake-stricken area of Ya'an.
In late December 2014, Linghua resolved to entrust host Sabine, in the name of Phoenix Legend, to donate one million dollars to help hearing-impaired children through Dream Star Partner.
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Outside Comments
A group that can be attributed to crossover, the Phoenix Legends are actually a kind of legacy of folk songs. "Above the Moon", "Lotus Pond Moonlight", or "The Most Dazzling Ethnic Wind", "Phoenix Legend" works of rhymes of the most characteristic, inherited the fine tradition of Chinese folk songs. The songs of Phoenix Legend seem to be similar to those new folk songs that can often be heard in the party, with one obvious difference, that is, the melody, but also more open to add some modern elements. Phoenix Legend's royalty songwriters include He Muyang and Zhang Chao, but not every song is what is known as tailor-made.
Phoenix Legend's approach to music is unlike the finesse that the mainstream pop industry increasingly prizes. A simple combination of rap, electronic, dance and folk songs, degrees of superimposed timbre, without the most popular timbre and complex professional rhythms, full-bodied timbre, ensuring the strength of the music. Songs such as "Moonlight in the Lotus Pond" began, began to notice the subtlety of the arrangement, the music still sounds not cumbersome, not obscure, the key to the flow of music.
Combination controversy
After the 5th round of rehearsals for the 2007 Spring Festival Gala, Phoenix Legend sang the song "Above the Moon", which was suspected of plagiarizing the British group Blue's song "AllRise". The Phoenix Legend agency organized experts to identify the song overnight and confirmed that it was an original pop song with a national style, explaining the situation to the media. The investigation found that the song had 19 suspected plagiarism. Media reports said the director of the Spring Festival Gala is to "satisfy selfish desires" to take the Phoenix Legend.