An influential singer in Asia and the Chinese community, one of Hong Kong's "Four Heavenly Kings" and the "God of Songs" in the Chinese-speaking world, Jacky Cheung is one of the most popular singers in the world.
The mid-1990s was the peak of Jacky Cheung's career, and according to the record sales statistics of the IFPI at the time, Jacky Cheung ranked second in the world only to American singer Michael Jackson, who was in the middle of his career, and was much higher than Madonna, who was in third place, and was named the "Favorite Asian Artist" in the U.S. Billboard Awards ceremony in 1994. "In 1995, he was the first Chinese singer to appear on the cover of Time Magazine's U.S. edition. In the same year, he released the Mandarin album "True Love New Songs + Selections", which has sold more than 10 million copies, making it the highest-selling Chinese album in history. 95 and 96 consecutively for two years, he was awarded the "Monte Carlo" World's Highest Music Awards, the "Highest Selling Asian Pop Artist" and the "Highest Selling Asian Pop Artist" at the World's Highest Music Awards. He won the "World's Highest Selling Asian Pop Artist" and "World's Highest Selling Chinese Artist" awards at the Monte Carlo World Music Awards for two consecutive years in 1995 and 1996, and was inducted into the Universal Records U.S.A. Hall of Fame for the 1990s, and was listed in the Time Magazine as one of the 50 Most Influential People in Asia at that time. He has also won several I F PI Singer Awards.
The peak of Jacky Cheung's career is also considered to be the period when Hong Kong pop music made its greatest contribution to overseas, especially in terms of its success in opening up huge overseas markets. Jacky Cheung's record sales at that time also attracted the attention of the international pop music industry or media, including Time Magazine, the most authoritative music magazine in the United States. Billboard, the most authoritative music magazine in the U.S., also began to pay attention to Hong Kong pop music to some extent because of Jacky Cheung's rise.
In 1999, he was named one of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World, and in 2001, he was awarded the Golden Needle Award, the highest honor for RTHK's Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs. By 2006, his cumulative record sales had exceeded 120 million, ranking 24th in the world and first in Asia, and at the end of 2004, he won the IFPI's Hong Kong Top Sales Award, and Jacky Cheung, who had not been attending music awards ceremonies for a long time, made a rare appearance at the ceremony to receive the award.
In November 2006, the organizing committee of the Doha Asian Games announced on the official website of the Games that it had invited four singers to attend the opening ceremony of the Games on December 1, and Jacky Cheung was one of them, singing the theme song "Together Now" in the last performance with tens of thousands of drummers. The organizing committee then cited "The most popular Asian performer in the world, from Hong Kong, China - Jacky Cheung! The most popular Asian performer in the world, from Hong Kong, China - Jacky Cheung!") To introduce Jacky Cheung's appearance, it can be seen that his popularity and influence has also covered the entire Asian region. As of 2006, his cumulative total record sales have exceeded 240 million, ranking 24th globally and first in Asia. 2007 March - 2008 January: He *** held 105 world tour concerts - Jacky Cheung Light Years World Tour, recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the singer with the most concerts held in the series.
FEMALE SINGER OF COURSE Faye Wong
One of the best female singers in the Chinese music industry from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s, Faye Wong is regarded as the "diva of the music industry" in the Greater China region. She has sung many classic songs and her music has a strong personal style.
Faye Wong has won the highest honors for female singers at all major awards ceremonies on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and in three places, such as the "Top Ten Golden Songs Award Ceremony" in which she won the "Most Popular Female Vocalist" twice (in 1994 and 1998) and "Most Popular Female Vocalist" six times (in 1994-1997 and 1999-2000) at the height of her career. 1994-1997, 1999-2000) won the "Asia-Pacific Most Popular Hong Kong Female Vocalist"; in the "叱樂坛流行榜颁奖典礼 "四度(1993-1994、1996-1997年度)夺得 "叱乐坛女歌手金奖 " and for three consecutive years (1997-1999) won the "叱吒乐坛我最喜爱的女歌手"; in 2000, together with Kelly Chen and Eason Chan, won the "Four Radio Music Awards - Media Award In 2000, she and Kelly Chen won the "Four Taiwan Music Awards - Media Awards" together, and became the big winners of the four major electronic media music award ceremonies. 2004, she was nominated for the fifth time in Taiwan's "Golden Melody Awards" for her album "Will Love", and won the "Best Mandarin Female Vocalist". Faye Wong is characterized by her inability to express herself in words, and she chooses to express her true self through her inner state of mind and life feelings through her singing works. According to the critics, "no matter what the song is about, Faye Wang can y convey 100% of Faye Wang." In addition, some people look at Faye's popularity from a sociological point of view, arguing that Faye has shaped the countercurrent of cultural globalization in the historical genealogy of pop culture, and demonstrated the opportunity to de-culturize the culture industry. It also shows the importance of feminism in criticizing pop culture.
The first Chinese female singer to be featured on the cover of Time Magazine was published in the October 14, 1996 issue of Time Magazine, and the news was widely reported by the media and became a sensation. Faye Wong was hailed as "Pop Diva" and "Canto-Pop Prince" by the magazine, with full coverage of Faye Wong's rise to stardom.
The first Chinese singer to reach the top 10 on Oricon's weekly charts with her Chinese songs: Faye Wong's three albums, "Eyes On Me", "Wings of Light" and "Separate Ways", all reached the top 20 on Oricon's weekly charts, with "Wings of Light" reaching the 19th position, "Separate Ways" the 14th, and "Eyes On Me" the 9th, becoming the biggest hit of the week. It was the highest selling foreign language album in Japan that year.
In 2008, Faye Wong's version of "Wish People Lasted Long" was selected as the song for the Chang'e I satellite, authorized by the National Defense Science and Industry Commission
*Faye Wong's "Sky" album was the earliest to achieve ultra-platinum sales
*Faye Wong's "Singing Journey" album was the first HDCD record in the Chinese music world
*Singing Journey's graphic design was awarded the International PSTH Design Award
*SONY SUNNY Columbia Records' "Separate Ways" hit #14, "Eyes On Me" hit #9 and became the highest-selling foreign language album in Japan. SONY Columbia Records Signs Faye Wong on Luxury Tanker
*CNN News' Exclusive Hong Kong Connection Interview with Faye Wong
*EMI Baidai Records Signs Faye Wong for $60 Million
*MTV's STATION America - Viewers Vote for the Best Interpretation of a Singer
*The US Billboard Pop Chart" is the first of its kind in China. BILLBOARD" World's Most Popular Female Singer
*Highest Chinese Ticket Price for Las Vegas Concert
*Malaysia's First "Asian Golden Melody Awards" Golden Melody Award
*Japan's Final Fantasy Game Company's president named Faye Wong as the best singer to sing for them. Named Faye Wong's single "Gaze at Me"
*British man, VJchange, created an English song to pay tribute to his idol, "I want to see Faye Wong in Hong Kong"
Asia Weekly chose Faye Wong as one of the 50 most important Chinese people in the founding of the country.
Faye Wong was recognized in the Guinness Book of Records for selling the most records in Cantonese.
Performing Arts Celebrities Public Image List Singer List: The 2008 Performing Arts Celebrities Public Image List Singer List was released in December 2008, and Faye Wong ranked sixth. Although Faye Wong has been fading out of the singing scene for many years, her popularity is still undiminished. It is said that this year's Spring Festival Gala, she and Jacky Cheung have been invited by the director's team and are likely to make a heavyweight comeback!
And then there's Song Zuying (although she's not technically a "singer" as they say), but her singing accomplishments are definitely international
China's most prestigious soprano singer today, and a national-level actress. She graduated from the Music and Dance Department of the Central University for Nationalities in China and from the Graduate Program of Ethnic Vocal Music of the China Conservatory of Music. She has composed and sung nearly 1,000 Chinese folk songs and a large number of Chinese and foreign art songs and opera arias in her more than ten years of singing Chinese folk vocal music. The Chinese songs she premiered, such as "Spicy Girl", "Good Day", "Love My China" and "Flying Song of the Earth", have been widely circulated in Chinese folklore and the world's Chinese-speaking circles.
Song Zuying, in the eyes of the Chinese audience, is the star of "Oriental Art". She was born in Xiangxi, Hunan Province, one of the most romantic and legendary places in Chinese history, celebrated by many famous poets. The beautiful mountains and clear water there, where many beautiful women have been born through the ages, is a place where immortals live, and where many Chinese ethnic minorities, who have been able to sing and dance since their childhood, are still nurtured today. Song Zuying is one of the most talented Miao descendants.
Song was invited to sing on behalf of the Chinese at a large-scale concert for the 2002 World Cup soccer tournament in South Korea.
In December 2002, as a cultural ambassador for the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Australia, Song Zuying successfully performed at the Sydney Opera House in Australia in a concert entitled "Good Day - Song Zuying Solo Concert".
In November 2003, Song Zuying successfully held her solo concert at the Golden Hall in Vienna, Austria.
October 2006, in the United States in Washington, D.C. Kennedy Center for the Arts held a "good a beautiful jasmine flower - Song Zuying Solo Concert". The government of Washington, D.C., declared October 12 every year as "Song Zuying" Day.
On August 24, 2008, during the closing ceremony of the 29th Summer Olympics, Song Zuying and Domingo performed the closing ceremony theme song "The Flame of Love" together, and their heavenly voices shook the night sky.
December 2006: Nominated for a Grammy Award (the album "A Hundred Years of Voices" was shortlisted for "Best Classical Crossover Album"), the first of its kind in the folk music world.
May, 2007: Kennedy Gold Medal for the Arts, only 7 people in the world.
Additionally, it is impossible not to mention Teresa Teng
Teresa Teng is the first Chinese modern pop singer with world influence, but also in the early eighties, that is, at the beginning of the reform and opening up of mainland China, Teresa Teng's songs are still linked to capitalism and other sensitive words, when the mainstream media for the Teresa Teng's songs are evaluated in four words: the sound of music. At that time, people, especially the young people, who had just escaped from the overwhelming revolutionary model theater in the Cultural Revolution, just heard Teresa Teng's beautiful voice, which was complemented by Teresa Teng's pretty face, and could only be described as "beautiful woman, heavenly voice". In this sense, Teresa Teng's voice was so beautiful. In this sense, the three words "Teresa Teng" already represent countless meanings!
Hailed as "the Chinese world's most representative international singer of the twentieth century," Teresa Teng (January 29, 1953-May 8, 1995), whose ancestral home is Dengtai Village, Da Ming County, Handan, Hebei Province, was born in Tianyang Village, Baozhong Township, Yunlin County, Taiwan. Teresa Teng's noble, gracious and mature image made her gradually become a superstar of the Chinese and Japanese music scene in the 1980s. She was a Taiwanese singer with considerable influence in the Chinese community, and one of the most renowned Chinese and Japanese female singers of the second half of the 20th century. In 2009, 14 years after her death, Teresa Teng was selected as the most influential artist in Hong Kong and Taiwan with an absolute advantage of more than 8.5 million votes, topping the list of the most influential cultural figures in the network selection for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, which is the "New China's Most Influential Cultural Figures Selection". According to statistics, by 2006, Teresa Teng's total sales of licensed records had exceeded 48 million. In Teresa Teng's thirty years of singing career, **** sang more than 3,000 Chinese, English, Japanese and other songs. She has also left many immortalized masterpieces for the world.
May 8, 1995 Teresa Teng died suddenly in Chiang Mai, Thailand, at the age of forty-two due to asthma. She was the first Chinese singer to be honored at the Lincoln Center in New York City and the Music Center in Los Angeles, and in 1986 she was named one of Time Magazine's top seven female singers in the world and one of the world's top ten most popular female singers, the only Asian singer to receive both awards. she was awarded the Japan Cable Awards for three consecutive years in 1984, 1985, and 1986, setting a record for a triple crown (which was won by Japanese singer (The record was tied in 2007 by Japanese singer Kiyoshi Kashigawa). She was also the fourth Chinese female singer to enter the Red and White Song Contest, appearing three times in 1985, 1986 and 1991.
Teng's voice and charisma are unique , her most realistic significance to the Chinese music scene, that is: without Teresa Teng's singing, there would be no mainland pop music scene today. In those days, the mainland's pop music scene just started to face a barren and poor, while Teresa Teng's songs were widely sung and became fashionable, which naturally affected the development of the mainland music scene, and many singers began to emulate her singing style. Until today, there are still many singers in the cover, imitation of her song ......
Review of Teresa Teng's life, in the history of Chinese pop music, there is no doubt that it is a generation of masters to carry on the past and start a new generation of school, she sang the song has become part of the world's cultural heritage, she is a wonderful Deng style singing voice and perfect singing skills, leading people into the realm of truth, goodness and beauty of art ......
She also has a place in the tangle of cross-strait history. After Teresa Teng's passing, the well-known U.S. music magazine "Charts" reported in detail on Teresa Teng's story. The article described Teresa as having "brought cultural unity to the two sides of the Taiwan Strait in the 1970s and 1980s".
This is not an exaggeration: in the era of cross-strait confrontation, Teresa was at the peak of her career when the tide of China's reform and opening up coincided, and as a result, Teresa's style and image were not only recognized in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Japan, where she became one of the leading powerhouse singers, but also spread her gentle elegance and refreshing breath directly to the land of the gods. With the deepening of reform and opening up on the mainland, Teresa Teng and her songs have played an enlightening role.
The times make heroes, China's specific historical conditions have created her unshakeable historical position, Teresa Teng's name has not only on behalf of her own but the cultural symbol of that era.