Some time ago the Phoenix Legends in the "song and praise" program, the cover of the "bottom of the sea" by the music critics hit the lowest score. But the song caught fire in major short-form video platforms, with NetEase Cloud's new song list soaring to the top of the Hot Songs List three lists, and also bloodied the hot lists of Shake and B stations.
The amount of play and topic both broke 100 million, almost becoming one of the hottest hit songs in recent times. It's been recognized and supported by many young people, and the Phoenix Legends are re-emerging after years of silence.
The Phoenix Legends have always given us the impression that they are the favorite of middle-aged people, and their magical melodies have been labeled as "earthy", which is the most popular song for square dancers.
Their songs have been popular for many years, and they have been heard in many places, such as "Moonlight in the Lotus Pond", "Free Flight", "Over the Moon", etc. The Phoenix Legends have been criticized for being "dirt cheap" for over 20 years.
Phoenix Legends as a domestic household name pop music group, do not look at them now cooperation tacit understanding, relationship as brother and sister. In fact, in the early years of the two people eight pole are not hit, Zeng Yi was born in Hunan Yiyang lad, and Yang Wei Linghua since childhood in the Ordos prairie grew up.
If the two were not equally passionate about music, they might not have had the chance to get hitched in this lifetime. Zeng Yi was born into a family full of literary and artistic flavor, his father worked in the literary propaganda team when he was young, and his mother has a particularly good voice and likes to sing and dance.
Zeng Yi has been interested in music since he was a child, and when he was in junior high school when Hong Kong and Taiwan pop music was prevalent, Zeng Yi sang along with a group of seniors who loved to play the guitar. He has also been working on a number of other projects, such as a new movie, a new movie, a new movie, a new movie, a new movie, a new movie, a new movie, and a new movie. Later, with the popularity of the movie "Breakdance", Zeng Yi did not follow the imitation of the spaceman's dance moves.
In 1997, at the age of 18, Zeng Yi graduated from secondary school, and his first career was as a worker in the wireless electronics factory in Yiyang. But Zeng Yi never gave up the dream of music in his heart, working during the day and running to the local performing arts center at night.
Running a show is about one to twenty dollars of income, Zeng Yi is young and energetic, and can run three or four shows a night. In order to stage performance effect he began to intend to start a combination, Zeng Yi think in Yiyang can not have a great future, he wanted to be a star also want to open up the eyes of the place.
He graduated from the dance program at the art school, Linghua, to the Window of the World, Folk Village and other cultural groups unsuccessful examination, and then came to the Golden Age dance hall to apply for a job.
The boss is very happy with her, so she is accepted as a contracted artist, and has become a colleague of Zeng Yi, the artistic director of the music industry. A lark from the grassland and a cool boy from Hunan, with a dream of music, met in this bustling city.
In 1999, Zeng Yi, Linghua, and Zhang Jie formally established the "Hair Nerve Group", why would they come up with such a different name? Linghua explained, "Because we had just formed a group, if we didn't have a loud name, we wouldn't be able to remember it.
So the name of this crazy, it has the meaning of spiritually refreshed", and later they participated in a number of music competitions. The following year, team member Zhang Jie couldn't handle the pressure and quit the group, which hit both Zeng Yi and Linghua particularly hard.
The original three people to complete the task became two people to realize, when they took a break for two whole months. It can be said that if it wasn't for Linghua's very persistent perseverance, there wouldn't have been the Phoenix Legends which later became a household name.
In 2003, when the SARS epidemic was raging, He Muyang, who was also based in Shenzhen, was looking for a female singer with a strong voice to sing one of his public service songs against SARS, to inject positive energy into the depressed Chinese people.
Attracted by Linghua's voice by chance, He Muyang followed Zeng Yi and Linghua for three performances, and then gave them the song "Over the Moon" to sing.
Above the Moon is a perfect combination of folk style and rap music, and has created a music boom in China. The song was downloaded 79 million times on China Mobile's color ringtone, and Zeng Yi and Linghua's duo also gained fame.
As their popularity grew, there was a lot of buzz about the name Cool Fire. So they first chose the word "phoenix" to represent the meaning of auspicious men and women, but the name "phoenix group" was too earthy.
At that time, Linghua was obsessed with playing an online game Legends, so they finalized the name of the group as "Phoenix Legends". This proposal was met with unanimous praise and support, and the legend of the Phoenix Legends began to unfold.
The year 2005 was a very important turning point in their lives, as they were featured on CCTV's "Avenue of Stars", which allowed more viewers to recognize the group through the show.
They eventually won the honor of being the runner-up in the finals of the year, thus expanding their popularity a lot. Because their songs are so down-to-earth and melodic, they've gained a lot of popularity and a lot of fans.
With the popularity of the Phoenix Legends on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala stage, the national audience has witnessed the glory of the Phoenix Legends. In fact, they have participated in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala 6 times but was taken out 3 times, once they were ready to sing the song "Above the Moon", they were very well prepared.
On the 28th day of the Lunar New Year, they had already finished recording the preparation tape, but the next day, rumors spread on the Internet that the song involved plagiarism.
Since then, Phoenix Legends have become a regular on the CCTV Spring Festival circuit, with highly popular songs that have dominated the KTV charts for years, and the 2009 release of The Most Dazzling Ethnic Wind, which was the number one seller in the country.
The following year, the release of the Moonlight in the Lotus Pond again swept the country, and according to statistics, the number of cell phone downloads of this song has been more than 100 million times. The Phoenix Legends have been labeled as the "Divine Comedy Group" , and they have created many unforgettable classics in China.
The Phoenix Legends have been around for 23 years, during which time they have flourished and fallen into obscurity. Linghua knew that their popularity would fade sooner or later, but she had a goal to be like Tsai Chin, who was still on stage at 50 and 60.
Nowadays they have become an inseparable whole, and even though they both have their own families now, their relationship is more like family than not. Their love for music will keep them going.