Thankfully, "Heaven will send a great man", and God destined his life to be a life of lifelong companionship with music. When "A Letter" suddenly came out and the sad composer couldn't help but sing it with his hand slapping the back of his chair, he was sitting next to He Changhua, a tired talent scout from "Warner". The teenager's behavior and concentration touched this famous talent scout who was about to retire. After carefully questioning the teenager and scrutinizing the lyrics he had memorized on his cigarette case, he surprised him and dragged him out of the car like a robber.
However, getting into Warner's wasn't exactly smooth sailing. Instead of signing a contract with the company, he was placed in the company's Taiwan songwriting group as a small backstage. Because the boy can write, can sing, a guitar is simply out of this world; coupled with his disability, so the company's executive board of directors is not very optimistic about him, in the words of Ho Chang Hua, who discovered him at the time, Warner's executive board of directors at the time individual members of the "dog's eye to see people low". At the time when the boy was depressed, Ho Cheung Wah, whom he regarded as his "mentor", passed away in a hurry with endless regrets. The young man wrote his third song, "Farewell to Your Tears," in the midst of the storm.
No matter how deep a precious pearl is buried, there will always be a time for it to meet the world, and a time for it to burst into the light. Zheng Zhihua, who has been working quietly backstage for many years, was equally mesmerized by the guitar in the hands of the bearded disabled man in front of her when she was doing a guitar accompaniment for Hong Kong star Anita Mui at one time, an older sister in show business who has discovered the talents of Grasshopper and BEYOUND. Forgetting the song she was about to sing, she walked over and said expressionlessly, "Do you have something of your own? Show me. According to many staff members who were present at the time, they recalled with great emotion: he had a particularly hard expression at that time, as if the other party was not a big sister at all, but someone who did not understand music and melody; he was very arrogant and said: no one can read my stuff.
But he was facing the red-hot Anita Mui. It was also a wise-cracking Anita Mui. She obstinately took Zheng Zhihua's stuff into her hands, and together with another overseas director of Warner's, Tan Jintao, who was with her, listened to one of Zheng's songs, "Your Birthday," until the end of the piece, when the two world-class performers were dumbfounded and half speechless. The two world-class performers were speechless for a long time. When he came back to his senses, Mr. Tan immediately called the company's senior management and "Wild Mans Studio" to inform them of the birth of an upcoming leader.
Since then, between 1988 and 1992, a number of songs representing the mainstream of Taiwanese pop music have been released. Following "My Birthday," "I Am a Cat," "Nighttime Glow," "Beautiful Southern Taiwan" and the famous "Sailor" were born. A strong whirlwind of self-improvement and self-reliance emerged from the depressed music scene that was obsessed with flowers in Hong Kong and Macau. "Sailor" once affected more than 94% of the mainland's campuses, overshadowing the graduation song as the students' theme.
The talented singer's fate has been marked by alcohol and intense dissatisfaction in recent years. The Great National" cursed the Taiwanese government, and the "Comprehensive Special Higher Education Division" saw the singer as a thorn in its side, followed by six years of house arrest. After years of waiting, the Zheng Zhihua people saw was no longer the same. His singing voice has lost its old spirit, and his eyebrows are less confident and uninhibited. In April CCTV "the same song" studio, I seem to see the twilight of the Lianpo ......
Heroes such as this, I have been a few times for the lament. Whenever I see the dusty cassette of Zheng Zhihua, I always love it and play it carefully. I wondered what music brings to people. There was no time to think about it. In other words, it's not something that someone like me, who doesn't know much about music, can imagine. But I still cherish the idol's place in my heart. It's hard to describe how I feel when I see a TV screen full of people who are crazy about a certain singer. Looking at today's pop music scene, I can't find a single feeling that made me intoxicated by Zheng Zhihua back then; under the blue sky, I am still willing to sing each of Zheng Zhihua's songs with a tune that belongs to me. I do not know the sky Zhihua heard, will not play the dusty guitar for me again, sing a strong sound of life?