Born in 1979 in Yiyang, Hunan province, Zeng Yi came from a poor family and worked as a laborer in a radio factory at the age of 14. As a hobby dancer, he practiced solid dancing skills by self-teaching. After graduation, Zeng Yi worked in his hometown repairing TV sets. One day, a friend said to him that you are such a good dancer, you should go to Shenzhen to break into the world, where you earn more money. So in 1998, he came to the Golden Age Ballroom and became a music director.
Born in 1980 in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, Linghua returned to her hometown of Inner Mongolia to work as an electrical appliance saleswoman after graduating from an art school at age 15. But she was not willing to be mediocre, and two years later convinced her parents to go to Shenzhen alone to pursue her dream of singing. Mongolian girls have good voices and are born to sing and dance without being sculpted, and it was here that Linghua met Zeng Yi and became his backup dancer.
The two of them, modeled after Korean stars, also formed a group, with dynamic songs and cool dance, and gradually broke through the fame in Guangdong, a variety of commercial performances and activities one after another, the rich pay so that they bought a house and car, and tens of thousands of dollars in wages. But their ambitions didn't stop there. The opportunity arose in 2003, when SARS was raging and the whole country was shrouded in depression, and they created the melodious "Over the Moon," a song that made them famous.
This year, they signed a record label, no fixed salary, began to self-financing, the most difficult time can only rely on borrowing money to survive, every time Zeng Yi borrowed money, will be divided into half of the money to Linghua. The good thing is that they participated in the "Avenue of Stars" and won the second place in the competition, in 2007 was also selected by the Spring Festival Gala, singing on stage, but perhaps people are red, "Above the Moon" has been exploded with plagiarism suspicion, no choice but to cancel their program.
All gold does shine through, and when their work was identified as not being plagiarized, they finally made it to the Spring Festival Gala stage in 2008, and the five albums they released afterward sold a staggering 6 million copies.
"Moonlight in a Lotus Pond" was set as a ringtone and color ringtone by many people, and their income reached ten million yuan just with the color ringtone, and at the same time, they also sang their works abroad, and in 2012, in the U.S. NBA game, the ringtone of a group of community mothers issued a sound of the "Dazzling Ethnic Wind," which caused a stir at the stadium, and also triggered countless cheers from the fans
But many people feel that their song soil, are square dancing amazons in the background music, is the mouth song is not elegant enough, so their "will enter the wine" sung "ten thousand horses gallop, a husband when pass," the momentum, a song of "don't dong dai" is the combination of the national wind and pop factors, opened the national and pop fusion of the precedent, and a moment of time is the fire all over the streets and alleys.
There have also been people who questioned that the lead singer is Linghua, Zeng Yi is only responsible for humming and haha can be with Linghua half of the bill, which is not fair, even Zeng Yi also put forward the distribution of according to the labor, but the straightforward Linghua said, how to share the account when the previous borrowed money is now how to split, and there was a time when they signed a record label only want to sign Linghua a person, but Linghua said, if not signed Zeng Yi, then she will not sign, because The company also said that Zeng Yi was the one who chose Linghua and taught her how to dance, so he knew her well.
In March 2011, Linghua held a wedding in Inner Mongolia, her husband is the general manager of the brokerage company Xu Mingzhao, she got married when Zeng Yi cried, in November of this year, Zeng Yi in his hometown of Yiyang also held a wedding, the bride is a dancer, the wedding Linghua drunk. In July 2014, Linghua gave birth to a daughter. Three months later, Zeng Yi's wife gave birth to a son, and the two families' children are just three months apart. They say they have a family-like bond with each other, not a couple's love as viewers might guess.