"I'm looking up, above the moon, how many dreams are flying free ......"
This familiar melody often resounds in the streets of China, and whether one recognizes the Phoenix Legends or not, almost everyone can chant their songs.
The song "Above the Moon", which has been called a sacred song, completely opened the wings of Linghua and Zeng Yi's dream to take off freely, just as the lyrics say.
Before dreams fly free
Both need to struggle for a long time
In 1998, on the Ordos prairie in Inner Mongolia, an 18-year-old girl graduated from an art school, in order to pursue her dream of music, sold a few of the family's sheep, bought a bus ticket. After three days and three nights, she finally came to Guangdong, she is Linghua.
In the same year, a home appliance repairman from Yiyang, Hunan Province, went to work during the day because he loved to sing, and then ran to the local performing arts center at night to be a resident singer, dreaming of one day being able to sing on a bigger stage.
At the suggestion of a good friend, this young man also left his hometown, took a long-distance bus, came to Shenzhen to find his dream, he is Zeng Yi.
Linghua and Zeng Yi entered the Golden Age, a famous performing arts center in Shenzhen. At that time, Zeng Yi was already the performance director of the Golden Age, while Linghua was just a dancer, before she also did two years of electrical salesman.
With the same dream of music, the two young people at that time in that piece of entrepreneurial hot spot, without hesitation to start their own music dreams, together created the "hair crazy" "cool fire" and other groups.
In Linghua's words, it was "crazy to dance, crazy to sing", and every day was either a performance on the stage or a preparation under the stage, and the busiest time was even no time to sleep.
A former home appliance repairman, a former electrical appliances salesman, two young people with no professional music background, a passion for the next person seems to be a vague "dream".
Fortunately, the perfect match for a dream is never education or talent, but persistent passion and perseverance.
Dreams, never rely on their own spell out, rather than in the mind to wait out.
After six or seven years of hard work, Linghua and Zeng Yi's group finally started to make a name for themselves in Guangdong, and were able to get a lot of performances, and they even paid for a house in Shenzhen, bought a car, and everything was going well.
But relying on music to support their family is not their ultimate goal. Linghua and Zeng Yi said, "I want to have my own music."
We're not idols
We sing the songs of ordinary people
In a chance encounter, Linghua and Zeng Yi met the music producer He Muyang, who produced the hit song "Over the Moon".
In fact, the song, at first, was a gentle slow song.
But Linghua, from Inner Mongolia, said bitterly after the audition, "This song is too lyrical, I can't sing it gently."
So He Muyang adapted the song to fit Linghua's bold grassland style, and added elements such as rap.
The song just happened to be heard by the boss of Guangdong Peacock Records, and based on his intuition that the song would surely be a fire, the boss said on the spot, "I'm going to sign her, let her come over right away, and I can smash a few million to build them up."
The pie in the sky, was suddenly smashed Linghua excited and terrified, Zeng Yi's first reaction was also: "This boss is not looking at you."
When they came to the company, they saw all kinds of professional equipment, and then they finally reacted: everything is true!
However, at that time, Linghua and Zeng Yi, in the golden age of work to do a good job, and a sign to sign a 5-year, equivalent to signing a contract of sale, and the results of the debut of who can not guarantee, but also means to give up the stability of the work and lucrative pay.
Just when Linghua hesitated to be entangled, Zeng Yi said: "If you want to go, I will accompany you."
The fateful decision came again, and Zeng Yi once again resolutely chose to accompany Linghua to the end.
Until 2005, Zeng Yi and Linghua participated in the "Avenue of Stars" to take the annual runner-up, they really began to red.
However, when they started to become popular, they were faced with the dilemma of not being able to sing on fire
At that time, the superwoman who sang the cover of "Above the Moon" was on fire, but the original singer, Phoenix Legends, was unknown, and there were even many who regarded the Phoenix Legends as "rustic", "cottage", and "folksy". "
These questions have been answered by a number of people, but they have not been answered by a number of people.
These questions did not shake the Phoenix Legends footsteps, they firmly believe that: their own singing is China's great rivers and mountains, is the blue sky and white clouds grassland, is the frank and open love, vulgar but never vulgar, is the positive energy songs.
It is this insistence that has conquered millions of ordinary Chinese listeners.
In 2009, Phoenix Legend's The Most Dazzling Ethnic Wind album won the first place in the annual sales of the mainland, selling more than 300,000 copies in only 3 months in that era of the dying record industry, not including the discs sold in various irregular ways.
In 2012, the number of cell phone downloads of Phoenix Legend's "Moonlight in the Lotus Pond" has exceeded 100 million, and the number of color bell downloads has also exceeded 100 million.
If you don't take into account people who repeatedly download multiple lyrics, this means that, on average, one in seven Chinese cell phone users has paid to download one of their songs!
Even that song, "Moonlight in a Lotus Pond," endorsed a certain phone that sold more than 10 million units that year.
In 2013, Phoenix Legend participated in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, CCTV Lantern Festival Gala, as well as Beijing TV, Oriental TV, Hunan TV, Anhui TV, Shaanxi TV, Jiangsu TV's Spring Festival Gala and other 8 parties, known as "King of Spring Festival Gala".
All over China, the streets and alleys are coincidentally playing the Phoenix Legend's songs, many people's cars will be put on a Phoenix Legend record, their songs have even become the square dance necessary dance music, even the children will hum their songs.
For Zeng Yi and Linghua, the dream they insisted on when they were young has finally come true.
The most precious thing in the world
is the pure, lifelong friendship
From Shenzhen to the group's debut, Linghua and Zeng Yi have known each other for 22 years. It can be said that the combination of Phoenix Legends is not complete without anyone.
When they first signed the contract, the company intended to sign only one person, Linghua, but Linghua said, do not sign Zeng Yi, he did not go.
In the first few years of their career, they didn't have a stable income, and it wasn't a good time.
Whenever this time, Zeng Yi will go around borrowing money, the two people a half, together to hold over.
In the eyes of outsiders, Zeng Yi is always more inconspicuous, but Linghua, who accompanied him all the way, knows that this man is very talented, and is just willing to act as a green leaf silently for the sake of the combination.
After all, the two of them together are not just Linghua and Zeng Yi, but also Phoenix Legend.
As a group, the two are always in pairs, so many people think they are a pair, and feel they are very compatible.
Many people are surprised to hear that they are married and have families.
Yes, it's a bit of a surprise to most people that they have been able to be with each other and support each other for so many years without ever crossing the boundaries of their relationship.
In 2011, Linghua got married in Inner Mongolia in a low-profile manner, and in the same year, Zeng Yi and his girlfriend also entered the marriage hall.
At Linghua's wedding, Zeng Yi was moved to tears, from Linghua to make boyfriends, marriage, Zeng Yi all the way to help her gatekeepers, and now the girl finally found their own happiness;
And in Zeng Yi's wedding, Linghua was also y touched: "Come to Beijing to fight for so many years, and finally someone can take care of him. "
It can be said that having such a close friend, regardless of the peaks and valleys, can always be accompanied by a life without regrets.
After 22 years, the appliance repairman and electrical salesman finally realized his dream step by step.
No matter how much skepticism they face, it's undeniable that the Phoenix legend has become a legend of this era!