Original title: Hong Kong “Music Devil” sings and kneels, “post-90s” are searching for who he is
In the era of “everything goes too far, everything is mad”, as a singer of the “ancient beast” level, Lin Zixiang is too low-key among the “kings of singers”, “song queens” and “kings of heaven”.
According to global figures, on the Mid-Autumn Night of September 21st, David saw hegemony “Autumn Evening”. Among them, the Mid-Autumn Festival Movie and Music Gala in the Greater Bay Area liked to mention a number of hot searches on Weibo.
Faye Wong sang the theme song “Bay” and sang the Cantonese song again after many years; “The Big Bay Area Five” in “Big Brother Overcoming Thorns” once again merged together, the song “True Man”, a piece of barrage” YYDS”; Twins combined brings “Moon Misty and Bird Misty”; “The Immortal Goddess” group Zhao Yazhi, Li Ruotong, Wen Bixia, and Chen Songling will sing “Moon Moon Serenade”.
“Like you”, “Walking the road of life”, “What do I want in my life”, “Late Autumn”, “Want to blow a hair with you”, “A good moon and a full night” golden songs are constantly; On behalf of the same stage…
In a wave of memory killings, 74-year-old Lin Zixiang’s “Dare to Love and Dare to Hate”, the original key interpretation, full of Mai without repair↓↓
Jackie Chan in the audience instantly changed the fans to raise their hands and call↓↓
Young netizens were amazed: “I can come out like Amitabha at the age of 74.” “This lung capacity, can you eat two of me.”↓↓
Lin Zixiang, a name “specially provided by the post-80s”, every time it appears can magically set off a renaissance and “archaeological craze” among young people.
The originator of hip-hop and skewers
Unlike most typical Hong Kong people who offer Buddhist altars and listen to Cantonese opera, Lin Zixiang, who was born in the 1940s, has a somewhat westernized family. My father is a doctor and my mother is a yogi. Both parents love music, and there is a piano in the house.
When he was a teenager, Lin Zixiang attended an elite boys’ school, and the most famous alumnus was Sun Yat-sen. Later, he went to study in the UK and experienced suspension of school, living in a house, and working in a fast food restaurant. On Hong Kong Island at that time, young people were crazy about Western songs. Elvis, The Beatles, and the Rolling Stones sang in the nightclub. Lin Zixiang on the other side of the ocean is also obsessed with the Beatles. Those songs are full of confusion and wandering.
After that, he spent another six years in the United States, worked for a stock company and also served as a tennis coach. For a period of time, he did not work, had nothing to do, and lived by receiving social assistance, and experienced a bohemian life.
In 1975, Lin Zixiang returned to Hong Kong. This small fishing village of the year has begun a rapid economic take-off. A year later, 29-year-old Lin Zixiang signed EMI Records and released his first English album “Lam”, and from then on, he has kept his impressive beard.
·Lin Zixiang’s first English album “Lam” cover.Lin Zixiang hit the era of Cantonese songs, and personally participated in and changed history.
In 1980, “I Need You Every Minute” made “salted fish and cabbage delicious” an excellent description of happy feelings, and its status among Hong Kong people is comparable to “Under the Lion Rock”. In “Golden Rooster 2”, the BGM of Wu Junru and Jacky Cheung kissing is this song; in “The World: Little Reunion”, the nurse Cai Jie sang this song affectionately for Zeng Zhiwei downstairs; it is “Macao Fengyun” In “2”, the song Zhang Jiahui sang to his daughter on the way to escape is also the epoch song “sung” by the deaf and mute in sign language in “The Unheard”.
In 1985, “Twelve Inches” was the first stringed song in the Chinese music scene. The 20 Cantonese golden tunes were recombined and arranged, and all of them were keyed. The difficulty coefficient far exceeded that of Ku Juji’s “The King of Love Songs” 23 years later.
In 1986, “Digital Life” used a series of chaotic numbers to sing the confusion of Hong Kong people who are addicted to the stock market: “Fill your life, it’s all numbers, let’s see how many hostages are in confinement in the count.”
In “A Lam’s Diary” of the same year, Lin Zixiang sang rap again. Thirty years later, variety shows once again set off a trend of hip-hop. Many people mentioned that Lin Zixiang was the originator of “old school” rap.
In 1987, “Dare to Love and Dare to Do”, a cover of the classic song “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” by “Jefferson Plane”, the original chorus was completed by the female lead singer, while Lin Zixiang was responsible for both male and female voices. . Singing female tones is a difficult operation. Lin Zixiang not only completed it, but also performed it in a masculine manner.
Not to mention the theme song of the movie “Huang Feihong”, “Men should be self-improvement”, and the love song “Choice” with Ye Qianwen’s love song. These two songs resounded through China’s streets and alleys in the 1990s, and they are still popular options for KTV nostalgic golden songs.
·Lin Zixiang and Ye Qianwen.In 1994, Lin Zixiang won the “Golden Needle Award”, which represents the highest honor in Hong Kong’s music scene. This is not an arbitrary, symbolic flood of awards. If there is no suitable candidate, I would rather choose a vacancy.
Before him, the winners were Xu Xiaofeng, Luo Wen, Huang Zhan and Zheng Guojiang; after him, they were Teresa Teng, Alan Tam, Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung.
Lin Zixiang has just joined the two eras.
Chorus killer, always drop God
Huang Zhan once said: “There are so two people in the music scene in Hong Kong who can sing very well, no matter how difficult the song is given to them, they can sing. These two people, one is Rowan and the other is Lin Zixiang.”
Lin Zixiang rarely used false accents throughout his life. Wikipedia explains his singing skills like this:
“Lin Zixiang has all the conditions that a baritone should have, and the treble range extends a lot. Normal singers always use false accents to pull up, and some singers use true tones to pull up to the treble area, and their voices will become thin and thin. It’s hard to be like Lin Zixiang, even if the treble is pulled to the limit, it is still full and powerful.”
for example. When it comes to a male singer who is “high-tuned”, everyone will think of Zhang Yusheng. But in front of Lin Zixiang, Zhang Yusheng is also the “general singer” mentioned above.
Jacky Cheung once said: “As long as Lin Zixiang is still there, don’t call me the’God of Song’.”
However, in the era of “everything goes too far, everything is mad”, as a singer of the “ancient beast” level, Lin Zixiang is too low-key among the “kings of singers”, “song queens” and “kings of heaven”.
His nickname is “Ge Yin”, like a sweeping monk in Hong Kong music scene. I don’t go to parties and rarely go on TV, except when I launch new works, I rarely see people.
“When a car stops at a red light, most of the cars will rush out when they are about to turn to a green light. But I don’t. No matter what the speed of others, I still maintain the speed I want. When I drive, The speed I want.”
Unexpectedly, Lin Zixiang, who has been “traveling off peaks” all his life, has many fans among young people. Station B where the “post-90s” and “post-00s” gathered, several of his classic scenes, with millions of views at every turn, with 5000+, 7000+, and 10,000+ bullet screens all over the screen.
[名场面之一：《十分十二寸》]
In 1985, at the Hong Kong Top Ten Golden Songs Awards Ceremony, Lin Zixiang sang “Twelve Tens” for more than 9 minutes. He sang with Leslie Cheung, Alan Tam, and Su Rui at the scene. Also sitting in the audience were superstars such as Rowan, Anita Mui, Jackie Chan, and Xu Guanjie, as well as the fledgling Jacky Cheung and Lu Fang.
Lin Zixiang walked and ran so high-pitched, being pushed around by the audience, he could not hear the sound of breathing.
In 2001, Lin Zixiang and Eason Chan’s concert was the finale of “Twelve Inches”. Halfway through the singing, Eason Chan was sweating and started paddling; Lin Zixiang remained unchanged. In the barrage, Eason Chan’s fans all expressed their opinions: “I am E fan, but your uncle is your uncle after all.”
·Eason Chan changed the words of “Monica” to pay tribute to Lin Zixiang.[名场面之二：《敢爱敢做》]
In 2005, at the Hong Kong Top Ten Golden Melody Awards Ceremony, Lin Zixiang’s “Dare to Love and Dare to Hate”, no singer in the audience dared to sing in a chorus.
Eason Chan became what he looked like in his song: that year, at the eighteenth year of his alma mater, he stood as if standing there; Joey Yung held the wheat in his hand, but just didn’t sing. Gu Juji took the microphone, his voice was basically covered, and he sang lonely.
[名场面之三：《数字人生》]
In 2016 Hunan Satellite TV’s “I Am a Singer” finals, Lin Zixiang and Ye Qianwen appeared as Li Keqin’s supporting guests. The three chorus sang “Walk in a Cool”, “A Lam’s Diary” and “Digital Life”. That year, when Lin Zixiang was 69 years old, Li Keqin quickly died of singing, but he relaxed and went straight to High D.
These “famous scenes” are commonly referred to as the “your uncle or your uncle” series. Young people with vicious eyes and diverse tastes have been hurt by various car accidents, fake singing scenes, and various traffic idols’ “singing and dancing” performances for many years. After going back to archaeology, they found that the entertainment circle of those years was “involved.” “It was so wonderful: Lin Yilian raised 9 keys in a row, still smiling; Ye Qianwen and Faye Wong sang while doing sit-ups, and the whole process was so stable that they couldn’t hear the breath; even the idol group that was often criticized back then was the “Four Heavenly Kings” “, brought it out and slammed the small fresh meat.
Lin Zixiang, the perennial godly hidden “Great Demon King”, was discovered by netizens as “Grandpa Treasure”.HongkongThe “Spirit in the Sky” of the music scene
In addition to the “God-level” technology, young people like Lin Zixiang, but also because he has the feelings of the older generation of Hong Kong stars.
In 1984, China and Britain signed a joint declaration that Hong Kong, China will return to the motherland in 1997. That year, Tsui Hark, who was born in Vietnam and studied in the United States, had the idea of putting Huang Feihong on the big screen again.
“Hong Kong people have forgotten where our roots are for so many years. I filmed “Huang Feihong” to tell everyone about the Chinese people’s family concept, collective life and mental state.”
Tsui Hark hired musician Huang Zhan to write the theme song. Huang Zhan asked someone to search for Taiwan for two months and found the score of the ancient song “General Order”. After listening to it for two months, he condensed the long tunes of more than 500 operas into 100 beats, and then filled it in. A turbulent “face with arrogance, blood is like the red sun…” This has been handed down to the world-“a man should be self-improvement”.
··Xu Ke (left) and Huang Zhan.Huang Zhan invited Lin Zixiang to sing. At that time, the studio had only one piano accompaniment. Huang Zhan danced and danced aside: “A Lam, please imagine that there are thousands of horses, suona, violin, drums, Chinese drums, and all drums from north to south!” Lin Zixiang nodded, and when he opened his mouth, everyone was stunned.
Huang Zhan danced and sang along with him when recording “A Man Should Be Self-improvement”. Those “calling” and “ha” in the song are he who is hi. Lin Zixiang was really involved in singing at the end, and directly shouted up, and then countless heroes folded on those few sentences in the KTV, shouting and screaming.
·Ma Weidu later said that Lin Zixiang’s “A Man Should Be Self-improvement” is unmatched.In 1991, Lin Zixiang participated in a movie “Night Banquet”. There are also hundreds of popular celebrities co-starring, with only one purpose, to help compatriots in the mainland who have suffered from floods to prepare donations.
Two years later, on April 18, 1993, the large-scale charity performance “Disaster Reduction and Poverty Alleviation, Creating Tomorrow” was staged in the Great Hall of the People. This is the first time that the Great Hall of the People has held a charity performance at home and abroad, and it is also the first time that Hong Kong and mainland artists perform on the same stage.
Lin Zixiang participated in this performance, and the song “Men should be self-improvement” matched the performance of the Chinese martial arts team.
In 1997, at the party for the return of Hong Kong, Lin Zixiang dressed in a Tang costume and sang “Men should be self-improvement” again. The waves behind the Yangtze River pushed the waves forward. At this moment, his era has ended.
Today Lin Zixiang still maintains his old habits. In order to protect the throat, I do not smoke or drink, take a break every night, get up at four or five in the morning the next morning, walk to the old neighborhood, drink a cup of milk tea in a well-known tea restaurant. He has four or five luxury cars, but he likes to take the bus, and he received an elderly card for two yuan a time.
At this Mid-Autumn Festival Gala in the Greater Bay Area, the tune of “Men should be self-improvement” played again. In more than 30 years, Lin Zixiang sang this song countless times on different occasions. Although energy and function are gradually declining, but never lower the key, every time at the end, they are yelling up octaves.
· In 2017, on the “I Want to Sing With You” program, 70-year-old Lin Zixiang sang “A Man Should Be Self-reliant”.In the era when Jay Chou and Stefanie Sun have become “passionate artists”, Lin Zixiang has long been a “spirit in heaven” in the Hong Kong music scene. Thirty years ago, he was surrounded by Xu Guanjie, Luo Wen, and Zhen Ni, then Leslie Cheung, Alan Tam, Anita Mui, and then Eason Chan, Gu Juji, and Joey Yung. To this day, he is on the same stage with TFBOYS, Zhang Jie, and Deng Ziqi, explaining what a real singer looks like.
Source: Global People
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