singer and songwriter, like red flowers and green leaves. Most of those who received applause and spotlight were singers; creators could only be heroes behind the scenes.
From Liu Wenzheng, Teresa Teng, Alan Tam in the 1980s to the Four Heavenly Kings in the 1990s, Faye Wong , Zhou Huajian , and then to the new millennium Jay Chou , Nicholas Tse, Stefanie Sun , Lin Junjie , people are fascinated by them, However, I rarely remember Liu Jiachang , Xiang Xuehuai , Ou Dingyu, Yin Wenqi , Du Ziqi , Tan Guozheng, Liu Zhihong, Li Weisun, Lin Qiuli These kings and queens push hands.
After the new millennium, the music world has ushered in Jay Chou, Tao Zhe and their new music styles, but also sent away traditional music like Liang Hongzhi , Huang Zhan, Lin Zhenqiang, Ma Zhaojun, Chen Zhiyuan , Chen Jinxing , Yin Wenqi Grandmaster.
In Taiwan's music scene, there is a musician who has produced many excellent Mandarin albums. He passed away before the dawn of the new millennium, making the music circle mourning and making good friends miss him.
Perhaps, some friends will say that what the editor is about to write is Zhang Yusheng, "Brother Xiaobao". The author would like to say: it would be great if it was Zhang Yusheng, at least a diva like Zhang Huimei often mentions it, and with some of Zhang Yusheng's classic works, he will not be forgotten so easily.
What the author wants to talk about today is a music producer named Yang Minghuang. He once produced the song " Love Snow " for Huang Yingying , "Taste" for Xin Xiaoqi , and the album "Fantasy" for Faye Wong And " sky " is now a name that is rarely mentioned in the Chinese entertainment circle, and it is almost difficult to find photos.
put the time back to 2001, the current "cross-border investor", the former "venomous judge", and the "music genius" Huang Shujun wrote a song - " changes 1995". The
song tells about some major events at home and abroad from 1995 to 2001, from the death of Teresa Teng to Ang Lee 's " Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon " won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film .
Huang Shujun's "talking" is like talking face to face with a good friend after drinking, spitting stars flying around.
However, this friend of his will never hear his words. Do people who have returned to heaven still have telepathy?
Huang Shujun said to his friend: I can't understand the current music world more and more. Recently, more and more singers have emerged every year. The production of CDs is getting better and better, but the records are getting more and more The harder it is to sell.
Huang Shujun said to this friend: R&B has become popular in Taiwan now, and Americans are obsessed with rap, but I think this is just a trend, and I am puzzled and confused about its musicality.
Huang Shujun told his old friend: Brother, I'm really sorry, I've always wanted to help you write a song, but we've been apart for six years, and I haven't been able to write this song. The guitar you used has always been with me , I can no longer play that wonderful melody.
Huang Shujun also told his friends: old friend, sorry, after you left, I worked hard in the music world for another 6 years, but I didn't become what you expected. Now the music world and the industry, I can't understand more and more, maybe we are all out, that out of sight may be the best choice for you.
is the music producer named Yang Minghuang who can make Huang Shujun, the "poisonous tongue judge" on music variety shows in a few years, think so deeply.
In 1995, Yang Minghuang, who was at the peak of his career and newly married, was knocked down by a young man who was driving drunk on a motorcycle. He died after the rescue failed. He was 35 years old.
In 2001, Huang Shujun, who was born in 1966, ushered in his 35th annual ring. He was finally the same age as Yang Minghuang, who died in 1995, but this confidant and friend left for 6 years.
Huang Shujun wanted to "change 1995" and wanted to tell Yang Minghuang on that day not to drive to and from get off work, but unfortunately, the time goes by and the past can only be recalled.
In 1985, Yang Minghuang, a top student who graduated from the Department of Mathematics, addedEntering the big man in Taiwan's record industry at that time, Kolin Records, became a musician. Yang Minghuang was all-around, able to compose, write lyrics, and sing. However, his greatest specialty was the production of songs and albums. Like Li Shouquan, a senior in the industry.
In 1988, Huang Shujun, a rookie singer of Kolin Records, released his first album - "'s non-stop sadness ", "A Game A Dream", "About Winter", "Pink When songs like "Memories" and "I Only Care About You", Huang Shujun "shocked" the Chinese music scene with songs like "Non-stop Sadness" and "Weiyang Song". The producer of the
song "Non-Stop Sorrow" is Yang Minghuang. Although Huang Shujun absorbed a lot of "nutrients" from Chen Zhiyuan for the entire album, without Yang Minghuang's production, the song would not be so amazing. After the
album "Non-Stop Sorrow", Yang Minghuang produced another "God Special" for Huang Shujun, such as the album "Yandu Cold Pool", which included "Yandu Cold Pool" and "Love Syndrome" with depth and some "weird". song.
ranked No. 53 and No. 56 by Huang Shujun's "Non-Stop Sorrow" and "Yandu Cold Pool" in Taiwan's Top 100 Albums, and Yang Minghuang contributed greatly.
Because of these two albums, Huang Shujun and Yang Minghuang have established a relationship as both brothers and friends. The two trust and appreciate each other. When Yang Minghuang makes albums for other singers, fans will often see Huang Shujun as a high-quality singer-songwriter. In the ranks of the song's composer and lyricist. The two of them made music together, watched concerts together, and bought music equipment together.
In the 1990s, once the "big guy" in Taiwan's music scene, Gelin Records lived up to its former glory. Yang Minghuang switched to Fumao Records , got to know music talents like Lin Longxuan , and worked for Li Yaming , Na Ying, Zhou Huimin , Tai Zhengxiao , , Fan Xiaoxuan, and other company contract artists to write songs or produce albums.
After the semi-retirement of production bosses like Li Shouquan, outstanding producers like Yang Minghuang have been widely invited in the industry. The veteran queen Huang Yingying, "The Queen of Healing Songs" Xin Xiaoqi, "Rolling Stone Jade Girl" Su Huilun, "The King of Suffering" Zhang Yu, "God of Songs" Jacky Cheung , "Eastern Invincible Music" Zhang Qingfang. . . Yang Minghuang's music career has reached its peak.
Among the singers Yang Minghuang has worked with, besides Huang Shujun, the singer he admires the most is Faye Wong.
Chen Huixian After she went to study in the United States, Poly Gold no longer had the title of queen, Guan Shuyi , Zhou Huimin, Li Ruien and other "golden flowers" had no way to dominate the female singer camp of the Hong Kong Philharmonic. "Ye Qianwen won the most popular female singer of the Golden Songs for the fourth time in a row, but she was unable to cope.
In 1992, a female singer named Wang Jingwen , a female singer of Poly Gold's "secondary unit" Xinyibao Records, was shortlisted in the top ten at the same time with a song " vulnerable woman " composed by Miyuki Nakajima The Golden Songs of Jingge and 's Top Ten Chinese Golden Songs , coupled with their sweet looks, have been sought after by the Hong Kong Philharmonic.
However, this female singer who imitated Teresa Teng's singing style sang the "extraordinary sound" along with the crowd in the environment of the Hong Kong Philharmonic at that time. She has her musical ambitions, she has her artistic pursuits, but she has not met a music producer who understands her to establish her own style.
In 1994, inspired by Lin Yilian, , Ye Qianwen, Jacky Cheung, and Andy Lau's successful development of the Mandarin song market, PolyGram sent a large number of singers to the holding company, Taiwan Fu Mao Records, to expand the Mandarin song market. In addition to singers such as Zhou Huimin, Su Yongkang , Chen Huilin and other singers, there are also Faye Wong.
In 1993, Faye Wong had already added her own understanding of music to her Cantonese album " Obsessed With No Regrets ", and her singing style has changed from imitating Teresa Teng to following the mainstream of Hong Kong music to shaping her own "Philippine" singing, but this is only The beginning of an attempt.
In 1994, Faye Wong, who was still called Wang Jingwen at that time, released her first album in Mandarin after her debut - "The Fans"". In addition to continuing the Hong Kong Phil's "fast food culture", the album also added a lot of new things, because the producer of this album is Yang Minghuang. In
's album "Miscellaneous", although half of the songs are "old songs", Yang Minghuang still asked Tu Ying to make new arrangements for these songs, in addition to writing lyrics for the song "The Changing World Is Turning", Yang Minghuang also invited his friend Huang Shujun to write the song "Only Willing to Keep the Appointment for You" for the album, and invited Yao Qian and Huang Guolun to produce the title song "I Do" for the album. In the
album, Yang Minghuang "indulges" Wang Jingwen to put his own understanding of music into the songs, rock and jazz elements, and protracted sounds into the singing. In addition to the change of song style,
also changed the image. Li Zongsheng once asked Chen Shuhua to cut his long hair, and Xinli Records also asked "Moon Princess" Meng Tingwei to cut his long hair in 1995, but the cuts were not enough. Thoroughly, because Wang Jingwen cut her long hair to the point of becoming "slim". The transformation of
's album "Mission" is undoubtedly a success. People say that starting from "I Do", Wang Jingwen has gradually become the "international queen" Faye Wong. After
"Misery", Wang Jingwen changed her name back to "Faye Wong" and starred in the film " Chongqing Forest " directed by Wong Kar-wai . After "Chongqing Forest", Faye Wong used the name "Wang Jingwen" again, and with the support of "director" Yang Minghuang in the music circle, she released her second album in Mandarin - "Sky".
's album "Sky" sold more than 700,000 copies in Taiwan, becoming the fourth place in the Taiwan record sales list in 1994, and also the best Mandarin physical record sold by Faye Wong's singer career. In this album
, Yang Minghuang personally composed the song "Sky", and asked Huang Shujun to write the songs "Angel" and "Unchangeable". The album also invited Faye Wong's lovers Dou Wei, Zhong Xingmin, Huang Guolun and Guo Zi to participate in the production.
This is an album that Faye Wong had to say on her way to become an international queen. Producer Yang Minghuang let her go and asked Faye Wong to put what she learned from the Irish Cranberries and the Scottish Polar Gemini into her singing, and let Wang Jingwen use a long line to reel Yin sang the song "Angel", and asked Wang Jingwen to interpret the title song "Sky" with "Philippine singing". The change of
is undoubtedly bold and successful, because no female singer dared to sing like this before, because other female singers can't sing Faye Wong's taste after singing this way, Faye Wong has set a benchmark, and no one else can. Achieving benchmarks.
In 1996, Faye Wong's personal style masterpiece " impetuous " came out. Although the sales of this album were not so ideal, it stunned the Chinese music scene: it turns out that the song can still be sung like this, it turns out that "Hum Ha Ha Ha" is also a song .
on both sides of the Taiwan Strait is "frustrated" by Faye Wong's "Impulsive", but the international music scene is cheering: This oriental girl is really bold, really "fashionable, fashionable, the most fashionable". Faye Wong also appeared in the American " Times Weekly " magazine and became the existence of the idol Teresa Teng.
Faye Wong is like a master-level singer similar to Zhang Sanfeng in the martial arts arena. Many singers will only sing in accordance with the producer's requirements, but she dares to learn more, think more, and create her own "" Tai Chi ", " Tai Chi Sword ".
Faye Wong's achievement in music is largely attributed to her leader, Yang Minghuang.
However, Faye Wong's success in fashion pioneer music, Yang Minghuang will never be able to see. On March 16, 1995, Yang Minghuang died in the hospital because he was hit by a motorcycle so badly in a car accident, leaving behind his thriving music career and friends in the circle, as well as his beloved wife who had been married for less than two years. .
Before Yang Minghuang was alive, the album "Spring Light", which he "owed" to Huang Yingying, could not be completed. He wrote the "Last Work" "Exhausted Love" for his disciple Zhang Kefan , which helped the former lead singer of the Red Boys group to get on the list. The peak of his personal music career after the disintegration of the group.
Yang Minghuang's sudden death made the insiders he helped unacceptable, Huang Shujun, Yu Chengqing , Xin Xiaoqi, Zhang Yu, Zhou Huimin, Tai Zhengxiao, Tong Ange and other fifteen friends before his death, brought the demo he sang for the song "Exhausted Love", and synthesized a star version of "Exhausted Love" as a gift. Good friend last ride.
Huang Shujun and Yu Chengqing, two friends, bought Yang Minghuang's beloved guitar at a high price and treasured it carefully, but the guitar can no longer play such songs, and they want to play the piano, but they don't know how to appreciate it.
Two months later, Teresa Teng, the eternal queen of the Chinese world, died in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Faye Wong hurried to Taiwan to see her idol for the last time. Such a move by
made the true-tempered Huang Shujun very angry. When Yang Minghuang died two months ago, he contacted Faye Wong everywhere, hoping that she could participate in the production of the chorus version of "The Love of My Life", but no one could be found. Teresa Teng passed away without notice, but she arrived in Taiwan as soon as possible.
What happened in those two months, the people who were not involved in melon eating can't go to verify the truth, maybe Faye Wong was saddened and sobbed alone after knowing the news of Yang Minghuang's death, who knows!
In the Chinese music world, there is a group of people like this, who silently wrote one after another song after another for the glamorous kings and queens behind the scenes. The fans have sung and have been singing the popular golden songs, but the people who remember them But there are very few, even if they die, they will quietly go away, not taking a cloud with them.
would like to use this article to commemorate Mr. Yang Minghuang who passed away at an early age, and there are many "unknown people" like Mr. Yang Minghuang. I hope everyone will send a greeting to Yang Minghuang in heaven when they think of the songs they have heard together in those years. .
I wish my wholehearted efforts to get the attention and praise of my friends who love music, let us walk together, life is wonderful because of melody!
