"The sun is always after the wind and rain, and there is a clear sky behind the dark clouds."
"The moonlight in the city illuminates the dream, please warm her heart..."
If the time is returned to 29 years ago, these two songs are the streets and alleys. The "divine song" that can be heard everywhere is as popular as any popular song of a certain sound nowadays.
Moreover, the singer’s ethereal and beautiful voice is also very healing, and many people will instantly be transported back to their boyhood when they listen to it now.
This is also the reason why Xu Meijing, who is now living in the center of the earth, can still sell out her concerts.
But some time ago, she broke the hearts of her fans because she scratched her face severely during a concert, causing a huge controversy.
Everyone familiar with the matter knows that Xu Meijing, who was once a smash hit in the 1990s, suddenly "fallen" at the peak of her relationship and was exposed to suffer from mental illness.
But the public still cannot understand this: "If you are not in good health, you can cancel it, why should you insist on it?"
At present, his team has responded to the matter, saying that it "underestimated the audience's expectations" and said that it has been suspended in Wuhan. Concert ticket sales.
Although this incident seemed to be over, it actually caused an uproar and made many people wonder what happened to Xu Meijing, the "diva" who was as famous as Faye Wong back then.
1. She debuted as the "Queen"
Born in 1974 in an ordinary family in Singapore, Xu Meijing's original name is Xu Meifeng. She is just 50 years old this year, 5 years younger than Faye Wong.
Her father is a car repair shop employee, and her mother works as a clerk in a hardware factory. Their family background is average.
Because her parents were busy working, they neglected to take care of her and her siblings. In addition, both of them were doing basic low-level jobs and were tired all year round, which resulted in a particularly bad temper.
Xu Meijing and her siblings grew up surrounded by beatings and scoldings, which made her particularly insecure, very introverted, not very fond of communicating with the outside world, and very fragile and sensitive.
This kind of character continued into her choice of mates and her tolerance for partners in the future, and was eventually backlashed by her, which is particularly sad.
But Xu Meijing, like Faye Wong, also belongs to the peak of her debut - in 1992, at the age of 18, she participated in the Miss Singapore Chinese beauty pageant with the encouragement of her friends, and won the Miss Friendship and Miss Photogenic awards.
Of course she is not a stunning beauty, but she has a cool temperament and is very recognizable in that era when hundreds of flowers are blooming.
Coupled with Xu Meijing's unique voice, she got the opportunity to sign a contract with Jiahe Records after her debut.
It was also this year that she entered the entertainment industry and accidentally met Chen Jiaming, a famous local gold medal producer in Singapore.
He is known as the "Singapore Lee Chong Seng". He has written widely circulated music works such as "Too Silly", "Too Much" and "Love You Thousands of Times in My Life".
In 1993, 19-year-old Xu Meijing was accidentally discovered by 28-year-old Chen Jiaming during a performance. The man was full of praise for her voice:
"I will never find a voice as beautiful as yours in Singapore."
Although the other party is not good-looking, she is The introverted Xu Meijing was moved by his words, and the fate of the two gradually unfolded.
After that, they began to cooperate in depth. The following year, under the guidance of Chen Jiaming, Xu Meijing's first album "Ming Knows" was released.
's works include classic works such as "Just This Life", "Stranger", and "Confusion", and Chen Jiaming contributed more than half of the lyrics and music production. He is indeed talented.
As a sensitive musician, he really understands her.
On the title page of the first album, Chen Jiaming described Xu Meijing like this:
"Meijing's innate neuroticism teaches people to love and cherish her. Her voice is like a pair of hands, gently grabbing your person, making people want to Crying."
Sure enough, after the album was released, she really reached her peak, going from obscurity to the public overnight and becoming a much-anticipated pop musician.
Because her voice is ethereal and beautiful, which is somewhat similar to the "diva" Faye Wong who was developing in Hong Kong at that time, Xu Meijing was also hailed as "Faye Wong's successor" by the outside world, and the two were even equally famous for a time.
At that time, Faye Wong had already released classic songs such as "The Easily Injured Woman", "Unrepentant", "I Do" and other classic songs, and also acted in TVB works such as "Royal Court No. 1".
This shows that Xu Meijing's status in the hearts of music fans at that time was definitely not low. After
became an instant hit, Chen Jiaming struck while the iron was hot and helped her release her second album "Regret" the following year. The work included "Moonlight in the City", a heartwarming track that moved countless people in the future, and also made His career reached its peak.
What is worth pondering is that in the lyrics of "Regret", Chen Jiaming wrote:
"Rather than let you wither in my arms, I would rather you make mistakes and regret them. You think that in order to appreciate life, you have to love more times."
This This sentence seems to reflect Xu Meijing's bizarre and sad emotional life in the future, and also makes her fall from the top to the bottom overnight, and she will never recover.
3. Became a "fool" because of love
The following year, she released an album called "We Are All People Returning at Night". All ten works were composed by Chen Jiaming, and Xu Meijing also composed "Color".
It is worth mentioning that "We Are All People Returning at Night" and "Sunshine Always After the Storm" became popular again in the album.
Especially the last one is so popular that everyone can hum a few lines. At that time, the Chinese women's volleyball team also used this song as the team song.
Xu Meijing does have a good hand. If she continues to develop like this step by step, her results may not be as good as Faye Wong today, but they will definitely not be too bad.
However, no one expected that at the most glorious stage of her career, she would fall deeply in love and be unable to extricate herself, ruining her good cards.
In the process of close cooperation, the girl's heart was gradually moved by this talented mature man. Xu Meijing fell deeply in love with Chen Jiaming.
Because of this, after Xu Meijing became popular, many music industry bosses came to scout her, including Xu Changde and Li Zongsheng, but they were all rejected one by one.
She said that she likes to cooperate with Chen Jiaming. The reason is: "I like to cooperate with him. He will accept other people's opinions and understand my music style and market taste."
In addition to being a teacher and friend, Xu Meijing He also pinned the girl's feelings on this partner, but the two could only be destined to have nothing to do with each other because the man already had a family background.
Chen Jiaming’s wife is named Peng Xiumei, and she is also an insider, but she has always been behind the scenes.
What's even more dramatic is that Xu Meijing's stage name was given by the other party. It is said that when Peng Xiumei saw her for the first time, she felt that this young girl had a faint tranquility about her.
Despite this, Xu Meijing still became the "mistress" that was despised by the public, and the man did not refuse. He even verbally promised to divorce, but he has not taken action yet.
Peng Xiumei is also a cruel person. Although she knew that her husband had crossed the line, she did not break up with her.
Just like this, at the most glorious stage of Xu Meijing's career, her private life was full of holes.
The three people have been entangled in this bad relationship for 6 or 7 years, and everyone is extremely exhausted.
During this period, Xu Meijing's career was still at its peak - in 1997, she entered the Hong Kong circle and competed with Faye Wong on the same stage.
At that time, an album called "Listen to Thirteen Wonderful Songs" came out, and it actually topped the major charts for 3 weeks.
It is precisely because of this that Xu Meijing has gained the reputation of a "diva killer".
In fact, Faye Wong was not inferior at that time. In the same year, she released the Cantonese ep "Toy", and later released her first Mandarin album of the same name. The title song "You are happy, so I am happy" is also a classic track.
But Xu Meijing is more popular here, but the glory of her career cannot make up for the emptiness of love in her heart.
Not long after, Chen Jiaming finally failed to get a divorce and stay with her, and unilaterally filed for a breakup.
In other words, as a popular singer, Xu Meijing did not hesitate to give up her career to get involved with a married woman, and she suffered the reputation of being a "third party" for 6 years, but in the end she was unexpectedly eliminated.
Chen Jiaming once told the media:
"I want her to forgive me, and I want her to forget the past, because I have no way to start a family with her, and there is no reason to break up with my wife."
In 2000, a more dramatic scene happened. , Xu Meijing accidentally discovered that Chen Jiaming and her assistant Huang Fengyi had already had a secret relationship, which made her unable to accept it for a while and was stimulated.
After the incident was reported by the media, Huang Fengyi was overwhelmed and chose to commit suicide.
A series of blows caused Xu Meijing to suffer a mental breakdown and become disheartened.
Although everyone was very sad about the experience of a generation of "diva", Xu Meijing interceded for Chen Jiaming when others criticized him:
"I am in front of the stage and he is behind the scenes. It is unfair for you to say this about him."
3 .A change in love leads to illness
In desperation, her family arranged for her to go abroad to recuperate. In fact, she was licking her wounds and forgetting her emotional pain.
This farce eventually brought Xu Meijing's several years of cooperation with Chen Jiaming to an abrupt end - and her singing career naturally reached a bottleneck.
"Static" was the last musical work the two collaborated on, but Xu Meijing did not receive any dividends from it.
Her era seemed to have ended in a hurry.
In 2001, Xu Meijing came to Taiwan to develop her career. Here she met Yuan Yaofa, a male artist who had just become famous with the TV series "Goodbye Firefly".
Compared with Chen Jiaming's unattractive appearance, Yuan Yaofa, who is 8 years younger than her, is handsome, tall, and has a gentle personality. Seeing that Xu Meijing was depressed because of a broken love, he took her to travel around Italy.
The relationship between the two gradually warmed up here, and then they established a romantic relationship.
But the sweetness of this relationship only lasted for less than two years. Yuan Yaofa encountered the problem of being shunned by the brokerage company for various reasons, resulting in a long period of unemployment.
All kinds of pressure swept over him, and he vented his anger on his girlfriend. It is said that the two often quarreled and even fought in severe cases.
When Xu Meijing was at her most vulnerable, her ex Chen Jiaming appeared again, claiming that he was divorced and hoped to renew his relationship with her.
But later she found out that she had been deceived again. The man had not broken up with his ex-wife at all, which was equivalent to him playing a trick on her again.
After a series of emotional upsets, Xu Meijing finally broke out.
In 2006, it was revealed that she caused trouble in a six-star hotel. Not only did she shout "call me god", she also followed stranger guests into their rooms and forced them to kneel and kowtow to her.
There are rumors that when the incident happened, Xu Meijing was waiting for Chen Jiaming to talk about getting back together in the hotel, and had a misunderstanding with a foreigner. Before that, she had just learned that she was being teased by her ex, so she broke down emotionally.
Later, Xu Meijing was taken away by the police and was diagnosed by a doctor as suffering from schizophrenia.
It is reported that she was sent to a mental hospital for treatment for 28 days, but her acting career was basically ruined when she came out.
After that, this former "diva"-level female singer became equated with "madman".
Even if she was photographed singing on the street, people still paid attention to: "Why did she get to this point?"
At that time, there was also a rumor that Xu Meijing had all her property transferred by her family, and she chose to sing as a last resort in order to make a living.
But in fact, some of her senior fans came out to refute the rumors, saying that she was actually living a pretty good life. In addition to singing, she also volunteered locally, and her life was as ordinary as water.
Xu Meijing seems to be making a comeback in recent years. In 2014, she appeared as a guest at Stefanie Sun's concert, and was stamped as "her idol" by the other party.
When recording the variety show "I Want to Sing with You", Li Yuchun also expressed his admiration for her.
And Xu Meijing also calmly mentioned her ex again, with a look on her face as if she had already passed a thousand mountains.
In 2019, she sang the interlude "Intersecting Lights" for the movie "Midnight Diner". At the beginning of this year, she also appeared on Dragon TV's Spring Festival Gala and sang "Moonlight in the City".
It was not until this time that Xu Meijing came to the attention of the public again due to a severe stroke during her performance at the concert.
Throughout his gorgeous and helpless life, he once soothed countless people's hearts with his singing, but he himself was stuck in the word "love" and ended up in lamentation one after another.
only hopes that in the days to come, her life can be duller. After all, the storm has passed and the sunshine has come out.
