Nakajima Miyuki: A song holds Faye Wong and feeds half of the Hong Kong and Taiwan music scene

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In 1992, Faye Wong , who returned to Hong Kong from studying in the United States, sang " Lipstick " by Miyuki Nakajima under the suggestion of her agent Chen Jiaying .

became popular in the streets of Hong Kong overnight, and helped Faye Wong firmly occupy a place in the Hong Kong Philharmonic. The song

is called " vulnerable woman ".

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The name Nakajima Miyuki (中國みゆき) may be unfamiliar to you, but you must have grown up listening to her songs.

She has composed more than 500 original songs in her life, and more than 70 of them have been covered by Chinese singers.

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Ren Xianqi 's " Sad Pacific ", Zhou Huimin 's "Favorite", Leslie Cheung 's "First Time"...

These Chinese classics that we are familiar with are all covered from Nakajima Miyuki's Original works.

Therefore, Nakajima Miyuki was also dubbed by Chinese netizens as "one person supports half of the Hong Kong and Taiwan music scene".

Nakajima Miyuki: A song holds Faye Wong and feeds half of the Hong Kong and Taiwan music scene - DayDayNews

Misiya On the singer, she sang Miyuki Nakajima's " on the back of a silver dragon "

I didn't know Miyuki in my life, and listening to Hong Kong and Taiwan was in vain.

has nurtured the Asian music scene for 30 years. This talented and top singer-songwriter deserves to be remembered forever.

Nakajima Miyuki: A song holds Faye Wong and feeds half of the Hong Kong and Taiwan music scene - DayDayNews

For the entire Asian music scene, Miyuki Nakajima is a cross-generational appearance.

Almost all of her work is composed by herself.

Nakajima Miyuki: A song holds Faye Wong and feeds half of the Hong Kong and Taiwan music scene - DayDayNews

Teresa Teng " Walking the Road of Life " published in 1983 is one of her most famous masterpieces.

Nakajima Miyuki: A song holds Faye Wong and feeds half of the Hong Kong and Taiwan music scene - DayDayNews

But in fact, this song is a cover of " used to be lonely " written by Miyuki Nakajima in 1981, which fully sings the inner loneliness of young people.

In addition, there are Ren Xianqi's " Tianya ", Liu Ruoying "So You Are Here", Chen Huixian "Love in the Wind and Dust", Zheng Xiuwen "Love Elegy".... .. all cover songs from Miyuki Nakajima.

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In the Hong Kong and Taiwan music circles from the end of the 1980s to the beginning of the 21st century, covers of Miyuki Nakajima's songs became popular, and there are countless examples.

The reason why Miyuki Nakajima has such a strong influence on the music scene in Hong Kong and Taiwan is because her works are so popular.

Japanese music critic Hideki Tianjia has recorded and interviewed Miyuki Nakajima for a long time.

He said that Nakajima Miyuki was a songwriter who changed the Japanese music scene.

Before her appearance, most of the "female emotions" songs in Japan were written by men.

It wasn't until Miyuki Nakajima came along that it became normal for women to write songs for themselves for the first time.

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Miyuki Nakajima is known as Japan's lovelorn song king, she is very good at grasping the complex emotions of two people in love.

This song "Only You and Me in the World" is regarded as the bible of broken love by many fans. The

lyrics express the fact that everyone has felt the same thing about "not being able to love".

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In addition to writing about love between men and women, she also talks about the stars in the sky.

has stars in her eyes and mountains and seas in her heart... Her songs are full of thoughts on life, nature and life.

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This " Song of Bamboo " sings praises to the lofty spirit of bamboo.

understands it bluntly, which is the sadness and emotion of the impermanence of the world.

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This is why the Japanese people are so empathetic for her songs.

A program once conducted a public survey, "Why do you like Miyuki Nakajima's songs"?

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Miyuki Nakajima was born in Sapporo, Hokkaido in 1952. His father was a businessman and his mother was a doctor.

She started to study music at the age of 5 and tried to compose by herself in the second grade of elementary school.

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Although her music was evaluated as "worthless" by her teacher, she never gave up her music dream.

As she wrote in the lyrics of "Riding on the Back of the Silver Dragon":

Before the dream came, yesterday I waited in vain

Tomorrow, I will go to the foot of the dragon, climb the cliff, shout Road: Let's go!

Riding on the back of the silver dragon, flying over the desert of life, and passing through the whirlpool of clouds and rain....

At the age of 20, Miyuki Nakajima wrote her thoughts on life at that time into "I Often Think This Way".

She took this song to participate in the Japanese music festival and won the Excellence Award. The lyrics of

wrote: I often think about how far life can go and what deeds can be accomplished. The lyrics of

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have also become her lifelong thinking proposition.

In 1975, Miyuki Nakajima officially debuted with her original album "Time".

Until two years later, Miyuki Nakajima's single " parting song " unexpectedly beat the popular idol group Pinklady and topped the chart.

Wearing a black dress and holding a guitar, she performed "The Parting Song" live on the TV music show "Music Fair".

's singing officially kicked off the "Nakajima Miyuki Era", making her the "King of Lovelorn Singers" well-known in Japan.

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Miyuki Nakajima's works also focus on social issues.

"The Star on Earth" sings praises to the unsung heroes who silently supported the Japanese economy at that time.The song

stayed in the top 100 chart of Japan's Oricon for 183 weeks, creating a rare long-selling miracle in the Japanese record industry.

In 2002, Miyuki Nakajima sang the song "The Star on the Earth" at the Red and White Song Festival. On the night of

, "The Star on the Earth" became the highest-rated song in this red and white song festival with a rating of 52.8%.

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Miyuki Nakajima has a total of six songs included in Japanese textbooks.

She is also the only singer who has won the champion of Japan's Oricon chart across four eras (1970-2000). The singing of

of the Showa era drifted past Heisei and also came to and .

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Every year, a group of "fans" will rehearse a "Geyuan" concert at the Budokan to pay tribute to her.

These fans are not unknown people, but Kumiko Takahashi, Ayaka Hirano, Nakamura and other Japanese music stars.

Nakajima Mika regards Nakajima Miyuki as an idol, Kudo Shizuka said: "I can receive a total of 23 works created by Miyuki , which is the only thing I am proud of."

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Nakajima Miyuki and Nakajima Shima Mijia

Nakajima Miyuki's achievements in the music world are shocking and acclaimed.

She has sung all her life, love and hatred...

But the queen of this age-old national treasure song, she is unmarried and alone.

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Since her debut, Miyuki Nakajima is the only object of love scandal, called Yoshida Takuro .

Yoshida Takuro is known as the "Father of Japanese Folk Songs", and his singing has influenced a whole generation of Japanese.

The relationship between Nakajima and Yoshida, who are not full of lovers above AUO, was once rumored to be a good story.

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In 1995, Takuro Yoshida, 49, was exhausted. He thought of Miyuki Nakajima, hoping she could write a "song like a suicide note" for himself.

So, Miyuki Nakajima wrote " give me a forever lie " for Takuro Yoshida. This song is full of love that I want to talk about:

want to hear you tell an eternal lie, that we are still on this journey

want to hear you tell me an eternal lie, never tell me anything The truth

want to hear you tell an eternal lie, tell me that it's all because of love

In 2006, 60-year-old Yoshida sang this song at a solo concert.

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In the middle of the song, 54-year-old Nakajima Miyuki suddenly appeared in a refreshing look in a white shirt and jeans.

With a straight posture, a shy expression, and a reserved smile like a girl, she slowly walked towards him in the center of the stage.

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After finishing the song, Nakajima Miyuki looked at him with a smile on her face.

Yoshida shook hands with her and called out her name to the audience.

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Although the parties never admitted that they were in love, this did not prevent Miyuki Nakajima's song for Yoshida from becoming a classic.

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After the death of her mother who depended on each other, Miyuki Nakajima has been living alone in recent years and rarely shows up.

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In recent years, Miyuki Nakajima has been photographed going out shopping by herself

However, Miyuki Nakajima has never stopped creating music.

On December 2, 2021, Miyuki Nakashima wrote a new song "Island より" for Shizuka Kudo's new album after 13 years.

This year, she also released the 2020 concert CD "2020 last tour".

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Miyuki Nakajima, who was then 68 years old, was standing in the center of the stage, dressed in Chinese clothes and her signature long curly hair.

She opened her voice shallowly, and her voice was still clear, but with more years of precipitation and emotion.

Today, she is 70 years old, but it seems that she will never run out of inspiration.

Nakajima Miyuki: A song holds Faye Wong and feeds half of the Hong Kong and Taiwan music scene - DayDayNews

This Asian queen songstress has never been married and dedicated her life to music.

Perhaps the years have forgotten this shining star of the old music scene.

But we will never forget the warmth and touching she brought to the world.

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