From 1996 to 2006, the 20th anniversary of her debut, from an obscure aboriginal girl to a well-deserved Chinese pop queen: Zhang Huimei has experienced a period of 20 years that has changed her life tremendously. On December 13, 1996, Zhang Huimei released the famous song "Sisters". On the same day 20 years later, she released an MV with the theme of "Parallel Universe", playing a "Zhang Huimei who did not choose to be Zhang Huimei". "Another self", coupled with the narration written for her by her agent Chen Zhenchuan , eloquently recounts her 20-year mental journey. In the MV, Amei, who did not become a singer, is just an ordinary city night returner, driving alone on the night road, singing softly in the car to the songs on the radio, shopping in the supermarket alone, and going to the pet hospital to take the dog. Take it home. Different from the original "Sisters" full of original wild passion, "Sisters (Parallel Universe Edition)" 20 years later is like a fine wine brewed for many years. With the simple acoustic guitar accompaniment, there is a kind of gentleness and firmness to regain the original heart. .
Picture: MV screen
Coincidentally, the day of shooting this MV on the 12th of last month also happened to be the death anniversary of Amei's teacher Zhang Yusheng . The details of the traffic police's sentence "Drive carefully" in the MV also aroused fans' sighs and nostalgia for Zhang Yusheng, a generation of music talent. Some netizens commented with emotion after seeing it: "Tears are falling! For AMEI, for the passing Zhang Yusheng, for the past 20 years!" A lifetime." - The MV for "Sisters 2016" quoted the late famous Polish director Kievlovski. Among the various opportunities that changed Zhang Huimei's life, getting to know Bole Zhang Yusheng must be a crucial one.
Picture: MV screenshot
recalled the first meeting with Zhang Yusheng, and Amei still remembers it fresh: "At that time, I was performing in PUB with my cousin's RELAX band, and my cousin told me: Zhang Yusheng is sitting below! , very excited, stretched his neck to look around, and saw him sitting quietly with dyed blond hair. I am his fan, and I thought at the time that I must try my best to sing so that he can hear it." After more than a month Here, Zhang Yusheng went to listen to Amei sing every day. One day, Zhang Yusheng suddenly asked Amei, are you interested in recording songs? Amei walked into the studio for the first time, and the first song she recorded was Zhang Yusheng's "The One Who Loves Me Hurts Me the Deepest".
Picture: Amei regards Zhang Yusheng as her mentor, and the two are like brothers and sisters.
and then it can be said that Bole leads the door, and the horse runs thousands of miles. Zhang Yusheng wrote and produced the first album "Sisters" for Amei, making this aboriginal girl like a spicy bomb, set off the Chinese music scene, and became the first Taiwanese first album to sell more than one million copies. singer. As a netizen said, how lucky is Amei to meet Zhang Yusheng: the latter wrote many popular Chinese classic songs for her, and regarded her as her younger sister to block the wind and rain from the outside world.
Picture: In 1996, Zhang Huimei's first album "Sisters"
However, the good times did not last long, and good luck made people. On November 12, 1997, Zhang Yusheng died of a car accident at the age of 31. "So people who love and hate lose weight. I'm afraid that these sufferings have no reason, so people who rise and fall are silent, and wait for these injuries to be free." Zhang Yusheng's last album "Duplicitous" was released two years after his death. , and his "BAD BOY" for Zhang Huimei was nominated for the Golden Melody Award. This pair of talented brothers and sisters who are also teachers and friends, although the yin and yang are separated, their common musical soul continues in Amei's blood.
Picture: Zhang Yusheng's last album before his death, "Talking the Wrong"
In the Chinese music scene, there are many other singers like Zhang Yusheng, such as Li Zongsheng to Zhou Huajian , Chen Shuhua , Karen Mok and other singers , Luo Dayou to Lin Xi, Huang Zhan to Lei Songde , Anita Mui , Lin Zixiang to Andy Lau , Wu Zongxian to Jay Chou , Alan Tam to Li Keqin , etc. ...No matter what their subsequent development is, the initial appreciation and cultivation are like a dazzling butterfly effect, allowing young people with dreams to set sail on the road of music and move forward bravely.
"I've always known that the stage under my feet can always turn invisible love into a state. Those processes, those tears, those days spent together, as long as they become stories, they will never go away. It's like the songs we sang together, which always make us secretly shed a few tears; or like a certain lyric, which may hide our thoughts at that time... What's more happier is that whenever I feel tired, I know There is always a powerful force beside me, which holds up a beautiful paradise for me..." At the end of the MV, Amei's confession to the fans in the dazzling light in the night, isn't it also a nostalgia for her teacher? In the trailer released this week by
Zhejiang Satellite TV "The Sound of Dreams ", there are several scenes of Amei singing with tears in her eyes. Earlier, some fans have revealed that the songs performed by Amei are related to Zhang Yusheng, so she choked and cried several times at the scene. A Mei's fan reposted on Weibo and said: "The tears in this episode should be very high, Zhang Yusheng is too important to Amei~" At that time, her sincere interpretation will definitely trigger the public's memory of Zhang Yusheng again. Affection.
