time will change and eliminate many things.
And, the real good stuff will stay.
Chen Shuhua's songs undoubtedly belong to this category.
Li Zongsheng , who made her popular, once described her voice: " is always moist, very shiny, not bright, not harsh, not greasy, not tired, very durable, easy to identify ."
Someone said, "Chen Shuhua's voice is like the face of Brigitte Lin . It is difficult to describe and difficult to draw. There is no way to win. He is a martial arts master." Chen Shuhua, who waited for the song to reach the peak of her career, left without saying goodbye and left the music scene.
occasionally appears in newspapers, and it is also negative news that she lives in isolation and is "economically unbalanced".
She disappeared, no matter what the Rolling Stones, music partners, Li Zongsheng, etc. called, she was unmoved.
shows no signs of making a comeback.
We can only reminisce about her and try to understand her from her past works.
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Endless love
Some people are born stars.
In 1966, 8-year-old Chen Shuhua participated in the largest singing competition in Taiwan, the "Taiwan Song Contest" in China-Guangzhou, and won the championship in one fell swoop.
In 1985, with the TV special of "Endless Love", she defeated Su Rui and Wang Zhilei and won the Golden Bell Award for Best Female Singer.
This award was the most authoritative award in Taiwan's music industry that year. It is not an exaggeration to say that a singer can win it.
Generally speaking, there should be a big celebration! Chen Shuhua was very uneasy, feeling that she still had a lot of deficiencies and needed to be recharged.
She went to Japan to observe and study, and received the influence of the world's first-class music.
In order to sing well, Chen Shuhua insisted on getting up at 7:00 every morning, doing 50 sit-ups, 15 minutes of aerobics, and 15 minutes of vocal practice.
In addition, since childhood, reading, piano and guzheng are all compulsory courses for her.
Chen Shuhua is ready in singing and soul, just waiting for the person who "puts the finishing touch" to arrive.
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When I woke up,
was of course Li Zongsheng.
At the end of 1989, Li Zongsheng, the producer of Chen Shuhua, showed his precise grasp of the trend of the times and his personal characteristics.
He asked her to cut her hair short, follow the "new urban women" route of being mature and independent, daring to love and hate, and produced a number of songs with equal emphasis on emotional, rational and intellectual.
"Wake Up Time" is one of them. At the beginning of
, Li Zongsheng wrote this song for "a woman writes a letter to enlighten another female friend who is trapped in love". It was originally scheduled to be sung by Wu Qianlian .
Wu Qianlian's record did not progress, so she simply gave it to Chen Shuhua.
Be aware that sadness is always unavoidable
Every time you wake up
Some things you don't have to ask now
Some people you never have to wait for There is such a free and easy love attitude.
and Chen Shuhua sang neatly, sadly but not sadly, with a fresh temperament. Once released,
's album "Talk to You, Listen to You", which included this song, immediately aroused strong sympathy among women, and also changed the aesthetics of male listeners towards women.
Chase, independent, and assertive, this is what women should look like in the new era.
This album became the first record in Taiwan's music history to break one million sales, establishing Chen Shuhua's status as a generation of singers.
Actually, this is not the first time Li Zongsheng and Chen Shuhua have collaborated.
As early as 1987, he wrote "Single Woman Like Me" for her who had just joined Rolling Stones:
The life of a single woman is not bad
I don't want love to have me now
I said to myself
I want Independent living
Today, this view is not new.
But, it was the 80s, 32 years ago, and it was not an exaggeration to say that it was the forerunner of feminism by preaching singleness and independent living.
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Rolling Red Dust
"Rolling Red Dust" songwriter Luo Dayou , is the theme song of the movie of the same name starring Lin Qingxia, Zhang Manyu , etc.
It is said that when Luo Dayou asked Chen Shuhua to sing this song, he was very uneasy.
He was worried that Chen Shuhua would not be able to control the song. When the official recording was made, Luo Dayou found that he was the one who was redundant.
Easy come and go
Decades of travel in the world
Divided and difficult to gather
The eternal sorrow of love and hatred
The prosperity is gone, it seems like a lifetime, I don’t want to go but I have to go, I can’t understand but only Affectionate and helpless that can barely self-explanation.
The songs from 30 years ago are still melancholy.
Throughout her singing career, Chen Shuhua has produced many duet songs for men and women. Especially after joining the Rolling Stones, she has collaborated with superstars.In addition to what has been mentioned before,
also sang " clearly understands my heart " with Jackie Chan, sang "meet by chance" with Zhou Huajian , and sang " is really good " with Leslie Cheung .
Among these people, Leslie Cheung and her choice are particularly emotional.
One has been out of the world for a long time, and the other has lived in isolation for a long time.
Perhaps, this is also a "rolling red dust" that is "easy to separate and difficult to gather".
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Be the real me
The East Invincible played by Brigitte Lin is one of Tsui Hark's classic character modeling for transforming beauties.
The beauty of the prosperous age, with a red coat, and a boozy drink on a lake, makes people fall.
However, what the world sees and loves is nothing but the gorgeous surface, how many people can understand the true Eastern Invincibility?
"Being the Real Me" is a reflection of her inner self. She decided to stop caring about other people's opinions and be a real self.
Relatively speaking, the Mandarin version of " Xiaohongchen " is more free and easy and reserved.
I cry today and laugh tomorrow
I don’t ask anyone to understand
I am proud of myself
"Laughing Red Dust" belongs entirely to women, it is inward-looking, and it makes us dare to face ourselves and live out ourselves.
"She" is no longer attached to anyone, no longer follows the standards set by others, she is herself, beautiful for herself, and love for herself.
htmlIn the early 1990s, Chen Shuhua entered her heyday. At this time, she was proud of her career, and her singing voice was free.
As the famous music critic Li Wan said, she never exaggerates her feelings when singing:
" is graceful and subtle, beautiful and elegant, plain and indifferent, with a hint of charm in her purity, such as Chinese classical/modern theory. She is sad but not sad. , joy but not obscenity, pain but not sadness, sorrow but not resentment, resentment but not anger, not kitsch, not performing, joy, anger, sadness and music seem to be in the light of clouds. Four words are used very well.
Even "Liuguang Wuwu" is so flamboyant, no matter the extreme song, she just sings it softly, as if carelessly, but you can definitely hear the tenderness contained in it.
Have a happy thing with a lover
I don't ask whether it is a calamity or a fate.
It turns out that to be truly firm, you don't have to swear on your chest.
is really crazy about love, and doesn't necessarily need to scream.
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Do not be lovers, not friends
Generally famous singers tend to cooperate with familiar teams and producers in order to ensure the quality of music, but Chen Shuhua is not restricted by this.
In 1995, she released "Shuhua Bloom FOREVER", one of the main producers of the album was the fledgling Tao Zhe .
Those who are familiar with Tao Zhe will surely hear the full taste and style of Tao Zhe from the song "Don't Be a Lover, Don't Be a Friend".
One day in the future, we will meet again, maybe we won't look at each other again.
We will no longer be friends, we will no longer be lovers.
In music, Chen Shuhua is very bold.
This album is also the earliest R&B pop music in Hong Kong and Taiwan. It may be that the music style is too advanced, and the response at that time was average.
made Tao Zhe start to attract attention. After all, not everyone can make music for singers as soon as they debut.
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Paradise Lost
"Paradise Lost" is from the album of the same name, which is also the last album of Chen Shuhua before her retirement.
Compared with the previous style, the whole album looks dark, lonely, and sad. Take the lyrics of this song as an example:
Love is too hard to be presumptuous and simple
How to collect feelings without hurting
Gradually I am afraid to think about
How far to go to forget it
is obviously an image of a woman who is hurt by love and cannot be freed from it.
It seems that Chen Shuhua is more eager to break through herself than to maintain a chic urban female character, even if the sales are not satisfactory. In the second year after the release of the
album, her mother died suddenly, and Chen Shuhua was deeply traumatized.
Taiwanese female singers in those years, starting from Teresa Teng , all work was connected by her mother and the outside world, as did Chen Shuhua.
Mother Chen is not only Chen Shuhua's agent, assistant, and nanny, but also the only close friend she can talk to.
Now it seems that the title of the last album seems to be the prophecy of her life, "Paradise Lost".
Today, Chen Shuhua has disappeared from the stage for many years. There were also rumors of a comeback in the middle of
, but in the end they were all gone. Whether it was fans, or her former music partners, such as Li Zongsheng, probably gradually accepted her decision.
She must live the life she wants.
Her current state must be the one that best suits her heart.
Do not disturb, do not judge maliciously, that is our best blessing.
At the end of 2003, Rolling Stone Records specially planned a special album "A Letter to Shuhua" to pay tribute to Chen Shuhua. The
album copy has this paragraph:
is still often asked about Shuhua,
or humming her song inadvertently somewhere.
Chen Shuhua For many people,
is not just a few songs and albums, but a piece of their own growing memory.
has never forgotten her gentle voice.
often wants to write a letter to Shuhua.
is not just greeting her, how have you been? Are you living the life you want?
I want her to know that I live and love as bravely as she does.
Shuhua, just know that you are fine.
The last sentence is also the voice of all those who care about her:
Chen Shuhua, I hope you are well.
