In the golden age of Taiwan's music scene, good songs were born one after another, and newcomers emerged one after another. As everyone knows, there are actually many popular singers who failed to become popular in the Hong Kong music scene, but became a blockbuster in the Taiwan

In the golden age of Taiwan's music scene, good songs were born one after another, and newcomers emerged one after another.

Zhou Huajian , Qi Qin , Wang Jie , Zhao Chuan , Tong Ange , Zhang Xinzhe , Ren Xianqi ... Some people may not be eye-catching in appearance, but as long as they open their voices, they can move people. Record sales, to say they were at their peak when they debuted is by no means a derogatory statement.

As everyone knows, there are actually many popular singers who failed to become popular in the Hong Kong music scene, but became a blockbuster in the Taiwanese music scene.

It is a pity that the Hong Kong music scene "missed" the rise of these superstars!

1, "Prodigal Son" Wang Jie

Wang Jie was able to join the powerful "Taiwan's Four Heavenly Kings", and his influence in Taiwan's music scene is also evident. After

became famous in the Taiwanese music scene, Wang Jie crossed the river and chose to work in the Hong Kong music scene, but the situation was completely different. Before

became famous, Wang Jie was in a miserable situation.

Because both his parents were actors, he settled in Hong Kong at the age of 3 and grew up in Shaw Brothers Studio.

After the parents divorced, the original family had a lot of problems. His later character of being unruly, withdrawn, outspoken, and easily offended was closely related to this period of his life.

At that time, he wanted to debut in the Hong Kong music scene, but he couldn't even find a way.

When Wang Jie first came to Taiwan, he encountered obstacles everywhere. He struggled at the bottom of society and experienced hardships.

aspired to be a singer, but after being rejected by Rolling Stone Lee Jong-sheng, he was finally discovered by UFO Records, which started his career in the music industry.

Newcomer Wang Jie’s performance is absolutely impressive.

His first three albums are "A Game, a Dream", "Forgot You Forgot Me" and "Do I Really Have Nothing", which can be said to be huge hits and all of them are classics.

His momentum has surpassed many Taiwanese first-line singers. Who would have thought that Wang Jie is a "Hong Kong singer"?

It was not until Wang Jie returned to the Hong Kong music scene singing proficient Cantonese songs that everyone realized that Wang Jie was "one of our own".

But the Hong Kong music scene is not Wang Jie's "blessed place". He made his fortune in the Taiwanese music scene, but fell silent here. This is due to both the times and character.

2, " National Song King " Zhou Huajian

Zhou Huajian, one of "Taiwan's Four Heavenly Kings", is also from Hong Kong.

Because his test scores were not good, his sister helped him fill out the application form for the Taiwan Joint Entrance Examination. Zhou Huajian hugged his beloved guitar and flew to Taiwan alone to take the exam and was admitted to the Department of Mathematics of National Taiwan University.

During the years when he was studying in Taiwan, Zhou Huajian was still not interested in studying. Instead, he loved music more and was active as a resident singer in a folk song restaurant.

During this period, he met Bole Li Zongsheng and met his future wife Kang Cuilan.

In 1986, Huajian Zhou joined Rolling Stone Records, and his life and career ushered in earth-shaking changes.

From the early years of "The Direction of the Heart" and "The Truest Dream", to the later popularity of songs such as " Makes Me Happy and Makes Me Worry" and "花心", Zhou Huajian harvested one golden song after another while also harvesting Extremely popular.

In 1993, Chow Wakin aspired to be the Golden Song King. At the same time, he also began to get involved in the Hong Kong music scene.

In the contest with the four kings of Hong Kong, he turned his back on guests and became the "King Killer". When sales were at their peak, what Huajian Zhou cared about most every day was whether he had sold Jacky Cheung !

3, "Prince of Love Songs" Tai Zhengxiao

Speaking of Tai Zhengxiao, many people think that he, like Zhang Xinzhe, is a love song prince from Taiwan.

In fact, the resumes of Tai Zhengxiao and Zhou Huajian are quite similar.

was born in Hong Kong. Because of his poor academic performance, he went to Taiwan to take the joint entrance examination and took root in the island.

During his empty-pocketed student days, in order to make money to survive, Zhou Huajian played hard in a folk song restaurant. Tai Zhengxiao also once put on his guitar and sang in front of all kinds of people.

But compared to how Zhou Huajian met Li Zongsheng and entered Rolling Stone Records naturally, Tai Zhengxiao's music path was much more tortuous.

participated in the Taiwan Popular Music Competition during her school days, and her choir won fifth place. Although

's results were good, it was Zhang Yusheng who stole the show in that competition.

In those years, Tai Zhengxiao also went to interview with Rolling Stone. As a result, Li Zongsheng rejected Wang Jie in the first step, and rejected Tai Zhengxiao without any hesitation. The reason was that neither of them knew vibrato.

As for Tai Zhengxiao, Mandarin and are not standard, so how can he sing Mandarin songs well?

Fortunately, Tai Zhengxiao can create, which is a great confidence to break into the music world. Rolling Stone can't get in, Fumao Records is not a bad idea.

Previously, Fu Mao made the under-popular Yu Chengqing famous. For Tai Zhengxiao, Fu Mao also worked hard and invited big-name musicians to produce albums for him.

Soon, Tai Zhengxiao found the development path of "love songs". Songs such as

"Find a Word to Replace" and " Thousand Paper Cranes " have become popular one after another.

In the Taiwanese music scene where newcomers are emerging in large numbers, Tai Zhengxiao has become the "Prince of Love Songs" competing side by side with Zhang Xinzhe.

Then he also staged the drama of "from being popular in the Taiwanese music scene to the Hong Kong music scene".

Until he translated his famous works "One Thousand and One Nights" and "Nine Hundred and Ninety-Nine Roses" into the Cantonese songs "Legend of Love" and "Several Winds and Rains" with correct lyrics.

Everyone realized belatedly: It turns out that Tai Zhengxiao is also a Hong Konger who goes out to wander!

4, "Popular Idol" Chung Han-liang

html In the Taiwanese music scene in the 1990s, the most indispensable thing was idol singers. There was Jimmy Lin known as the "Little Tornado", and there was also Chung Han-liang, known as the " Little Sun ".

Chung Han-liang was discovered by Tai Zhengxiao and became an instant hit after releasing a Mandarin album in the Taiwanese music scene. Many people thought he was Taiwanese.

In fact, Chung Han-liang first made his debut in Hong Kong TVB and was an "undergraduate" in the TVB dance training class.

In this well-established dance class, Aaron Kwok , Jordan Chan , Nicholas Tse and other performing arts stars have emerged.

Zhong Hanliang may be able to make his mark after spending a few years in the industry. But when he met Tai Zhengxiao, his plan to become famous was immediately put on the agenda.

It is also very dramatic to say that when Tai Zhengxiao was doing an announcement in Hong Kong, he accidentally watched the hit " Young Five Tigers ". I originally thought that Zhu Jianjun in the drama was good and wanted to recommend him to go to Taiwan to develop.

In the end, I didn’t know that the agent was confused and brought the wrong person, and brought Zhong Hanliang from the crew.

Tai Zhengxiao couldn't laugh or cry, but he didn't want Zhong Hanliang to be embarrassed, so he just made the mistake and did a live audition.

To the surprise of everyone present, the boy in front of him had a pretty good voice. Looking at his image carefully, he showed that he was sunny and cheerful, and he had a lot of potential.

Just like that, Li Zongsheng failed to predict the popularity of Tai Zhengxiao, but Tai Zhengxiao had a keen eye and discovered a shining star in Hong Kong!

In 1995, Chung Han-liang, who went to Taiwan to develop his career, released his first Mandarin album "OREA". The title song of

is Techno dance music with a strong rhythm. This is a piece of cake for Chung Han-liang who is already good at dancing. He can perform it with ease and show his charm!

's soaring popularity also made Chung Han-liang rush into the "Taiwan's Top Ten Idols Ranking" as soon as he debuted, not losing to Taiwanese idols such as Nicky Wu and Jimmy Lin.

5, diva Karen Mok

From a young singing voice that was ignored in the Hong Kong music scene, she transformed into a unique intellectual female voice in the Chinese music scene . Karen Mok's fame is indispensable with the help of noble people.

One of them is Lu Guanting.

He is the original soundtrack producer of Stephen Chow " Journey to the West ". He composed and sang the soul theme song of the movie " The Love of My Life ".

The female vocalist in this song is Karen Mok.

Lu Guanting was amazed by Karen Mok's voice, and immediately thought of his good friend Li Zongsheng, whose Rolling Stone Records was lacking good talent.

In this way, with Lu Guanting's help, Karen Mok was recommended to Li Zongsheng, the "gold medal producer" in the Chinese music scene.

Li Zongsheng is also another heavyweight of Mo Wenwei.

Karen Mok felt like she had discovered a new world in the Taiwanese music scene. She couldn't help but sigh that the atmosphere of the music scene in the two places was so different! Compared to the perennial entertainment industry in Hong Kong, Taiwan has musicians with more original concepts. In the few years since

first joined the Rolling Stones, Karen Mok successively sang a lot of popular songs such as " Cloudy Day ", " Suddenly ", " He Doesn't Love Me ", " Radio Love Song ".

Mok Wenwei, who is famous, skipped the chaos in the "Thean Hou Palace" in Hong Kong's music scene and directly won the Golden Melody Award and aspired to be the Chinese Queen. It is indeed a superior move.

6, Queen of Queens Karen Lam

Karen Mok once said, "I liked Karen Lam the best when she was in the Rolling Stones, far more than when she sang Cantonese songs in Hong Kong."

Jimmy Lam debuted in the Hong Kong music scene very early, but unfortunately throughout the 1980s she None of them made it through.

The reason is very simple. There are veteran queens such as Tsui Siu Feng , Anita Mui is currently popular, and Priscilla Chan also steals the limelight.

But Ye Qianwen, and Lin Yilian were still the background of the party at that time, and it was not their turn to win the grand prize.

Lin Yilian and Priscilla Chan were classmates, but Priscilla Chan became popular very quickly. As if overnight, "Dancing Street" was being sung in the streets and alleys, not to mention Anita Mui, who won awards and was soft-handed.

After experiencing the "Thousand Evenings Controversy" between "Song of a Thousand Thousand Ques" and "Song of the Sunset", Anita Mui and Priscilla Chan withdrew from the awards ceremony and the other went to study in the United States. The spring for other female singers has finally come!

At this time, the record company came up with the idea of ​​"opening up the Mandarin song market", and the "grieved" Lin Yilian was arranged to develop in the Taiwanese music scene.

After this, Lin Yilian could not have imagined that she would not be popular in the Hong Kong music scene for many years, but she would become very popular after releasing her first Mandarin album in the Taiwanese music scene.

Flying Saucer Records created her first Mandarin album "Falling in Love with Someone Who Never Goes Home", which allowed her to bypass the competition for queen of the Hong Kong music scene and directly become a Chinese-language queen.

Here, she also gained a relationship with Li Zongsheng. The first time the two collaborated was the theme song "When Love Is a Past " from "Farewell My Concubine".

One writes and the other sings. This pair of perfect musical partners later became more and more tacit, and handed over many popular masterpieces such as "Don't Care Who I Am", " Scars", "Blow by the Cold Wind for You and Me" etc. .

is a golden song queen who has won the Taiwan Golden Melody Award. She is also a queen who has been "stamped" and recognized by the Hong Kong music scene. She participated in " I am a singer " and won the title of "King of Songs". How can Lin Yilian be so awesome!

7. Queen of the music industry: Coco Lee

Mentioning Coco Lee, how many people know that she first debuted in Hong Kong?

Coco Lee was born in Hong Kong. She immigrated abroad when she was 9 years old. Then she returned to Hong Kong in the early 1990s, participated in the TVB Rookie Singing Competition, and eventually won the runner-up. At that time, her name was not Coco Lee, but Li Meilin .

Looking at her at that time, and then looking at her as everyone is familiar with her later, her figure and image are completely different, but she is definitely the same person.

Coco Lee, who launched an album in the Hong Kong music scene in the early days, did not attract much attention.

instead takes advantage of the language advantage of English. The English cover album released by Coco Lee has sold well in Taiwan.

Coco Lee, who grasped the pulse of the market, took advantage of the trend to develop in the Taiwanese music scene. After joining Sony Records , she also met Bole Yao Qian .

In fact, people regard Coco Lee as a Taiwanese singer precisely because her achievements in the Taiwanese music scene are so dazzling!

In 1997, diva Zhang Huimei 's "Bad Boy" set a sales record of 1.38 million copies.

In 1998, Coco Lee released "DiDaDi implying ", which sold an astonishing 1.8 million copies, confirming her title as the Queen of Asia.

In those years, the "war between queens" in Taiwan's music scene was in full swing. This made Coco Lee forget about the Hong Kong music market because she had a bigger stage in front of her.

In 2001, "A Love Before Time" sung by Coco Lee was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Coco Lee became the first Chinese singer to sing at the Oscars and successfully entered the overseas music market.

Conclusion:

From Wang Jie and Zhou Huajian to Karen Mok and Coco Lee, the pinnacle of Taiwan's pop music scene is also reflected in these singers. For the "over-entertainment" Hong Kong music scene at that time, this may be another level of "talent loss".

But based on the entire Chinese music scene, people will not worry about where the singer comes from. As long as they sing good songs, the applause will naturally start!