Article | Yun Muxi 61-year-old Ye Qianwen made her debut in Hunan Satellite TV's Hong Kong Philharmonic variety show "The Sound of Life". Her silver hair and red dress sparked heated discussions. "Ye Qianwen is so awesome", "Ye Qianwen is so beautiful" and many other topics have

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61-year-old Ye Qianwen made her debut in Hunan Satellite TV Hong Kong Philharmonic Variety Show "The Sound of Life". Her silver hair and red dress caused heated discussions.

"Ye Qianwen is so awesome", "Ye Qianwen is so beautiful" and many other topics were on the hot search.

days later, she is back with the same charm as before.

How popular was Michelle Ye at that time, and why did she represent the female singer of the Hong Kong Philharmonic to kick off "The Sound of Life"?

Michelle Yeh performs in Hunan Satellite TV's "The Sound of Life"

Hong Kong Philharmonic Master Huang Zhan once publicly claimed that the female singer he loves most is Michelle Yeoh.

Huang Zhan said at the concert that Ye Qianwen

Literary film director Yang Fan claimed to be her standard movie fan. Tsui Hark praised her as a talented actor, but she only shot 26 movies and stopped making movies.

In 1998, why did Ye Qianwen, who was at the height of her popularity, retire early and move overseas?

01. Coming from a famous family, dreaming of becoming a star

August 1970, Taipei.

She was fascinated by the vast and surging martial arts world, and began to dream of becoming a movie star.

Unfortunately, once the summer is over, she has to return to her home in Canada.

The young girl Ye Qianwen

Ye Qianwen's grandfather is a senior politician in Wanwan, and her mother is a "rich lady" from a superior family. She did not choose a well-matched marriage, but fell in love with a civilian non-commissioned officer whose ancestral home was Zhongshan, Guangdong.

Ye Qianwen's mother

On September 30, 1961, Ye Qianwen, the child of their love, was born in Taipei.

The picture comes from Ye Qianwen’s Weibo

At that time, every female student in the area had to have neatly cut short hair, get up at 6 a.m. and didn’t finish school until 6 p.m., and had endless tutoring sessions.

When Ye Qianwen was 4 and a half years old, her parents decided to immigrate to Victoria, Canada, in order to let their daughter grow up freely. Her father got a position as a professor of engineering at Victoria University.

4-year-old Xiaoye Qianwen

's family of three lives in a small rented apartment and is not well off. Her parents' family sends money from time to time, but her mother is reluctant to use it all and save it for her beloved daughter.

Xiao Qianwen is the only Chinese student in the school. She is teased by her classmates for her small eyes, flat face and flat nose, and is even thrown pebbles at her.

’s mother made up a story to scare Ye Qianwen, saying that girls who love listening to the radio will never find a boyfriend. The little girl was so scared that she never dared to take the radio to the bathroom.

In order to let her daughter speak Chinese , her mother asked Ye Qianwen to go back to her parents' home every summer vacation.

Grandpa’s family, who was in a distinguished position, came and went. Twenty or thirty people came in and out every day, which was very lively.

This holiday every year is her happiest time.

In the back row is Ye Qianwen

When she was 11 years old, Bruce Lee's movie "Fist of Fury" was a hit. She watched it 26 times obsessively, and her desire to become a star grew wildly.

Since her grandfather was good friends with China TV executives, she got close contact with the entertainment industry.

I heard that she likes the popular actress Fan Danfeng. Her aunt said that Fan Danfeng happened to be her friend's student and she could invite her to her home for dinner. She also arranged for Ye Qianwen to visit the TV station.

Under the recommendation of her aunt, she also met China Television actor Lu Yilong, and she often visited the class and played together.

Many years later, in the memories of Lu Yilong's friend Bago , Lu Yilong was Ye Qianwen's first love, and Ye Qianwen's officially recognized boyfriend was the handsome boy Fei Xiang.

Lu Yilong took a photo with the girl Ye Qianwen

But Ye Qianwen's first movie came from Lu Yilong's recommendation.

02. Discovered by talent scout , 14-year-old Ye Qianwen is already 1.70M tall, has long legs and thin waist, is youthful and beautiful, and can’t conceal her brilliance.

A middle school teacher in Canada signed up for the "Miss Chinatown Vancouver" beauty pageant on her behalf. Unfortunately, she lacked stage experience and ended up in third place.

returned to 's grandpa's house during the summer vacation. She was picked up by a talent scout on the street and invited to shoot a juice commercial.

When I heard that there was a salary of 1,000 yuan, Ye Qianwen, who was about to buy a birthday gift for her mother, brightened up and agreed immediately.

, a young girl full of energy, was quickly favored by advertisers. She filmed three commercials in one go and then returned to Canada to go to school.

and Brigitte Lin , Joey Wong , and Maggie Cheung 's debuts were exactly the same as . Their youth and beauty brought about Michelle Yeh's star fortune.

In the summer of 1979, 18-year-old Ye Qianwen met her old friend Lu Yilong at the door of a fried chicken restaurant and invited her to audition for the film crew "A Match".

Lu Yilong's friend Ma Yonglin is a second-generation rich member of the Yuanta Group. He has guest-starred in Qiong Yao Xiaosheng. At that time, he had just founded Jialin Pictures. He originally wanted Brigitte Lin to play the heroine but was rejected.

Ma Yonglin, who is both an investor and the leading actor, fell in love with 's youthful and lively Ye Qianwen at first sight.

Grandpa's family did not want Ye Qianwen to enter the entertainment industry. Due to her mother's support, my grandfather reluctantly agreed to Ye Qianwen take over the filming of the film, but made a request that Ma Yonglin take his granddaughter to the set every day.

On the road, Pistachio Ye Qianwen often sings along with the car music.

As soon as Ma Yonglin heard that his singing voice was not bad, Qi Yu happened to refuse to sing the movie theme song, so he took Ye Qianwen to the music creator Li Taixiang for an audition.

Just like that, Ye Qianwen starred in the heroine in the first movie she entered the industry and sang the theme song.

Although "A Match" failed miserably at the box office, Ye Qianwen's beauty attracted the attention of the industry, and she signed a contract with First AV record company and officially entered the entertainment industry.

In 1982, she took over the supporting actress roles in three movies: "Flowers in the Rain", "Pink Corps", and "Pink Ranger". Probably the heroines Brigitte Lin, Yang Huishan, and Hu Huizhong were too dazzling, and Ye Qianwen still couldn't beat her. Too much water splash. The

record company created five Mandarin albums for her in one go. They asked her to wear short skirts and look sweet. They wanted to replicate the success of "Jade Girl Idol" singer Jin Ruiyao, but they completely failed to bring out her unique temperament, and the market response was mediocre.

Ye Qianwen's first five Mandarin albums

It was because of singing that she met Fei Xiang, a handsome mixed-race boy who had just become popular, and they formed a passionate love relationship with a golden boy and a beautiful girl.

When the love became more intense, Fei Xiang directly declared in a TV interview:

"Ye Qianwen is mine, I will love her forever!"

Fei Xiang's mother Bi Lina did not like the Western-style Ye Qianwen, thinking that her son's career had just started. At this time Falling in love will hinder your future, and you are very opposed to this relationship.

Ye Qianwen often goes to eat beef noodles with Luo Dayou, Brigitte Lin, Qin Han, Zhang Sylvia . Seeing Luo Dayou feeling sad for Zhang Sylvia, came to the conclusion "Then don't date, it's so painful." chicly proposed to marry Fei Xiang separate.

When her career and love were blocked in her hometown, Hong Kong opened its door of welcome to her.

Under the recommendation of Wang Anni, the editor-in-chief of "Silver World" magazine, Ye Qianwen and Qin Han co-starred in the Hong Kong movie "Bing Mei", and met photographer Yang Fan on the set.

Yang Fan is a well-known star photographer. He once served as the director and producer of Hong Kong Jiayi TV Station and has a wide network of contacts in the Hong Kong entertainment industry.

Due to poor management, Jiashi only survived for 3 years before going bankrupt. However, it emerged a large number of figures who later became influential in the entertainment industry, including the great director Tsui Hark, producer Shi Nansheng , and singer Lin Zixiang, writer Yi Shu, Liang Fengyi, Lin Yanni, gold medal emcees Wang Mingquan, Zheng Yuling...

Yang Fan's appreciation and strong recommendation played a key role in Ye Qianwen's move to Hong Kong.

So much so that when Karen Ye received the " Golden Needle Award ", the highest honor award in the Hong Kong recording industry many years later, she publicly thanked three men. The first was Yang Fan, the second was her mentor and lover Lin Zixiang, and the third was her. Huang Baigao, the manager of Warner .

03. The three most important men

At that time, the Hong Kong Philharmonic was ushering in a glorious period of shining stars.

In 1976, George Lam, who had studied and lived in Europe and the United States for many years, returned to Hong Kong and caught up with the wave of Cantonese songs.

Wu Zhengyuan, who serves as the producer of EMI, was very moved when he saw Lin Zixiang coming for an interview at Jiashi:

"I like his appearance. His face is something that people can remember at a glance.

After contacting him, I like him, he is a good person."

Wu Zhengyuan single-handedly arranged for Lin Zixiang to sign a record contract with EMI, and won the top ten Chinese Golden Melody Awards for two consecutive years. The two also became lovers from working partners.

After dating for three years, Wu Zhengyuan married 33-year-old Lin Zixiang with his 5-year-old son from his ex-husband and a pregnant belly.

Wu Zhengyuan and Lin Zixiang took a group photo

At that time, Lin Zixiang's film and television songs were so popular that even Teresa Teng admitted at the concert that she was his fan.

Teresa Teng's 1982 Hong Kong Concert

In 1983, Wu Zhengyuan was transferred to Warner Records Asia Pacific general manager.

Under the arrangement of his wife, 36-year-old Lin Zixiang switched his contract from EMI Records to Warner Records. He is planning a new Cantonese album "Love Story" and is looking for a female co-singer for one of the male female duets "Reunion".

Yang Fan took Lin Zixiang's record cover photo

Yang Fan, the photographer who took Lin Zixiang's record cover, recommended Ye Qianwen to Lin Zixiang and his wife.

Lin Zixiang's voice is high and deep, which is not easy for ordinary female singers to match, but Ye Qianwen's singing voice is unexpectedly suitable, and she got the opportunity to record a single.

Ye Qianwen only knew 700 Chinese characters and could not speak Cantonese at all. Lin Zixiang taught her Cantonese pronunciation word by word. Ye Qianwen made her own pinyin notation and memorized it, and she was able to pronounce the words with perfect pronunciation.

Lin Zixiang taught Ye Qianwen to sing

Yang Fan turned around and recommended her to his old friends Tsui Hark and Shi Nansheng, who signed a contract to form the new Art City Film Company,

Ye Qianwen's partner Chow Yun-fat starred in the movie " Spiritual Power " with a box office of over 10 million, guest-starred in Yang Fan's first movie "A Girl's Diary", and took over the big-budget movie " Shanghai Night " directed by Tsui Hark. With his youthful and lively image, It quickly became popular in Hong Kong.

Stills from the movie "Aura"

Stills from the movie "Shanghai Nights"

In 1984, Ye Qianwen's contract with First AV Records expired, and Wu Zhengyuan, who had a keen sense of the market, immediately decided to sign a contract with Warner Records.

Warner Bros. approached Yang Fan to shoot Yip Sin Man's new Cantonese album. They wanted to lower his price, saying that the company would not spend as much as the shooting fee for Lam Zixiang's album.

Yang Fan angrily criticized the other party and said to Ye Qianwen: "I will give it to you without charging you any money!" "He also signed the Chinese name of Ye Qianwen on the photo.

The hit song " 0:10 " written by Lin Zixiang for Ye Qianwen became an instant hit and was selected into the top ten golden songs of the year; the album won platinum record sales and won the gold record award.

Yang Fan shot the cover of "Zero Hour Ten" for Ye Qianwen

With God With talent and opportunity, Ye Sian-wen created the miracle of the Hong Kong Philharmonic newcomer's first album.

She was also nominated for the top ten hits, Leslie Cheung "MONICA", this was the first time she won the award in 7 years in the industry. Since then, Lin Zixiang and Huang Baigao have served as executive producers, and have successively launched "Yip Sian Wen", "Long Night My" Love Goodnight" and "Ye Qianwen-Sweet Words" have many albums, which are very popular.

Cover photo of Ye Qianwen's album "Sweet Talk"

This Huang Paigao is also a legend. He switched from the warehouse of Warner warehouse to production. Along with Chen Baiqiang , Ye Qianwen grew up step by step into gold medal manager, Warner executive, self-created Gold Medal Gale record company has become a powerful figure in the Hong Kong Philharmonic. makes no secret of :

"Ah Lam (Lin Zixiang) is my mentor. Everything I learned in the recording studio was taught by him.

I don't know if I don't tell you. I owe all my achievements to Lin Zixiang, who is an outstanding singer. . ”

Photograph of Ip Sian Man, Huang Pak Kao and Lin Zixiang

Speaking of it, Ye Sianwen’s achievements in singing Cantonese songs are inseparable from the help of her mentor, Lin Zixiang.

In terms of movies, Tsui Harkley invited Brigitte Lin, Michelle Yeh, and Joey Wong to co-star in " Dao Ma Dan ". She was not inferior to the other two beauties and was nominated for the Best Actress in the Academy Awards.

Stills from the movie "Swordsman"

The classic movie "A Chinese Ghost Story" directed by Tsui Hark, single-handedly made Wang Zuxian famous. The episode " Don't Come at Dawn " sung by Sally Ye also won the Academy Award for Best Film Song.

With the hot sales of movies and records, Ye Qianwen has become one of the hottest "Top Ten Female Stars in Hong Kong and Taiwan".

1982-1984 Top Ten Stars of "Silver World"

Facts have proved that Wu Zhengyuan has a unique eye for discovering talents, but this was probably the signing she regretted the most. Ten years later, she actually paid the price of marriage.

04.Select

In 1988, the Hong Kong Philharmonic played many hits and gods fought.

On February 13, 1988, Alan Tam announced at the 1987 Top Ten Chinese Golden Songs Awards Ceremony that he would no longer receive competitive awards.

Ye Qianwen sang a Cantonese version of " Blessings " from the Mandarin "Yi Moving Heart", which became the most popular song of the year.

's total record sales reached 350,000, becoming the best-selling female singer in Hong Kong of the year. has won 2 awards including the " Top Ten Chinese Golden Songs", and has refreshed Alan Tam's record.

This is why the principal of "The Endless Sound" said this:

From Hunan Satellite TV's "The Endless Sound"

Leslie Cheung won two major hits with "Silence is Golden" and "No Need for Too Much".

brother Qi Qin 's " About Winter " is also among the top ten golden songs.

Gambling King Stanley Ho and his daughter Ho Chao-king served as award presenters and joked:

This year, 41-year-old Lin Zixiang, who was reluctant to win awards, also announced his withdrawal from all award ceremonies, immigrated to the United States with his wife and children, and lived a trapeze life. Living separately in two places.

Michelle Yeh and Leslie Cheung both won the annual awards for the most popular male and female singers in the music industry.

In just four years, Ye Qianwen stood out from a second-tier singer and became a first-tier female singer.

is just the throne of Hong Kong Philharmonic Queen, it still belongs to the talented singer Anita Mui .

In 1989, Priscilla Chan , who had been suppressed by Anita Mui, was disheartened and prepared to fade out of the music scene and go to the United States to study. released the last album " Thousands of Que Songs" before leaving, which sold .35 million in sales. Sales champion.

Anita Mui's " Song of the Sunset " adapted from the same track sold 200,000 copies and still won the "Most Popular Female Singer of the Year" award for the fifth time. was booed by the audience when the award was presented.

The 1989 Golden Song Awards Ceremony

Anita Mui, who was tired of the disputes in the entertainment industry, immediately announced her withdrawal from accepting awards at her birthday party, and Leslie Cheung also announced his farewell to the music industry.

Ye Qianwen finally ushered in her own diva era. Since 1990, she has won 's "Most Popular Female Singer of the Year" for four consecutive years.

Because she was busy with concerts and had no time to take part in filming, she rejected the role of Nan Sun, the heroine of the movie "Golden Years " for which her old friend Yang Fan bought the rights for her, and resigned from the role of Ren Yingying, the heroine of "The Swordsman" produced by Tsui Hark.

Ye Qianwen's "The Swordsman" and Ren Yingying's appearance

Although she missed these two classic movies, she also left a beautiful figure in the popular comedy " Diary of a Man " and the hero film " The Bloody Heroes ", and was loved by movie fans. They are thinking of each other.

Stills from the movie "The Diary of a Man"

Stills from the movie "The Big Brother"

She was faced with two choices. One was between singing and acting. She quickly chose singing, which was a good situation; Between love and career.

Ye Qianwen had a wealthy businessman boyfriend at that time named Lu Yuanjun.

Report on the relationship between Ye Qianwen and Lu Yuanjun

Her boyfriend loves her very much and hopes that Ye Qianwen can be with her every day to prevent her from filming. Once, he even confiscated her passport and prevented her from flying to Singapore to participate in a promotional event, which made Ye Qianwen burst into tears. Only then did he return her passport and buy her a first-class ticket.

Even though her boyfriend spent a lot of money buying designer bags and clothes for Ye Qianwen, he still couldn't resist her yearning for an acting career. The two parted ways after dating for three years.

At the same time, her rival Lin Yilian went to Taiwan and won the Mandarin market with "Falling in Love with Someone Who Never Goes Home".

In 1992, Karen Yeh also became popular on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and three places with the Mandarin theme song "A Chic Walk" for the TV series "The Four Young Masters of Beijing". She won the best female singer in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore in one fell swoop, and truly became the queen of the Chinese music scene.

Her mentor Lin Zixiang asked her to sing a Mandarin duet "Choice" with her to boost record sales in the Taiwan market.

Lin Zixiang and Ye Qianwen

This year, Lin Yilian was also on the set of the movie "Farewell My Concubine", and met the musical talent Li Zongsheng for the first time, and they sang a song "When Love is a Thing of the Past" together.

These two songs actually predicted the direction of their future relationship.

05. Behind the scenes of retirement

Ye Qianwen's frank and straightforward character makes her very popular among men, and also causes her a lot of trouble.

Since her debut, almost every movie she has filmed has been rumored to have an affair with the leading actor. "Ship King" son Zhao Shizeng and jeweler Yang Bingliang have both pursued Ye Qianwen.

was chatting with a reporter once and mentioned the movie "Immoral Deal". She blurted out that if her boyfriend was in trouble, she would be willing to accept the terms of a wealthy businessman to save her boyfriend.

As a result, a wealthy man surnamed Huang spread the news through the media and was willing to pay 150 million for two years. Ye Qianwen responded angrily:

"It's annoying. I don't want to mention this person again. Money may not buy everything!"

Rich businessman is willing to pay 150 million related reports

She admired the talent of great director Tsui Hark and publicly said, "I really like Tsui Hark", which triggered a scandal between the two. She had to explain it in Cheng Yuling's 1992 Starry Night interview:

"I'm talking about liking his talent, not the kind of liking between men and women."

Ye Qianwen took a photo with Tsui Hark and others

Ye Qianwen was collecting Interview with program explanation

In January 1993, at the Hong Kong Top Ten Golden Songs Award Ceremony, Sylvia Ye, dressed in a red dress, went on stage to accept the award and openly confessed:

As soon as this statement came out, the public was in an uproar, and it was regarded as her confession to Lin Zixiang. Show love.

Lin Zixiang then went on stage to sing "Choice" with her affectionately, and the light in each other's eyes "confirmed" everyone's speculations.

Even though the two later stated many times in interviews that they were just good friends, it didn't help.

Ye Qianwen explained and reported

Love is like a cough, it cannot be hidden when it comes.

In October 1994, Lin Zixiang announced that he had divorced Wu Zhengyuan.

In early 1996, Ye Qianwen was invited to the CCTV Spring Festival Gala stage to sing the Mandarin song "My Love Says to You".

On July 17, 1996, the two of them held a wedding in Canada. Only close relatives and friends were invited to the scene. Ye Qianwen's best friend, the most beautiful Hong Kong sister Zhu Lingling, served as the bridesmaid.

Zhu Lingling served as the bridesmaid at Lin Ye's wedding

When exactly they crossed the line and turned from friendship to love, just like Brigitte Lin and Qin Han, only the parties involved know best.

Criticisms such as "infidelity during marriage" and "mistress taking over" were overwhelming, which severely damaged the couple's acting career.

Later, Michelle Ye faded out of the Hong Kong entertainment industry and settled in San Francisco with her husband.

"I had to have a baby before I got married. Lin Zixiang felt that I was forcing him to get married. I said that if he didn't want to get married, this baby My surname is Wu."

In her memory, Lin Zixiang was stern and had nothing to say.

In their respective interviews with Ye Qianwen and Lin Zixiang, they talked about many topics:

"Not just music, but everything."

"It's very comfortable to get along."

"The most important thing is that she has a sense of humor. She makes me laugh. , I also made her laugh..."

Love or not love, the difference is cloud and mud.

The media is not optimistic about this halfway couple, who are 14 years apart, and have repeatedly reported rumors of their divorce.

Differences in living habits, rumors of cheating, and even Lin Zixiang falling on stage and losing his hearing in his right ear when he was a guest at Wang Mingquan's concert... none of them could separate them.

At the end of the last century, Hong Kong Radio selected Hong Kong's top ten Chinese hits in the past 20 years. "A Chic Walk" is the only Mandarin hit among them, and Lin Zixiang's "I Need You Every Minute" is also among them.

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has experienced the baptism of time, and their chorus "Choice" has become a classic song for people to express their love at weddings.

In 2012, Zhu Lingling's son Fok Qigang and diving queen Guo Jingjing got married. Sylvia Ye and Lin Zixiang were invited to sing two songs "Choice" and "Dare to Love and Dare to Do" live.

Ye Qianwen said frankly that being married for so many years has been like a roller coaster, but she never thought about divorce. Now she is more like a family, inseparable.

Screen couple Lin Qingxia and Qin Han did not get married in the end. Lin Yilian and Li Zongsheng sadly divorced after 6 years of marriage, but they lived to be the immortal couple they are today.

Frankness, freedom and friendship are the unique charm of Ye Sianwen's singing, and they are also the reasons why Huang Zhan admired Ye Sianwen the most back then.

Only a free and unrestrained soul can remain youthful.

Such a woman is destined to live a happy life.

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