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Now, relying on the rapid development of the Internet, celebrities are updating and replacing too quickly. Many overnight popularity groups disappeared before they could get the dividends brought by fame.
fight the country, but it is difficult to defend the country. If a combination wants to maintain its position, it is even more difficult to not be knocked down by the back waves on the beach.
After all, it is easy to say for a person, but a combination of two or more members will cause various contradictions due to different ideas.
Shuimu Nianhua
Couple combination will divorce, couple combination will break up, brothers, friends combination will also turn against each other for various reasons, and will also die of old age due to disputes of interests.
As the saying goes, where there are people, there are worlds.
, the two members have been together for nearly half a century. They have never had any disagreement in the past years, nor have they ever thought of separating each other.
Although there have been few news about them in the past decade, Power Train has been an indispensable and unique existence in the Chinese music scene in in the seven or eight years since its debut.
Nowadays, many of their songs are must-order songs for post-80s and post-90s to go to KTV.
0The reason why they are unique is three reasons:
first is that their singing skills are extremely strong;
second is that the two members are extremely low-key. Everyone knows the "Phoenix Legend" and knows that the two lead singers are called Linghua and Zeng Yi . But for power trains, everyone basically only knows that they are power trains, and many people still don’t know what the two members are called;
third is that the longevity of the group and the strong feelings of the members. In the current entertainment circle, it is also a rare existence.
01 Don’t “collision” don’t know each other
You Qiuxing and Yan Zhilin , which originated from a childhood "collision incident" .
Yan Zhilin and You Qiuxing, who are also Paiwan people, both live in the deep mountains of Taiwan Province, China, but they live in different mountains. ( Paiwan tribe is included in Gaoshan tribe among 56 ethnic groups)
One day, 6-year-old Yan Zhilin followed her uncle to the tribe where You Qiuxing was located to do business.
5-year-old You Qiuxing was chasing and fighting with his friends on the roadside, and accidentally hit Yan Zhilin.
Children living in the mountains rely on shouting to chat, and go out basically depends on running. Not only is it full of explosive power, but it also has developed a whole body of strength.
With a "bang", Yan Zhilin crashed into the lake. This collision not only caused the deep friendship between the two of them for half a century, but also caused an unmatched music myth.
After becoming friends, the two went to school together, played together, had delicious food together, and even went together even when they were working.
is inseparable, just like a brother.
When I graduated from high school, both of them failed the exam and enlisted in the army one after another. They spent several years of military life together day and night in the army.
A few years later, the two of them retired from the army and left their hometowns. In that era when there were no mobile phones or BB machines, they soon lost contact with each other.
In order to find a job in the city, Yan Zhilin went to Tainan to join her sister and brother-in-law and started a porter with her brother-in-law.
It is really tiring to work purely on hard work. He has moved the refrigerator, piano, wardrobe... almost all of them are extremely heavy objects.
There are no elevators in most places. No matter how high the floor is, you need to carry it up little by little. After
, Yan Zhilin also worked as a spiderman and sewer.
Compared to sewer workers, he would rather be a spider-man because the sewer is so terrifying. Walking in the waist-thick sewage, he moved with steel brazing while detecting. Even if he wore several layers of masks, he could still smell a pungent smell.
But even in this environment where there is no future, he still has a dream of singing in his heart.
"I can't do this work all my life, but for the time being, when I come to this city, I always have to make some money first."
As for how to realize my dream, Yan Zhilin himself is not very clear.
And on the other side of the city, You Qiuxing also lives the same life.
Wearing a safety helmet every day, shuttle back and forth across the construction site, contributing to the construction of the city. Even if the weather is hot, construction still needs to be started every day.
The wind and sun are blowing all day long, making You Qiuxing's face, which is not fair enough, become darker and darker. He sweats profusely every day, and has also developed a very stylish muscular figure for him. With a standard indigenous appearance, he looks like a foreign worker no matter how he looks.
Between the two construction sites, a narrow piece of wooden board was installed, and the thick and thin steel bars were tied together. The workers carried them from one end of the board to the other.
The steel bar with strong thermal conductivity was extremely hot by the sun. You Qiuxing's neck was accidentally scalded by the steel bar. One piece was particularly black and it took several years to fade.
He will save some of the money he earns from working at
, and it took him a long time to afford the guitar and keyboard he wanted.
In fact, many people have their own dreams in their hearts, but because life is too difficult, many dreams are not able to realize them.
But Yan Zhilin and You Qiuxing are very interesting. Even though they are separated by one side, even if life is extremely difficult, they keep moving towards the direction of their dreams.
One day, Yan Zhilin met her former junior on the street, and the two of them started to greet each other.
The junior told him that he was singing folk songs now. Yan Zhilin was a little puzzled. He didn't understand what the folk song was, so he made an appointment to go to the place where his junior performed to see it.
When he saw his junior playing and singing on the stage, he instantly understood that this was what he wanted.
After returning to Tainan, Yan Zhilin continued to work step by step, but he remembered this matter in his heart.
When he was resting, he would ride his motorcycle around looking for places suitable for singing, but he didn't expect to find a folk song restaurant.
He mustered up the courage to push open the door of the restaurant and won the job of resident singing with a song. After
, Yan Zhilin worked and sang, although it was hard, it was even more vivid.
At the same time, the frustrated You Qiuxing was a depressed construction worker on the construction site. He also tried to apply for the Taipei Folk Song Western Restaurant, but was not hired and could only return to Pingtung to continue working silently.
Once, in the mouth of his fellow villager, You Qiuxing learned that Yan Zhilin had already been a resident singer in Tainan. The news made him extremely excited. He resigned from the construction site not long after and went to Tainan to find Yan Zhilin.
Trouble because there is no contact information. All You Qiuxing can do every day is to search for folk songs in the streets and alleys. Finally, he saw the billboard of a Western restaurant that reads - "Resident singer: Yan Zhilin, Jiang Desheng " .
That night, You Qiuxing was waiting here early. He ordered a glass of beer and looked at his old friend who had been away from the stage for a long time, and he was extremely yearning for it.
When the eyes were facing each other, both of them were very happy. After
, with Yan Zhilin's recommendation, You Qiuxing also became one of the resident singers in Western restaurants.
You Qiuxing was a newcomer and had little income. He lived in the small house rented by Yan Zhilin. It was not until the second year, when he could earn NT$2,700 a month, that he moved out of Yan Zhilin's house and rented a house by himself.
However, the rent is 2,400 yuan, and after paying the rent, only NT$500 yuan is left. Many times, you can't even eat enough. But this kind of life still makes the two feel very happy and satisfied.After
became a big deal in the circle, the two of them also tried to create their own works and formed a band with several other music enthusiasts, named "Virgin Choir" .
probably feels that it is not alternative enough. After two months, the combination was renamed "protruding parts" . The name
is prominent, but it still gives people a very low feeling. The performance response is not very good, and the combination will not be completed soon.
The last one who stayed behind after going around in circles was still the two of them.
In the next two years, the two formed a group that belonged to themselves - "power station" , and frequently shuttled through the nightclubs of major live bars. The solid basic skills were learned in live performances at that time. Although I sang a lot, my income was still quite small. The income of less than NT$3,000 a month, and after deducting 2,400 yuan of rent, the daily expenses can be left less than 500 yuan.
The most difficult time, even if two people buy a vegetarian bun, they have to save half of it.
But efforts will eventually pay off, and even if they fall to a trough, there will be a chance to bottom out and rebound.
02 Signed a contract with Shanghua to start a new life
1996, Vice President of Shanghua Records Xu Changde sat in the office, watching the various handsome men and beautiful women found by star scouts .
"No specialty, like a stiff puppet."
"No talent, do you really think you can become popular just by standing there?"
Xu Changde was speechless, his monotonous beauty, there was no characteristic that the audience could remember. How could Shanghua Records become the No.1 in Taiwan Province?
I knew it before, Xu Changde was not only the vice president of Shanghua, but also a well-known music producer. He was very talented. He was the popular classic songs such as " If Cloud Knows " and "True Love" and were all written by him.
Because of the distress, I couldn't find a better and more capable newcomer, so Xu Changde decided to go to the street to try his luck.
happened to be heard by a friend that in order to attract popularity, major bars in Taipei specially held a pub hero party and invited the resident singers in the circle to sing and PK.
At this hero meeting, You Qiuxing and Yan Zhilin, the two "Thousand Mile Horses", finally waited for their "Bo Le".
When Xu Changde heard the cover of "The Desert of Passionate", , he was directly conquered by these two extremely stunning voices.
With Xu Changde's strong support, Shanghua Records quickly signed You Qiuxing and Yan Zhilin.
At the beginning, the senior executives of Shanghua did not want to regard this combination as a key training target. First of all, it was age. At that time, You Qiuxing was 27 years old and Yan Zhilin was 28 years old. For singers, it was really a bit older.
Secondly, this face that resembles a foreign overseas Chinese does not conform to the aesthetic of the public at that time.
But when the two of them opened their voices, the shocking voice shocked the audience. There has never been such a combination or such a voice in the music industry.
In this way, You Qiuxing and Yan Zhilin, who are about to enter the market, have become the focus of the company's training. In order to better enter the market, Shanghua gave the two a unique Chinese combination name "Power Train" .
Two old boys who never thought of giving up their musical dreams even though they had experienced ups and downs. They wore tights, had shoulder-length hair, and sang rock with a hoarse and rough voice. They were unique in the music scene where sweet songs were prevalent, which made the audience who had long been tired of the same handsome men and beautiful women lit up.
In 1997, Power Train's first album " Relentless Love Letter " was launched, and Xu Changde personally took charge of it, and two top composers, Wu Fan and Liu Tianjian , were specially invited to join.
The heart-wrenching love letters;
The one who has been hurt for many years, and
Still hurts the pain of the faintest pain;
Still remember your smile, want to give up, but "not willing to let go".
This kind of sad love song tells the pain of love and the pain of breaking love clearly. How suitable it is to be regarded as a KTV repertoire, so it is also deeply loved by young people.
, the first album alone, sold 700,000 copies, and the "power train" became popular.
Taking advantage of this east wind, Shanghua decided to continue working hard, and in the second year, it released their second album " Tomorrow's Tomorrow's Tomorrow's Tomorrow " .
Although the name is a bit confusing, it does not affect the audience's love for them.
With this album, the two not only won the Best Singing Group Award at the Golden Melody Awards that year, but also qualified for a pub tour.
Although the power train was popular at that time, it was only a small-scale popularity in Taiwan Province. What really made them popular all over China was the title song called "Dang" .
In August 1998, the power train just held a "Train and Cowboy" concert with Dick Cowboy in Hung Hom Stadium .
agent received an audition invitation to sing the theme song "Dang" for the TV series " Return of the Condor Heroes ". The lyricists are all romance queens - Qiong Yao .
That's Qiong Yao. Although the song feels a bit "sick" , the two of them still decided to follow the song.
At this time, they would never have thought that this song would become the pinnacle of their careers.
In 1997, Qiong Yao went to Beijing for a trip. During this period, she passed by Princess Tomb and learned that the origin of the name was that Qianlong accepted the unofficial legend of a folk woman as her adopted daughter. After returning, she wrote the legend into the legendary trilogy of "Return of the Condor Heroes".
Qiong Yao
Second year, "Return of the Condor Heroes" was made into a TV series, and it goes without saying how popular it is. Although everyone now understands that " Rong Mama is all bad guys" , it does not prevent them from becoming popular for so many years.
In addition to the starring actors, those who have received the bonus of "My Fair Princess" also include the power train that sang for the show.
Even if someone who didn’t know this group back then would sing a few lyrics of “Dang”, and even if it was not good, he could hum a prelude.
Around 1999, the music style of the power train became mature, and it quickly launched its fourth album " Betrayal of Love Song " .
main track "The First Tears" is still at the forefront of the hot songs of major KTVs.
In 2001, the fifth album "Traveling the East Road of Zhongxiao" . Almost every song can be sung to the hearts of fans.
With these albums, Power Train has been making great progress, and has been shortlisted for the Golden Melody Award for Best Singing Group and Best Newcomer Award for seven times.
and even the industry has such a saying that as long as Power Train releases an album, it will definitely win the Best Combination Award of that year.
At that time, the popularity of the two in Taiwan Province was like our Phoenix Legend group, which was well-known and had a very high singing song.
03 Half a century, never leaving
For a combination, red and not red are two completely opposite concepts. Once it becomes popular, it means that the past relationship and everything in the past have to withstand the test of interests. Many combinations will part ways because of this, but the power combination does not.
Even when it was the most popular, neither of them had any differences in cooperation. Everything is quotient and has clear division of labor.
According to You Qiuxing's description, Zhilin is water, he is mud . After the two of them were mixed together, no one in the world could separate them.
You Qiuxing also said: "Neither family is that close to me!"
The hard work before allowed them to experience the warmth and warmth of human feelings. Naturally, they cherish the hard-won popularity of the combination.
In addition to the daily routine training, I rarely heard of any bad scandals between the two, either recording albums or holding concerts.
If they were able to become popular at the beginning, they had luck in it, but being popular for so long was more due to the continuous efforts of the two people.
In 2003, Power Train and her junior sister S.H.E held the "Double Tsunami Concert" on Singapore . The most popular boy group and the No. 1 Women's Group in Asia were in full swing.
In 2005, the two cut off their long hair that they had been away for more than ten years, and changed their style and tried to create it themselves. They composed the interlude "Famous to the World" of the TV series "Rainbow" , and the response was very good.
This year, the two also performed the ending song of the TV series "Legend of Sword and Fairy" , and won the Best Recital Group Award at the 16th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards at the Taiwan Golden Melody Awards.
It’s a pity that the music industry is surging and changing too quickly. It’s no longer the era when I could become famous by just personal efforts. After the album was released, the two’s careers fell to a low point. After
, there are fewer and fewer news about power trains, and they have become outdated singers in this quiet voice.
In 2009, they released the album "Continue to Turn" . The two of them entered their forties, and there was a hint of tenderness in their songs.
In 2011, they tried to transform and played the killer in the movie "Piano Trojan" , but unfortunately they did not cause any splash.
Everyone is speculating whether the two will choose to go solo and develop new careers in the face of such a dilemma. Just like the Little Tigers and S.H.E, some choose to go solo and not disband, while others choose to disband directly.
Once Wu Zongxian asked them jokingly in the show : Is it possible for to break up?
After all, the reward you get for each performance is given to the other party, and this mood will not be too wonderful.
But both of them shook their heads, indicating that they were used to each other's existence on stage. If only one of them was left singing seriously on stage, they would feel insecure.
In the low point of life, they traveled to various cities for their lives and performed at a price cut. Although they were lost, fortunately, they still had each other and supported each other to continue to fulfill their musical dreams in their hearts.
In 2013, they did not release an album, but only released a single "Elena" full of national style.
In 2014, they appeared on the "I Am a Singer" , which is known as the outdated singer, and hope to break through the predicament.
At this time, nearly ten years have passed since they disappeared from the public eye. It is a blessing to be able to stand in the spotlight again, whether for them, for fans and audiences.
It’s a pity, maybe because I left the stage for too long, I thought the power train that made a big splash was eliminated in the fifth round and left the stage early.
Ten years, the Chinese music scene has changed rapidly. We have to admit that the era of power trains is over.
In 2019, 51-year-old You Qiuxing finally waited for his love and married a beautiful wife. It is said that the two met by walking their dog.
At the wedding, Yan Zhilin teased You Qiuxing:
"This way he won't bother me. We have known each other for almost 50 years. We have grown up and worked together to play basketball together. He sticks to me no matter what he does. In fact, this is very tired."
Although he said "greasy" , his behavior was very honest. As he spoke, he sang "Rainbow" composed by You Qiuxing. It was not enough to sing it himself, and he also had to sing You Qiuxing together.
's picture is warm and slightly funny, making the bride look like an "third party" that destroys the two of them's brotherly relationship.
As for Yan Zhilin, when the power train was the most popular in 2003, she entered the marriage hall with her girlfriend who had been in love for three years, and in 2007 she had a daughter.
Conclusion
Nowadays, the two people who have long passed the age of knowing destiny do not seem to plan to retire.
Last year, the latest album "It's All Because of Love" was released.
Although it still did not receive much attention, there were not many media interviews at the press conference, and even many fans did not know that they had released a new album.
But the song "Traveling the East Road of Zhongxiao Nine Times" is enough to make us remember this brother group forever.
These two men who have been tired of having been fucked for half a century have never thought of leaving each other for 25 years, and have never had any contradictions or differences from beginning to end. What kind of fairy friendship is this?
