Speaking of the word "The Queen of the Music World", the first name that many people think of may be Faye Wong. It may be easier for Faye Wong to make other people's songs famous through covers, such as "Legend" by Li Jian . But have you ever thought that Faye Wong's songs will be covered by others and will be even more popular than what she sang?
Although it is hard to believe, there is indeed this case. In 1997, Faye Wong released a Cantonese song "Agreement", which is also a classic song in the queen's representative work; but unexpectedly, two years later, a fledgling newcomer in boldly covered the song into a Mandarin version, and the popularity of the song was far beyond Faye Wong's Cantonese original. , the newcomer who created miracles, is Zhou Hui , and the Mandarin version of "Agreement" has also become her most famous masterpiece.
When it comes to Zhou Hui, what we think of is "Agreement", and the only thing we know about is "Agreement". The songs were popular all over the streets and alleys, but why did she disappear without a trace?
Her first album "Zhou Hui Selection", released in 1999, mainly based on "Agreement", was a hit and sold more than one million copies. This is a diva number, which is truly " debuts as the peak ". The second album in 2000, "Zhou Hui's Selected 2- I Want to Love You So Much " is still unstoppable, with hundreds of thousands of hot-selling copies. Therefore, the media called her four new singers, namely Jolin Tsai, , Stefanie Sun, and Elva Hsiao, , and Taiwan's " Four Little Queen ".
Although she was called the queen of the little diva, Zhou Hui was a little different from other female singers at that time - she hardly showed her true face. I believe everyone has an impression of her albums "Zhou Hui Selection" 1-3, "Hui'er Out of Print", and even "Bloom" after a few years, each cover is not her real-life photo, but a comic like "Hui'er Doll". Only revealed the true appearance on two cover albums released in 2001. Why? Of course I am not confident about my appearance.
In fact, in the 1970s and 1980s, there were too many powerful songs like Zhou Hui who did not win by her appearance, such as Su Rui , Tai Qin , Qi Yu, etc., but by the 21st century, the importance of singer appearance is increasingly valued. Zhou Hui is indeed not a beauty. Although she has a natural voice, as a newcomer, the company is afraid that her appearance will not be good for sales, so she pretends to be mysterious and specially invited international illustration masters to create comic portraits for her instead of appearing.
The names of Zhou Hui’s records are also very special: they are clearly new song albums, but they are all called "selected", while the real selected albums are called "out of print". resulted in a prophecy, and Zhou Hui's acting career almost became "out of print" . In 2003, she released her last album "Hui'er out of print" on Fumao Records , and then the contract expired. She never dreamed that she was sold to BMG Records by her mentor and Taiwanese musician Ji Zhongping in one contract.
Ji Zhongping signed Zhou Hui's three-year record contract to BMG for NT$24 million, and then he ran away with the money himself. The company is unwilling to use money to build her, and she is trapped by the contract. In this way, Zhou Hui was hidden and could only rely on some commercial performances to make a living. was originally a queen singer with a bright future, but her acting career has since plummeted to the bottom. The original title of "Four Little Queen" was no longer guaranteed and was left far away by the other three, and was replaced by the Liang Jingru , who came from behind.
A few years later, Zhou Hui also signed contracts with several companies one after another, but her career has never recovered. In the public's impression, she disappeared from the music scene after singing "Agreement".
It was not until 2016 that Zhou Hui reappeared in front of everyone. It was on the stage of "Masked Singer", she turned into a "reindeer" and amazed the audience as soon as she opened her mouth.Guest guessing group guest Wu Qixian already knew it. He pointed to the stage and said, ", you are a big regret in the music industry. With your singing level and texture, the sound characteristics that can soothe people's hearts have not become the kind of queen status that everyone calls it. It is because everyone's encounters are different ," but he stood up again and said excitedly, ", you have been a highly favored queen-level candidate" .
Hearing these affirmative words, Zhou Hui was already so excited that she burst into tears. She has always rarely appeared on variety shows. The reason why she participated in this masked show was that she was hiding behind the mask and regained her feelings when she first entered the industry. "In fact, I don't care much about whether you know what I look like and what my name is. I care about every sound I sing and spit out every time I sing. Do you really accept ?"
Maybe Zhou Hui looks average, but her voice is really talented, pure and ethereal, clean and clear, and her tone is sweet but not greasy, and sad but not hurt. It not only combines Faye Wong's naturalness, Xu Meijing's tranquility and gentleness of Xu Xiaoxuan's sweet wisdom and wisdom of Xu Ruyun's purity and beauty. She abandons artificiality, stays away from hypocrisy, sings with her heart, and chords with her love, so that people can't help but intoxicate them when they hear it. This is Zhou Hui, a unique music angel created by talent and feeling.
In recent years, Zhou Hui, who signed contracts under Huayan International , seems to have more and more notices. In 2019, on her 20th anniversary, she has achieved good results in film and television singles, commercial performances, TV programs, brand cooperation, charity and charity. Just arrived in 2020, she has officially announced that she has joined the music variety show " God-given Voice " of and the Spring Festival Gala of Anhui Satellite TV.
The song "Agreement" that year made her a household name, and 20 years later, she stood on a new starting point again. Then, you, who still loves her singing, can finally look forward to her appearance again.