Chinese music scene , I'm afraid no one has ever received such a high personal review since his debut.
is the "godfather of music" praised by generations in the Chinese music industry. Luo Dayou said when evaluating him: He is a spiritual city.
As the "godfather of music" who is best at exploring the potential of singers and creating singer style, Lee Zongsheng is not stingy when talking about him: his voice is inlaid with gold edges.
Because of his existence, Lee Zongsheng directly rejected the "prodigal son" Wang Jie to join the Rolling Stone Records, and then missed the "Treasure Island No. 1 Highlight" Zhang Yusheng .
Liu Huan , Li Jian , Yuquan , Sha Baoliang When talking about him, he clearly stated: He is our idol, and we have been greatly influenced by him on the music road.
Yes, I believe all fans have already known that the "he" I want to talk about is the "boy" that has made a generation crazy obsessed with - Qi Qin .
: It may be that no one denies Qi Qin is a king of heaven.
However, as a king of heaven, his "late scene" is so "desolate".
In 2013, in the first season of the domestic entertainment program "I Am a Singer", as a big-character singer who fans have been looking forward to and even "shouldered" by fans, Qi Qin's joining is enough to make the entire program full of force. However, after several episodes, Qi Qin announced that she withdrew from the competition for "accompanying her family".
In 2014, Qi Qin became the mentor of " China's Voice ", and snatched the students with his younger generations Na Ying , Wang Feng , and Yang Kun . However, this time he became the "background board" of the other three mentors, and the appeal of a generation of kings to the students is not even as good as Yang Kun.
In 2015, in the "China Star" program, Qi Qin actually "falls" to the identity of a "kicking singer". What he has to face is the comments of his younger generations Lin Yilian , Cui Jian and "fan" Liu Huan.
In 2021, Qi Qin became a senior singer of "Our Song 3" and worked with Zhang Bichen to "fight again in the world". However, what fans remember is Lin Zixiang "I'm talking about young maniac" and Qi Qin quit the competition again due to "scheduling reasons".
Perhaps, after becoming a "recurring offender" in withdrawing from the competition, the organizers of large-scale domestic entertainment music variety shows will no longer send olive branches to Qi Qin.
Perhaps, Qi Qin can only earn money for children's "milk powder money" and his wife's "grape purchase money" in the future.
80, 90 or even 00s fans will be confused and even ridiculed: Such a singer became a king of heaven back then.
60 and 70s fans will feel heartbroken and missed. They miss Qi Qin, the "omnipotent" "boy" in the 1980s. Although they hope to see their former idols maintain their activity through variety shows, they do not want to see the "boy" being "destroyed" by netizens' comments. After all, the "boy" was once the supreme "god" in their hearts!
The author is a fan of the post-80s. My idol is not Qi Qin. When I was "tao music" at the beginning of the new century, I was "sinking" in several Mandarin albums of Qi Qin in the 1980s. The author also remembers that his relatives endured the pain of spending hundreds of thousands of oceans to buy a jacket of the brand after endorsing the "Seven Wolves" advertisement.
So, I want to say a few words to Qi Qin, who is a neutral fan, as a "different" person.
First of all, "The flowers are not red for a hundred days, and the people are not happy for a thousand days." The only one who can become the King of Long Red is Andy Lau , Jay Chou and other few. Most singers, their works, their music, and their audience are limited to one era. Even the Little Tigers, the creator of the word "star chasing" back then, is still the popular F4; even the four kings of Hong Kong, if they do not maintain their popularity through the development of other fields, they will be forgotten by the new era.
Qi Qin is the top idol and powerful king of Taiwan music in the 1980s. Since Liu Wenzheng, Taiwanese music idols have been "off" since Liu Wenzheng. With his beautiful face, unruly and avant-garde image, clear voice, and diverse styles of folk songs, rock , he has become a perfect, "high and above" real and close king of the music world.
Although Wang Jie, who was "the peak of his debut" emerged in Taiwan more than two years later, Qi Qin, who became famous earlier and had a stronger mass base, became the leader of the four kings in Taiwan in the early and mid-1990s.
This is Qi Qin's popularity from the mid-1980s to the 1990s. Perhaps the narrative is a bit too simple. It does not mention the sales boom caused by the album "Wolf 1" introduced by the mainland, the fashion trend led by the "Brother" in the past, and the "wonder" brought about by the live "scenes" brought about by Qi Qin's concert in Beijing in 1991.
In summary, from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, Qi Qin was definitely the most popular Taiwanese singer in the mainland, no doubt about it.
A singer, a singer from a "small company", can be poached by Rolling Stone Records' high rewards and lenient policies, can set up a personal studio by himself, and can also be awarded the position of record manager of a Taiwan branch by international record giant Science and Technology Evergreen. In the Taiwanese music scene at that time, there was only Qi Qin, and Qi Qin, who was only 29 years old.
Think about it, where are you from, where are you going, and where can you rely on at the age of 29?
21-year-old Qi Qin was able to stun the music scene with a fresh folk song "Seeing her again". His three years of military service have enriched his music theory.
25-year-old Qi Qin can create " Wolf's Album " by himself. More than half of the songs on the album are composed and written by himself, including pure original songs such as "Wolf", " Sun Rain " and "Yakou".
" Nine Suns ", " Winter Rain ", " The World Outside ", "About Winter", "Flower Festival", " Flow ", "Please Don't Say Goodbye to Me", " Missing is a Disease ". . . Almost all representative songs from Qi Qin's early period were independently completed by him.
htmlIn the 1980s, it seemed that he and Tong Ange were the only singers who had such achievements, but it was obvious that Qi Qin became famous four years earlier than Tong Ange.
What is more important than being able to write and sing by yourself is that Qi Qin also formed a band, contributing many important musicians to the later development of Taiwanese pop music, such as the composer and arrangement master Tu Huiyuan, the "No. 1 guitarist in Asia" at that time, Jiang Jianmin, , the top musician Liu Tianjian of the Chinese Records , such as Jay Chou's former "deputy arrangement" Zhong Xingmin, and the famous composer Wang Wenqing who promoted Wang Jie to the status of the king of heaven.
Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to regard Qi Qin as the "No. 1 singer" in the Taiwanese music scene in the 1980s since Liu Wenzheng.
A "strange phenomenon" in the Taiwanese music scene is that singers who work in music can't be popular for a long time. Except for a few such as Zhou Huajian , Wu Bai , etc., such as Fei Yuqing , Zhang Yu , Harlem Yu , and Harlem Yu . If the fans do not rely on variety shows to "preserve the heat", perhaps the fans will only be "love-loving in the wind and rain".
In 1993, Qi Qin "King Land" Shanghua Records, a company that flourished in the 1990s, attached great importance to "Brother" Qi Qin and set up Oriental Records for him.
. Unlike Qi Qin's "single-selling" in the mid-to-late 1980s, the Taiwanese music scene was really popular in the 1990s, Jiang Yuheng , Zhao Chuan, Wu Sikai , Zhou Huajian, Zheng Zhihua , Zhang Xinzhe , Zhang Yusheng, Harlem Yu, Wu Bai, Ren Xian , Zhang Yu. . .
At this time, Qi Qin, perhaps because of his love affair, no longer had the creative enthusiasm of the 1980s. Although he was awarded the Golden Melody Award for King of Singers, his works rely more on the output of the musician behind the scenes.
Listen to the bitter songs, including Zhao Chuan, Wu Bai, and Zhang Yu; listen to love songs, including Zhang Xinzhe, Tai Zhengxiao ; pursue idols, including Lin Zhiying , Wu Qilong ; listen to original works, including Zheng Zhihua and Zhang Yusheng, and then Huang Pinyuan , Huang An ; in terms of popularity, there were Zhou Huajian in front and Richie Richie, and later Jie Guorong , Tony Leung .
is too selective, and Qi Qin is no longer the only one.
Especially after the love affair with Wang Zuxian failed, the entertainment industry has become Qi Qin's "sad place", and Qi Qin "disappeared" in the public's sight for a long time.
"Brother" has returned again, and the music scene has changed. The former "opponent" Wang Jie lost to Nicholas Tse in Hong Kong. The era when the four kings once dominated the music scene has become Jay Chou, Wang Leehom , JJ Lin , Tao Zhe and other new era singers are leading the way.
Even the "Evergreen Tree" Zhou Huajian sighed that "Jay Chou's appearance is like a wave of the new waves shooting them on the beach." Even Andy Lau, who rejected Jay Chou's songs for six consecutive years, has been trying Jay Chou's new music, not to mention that a creative thinking that is old and weak and has a peak is still stuck in Qi Qin in the 1980s and 1990s!
So, when the times abandon you, you won’t even say hello.
Because of irregular life, influences of factors such as tobacco and alcohol, Qi Qin's voice is no longer "inlaid with gold edges". There are "impurities" in his clear and transparent voice. He begins to lack breath and unstable breath control, and his condition is no longer stable.
The withdrawal of domestic entertainment programs several times include reasons such as "accompanying family" and "schedule conflict", and some of the reasons why netizens criticized "can't afford to lose", and more of it is that they maintain a "confrontation" state for a long time. This test of Qi Qin's physical strength is very great, and he can't stand it at all. After all, a "big devil" like Lin Zixiang who is still stable in his 70s is just a few "outliers".
Once he was the top figure who stood at the forefront and guided the country. Now he has to face the natural law of being unable to sing and being unable to sing. This is something he cannot accept for Qi Qin, who is "so proud".
The old king tasted the bitterness of "the tiger fell into the sun", but for the sake of his family and life, he had to show up. It was really difficult for himself and for his fans. The gap in his heart while "fighting the fire" was also impossible to find a point of venting.
In fact, why bother admitting that you are no longer Qi Qin in the 1980s and 1990s? Didn’t Wang Jie, who was as arrogant as a “prodigal son”, generously admit that he was an “outdated singer” at the beginning of the new century? Didn’t Richie Jen, who created the phenomenon of “too soft-heartedness”, face the reality of his era calmly? Didn’t Andy Lau, who worked hard for 41 years as hard as a young man, also admitted at the 2018 Hung Hom concert?
Although accepting reality is more bitter than "self-deception", at least after accepting it, it will be a kind of release in mentality. "It is not a sin for men to cry." Qi Qin, "Brother", why not start over again! Even if your peak is not here, even if your singing skills are deteriorating, you are still an irreplaceable "boy" in the hearts of many people. The "exclusive memory" you bring to a generation cannot be replaced by any other singer.
No one will forget the extraordinary talent you wrote in less than twenty minutes "About Winter", no one will forget the touch and touch you brought to them by "The World Outside". No one will doubt that you were once a rebellious but cute and charming "wolf" who "from the north" fought against the north wind and yellow sand alone.
I would like to use this article to express my respect for " brother " and some ideas. I hope to see Qi Qin, who is "returned and still a young man".
May I work hard in exchange for your attention and likes!
