The end of an era, the last queen of old Shanghai Yao Li 7 on the morning of July 19 at the age of 96.
Shanghai Beach Seven Songs were the seven most well-known pop stars in Shanghai in the mid-to-late 1940s: Zhou Xuan , Baihong , Gong Qiuxia, Yao Li , Bai Guang, Li Xianglan ( Yamaguchi Shuzi ) and Wu Yingyin . They have different styles and charm, and have made important contributions to the prosperity of Shanghai Times. The golden songs they sang back then are still so good!
Yao Li's representative work " Rose Rose I Love You ", famous Hong Kong singer Anita Mui once sang this song in Cantonese, and the famous British Kings Choir covered it as an a cappella chorus.
In 1951, American jazz singer Frank Lane translated "Rose I Love You" into English, ranking first in the US pop rankings that year. Yao Li became the first Chinese singer to enter the US music pop charts.
1. Become famous by imitating Zhou Xuan
Yao Li was born in 1921 in a very poor family in Shanghai. She has been following her brother Yao Min since she was a child and makes money to support her family.
Zhou Xuan was very popular at that time. All the little girls in Shanghai who loved literature and art listened to her songs, and Yao Li was of course no exception. Her favorite thing was to go to the recording studio of the radio to listen to Zhou Xuan singing.
Once, because of her interest, she occasionally went to the radio to record a sing show with her uncle. Yao Li's crisp voice attracted the attention of Zhou Xuan and Yan Hua. They both felt that the little girl's singing was particularly clear and natural; she liked it very much.
Zhou Xuan asked Yao Li, who was only in her teenage years old at the time, who was her teacher.
Yao Li said: You are my teacher. I listen to your songs every day, which makes Zhou Xuan very happy.
Yan Hua asked Yao Li if she wanted to be a singer?
Xiao Yaoli said: I like singing, I want to be a singer to make money to support my family.
She joined the famous Baida Company and began her singing career from then on. But she sang on the radio station at that time, only two yuan a month, and her income was very low. She persisted because she liked it.
was not until she recorded her first album "Selling Lovesickness". The two songs "Selling Lovesickness" and "Cleaning the Moon" in the record were all the rage. She became a popular singer and her income rose. She also had the reputation of "silver voice", and was called the "gold and silver stars" of Shanghai pop songs with Golden Voice Zhou Xuan .
Yao Li has recorded many famous songs. "Congratulations" has resounded throughout the streets and alleys during the Spring Festival and is highly popular. "Rose, I Love You" is even more popular. It is known as one of the two peaks of popular songs in the 1940s. It is the first Chinese song to be filled with English lyrics, and has been popular all over the world.
As the saying goes: No one has ever asked about it in ten years, and he will become famous in the world. Only you know the efforts behind becoming famous.
In 2013, Yao Li met with and said when she met the media: After singing songs for decades, every time she sang, she would only have to sing good songs with her heart, lungs and blood.
She said: "In the past, I had to sing very carefully when recording. The band played behind me. Synchronization should not be wrong. If you sing it wrong a few times, you will be scolded and fly to Philippines, so I have worked hard to remember the lyrics!
She doesn't understand that some singers can't recite the lyrics, and they have to read the subtitles. In that era, she had to record 4 songs a day.
She said: Singers are much happier now, but it can be said that they have not made any progress. Singing like this will not make progress. makes them lazy, so current singers are also afraid of singing on the scene."
Three points are destined, and seven points are relying on hard work. Yao Li will not succeed without her own efforts in the later stage.
She has always worked diligently in her singing career. has been plunging into the Shanghai Dance Hall for 5 years. It is her unremitting efforts that have achieved the achievements of that year. Her myth is brought out step by step by step.
2. Create pop music singing style and create a unique style
1949, Yao Li's family moved to Hong Kong.
At this time, after more than ten years of singing career, her lively girlish voice, which imitated Zhou Xuan's singing style, had developed into a steady and mellow mature voice, which was no longer suitable for the original clear singing style, and her singing career was facing a bottleneck.
, she was unwilling to admit defeat and started singing in alto. There was a song called "Spring Breeze Kissing My Face", which she performed in alto. This song was also covered by many famous singers, such as Feng Feifei , Cai Qin , Fei Yuqing , and the composer was his brother Yao Min.
After a long period of exploration, the song "Sing with Tears" mixed with the black resentment song (blues) was the turning point for her to change her singing style. After
, she came into contact with the records of American popular female singer PattiPage. She yearned for it very much, and her singing style changed, so many of her later works were a combination of Chinese and Western.
Yao Li has therefore become an idol of many singers. For example, the famous singer we are familiar with Teresa Teng , who admires Yao Li very much. After Teresa Teng became a singer, she came to visit Yao Li in person to express her admiration.
Yao Li and Teresa Teng
Minor tune song Liu Yun said: When I was a child, I knew that there was Yao Li from the moment I heard of listening to songs;
Huangmei tune song Jingting said: Yao Li is my idol, I think she is so amazing!
female vocalist Bao Peili said: She is an old singer of Times. Many famous songs she sang are popular in the world, such as "Rose, I Love You"...
In March 2013, the "Yao Li Legend Classic Concert" paid tribute to Yao Li, the queen of silver voice, was held at the Yi Pavilion in Wanchai, and the audience was filled; Yao Li, who was 91 years old at the time, sat for three hours to appreciate the audience, and said: "So satisfied, touched, and happy."
has no success and is admired for no reason. He has made unremitting efforts, and has the courage to make breakthroughs and innovate when facing difficulties. The secret of Yao Li's career is to reach a new peak, and it is also the root of her respect and love.
3. Yao Li, who has a gentle personality, will never change it once she makes a decision
Some people say that Yao Li has a round baby face, and she looks like a very lucky woman. Facts also prove that she is indeed a blessed woman.
However, her blessings are not determined by her face, but by Yao Li's decisions and actions.
In Shanghai, the manager of the Yangzi Hotel where she sang on the spot, admired Yao Li's singing very much, and was also her loyal fan, and also admired her personal docile personality. So, she proposed to let her be her daughter-in-law.
Maybe fate is destined. After Yao Li saw his son, she also felt good about him, so she achieved this happy event.
After getting married, my father-in-law said that he would not sing in the dance hall at the age of 25. She really came behind the scenes and never appeared on the stage again. From then on, she took care of her husband and children, and had children with her husband, who was four years younger than her, and lived in love for 60 years.
Yao Li and her brother Yao Min have a deep affection. After she joined EFA Records, she also recommended her brother Yao Min to join. Yao Min is a genius in composition. She was a singer in the early days and formed a sibling class with Yao Li. Later, she also worked as a composing song and wrote many songs for Yao Li.
Unfortunately, Yao Min passed away in 1967, and Yao Li, who lost her brother, resolutely withdrew from the music industry and has never released a record since then.
Yao Li is in the noisy world of singing and dancing, showing off her stage and illuminating lights, but she is not at all nostalgic.
She got married on her mother's order, and withdrew from the stage by her father-in-law's order. Her brother Huihuai stopped making records. After marriage, she turned her focus to the family, fostered her two children into talents, and had a harmonious and happy family. This is also the reason why a generation of queens live long.
After she got married, she faded out of the entertainment industry and focused on protecting her family and giving birth to two children for her husband. It can be said that she is a good wife and a good mother in terms of family, and a good child in front of her parents and elders. Her efforts put the whole family in a harmonious, happy and fulfilling atmosphere.
Yao Li always has family photos surrounded by her children and grandchildren in her wallet - people praise her for having a vision and being able to pick her husband. She honestly replied: "I don't know. I think there must be a principle in being a human being. You must know what it was for when we first came out."
Only by not forgetting her original intention can she be able to do it.
encouragement.
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