How to evaluate Hins Cheung?

As a rare singer in Hong Kong today, Hins Cheung is worth mentioning.

He is from Guangzhou and his ancestral home is Beijing. His father is in politics and his mother is in business, ranking high. In the generation after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he is a typical "red generation". If he lives in Beijing, he will become a compound like Wang Shuo and Xiaogang Feng, and live a free life. However, growing up in Guangdong took him a different path.

According to the prominent background and the positioning given to him by his parents, he naturally won't take the road of singing, but he just likes it, so he has been singing in bars since middle school. He didn't go to college after graduating from high school. He continued to sing in the bar, and later got the opportunity to record. It is hard to say how much this opportunity has to do with his parents' status, but it is meaningless to overemphasize his family background, because there are more second-generation grandparents who want to play in the entertainment circle, and their grades are not necessarily better than him, and their status is not necessarily higher than him.

Singing is not a matter of money or weight. Whether the song is good or not, whether the audience accepts it or not is the most important thing. It took six years for another rich second generation in the music world to change from "the worst singer in Hong Kong" in the media to Lin's favorite.

Hins Cheung started singing in Chinese mainland and wanted people to know that it must be a popular Mandarin song. So there is a breakpoint. Breakpoint is certainly not Hins Cheung's best song, but it is his most popular song in mainland China. More than ten years have passed, and this is still the case. This slobber song made him popular, although not to any extent, but at least, he can become a "singer".

Singers are a miracle on the mainland. Have you noticed that many singers in Chinese mainland became popular after singing a song, so Shang Yan kept singing. There are thousands of second and third tier cities in China. For various reasons, there will be assorted Shang Yan in these cities from time to time, inviting more than a dozen singers to sing two or three songs each to complete a "Superstar Shining Concert in X City". For government departments, this is cultural construction; For sponsors, they can win the favor of the government and establish a brand image (because of their excessive investment, most of them are real estate developers). If they manage well, they will make a small profit; If the operation is not good, it is also good to give back to customers and attract government advertisements and public relations expenses.

Therefore, in cities all over the country, this kind of assorted Shang Yan is staged in turn. Singers from all walks of life travel back and forth with tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of performance fees. They may only have this album for ten years, and only this song is popular, but they earn tens of millions every year and don't worry about eating and drinking. They won't have any artistic pursuit, as long as they have money to earn. When I used to work in a record company, I took a performance by an old singer. He became a hit in the 1980s and then immigrated to America. Now he plays golf in the United States from Monday to Thursday, and flies to China to do Shang Yan on Friday, for 300,000 yuan at a time. He is happy and carefree.

The reason for saying these digressions is not that I want to criticize A Singer, but that some singers want to be singers, but they are not qualified. But Hins Cheung's Breakpoint is popular, so he can do it, sing Shang Yan for ten years, earn enough money and have no worries about food and clothing.

But he didn't. Perhaps the lack of money at home is the reason, but more, I think it is the pursuit of art.

At this time, he did one thing, that is, signed a contract to travel around the world. In those years, Universal Records recruited people in Hong Kong and made many big moves, such as signing Eason Chan, whose career was in its golden age, at a high price after canceling the contract with the Emperor, and planning a global concert tour for Jacky Cheung, the god of songs. Global is very powerful in Hong Kong, but not strong enough in the Mainland. After Hins Cheung chose to go global, he did something even more incredible.

Gradually, his records went from Mandarin albums to Mandarin-Cantonese mixed albums to pure Cantonese albums.

2 1 century Hong Kong music scene has long since declined, and Cantonese songs are not as popular as they were in the 1990s. Cantonese songs that occasionally appear in KTV now, such as Broad Sky, Love in Late Autumn and Red Sun, are still enduring golden songs in the 1980s and 1990s. Even Hong Kong singers are desperately looking for opportunities to make Chinese songs and want to enter the mainland market. At this time, an artist who has already qualified as a "singer" in the mainland market actually went to Hong Kong to produce Cantonese records.

The market in Hong Kong is closed and exclusive. For decades, non-Hong Kong people who want to enter this music circle and get good grades can be counted with one hand, and even Faye Wong is the only one (dawn is half). Hins Cheung needs a lot of courage to do it.

First, he faced media attacks. For example, his Guangzhou accent (although I can't hear the difference), and there are rumors of broken back. The paparazzi in Hong Kong are very powerful, and the gossip magazines are even more powerful. Those who sneak a bunch of photos and make up a bunch of news have poor psychological endurance and are prone to gaffes.

Fortunately, he has been appreciated by many people in music production.

The first thing to mention is James J.S.Wong Gongquan. Uncle Zhan likes this young man very much and wrote a song "Blessing" for him. At that time, Uncle Zhan had been ill for a long time, and he died soon after writing this song, which became a posthumous work. Hins Cheung has artistic virtue, so he didn't take this opportunity to publicize and downplay this song, and even it took a long time to release Uncle Zhan's version. Compared with some people who constantly attract celebrities to impress themselves, Hins Cheung's practice is commendable.

In 2006, a Cantonese record "Forget Me" was released, which was written by Lin's disciple Lin Ruoning. Lin wrote a song with the same theme to another mainland singer, Faye Wong, and Lin Ruoning took it as the topic, so it is only natural that he should go all out to start. This song is in line with Hins Cheung's temperament, sad and powerless. Five years later, Hins Cheung finally became an instant hit and became famous with this "forgetfulness book".

Make persistent efforts, and in the second year, with the help of Love, it became even more popular. The fire went to the Red Pavilion to hold a personal concert, which became a symbol of his promotion to a first-line singer. He has "Don't spit if you are unhappy", "Under the cherry tree" and "Spring and Autumn", all of which are very good at singing songs and words, and have become the backbone of Hong Kong's music scene.

Hins Cheung has a slim appearance and a slender voice, which sometimes makes people feel so weak, but sometimes it can burst into amazing power and be very surging. He took a high-pitched route, which didn't win the majority of the audience as Eason Chan's alto, but like Ku Kuiji, he was an indispensable voice in the music world.

He can write his own songs, so he solves the problem that there are no good songs in his early albums-he can write his own songs. I know best what songs I am suitable for singing, so the songs "Nothing to do", "Hometown fragrant tea" and "I have an appointment with Autumn" are full of sadness and self-pity. If someone else sings it, it tastes wrong.

He also loves to protect urban culture. There is another version of Lonely Park written by him, which is in front of the park. This version will be written on the streets of Guangzhou, which is very interesting. The front of the park itself is a place name, and "Yuexiu is too early, how can it win Tianhe"? Let a foreigner like me go to Guangzhou and go shopping along the place name in the song.

He also has a sense of social responsibility. How can we appeal to human beings to be kind to their pets on the topic of a puppy abandoned by its owner and only euthanized? "Stone Path" is a duet, in which the hero and heroine return to the demolished village to pursue the good memories of the past, and the lines are full of reflections on the rapid construction of the city.

He also gave the songwriters a lot of room to play. For example, "Don't spit, don't be unhappy" is full of long syllables, which makes it impossible to sing in KTV. It's hard to understand. Other singers definitely didn't want it, but they accepted it and let Lin write the lyrics. So Lin wrote a song of more than 500 words with these breathless long melodies, which was very enjoyable and made me remember the composer further.

He is extremely serious about making music. For more than ten years, the money he earned in the entertainment circle, big and small, was invested in a recording studio. The equipment in this studio is imported from Europe and America, even the glass is expensive. Now ordinary computers can record songs, and doing this recording studio is definitely a loss-making business for him. However, he did it, and gave China a recording studio that can rank among the top five in the world. This contribution to the industry is worthy of recognition.

He likes Guangdong pop music very much. He likes the old songs of 1980s and 1990s very much, but these old songs are out of date because of time, so in 2009, he insisted on producing a new Cantonese golden song for each album. In this way, many fans in the new century know Paula Tsui's Behind the Wedding Dress, Xu Ruyun's Low-key and Priscilla Chan's Night Machine. ...

Hins Cheung's voice is not the type that conquers all ages. His temperament is feminine, which makes him unable to sing some songs of that year. But he took his own songs to the extreme. Taking Spring and Autumn Annals as an example, Lin wrote nothing more than a vulgar theme of "love but not love", but his interpretation elevated the song to a new height. The following post is the version of this song that he collaborated with the Hong Kong Symphony Orchestra on 20 1 1. My evaluation is, "It's terrible."