Chinanews client, Beijing, April 28th (Ren Siyu) "I am a title singer, I am a plus singer, and I am an infinity singer..."

  Recently, the variety show "Who is the Treasure Singer" was broadcast. The names of the singers are all replaced by symbols. Some of their song celebrities are not popular, some have been popular, and some have not yet officially debuted, but after watching the first episode, The two players who impressed the audience the most were Jin Haixin and Man Jiang.

  Speaking of them, the most frequently asked question is: Where have they been all these years?

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"I have been hiding in time"

  "The red men and green women who come and go on this street never forget that they are expressionless. With my heart that always loves to sing, I have to sit on the side of the road and rest with my hands folded."

  In 1999, the young Jin Haixin made her debut. The song "Wake Up Your Ears" awakened everyone's ears.

In the MV, she hugs a cat and walks between the streets and alleys, she is very rash. Her sweet, lively and ethereal voice brings a fresh breath to the music scene.

Jin Haixin's "Wake Up Your Ears" album cover.

  And 22 years later, Jin Haixin once again sang the jazz-adapted version of "Wake Up the Ears" on the show. It was still the unique tone of the year, which made Zhang Yadong's eyes red.

  "I feel so emotional." "How are you?" The two reunion greetings became a very moving scene in the show.

That year, Jin Haixin's first album was produced by Zhang Yadong.

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  Zhang Yadong excitedly disregarded the rules of the show, but also told everyone her name and resume: Jin Haixin was the first mainland female artist signed by Sony.

  In the years from 1999 to the beginning of the 21st century, the Chinese music scene was star-studded, but the fledgling Jin Haixin was a blockbuster. In addition to "Wake Up the Ears", her second album "So Proud" also followed the TV series "All Angels Caused the Fault" 》Fire all over the streets and alleys together.

  Later, Jin Haixin appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala in 2000 and brought songs to skewers with the same young Pu Shu and Xie Yuxin.

In the 2001 CCTV-MTV music festival, she was also selected as the "Mainland Most Popular Female Singer" candidate along with Na Ying, Chen Ming, Sun Yue, Han Hong and other seniors.

  And now, when asked the question "You are hidden by ____", she said: "I have been hiding in time."

The "trapped" singer

  "At that time, we were still in the era of traditional record production without sound repair," Jin Haixin said on the show.

  In the era of traditional recording, Jin Haixin is as beautiful as the singers discovered during the same period.

In 2002, Jin Haixin signed to Warner Records. At that time, she not only appeared on the major music charts of the year, but was also named "the successor of the queen" by industry insiders.

After that, Zhang Yadong gave her "Sad Swing" to sing, and it was director Ning Hao who directed the MV.

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  But under the excitement, the crisis of the music scene has gradually emerged.

  From "So Proud" to "Gimhae Heart", the release time of the two albums of Jin Haixin is three and a half years apart. In the music world with extremely fast update speed, such a long interval is obviously very unfavorable for a singer who is on the rise. .

  She herself knows this well: "The high-level changes in the original contract company directly affected the release of the singers below. After changing to Warner, she spent a certain amount of time communicating and running in music. So these three and a half years Time can really be said to be the hardest day for me to endure."

  Although Jin Haixin had been acting as the composer and producer alone at this time, she encountered a bottleneck again.

In 2009, after the expiration of her term with Warner, she signed to Huayou Jinxinzi Records, which started with online music, which surprised many people.

  In the interview that year, Jin Haixin said: "Someone told me,'You have been out for ten years.' I was blinded. Because I actually only released four albums, I have too many regrets in the past ten years. When an album is released, the company at that time will undergo high-level changes, and then the release plans of all the artists will be stranded. It makes me seem to have a long debut, but at least more than five years have been waiting."

  In the long wait, she experienced anger, collapse, depression, and quarreled with the company to seek justice, but in the end she was helpless, and her temper was gradually flattened while waiting.

She confessed that after the expiration of the Warner period, many large companies have come to look for them one after another, but she is worried that if similar high-level changes occur again, the answer is still not guaranteed.

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Online music

impact?

  There were not a few singers who had similar circumstances with Jin Haixin in that era.

Singer Chen Ming once publicly talked about the contradiction between himself and Sony Records, saying that the state of the company is unstable and he has no power to the singer, and the day of recording is nowhere in sight.

  Since the beginning of the new century, the once glorious recording industry has begun to face the challenge of transformation. Some international record companies have gradually withdrawn or turned. With the rise of digital music, record companies cannot understand music sales due to unreasonable distribution ratios and opaque data. The right to speak gradually declines.

  For singers, the most profitable thing is not to make their favorite music, record and release records, but to release ring tones and commercial performances. On the other hand, online music and talent shows are booming, and the original music market is further squeezed. .

  After signing a new company, Jin Haixin launched a new EP "Love Like Narcissus", but did not satisfy all fans.

  Some netizens commented that "like online songs, but the voice is still good, barely make up to 3 stars", even some music critics said: "pop is not shameful, and saliva songs are by no means inferior. The problem is that Jin Haixin's heart It’s unbelievable that the name and online music equate to each other. This is obviously a great irony to the mainland music scene."

  To the outside world, she replied: "Music is my own business after all, and I will do my best according to my plan."

  In 2013, Jin Haixin established her own music studio.

When the era of social networking came and celebrities counted Weibo data as KPIs, Jin Haixin logged off Weibo for various reasons.

  Her name is still often remembered by people. Some people say that she is the singer who is most looking forward to "I am a Singer". Many people went to the music platform to leave messages: How did she "disappear" from the music scene?

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Set off again

  Nowadays, original ability seems to be another bonus point for singers.

Zhang Yadong said that good songs are hard to find. From a global perspective, there are almost no pure singers who can't write songs. Creation is more helpful for singers to find their own things in the future. Otherwise, despite having a great voice, if you have a lifetime I didn't wait for the song to make myself popular, maybe my talent was buried.

  In 2016's "Masked Singer Guess and Guess", Jin Haixin appeared as a singer in the image of "Cat Daili Hepburn". She admitted that she has been writing songs and participating in album production for the past few years. The posture returned to everyone's sight.

  Also returning to the public's attention in 2016, there was also Man Jiang with long hair and beard and "changed look".

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  In the 1990s, Man Jiang, who belonged to Sony Music as Jin Haixin, became popular with songs such as "Miracle" and "Skirt Flying". He is a sunny and handsome "idolist".

  "I used to sing lyric songs, the image of a very happy big brother next door. I sang for nearly 20 years. I used to squander or even waste a lot of time."

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  After 2010, Man Jiang gradually faded out of people’s sight, until 6 years later he took "Return" and other songs on the variety show. He changed the track, formed a band, performed lyrics, music, and arranged the album in an orderly manner. The songs included More self-expression.

  In the show, Man Jiang said that he felt he was in the "middle-aged rebellious period" and regenerated a 2.0 version of himself since 2012. "I feel that I am unwilling. I have to try it myself, even if it is difficult, but I also want to finish talking about these thoughts in my heart first."

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  An interesting phenomenon is that when Zhang Yadong, Luo Yonghao, and Da Zhangwei automatically entered the nostalgic mode when they heard Jin Haixin sing "Wake Up Your Ears", Liu Boxin, born in 1995, said that she listened to this song as a new song; When Chen Li and others were excited about the appearance of Jiang Fan, the lead singer of the NAND Band, Wang Yuan, who was born after 00, also seemed a little at a loss on the side.

  As sung in the song, "The park must be dismantled, don't dismantle the memory."

The renewal iteration of the entertainment industry is cruel in a sense. It takes time and luck to stay popular. If you don't show up for a few years, you may even be forgotten by a generation.

But it is also like a big examination room. The big waves will eventually leave classics behind. When these "treasure singers" brighten their voices, the guests present are very moved whether they are familiar with them or not.

  Behind the many years of persistence is the long-lasting love. Let time go by, the voices of these singers do not diminish the original texture, and their new attempts and explorations in music are also eye-catching.

  It's time for these treasure singers to show up more.

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