Zhang Qiang: Only Queen Disco in 40 years

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Zhang Qiang accidentally became amber of an era

The world outside has changed greatly today

Still preserving the unique luster of the 1980s

Among an ordinary seven -seater business car, Zhang Qiang listened to the music to correct her Cantonese pronunciation. A few days later, she will perform this Cantonese song on the stage of "Breaking the Wind". The car is full of people, her husband and agent Xian Guokun, and assistant and security personnel. "I'm hungry ..." The assistant murmured in the back seat, "Order dishes, order immediately, just order it! See what you want to eat." Zhang Qiang heard it, busy Zhang Luo.

"Sister Qiang is kind and not so much." The band DJ Lu Shuo told China News Weekly that he had cooperated with many singers, and many people made a clear relationship with the band. , Booking a box lunch for the band, Zhang Qiang has always ate with the band, calling the band as "your own team". Standing on the stage of "Breaking the Wind", she said to Na Ying, "Call me Zhang Qiang, Qiang Qiang, Qiangzi,"

A typical Beijing girl, Zhang Qiang, said so, although she was born in 1967, 55 years old. Lu Shuo knew Zhang Qiang for five or six years, but he felt that when Zhang Qiang was young, it was 80 % of the same. Just like she was like the explosion head and the Disco dance music she sang.

Zhang Qiang was unexpectedly amber of an era. Today, the outside world has changed greatly today, and it is still intact in the 1980s.

On June 19, Zhang Qiang tour Changsha Station on the "unconventional cruise". Photo/Visual China

"Where are you all?"

Seeing Zhang Qiang's training is a happy thing. She and the band are happy and shake their heads together. Although the rehearsal hall is a basement, she is a bit strange. Zhang Qiangping's hair was sandwiched behind the ears by two large clips. The explosive head during the performance was all wigs. She prepared several tops, different lengths, and different colors. Today, this hairstyle she loves no longer needs to toss her true hair. Unlike in 1985, she could only go to the "Four Unions" in that perm. Essence

That year, Zhang Qiang was about to play the first album. She just saw Barbara Studuishan in the magazine. Shi Cuishan's "explosive" hairstyle suddenly attracted her. There was no professional perm plastic stick at home. Chopsticks are chopped into one cut, rolled with hair, rubber bands, and poured with Weina treasures cold and hot fragrance waves. It is really like that. Fortunately, her hair quality is easy to fix. Two years ago, she had Mosice gum.

On the cover of her first album "Tokyo Night", Zhang Qiang was wearing a big red sweater printed with English and wearing the same color hairband. The most popular English and Japanese songs. Regardless of the cover or music content, in the background of the time, it was incredible. Her aesthetics far exceeded that era. After many years, Zhang Qiang told China News Weekly that this was probably due to her growing environment.

Zhang Qiang has lived in the Courtyard of the Central News Record Film Studio since he was a child, and ran around with his mother who was a violinist in the new film band. The edge of the new shadow is Beiying, with a surveying and mapping bureau in the middle. Zhang Qiang went to elementary school in the surveying and mapping bureau. Every day, the study was not going to the North Cinema to watch the background wall of the beautiful work painting. The small cinema is waiting to watch the latest movies and documentary to be introduced. In her childhood impression, the dark clouds on the wall of Beiying's scenery are the same as true. The child stands below, so small.

Zhang Qiang also loves to run to the office of the editor -in -chief of the New Film Factory. There are many foreign film materials and magazines, and Western singers and actors who cannot name them. Familiar world. "I remember a female star looks like a leopard, especially beautiful. They sat in the bathtub to take a picture. The bathtub was full of bubbles, and the bikini was wearing a bikini. Zhang Qiang still brightens his eyes.

The yearning for beauty and romance seems to be an instinct. Once Zhang Qiang saw his lover kissing in a love film, she felt that the picture was too beautiful, and went home to practice in the mirror. The classmate asked her: "What about it?" She said, "Practice your mouth."

The New Film Orchestra will recording for all kinds of movies, television, documentary, and special films. In the orchestra, foreign records often make internal information. Zhang Qiang's mother will recording the latest music. Music enlightenment. At that time, the short -wave radios could receive the South Korean and Japan channels from time to time. Zhang Qiang adjusted the radio when he was fine. One day, a English song "hit" her, and the strong rhythm made Zhang Qiang involuntarily twist involuntarily Starting up and twisting for a while, she felt that the sweaters on her body were heavy. After taking off the sweater, I continued to twist until the end of the music, Zhang Qiang was there, as if the feeling of "the feeling of lover left", she quickly went to pull the radio, It's a pity no longer. It wasn't until a long time that Zhang Qiang knew that it was Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean", which was called Disco.

After entering middle school, time entered the 1980s, although the material was still scarce, flower skirts, slopes and shoes appeared in the shopping mall, and earrings in Wangfujing's arts and crafts stores. The relationship "then the second -hand clothes, Zhang Qiang can learn how to dress himself in the magazine. Mother's hand is also coincidental. She often imitates the styles in the magazine to make skirts. Zhang Qiang becomes a character in the school. Walking on the street is often intercepted. In the early 1980s, boys in Beijing talked with girls who did not know each other in the early 1980s. It's not a bad thing to make friends. Once in the small sales department, one person saw Zhang Qiang's fashionable dress and said, "There is a ball in my family on the weekend, you come." The underground family dance in the 1980s is also a semi -illegal act. People need music and freedom. "I have to go if they are arrested." Zhang Qiang said that once the dance she participated in was reported by the "little foot detective team", the film police came, let them stand in a row by the wall, and asked, "Where are you all?" " No one dares to tell the truth. "Now recalling, Zhang Qiang only feels interesting. In fact, the police persuaded educating these young people and put them home. Next time there is a ball, Zhang Qiang will go wrong.

Gradually, some friends that Zhang Qiang met began to take her to the Beijing Exhibition Hall, Beijing Hotel, Diploma, and other places. All Disco. The youth of that era was particularly interested in foreign culture. In addition to Disco, Zhang Qiang also listened to other music, but none of them had any kind of attracting Disco to her.

Since childhood, he studied violin with his mother and had a unique good voice. Zhang Qiang decided his life direction in the middle of the middle of the middle of the middle of the middle of the middle school — as a singer and to be a Disco singer.

In 1983, Zhang Qiang, who was still in high school, signed up to participate in the Beijing Haidian District Young Singer Contest. Zhang Qiang wore a big ears and wore a bat shirt and sang the song "Assorted Cai" by the famous American Karpert band on the stage. Hu Yue, a singer who participated in the Qing Ge Charity and the same time as Zhang Qiang, recalled that in the first half of the 1980s, the Qing Ge game had strict requirements on the singer's manner and even the height of the arms. Shake on the stage. Zhang Qiang's game results can be imagined. Some judges told her that singing well, but could not get the ranking.

The following year's participation in the CCTV Youth Song Tournament is still the same, but the opportunity has not allowed Zhang Qiang to wait too long. In 1985, when Zhang Qiang's mother went to the Conservatory of Music, the old classmates heard that Zhang Qiang sang well. The introduction said that Yunnan Audiovisual Publishing House was looking for someone. Essence

"Oh! Are you Disco?"

After the rehearsal, Zhang Qiang led the band and assistant ... A group of people went to dinner, the restaurant was not low, and may be worried about the small amount. Zhang Qiang ordered more than a dozen dishes until everyone was full. The dishes are still up. Someone asked, "Can you retreat?" Zhang Qiang said, "You're point, what to retreat, eat!"

Zhang Qiang is not a stingy person, maybe it is related to the young man. The first album "Tokyo Night", Yunnan Audiovisual Publishing House gave her 1,400 yuan. Because she felt that she sang well, I discussed another more, and the two gave her a total of 9,000 yuan. At that time, the monthly salary of the Chinese was still double -digit, and the two albums made Zhang Qiang almost the "10,000 yuan households" admired.

In the year before Zhang Qiang's launch of the album, with the earliest TV advertisement that was popular in the country, "Yan Wu, Yanwu, and Songs", the ownership of Chinese tape recorders exceeded the radio for the first time. Almost synchronized with the popularity of the recorder, Zhang Qiang's album swept through China.

"Tokyo Night" was snatched out of the market. This box of albums was sold 2.5 million, and then Zhang Qiang kept released albums such as "Shy Girl" and "Saturday". The single sales of "Shy Shy Girls" reached 4.2 million. Twenty years later, Jay Chou created a sales myth and won the "Qili Xiang" champion of the Asian album sales champion of the year. The mainland sales were 2.6 million.

Ph.D. in the Institute of Popular Music of Liverpool University in the United Kingdom, the post -doctoral department of the Department of Sociology of Tsinghua University Wang Qian was at the Sichuan Middle School. He remembered that he took a train from Sichuan to Beijing. Either Teresa Teng's song. Almost overnight, Zhang Qiang became popular in the north and south.

In the mid -1980s, the original pop music in Mainland China was the "Northwest Wind" represented by "Loess Gaosang". Those grand and vigorous voice inherited the aesthetic aesthetics of collectivism. The straightforward happiness and sadness in Zhang Qiangge are the small and temperature emotions. The free and unrestrained voice in her voice is not the same as Teresa Teng, who is as popular as the same generation, and Disco is a serious imported product in the West. Young people who have been isolated from the outside world have been isolated from the outside world. The degree of species belongs to the body.

Wang Qian remembered that at that time, young people listened to Zhang Qiang's Gog Disco, big lapel shirt and thunderbolt gloves were necessary equipment. He told "China News Weekly": "Zhang Qiang and her sang Disco have modernity. It is not only the liberation of identity and desire, but also the liberation of materialism. "It can be said that Zhang Qiang, let people re -discover herself and feel freedom. As a result, her singing has become unique and became the mark of the times. The orphan of the times. In the two years from 1985 to 1986, Zhang Qiang released a total of 19 albums. However, due to the pioneer of the image and style, in the era when the party was the mainstream, she was unable to board the television symbolic authority. She could only chant young people in the youth that young people had nowhere to place in a tape recorder. There was a well -known songwriter who came to the door and wrote songs for her. As long as she sang the songs of these authors, she could be accepted by the party and TV.

But Zhang Qiang couldn't stand the songs they wrote- "Two eyes are scanning, two pairs of eyes are heavy -together (the drama cavity)" "Where to go with a guitar, I want to dedicate the flower to you ..." Zhang Qiang said to them, "Ah! Are you Disco?" The answer is usually, "I am also Disco", "We are drumming, it is Disco."

Recalling those so -called "Disco", Zhang Qiang couldn't help it, "Super difficult to hear. I said directly, you don't understand Disco too much, Disco is not like this, I can't sing." Mom saw her bluntly rejected the big wrist, urgent, urgent Be straight at her waist and eyes.

Zhang Qiang admits that she is too straight and will not be exquisite. On the one hand, because she does not like the kind of person who performs very "Niu" as an artist, on the other hand, life is worry -free. superior". "Beijing children, even if you do n’t do anything, you ca n’t be frozen, so you dare to push up, do n’t want this, do n’t want that." Zhang Qiang poured it. A master, accepting everything, not only accept it, but also respect respect.

To this day, she hasn't changed her temper. She always said that she couldn't control her mouth. She chatted with the "sisters" of "Breaking the Wind" in the dormitory. The key to looking for on -site activities is to see two points: sense of security and happiness. A Weibo on Zhang Qiang said: happiness is the most precious thing in life. She said that she has always only liked to make small money and earns a lot of money to scare her. Isn't such brilliant and glorious and so glorious? She doesn't like to eat too good things. On the dining table, she likes to eat barbecued pork, decoction buns, spicy shrimp ... I hate those conceptual dishes most, and put a few in the middle of the plate, surrounded by a bunch of smoke, "Eat it until it is eaten until she eats it. The mouth is faint, "it is too pretending.

She was unhappy, so she missed the opportunity to participate in the party and ranked among the mainstream stage. Although she interviewed her in 1986, she rated her as the third place in the world's most popular singer, ranking ranked first, ranking ranked first, ranking ranked first, ranking first The fourth is Teresa Teng. Zhang Qiang was the first Chinese artist to be reported by Time Weekly.

"Point" is the common memory of Zhang Qiang and singers of the same era. She followed the famous acupoint Guo Chuanlin through the acupuncture point. Once she walked with Liu Xiaoqing, she performed 7 games a day, with an average of 3 hours a day. She didn't sleep at night. The next audience will come in again. After Zhang Qiang sang, the audience boiled and began to throw steel in the venue, like a rainfall rain. She and her companion picked up a hat steel. The companion was called Zhou Xiaoou. A few years later, he formed a zero band.

Zhang Qiang said that he had never had a common language with the rock circle, but he could feel that Luan Shu, Ding Wu, Gao Qi, and Chang Kuan's later band lead singers have revealed their talents. On one occasion, Luan Shu sang the song written by himself at her house. Zhang Qiang said to him, this song is nice, you will succeed in the future, wait.

In 1987, Guo Chuanlin, who took Zhang Qiang through Zhang Qiang, created the Black Panther Band. Chinese pop music was about to open a new chapter, but Zhang Qiang chose to study abroad this year. The reason is very simple. Zhang Qiang, who records 4 albums in the highest record of a month, feels crude, and there are too many things to take out. Sometimes she feels bad and wants to re -record it, but the producer turned around and turned off the machine and said, "Why is it bad? Isn't this good?"

Like the song "Master" who refused to find the door, she didn't want to be wronged to make music. The music originally brought her happy things, especially Disco. She couldn't turn it into a bad thing.

"Don't ask me what is Disco again"

The performance of the tour of Changsha Station was crowded, and they shouted with Zhang Qiang's singing. Almost every song was a chorus, not as much as any young "love beans" performance scene. Most of these fans are post -95s. For example, Azi who did design work, the ticket was grabbed the first time. She first heard that Zhang Qiang was in the freshman year. In 2013, Zhang Qiang cooperated with the new pants band. The album "Don't ask me what is Disco".

After Zhang Qiang returned to China, she tried to come back. In the 1990s, she received the signal of the outside world -the times changed, Disco is no longer popular. After Disco, she is no longer happy. Therefore, Zhang Qiang chose to return to the family and get married, divorced, and remarried. Fortunately, both marriages can make her carelessly. In those years, she has almost no contact with the society. She is still "a survivor in the 1980s and still" "Holding his Disco music dream", his throat was really itchy, so he rented the recording studio at his own expense and went in to record a few paragraphs. During the dormant of Zhang Qiang, in fact, Disco did not disappear, but became popular entertainment with the development of commercial development in the form of Budi and Di Hall. According to statistics at the time, the number of commercial dance venues in Shanghai was 52 in 1985, increased to 310 in 1990, and 1,336 in 1996. Among them, the "JJ" large Disco ballroom opened in 1992 was the most popular. Thousands of customers. Two years later, Beijing JJ Disco Plaza, Leitmandisco Plaza, and NASA Disco Center, the entertainment venues with jumping Disco as the operating project, became the most trendy place for young people in the capital. Entering the 21st century, the Techno and House such as Techno and House, which have gradually developed with Disco, differentiated the more vertical niche electronic music clubs.

In 2006, the new pants band, which had been thinking about fashion culture and music style in the 1980s, launched the album "Dragon Tiger Dan", which retrospective the 1980s complex. This album is called "a successful retro marketing" by music critics. In the MV, Peng Lei and Pang Kuan wore plum sportswear symbolized in the 1980s, and stepped back. Become a consumption type, as an important part of retro aesthetics, and returns to the public's vision again.

Dr. Wang Qian, a Ph.D. in the Institute of Popular Music of Liverpool University in the United Kingdom, observed that since 2010, Disco has once again become popular in major cities across the country. Those high -end ballrooms and nightclubs will regularly hold Disco nights. This time, the return of Disco, in addition to the "nostalgia of culture", Wang Qian believes that it is related to the essence of Disco.

Disco was born in the 1960s, blacks, Latin Americans, and sexual minority groups in New York and Philadelphia. Subsequently, it was swept across the United States. At the beginning of its birth, its core value was an art tool for minority groups and fighting for freedom. Wang Qian believes that the younger generation who grew up today is different from those in the 1980s. They are not attracted by Disco to get out of the closure. Instead, they have discovered the origin and essence of Disco. Therefore Grab it back.

At that time, the light people re -ignited the enthusiasm for Disco. Modern Sky signed a contract with Zhang Qiang, and Peng Lei and Pang Kuan served as the producer. The album of nostalgic theme is "a classic plan for the history of Chinese pop music", not so much that Zhang Qiang recalled the 1980s, more like a young man in the new century's imagination of the 1980s.

This imagination was successful, and Zhang Qiang harvested a group of young fans, and once again has the ability to talk to the present. The viscosity of young music fans is quite high, which makes Zhang Qiang's tour full of each time, and also makes those hottest variety shows see her value. Zhang Qiang's agent Xian Guokun told China News Weekly that "The Second Season of Breaking the Wind" and "Singer" have come to find it before. In addition, she felt that she would lose every time, because she did not have the energy of hard work, and did not like "volume". However, Xian Guokun felt that whether it was for the new songs cooperated with the young band in these years, or for the tour, or to participate, from 2020 to 2021, Zhang Qiang released 9 original albums, and waited for the "Three Season of the Wind and Broken Waves. "When invited, Xian Guokun persuaded Zhang Qiang to" coax and deceive ".

Zhang Qiang's work contact basically gave it to her husband Xian Guokun. As long as she satisfied the two requirements she said, she was not very worried about other things. She watched children cook at home except at home. She really could cook. When the keyboard hand was cooked at the keyboard, she immediately guided: "Low fire, wrapped with tempura powder, and then used the smallest fire, otherwise the inside was cooked with blood."

Relatively vacuum -like simple sun and moon, protecting her to some extent. Zhang Qiang felt that she was very good, but just pursuing something she loved, and the times had always needed her. A fan of Zhang Qiang once wrote a paragraph: (Zhang Qiang's singing) As if everything was in the budding period, the brand new has not been destroyed, and it is very intact. Essence

A friend said that her two contradictory words, "Juveniles" and "Late December", were unified on Zhang Qiang. Her desire for life is particularly simple, that is, "at the age of 80, she can sing and twist."

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