1. Li Jinhui

The originator of Chinese pop music created a precedent for Chinese pop music with the song "Drizzle" in 1927. Without Li Jinhui, there would be no pop music today. There would be no Nie Er.

2. Chen Gexin

The number one singer in the pre-liberation period, he pushed Chinese pop songs to their first peak. He is known as the Song Fairy. < /p>

Rose Rose I Love You, Congratulations, Autumn Yearning, Suzhou Riverside, Dream Man, Night Shanghai, etc. are all his representative works.

3. Li Jinguang

Li Jinhui's younger brother is another representative figure of Times Music. Together with Chen Gexin and Yao Min, he is one of the three giants of Times Music. He is known as the King of Songs.

Haochunxiao, Ye Laixiang, Which is not passionate, Picking Betel Nuts, Shangri-La, May Wind, Xingxinxiangyin, Wang Zhaojun, etc. are his representative works.

4. Yao Min

The number one pop music person in China , China’s God of Song. Do you think this title is exaggerated? Not at all. Luo Dayou even said that Yao Min was China’s greatest artist in the 20th century.

Yao Min (1917-1967), born in Shanghai , was the brother of Yao Li, a popular singer in Shanghai at that time. Yao Min has been a musical genius since he was a child, but because his family was too poor, he did not have the opportunity to hire a teacher, so all his musical abilities were self-taught! Before joining the music industry, he worked as a sailor. At first, he and his sisters, Yao Li and Yao Ying, sang in the "Datong Club". Later, because of his acquaintance with Zhou Xuan, Yan Hua and others, he entered the "EMI Records" and began his composing career. Yao Min is a very motivated person. He constantly improves himself and absorbs various types of music, so he continues to create songs that depict the times. Especially when he came to Hong Kong after liberation, Asia's largest business, The entertainment center further ignited his special talents. But unfortunately, in 1967, while he was still very healthy, he left his melodic life due to a sudden heart attack, causing an irreparable loss to the Asian and world music circles. Yao Min's songs have become popular among several generations of singers: from Zhou Xuan to Li Xianglan, from Li Xianglan to Grant, from Grant to Jingting, and to today's Teresa Teng, Feng Feifei, Fei Yuqing, etc. His melodies are timeless, graceful and moving, and his works are ever-changing, including jazz, folk tunes, foreign dance music, rap songs, etc. He is recognized as a "little man in the singing world" and a "giant in the singing world".

Masterpieces: "Tears of a Lover", "Second Spring" (English version is called Ding Dong Song), "Spring Breeze Kisses My Face", "Cocktail", "I Have a Love", " "Three Years", "Standing on the High Pole" (sung by Zhang Huimei today), "Rejuvenation of the Earth", "I'm a Thrush", "I'll Wait for You Someday", "Lovesickness in a Dream", "Jia Duoyi" "Diandian", "I love Chacha", "I wish we met before we were married", "The little lamb is going home", "Do you know", "Picking red water chestnuts", "Selling glutinous rice balls", "From the first to tenth day of the new year" Five", "Complaining of Heartfelt Love", "Every Family Has a Sutra That Is Hard to Recite", "Beauty Under the Moon", "Meet Again After Three Years Apart", "I Want to Sing for You", "By the Qinhuai River", "The River Heads East" "Flow", "Green Tea Leaves", "Unavailable Love", "I Want Your Love", "Loneliness in the Orchid Boudoir", "A Bridge", "Malay Scenery", "Traces of Love", "Under the Moon" "Counterpart", "Lang Ru Chunri Feng" and so on.

5. Chen Dieyi

The first person to write lyrics for Chinese pop music and a generation of lyric saints. His collaboration with Yao Min pushed Chinese pop music to an unprecedented height !

6. Zhou Lanping

Without Zhou Lanping, Taiwanese pop music would not have developed so fast. A song "Green Island Serenade" kicked off the development of Taiwanese pop music!

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Zhou Lanping (1924-1971), a native of Xiangxiang, Hunan, attended the "Central Music Cadre Training Class" opened in Chongqing during the Anti-Japanese War, and later graduated from Shanghai Music College. After liberation, the Kuomintang regime and many mainland intellectuals came to Taiwan one after another, and Zhou Lanping was one of them. During his time in Taiwan, Mr. Zhou Lanping composed a large number of popular works and was one of the most influential composers at that time. His "Green Island Serenade" is not only popular in Taiwan, China, but also in various parts of Southeast Asia, with lyrics translated into multiple languages.

Zhou Lanping loves music very much. She often works to the point where she forgets to eat and sleep, and even gets sick. In 1971, Zhou Lanping fell ill and composed the soundtrack for the movie "Red Beard". Due to being too tired at work, she accidentally contracted acute appendicitis. In order to be in time for the film festival, he actually took Painkiller as a life-saving pill. After the work was completed, he collapsed at home and was taken to the hospital. However, peritonitis had festered, and the original heart disease was caused during the operation, and he eventually died. Many people say that if Zhou Lanping had not died so early, the history of Mandarin pop music would have to be rewritten.

When Zhou Lanping passed away, Pan Yingjie, the lyricist of "Green Island Serenade", gave him an elegiac couplet: "Crying the Green Island Serenade, I will always cherish my home on the other side of the mountain."

Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai> All episodes, "Want to Marry the Han Family", "The Girl from Bilan Village", "You Smiled at Me Last Night", "I Have a Missing", "Eighteen Girls, One Flower", etc. wait.

7. Wang Fuling

Wang Fuling (1926-1989), originally from Shanghai, had pen names such as Mo Ran and Fu Lin. He went to Hong Kong in the 1950s and worked as a film composer and soundtrack at the Shaw Brothers Film Studio. During his time at Shaw Brothers, Mr. Wang Fuling used his superhuman musical talent to create classic songs that are still unforgettable to this day. His style of music is very diversified, he is good at lyrical slow songs, but his catchy light songs are also talked about.

In the later years of his career, Mr. Wang paid more attention to cultivating the next generation of singing talents. In a singing competition, Mr. Wang Fuling, who was a judge, met a very talented young man, Tan Baixian, who later became a famous singer. Rowan. In the 1980s, "My Chinese Heart" written by Huang Zhan became popular in mainland China. It is an excellent patriotic song, but not many people know that this song is written by Wang Fuling. Mr. Wang died in Hong Kong in 1989 at the age of 63.

Mr. Wang Fuling's famous songs: "No Love", "Nanping Evening Bell", "Drunk in Your Arms", "Take Care of Tonight", "Waiting Madly", "Blue and Black" , "Sweet Words", "My Chinese Heart", "Ask Baiyun", "Carnation", "Daughter Circle" and so on.

8. Yao Li

Overseas, Yao Li and Bai Guang are as famous and influential as Teresa Teng and Zhou Xuan!

There are also living pop singers Among them, the oldest and most influential one is Yao Li. Yao Li is the original singer of classic songs such as Rose Rose, I Love You, Congratulations, Suzhou Riverside, Standing on a High Hill, Spring Breeze Kisses My Face, etc. .She and her counterpart Yao Min, as leaders of pop songs, have dominated Chinese pop music for 20 years. On the record sleeve of EMI Records in the 1950s, the text introducing her said that it had gone through "a process of nearly twenty years." , has always been the only one in the music scene, and no one who has come up can rival him.” This is no exaggeration at all.

Other representatives

Liu Jiachang, Zuo Hongyuan, Weng Qingxi, and Luo Mingdao (the four great masters of Taiwan in the 1960s and 1970s, were all masters of pop music and film music, and dominated that Taiwanese pop music in the era)

There are also Yan Hua, Yan Zhexi, Li Houxiang, Gu Jiahui and others.

Chinese pop music has been around for 80 years. If you don’t have enough understanding, don’t speak nonsense. If you really love Chinese pop music, pay more attention to it.

Our country lacks a systematic review and summary of the development of pop music in the past 80 years.

Don’t use your ignorance to insult the glory of Chinese pop!