Weng Qianyu

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Acting experience

Weng Qianyu was born on January 24, 1950 in Taipei, Taiwan Province. At the age of 2, Weng moved to Tokyo with his family because of his father's work. Weng Bingrong served as the representative of China Broadcasting Corporation in Japan, and Weng Qianyu began to live in Japan. By chance, Weng Qianyu joined Dongbao Co., Ltd. and Weng Bingrong gave her language training, taught her to sing Chinese songs and wrote her own lyrics.

When Weng Qianyu was 8 years old, she joined Tokyo sunflower troupe. At the age of 13, Weng Qianyu performed in the film the big wave (adapted from Pearl S. Buck's short story of the same name). At the age of 16, Weng Qianyu studied vocal music with Songtian min, a vocalist, and published her first single "love, love, love, love and love" on Columbia Records in Japan. In the same year, she signed a film contract with China Central Film Corporation. In 1968, Weng Qianyu took part in the Taiwan film "Xiaocui", which was a box office success. In 1972, Weng Qianyu won the best actress award of the 10th Golden Horse Award for her leading role in the film true and false gold. In 1973, Weng Qianyu transferred to CBS / Sony record company for development, and won the special performance award of Southeast Asia Film Festival for her film "the world of love". In 1978, Weng Qianyu took part in her last film in Taiwan, the romance of the new west chamber. Since then, she has devoted herself to developing her acting career in Japan.

Weng Qianyu's performing career peaked throughout the 1980s and was popular in Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan. Weng started his formal contact with print when he was 25 years old. Later, he was taught by Shengjiang Inoue, the eldest disciple of Japanese print master Dong fangzhigong. Later, Weng's print works won the first prize of Japanese art exhibition, and he was the first singer, actor and artist to become popular in Japanese performing arts.

The theme song "dedication of love" of CCTV Zhengda variety show is also sung by Weng Qianyu.

In 1992, he married the gallery agent, Suzuki Yangshu. In 1995, Weng Qianyu's mother set up Weng Qianyu information Museum at 1270-18, bafanye, Shizuoka City, Shizuoka peninsula. It collects Weng Qianyu's major awards, album covers, performance clothes, stills and so on from her debut to her fame, and is open to the public. In 1998, she and her husband agreed to divorce on the premise of maintaining friendship. In 1999, after the 921 earthquake in Taiwan and international aid to Taiwan, Weng also called on Japanese first-line artists to come to Taiwan for charity performances to raise money for disaster relief. Since then, he has been engaged in print creation, costume design, and performance of Japanese TV dramas. In 2007, Taiwan's Tainan county government plans to set up Weng Qianyu reference Museum and printmaking Museum. Nationality: Japan.

3-4 years old

With her contacts with Japanese friends, Weng Qianyu began to speak less Mandarin. Because Weng's father and mother were afraid that their daughter would forget their mother tongue, they agreed to do one thing, that is, not to speak Japanese to their daughter. One day, because she was hungry, little Weng Qianyu said to her mother in Japanese, "マ, お, な, か, す, い, た.". But my mother ignored her. Weng Qianyu told her mother several times about "empty stomach", but her mother still ignored her. Weng Qianyu suddenly said to her mother in Mandarin, the language she had spoken to her mother before, "Mom, I'm hungry!" As soon as my mother heard her daughter speak Mandarin, she turned her head and said in Mandarin, "Hey, you're hungry! Come and have dinner.

primary school

I went to Tokyo Chinese school. From then on, she read Mandarin at school and English with her tutor. Her English name "Judy" was chosen for her by the tutor. Later, at the age of 14, he transferred from Chinese school to American school. It was during this period that she learned English well.

So here's how Weng Qianyu's acting career started. When Weng Qianyu was 9 years old, her friend told her that "if you join the troupe, you can get to know Yujiro Ishihara, Kobayashi and other stars" and decided to join the children's troupe sunflower.

Do you know that Weng Qianyu is a gold lady? Her grandfather, Weng Junming (1892-1943). Tainan people) was a historical figure of the 1911 Revolution (when studying in medical school, he became the first member of the newly established Taiwan Alliance. After graduating from the University, he moved to the mainland for medical treatment and contributed to the founding of the people's Republic of China as a comrade of Dr. Sun Yat Sen. however, he did not recover from Taiwan and died in 1943. His father, Mr. Weng Bingrong, is director of psychological warfare Department of GHQ and director of BBC radio. In addition, her grandfather, Mr. Liu Beihong, was a famous scholar in Tainan. In such a family environment, Weng Qianyu's participation in the troupe must be a major event. Weng Qianyu made an appointment with her parents here. She would never give up her studies halfway, so she got her parents' permission.

Child star Weng Qianyu

When I was 13 years old, I made a Japanese American film "the big wave". In addition, he began to take part in the performances of TV series such as "tomorrow's family" and "lovers' initial is S.H.".

1966

Later, in 1966, he released a record called "what is love" from Columbia Records Company of Japan, and became a Japanese idol singer at that time. When Weng Qianyu made the record, she learned singing from Songtian min, a vocalist. So she recorded this debut with a soprano. Due to the popularity of electronic guitars such as the ventures and the Beatles in Japan at that time, there were many bands composed by boys in the Japanese pop music industry (Japanese Name: groupsound, abbreviated as GS) to make records. Of course, some idolatry female singers also sang with GS performance. It's called "one man GS.". At that time, even the Japanese singer Skylark also produced the famous songs of "one man GS", such as "red sun" and "Purple dawn". Weng Qianyu is no exception, recording the famous song "red moon at dusk" of "one man GS". The record sold 500000 copies at the time. The song "red moon at dusk" is the work of shikawa shosuke, a Japanese songwriter. In addition to this song, Shichuan also provides Weng Qianyu with such famous songs as "sunset love (taste of first love)", "goodbye, seventeen years old", "dreams by the sea (Coral love)", "rose bride", "falling in love while walking (how sweet the love road is)", "sad Cross (sentimental jade girl)". In 1969, the "clothes of tears" was also very popular. The song is composed by Japanese pop composer keihei tanomi. Tongmei also provided her with "stolen love (Shaohua is not reserved for teenagers)", "forgotten moment" and other famous songs.

At that time, her films in Japan included business cards such as "black gambler? Devil's left hand", "young brother" and "wolf back", and she also participated in the dubbing of the cartoon "robot 009". And then when she was 16, she made the movie "goodbye! Tears.

At this time, she also began to take part in the performances of "Xiaocui", "Wanbo tracking" and other films in Taiwan. In 1972, she shot "true and false gold" and won the Golden Horse Award for best actress. In 1973, he made "the world of love" and won the special performance award of Southeast Asia Film Festival, and his theme song "Seagull (CI / song: Liu Jiachang)" was very popular in Southeast Asia.

Most of the Mandarin songs she sang at that time were translated from her Japanese songs. Such as "goodbye, 17 years old", "warmth all over the world", "tears of clothes", "how sweet the road of love", "coral love", "spring breeze brings a shower" and so on. Most of these songs are composed by father Weng.

1973

She transferred to the newly established CBS Xinli record company and recorded the new folk music song "bride's Earrings". The second is also a "beautiful legend" with national flavor. In 1975, Weng Qianyu recorded the theme song "love is life" of the TV series "red killing" starring yueko shihara. Because this song is very popular, it got a big reward on cable, and later released the album "love is life". "Request" was recorded in 1976. This is Weng Qianyu's favorite song. So far, she has recorded it three times in different arrangements. In addition, just at this time, she released the album "stars in love" from Taiwan seamount record company. In this album, "love is life" Mandarin version "message", "bride's Earrings" Mandarin version "late spring" and so on are included.

1977

Weng Qianyu performed the series "whirlwind of love" in Taiwan and released her theme songs "whirlwind of love" and "prayer" from Taiwan's LIGO record company. The song of "praying" was originally a Japanese folk song "Takeda Shouge (hypnotic song)", while Weng's father wrote lyrics for Weng Qianyu when he was 50 years old.

1979

"Infatuated with Japan" also won a big prize of 2 million records. The dress was designed by Weng Qianyu. Originally, she wanted to take the clothes as "screen dress" and project the Aegean scenery on the clothes. But it was too late to record the Aegean film on the day of the TV program. So when you open your sleeves, you shine from behind. This is the beginning of the beautiful style when singing "infatuation of love". Because of the popularity of "infatuation with love", the album "white fantasy" was sold. Most of the songs included were composed by Tong meijingping and composed by amurizi. In addition, in Hong Kong, the album "white fantasy" was sold from Hong Kong CBS Sony Records Company (only "infatuation with love" and "dawn of Clyde island" are in Mandarin). It was sold in the same year“

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