Lin Zhimei

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Personal experience

1981 was the first turning point in Lin Zhimei's life. Lin Zhimei, who had never formed any band before, was invited by two male students to participate in the open competition. Unfortunately, she failed to enter the final. With a keen heart, the young men decided to organize Delta, a folk song combination with the word "Yi". Finally, she won the championship in a small-scale singing competition held by a certain community. One of the judges was impressed by Delta's performance. They were invited to appear in a Folk Song Concert in the city hall, so delta began to sing in public.

Of course, after winning the championship, Delta's ambition was aroused. As a result, the runner up of the "pop folk singing contest" and the champion of the "workers' singing contest" came one after another. Many record companies began to lobby Lin Zhimei to record records, but Lin Zhimei didn't agree at that time.

In March of the same year, Lin Zhimei took part in the "city folk song public creation competition" sponsored by the radio station, and her "journey home" composed by herself became one of the winning works. Then Lin Zhimei and other winners recorded the record of "Hong Kong City folk song". Although Qu Guifen and ye Yuanchun's "ask" were the most popular songs in the album, Lin Zhimei's weight in the album was quite heavy, and her performance began to show up. Even though "Wangxiang" was not her composition and lyrics, the record company knew that this little girl had great potential, so it specially asked her to lead this winning work. It can be seen that she was very important at that time See.

In 1982, Lin Zhimei launched the first gun! First of all, in the middle of this year, the record company arranged for Lin Zhimei to appear in CAI Fenghua's "the beginning of man" album and sing with him the theme song of the movie "hand in hand", hoping that Cai Fenghua's fame can make Lin Zhimei more known to the public. Then in August, the album "Encore" was released. Although there were many folk singers in the album, it was Lin Zhimei who stood out. She was highly praised for her "emotional paragraph" and "Kite". The latter was composed by herself. As for "emotional paragraph", it became one of the "top ten Chinese Golden Songs" held in 1982. On that night, it was very popular At that time, the talented girl who had not published her own album was the one who received the award from yasun Nakamura.

In 1983, Lin Zhimei officially showed her brilliance! In fact, before Lin Zhimei won the "Top Ten Golden Songs", the record company had planned to make a record for her. Finally, before she took the HKCEE, she rushed to record her first work, so that she could feel at ease. Although the album was released in April, it is still among the top ten best-selling albums (July 1983). The sales volume of the album has exceeded the double platinum number. The "lover's road" and "your eyes" have also become the top songs on the pop charts of Hong Kong and Taiwan respectively. For a new comer, this achievement is really surprising. Although the recording time was in a hurry, and Lin Zhimei was suffering from vocal cord inflammation at that time, it did not affect the overall performance of the album.

Lin Zhimei joined Hong Kong Sony Music in 1983 and released seven personal records, two new songs and selected records in 1989. The first album of the same name "Lin Zhimei" became popular with the slow song "your eyes" and established the position in the singing world. The next two records "what is fate" and "encounter" all have similar songs; "encounter" is a pair of "your eyes". Almost as soon as Hong Kong audiences hear this song, they will associate with Lin Zhimei.

In the mid-1980s, Lin Zhimei focused on singing and supervising the production of her records, instead of composing music. The released records no longer achieved the balance of personal creation, local creation and song adaptation as the first three. At the same time, Hong Kong music has entered the youth idol competition. As for female singers, Anita Mui, Lin Yilian, Chen Huixian and ye Qianwen are about to start a world war. However, the slow song of the fourth record "love mirage" seems to be less popular than her adapted fast song "love radar network". Like entering the battlefield, Lin Zhimei's future albums "because of your parting", "free and easy", "always beautiful" are not as good as other singers' albums, and 70% of them are adapted songs; the style of the "main" songs has also changed from warm and rich folk songs to try to stimulate and American pop rock songs, among which the distinctive examples are "free and easy", "time photocopier" and "free and easy" "Because of your parting.". The first few songs are not flattering, such as "hot body" and "vigorous night", which are embarrassing to hear. Later, "stone photographer" made her a successful commercial fast song.

His early works were mainly slow songs, and there were few outstanding works. Until the end of the 1980s, he gradually retired behind the scenes, and his composing skills became more mature and fluent. During this period, he was responsible for the creation of many front-line singers! It includes "love yourself" by Liang Yongqi, "love simply" by Wu Qianlian and "lonely lonely" by Tan Yonglin. Lin Zhimei also supervised some young singers, such as Gigi Leung, Stefanie Sun and so on.

Lin Zhimei has always been an adept singer of adagio, and her later singing skills are more stable and free. "Because I love you", "forever winter", "noon", "steal love", and so on, all of which are memorable. Unfortunately, a bolt from the blue, like her female singer Chen Huixian, before the end of the 1980s, Lin Zhimei decided to leave the music world in a low profile and turn to the background to compose and supervise records for other new singers.

Interestingly, at the beginning of 2000, when Lin Zhimei was interviewed by the magazine, she denied that she had quit the music industry. In fact, she was working hard to prepare her "comeback" album. Lin Zhimei, who has always sung hymns with her church friends, is still a singer. She asked the music master, bobida, to be her record producer, and the record finally came out in 2003, stopping the fans from waiting for 14 years.

In Stephen Chow's the God of food, the background music of Stephen Chow's fantasy encounter with female students on the road is Lin Zhimei's first love album "encounter 2000 highlights".

The original song of "always beautiful" is the French song "Veronique Jannot" aviateur.

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