Hou Xiangting, Taiwanese female singer. Her high-pitched and sweet voice is popular on both sides of the mainland.
Her songs, together with the songs of Xiao Yaxuan, Sun Yanzi, and Xu Huaiyu of the same era, have nourished the youth love of the post-70s and post-80s.
Her hit songs "Ambiguous", "Cold War", "Don't Come in Autumn", "I Am a Fish", and "I Love You So Much" were sung by many people and became the second most popular song. Virgin Records that year. Yu Yahua, the most developed singer.
However, three years after her debut and four sensational albums, her new songs are rarely heard.
A few years later, I heard from her again, that she was married to the eldest son of the third generation of the giants and settled in the United States.
During this time, she experienced record failure, untimely death, and abandonment by the record company. She was arranged to change careers in the film and television industry and made a lot of bad movies. She even changed the image of a beautiful girl, took the **route, and acted in a passionate **scene.
However, the classic singles of those three years are confusing when you hear them at first, and they make people cry when you listen to them again.
Youth is for nostalgia, let's go back to that era and see the twists and turns of this laughing girl next door.
Born in 1982 in a small town south of Taipei, Hou Xiangting has a warm family with three sisters and ordinary parents.
Hou Xiangting showed a unique talent when she was very young. When her parents found out, they put a lot of effort into nurturing her. I can take up to five ** classes a week.
Her parents often accompanied her to various singing performances. When she was 12 years old, Hou Xiangting and her sister were invited to sing in a western restaurant. To encourage them, her parents would find friends to support them.
Although Hou Xiangting was trained to pursue an artistic path, Hou Xiangting's tutoring was very strict.
Hou Xiangting's parents are very simple people and treat people sincerely. Her father taught her to be kind, polite to people, not to be late, and to keep her promises. When encountering things in daily life, his father always criticized Hou Xiangting first and asked her to find her own problems.
This also affected Hou Xiangting's sincere attitude towards others after entering the entertainment industry in the future. She never gives orders to employees, friends, and assistants, and is a good girl in everyone's eyes.
1998 was a year of great success for Hou. She got the opportunity to shoot commercials with two king-level stars, and also won the favor of Virgin Records Yao Qian.
Hou Xiangting was 16 years old that year. When she heard that Liming was going to shoot advertisements and recruit models, Hou Xiangting's father took her to apply.
At that time, Lai Ming, one of the most popular Four Heavenly Kings, was shooting commercials. The models she chooses are not only from Hong Kong and Taiwan, but also from Singapore, Malaysia, Japan and other places.
When they signed up, they didn't know that they were filming the scene opposite Dawn, they only knew that it was an electrical advertisement.
Her father guessed that it was a mobile phone advertisement, so he went to buy a mobile phone and asked her to go home and think about it. He pointed her out, and it turned out to be a TV commercial.
At the first audition, 16-year-old Hou Xiangting was 17 meters, but no experience in advertising.
Hou Xiangting didn't know how to behave. The director asked her to turn slowly in front of the camera, and Hou Xiangting turned very slowly. The director told her to turn a little faster, and she turned very fast.
After the transfer was completed, the director told her that your mother can go out.
Hou Xiangting has never left her mother's side since she was a child, and she almost cried when she heard this.
There were only the director and Hou Xiangting in the conference room. The director said you have to count from one to ten with a sad face. Hou Xiangting didn't understand the director's intentions, so she relied on her own understanding to perform. After the performance, she was very nervous and her whole body was shaking.
After the audition on the same day, I returned to Taiwan and received my admission in the afternoon**.
At that time, the reason why Hou Xiangting was able to stand out from the many models was because the age range of this role was 16 to 26 years old. The models interviewed at the time had been working for some time, and it wasn't easy to impersonate students again. Hou Xiangting is 16 years old. She was young, beautiful, and innocent. She was indeed a student, so there was no need to pretend.
On the set, Hou Xiangting met the handsome young Li Ming for the first time. She thinks he's as handsome as he is on TV, but even more attractive off the screen. The king-level star has no shelf, and he took good care of her during the filming.
Since Hou Xiangting was indeed inexperienced, the entire ad took a week to shoot. It took an afternoon to shoot just the action of turning around and walking, and many scenes were filmed with Lai Ming.
It was the flower season of love, and Hou Xiangting was very fond of Li Ming. After the shooting, Hou Xiangting felt very lonely. It's been a week together, and she really doesn't want to leave, and she's sad for days.
Hou Xiangting, who had just finished filming an advertisement, didn't have time to be sad for too long. Soon she participated in the "Freshman Card Wars" competition held by MTV**. In the preliminaries, Hou Xiangting sang very well, surpassing Jay Chou who participated at that time. Yao Qian, who was the owner of Virgin Records at the time, was optimistic about her and was ready to sign her.
But in the final, she did not perform well and finished sixth. The champion at that time was Jolin Tsai, and Maggie Jiang finished fourth.
Hou Xiangting didn't take it seriously, because she felt that she was destined not to pursue an acting career, because she didn't necessarily have the idea of becoming an artist at that time. Subsequently, Yao Qian went home, hoping to sign Hou Xiangting, but Hou Xiangting still didn't believe it. She thought to herself, you are Yao Qian, I am Li Minle, and then she gave her mobile phone to her parents.
Unexpectedly, Yao Qian's ** changed Hou Xiangting's life and fate.
* Before the release, the company arranged a mobile phone advertisement for her to cooperate with the king-level singer Ren Xianqi, and of course, Qian Weishan, who has not yet starred in "Meteor Garden".
This is the first commercial in Taiwan with a storyline. This series of ads is divided into three episodes. At the end of each episode, an online vote will be held to decide whether Ren Xianqi will choose "Linda" played by Qian Weishan or "Anqi" played by Hou Xiangting as his girlfriend. 。
As soon as the ad aired, millions of people** caused a sensation. The two were evenly matched. Ms. Hou became famous for the ad, but she was also criticized.
Everyone is talking about her appearance, thinking she's not pretty enough and picking on her jagged teeth. The overwhelming discussion is extremely harmful to a fifteen or sixteen-year-old child who has never been involved in the entertainment industry.
It just so happened that the brokerage company was ready to make a ** for Hou Xiangting, but it was questioned by many people. Everyone thinks that Hou Xiangting's advertising is successful, but it is unreliable.
With a skeptical attitude, everyone bought Hou Xiangting's first ** "Do You Love Me? Hou Xiangting's innocent image and her ability to sing love songs full of strong emotions quickly silenced those who doubted her. She quickly became popular in Taiwan and became a new generation of "boy killers".
Immediately afterwards, she published two more ** "Hou Xiangting", "Love Journey", "Ambiguous", "Cold War", "Don't Come in Autumn", "I Am a Fish", "I Love You", "So Much" and other classic singles, which are deeply loved by people.
is not only Hou Xiangting, but also Xiao Yaxuan and Jiang Meiqi, who joined Virgin in the same year. Together, they are known as the "** Trio" and have done extraordinary things for Virgin Records.
Viking boss Yao Qian boldly supports the new singer and creates as many possibilities as possible. For example, Jiang Meiqi's title song "Will You Change" was composed by Hong Kong pop ** Chen Huiyang, Hou Xiangting's title song "Don't Come in Autumn" invited Wu Sikai to compose, the third ** "The Story of the Autumn Queen" was composed by Lin Yifeng, and Xiao Yaxuan's "The Most Familiar Stranger" was composed by Xiao Ke.
Just when Hou Xiangting's career was in full swing, she met Long Chenhan, who was filming a TV series with her. Long Chenhan looks average, and he is also very good at chasing girls.
In 1999, he dated Xiao Yaxuan, who had just entered the entertainment industry. Because Xiao Yaxuan often went out to record, he felt empty in his heart. He actually used the filming of "Sunshine Jelly" and "Moonlight Forest" to find an opportunity to get close to Hou Xiangting.
While hooking up with Xiao Yaxuan, he also fell in love with Hou Xiangting. At that time, Xiao Yaxuan was also very innocent, and publicly admitted to the public that Long Chenhan was her first boyfriend. But at this time, listening to Long Chenhan's sweet words, Hou Xiangting had already fallen in love.
One day in 2002, Xiao Yaxuan blocked Long Chenhan and Hou Xiangting in the room, exposed his bad behavior on the spot, and decisively broke up with Long Chenhan.
After learning the truth, Hou Xiangting didn't want to be entangled with the scumbag anymore, and it didn't take long for the two to break up in a low-key manner.
At that time, Hou Xiangting, who had a smooth debut, still had time to fall in love. She didn't realize how brutal the competition and elimination of record labels was.
As a "Viking Three", Xiao Yaxuan's first ** "The Most Familiar Stranger" was a big hit, and the second ** "Red Rose" also continued to be a hit, making Xiao Yaxuan firmly among the first-line singers.
Although Jiang Meiqi's first ** "I Love Faye Wong" was an instant hit and was temporarily in the first echelon, her second ** "Second Sight Beauty" did not grow at all and became a second-tier singer. The company decided that if the sales of the third** were less than 100,000 copies, they would be fired.
Although Hou Xiangting once entered the top ten in annual sales and had a large number of high-quality love songs, the sales of her last two ** albums were sluggish, and record companies were no longer willing to spend money to support her, forcing her to pursue a career in the film and television industry.
After switching to TV series, Hou Xiangting's debut as a singer did not go well. Instead, she was asked to be stricter and announce earlier.
Hou Xiangting has a straightforward personality, and she has to say anything if she can't stand it, which makes her offend many people.
On set, the cinematographer has to carry a heavy camera, and the makeup artist has to put on everyone's makeup early. Everyone worked very hard. Hou Xiangting saw it, but the director didn't care. She did nothing herself and did not help others. Some delicious food, but once everyone was ordered a low-quality lunch box, Hou Xiangting began to argue with the executioner.
As a result, the child is very difficult to deal with. When it was time to announce the execution time, she made an appointment very early, came early and returned late, so she was punished very badly later.
Hou Xiangting was only 20 years old at the time. Later, after working for a long time, she understood.
After becoming famous, Hou Xiangting sang and acted in TV series. She plays the image of an innocent, well-educated good girl. She participated in "Sunshine Jelly", "Moonlight Forest" and "Sweet Lemon Love", but the roles were all the same. His acting skills have been criticized.
Slowly, the company began to turn her attention to comedy and. For example, in the TV series "Diary of Desire of a Mature Woman", she acted with four girls including Yang Jinhua, mainly responsible for comedy. In order to enhance the effect, she asked the director to make herself as ugly as possible, and she also wore braces, which made the photographer laugh and couldn't stop shooting.
She felt very enjoyable, thinking that she could film without singing, and tried a variety of performance methods to subvert her image.
However, the company considered her results to be mediocre. In order to win attention, the company even arranged for her to take the ** route, shoot a series of large-scale photos, and even perform ** scenes in the play. When Hou Xiangting saw her work, she couldn't believe it. , said: "It's over, my parents died when they saw it." ”
After several setbacks, Hou Xiangting still failed to recover her declining career. The new ** miscarried, and he was so stressed that he couldn't eat. He often suffers from insomnia. In order to survive, he was reduced to Beijing to play a supporting role in a point and stage play.
Later, the brokerage company even withdrew the assistant, and Hou Xiangting finally couldn't bear it anymore.
In the middle of the night, she cried and called her agent Amy, Sister Amy, do you agree with Yanzi (her assistant) to resign? What happened? Why are you hurting me? I can't live anymore. She said, after speaking, hang up **, and you will never be able to contact her again.
At that point, she no longer trusted her agent, nor her parents. The agent was frightened and did not expect these changes, which made her unbearable and almost collapsed.
Later, a friend found her and took her to a psychiatrist. The doctor said she was overly anxious, suffering from depression and recommended medication**. But friends said that when he got depression, he became stupid when he took medicine. Hou Xiangting thinks that she has been scolded as stupid since her debut, and she doesn't dare to take medicine anymore. At the persuasion of my parents, I took a three-month leave and returned to my parents in Taiwan.
I also went to Toronto, basking in the sun, drinking coffee, and not thinking about anything.
Over the course of these three months, she looked back on her past experiences and found that her previous life was full of work, which she felt was the most important thing. When something goes wrong in your career and no one acknowledges it, your friends and family are the ones who care and understand you the most. Therefore, friends and family are also very important in life.
Subsequently, agent Amy said in tears that in the entertainment industry, there are few girls as simple as Hou Xiangting. She doesn't fit into the entertainment industry and feels powerless.
Hou Xiangting also understands that in order to become famous, Hong Kong and Taiwan artists will engage in scandals, exposing their clothes and pants. But for Hou Xiangting, she can't accept this, she would rather do it silently.
But in fact, Amy once told her that it wasn't the best. And Hou Xiangting is very naïve and doesn't know how to please the big boss.
After three months of adjustment, Hou Xiangting's face showed a smile again.
In the winter of 2007, after Hou Xiangting performed the stage play "Dream of Red Mansions" in Beijing, she looked at the snowflakes outside the window and made up her mind to study in the United States.
During her study abroad, she met Yang Mengxue, the grandson of the boss of the Giant Group. The two didn't know each other's identities at first, but they learned each other's identities after feeling very attached.
After dating for a few years, the two officially got married in 2013. However, after marriage, Hou Xiangting did not focus on being a **. Instead, she re-studied her profession, worked in the network, and earned money by her own efforts.
In 2014, she gave birth to a daughter (Audrey) and later a son.
Hou Xiangting, who had washed away her beauty, returned to Taiwan to visit relatives again. She has a good figure, is still young, and met her former good sister Jiang Meiqi.
Hou Xiangting does not have any squeamishness towards a young lady. The whole family chooses public transportation when they go out.
If there is traffic, it will be supported, and if there is no traffic, it will be abandoned. The entertainment industry is a relatively realistic society. To be able to mix well, you need resources and a willingness to work hard. Hou Xiangting has a simple personality. I felt sorry for it at the time. But now, after experiencing the glory of the entertainment industry, she has left good songs to the public, and now living a plain and happy life should be the best choice.