[No Heroines] [Music-Focused]
On the first night that Lin Zhou, a down-and-out bar singer, bonded with the [Entertainment Master System], one performance of “Chengdu” was all it took to keep an entire street awake in the rainy night.
When companies came swarming in, waving contracts, he slung his guitar over his back and said, “Don't rush me. Let me sing this song first for the people who need to hear it.”
And so he sang “The Brightest Star in the Night Sky” on the last subway train and “Those Flowers” on rooftops. He lent his voice to Chinese animation, sang for the world of anime and games, and secured a place for himself in film and television soundtracks around the world.
There was no face-slapping comeback story, only the gentle ripples left behind when his songs touched people's hearts.
Some called him the greatest musician of the age; others said he had ushered in a new era. When people asked what had brought him this far, he pressed a piano key and said, “Maybe it's because every song I sing is rooted in humanity.”
