Hu Meifang

Hu Meifang

Hu Meifang (1926-2009), a Japanese Chinese singer, was originally named Hu chaozi. He was born in Hainan city, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan in 1926. Hu Meifang entered the singing world in 1952 and became popular again in Japan with such Chinese Golden Songs as "the fragrance of the night" and "when will you come again".

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Hu Meifang (1926-2009), a Japanese Chinese singer, was originally named Hu chaozi. He was born in Hainan city, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan in 1926. In 1952, Hu Meijun came back to sing Chinese songs in Japan. After believing in Christianity in 1974, she was active in churches and welfare facilities around Japan as a "gospel singer".

Life of the characters

Born in 1926 in Hainan city, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, the father is Chinese, the mother is Japanese. In 1941, for fear of being treated as a Chinese spy by the Japanese government, his family moved back to Shanghai from Japan. In 1943, Hu Meifang entered the Japanese run Beijing art school, began to learn vocal music and performance, often went to some famous dance halls to sing, and recorded several records in the record company, but the response was not big, so she did not squeeze into the ranks of Shanghai Red singers. After the war, Hu Meifang's family was accused by the Chinese government of being a Japanese spy and persecuted. They were not free until they were identified as Chinese. Because her mother didn't want to go back to Japan, Hu Meifang and the Japanese went to Japan alone in the name of fake marriage in 1945, and soon formally joined the Japanese nationality. After she became a singer in 1952, she was born with a better voice after professional vocal training. She covered many songs of Li Xianglan and Du Bizi, among which "the fragrance of the night" and "when will you come again" were popular for a while, and her popularity was as famous as Li Xianglan and Du Bizi. She also participated in many films such as "Shanghai, woman" and "the ghost of the gendarmerie". Later, Hu Meifang went to EMI records and recorded many singles, such as "women's heart", and became the only early Chinese pop star in Japan. In 1974, Hu Meifang began to believe in Christianity. As an evangelical singer, she sang in the facilities of churches and welfare institutions all over Japan and was well received. In 1978, he returned to Shanghai, China to visit his relatives and met his relatives who had been away for nearly 34 years. since 2006, Hu Meifang has been hospitalized frequently due to illness, and in fact quit the Japanese performing arts industry.

Death

On November 7, 2009, he died at 0:28 in a hospital in motita District, Tokyo. He was 82 years old. The farewell ceremony will be held at 11 a.m. on the 13th at the Lizhu guild hall in Shinagawa District, Tokyo, with his eldest son, Shinzo Nishida, as the mourner.