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Coming to Sing in Dalian for the First Time
Eason Chen’s Concert Shocking the Coastal City
Written by Wang Xiaoyu and photographed by Jin Jialin from Dalian Evening News
He has taken the last bus in the golden age in the music circle in Hongkong. He is determined by the management as the successor of Zhang Xueyou who is called the “Song of God” in Universal Music Group. However, at the same time, he is also a sheer money printer in the music circle who operates overloaded and will “retire” as it has been being crazily rumored recently——he is Eason Chen Yixun. For nearly 20 years since he became successful, Chen Yixun has released 40 plus various albums and opened hundreds of concerts. His voice seems to have a special magic power, which is either full of vicissitudes or deep feelings or surreptitious or pure. The ears of people of any age can be caught by him. On the first day of Mid-autumn Festival Holiday, he came to the coastal city for the first time and opened a new station of his concert tour in the Stadium of Dalian Sports Center. This is a day that the fans of Dalian have been looking forward to for a long time.
Accompanied by the yelling fans, the concert started formally at 7:00pm on Sep. 6. It was not completely dark. Chen Yixun appeared on the stage punctually and opened the curtain of the whole concert with a song called The Varicoloured World.
It may be said that the songs for this concert were created elaborately. In addition to such classic songs as Your Knapsack, Under Mount Fuji, Ten Years, etc., such songs Years like a Song, Road is Always There, etc. which stick to the subject were also highly welcomed by the fans. Eason chose specially the Music of Era, which is a piece of work at the beginning of his debut. He sang as he played guitar. Besides, the concert had also chosen such new songs which had been being sung broadly by Eason in recent years as Light-Saber Mix, Heavy Taste, etc., including the Amusement Sky in the latest album Rice•Shine. As Chen Yixun’s performance tour in the latest season, the stage design, lighting, clothing and dancing this time were the most breakthrough in history. In the concert, Chen Yixun showed joyfully that this was the first time he came to Dalian and he liked Dalian and the fans of Dalian very much. Chen Yixun said that a lot of Mainland fans might be more familiar with his Mandarin songs. He also thought if he should put more Mandarin songs in the list of songs. However, later he determined to insist on his original intention. This is the best persistence of a singer in music.
Chen Yixun said in receiving an interview that a lot of people asked why he said nothing in concert. He answered that lyrics themselves helped me tell stories. Chen Yixun showed that the
