“National Treasure Song King” Wen Xia passed away in his sleep last night due to organ failure. He was 94 years old. The Taiwan Quality Life Association said that at present, Wen Xia is generally buried in a Christian ceremony, without a mourning hall, and a farewell date. To be ordered.
Wen Xia, whose real name is Wang Ruihe, was born in Tainan in 1928. When he was in the second grade of Tainan High Business School (1949), he composed his first Taiwanese composition “Daughter of the Waves”. He also began to form an orchestra to perform in Tainan. In 1956, he collaborated with Tainan Asia The record co-recorded and recorded the record, which was the most popular Taiwanese singer at that time, and was known as the King of Songs on the Island.
In 1961, they formed the Wen Xia Four Sisters Band, which is also the earliest popular band in Taiwan. In 1962, the performance of the Taiwanese film “Taipei Night” caused a sensation, and even started a singing craze that accompanied the film. From 1962 to 1972, he successively made 11 Taiwanese films. In the movie, Wen Xia is also the most active singer in the history of Taiwanese music. In 2017, he held a concert at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall at the age of 90. He has recorded more than 1,200 Taiwanese songs. Representative songs include “Mom, Please Take Care of You”, ” Hometown at Dusk,” “Mother, I’m Really Brave”, “Daughter in the Waves”, “Eighteen Girls”, “The Stars Know My Heart”, “Goodbye, Hong Kong”, etc. In 2012, he won the Special Contribution Award of the 23rd Pop Music Golden Melody Award, and in 2020, he won the Special Award of the 24th Taipei Culture Award.
Wen Xia actively devotes himself to public welfare, and even held the Love Inheritance and Care concert in July 2019, and specially made his wonderful life story into the musical musical “Bunk’s Musical First Time – Hear Wen Xia for the First Time”, hoping to bring his life through the perseverance of the wind and waves. Encourage the general public and disadvantaged social welfare friends.
