Rowena Cortes's awards and honors

1963,65438+10/3, Rowena Cortes was born in Hongkong. Influenced by her family, she had a musical talent since she was a child and began to sing at the age of two.

1968, five-year-old Rowena Cortes took part in a talent contest hosted by English Star in Hong Kong City Hall. Out of 50 points, she scored 49 points, beating all the adult contestants. She won the prize in the first public performance and won the "solo group champion". The prizes are "vauxhall Viva RV" and "Sony TC- 100 recorder, Revlon cosmetics and perfume prizes". Chen Qiaoen (Chen Ren, a disc jockey) of the same age didn't make it into the top three, and she has always been bitter about losing to this little sister. Rowena Cortes wore a short skirt with a horizontal collar on the stage, revealing lovely lace shorts and two bows on her head. Although he misspelled it slightly, he sang jazz as soon as he got on the road, with full charm and "sophisticated" movements. In addition, the band of Sanhao and Guan won the second place. . Rowena Cortes's song lingers in my mind, and my little sister sang it into a jazz version. This led to the record company's contract, which was later "EMI &；; Columbia is her first 7-disc "Very, Very/You Can Have Him", which contains two songs written for her by the famous Filipino musician Vic cristobal in 1960s. This record was a best seller of that year, and it has long been out of print. Up to now, it has become a rare disc that few people care about. It is said that I was too young at that time, so I didn't return until 1975.

1969, she appeared on the old radio program "Star Show", which is an all-English Pearl TV program hosted by Samuel Hui and Lotus Band. At that time, Rowena Cortes was a 6-year-old little sister whose full name was "Rowena Ellen Cortez", and Samuel Hui often hugged her. Because she is very good at singing, she often sings live on the show, especially at Christmas. At this time, Rowena Cortes had just celebrated her 6th birthday. It is reported that although she was busy performing during Christmas, it did not affect her studies, and she was the first in the kindergarten class. Rowena Cortes studied in the famous Sao Paulo Middle School from kindergarten to middle school. She sang while reading a book.

1974, Rowena Cortes, aged1/kloc-0, participated in the "Hong Kong Pop Song Creation Invitational Tournament" for the first time and won the fifth place that year. The winner of that year was Xiao Ha Ha, composed by Gu Jiahui and sung by Sandra Long.

1975, Rowena Cortes participated in the "Hong Kong Pop Song Creation Invitational Tournament" for the second time. She performed the works of Andy Bautista, her second brother-in-law, but at the age of 12, she was defeated by Chen Qiuxia (champion) and Anders Nelsson (Anders Nelsson), won the third place and officially returned to the music scene. Also let more viewers notice her.

1September, 1976 16, Rowena Cortes, who was only 13 years old, participated in the "Hong Kong Pop Song Creation Invitational Tournament" held by TVB for the third time. This time, she sang with her tender and beautiful face, clean and sweet voice and mature works, also from her second brother-in-law, Andy Bautista. It was immediately favored by the studio record company at that time, and recorded three English albums for it in just two years.

1September 1976, Rowena Cortes's first English album "Rowena Cortes" was released. In the records, dolly parton's Zhuo Lin, Janis Ian's Seventeen, smokey robinson's Shop Around, etc ... were covered, which made them popular immediately. This album also quickly broke the sales of gold records and won the radio broadcasting championship.

June 1976, June 165438+ 10/9, Rowena Cortes, 13 years old, represented Hong Kong in the 7th World Pop Song Festival held in Tokyo budokan, and participated in the song "Youdao". This time, Rowena Cortes stopped in the semi-finals and failed to enter the final. However, her outstanding performance at the World Folk Music Festival has aroused widespread concern, which has made her appreciated by Japanese record companies and given her the opportunity to launch records in Japan.

1At the end of 976, Rowena Cortes's second English album "No More Little Baby" was released, with many popular songs. Like the first album, "No More Baby" quickly broke the gold record sales in a short time.

June 1977 and June 1 won the "Best Performance Award of the Year" in Hong Kong music industry.

On March 25th, 1977, Rowena Cortes's English albums "Rowena Cortes" and "No More Little Baby" won two gold record awards at the first Hong Kong IFPI Gold Record Awards Ceremony held at the Hong Kong Theatre. Become the youngest winner in the history of the Golden Record Award (14 years old). She sang Jolene and Stupid Cupid twice. That night, * * * presented 16 local gold records, among which Du Lisha was the most popular and won three gold records. Rowena Cortes, Paula Tsui and Winners ranked second with two gold medals respectively. Chen Qiuxia, Teresa Teng, Samuel Hui, Wang Mingquan & , Zheng,&; Jia, The soundtrack of the movie and The Collection of Duo Li Duo Singers each won a gold record award. Samuel Hui finally won the "Special Award"-"Centennial Award".

1977 In April, Rowena Cortes released 1 EP: Beautiful Mary under Toshiba EMI/Express in Japan, and recorded the CD for the first time in Japan.

1June, 977, Rowena Cortes launched the second EP: ぁのね ("Anone") under the Japanese "Toshiba EMI/Express", and the CD continued to sell well, but this one "Anone".

In June 1977 and June 165438+ 10, Rowena Cortes was invited as the semi-final guest of the 8th Japanese budokan World Ballad Festival on June 12. Her first Japanese album "Oh, My Love" was released in Hong Kong and Japan at the same time and sold well. The song "Wedding in June" made her remembered by Japanese music circles.

/kloc-at the end of 0/977, it released its third English album, Sweet Fairy, in Hong Kong. The record received enthusiastic response.

1978 At the beginning of this year, Rowena Cortes won the Japanese "Best Newcomer of the Year Award".

1978 and 65438+ 10 launched the third EP: "A Silver Ring" owned by Toshiba EMI/Express in Japan, which sold well. The Silver Ring has also become a famous ballad in the Showa period.

1978, 15-year-old Rowena Cortes starred in his first film, idolize directed by John Woo, which ranked third at the box office among more than 400 films released in Hong Kong that year. The theme song and interlude of the film are blossoming flowers and Who Would Have Thought, with Rowena Cortes as the lead singer, which are also her first two Cantonese songs. Among them, "Happy Flowers" and "Who Can Predict" were also the top radio hit songs of that year.

1978165438+1October, Rowena Cortes participated in the 9th Japanese Budokan World Folk Festival on behalf of the United States, which was her third time to participate in the competition. The entry track was "In the Morning" specially composed for her by elton john, a famous British and American musician. This song helped Rowena Cortes enter the finals of the world's top singers in June 165438+ 10/2. 18 finals ranking 13. Chen Jieling (1979 ranked third) is the best achievement of Hong Kong singers. Over the years, only she, Sandra (1974 ranking 16) and Rowena Cortes entered the grand finals, and others (including Betty Chung, Danny Diaz, Ye Liyi, Baby Karmelita, Chen Qiuxia and Eddie Vaz). I remember elton john praising Rowena Cortes's good voice and promising future. Make her the Asian version of Olivia Newton-John.

From 65438 to 0979, Rowena Cortes won the "Most Potential Newcomer Award" (also known as the "Silver Star Award") together with Leslie Cheung and Chen Meiling. In the same year, after graduating from the prestigious Sao Paulo Girls' High School, she obtained an American green card and planned to study in the United States. However, the radio station tried its best to stay, threatening that there would be many opportunities and it would also support Rowena Cortes. Later, in 1984, Rowena Cortes won the "Senior Citizen Card" (Radio Long Service Award) at the age of 2 1, which has always been a joke of colleagues in Happy Tonight.

198 1 year, TVB Radio released a set of youth short play "Bean Dream", starring Weng Jingjing, in which Rowena Cortes also played the heroine and sang the theme song "Bean Dream" composed by Anders Nelsson (Anders Nelsson). This song was very popular with the audience after it came out and became a popular work in the street. This laid the foundation for Rowena Cortes to continue singing canto pop in the future.

1982, Rowena Cortes was appreciated by the famous composer Artie Davies. In February, he was invited to attend the Vina del Mar International Song Concert in Chile (this is the most famous activity in Latin music, where Ricky Martin and the love song prince Julio became famous. Every year, 350,000 fans flock to Vi? a del Mar, a coastal city in Chile, to sing and dance with Latin singers from America, Argentina and Spain. At that time, Rowena Cortes, who was only 19 years old, won the third place in "Vi? a del Mar International Music Festival in Chile" for her first Cantonese album "Youth 1000 Days". She was applauded by other singers and bands on the same stage and hundreds of thousands of live audiences, and was interviewed by Chilean national television.

1982, Leiji Matsumoto's first classic Cantonese album "Youth1000th Day" included animated TV series songs "Millennium Queen" and "Legend", which became an instant hit, became Rowena Cortes's first masterpiece, was one of her most familiar and familiar tracks, and was a classic melody lingering in many people's memories.

1983, "Eyebrows Together" won the Best Movie Theme Award (the first prize) in the second Hong Kong Film Awards, beating the nominated rival "Best Partner", Alan Tam's "Goddess of Love", "Little Fear" and Lei Anna's "Colorful Clouds" in one fell swoop, becoming the first singer to win this honor. In addition to Rowena's proper singing, singing and harmony, Lin Zhenqiang, the ghost horse master, also contributed.

1982- 1985, Rowena Cortes mainly performed on the stage and sang in southeast Asia.

1In April, 985, her second Cantonese album "Sarah I Love Him" came out and sold well. Among them, Sarah La in the Rain and Wandering Love became hot works, and two songs were nominated by 1985 Jade Pure Gold in the second season, among which Sarah La in the Rain also broke into the second place in the Chinese song list of Radio Television Hong Kong.

1985, in the same year, Sarah La in Unsafe Zone/Rain was released in limited edition.

1987, Rowena Cortes's last album "87' Rowena Cortes" came out and sold well. Among them, the songs "Phone Number in the Palm" and "Spark of Love" were nominated in the 1987 Top Ten Emerald Pure Gold Season, which became an instant hit. At the Polaroid15th Anniversary Concert, Rowena Cortes performed "Spark of Love" which is still talked about by many fans.

1987, Rowena Cortes quit the music scene and never came back.

1989, Rowena Cortes married the famous photographer Sam Wang and gave birth to his son Wang Lujiang the following year.

1995, Rowena Cortes divorced Sam Huang.

At the end of June 5438+ 10, 2009, at the concert held by Jia in Hong Kong Cultural Center, he suddenly sang with mysterious guests after 22 years away from the music scene, causing a sensation.

August 20 10, recorded a new song for Xinyibao, and sang "Talking about Men and Talking about Women" with Eason Chan. This song topped many important music charts and broke into the annual general selection of several music activities. Singing until the street knows the smell, it is a smash hit. The number of hits on Youtube exceeded 50,000 on the first day (now it has exceeded 300,000). Many post-80s and post-90s also know and like Rowena Cortes, bringing many new fans. Later, he was a guest performer at a concert in Eason Chan and Macau.

20 10, 10 won the Best Award Ceremony of New Town 20 10 and the Best Chorus Song Award in February-< <; Talking about Men and Women >> (Eason Chan/Rowena Cortes)

20 1 1 year 1 1 month, at the invitation of Zheng Danrui and Lin Shanshan, he became the guest performer of Thirty Immortals. Sing the classic hit "Legend" again, and let the audience clap their hands and cheer constantly. In the meantime, I was moved by the enthusiasm of the audience several times and choked up.

20 1 1 year, Rowena Cortes met Perry Martin, a famous British musician and writer whom he hadn't seen for 30 years, and found that the other party had a crush on him in those years. Then they both fell in love, and they were very in tune, and developed a fairy tale love of bean sprouts. It is predestined that we can meet thousands of miles away. A chance meeting in Anders Nelsson and the United States brought two old friends together. Wan Li, 30 years apart.

20 12 On July 23rd, Rowena Cortes, Perry Martin and Anders Nelsson (Anders Nelsson) sang this romantic story in Albert Au's program "Reunion of 2000 Beautiful Songs", which was very touching. The live effect is amazing!

20 12 On August 4th, 49-year-old Rowena Cortes and Perry Martin, a well-known British musician and writer boyfriend, made a guest appearance in Anders Nelsson and Sabrina's Always Listening to Classic English Songs. They sang the song I Can, which was composed for Rowena by Perry 3 1 years ago-1years ago. At the same time, Perry Martin suddenly proposed to his girlfriend on the stage, which moved Rowena Cortes to tears. With the warm blessing of the audience, Perry Martin proposed successfully, and concert producer Gao Zhisen sent flowers to congratulate her. The fate of being late for 3 1 year finally has a happy ending.

Rowena Cortes, a rare all-round singer, is beautiful, with first-class singing skills, good timbre, accurate articulation, good fast and slow singing area, natural emotions, fluency and no affectation!