This article is from 61 WeChat Highway (ID: Highway061) by Lillian.
When the public talks about independent music in Nanjing, including LiLian, the first thing that comes to mind must be Li Zhi. In a certain sense, Li Zhi has become a conformity and symbol of Nanjing's independent music, and has become the best musician in nanjing in the eyes of the public.
However, there is a person who does not think so, he frankly said: "Some people say that Li Zhi can represent Nanjing, I think, first, Li Zhi's influence on the atmosphere of nanjing is very large, first of all, thank him, second, I do not think he can represent Nanjing, of course, I can't, no one can represent." ”
This person's name is Weng Dahan, a post-90s independent musician stationed in Nanjing.
In high school, Weng Dahan determined his dream of music, and when he expressed to his parents that he wanted to enter the conservatory, he got two words from his parents - no way. For his fathers, a harmonious family and a stable job are the most perfect trajectory in life, but Weng Dahan is not satisfied with these, when he was young, he seemed to be fearless, he only knew that he loved music, he should do something for music.
In his sophomore year of high school, Weng Dahan used the 200 yuan he had secretly saved to buy a guitar, and from then on, the cheap musical instrument became his entire life's faith. Whenever he returned from class and was quiet in the middle of the night, Weng Dahan sat in his room, gently plucking the strings, and the melodious sound of the piano was like water across the quiet night, and the manic teenager was soothed and impressed by the music one night after another.
In the year of the college entrance examination, Weng Dahan, who was devoted to music, unexpectedly failed, and when he was young, he obeyed the arrangement of his family and entered the Railway College in Pukou, Nanjing, only because his family thought that this major could find a stable job after graduation. But how could the restless teenager submit to such a long-planned arrangement, he secretly planned in his heart, he wanted to be friends with the best musicians in the city, he wanted to form a band, he wanted to do rock, he wanted to let the whole world hear his music.
In this way, Weng Dahan came to Nanjing with his 200 yuan guitar on his back. Like the plot of all martial arts novels, the pretentious little apprentice descended the mountain, delusionally trying to laugh at him, but he suffered a lot.
In his freshman year, Weng Dahan carried a guitar to nanjing at night in one bar after another, trying to make friends with his predecessors and enter the Nanjing music circle. However, contrary to their wishes, no one wants to spend time on a hairy boy who does not understand the world, and his music is regarded as garbage that is not worth mentioning.
The parents' incomprehension and the professionals' doubts overwhelmed Weng Dahan, and the young and crazy him quickly became discouraged, becoming silent, inferior, decadent, and irritable, shutting himself in the bedroom all day, playing guitar day after day, singing, and not communicating with the outside world.
By chance, Weng Dahan stepped on the stage of the school, and after singing a song, he quickly became popular and became a celebrity of the school, becoming a "campus singer" sought after by the students, and this experience made Weng Dahan regain confidence. At this time, he was no longer the naïve self he had experienced, and he clearly realized that the scenery of the school was only the surface, and immersed in this joy was destined to become only a frog at the bottom of the well.
After graduation, Weng Dahan entered the Nanjing Metro Company as his family wished, and began to work nine to five during the day, but running on the road to various performances at night.
At the beginning, no bar was willing to ask him, and he had no choice but to take some commercial performances, and take advantage of the free time to go to the bar while mixing his face and learning. Slowly, everyone was touched by this stubborn young man's passion for music and became friends with him.
No one knows that in Weng Dahan's mind at that time, a secret big plan has quietly begun - he wants to make a personal album.
With the contacts accumulated in Nanjing over the past few years, Weng Dahan gathered a team of 17 people, which lasted 7 months, and finally completed the production of his debut album. In this process, he experienced nearly a hundred rehearsals and recordings, and experienced family obstruction and incomprehension. In the 7 months of making the album upside down, he and his wife and children only met 5 times, and they owed tens of thousands of yuan in debt, which did not stop him, and at that time, only music was left in his heart.
On November 20, 2015, Backpacker finally appeared in front of us. As an album, it may have many shortcomings, but it comes from the sincerity of a man who loves music, from the truest life of a man who stubbornly chases dreams.
The first album has just been produced, and Weng Dahan began to prepare for the recording of the second album in February this year. At this time, a thunderbolt fell on his head on a sunny day, and Grandpa died.
Before leaving, Grandpa only left one sentence, "Spend more time with your wife and children, and work well." The filial piety Weng Dahan nodded in agreement with tears. After the man's words, after handling his grandfather's funeral, Weng Dahan really returned to the Nanjing subway. He rented a house in Jiangning, took his mother, wife and children to Nanjing, secretly wrote songs in the men's locker room during the day, and went to the bar alone at night to work.
Despite the urgency of life, Weng Dahan did not give up, he insisted on singing, insisting on being with his family. The song "White Lotus" written to Grandpa in the new album has exceeded 999+ on NetEase Cloud.
Maybe you are still unfamiliar with Weng Dahan's name, or maybe you don't know which songs he sang, but he will definitely let you see how his dreams are realized step by step.
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