In 2011, a song "In the Spring" brought "Rising Sun Masculine" to the Spring Festival Gala stage, and they used this song to impress countless audiences and earn a lot of money.
Wang Feng, the original singer of "In the Spring", also took advantage of this to make a fire, he once publicly praised the masculinity of the rising sun, and also called them brothers and brothers.
However, it was not long before Wang Fengming forbade "Rising Sun Masculinity" to sing "In the Spring" again, and this "grassroots group" that was popular all over the country also disappeared.
So how did they offend Wang Feng, the demise of the rising sun and masculinity, just because of "In the Spring"?
1. Overnight fame as a "migrant singer"
Wang Xu was born in Xi'an in 1966 to a maintenance worker at a civil airport and a mother with three children.
When Wang Xu was 3 years old, his father died unexpectedly, and his mother could only return to Shangqiu's hometown with three children to farm.
The mother supported three children on the meager income from farming, and the family of four was very poor, and filling the stomach was a big problem.
Accustomed to living in poverty, Wang Xu did not have any lofty ideals, and after graduating from junior high school, he began to help his mother cultivate the land, as if he had seen through his entire life at a glance.
In her spare time, her mother would tell Wang Xu about her father, and sing two northern Shaanxi folk songs by the way, and over time Wang Xu also loved to roar a few words, becoming a child who loved to sing.
When he was 22 years old, a song and dance troupe came to the village to perform, and Wang Xu felt that they were not as good as himself, and immediately showed his singing voice on the stage.
A song "About Winter" surprised Wang Xuyan, and the leader of the troupe admired his talent and wanted to recruit him into the song and dance troupe. Wang Xu refused the invitation, but the words of the regiment leader touched him deeply and aroused his yearning for the outside world.
Not long after, Wang Xu packed up his bags and went out to work, and his first stop was Shaanxi, which his mother never forgot. Subsequently, Wang Xu traveled to several cities, left home to work outside the home for more than ten years, and finally came to Beijing in the millennium.
In Beijing, Wang Xu has done all kinds of work, starting with firing boilers for people, later setting up stalls, and also working as a warehouse manager. In his spare time, Wang Xu went to the underground passage to sell singing, first, he liked to sing, and second, he could earn more extra money.
Unexpectedly, he met the like-minded Liu Gang here, and he also rewrote his fate.
Liu Gang was born in 1981 in a small mountain village in Heilongjiang. As a teenager, Liu Gang went to Shenyang for military service and worked as a prison guard during his military service.
His life in the army was very unforgettable, and he got along very well with his comrades-in-arms, often showing his voice and attracting bursts of applause.
After retiring from the army, Liu Gang missed the life of the army very much, and he did not want to stay in his hometown, so he ran to Beijing to work.
However, life in Beijing is far from being as good as imagined, and Liu Gang can't find a suitable job and often sleeps on the street hungry.
Once, Liu Gang slept under the bridge hole, looked at the wandering artists on the street and decided to sell songs. Liu Gang's singing voice attracted many people, and he also met his good brother Wang Xu.
Wang Xu has a formal job as a warehouse manager, selling singing is just a side business, Liu Gang has no place to live, and Wang Xu also took Liu Gang to his rental house.
In 2010, Wang Xu and Liu Gang sang their best song "In the Spring", and recorded it on their mobile phones and posted it online.
Unexpectedly, this inadvertent move made the two quickly popular on the Internet. Many brokerage companies called them and wanted to sign contracts with them and package them as influencers.
Not long after, they received a call from the "Avenue of Stars" program group, to know that as a well-known variety show on CCTV, "Avenue of Stars" won the "Phoenix Legend" and many other stars.
Therefore, they decided to emulate the Legend of the Phoenix, formed the "Rising Sun Masculine" with their names, and immediately stepped onto the stage of the Walk of Fame.
Surprisingly, this combination won the third place in the competition under the name of "grassroots" and also got the opportunity to appear on the Spring Festival Gala.
On the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, Wang Xu's powerful voice, coupled with Liu Gang's enthusiastic guitar, ignited the entire stage for a time and sang the voices of countless workers.
Wang Xu and Liu Gang became popular, and they were all on the stage of various David TV variety shows and commercial performances, and the original singer Wang Feng also appeared on the variety show with them, further improving their popularity.
The fate of the two people has since been rewritten, no longer a farmer, not an "underground singer", but a well-known singer in China.
2. After becoming famous, it becomes inflated
On February 10, 2011, Wang Feng's team called Li Dong, the manager of "Rising Sun Masculine", and said, "You all don't want to sing the song "In Spring" in the future." ”
Looking back on the past, Wang Feng held the group photo of the two brothers as if it were still yesterday, but in the blink of an eye, the "brothers" turned against each other.
The reasoning is also very simple, nothing more than due to the involvement of interests.
It is said that the brothers also have to settle accounts, Wang Feng, as the original singer of the song, did not charge any copyright fees, and the rising sun masculinity did not give Wang Feng any benefits.
Wang Feng publicly said that the songs he wrote did not take anything, but they sang free songs and took a singing fee of up to 350,000 yuan.
With the fermentation of this incident, Wang Feng was unanimously insulted by netizens on the Internet, but people were also legitimately defending their rights, while Xu Ri Yanggang suffered huge losses because of Wang Feng's rights protection.
Rising Sun Yang just became popular by cover songs, and without this masterpiece, they no longer have anything to hand. Later, the two held a concert and launched their own original songs, but the response was mediocre, and the fans did not buy it.
For a moment, the two seemed to have lost their weapons in battle, lost their jobs when eating, and their strength was completely unable to exert themselves.
Not only that, there seems to be an irreconcilable contradiction between the two brothers Wang Xu and Liu Gang.
At that time, the two brothers who suffered together also showed the dark side of human nature in the face of great profit temptations.
At first, Liu Gang pulled his cousin as an agent, wanting to let his cousin also share a piece of the pie, Wang Xu showed extreme distrust and also found his own friends.
As a result, a group has two agents, and during that time the rising sun is almost in a single state.
The world is bustling, all for the benefit of the coming; the world is bustling, all are for the benefit, at this time the rising sun masculine can not avoid falling into the cliché. The two brothers become self-interested, and their end is doomed to be a tragedy.
Rising Sun Masculine, who debuted as a "grassroots star", has long bought a luxury car and bungalow, and Liu Gang has also placed himself above the public, completely ignoring traffic rules, driving a luxury car to openly run a red light in Beijing and cover the number plate.
In 2012, Liu Gang drove an Audi and clashed with the boss on the streets of Beijing. Liu Gang thought that the old man was blocking his way, so he pulled out the steel pipe on the car, intimidated the old man, and even moved his hands.
The old man immediately called the police, but after the media broke the news, the reputation of the rising sun masculine quickly declined, and various negative reports followed.
Soon after the incident, some media called Li Dong, the masculine agent of the rising sun, and Li Dong said that the two had long parted ways, and the popular national combination Rising Sun masculinity finally disappeared into a scolding.
So what kind of life did Wang Xu and Liu Gang live?
3. Life after parting ways
After the dissolution of the rising sun, the eldest brother Wang Xu lived the life of the past, and still returned to the underground passage to sell songs.
Although there is no star aura, there are still many people who listen to him singing, and even some people run to the underground bridges he often visits to listen to him sing.
Occasionally, he could receive some small commercial performances, and Wang Xu's life was barely passable.
A poet once said: "If I had never seen the sun, I could have endured the darkness", after experiencing the prosperity of being a star, Wang Xu finally could not stand the gap in his heart, and finally bid farewell to Beijing and returned to his hometown henan.
As early as the age of 22, Wang Xu started a family and gave birth to a son, Yulong, the following year.
Over the years, Wang Xu has worked outside, and his son has suffered a lot at home, and now he can enjoy the joy of heaven when he goes back.
Back at home, Wang Xu relied on his former fame to do live broadcasts on the Internet, and the money he earned was enough to live, which was a peaceful and happy old age.
Liu Gang is more than a dozen years younger than Wang Xu, and he is certainly not willing to "tell the old man to return home", but continues to toss in the entertainment circle, in a vain attempt to make a comeback.
After the dissolution of the group, Liu Gang continued to be active in the entertainment circle with the aura of rising sun masculinity, he once joined Zhejiang Satellite TV's "I Love to Remember Lyrics", attended the Spring Festival Gala of Shandong Satellite TV, and also participated in the "Avenue of Stars Super Edition".
Unfortunately, none of this provoked any splash, so he hitched a ride on singer Gao Jin.
Gao Jin sang the song "My Good Brother", which became popular by Xiao Shenyang, and Gao Jin also made a name for himself in the entertainment industry.
Liu Gang can sing, but he knows nothing about writing songs, Gao Jin can write and sing, Liu Gang, with the help of Gao Jin, released the original song "Missing Youth", which became popular on the Internet again.
Later, Liu Gang simply joined the ranks of Internet celebrities, after all, many Internet celebrities can make a fortune, he is also a little famous, and the road in the Internet celebrity circle is better.
In the end, although Liu Gang and Wang Xu parted ways, they returned to the same place and embarked on the road of Internet celebrity together, but the two are no longer good brothers who fight for their dreams together.
In March 2021, the Walk of Fame brought together people who had competed in the old days, including the two masculine members of the rising sun.
It is reasonable to say that the "good brother" has not been seen for many years, even if there has been unpleasantness in the past, at least it is still necessary to get by on the face. But the two sat together throughout the party, without even a word of booing and greeting, and they wrote their dislike for each other on their faces.
It has been 11 years since the rising sun has just become popular, Liu Gang and Wang Xu sang from the underground passage to the Spring Festival Gala stage, and their fame history is also full of heartache and suffering.
But the two do not know how to cherish, from the grassroots to the star after the expansion, especially Liu Gang's behavior, it is very disgusting to the public.
In fact, many people are like this, they will be complacent about the small results they have achieved, and they will become blind. Those who can really achieve great things are those who are humble and cautious and can stick to their hearts.
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