He has always wanted to be recognized by the mainstream singing community.
Maybe it was because when I was a child, I was replaced by someone who went through the back door to replace my test results.
But after finally achieving great success through the CCTV stage,
The image of a sheepskin jacket and a white hand scarf was frozen.
In 1969, Ah Bao was born in northwestern Jin.
In Datong, Shanxi, people only know that coal is abundant here.
Ah Bao's original name was Zhang Shaochun.
When I was a child, the empty fields became the stage for Ah Bao.
In wheat fields, or in large tracts of wasteland, he would shout at the sky and the earth.
He found that he liked to sing, or that he didn't hum a tune out of his mouth, and he felt uncomfortable.
On the contrary, in front of the little friend, like a muffled donkey, there is not a word.
But as soon as he said he was going to sing, he came to the spirit.
At that time, it was as if everything around me didn't exist.
From time to time, there will be a literary and artistic propaganda team in the factory and mine to comfort the performance,
It is said that when he was four or five years old, he was carried onto the stage.
Years later, Ah Bao only remembered singing a play himself.
As for what was sung at that time, he couldn't remember it.
A small child stands on the stage with his hands behind his back, which is his first time on stage.
Since then, the left and right leaders have known that this boy of the Zhang family can sing.
Since then, he has had a vague sense of singing.
Later, he became obsessed with a nearby "madman".
It was an old man who loved to drink, pour some wine, and his mouth would keep singing.
All the children have to hear the voice of this madman ringing,
They will hide far away, bold, and only watch quietly from a distance.
At this time, only Ah Bao would stand not far from the old man.
He didn't know if he was listening or looking at the old man in front of him.
On the old man's face, the green tendons at the temples bulged up high, and on the crooked neck, there was sweat flowing down from time to time.
Eyes are closed, so the elderly often do not notice that there is a child next to them watching.
Those songs came out of his mouth, as if they could drive everything around him away.
Listening and listening, dozens of minutes have passed unconsciously.
At first, he didn't know what the crazy old man was singing.
Slowly I heard the smell, as soon as I saw the crazy old man appear there,
He walked around the neighborhood, eavesdropping on him singing.
No matter what he sang, he could hear it.
This may be Ah Bao's original vocal enlightenment.
So, this directly contributed, in the teenage years,
He gave up his cultural studies and prepared to apply for a local art school.
He was 12 years old.
It is said that the results of the professional examination passed,
But after that, the family waited left and right, and did not wait for the admission notice.
Later, I don't know where the news came from,
It was said that his grades and position were replaced by others.
He did not take the art exam again, but like other children,
Started the middle school study time.
In school, he was the backbone of literature and art, and from junior high school to high school, he served as a representative of literary and art classes.
At the age of 15, he left Datong and came to Beijing.
The Central Conservatory of Music filled him with endless reverie and yearning.
He wants to enroll.
However, he was not surprisingly turned away.
Too young, wait for the college entrance examination to come back to school.
However, at the age of the college entrance examination,
I don't know if it's because of the shadow of the results of that year being replaced,
Faced with the exam he regressed.
He did not take the gaokao.
This means that he cannot enter the music conservatory he aspires to through the regular selection mode.
As for why he did not take the college entrance examination.
After becoming famous, Ah Bao did not give a clear statement.
At that time, all he had in mind was to be a wandering singer.
Of course, there are also rumors that his family is not well-off and eventually failed to enter the university as he wished.
Either way, Ah Bao gave up this opportunity that year.
Since then, this person has not received any vocal learning,
He began his singing career full of wild fun.
And the crazy old man at that time became the object of his imitation.
Because the impression is deeply rooted, whether it is deliberately imitated or inadvertently revealed,
After he sang, his expression gradually changed into the way the crazy old man looked when he sang.
This habit accompanied Ah Bao from debut to gradually becoming popular.
When he was a child, he thought this singing style was very interesting, like a madman.
This inadvertent learning and imitation seems to have become his own characteristic.
So many years later, standing on the big stage of CCTV,
When he sang to the point of oblivion, he himself would unconsciously close his eyes.
The director also often reminds him not to always close his eyes.
Open your eyes and have a smile on your face.
He heard the director's advice and could only practice opening his eyes and smiling in front of the mirror all night.
This seems to be a clear proof that Ah Bao has not undergone scientific study,
But when he first debuted, his singing voice overwhelmed many special actors in art schools.
After graduating from high school, he began singing in all corners of Datong.
In a teahouse, he would sing it two or three times a week.
The more he sang, the more people who came to the teahouse remembered him.
However, this annoyed the singers he worked with.
Some of the other singers are members of the Municipal Song and Dance Troupe.
They are professionals, but when they perform in the teahouse, they are not as popular as Ah Bao.
So it didn't take long for the singing group that had been put together to break up.
He was the only one left, and he couldn't sing anymore.
Ah Bao had to leave the tea house and look for the partner again.
Fortunately, at that time, there were many drama groups singing and telling books everywhere.
As long as you can sing, you can put together a team to perform everywhere.
In this way, Ah Bao became a folk artist who walked through the state and counties.
Although there is income, and the performances in various places can also win a lot of applause,
However, there are also people who do not like him to sing.
His father didn't like the way Ah Bao sang.
Because the grinning look of the tooth is very vicious.
But this also just shows that he is a wild man, and there is no professional to guide him.
One day, he suddenly learned from television that CCTV was going to hold a singing competition.
Excited, he hurried to sign up.
Unfortunately, before he could start singing in the preliminary stage, he was eliminated.
But Ah Bao was very stubborn, like that crazy old man.
After that, no matter where he performed, as long as it was the day of the competition, he would continue to apply.
However, all of them were out of the preliminary round.
In nine whole competitions, he has signed up.
Until 2006, at the age of 37, he had passed the age of the contestants.
He had to give up.
Because he is not from a professional background, he registers every year and applies for the popular singing group.
But even popular singing groups need to have a foundation such as bel canto.
As soon as he took the stage in this preliminary round, he couldn't sing anything with his eyes dry, and he would naturally be eliminated.
Later, he even had problems signing up.
Because he is a popular player, but he sings folk songs, and then he will be very screwed in the classification.
He went to the popular group to register, and as soon as the other party heard that he was singing folk songs, he let him go to the folk song group.
Unfortunately, the real national singing method, according to the regulations, he could not sign up.
Because folk songs and folk singing are two concepts, the latter has a special academic classification and regulations.
So, turning around, he would be turned away every year.
It is also in this process of constant rejection that
Ah Bao gradually understood that there were still so many rules and regulations for singing, and it was not possible to sing well just by liking and passion.
But this obsession in his heart was getting heavier and heavier.
The longer he sang, the more he wanted to gain recognition from the mainstream.
Since the 1990s, he began to gradually go out of Shanxi.
He went to sing everywhere, and he also flashed in bars and song halls.
According to some netizens who saw Ah Bao's performance in the early years,
Ah Bao sang in the big cities of Shenzhen and Guangzhou,
In addition to folk songs, he also has access to popular music, heavy metal music, and so on.
Some people also say that although Ah Bao in the early years was not famous, he sang really well.
And every time he made a sum of money, he would stop singing for a while.
Nobody knows where he went.
Some people say that he traveled around to see the world.
However, Ah Bao may have gone to collect folk songs from various places.
After becoming famous, Ah Bao said in an interview with the media,
On the days of singing in the cave, he would go to the countryside every three to five minutes to collect folk songs and collect styles.
He would sort out the folk songs he had collected.
In the countryside everywhere, no matter what form of folk song, it will make him feel different tastes and styles.
Sometimes, he would sing with the old people, and he could sing for most of the day.
He said that these folk tunes really nourished themselves.
For this reason, he also described his folk songs as actually a hodgepodge.
From his hometown, to Shaanxi, across the river, to Inner Mongolia in the north, he has traveled.
Folk songs from all over the world fused together to form his singing voice.
Therefore, after becoming famous, some people also commented on Ah Bao
The folk songs in northern Shaanxi are not standard, the key is still a Shanxi person.
However, in ah bao's view at that time, these were nothing.
In the days of going around the cave, the only thing he learned was to expand and accommodate.
Ah Bao once said bluntly that all his income before becoming famous,
They are all sung from the banquet of folk red and white celebrations.
On such occasions, if there is only one style,
No one will ask you to go.
So from folk songs to pop music, to drama and pop music,
He is constantly accommodating and learning.
And on the stage of the performance, whether it is a sheepskin jacket and a white towel, or a cowboy hat and riveted jacket,
These can all change with the style of the music.
It is said that he speaks very good English and sings well in English.
In order to become popular before going abroad, he did not need a translator.
And he himself said that he could speak seven dialects.
In Ah Bao's own words,
It is precisely because of his early performances in the folk that he has formed this hodgepodge style.
The speed of this change in singing style led to his style not being able to be categorized and defined at all.
Naturally, it will not gain mainstream recognition.
And his really suitable stage can only be a grassroots variety show like "Walk of Fame".
As a result, Bi Fujian also became the Bole of Ah Bao's life.
It was 2004, and CCTV came out with a new program called "Avenue of Stars".
This year, Ah Bao finally won the third place through the folk song contest sponsored by CCTV.
In this way, the two people met on the stage of the "Walk of Fame".
That was the third episode of the show, and Ah Bao on the stage didn't seem to express it.
He wouldn't say anything, and would just sing on stage with his eyes closed.
But it didn't matter what he sang, and immediately stunned everyone present.
The high voice conquered the entire program group at once.
Then he became the champion of the week; then, the champion of the month; and eventually he became the champion of the year.
Ah Bao finally got out of control,
Through this stage, he seems to have finally shaken off the impression of the wild road that had plagued him for many years.
He began to release his own solo album,
It also appeared on the Spring Festival Gala in 2006.
At that time, his album sales were hot, and at one point it entered the top three sales rankings of video stores.
The white belly hand towel, along with the sheepskin jacket on his body, seems to have become his fixed image.
After becoming popular, Ah Bao released four albums of his own in succession,
And in 2014, he also formed his own band.
But in fact, since he became popular, he has not been able to take off the label of the old sheepskin jacket.
Even in recent years, there have been many netizens who have taken the model of selling miserable people in the early years of "Avenue of Stars" to taunt him.
Say that he is a liar and was not poor before he became popular.
After becoming popular, Ah Bao was happy to tell the outside world about his inspirational life.
Coming from the grassroots and the human design of the peasant's son, he brought earth-shaking changes to his life.
This year, all kinds of negative news about Ah Bao were overwhelming.
On the one hand, he questioned Ah Bao's origins, and on the other hand, his life.
The media has reported in depth that Ah Bao's father is an employee of a state-owned enterprise and his family is on the upper side.
Ah Bao, on the other hand, once said that he grew up in the mountains of northern Shaanxi, singing and herding sheep at the same time.
Such elaborately designed characters are only to win the sympathy of the audience.
He once said that if no one invites you, you will have no job, which means that you will not have a job.
However, if you only want to rely on your own false personality to win the sympathy of the audience.
The day the truth is revealed, all the fame and fortunes of the past will be wiped out.
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