Qi Yu statue
One
In January 2019, Qi Yu participated in the competition of Hunan Satellite TV's "Singer" column. Her repertoire is "The Favourite".
Qi Yu's stage photos on the "Singer 2019" program (below)
Qi Yu stage photo
Her song, like a gentle thread fluttering in the air, also like a dry straw raised by the wind, flew in the clear sky.
After the song was sung, the whole audience was silent. Her singing, like a daigo, drunk the audience.
Judge Yang Kun said:
"I am compared to Qi Yu's singing voice, which is heaven and earth. Qi Yu is heavenly, I am earthly. ”
Qi Yu, female, singer. Born in Taichung in 1957, he graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles. She once swept the world with a song called "Olive Tree".
Her singing voice is known as "the sound of nature".
What has she experienced over the years?
What kind of love past does she have?
Why did she become acquainted with Buddhism?
Time has red cherries, green plantains, her songs, her destiny, in the long river of life.
Her voice, ethereal and pure, like vodka after ice, was intoxicating enough.
Her past is like an embroidered version of the "Qingming River Map", crowded, bustling, and lively.
Her father, Zi ji, was a politician. Her mother, Pei Yuanmei, was of Manchu descent. She is a fashionable woman who dresses up in a fancy way every day.
Perfume, she wants to use the 300-year-old Camex brand.
Her home has a Sonora phonograph, all wood, with a logo on the exterior, and gold dust.
The phonograph sings the interlude of "The Song girl of the end of the world":
"Lang, we are both one heart..."
When her mother sang, it was as if she had a mouthful of hot porridge in her mouth. Singing to the high-pitched part, there was a choke and the chandelier on the ceiling was shaken.
Qi Yu's youth like drifting snow (below)
Two
In 1957, Qi Yu was born.
Her father, Qi Ji, remembering the area where the Water flowed through Ji, named her brother Qilu, Qi Yu, and her brother Qi Qin.
She has a mischievous brother.
At the end of school, the home is often empty and there is no voice. At the table, a bill would be pressed with a cup and asked Qi Yu to eat at a restaurant outside.
In the 1970s, Qi Yu's family suffered a change, and his parents were not in harmony. After his parents divorced, he went to the United States successively. Her brother Qilu went to Japan to study.
Qi Qin became unruly, rebellious as a young man, made bad friends, and learned to smoke and drink.
He kicked the iron door of a neighbor's house in the middle of the night, went to smash people's shops after drinking, alarmed the police, and was arrested in a correctional hospital.
He had to stay in it for three years.
During these three years, Qi Yu would visit him every weekend.
Every Saturday, Qi Yu has to take a car from Taipei to Taichung, then transfer to Changhua, then take a car to The Town of Tanaka in Changhua, and when he gets to the town of Tanaka, he has to climb the mountain and climb to the Penitentiary Institute halfway up the mountain.
Go visit Qi Qin.
In 1978, Qi Yu, who was still a student of Taiwan University, won an important award in the folk song industry and the champion of the Golden Rhyme Award with a song "Diamonds & Rust".
Qi Qin and his sister Qi Yu (below)
Qi Qin and Qi Yu
Three
She bought Qi Qin a guitar for the prize money she got in the competition, 8,000 yuan.
Qi Qin recalled:
"I often wait for Qi Yu, no matter how embarrassed and desperate I am, as long as I silently read Qi Yu's name, she will definitely appear, so that I have an incomparable sense of security."
Three years, rain or shine.
Later, Qi Yu was admitted to National Taiwan University and studied anthropology.
She bought a guitar for Qi Qin,
It is the hope of using music to purify Qi Qin's soul and tame Qi Qin like a wild horse.
When Qi Yu was 21 years old, she had an indissoluble relationship with music.
When she participated in the music competition, Li Taixiang, a music titan and music production promoter, took a fancy to her and accepted her as an apprentice.
She has a special voice. Her voice, like cooking smoke in the twilight, fluttered to herself.
In 1979, her mentor Lee Tae-hsiang, who was particularly fond of her, gave her a single "Olive Tree" and asked her to sing. This song was a hit and has been circulated for a long time, making her famous.
Qi Yu's music album Olive Tree (below)
Olive Tree music album
Four
In 1979, Qi Yu sang the theme song "Olive Tree" for the movie "Happy Face". This single won the 16th Golden Horse Film Awards for Best Theme Song.
This is the lyrics of the writer Sanmao.
In 1985, Qi Yu released a music album and invited Sanmao to produce it together.
The album is called Echo.
The well-known singer Zhou Huajian has also been vigorously promoted by her.
In 1995, she sang with Zhou Huajian, and the theme song "Mythical Love Story" of the Gu Tianle version of "Divine Eagle Heroes" won the Hong Kong Top Ten Golden Songs of the Year and the Most Popular Choral Award.
In 1998, she sang the film "Heavenly Bath" starring Li Xiaolu, and the theme song "Desire Water" won the Golden Horse Award for Best Film Theme Song.
In September 2002, Qi Yu held a solo concert of "Music Rare Adventures" at the Hung Hom Sports Centre in Hong Kong.
Ethereal singer Qi Yu (below)
Because his father opposed Qi Yu's entry into the music scene, Qi Yu had to go to the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States to continue his studies in anthropology.
During her study abroad career in the United States, she met David.
David was a classmate of hers, a German, who later earned a doctorate in anthropology.
David used to be her accompanist. After the two met, there were endless common topics. In 1981, the two people who were in love entered the palace of marriage.
In 1984, Qi Yu returned to Bay Bay to develop a music career.
David accompanied her to Taipei as a lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at National Taiwan University.
After that, David returned to the United States and worked as a professor at a university.
In this transnational marriage, the two see less and less, and contact is no longer frequent. Qi Yu sensed his marriage abnormality and withdrew from the stage to accompany David, hoping that the years would be quiet.
David had a new relationship.
In 1990, Qi Yu's painstaking marriage failed, and the two parties ended in divorce.
Sanmao with her husband Jose (below)
Sanmao and Jose
Five
In 1984, Qi Yu returned to Taipei.
She joined Rolling Stone Records as a music producer. One day, she received a strange visitor. She reported herself to the door and said that her name was Sanmao.
Qi Yu is no stranger to this name, and the lyrics of her famous song "Olive Tree" were written by her.
Sanmao put a bunch of lyrics he had written in front of Qi Yu, hoping to find someone to compose the music.
Qi Yu felt that these lyrics were too classical and not popular enough to be sung.
Must be modified.
She and the singer Pan Yueyun visit sanmao's house and find that they all like to wear bohemian long skirts, so the three of them become girlfriends.
In 1985, the echo music album was published. The album is all the rage with an open mind, a broad vision, and an independent and uninhibited emotional appeal.
On January 4, 1991, Sanmao committed suicide with garter in the hospital.
After learning this news, Qi Yu boarded a plane to Peru.
Outside the porthole was a vast sea of clouds, and she vaguely saw that Sanmao's feet were stepping on the white clouds, her eyebrows were vivid, and she waved goodbye to her.
She couldn't help but cry.
Qi Yu, Sanmao and Pan Yueyun (below)
Three girlfriends
In honor of Sanmao, she wrote a single "Never Said Goodbye":
"Without saying goodbye, there is no so-called departure,
The plea of the year, right or wrong..."
In 1998, Qi Yu released the music album Camel. Birds. Fish", won the Bay Golden Melody Award, the Best Chinese Female Singer Award.
This is a poetic music album.
Listening to Qi Yu sing, it was like an autumn rain after a summer heat faded, and the cold breath came to the face. What she sang was the day when she couldn't go back, the love that couldn't go back.
Her song is like a tree, bearing the fruit of the past. Her singing voice tells people that eternity and light are still there.
Her singing voice has the power to comfort people's hearts.
Her song is home, far away, an olive tree in a dream.
In 1998, Qi Yu went to Lhasa to participate in Qi Qin's solo concert and received a Buddha statue donated by the Jokhang Temple.
She became fascinated with Buddhism.
She explained that she faded out of the music scene because her style and music could not cater to the music market at that time.
Six
Lee Tae-ming is lee tae-cheung's younger brother, an engineer by profession and a music producer.
In 1991, Qi Yu and Li Taiming met, fell in love and married.
She wanted her lost soul to be comforted.
After getting married, she gave birth to a daughter, Li Jie.
After 8 years of marriage, in 1999, she divorced Li Taiming.
When it was decided to separate, the two sides were very rational, did not quarrel, and open-mindedly let go.
Qi Yu explained that they were incompatible.
In 2002, Qi Yu went to Tibet and set out to sing to the world the truth, goodness, stillness, and beauty that he had learned in Buddhism.
Some netizens said that Qi Yu did not go to see his daughter for ten years. Qi Yu explained that he is a public figure and that his every move will be amplified by the media.
She was there to protect her daughter, not to abandon her.
In 2018, Qi Yu and Pan Yueyun held "The Magnificent Life of Three Women - Sanmao, Qi Yu and Pan Yueyun "Echo" Concert" at the Taipei Arena.
In the song, she talked eloquently, telling the story of Sanmao, remembering her youth, and chasing her dreams, and the concert was full of sad atmosphere.
Ethereal singer Qi Yu at the concert (below)
Seven
In 1998, Qi Yu went to Lhasa to participate in Qi Qin's solo concert and received a Buddha statue donated by the Jokhang Temple.
It made her interested in Buddhism.
The Jokhang Temple is located on Barkhor Street in The Chengguan District of Lhasa.
At the Jokhang Temple, Qi Yu watched the pagoda, the stone lion, the statue of the Dapeng bird, and the 12-year-old statue of the Buddha, listened to the master's teachings, and longed for the Buddha.
The reason why Qi Yu has not seen her daughter for ten years may be related to her faith. She thinks that her relationship with her daughter has been broken, and it is better not to see each other, so as not to be troubled.
In 2004, she released three albums of Buddhist songs.
On July 1, 2015, she released an album of Buddhist songs.
In 2019, Qi Yu participated in Hunan Satellite TV's "Singer" program.
Eight
The first song, she sang "The Favorite" that Pan Yueyun had sung.
This song tells a story.
In this song, a girl grits her teeth and recounts the past, recalling the image of a pale young man with a bulging arm.
This man allowed her to grow in love and destroy in love.
When everything was in the past and obscured, this girl recalled the lively youth, and she had to be different from others.
To love a different person and live a different life.
Qi Yu's voice is clear, ethereal, and has a wide range, like a large blank space in a Chinese painting.
Her songs were not sung, but sighed. Her god-kissed voice was neither bitter nor miserable.
No hurry.
Her voice, interpreting the power of music, is like the waves of the sea, echoing in the shell of death.
Her voice, like a cold moonlight, shone impartially on everyone's childhood memories.
It's also like an old book, with a yellowed cover in the sunlight, a sigh when it crumples.
Nine
She tries to tell the story in the song, to tell the meaning of life.
It's a voice from the heart. She was a bard who evoked universal sadness. Her song is like a ray of light drawn by a meteor falling into the sky.
Her 1979 single "Olive Tree", the style of the song, set off a new wave of creation and influenced generations.
Her imagination and interpretation of poetry and distant places has touched an entire generation.
As a result, she was established as a guide in the song world.
Now, she gets up early in the morning, sweeps the courtroom, and wipes the table.
She eats simply, sometimes eating pickles.
Ten
Master Koichi said:
"Pickles are very good, pickles have the taste of pickles, white rice has the taste of white rice."
She buys groceries, cooks, and never eats outside. When she does these little things, she is also practicing. To do your duty well and do it properly is to be complete.
She lived in seclusion to study Buddhism, chanting sutras and settling her mind. The mood is easy-going and peaceful when it meets fate.
She sang the praises of the Buddha with a natural voice, hoping to bring joy and peace to people.
She said:
"I gradually changed from an instrument singing Buddhist music to a living life, how difficult. What a bad song, I am not picky, do not complain. The song, if sung by the soul, will be completely different. ”
She sang Buddhist songs, abandoning the ups and downs of emotions, not being able to detect breathing, only full long tones. Listening to her Buddhist songs, I feel peaceful, average, and there is a poignant beauty of autumn leaves in the midst of tranquility.
Ethereal singers Qi Yu and Qi Qin (below)
Qi Yu and Qi Qin
Eleven
She has sung the famous song "Woman Flower" sung by Mei Yanfang, and in the song, it is not the self-harm and self-pity of the beauty twilight, but the emptiness and peace like a lotus.
Her song, like a cold moonlight, shines on the steps of the past.
Only those who look up at the stars can understand her singing.
She laughed at her failed marriage and said she tried to wear high heels in her life, but unfortunately it didn't fit. Walking feet will hurt.
Right now.
She always wears flat heels, natural, and comfortable.
She found the olive tree in her dreams in Buddhism.
It is not the leaf of Bodhi that covers one's own soul.
Rather, it is to take the initiative to find the true meaning of enlightenment.
If there is emotion, there is trouble, it is better to cut off three thousand troublesome threads and find the true color of life.
Not seeking, not bitter or sad, in Qi Yu's heart, there was a small lotus, quietly blooming.
(Thanks for reading, Gongzi mistakenly wrote)