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In October of the Golden Autumn of 1957, Qi Yu was born in Taichung City, Taiwan Province.
His parents are both civil servants, his father Qi Ji is a well-known representative of the National University, Qi Yu is the only daughter in the family, there is an older brother named Qi Lu, and there will be a "superstar" younger brother in the future, Qi Qin.
Although they were women, Qi Yu did not enjoy any privileges in the family, and the three brothers and sisters grew up under the cold and harsh education of their father.
Only the mother is a very gentle person.
Qi Yu and his younger brother Qi Qin often saw their mother standing at the desk with a paintbrush in her hand in the shredded sunlight, drawing Chinese paintings on long white rice paper, and singing songs she couldn't understand.
As she grew older, her mother pulled her to tell her stories about her childhood.
Qi Yu's mother is from Harbin, the classroom is very cold in winter, whenever the teacher is late, she will play the organ and lead the class to sing.
At that time, "hobbies" were still a luxury.
The dreams that I could not complete as a child more or less wanted to pin on my daughter, not to let my daughter be a singer, but to teach Qi Yu to sing in countless leisure afternoons.
Under the influence of his mother, music gradually became the utopia of the sister and brother.
Reality, however, is always so grumpy that people are busy.
When Qi Yu was 19 years old, a "war" broke out in his family. It is the dog blood drama of parents quarreling and divorcing, and it is also the battle between father and son that has been backlogged for a long time.
Compared with Qilu's measure, Qi Yu's Buddhist system, Qi Qin was very rebellious.
After a big quarrel with his father, Qi Qin ran away from home, joined the social gang when he wandered the streets, began to smoke and drink, fight and fight, and successfully turned himself into a bad teenager.
Sandwiched in the middle, Although Qi Yu had been trying to reconcile with the middle, it was to no avail at all, and he could only watch as Qi Qin was imprisoned in the juvenile correctional institution.
At that time, the eldest brother Qilu had long been sent to Japan to study, and Qi Yu, as the elder sister, sacrificed his dating time and took three buses a week to visit his younger brother.
No wonder Qi Qin once said in an interview: "Sister Qi Yu gave me spiritual strength. ”
One
In 1976, a boy named Li Shuangze, holding a bottle of Coca-Cola in his hand, jumped up despite the obstacles, stood at the Western folk song concert of Tamkang University in Taiwan, and shouted to the audience: "We drink Coke, listen to Western songs, where are our own songs!" ”
Thus began a campus folk song movement that encouraged college students to compose their own songs.
Lee Tae-cheung, who had just held a concert on "Tradition and Vision", wrote a poem "Olive Tree" the following year.
At the same time, the first Golden Yun Award Competition is also in full swing.
This year, Qi Yu was so busy with Qi Qin's affairs that he didn't have time to participate in the competition.
In 1978, she became a hit, winning the second Golden Rhyme Awards and the first folk song champion with a song "Diamonds & Rust".
In fact, Qi Yu hated to participate in the competition the most, but the newborn calf was not afraid of the tiger, and since he decided, he could only rush up with his scalp.
During the preliminary round, Qi Yu rushed to the stage in a daze, and accidentally kicked over the set drum, she thought to herself: "This is over, it is estimated that there is not even a point." ”
Unexpectedly, this small accident had no impact on the result, and she was still notified of the rematch.
When it came to the rematch, Qi Yu stopped beating the drum and went on stage with a guitar, handsome like a boy.
It was this time that she was caught in the eye of Lee Tae-hsiang, who was a judge, picked up the note next to her, and wrote down her phone.
Li Taixiang is an indispensable representative figure in the development of Taiwanese folk songs in the past thirty years, and he is a music giant who has witnessed and experienced the history of the development of Taiwanese folk songs.
And Qi Yu, who was chosen by Li Taixiang, is the new star who can open the era of folk songs.
Therefore, the song "Olive Tree" composed by him and composed by Sanmao became Qi Yu's first masterpiece, and won the "Top Ten Golden Melody Award".
One sentence:
Don't ask me where I'm from, my hometown is far away
Why wandering
Wandering Far Away Wandering
It spread throughout the north and south of the great river, touching the heartstrings of the masses on both sides of the strait.
After receiving the award, Qi Yu received a prize of 8,000 yuan, which is undoubtedly a huge amount of money for a student.
She looked at the thick pile of money in her hand, and the first person she thought of was not herself, but her brother Qi Qin.
At this time, Qi Qin had already walked out of the penitentiary, but he still could not be freed, because his father Qi Ji locked him in his room and let him recite ancient Texts every day.
On this day, Qi Yu took all the prize money and bought a brand new Yamaha guitar at the instrument house and returned home.
She handed the guitar to Qi Qin and said to him, "You like music so much, just learn it here." ”
A song "Olive Tree" not only achieved Qi Yu, but also achieved the future Qi Qin.
Two
Qi Yu, who debuted at the peak, did not stay in Taiwan to continue to open up his own musical path, because her father told her: "Everything is inferior, but the reading is high." ”
Under his father's arrangement, Qi Yu crossed the Pacific Ocean to the United States.
For Qi Yu, a song can make her popular, but it is just an accident, she is very Buddhist about life, there is not much desire, and she did not think that singers would become her main business.
On the contrary, it was during the days of studying abroad that she gradually understood her love for music.
In addition to studying, Qi Yu joined a student band and met the musician David.
David is a blonde German handsome man, not only can play music, but also with Qi Yu is a classmate, the two stay together always have endless topics to talk about.
Over time, from classmates to lovers, he finally entered the palace of marriage in 1981.
This year, Qi Qin, who was far away in China, also released his first album "Seeing Her Gray And Slippery Again".
After getting married, Qi Yu had more independent choices, and she often traveled at home and abroad, while trying to complete her studies, while releasing albums in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
And the results are not bad, her song "You are all my memories" was selected as the "Golden Tripod Awards Excellent Record Category".
It was not until 1984 that Qi Yu finally made up his mind to give up his doctorate in humanities and concentrate on returning to China for development.
Zhou Huajian, who came to Taiwan to study for her, was also brought to the Rolling Stones by Li Zongsheng from the bar this year.
When he first returned to China, Qi Yu was a professor in the Department of Archaeology at National Taiwan University, and David was once with him. Later, she was busy touring the "Tradition and Prospects" concert series by her mentor Lee Tae-cheung, and David returned to the United States.
During that time, Qi Yu liked to read "new poems", and one day she flipped through Yaxian's poems and saw such a sentence: "I am a wolf from the north", which could not help but remind her of her arrogant brother Qi Qin.
For Qi Qin, who is preparing a new album, Qi Yu believes that he needs to have his own personality and unique style, and his sense of conflict with society is the most suitable point.
Qi Yu took this sentence and found Qi Qin: "This is quite suitable for you, you yourself have to locate yourself in such a direction." ”
In 1985, the album "Wolf" became Qi Qin's famous song as soon as it was released.
In the same year, Qi Yu once again cooperated with the famous Taiwanese writer Sanmao, who had just completed uterine cancer surgery from the United States, to produce the album "Echo", and sang with Pan Yueyun, who was on fire because of a song "Wild Lilies Also Have Spring".
He also recorded "Tomorrow Will Be Better" with more than 60 Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singaporean stars, and held the "Disappearing 1985" year-end concert with Li Zongsheng and Zhang Aijia.
Qi Yu's position in taiwan's music scene has become more and more stable.
Three
This head Qi Yu was too busy for the sake of her career, and on the other end, her husband David had already had enough of a life of gathering less and leaving more, and took the initiative to file for divorce.
A nine-year marriage came to an end.
Years later, when Qi Yu talked about this marriage, he said: "Our personalities are too similar, so we think about not binding each other, but we end up going farther and farther." ”
Freedom in marriage is both easy and dangerous.
Qi Yu once said to David, I will not cook every day and wait for you to come home. David also replied to her, you don't have to cook every day, so I don't have to go home on time every day.
The emotional failure did not have much impact on Qi Yu, because she was wearing her own "bohemian" style clothes at this time to produce her fourth English album in the United States.
Li Zongsheng commented on her: "Qi Yu is one of the few singers who can sing English songs out of their native language. ”
In 1991, Qi Yu, who sang English songs, once again entered the palace of marriage and married Li Taiming, the younger brother of his mentor Li Taixiang.
Qi Yu and Li Taiming met very early, and as early as when she had just entered the music scene, the two became friends. However, at that time, they did not call.
It wasn't until Qi Yu returned to Taiwan after his divorce that they began to come together.
Unlike the previous paragraph, this marriage was not so suitable from the beginning, and the personalities of Qi Yu and Li Taiming were very different. But at that time, Qi Yu naively thought that as long as he had more running-in, he could always live a harmonious life.
And two years later, Qi Yu gave birth to a daughter, named Li Jie.
He also released the English album "The Woman Who Buried Love", recorded in Moscow, which was named "Album of the Year".
In 1995, Qi Yu collaborated with his little fan brother Zhou Huajian on a song called "There Is a Lover in the World", which created a career peak and became one of the most sung songs later.
Xin Xiaoqi, who is often compared with her in the future, also won more than ten awards with a song "Understanding" in this year, and the album sold more than 500,000 copies.
The Taiwanese music scene has also entered a new pattern and truly entered the golden age. Zhou Yu, Qi Qin, Zhou Huajian, Zheng Zhihua, etc. are all "vocal forces" that are just red.
Four
In 1998, Qi Yu and Wang Zuxian participated as guests at a concert held by their younger brother Qi Qin in Lhasa.
Qi Qin had made a wish there to take refuge in the Buddha for life, but he accidentally planted the Buddha's edge in the heart of his sister Qi Yu.
In the same year, Qi Yu sang the song "Birds and Fish" with his daughter.
If not for your stall and displacement
If not for my attention
Where's this one
Not optimistic about attachment and love
In 1999, the song won the "Chinese Satellite TV Music Station" annual video award, and Qi Yu also ended his second marriage.
Qi Yu said: "Originally, I thought that personality discord could be run into each other, but only later did I find out that this kind of personality friction is a great loss to each other." ”
Divorced, Qi Yu became a single mother, alone with her daughter.
She did not give her daughter any special love, because she felt that from the moment of birth, everyone had their own homework to do, their own destiny to go.
Qi Yu hoped that his daughter could face it herself when she fell and when she was hurt.
However, her education did not last long, because her daughter was sent back to her father, Li Taiming, when she was 10 years old.
Ruthless and light, in 2002, Qi Yu once again set foot on the land of Tibet.
The brilliant sunshine, the white clouds, the endless blue sky, and the sacred Buddhist culture made Qi Yu more certain of what he was thinking.
He immediately decided that in the future, he would sing his understanding of Buddhism to the world.
Qi Yu likes to sing, but will never sing because of singing.
Qi Qin once said to her: "Your songs are all high and low, and it is not easy for others to follow them." "But she still goes her own way, and the songs she sings still don't have a trace of fireworks."
By 2004, Qi Yu had really released an album of Buddhist songs.
In 2006, an album titled "Buddha Heart" was released.
At this time, Qi Qin found her again and said, "It's a pity that your voice only sings Buddhist songs." Qi Yu, on the other hand, is still going his own way.
At that time, Qi Yu had gradually entered a better state of Buddhism, in addition to participating in some performance activities, she was self-"practicing" at home, and she pursued the way of getting along with the gentleman's friendship as light as water.
Not only for friends, but also for their own biological daughters.
In 2013, Li Taixiang was often hospitalized due to the deterioration of thyroid cancer, and the situation was not optimistic, so he said his last wish to his brother Li Taiming: "I just want to see my beloved disciple Qi Yu again." ”
However, at that time, Li Taiming had already lost Qi Yu's contact information, so he released the news through the reporter.
Long after the news was reported, Qi Yu did not go to the hospital to visit, and after a few days, he quietly rushed to the hospital without notifying anyone.
In this regard, Li Taiming said: "It doesn't matter if you don't notify it, as long as she can make an errand." ”
In addition, Li Taiming also revealed to reporters that Qi Yu has not seen his daughter for ten years.
It sounds like an incredible thing.
But Li Taiming gave a reasonable reasoning: "Related to her Buddhist beliefs, as far as Buddhism is concerned, my daughter and I are her past life marriages and need to be put down." ”
Five
In 2018, Qi Yu and Pan Yueyun held a "Magnificent Life of Three Women" - "Echo" concert at the Taipei Arena to remember their deceased sister Sanmao.
The two of them took the microphone and stood on the stage and said to the audience: "We just want to do this concert with all our friends who like Sanmao." ”
In the end, the concert was a complete success.
The following year, Qi Yu accepted the invitation of Zhong Tao, the general director of Hunan Satellite TV's "Singer", and participated in the competition.
Many people do not understand, 61-year-old Qi Yu, Qi Yu, who is dedicated to Buddhism, why did she come to such a competitive stage, and she still needs to prove herself?
No, what Qi Yu wants is not to prove himself, but because this season's "Singer" has a public welfare project, called the "Music Public Welfare Fund".
She has always been enthusiastic about public welfare, more than ten years ago, she could donate 2 million Taiwan dollars to build a nursing home, and it is not difficult to understand that she participated in the competition for public welfare.
In the fourth issue of "Singer", Qi Yu sang a song "This World" and gently apologized to the distant Sanmao who had passed away.
Qi Yu regretted that he had forced Sanmao to remember the painful picture of the farewell to Jose again and again for a good musical work.
And "This Life" is a song included in the album "Echo", which is not a saliva song, it is really "high and low".
When making this album, Sanmao once said: "There are only three people who are most suitable for wearing bohemian long skirts, that is, Qi Yu, Pan Yueyun and me." ”
Now Qi Yu is still wearing a Bosiah long skirt, but she is spat on as rustic and outdated. She still sang ethereal sounds, but always "flew low" in the competition, and only took a sixth place.
Ji jie said: "This is the boldest song in seven seasons. ”
However, Qi Yu did not care about this, she said: "I am already very happy to be able to let me sing." After all, her purpose in coming here was not to win the applause of the whole house.
As the music market changes, fewer and fewer audiences can understand the singing voices of veteran singers, and fewer people can understand Qi Yu's music.
Qi Yu's singing voice does not conform to the public aesthetic, so after a season of competition, even if she sang and cried a lot of people, she still did not get a first.
Even, there are many people who only know that Qi Yu is Qi Qin's sister, but they don't know that before that, Qi Qin was only Qi Yu's younger brother.
Now that Qi Yu is 64 years old, she will carry a vegetable basket to the market to buy vegetables, and she will greet her neighbors on the street.
Compared with her brother, who had a happy family, she did not marry again, and she was still alone, but she did not feel lonely at all.
Because of her faith, her spiritual world is extremely full.
There was no need to express herself in any flowery words, no need to decorate herself with any expensive jewelry, she just needed to age so gracefully.
Enough is enough to leave the deepest mark on the hearts of fans who like her.
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