He was born in 1971
He passed away in 2016
But people always felt like he wasn't gone
He just went to a world called Infinite Dreams
Koji Wada was born in 1974 to a family without a musical atmosphere, and did not receive professional musical training until high school.
By chance, a friend's guitar played the strings of Koji Wada's dream.
But his dream of pursuing music without any foundation sounds like a hot impulse in his head, and the pressure of life ensues.
The reality of the backbone was that Koji Wada had to give in and after graduating from high school, he joined an electrical equipment company in Osaka as a salesman.
The excitement of that music lingered in his mind for a long time.
A year later, Koji Wada quit his job.
With 400,000 yen saved from part-time work, Koji Wada came to Tokyo to pursue his musical dreams and life's insights.
Alone in Tokyo, unaccompanied and completely unfamiliar with the terrain, Koji Wada stayed at a capsule inn for two weeks before finding a suitable apartment to rent.
While studying music, Koji Wada believed that actors could help him develop, and during his time in Tokyo, he worked as an extra for many TV dramas and movies, and even period dramas. He was tired of this life, and under homesickness, he moved the idea of going home.
Setbacks in the actor's path were accompanied by a stagnant career in music.
He has formed bands, held lives, sent his musical works to various music companies, companies, record stores, and sometimes even sent 100 copies at a time, but all of them were lost in the sea.
Perhaps every singer who is remembered by the world will be subject to all kinds of hardships by fate.
Just like in the mv of Mayday's "Fame in Sight", his hard-earned work was thrown into the trash can, and the band sang indulgently in the street, accompanied only by passers-by who hurried by.
But the difference is that Koji Wada has a father who supports him to go on.
Just when Koji couldn't resist trying to retreat, his father, who had said that he could go home at any time, said to him on the phone, "So give up?" Try harder!"
The goddess of fate will always take care of those who run hard in the rain without an umbrella.
Failure after failure, sinking into the sea again and again, finally in exchange for a phone call.
The digimon production director called him and asked him to show how he had met him for the first time and hoped to meet again.
Maybe Koji Tada's Digimon is his musical dream, the first time they met, they wanted to be together for a lifetime, and when they met again, they never left.
In April 1999, after several negotiations with the director, a song called "Butterfly" was officially released in Japan.
He persevered, broke through the cocoon of difficulties, and turned into a musical butterfly.
In 2003, Koji Wada suffered from a malignant tumor of the lymph glands in the throat and the metastasis of cancer cells in his body and recurred.
A throat illness sentenced a singer to death during his singing career.
Until 2006, the Digimon anime series launched the fifth "Digimon Savior", all the lead songs did not involve Koji Wada, and the theme song melody of the fifth part was too different from the quality of the previous works, and was immediately asked by the Japanese audience to change the theme song and Koji Wada participated in the anime song again.
Only voices full of dreams and hopes can be remembered by the audience.
However, after his comeback, Wada's voice and vocal cords are not as clear and loud as before, and you can feel the difficulty when you hear him singing high pitches from the songs.
However, Yumemon did not stop there, and the deepening illness forced Wada Koji to make a choice.
Wada's choice was to stop the singer's activities, keep his voice, and refuse to undergo removal surgery, because then it would be impossible to sing.
Music is not only his dream, but also his life.
On October 3, 2013, Wada announced on his Twitter and blog that he was "back," and his friend Miyazaki, who was also a singer, replied, "Welcome back." Wada updated Twitter again to say that the first comeback live will begin next month.
The heart that belongs to music is inseparable from music after all.
On August 1, 2014, Toei held a performance in Japan's Odaiba to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the broadcast of DIGIMON, and Koji Wada sang "Red Shock" and "Butter-Fly".
The hoarse voice and the high pitch that can no longer be sung make people feel that "Wada is really old."
Even so, it still makes people listen to it with awe and tears in their eyes, and Uncle Guang is using the last energy of his life to express his own understanding of life and his heartfelt love for music.
Just like Mei Yanfang married music and stage at the end of her life.
On April 8, 2016, Uncle Guang passed away. On April 26, the official farewell ceremony was held for Koji Wada, and under the frame of Mitsuru's photo, there were flowers arranged in the shape of butterflies.
He was born into an ordinary family and longed for the sky of music.
The hardships of chasing his dreams surrounded him without leaving a trace of retreat.
The butterfly will eventually break through the cocoon, spread its colorful wings, and fly in its own sky.
Uncle Guang was gone, just walking to another world.
Since then, the Digimon world has had one more Digimon
Name: Undead Butterfly
Trick: An infinitely big dream