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At the end of 2014, Cheng Bi participated in the program recording of "Every Day Upward" in Changsha, Hunan Province. During this period, Cheng Bi was called a "goddess" by the outside world for the first time.
"Peking University goddess Cheng Bi's voice is ethereal like Faye Wong", some media have given Cheng Bi the title of goddess in front of her name, and also compared her voice with Faye Wong.
Since then, these two words have followed Cheng Bi like a close shadow.
Before going on TV, Cheng Bi, who had just returned from Japan to develop, held his first performance in the livehouse at the Changsha Red Coffee Club, with a ticket price of 60/80 yuan.
For every meaningful time and space in the past, Cheng Bi would consciously remember it clearly.
She remembered that there were two or three hundred people crowded in that night, and the fans in Changsha were extremely enthusiastic about her, which made her feel like she was at home.
She remembers how she felt that night when she was singing on stage. That kind of impulse that belongs to the very beginning, Cheng Bi said, is that I decided to become a singer, I finally found the way I want to go, just go.
Thinking back to that time, Cheng Bi would sigh, "That inexplicable and huge sense of excitement, ignorance and fearlessness." ”
In the blink of an eye, it was only two years, and Cheng Bi came to Changsha again, "like returning to the old place." The venue for the performance was set at the Hunan Grand Theatre, and more than a thousand spectators were seated under the stage.
Only Cheng Bi stood on the stage, singing a few times, she felt that time passed too quickly.
Looking back on the road she has traveled in the past two years, she no longer has the state of being a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers. Now, she gradually knows what she lacks, and knows how to turn music and herself into a better state.
Cheng Bi said that it is constant, refreshing, precipitating and growing.
And we just want to be a recorder, using the most ordinary stupid way to capture these fleeting little moments. Thus, there are the following texts about Cheng Bi.
is the preamble.
For performances, there is no need for too many audiences offstage
It was two years ago that Cheng Bi released his solo album and decided to be an independent singer-songwriter, but at first he performed very little and did not have much experience on stage.
After returning to China, from the livehouse performance, he also went to several music festivals, and it took only two years to bring his personal special performance into the domestic first-line theater.
Industry insiders commented that Cheng Bi stepped into the theater one step at a time, which many singers who debuted earlier than her could not do.
In the 2016 national theater tour, a total of 18 performances, Cheng Bi himself can obviously feel that it has helped a lot. It was a challenge she set for herself at the beginning of the year, both on stage and physically.
In the face of a thousand-person theater, Cheng Bi is always learning how to become better and more comfortable.
The organizer of this round of performances is Ju Orange, which is headquartered in Shenzhen. Shenzhen is the base camp of Ju Orange and the first stop of Cheng Bi's national tour.
It is almost a good time and place, and the preparations for the performance are in place in one step, which reduces a lot of pressure for Cheng Bi before going on stage. She knew the key to the first one, "If you act well, the next ten or so games will go down smoothly." ”
Even so, after Cheng Bi came to power, he found that "the first game, more or less, will still be very, very nervous." ”
Cheng Bi tried to suppress the tension as much as possible, the tension came from the repertoire to be sung, many of which were new songs that had just been written, and they were sung to the audience for the first time.
To this day, more than a dozen performances have passed, and it is obviously much easier and more comfortable. She felt that the theater was the best for her. "The best number of spectators in the audience is less than a thousand people, and the environment should not be too big."
The theater can be designed, and she decides for herself. If there is a similar national tour in 2017, Cheng Bi also wants to find a place like a theater where he can sit and listen to songs quietly.
A place where there are many people and is very hi, but it is not suitable for yourself. Cheng Bi told the folk story, "There are a lot of literary things in my songs, and literature (songs) can't let everyone listen to them in that environment." ”
Of course, she also added that if it is a music festival, the kind that goes on stage alone to sing a few songs is also fine. "Everyone's music style is different, my music is not rock, it's not pop, it's not the type of type that wields a fluorescent stick."
Cheng Bi said that her songs are best heard in a quiet, private space. For example, at home, or put on headphones.
"At this time, people will put down a lot of armor. Songs will be embedded deep inside, the softest places, connecting the most intimate emotions. ”
Travel, to go to Europe at the age of thirty
Cheng Bi likes to talk about eating, talking about the food she loves will be unconsciously excited, this situation is like an old drama bone filming, as long as the director does not shout stop, she can continue to talk.
Cheng Bi said that she is a person who especially likes snacks in various places. In Beijing, she likes to eat brine boiled, a snack she calls heavy flavor.
Back in my hometown in Shandong, my favorite is the fried bun. Traveling abroad, in Beijing or Tokyo, she often misses the fried buns in her hometown.
Cheng Bi's love of eating has escalated to the level of studying practices. She told the folk story that the raw fried noodles in Shanghai are dead noodles, and the Shandong ones are hair noodles, the skin is soft and soft, there are leek fillings, there are pork fillings, and the bottom layer should be fried very brown, especially the northern way.
Many of the cities visited by this year's tour were the first time Cheng Bi went. She went to Wuhan to eat hot dried noodles and drank eggnog, a rice wine with egg white in it.
When she arrived in Xiamen, she went to eat sand tea noodles and sea oyster fried. Cheng Bi was more impressed with the latter, adding: The local name is oyster (ou) zai (a) frying.
When the tour arrived in Kunming, some fans chased cheng bi to the hotel where she was staying, met her in person, and left a group photo and autograph.
Fans told the folk story that when Cheng Bi was going to climb the mountain, he felt very good to see her and decided to go all the way to the end.
That was the only time Cheng Bi had made time on the tour to walk around the area. If there is no performance in 2017, Cheng Bi said she would love to go to Europe.
Spain, Italy, Ireland, Poland. Cheng Bi read out the names of several countries in one breath and said the reason for going there.
"The poets and musicians I like are from Northern Europe. I love classical guitars in Spain. Italian fine art, I also like. ”
These have long touched Cheng Bi's country, which she has experienced indirectly in Tokyo. She went to the exhibition and listened to the concert, as if she were immersed, but there were also regrets.
Kenya Hara, the Japanese designer whom Cheng Bi respects the most, once told her, "You must go to Europe before the age of 30." It's too late after 30. ”
Speaking of this, Cheng Bi smiled and closed his mouth. She went on to add that Europe must be visited. Going and not going are still very different. What you see with your own eyes, another world is really open for you. If you don't see it, everything is just imagination.
One day, it is possible to start at noon
Usually before the performance starts, in order to adjust the state to the best, as long as Cheng Bi is given enough time, she can sleep for a long time and sleep until noon before waking up.
Cheng Bi said that sleeping is her favorite way to rest. When you wake up, you will feel that your whole person has been refreshed once.
Like most people, after sleeping until she wakes up naturally, she has to get up and face the problem of choosing food. In the end what to eat, Cheng Bi's answer is, eat some light food, can not eat spicy. Even if she has no appetite, she will persuade herself to eat a little.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, Cheng Bi was ready to go out, go to the theater from his residence, and start rehearsing with the musicians. Tune, walk the stage, set up the lights, and until five o'clock in the evening, she has to start putting on makeup.
The evening show usually starts at 7:30. Cheng Bi will work with all the cast members to prepare everything before 7 o'clock. Cheng Bi said that more than a dozen performances have come down like this, and each one is almost exactly similar to the preparation process, and you will feel that this intensity is nothing, very ordinary.
A show ends at 11 o'clock in the evening. Cheng Bi could feel that his brain was still very excited, even if his body was tired, he still didn't want to sleep, and he couldn't sleep.
At this time, like most late-night parties, Cheng Bi will flip through books by the bedside, or watch a movie, and will also pick up his mobile phone to brush for a while, and he will stay up late.
Cheng Bi feels that singers, like all creativity-related jobs, are easy to jump into the pit of staying up late.
The nights will be quieter and the mind will be more active. "All the spirit of the day will be easily carried away by the rhythm of collective life. Not at night, and it's easy to find your rhythm at night. Cheng Bi said.
On the day of the interview, Cheng Bi had a rare day of leisure in Beijing. The day before yesterday, she attended a picture book signing party; yesterday, she participated in the recording of a Traffic Radio in Beijing; tomorrow, she will fly to Xi'an for the next tour.
At three o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, after being interviewed by the folk story, Cheng Bi planned to go to see a performance, which was "Beijing Fayuan Temple", and she was looking forward to it.
At the end of the conversation, Cheng Bi said that it was time for her to go out. I think she'll take a taxi to the theater gate and then through the security gate. She would pull a ticket out of her bag, hand it to the ticket inspector, and enter.
Like all the fans who bought tickets to see her performance, Cheng Bi completed this set of fixed actions, then found a seat and sat down, waiting for the performance to start.
So far, Cheng Bi has not chosen an agent, she is used to going here and there alone. All her affairs are taken care of by herself, and all her time is naturally at her disposal.
So someone told me that when she tried to contact Cheng Bi, she accidentally got a phone number, and then she was shocked by the voice on the other end of the phone.
The phone said: Hello, I am Cheng Bi. It sounded the same as what we heard on the CD player. (End)
Text | Wang Yue
Image | Cheng Bi
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