Yang Bud
Sweet looking, lively and cute personality, a pair of big eyes full of aura... On the stage of "Super Girl" in 2006, Yang Lei, who was promoted to the top ten in the country, became the most well-known Chongqing player. In this "Super Girl", there are Shang Wenjie, Tan Weiwei, and Xu Fei, who participated in one of the hottest variety shows this year, "Sister Riding the Wind and Waves".
Now mention Yang Lei, the Chongqing audience who chased "Super Girl" has a deep impression on her, "I still remember her, when she entered the top 10 in the country, her eyes were big and she looked very beautiful, and my colleagues also interviewed her." Mr. Jin, who works for a media in Chongqing, said, "I just don't know what she's been doing all these years, as if there's been no new news lately." ”
Recently, Yang Lei was interviewed by the reporter of the upstream news Chongqing Morning Post. At the beginning of this year, Yang Lei launched her personal single "Ingenuity", she hopes that through the song, she can arouse everyone's attention to Chinese traditional culture and call on the society to inherit China's traditional culture and traditional handicrafts. At the same time, she also hopes to have the opportunity to create some music works with Chongqing style, "In recent years, I have always paid attention to Chongqing element songs, and It is really good to do Rap in Chongqing dialect."
Singing and filming to host the all-round development, "Little Sister Chongqing" has a different path
Yang Lei was seen at a shop in Chengdu specializing in Shu embroidered cheongsam, which was the interview location she had agreed in advance. Compared with the 2006 draft stage, Yang Lei is more calm and gentle. She wears an improved Chinese cheongsam made of xiangyun yarn, with extremely exquisite embroidery on the cuffs, and wears a lapis lazuli necklace of her own DIY.
Yang Lei (first from the left) has worked in the TV series "Mandarin Duck Matching"
After participating in "Super Girl" in 2006, Yang Lei has appeared in songs, filmed TV series, and served as a host, which can be described as an all-round artist. "At the beginning of this year, I released my first single in four years, "Ingenuity", which was composed and produced by Guo Liang. Teacher Guo Liang is a gold medal producer in China. At this year's CCTV's "First Lesson of Resuming School", the well-received song "Grass" was also written by Guo Liang himself as a composer, arranger and producer. The next new song "Pilgrimage to Alexandria" is in the works. Alexandria, in Shanxi Province, is the source of the Chinese calendar. According to legend, when King Shun was cultivating here, he compiled the phenological calendar "Seventy-Two Waits" in the Yellow River Basin to guide agricultural activities, and now they have invited me to serve as a cultural promotion ambassador. After releasing a single again after four years, Yang Lei's work this year focused on music.
Yang Lei has served as a children's program host
Working as a children's program host at Beijing Television was a very important experience for her. "It was a fortuitous opportunity to become the host of a children's program, when the producer of the show was a fellow from Chongqing, and everyone had the same idea, so they got this opportunity." Compared with being a singer and actor, Yang Lei believes that being a host of a daily children's program is much more painful, and it is simply racking her brains.
"The daily children's program has a daily audience of children, children's mothers, to accompany them all the way to grow, such a program is to talk about conscience." At that time, it was very bitter, to ensure the daily operation of the program, there were also requirements for daily broadcast volume, and there was pressure to ensure the quality of the program, ratings and other aspects. But I gained a great sense of accomplishment, thinking of accompanying children to do crafts, tell stories, learn to dance, do games at the same time, but also integrate the little common sense and tricks in life into it. To this end, we have found friends who specialize in children's dance at the Beijing Dance Academy to help the program team to choreograph ancient Chinese poems and festivals with music into dances. She recalled.
Yang Lei on the "Bud of Life" solo tour
The more she tried, the more she knew what she was better at, "I was just stepping into this industry before, and I probably wanted to try it in all aspects, and at the beginning I also had a learning mentality." After experiencing it all, you will clear your mind, know what you are good at, and do more meaningful things through what you are good at. Now, I feel that I am better at making music, after all, I studied music education in college. I have a higher understanding and demand of my own music. I am well aware of the impact of music literacy education on the next generation, so when creating, I should take the initiative to assume the responsibility of value orientation and cultural inheritance. ”
He has filmed TV dramas in Chongqing and exchanged a lot with friends in his hometown
When she participated in "Super Girl" in Chengdu, she made a lot of local friends, and recently Yang Lei also mainly lived in Chengdu. For the characteristics of Chengdu and Chongqing, she talked about her own views, "Chongqing and Chengdu culture are not the same. Chongqing backs the mountains and the river, Chongqing people have a more heroic personality, looking at the river and looking at the mountains, the character is full of tenacity, and the bones are full of fighting spirit; Chengdu lives in the country of Tianfu, relatively leisure, not impatient. I am a typical Chongqing personality, for example, I identified a road, in the process I was pressured, criticized, and all kinds of unsuccessful times, I will not suppress, but the most reflective of the toughness of the bones, insist on doing things well. At present, Chengdu and Chongqing are 'forming CP' in all aspects to strive for common development, which I think is a good thing. ”
Yang Lei filmed the TV series "Legend of Hotpot" in Chongqing
A few years ago, Yang Lei also filmed a TV series called "Legend of Hotpot" in Chongqing. Speaking of this story, Yang Lei revealed her regret for the untimely death of her friend Li Run, the well-known local singer "Leap Earth". "Li Run is a very good friend of mine, and I participated in the filming of "Legend of hot pot" because of his invitation. When I received news of his death abroad, I didn't believe it was true because I had discussed the script with him the day before boarding. He is a very good singer in rap and pop music. Now, more and more crews are coming to Chongqing to shoot, and Yang Lei believes that this is because "Chongqing is really beautiful, it is a very unique city." ”
When she participated in "Super Girl", Yang Lei worked as a music teacher in a primary school. Until now, she has kept in touch with her colleagues.
"My family and relatives are in Chongqing, and I have contact with my colleagues and classmates who worked in Chongqing before. Now I often learn from my former colleagues and college classmates about the interests and hobbies of children now, such as 'what kind of songs children like to listen to now', 'how difficult is the memorization of ancient poems and the understanding of ancient texts for today's children and students'. Yang Lei said.
If there is an opportunity, Yang Lei hopes to create some musical works with Chongqing characteristics, "I find that everyone is still quite interested in rapping in Chongqing dialect." In the future, if I have the opportunity, I hope to create some music with Chongqing characteristics, especially a more international style of music with Chinese characteristics. ”
To go out of a different way, I want more people to love traditional Chinese culture
Yang Lei participates in "Super Girl"
Yang Lei still keeps in touch with the sisters who participated in "Super Girl" together, "We get together every year, and everyone basically comes to every party. We also have a group where people will chat. Our relationship this session is very good, even if some of the small partners now have families and babies, but no matter in which city, they will care about each other. Every year before New Year's Eve, we choose a time when everyone has time to get together. ”
Screenshot of the documentary "Shining Ordinary"
But on the road of "being an artist", Yang Lei's life trajectory is not much different from theirs. In addition to singing, acting, and hosting, she has also participated in many public welfare activities. Released at the beginning of the year, the theme of the new single "Ingenuity" is about intangible cultural heritage craftsmen. In the fifteenth episode of the short video "Shining Ordinary" launched by Mango TV this year, "Inheritor", Yang Lei also came to a Shu embroidery base in Chengdu with the host to interview Zhong Xiaoyu, a non-hereditary heir of Shu embroidery. The theme of the upcoming new song "Pilgrimage to Alexandria" is also the "Twenty-Four Solar Terms", which is the most familiar to the traditional Chinese calendar. In the future, she hopes to let more young people know about traditional Chinese culture through her various works.
"In the show "Super Girl", there are indeed some very successful musicians, who have been successful in terms of traffic and popularity in the current Chinese music scene, and it is very good to be able to lead and advocate young people to create more and better pop music." But everyone's requirements for themselves and the direction they want to go are different, and everyone has their own choices. "Yang Lei has always insisted on her choice and never regretted her decision.
"In the early years, I participated in some foreign activities, or did talk shows, filmed documentaries, etc., all of which were through cultural exchanges to make the world know more about China. When I go abroad, I will bring some Shu embroidered fans and handbags with embroidery (such as panjin embroidery) as gifts, and people abroad like these gifts very much, which also makes me understand more and more the meaning of the phrase 'the more Chinese, the more the world'. For example, the background of the creation of "Ingenuity" is to make a documentary about Shu embroidery. Many craftsmen in China who are engaged in the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage have a very difficult life. The purpose of making this song is to give a voice to these craftsmen and pay tribute to these traditional craftsmen. ”
Yang Lei hopes that more people will understand traditional Chinese culture
Yang Lei clearly knows that it is not easy to do this well, and friends around her also remind her that this road is difficult, "My friends are telling me that if there is no big platform support, you will definitely do a very difficult, very tired, very hard." But what I think is that if there is no one to promote traditional culture now, and there are no young people to pass it on, maybe in the future these will disappear. The reason why Yang Lei now likes to wear Chinese clothes is also because she "will not miss any opportunity to promote traditional Chinese culture." ”
"If I have the opportunity to encounter movies, TV series, music, etc. that introduce Chinese history and culture, traditions, I am also very interested in trying." I hope that there will be more ways to spread China's history and traditional culture in the future, and I hope that more friends will join. If our works accumulate to 20, 40, or even more in the future, whether I sing them or make them for others, we can let the traditional culture be understood by more young people. I sincerely hope that in the future, more young people will like and inherit China's traditional culture. ”
Upstream News • Chongqing Morning News reporter He Yan