A few years ago, the TV station launched a music program "I Am a Singer". One day, when recording a program, a female singer who was not familiar with everyone came on stage, some people did not know, a look of disdain, some people recognized her, shouted loudly. This female singer is a bit special, do not rehearse, do not try the equipment, the sound engineer tuned well, took the microphone, directly started singing, the technique shocked four seats. Looking into her somewhat strange left eye, I suddenly remembered her name: Luo Qi. The female singer who once played a prominent role in The Chinese rock circle.
Listening to her, she is not alone now, but also with the baby in the belly to sing together on the stage, Dong Xiao Monkey is a little confused, I heard that over the years, Luo Qi was blinded by someone in the left eye, left the stage, drug addiction, and drug rehabilitation success, what happened to her over the years? I couldn't help but be curious and turned on the computer.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > a flawed childhood</h1>
Luo Qi was born on June 6, 1975 in Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, Nanchang is not a big place, Luo Qi, like other children, in the limited entertainment activities, find fun. Coincidentally, Luo Qi's parents are also very avant-garde, like to listen to songs and sing. The child does not know what music, what can make her happy, she remembers.
In the fifth grade of elementary school, Luo Qi's parents divorced, his brother and sister were sentenced to his father, and Luo Qi lived with his mother. The broken happy family and the whispers of classmates and neighbors make the 10-year-old girl become sensitive and inferior, and a crack gradually arises in her heart. At this time, you always have to find something to fill the loss, some people choose love, and some people fall into the rebellious world.
Luo Qi became obsessed with breakdancing, fights and skipping class became commonplace, and the more he lost from his parents, the more he wanted to find it back elsewhere. But in the end, she failed to find the shortcomings of her soul, but in exchange for a withdrawal notice. Luo Qi came to the school alone, signed in the principal's office, shook his head, and left in a dashing manner. In this way, 13-year-old Luo Qi completely bid farewell to the campus, and the road ahead was muddy and confused. When the mother found out, it was too late, and after scolding her daughter, she had to arrange for her daughter to work in her garment factory and sew sleeves for her clothes. After not sewing the sleeves for a few days, Luo Qi was bored, and this work was more tiring than reading. Taking advantage of her mother's lack of attention, she escaped from the garment factory and formed a band with a few friends. After practicing for a while, the band joined a folk song and dance troupe in a neighboring county. At that time, Luo Qi earned 3 yuan a day, and every day porridge was pickled, but he was very happy.
The little girl practiced the piano and did chores every day in the song and dance troupe. One day, the lead singer was sick and couldn't come, Luo Qi took the microphone and sang a song "Little Girl under the Street Lamp", (this song is the Chinese version of Deng Jieyi's cover of Modern Talking's "Brother Louie" in 1987) shocked everyone: The little girl can ah! It's you later! From that day on, Luo Qi began to use his voice to support his own life. Except for music, she has nothing to be trusted for, and drinking and racing has become a way to pass the time and fill the loneliness. Luo Qi, who was only 13 years old, wondered if she thought that this was the end of the motorcycle at the moment when the motorcycle flew off the road. After waking up, Luo Qi, who was seriously injured in the brain, had to accept the fact that the two metal plates were embedded in his head. At the age of 13, we are still fooling around in school, and 13-year-old Luo Qi, after recovering from his illness, made a big decision for his life, saving money to go to Beijing and go to the capital to kill a piece of the sky! The realm of arrogance and arrogance, lonely and defeated, has already stood out in this 13-year-old female doll, perhaps Luo Qi had already vaguely felt that in 20 years, no one would surpass him.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > girl singing rock' and roll</h1>
In the early 1990s, Chinese rock and roll was on the right track and entered the best era: Ding Wu and Tang Dynasty took everyone to "Dream Back to the Tang Dynasty" to peek at the bright moon in the cup; Dou Wei and Black Panther joked about the "Facebook" of the first generation of Chinese rockers; Cui Jian's "Nothing", which made young people throughout China understand the extreme scarcity of their spiritual world. Everyone tore their masks and desperately needed an outlet for catharsis: rock and roll.
In Beijing in the early 1990s, the rock elite of the country gathered at that time. Luo Qi is one of the few musicians who went north to Beijing. At that time, she had a simple idea, found a place, sang a song, and ate a mixed meal. I never thought that one day, I would become China's Joan Jett.
American rock actress Joan Jett
At the beginning of 1992, Luo Qi was 16 years old and came to the foot of the capital alone to live at a friend's house. At that time, in the major audio-visual product markets, there were many foreign playing discs and tapes. I remember that at that time, one of my buddies next door got a lot of tapes and CDs with broken shells, and we didn't have any equipment, so we ran to the cab of the van to listen to the tapes. It is estimated that it was at that time that Luo Qi heard about the state on the other side of the ocean. Bon Jovi, shocked. The soul of rock and roll is the resonance with the creator, although the lyrics cannot be understood, but the story in the voice of Joe Gang lord deeply infects Luo Qi, her voice and heart, all hope to get a catharsis, and rock music is the best horn.
In that era, female vocal lead singers were rare, and in 1987, Wei Hua of the Breathing Band became the first female rock lead singer to enter the public eye. Then in 1989, the first all-girl rock band Cobra was born. The market began to change, and the voices that everyone wanted to hear were not only men.
Wei Hua and her "Breathing Band"
Five girls from the band Cobra
When he first arrived in Beijing, Luo Qi established himself in major bars and nightclubs and began his residency career. Her natural voice, almost the first song of the night, shocked all the audience, and no one could take their eyes off this little girl.
In the Beijing music circle, there is a big guy-level Bole ---- Wang Xiaojing who cannot be left unnoticed.
"The Godfather of Music" Wang Xiaojing
He can be said to be the leader of the Chinese music scene in the early 1990s: he has discovered and won the popularity of Cui Jian, Reincarnation Band, Chen Lin, Jiang Shan, Women's Twelve Music Workshop and other musicians. Wang Xiaojing single-handedly planned China's first solo concert, "Rock on the New Long March Road", which brought Cui Jian and rock music from the ground to the ground.
On this day, in the North China Hotel. Cui Jian was singing at his own party, and Wang Xiaojing came over to cheer. After Cui Jian stepped down, a young girl sneaked onto the stage, a deep breath, the prelude sounded, it was the ugly man Zhao Chuan's "I am a little bird", Wang Xiaojing came to be interested: Hey, a girl, singing Zhao Chuan's song, I have to look. As soon as Luo Qi opened his throat, Wang Xiaojing was stunned, Oh no, it was completely stupid.
In this way, Wang Xiaojing signed Luo Qi. As early as before, a group of young people from Sichuan and Chongqing who came to the capital: keyboardist Guo Liang, bassist Hu Xiaohai, guitarist Zhou Di and drummer Zheng Zhaohui, had been taken under Wang Xiaojing's command, and Luo Qi's joining made them form the Compass Band. In May 1992, Luo Qi's first rock song "Don't Want to Be a Child Anymore" was born, and then they couldn't control it, and the name of the compass burned all over the country. This 18-year-old, underage female lead singer, full of aura, the chest cavity seems to be not air, but flames, every time the voice is opened, everyone will be killed on the spot.
June 1992, mountain city of Chongqing. Dong Xiaohu, as a post-80s native of Chongqing, has some memories of that concert. A few years old baby, where have heard of any rock music, of course, do not dare to ask parents for money to listen to any concert, but can not suppress the curiosity. Adults and children alike are full of interest and discussion about this large rock concert called "Mountain City Night".
This concert was the first major performance of the Compass Band. As the opening band, the whole band was not excited, but more nervous and panicked. Before taking the stage, even Luo Qi, who had always been confident, shook his legs. However, this is the hometown of keyboardist Guo Liang and guitarist Zhou Di, and the audience in Shancheng responded to the compass band and Luo Qi with their warmest shouts.
Guo Liang and Zhou Di
The 17-year-old little girl, breaking through the cocoon into a butterfly, opened her throat and successfully conquered all the audiences present, which made Compass and Luo Qi completely transform into a mature Chinese rock band. (In a sense, this concert had a great impact on the young people in Chongqing at that time, and the self-written and self-singing form of rock music, which released the inner singing, deeply touched us who were in urgent need of emotional catharsis at that time)
Success brings not only confidence, but also creative inspiration. Zhou Di, who came from a science class, exploded with amazing creative power and completed the compass band's first album in a very short period of time: "Choose To Be Strong". The title song of the same name has become a classic divine comedy in the hearts of rock fans. Many songs on the album, such as "Do Whatever You Want", "I Don't Have a Distance", "Back" and so on, are also created by Zhou Di, and the sales volume has long been at the top of the charts, and to this day it is also a regular in many post-80s playlists. The music scene has given Chongqing musical talent Zhou Di a high honor, and in the 1996 ten-year review of the pop music scene, Zhou Di and "Compass" won the contribution award. Compass is also among the top bands in the Chinese rock music scene, and the first high-level rock compilation album in mainland China, Rock Beijing, invited the head band of the rock era to participate in the recording of ---- "Black Panther", "Breathe", "Cobra", "Compass", "Reincarnation", "Xindi" and "Overload".
Originally everything was developing on the good side, and it was no accident that Luo Qi, with his unique musical talent and compass cohesion, could support Chinese mainland half of the Chinese music scene in the next decade. Unlike other female singers, Luo Qi is stubborn, rebellious, and tough not to lose to men, which can be said to be the most eye-catching in Chinese rock circles.
But if the script of life is written like this, then Luo Qi's later story will not become a legend in the history of Chinese rock.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > from heaven to hell</h1>
In 1993, Luo Qi had just turned 18, and this year, she was blind in her left eye. In fact, in the formal channels, Luo Qi never talked in detail about what happened that night. Most of the people who know about this experience come from her friends' stories. Luo Bing, a talented man who dropped out of Peking University, was found by Wang Xiaojing to write songs for the compass, and the words "Do As You Want", "Come Back", and "I Have No Far Away" are all from Luo Bing's hand. Years later, Luo Bing published a book that told in detail about his story with Luo Qi and the compass. Although subtle, I can still see that he and Luo Qi seem to have nothing, bit by bit of affection, and this book also records Luo Qi's encounter in 1993.
Lyricist, writer, poet, Luo Bing
Luo Bing's autobiography "My Music"
[That morning, I was asleep when suddenly someone was frantically knocking on the door.] Wang Xiaojing shouted, "Follow me to the hospital!" Luo Qi's eyes made people blind! It was raining heavily that day, and the wind was sharp, but it wasn't cold. The summer weather is always intense, like some kind of emotion, more like some kind of fate . Zhou Diyue Haokun and I got on Wang Xiaojing's rock jeep, drove to the middle of the road, and suddenly turned off. Braving the pouring rain, several people called a car to rush to Chaoyang Hospital and said that they had been transferred to their colleagues. Rushing to my colleagues, the aisle was full of people, and the ophthalmologist was full of mutilated eyes, shooting blankly at us. "Xiaojing!" He Yong pounced on him drunk and cried loudly: How the am I, how can I be so instigated! I've never peed so much (suī)! Jiang Xin and Hou Wei were cold, tired, and leaning on the bed in a daze.
I searched everywhere and rushed into the emergency room. I have never seen a person's eyes bleed into so many, so thick basins beneath her that even the emergency bed is almost empty, and it will overflow and overflow on the ground. She always surprised me, always showed me many new things, but this time, how I wished I had seen nothing, and she, nothing had happened.
She had a birthday with a female companion. She drank high, pinched the man, and the man overspoken, and the man grabbed a beer bottle, slammed it on the table, and held the remaining half and stabbed her in the face. She was riding a motorcycle with a boy when she was a child, and once fell out, and there were now two pieces of alloy in her head, so the moment the glass spike came, she forgot to protect her eyes, but instinctively held her head, afraid of being hurt again. But this action allowed the sharp glass blade to penetrate her hands, pierce her eyelids, and pierce her left eyeball. "It must be taken off", the attending doctor said to Wang Xiaojing, "are you her relative?" Sign it, don't pick it, you can't keep it. "Is there no other way?" Wang Xiaojing couldn't wait to ask. No, her eyeballs were empty inside, like a grape skin. Luo Qi had not yet fully woken up from his drunkenness, still in the blood, convulsing slightly, and quietly shouting: "Mother... Mom..." A few minutes later, Wang Xiaojing signed the operation book, and after a few minutes, an earth-shattering scream came from the operating room. 】
Afterwards, the doctor found the group and said viciously, "She's the one who sang rock'n' roll, right?" You guys, who usually take narcotics all the time, really reached the critical moment, look at her! How much dicaine was played? Nothing at all! It can be seen that at that time, Luo Qi had already begun to contact drugs, and those unfortunate experiences in childhood did not make Luo Qi feel safe, she needed to hallucinate her brain to spend those sleepless nights.
The plucked eyeball was soaked in a glass bottle by Luo Qi with formalin and carried with him. "What is on a human body cannot be lost." She said hatefully.
The murderer was caught, and the children of high-ranking cadres in Beijing escaped the disaster by relying on mental illness as an excuse. Luo Qi hated, she had loved and hated since she was a child, but she had to compromise. She cleaned and bandaged the wound and fixed her prosthetic eyes.
At this time, the compass encountered unprecedented difficulties, they had just caught fire in the country, and the lack of the lead singer would make their heat immediately cool. Zhou Xiaoou of the Zero Point Band behind him, Wu Tong of the AGAIN Band (Reincarnation), everyone wants to get a piece of the best years of Chinese rock, and if the compass does not move forward, it will only be forgotten.
The 1993 "Olympics: Light of China" rock concert was crucial to the compass. Although the doctor told the band owners more than once that Luo Qi could not get on the plane, otherwise the excessively low air pressure would make her prosthetic eyes burst out of the orbits and she could not sing hard, especially the high notes, which would also squeeze out the prosthetic eyes.
But Luo Qi still took the pain and stepped onto that stage. Before the opening, she said softly: "After so many days, thank you for your support of me, we will repay you with more wonderful performances!" Compass is always with you guys! ”
That night was exciting, another Beijing rock group exhibition after Cui Jian's 1986 rock concert. Wang Xiaojing said: As long as the bid to host the Olympic Games is successful, everything will be loosened, the economy will develop, the politics will be reformed, and we will get better and better. Unfortunately, that time did not succeed.
That winter, a TV station in Shanghai was going to hold a grand festival party, and all the big names would be present. The TV station did not want a band, only a singer, Wang Xiaojing had to leave the compass and take Luo Qi, Luo Bing, and Chen Lin to Shanghai.
During the rehearsal, a director-like person came over to point and pick and choose, and asked Luo Qi to pull up the long hair that covered his forehead. Luo Qi did so, revealing the snow-white gauze on his left eye. The director became impatient and scolded her for taking off the gauze, and Wang Xiaojing hurriedly explained: "The wound is not good, she is blind..."
What the?! The director was furious: "She's blind?! How did you do it, find me a blind man!" ”
Everyone present was dumbfounded, and Luo Qi's face was again the familiar indifference, but this time, there was still a little mockery.
Back in Beijing, the band's brothers learned of the incident and were silent. In these years of getting along, everyone has taken care of Luo Qi as if she were her little sister, she is only 18 years old! Even if you only have one eye, you are still full of energy, and you can't just go down like this!
Something good must be come up with to let the director understand what is dog-eyed people looking down.
The album "Choose Strong" can be said to be a kind of commemoration of Luo Qi by everyone, commemorating the past years. The kind of strength that Luo Qi showed at that time was unattainable for a girl, even a boy. She was no longer playful, nor as indifferent as she once was, and her right eye was shining. She gritted her teeth and stayed up late practicing with the band. Everyone is pushing themselves, and they know that only by making things by strength can they continue to mix in the music circle. The album did not disappoint the listeners, and it brought another round of honors to Roche and Compass.
However, nothing is absolutely eternal, and perhaps from the day Luo Qi lost his left eye, many things have changed.
Soon after, due to many factors, the band left Wang Xiaojing to develop independently. In this case, the compass is no longer the original compass. Luo Qi also seemed to have disappeared. Only Luo Bing, who was obsessed with Luo Qi's figure, always had a concern and worry about her. What will her talent, her willfulness, her loneliness, ultimately bring her?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > self-redemption</h1>
Fast forward to 1997, when Luo Bing had become a well-known musician and was working as a judge on a radio station in Shanghai. On this day, he received a phone call, the famous record company Bo Li Jiayin bought Luo Qi's contract from Wang Xiaojing.
Signed Dou Wei's Hong Kong company: Poli Jiayin
They found Luo Qi's old partner Luo Bing to continue to write songs and make new albums for her. Luo Bing was very happy to learn that Luo Qi was still singing, of course, more because he could see her again.
Luo Bing suddenly seemed to have changed a person, and began to look for songs. Stir up most of the Beijing music circle. But as soon as everyone heard that they were helping Luo Qi find songs, they were very excited, and it was every musician's dream to let Luo Qi's natural voice sing his own songs. However, at this moment, Bo Li Jiayin called with a heavy tone, telling Luo Bing that the signing of the contract had to be postponed indefinitely. Luo Bing was very surprised, and hurried to ask the reason, after hearing the answer, he felt as if his soul had been pumped out, and his brain was buzzing.
Just the day before, Luo Qi had a drug addiction attack in Nanjing and got into a taxi. Luo Qi, who was already in a trance, pulled the driver and asked him to pull himself to buy drugs, and the driver was not ambiguous, and a car pulled Luo Qi into the police station.
Luo Qi became the first drug addict singer to be publicly exposed in the domestic entertainment industry, and suddenly became a figure on the cusp of the storm, when she just turned 22 years old. The identity of the former lead singer of the compass band made all major newspapers, magazines and television stations chase her to report, and for a moment Luo Qi seemed to be red again. But this time the explosion is heartbreaking. The people who knew her, the old friends of the compass, felt very uncomfortable.
After that, Luo Qi embarked on the road of compulsory drug rehabilitation, and no one dared to guarantee that a girl in her early 20s could quit drugs. She went to Germany, where she met her future husband, Jan, and quickly flashed her marriage. After marriage, Jan has been guarding Luo Qi and helping her completely quit her drug addiction. But years later they separated, and Roach's current husband, a Dutch doctor of literature.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > start all over again</h1>
In 2003, Luo Qi returned to China with her husband Jan, who has been working on film, this time to help promote Jackie Chan's new film "Around the World in 80 Days". It has been 6 years since she left home, and Luo Qi has also picked up the microphone in Germany, but she can't find the feeling she had before, and she is not happy. What she misses is the Chinese stage, and her former musical friends.
In 2004, compass gathered at the Helan Mountain Music Festival, Luo Qi opened his voice, those who knew, those who did not know, were shocked: the voice of the first chinese rock woman, never went far.
He Yong did his best for this activity, for the sake of the compass reunion, he always felt remorse for not being able to protect Luo Qi that year. No matter when Luo Qi received any criticism on the Internet, He Yong stood up for the first time and expressed solidarity with Luo Qi.
At the 2009 Changsha Music Festival, Luo Qi once again met He Yong, standing next to him, and Zhang Chu. All three laughed, and they were all old. Those best years are gone.
Goodbye youth, goodbye to the best of times
At the end of 2012, Hunan Satellite TV began to prepare for the production of the music competition program "I Am a Singer", the producers thought about it, some people, representing a generation, they found Luo Qi.
At that time, Luo Qi already had her own child, and she was pregnant, but she still chose to stand on the stage, as she herself once said, she was obsessed with the days of singing on the stage. Luo Qi does not rehearse, does not audition, can sing with a microphone, and his LIVE ability is comparable to that of a recording studio.
As soon as Luo Qi opened her voice, she immediately reminded everyone of her, the lead singer of compass, China's first rock female voice. The song has never changed, but Luo Qi's character has become gentle. She never complained about the staff, no matter how high the tone, it was all real singing, never using false voices. Even if you have been wronged, you are not willing to argue with people, perhaps because you have experienced too many ups and downs over the years, and many things have long been looked down upon. Fame and honor are not as good as the free singing on the stage, and happiness comes.
Years later, Luo Qi also returned to the drug rehabilitation center to visit the correctional police
In 2014, when singing the sixth program, Luo Qi withdrew from the competition, because the baby in her belly was 7 months old, and Luo Qi, who once regarded singing as the whole of her life, also knew how to sacrifice, for her own children, she could give up anything.
On April 18, 2014, Luo Qi gave birth to a son and was promoted to mother
< h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > new life</h1>
After becoming a mother, Luo Qi is no longer a person, she has her own family, and the weaknesses she once had have become her armor to protect her children. She found a new life and became a singer again. Unlike other old-age celebrities who have been digging for gold. Luo Qi, 45, seems to have never left the stage in the past 30 years. Any song, just hand her the microphone, and open your voice to hit the soul. No tuning, no borrowing, every sentence is a real voice. This is also why after 20 years, it can still be said that Chinese mainland, no female singer can take over the mantle of Luo Qi's "first female singer in the mainland rock and roll industry".
Luo Qi also posted her recent situation on her own Weibo, and successive performances made her live younger and younger, as if she had found the feeling of that year.
When she was a teenager, her parents divorced, and the little girl felt abandoned, and went to Beijing alone, seeing the bigger world and meeting more friends. Luo Qi experienced brilliance and bleakness. Some things are unforgivable, but Luo Qi, with his amazing perseverance, quit drugs (as far as I know, only a complete drug rehabilitation can give birth to a healthy baby), and used practical actions to atone for his past, which was forgiven by old friends and the public.
Some people fell into the abyss, did not get up again, went with the flow, and disappeared in front of everyone. Some people have been fighting against fate all their lives, and nothing can bring her down. Luo Qi is the latter, in his bones, there is a fire hidden, and only when his heart is full of strength and fire can he sing such a sonorous and high-pitched song. Rock life, not Luo Qi!
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