Upon learning the news that the singer Kerim had died of illness, I silently opened my mobile phone and relived the melodies that had been sung for many years, "Lift Up Your Hijab", "The Girl of Dabancheng", "The Song of Avanti", "The River of hometown"... For more than half a century, these songs have not faded with the times, and under the brisk and lively interpretation of Crimean, they still have fresh vitality, and this artistic power through time and space is not something that anyone can have. >>> Kerim died, Yu Junjian recalled: He let us hear Uyghur music
Crimea in his youth.
Crimea has its own extraordinary features. After Crimean's death, CCTV host Nigmat tweeted in mourning, "The old lad who jumped around on the stage... He likes to talk to the audience, talk about everything... Putting on that dress, he walked up to the stage like the 18-year-old hairy boy who had just come to Beijing..." This evaluation is kind and in place, depicting for us the image of Crimea regarding art as life, performing in a cheerful and humorous style, and having no sense of distance from the audience. Can be called "old boy" by the younger generation, it can also be seen that he is an old man without shelves.
The Uyghur artist from an artistic family joined the army with his parents at the age of 11 and began his own artistic career in the 1950s, basically going through various periods in the literary and art circles after 1949. As the first singer to sing Uyghur songs in Chinese, his works integrate a large number of Xinjiang regional cultural characteristics, and also integrate the artistic experience of multiple ethnic groups - for example, the song "Tarim River" has the musical style of the three ethnic minorities of Uyghurs, Tajiks and Kazakhs, and can be called a "music messenger" of ethnic cultural exchanges.
Although the main theme works formed in the 1950s and 1960s have a profound imprint of the times, in the context of the changes of the times, with the efforts of a large number of people who have high hopes for a new life, there are many rare masterpieces that have been handed down. In the 1950s, the country needed a large number of works that met the needs of the times and had a new creative concept to praise the new era, so a large number of new generation artists and works emerged in the cultural and artistic circles of that year, which is why the 18-year-old Crimean was able to emerge in the second all-army literary and art show in 1959.
Crimea wears national costumes.
Words and deeds are not far away, and good works can have more powerful vitality. The luck of Crimea is that he met Wang Luobin, a Si people who have lived in Xinjiang for more than fifty years, and have sorted out and created many excellent musical works, which not only have strong national characteristics, but also respond to the needs of the times. It can be said that Wang Luobin's creative concept has greatly influenced the development process of ethnic music in Xinjiang after 1949. Wang Luobin also has a clear understanding, in 1958 he heard that Uncle Kurban Turumi came to Beijing to see Chairman Mao's deeds, he created "Day and Night Miss chairman Mao", naming and letting Kerim sing, so that it could be a blockbuster. Crimea was deeply influenced by it, not only "Day and Night Miss chairman Mao", "The Girl of Dabancheng", "Alam Khan", "Lift Your Hijab" and other masterpieces are mostly wang luobin's works, he later created "Where are you uncle Kurban" and "Tarim River" and other works.
In addition, there are many flashes in Crimea's performance, such as the theme song sung for the feature film "Avanti", which very accurately constructs the image of Avanti, making people think that the uncle holding the microphone is also Avanti himself. Sorting out and experiencing traditional culture requires a lot of work, you need to endure loneliness, and many of Crimean's works show the artist's solid basic skills.
In addition, Crimean's personal style laid the foundation for his enduring artistic life. According to the data, Crimean has been humorous and funny since he was a child, and in his subsequent artistic creations, he has very organically integrated his personal personality and stage style, and his performance is also a combination of singing and dancing, which is very good at mobilizing the atmosphere, even if the performance of the ancient rare years is the same. This is scarce in the main theme artist, and many people's performances and lives are clear, of course, this is not a point to blame. Nowadays, many main theme creations have fallen into the embarrassing situation of propositional composition or even performance with their throats pinched, and The artistic image of Crimea and its concept of forever maintaining the vitality of art are still worth learning from many young practitioners now.
More than half a century has passed, the times have undergone earth-shaking changes, and the things that were popular in that year may have long been annihilated in the dust of history today, but the cheerful melodies sung by Crimean still echo in the streets and alleys and on various stages, which is the memory of the times and the traditional reward.
Today, When Kerim passed away, he must have gone with joy, as the chant in the Song of Avanti reads, "I ride on that little donkey and enjoy it, and the song accompanies me to ride the wind... Ride the wind..."
□ He Shu I (Reviewer)
Beijing News Editor Wu Longzhen Proofreader Li Shihui