Singer Kerim
"Lift up your hijab, let me see your eyebrows, your eyebrows are thin and long, like the treetops bending the moon..." The song "Lift Your Hijab" was once popular all over the country, and the singer Kerim was a famous musician in the country. In addition, he has also brought you popular songs such as "The Girl of Dabancheng" and "Song of Avanti". Red Star News learned that at 00:30 a.m. on March 3, the beloved musician died of heart failure in Beijing at the age of 79. "My father's health has always been good, and there were no signs before, which was too sudden for us." Crime's son, Ke Nguyen Xi, told Red Star News that after handling the relevant matters, he would bring his father's body back to Xinjiang for burial.
Crimea, born on June 12, 1940 in Turpan, Xinjiang, is a famous Uyghur tenor singer, dancer, film and television actor, a member of the Communist Party of China, and a national first-class actor of the General Political Song and Dance Troupe. In his long-term artistic practice, he has created and sung a large number of performance songs with national characteristics and humor. He composed and sang "Where Are You Going uncle Kurban", "Song of Avanti", "Tarim River, River of Hometown", "Ode to dear party" and other popular songs that have won many awards in the whole army and the whole country, and participated in the 1998 and 2008 CCTV Spring Festival Gala. In 2010 he participated in the filming of the New Year film "Yolt Sonata". In 2016, he won the honorary title of top artist of the 10th Hundred Flowers Award Art Conference.
"Very sudden and quite unexpected, my father's health has always been very good, there were no signs before, it was very sudden for us, although the doctor carried out all-out rescue, but he still left..." His son Ke Ruanxi confessed frankly, his father Kerim has a deep affection for Xinjiang, and has a deep affection for the land that raised him, he once said: "As a Xinjiang person, I feel very proud." So Ke Nguyen Xi said that after handling the relevant matters, he would bring his father's body back to Xinjiang for burial.
Former executive vice chairman and secretary general of the Xinjiang Musicians Association, Tong Jisheng, the father of Tong Liya, only attended a party with Crimea in January, "at which he was in a very good state, and sang two songs in a row, "The Girl of Dabancheng" and "Ode to the Dear Party", which was too unexpected." Tong Jisheng told Red Star News that as long as there is Kerim, the atmosphere of the performance is very warm, he will bring laughter wherever he goes, and the audience will also give the warmest applause to their favorite Kerim.
Hong Qi, executive secretary of the Music Promotion Association and a music artist from Xinjiang, was shocked by The crime's death, "We grew up listening to Mr. Crimean's songs, and his image and singing voice are a symbol and symbol of the times in Xinjiang. His death represents the end of an era in Xinjiang's musical culture. ”
In 2019, he accompanied the Oriental Satellite TV's precision poverty alleviation public welfare documentary program "We Are in Action" to Visit the Local Badan Wood Industry and Help Local Villagers Get Rid of Poverty and Increase Income. And the people who have cooperated and contacted him are infected by his frankness and easy-going. "At the end of November last year, I was going to meet with Mr. Crimea on a music program, but because of my work, I regretted missing it." Yi Bo, the director of CCTV, has a lot of contacts with Crimea because of his work. In her eyes, Mr. Crimean has no shelf and takes every episode of the program recorded seriously. "More than ten years ago, we chatted together, talking about a program that was very prestigious at that time, the private atmosphere was very poor, the singers all looked for judges to pull relations, Mr. Crimea could not stand this atmosphere, directly refused to be a judge, very frank." Coincidentally, the last time Yibo and Mr. Crime met was in Chengdu. "At the end of 2014 in Chengdu, when I was working on the documentary "Looking for Wang Luobin", I always wanted to interview Mr. Kerim for more than half a year, and finally completed the interview with him in Chengdu."
Crimea with CCTV director Yi Bo
Red Star News reporter Ren Hongwei Editor Li Xueli According to the interviewee