"Eighteen bends in the mountain road here, nine links in the waterway here, two rows of mountain songs here, eighteen bends, bending out of the Tujia family's gold and silver village, nine consecutive rings, and connecting the Tujia's jewelry beach..."
In 1999, the famous young singer Li Qiong was invited to the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala as a soloist of the song "Eighteen Bends on the Mountain Road".
This melody is catchy, the lyrics are easy to understand the song, under her soulful singing won the applause of countless audiences, after the Spring Festival Gala, the song quickly spread all over the country.
With this song, Li Qiong, who became popular throughout the country, has also become a well-known popular singer and has gained a large number of loyal fans who love and support her!
What makes people feel strange is that Li Qiong, who became popular with a song "Eighteen Bends on the Mountain Road", rarely appeared in public in recent years, and rarely brought new works to fans and audiences who liked her, as if she had completely withdrawn from the music scene.
From the overnight popularity of that year to the fact that it has almost disappeared now, what has Li Qiong experienced in the past 23 years? Where has she gone now?
One
Born in 1976 in Wuhan, Hubei Province, Li Qiong grew up in an artistic family, her father was named Li Zuxun, an actor in the Chu Opera Troupe in Hubei Province, and also an inheritor of intangible cultural heritage.
Her mother's name was Hu Hanhua, and she was a propagandist for the troupe, and although her popularity and popularity were not as high as her father's, she was also engaged in art-related work.
Influenced by her parents, Li Qiong also developed a strong interest in art since childhood, and when she was a child, she especially liked to run behind her father, and every time she saw the actors in the troupe standing on the stage performing, she was particularly yearning to be able to stand on the stage like them and bloom her own light.
But unlike her father, Li Qiong's favorite thing is not acting, but singing.
Li Qiong, who loves to sing, especially likes to hum songs with the TV and radio, and when she is three or four years old, she can sing the songs in the cartoon in its entirety.
In addition to the songs in the cartoons, she also has a special love for popular songs, especially those songs sung by Teresa Teng, who was popular at the time, and she will hum them excitedly every time she hears them.
Seeing that Li Qiong liked singing so much, her father did not insist that she learn to act, but actively cultivated her interest in singing and found a professional teacher for her to teach her.
In addition, in order to let her accumulate a wealth of experience, from the age of five or six, her father took her to participate in various singing competitions.
Because the process of learning will inevitably be boring and upset, Li Qiong has also played a retreat and wanted to be lazy when practicing singing, but every time she wants to rest, her father will sternly say to her: "Go and learn, we will either not learn, if we want to learn, we must do our best, and we must not give up halfway!" ”
Under the strict education of her father, Li Qiong, who worked very hard when she was a child, laid a particularly solid foundation in her music.
In order to get more systematic and professional teaching, at the age of 14, Li Qiong, who was in the second year of junior high school, applied for the Hubei Provincial Art School under the advice of her father and successfully entered the school.
After that, she worked hard to learn cultural knowledge while learning the music she loved.
Two
After graduating from art school, Li Qiong was admitted to the vocal music class of Wuhan University and continued to study the vocal knowledge related to the music she loved.
Because she was particularly naughty at the time, and because she was the youngest student in the class, she not only became the most concerned one in the eyes of her classmates, but also left a deep impression on the teachers.
After she became famous, her teacher at the time also joked: "Even if she is not famous, she is still the deserved protagonist of every class reunion, because the story of her school cannot be told for three days and three nights." ”
But naughty is naughty, during college, Li Qiong did not forget her most important task, that is, to learn, in order to become a good singer, when she studied, she would desperately learn every time.
In addition to studying, she has been looking for good development opportunities, and in 1994, when she was about to graduate from the music class, she happened to meet Hubei Chutian Music Station to recruit a host at their school.
At that time, Li Qiong, who had not yet thought about where to go to develop, felt that this was a good development opportunity, although she did not know whether she could be successfully admitted, but she still signed up for the interview.
Later, with solid basic skills, she successfully passed the interview and became the host of the program "East, West, South, North and South Chinese Style".
Unfortunately, Li Qiong was forced to leave here after only half a month of internship, because she reported the wrong degree when broadcasting the weather forecast, and reported 28 degrees to 58 degrees, and the station director directly expelled her in a fit of anger.
After leaving the music station, Li Qiong joined the army under the auspices of her father and became a literary and artistic soldier.
Soon after entering the army, she signed up for the "Aote Cup" karaoke singing grand prix held in Hubei Province, and she not only successfully broke through the final, but also won the second prize of the grand prix in one fell swoop.
Due to her success in the singing contest and her usual good performance, in October 1995, Li Qiong, who was less than 20 years old, was transferred to the Hubei Provincial Armed Police Cultural and Labor Troupe and became a soloist in the Cultural and Labor Troupe.
Li Qiong, who worked hard to develop, launched many good works during this period, such as the song "There is a Girl" launched for flood control in 1998, which was recognized by countless people.
However, to say that Li Qiong really became popular, it still belongs to the stage of the CCTV Youth Song Contest.
Three
In 1998, in order to be able to develop better, after learning that CCTV was holding the Eighth National Young Singers Competition, Li Qiong signed up for the competition for the first time.
The judges of this competition are famous singers Li Guyi and Li Shuangjiang, and there are many famous and powerful singers among the participating singers, but despite this, Li Qiong still broke into the final with her super singing skills.
Because Li Qiong's voice is extremely recognizable, plus the singing ability and singing voice have no to say, so at that time, not only many media and audiences were particularly optimistic about her, but even Li Guyi, as a judge, directly said to her: "Whether you win the award in the end, the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe wants you." ”
But I don't know if it is because the outside world's voice is too high, so that things must be reversed, Li Qiong, who performed well in the final, did not win too high an award in the end, and only got an excellent award.
When the media and viewers who liked her saw this result, they raised objections, and many people even directly called CCTV, seeing that more and more viewers complained, forcing CCTV to temporarily change the rules of the game for her.
CCTV later decided to let Li Qiong and the first six winners play an extra game, from the previous format of letting the judges score to let the audience score, and finally decided a special prize.
The final result is undoubted, Li Qiong won the support of countless audiences and fans with a song "Three Gorges, My Hometown", and won the grand prize of this Youth Song Contest with an absolute advantage.
It is worth saying that before and after this, the "Grand Prize" of the Qingge Competition was only awarded to Li Qiong.
After experiencing this incident, CCTV added a "Favorite Singer of the National Audience" award in the subsequent Qing song competition competition, in order to avoid this situation like Li Qiong again.
Judging from the fact that the Qingge Song Contest had to change the rules for her, it can be seen how much Li Qiong was loved by the audience at that time!
Four
Li Qiong, who shined on the stage of the Youth Song Competition, not only gained a large number of fans who loved and supported her, but also was transferred to the Chinese Armed Police Cultural and Labor Troupe to develop on a larger stage.
At the same time, she also attracted the attention of CCTV, since the end of the Youth Song Contest, she seems to have become a regular visitor of CCTV, and has been invited to record many CCTV programs, and also attended many literary and artistic activities and evenings.
In 1999, she also appeared on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala with her super popularity, and with the help of the song "Eighteen Bends of the Mountain Road" performed that night, she became popular all over the country.
In addition to being loved by the audience, the song she sang also won five one project awards for her, the second prize of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala My Favorite Program Selection in 1999, the CCTV Music Grand Prize Eagle Award, and so on.
Since then, Li Qiong has been active on the stage of CCTV, successively participating in CCTV's May Day party, the 50th anniversary award party for the National Day and so on.
In 2000, after a gap of two years, she participated in the CCTV Youth Song Competition again, but unfortunately, this time she not only failed to get good results, but also caused a lot of criticism.
This time to participate in the Youth Song Contest was a task given to her by the Cultural and Labor Troupe, and since she was only 10 days away from the start of the contest when she was not informed, she did not have much time to prepare her work this time compared to the previous competition.
Thinking about it, she finally decided to sing the song "Boatman's Horn" on the field, and what she did not expect was that in addition to the rush of time, there was an accident in the course of the competition.
Li Qiong, who was originally a little nervous because of the rush of time, when it was her turn to play, because the host Zhu Xun read "Li Qiong from the Armed Police Literary and Labor Corps" to "Li Qiong from the Armed Police Literary and Labor Corps", she thought that it was not her, so she hesitated for a few seconds offstage.
When the staff reminded her, Li Qiong realized that it was her, and it was for a few seconds that li Qiong's entire performance rhythm was completely disrupted.
Later, when she sang on stage, she kept thinking about Zhu Xun's slip of the tongue just now, although in the end she sang the whole song perfectly, but in the link where the hat was supposed to be thrown at the photographer, she threw the hat directly to the judges under the stage, resulting in the controversial "hat incident" at that time.
Although Li Shuangjiang, who was one of the judges at the time, praised her performance, she did not get the opportunity to enter the final because of the other judges.
However, it is worth saying that although this experience has brought a lot of criticism and caused a lot of blows to Li Qiong, it has not affected her singing career.
Five
After the competition, Li Qiong continued to be active in the public eye, first launching her debut album of the same name "Li Qiong", and then taking the song "Boatman's Trumpet", which she lost on the stage of the Youth Song Contest, on the stage of the 2000 CCTV Spring Festival Song and Dance Gala.
Since then, Li Qiong has been active on the stage of CCTV, and has appeared on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala many times, performing song and dance works such as "Lao Wang" and "Singing Mountain Song".
In addition, in 2005, she was invited to serve as a judge in the Hubei Division of the 12th Youth Song Competition, transforming herself from a contestant who sang on the stage before and became a respected judge teacher.
In 2008, she developed her career very well, after the Wenchuan earthquake, she drove to Mianyang, Mianzhu, Deyang, Guangyuan and other places in Sichuan for the first time as a volunteer, sending "light" and "companionship" to the disaster area.
Among them, "light" refers to the 500 flashlights and 500 emergency lights she left behind, and "companionship" refers to 200 small electric fans and 1,000 small cloth dolls, and she is kind-hearted, trying to use her ability to help those in need.
As for why we should risk so much danger to do these things in the first place, Li Qiong said: "Even if you climb in, you must also send supplies to everyone, cheer for everyone, and sing for everyone!" ”
It may be that this volunteer experience left too deep an impression on her, and after she returned, Li Qiong's entire mentality changed.
Six
Having been active on the stage before, she is no longer obsessed with developing her own singing career, and she began to think about how to repay this society and let more people hear beautiful songs.
Therefore, in addition to continuing to participate in some large-scale events and evenings, she rarely appeared in front of the public again, and she focused on following the literary troupe to perform in various places and cultivating young singers.
Since 2013, she has rarely participated in even large events and evenings, almost as if she had retired.
And behind the silent efforts of her, these years of hard work has also achieved very good results, she not only and the colleagues of the cultural troupe to perform all over the country, to achieve the dream of more people to hear her singing, but also cultivated a lot of young outstanding singers.
In addition, she also created China's first female electronic band called "PAP Female Electro-Acoustic Band".
In order to help the development of this girl band, as a teacher, she has also returned to the screen in recent years and appeared to participate in the recording of many entertainment variety shows.
For example, in 2020, she has faded from the public eye for many years, appeared on the stage of Hunan Satellite TV's popular variety show "Every Day Upward", and performed the song "Eighteen Bends of mountain road" that everyone remembers vividly on the stage.
In addition, she later participated in programs such as "Hi Sing Up" hosted by Xie Na, but unfortunately, she did not return to the development of the entertainment industry, but after the end of the promotion, she once again faded out of the public eye.
Li Qiong, who is now 46 years old, although she is still very young as an artist, she has given up the opportunity to develop her career better and is living the life she wants in a low-key manner.
Still chasing music, she hopes to be able to make real music than before, rather than relying on her previous works and popularity to attract everyone's attention.
This point is really much better than many young artists who do whatever it takes to become popular today, or who only know how to spend themselves desperately after becoming popular.
However, for the fans and audiences who like and support her, everyone still hopes that Li Qiong can continue to return to the public.
After all, as a singer, both her work and strength are obvious to all.
Compared with those young artists who can only rely on physical conditions and various gimmicks to win eyeballs, more people like powerful artists like her.
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