♪ You are so special, how can I be disappointed ♫
Every day at 9:30 a.m., Sister Yi is waiting for you here
Text | Sister Yi (Zhou Guiyi) Sister Shan
The audience reputation of the 2023 Spring Festival Gala is generally not high, and the only song that has been frantically forwarded by everyone is the sudden golden song, "Is a Mother is a Daughter", which was rated as "the best in the audience" by netizens.
The singers of this song are Shilinnayi Gao and Wong Qishan.
In February, at the "Time Concert", Huang Qishan appeared in the circle for the first time, changing from "Mother Huang" back to "Sister Huang".
Everyone said that the current Huang mother is so beautiful and temperamental.
Some netizens took out her photo from 8 years ago for comparison, and very directly explained what is called "reverse growth".
Who is Emily Wong?
She debuted at the same time as Na Ying, and her debut was known as a "heavenly singer" and enjoyed a "great reputation" among professional singers.
She and Han Hong are on the same stage, and Han Hong has always been "bullied"; She imitated Su Rui, so much so that Su Rui was in awe of her.
Netizens said that Huang Qishan comes with a "tuner unemployment mode", and her voice does not need to be repaired at all.
She is recognized by the music industry as "iron lung high voice" and "Asia's first female voice".
But Huang Qishan, who debuted at the age of 23, has been dormant in the music industry for 22 years before entering the public's attention.
At the age of 45, she became famous overnight because of "I am a singer", but finally walked to the stage of the 2023 Spring Festival Gala, and it took her another ten years.
What's the story in between?
Is she okay now?
In 2013, on the stage of "I am a singer", an aunt suddenly came up.
Her face was full of vicissitudes and some buck teeth, and no audience recognized her.
Qi Qin, Huang Guanzhong, Chen Ming, Sha Baoliang, and Shang Wenjie were all at a loss, and the host of Hunan Satellite TV outside the venue was also confused.
After a while, Chen Mingcai suddenly came out with a sentence: "Huang Xiaoxia (Huang Qishan's original name)? ”
The appearance was embarrassing, but the song "Waiting", before it reached the halftime, had already made the audience and staff boil.
(Huang Qishan didn't even wear ear back)
The host said emotionally at the scene, whether you ever know it or not, there is a singer named Huang Qishan in the Chinese music scene, I hope everyone will leave a little place for her in your heart after tonight, because she can give you strength.
That night, Huang Qishan's name dominated major websites.
After that, every time Huang Qishan appeared, almost made the other singers on the show "frightened", and after listening to the rehearsal scene, the agents shouted "It's terrible, no need to compare, this must be the first".
No singer is willing to appear behind Huang Qishan, because that means being "crushed".
Wang Han, who came to visit the class, said very bluntly: You sang back all the viewers we lost last year on Hunan Satellite TV.
In fact, not only in China, but also in the China-Korea Song Club, she has also received the highest recognition from foreign official media.
Someone has recorded the reaction of EXO listening to Huang Qishan singing live, from the calm of "I don't know who Huang Qishan is" at the beginning, to sudden surprise, opening his mouth "unbelievable" the whole time, and finally standing ovation.
It can be said that to fall in love with Huang Qishan, the time of one song is enough.
Young people are indeed not familiar with her, and I still remember that when the people of the whole country chased the grand event of the show together, a large family stayed up until ten o'clock at night, turned on the TV, and waited for Huang Qishan to appear.
I remember my mom crying as soon as she heard her sing, crying and saying, "Oh, it's so good, oh, it's not long, it's so ugly," and continued to cry.
Regarding Huang Qishan's appearance, she once told an interesting story in an interview.
In the early years, she sang Teresa Teng songs during the performance, and as soon as she sang two sentences of "On the Water Side", the audience began to applaud.
But when the curtain was completely opened, everyone saw Huang Qishan standing on the stage, and the audience burst into laughter.
She laughed at herself, I was too far from the beauty they imagined.
The accolades and fame were so overwhelming that a series of questions followed: demands to fly first class, being late to play big names, and saying that "she sings so emotionally because she insists on taking emotional lessons."
But the audience who knows a little about her understands that after three marriages and three divorces, where else does she use to take emotional lessons?
Her experience is the thickest nourishment in the emotional part of her singing.
Huang Qishan, formerly known as Huang Xiaoxia, singing and love are the two most important things in her life.
She was born in an ordinary family in Chongqing, a music enlightenment teacher, and a grandfather who likes to sing model plays.
In middle school, her parents spent three years in the "divorce war", arguing every day, and did not care about her feelings.
Huang Qishan began to skip school, and the only happy time was to call a few friends home to listen to Teresa Teng's songs and then dance.
At the age of 18, Huang Qishan was admitted
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Dance troupe, responsible for dancing in the show.
One day, Huang Qishan, who had been listening to the captain's singing, sang a song to the captain, and the captain looked at her with wide eyes and said: "It's impossible, you sing it again." ”
In this way, Huang Qishan sang again, and the captain "snapped" down the guitar after listening to it and said: "You wait, I'll go to the leader, you don't dance in the future."
In this way, 20-year-old Huang Qishan began to perform on stage as a singer, and soon accumulated fame in the Chongqing music circle.
At the same time, her love also crept in. Huang Qishan married hastily despite the opposition of her relatives. But young people don't understand love, and this marriage finally ended in sloppy.
She talked very little about the relationship, and no one knew the name of her first husband.
In 1991, Huang Qishan came to Guangzhou and entered the Butong 100 Cabaret.
At that time, Guangzhou was the birthplace of original music, and Na Ying, Cui Jian, Lin Yilun, and Zhu Zheqin all sang here.
Huang Qishan is even more popular than before, and the people once had a saying that "there is Na Ying in the north, and Huang Xiaoxia in the south".
Half a year later, the drama of "proud in the mall, proud in love" happened to Huang Qishan, where she met her second husband, Taiwanese musician Tu Huiyuan.
Tu Huiyuan is the composer of "Cut Love" and "Listen to the Sea", and these two songs came out shortly after their divorce.
Huang Qishan once sang "Cut Love" on the stage of "I am a singer", and burst into tears on the scene.
After Tu Huiyuan listened to Huang Qishan's song, the whole portrait was electrified.
He took the initiative to find her, from music to cooperation, the two chatted all night, and at that time it was vigorous, with "musical dreams" as the connection point, and the two soon got married.
Soon, Huang Qishan followed Tu Huiyuan to Taiwan, but Tu Huiyuan often did not return at night under the pretext of work.
The musical dream that the two said before marriage has never been put on the agenda.
In 1994, under the repeated insistence of Huang Qishan, her husband created an album for her "The Man Who Hides Behind the Music".
In this album, 6 songs are Tu Huiyuan's unmanned pure music songs, and the other 6 are Huang Qishan's vocal songs.
Only Tu Huiyuan's name was signed on the record, and his selfishness and the heart of comparison with Huang Qishan, hoping that Huang Qishan was just the unconfidence of the woman behind it, which was obvious.
The two clashed constantly, and in the 5th year after marriage, Tu Huiyuan took the initiative to file for divorce.
Huang Qishan was stunned, she thought that her husband and herself just had different career views, but she still loved herself emotionally.
In order to keep Tu Huiyuan, Huang Qishan used the most clumsy trick and swallowed a large amount of sleeping pills.
Fortunately, her friend knocked on the door in time that day, but fortunately her residence was close to the hospital.
She said that at that time, she felt that the whole person was floating, while swallowing the medicine, she regretted that she did not want to die, but still swallowed the pill, and the truest thought in her heart was just to "attract a little attention from Tu Huiyuan."
A friend called Tu Huiyuan as soon as possible, and his reaction was to refuse to call, and he asked his friend to relay:
"You are such a life-loving person will definitely not do such a stupid thing."
At this point, Huang Qishan finally made up her mind to leave Tu Huiyuan.
A few months after the divorce, Tu Huiyuan composed two songs, "Cut Love" and "Listen to the Sea", based on his relationship experience with Huang Qishan, which are the true stories of these two people from love to separation.
In 1996, Tu Huiyuan gave these two songs to Zhang Huimei, and the 24-year-old Zhang Huimei released her first solo album "Sisters", which sold 300,000 copies in just one week, with cumulative sales exceeding one million.
And Huang Qishan, who left Tu Huiyuan and returned to Guangzhou, could not stop drinking for a whole year, and almost destroyed her vocal cords.
In 1998, Huang Qishan left Guangzhou for Beijing.
During her days in Beijing, she initially sang.
The crying song "Only You" was tailor-made for her by the company at that time.
Mr. Chen Ziqiu, the manager of the record company, identified her as "Asia's most perfect voice", a diamond that had been buried for many years, and the company spent a lot of money to promote her in order to make her popular.
But in the end, only the album was popular, and Huang Qishan was still not popular.
In 2004, the whole people hummed a song, "Pride". At the Athens Olympic Games, whenever Chinese athletes stood on the podium, the exclusive repertoire was written and composed and sung by Huang Qishan.
Unfortunately, everyone thinks that exotic, passionate high-pitched voice is a foreigner.
Later, career development was always tepid, and every time she sang she remembered her sad emotional experience, Huang Qishan simply slowed down her singing career. She began to change careers, opening hot pot restaurants, clothing stores, working as a temporary female laborer, and at the same time entering the church.
In 2005, she started playing tennis, often on the tennis court, and won the mixed doubles championship in Beijing in the amateur tournament, the runner-up in three singles competitions, and the third place in two women's doubles.
When industry peers see her on the tennis court, they will be surprised and say: "So she is hiding here."
(Her golfmate and CCTV tennis commentator Xu Yang once wrote in a blog post: "Huang Qishan always came silently on the court, and two hours later walked silently with a big ball bag.") She didn't have much brilliance except for the laughter she had when she won, and we sometimes played together, sometimes we talked about tennis, but we just didn't talk about music, which was her favorite and her injury...")
In 2009, Wong Kee Shan, who was still in pain, entered the Singapore Theological Seminary for further study.
On campus, her life is very difficult, there is no Internet, and she often eats green vegetables.
In 2013, when the "I am a Singer" program group found her, she initially only wanted to sing twice, but she didn't expect to become more popular the more she sang.
We all know what happened later, and after waiting for 22 years, Huang Qishan was completely fired.
In the same year that "I Am a Singer" was broadcast, after Huang Qishan caught fire, she made a wrong decision: she quickly stepped into her third marriage.
The other party is the musician Zhang Ying, by the way, Zhang Ying is the younger brother of singer Zhang Mi.
After marriage, Huang Qishan once told the outside world: family first, career second, to work hard to be a good wife, but also to actively prepare for pregnancy, and strive to give birth to a son and a daughter.
Moreover, in order to "take care of the family", Huang Qishan, who is in the limelight, not only participated in the show performance with Zhang Mi, but also helped Zhang Mi's daughter in the show.
In the program "I Am a Singer", the "Yellow Mother" who is in the limelight has become a happy little woman.
In 2016, the reporter took a photo of Huang Qishan's suspected marital cheating, the other party was Lu Yanwei, the lyricist of "Hong Yan".
The divorce of Huang Qishan and Zhang Ying went directly to court, and Zhang Ying said that Huang Qishan was unruly and had mental problems.
And Huang Qishan insists that she and Lu Yanwei are good friends, but Zhang Ying often abuses domestic violence, eats soft rice and so on.
(Complaint by a friend of Wong)
In the end, the marriage ended in a very unseemly way.
Right and wrong in the relationship, we, as outsiders, can't comment too much.
But what is certain is that Huang Qishan has always had a bloodthirsty addiction in the matter of love.
Under the dual effects of her native family and appearance anxiety, she is eager to deliver all her life every time love comes.
She is like a desperate child who wants sugar, as long as she can catch a little sweetness, she will open her arms and exchange the most precious thing in her body. But in the end, the paradise she thought was all moths to the fire.
In 2015, Christmas, a year before the end of her third marriage, 47-year-old Huang Qishan released her solo music album "Xiaoxia", which is not a brand new her, "Xiaoxia", is her original name.
This album does not pursue fireworks brilliant treble and reversal, only plain words.
On the cover, she is dressed in a wedding dress, but she is full of sadness.
This time, maybe she really "broke free from love" and made up her mind to marry herself to music.
The ups and downs of three marriages, years later, she said in an interview:
"A person who loves to regret is probably not growing up, if I go back, I am willing to make a mistake again, don't look at bad things, bad things are nutrients, I have had pain and bad experiences, I really think that money can not buy, and special thanks to them (ex)."
This is the feeling that can only be said by surrendering oneself to faith.
In the past two years, Huang Qishan, a late bloomer, has become open-minded with the naked eye.
She listens to music, practices words, arranges flowers, travels, and works out, and she says she doesn't have plastic surgery, she just got thinner.
No longer have appearance anxiety, understand that their big mouth, born to sing, that is a gift can not be moved casually.
During the epidemic, she insisted on holding concerts in various cities, and she enjoyed it regardless of the audience.
She said that as long as the body can, she will sing until the day of death, as long as she can continue to sing, she will sing to everyone with tears like a flower.
Over 50, she began experimenting with skirts she hadn't dared to wear when she was younger.
But on the other hand, she is photographed by friends eating and plucking green onions every day, and she doesn't mind posting them on Weibo.
She loves to cook and once cooked 31 dishes at a friend's birthday party.
She said, now I am still a girl.
We often advise female readers to be rational in the face of feelings, but for Huang Qishan, I can only say: to love, to have no regrets.
Such a woman, as if coming with some kind of task, her talent and surging complement each other, and all the energy of her life comes from singing and love.
The joy and pain that love gives her are all turned into nourishment in the song, so that we can be electrocuted by her affection between every breath and inflection.
Thank you for the help of faith, those shortcomings, pain, adversity... After the conversion of faith, all the pain was accepted by her as a gift of life.
Today, 54-year-old Huang Qishan is getting more and more beautiful and stronger, although it is a little late, but I really feel that heartfelt joy and bloom.
I love one of her songs called "My Beauty".
Caressing the dappled tree shadows circling in circles
The whispers of the golden sunset lingered in the ears
You see, the world that I see is wonderful
You see, all of my beauty is my beauty
After the Spring Festival Gala this year, Huang Qishan said: From watching the Spring Festival Gala in 83 to waiting for the Spring Festival Gala today, after waiting for 40 years, I learned that the lesson of life is: wait, you can really (can) make your dream come true.
In fact, it is not waiting to make dreams come true, but every step towards happiness, constant frustration, non-stop running, day and night hard thinking, is a brick to make dreams come true.
Of course, it is very painful to experience it, but if you can see the peak turn in the future, you will understand the sentence in "The Count of Monte Cristo" -
All human wisdom is hope and waiting.
Everyone who waits with their hearts, those days that keep accumulating and denying themselves, please do not regret, do not despair.
And, believe me, the blossom and fruit are ahead.