♪ 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) Ye Ziyao
Recently, I was watching the variety show "We Folk", near the end, and I was pleasantly surprised to find Penny Dai in the show for a long time.
The hair has grown and is thinner than remembered.
Later, I learned that she was trying her best to maintain her weight and not fall below 80 pounds.
Maybe some people are a little unfamiliar with this name, just like Sun Yanzi will one day become an "unpopular singer".
But Penny Dai is the youth of many post-80s, and together with Sun Yanzi and Jay Chou, she crossed the millennium of the Chinese music scene and took the last train of the golden age.
The ending song of "Meteor Garden" back then, "The Love I Want", was popular throughout Asia, and it is a "hit" today.
Every time the song sounds, the picture shows an airplane flying over Sugina's head.
Every time I see her, I will naturally hum "I understand, the love you want, not just dependence, but like a big boy, the wind blows and the sun, and lives freely".......
(Penny Dai adapted a new version a few years ago)
Who dared to think 20 years ago that 20 years later, "Shanna" would get married, divorced and remarry in a uproar, and "Daomingji" was still contributing hormones that overflowed the screen in idol dramas.
Only, the female singer like a big boy, is still singing.
It's just that 44-year-old Penny Dai is no longer just a girl who sings quietly with a guitar on her back, she can be a woman who rocks freely on stage.
On the stage of "We Folk", Penny Dai sang a song "Rose Thief" with Liu Shuang, the singer of "Mohe Dance Hall", and "played" crazy.
Let Mizuki Nianhua follow the cheers offstage, and make Liu Shuang laugh embarrassedly: "I almost can't even sing my own song."
Yes, don't forget that Penny Dai is not only a singer, but also a music producer and creator who has won the Golden Melody Award, and the "musical talent" in Li Zongsheng's heart.
Penny Dai was born in Shuxiangmendi, Malaysia. Since elementary school dance, my vision for the future is to go to an art university, enter a dance troupe, and become a modern dancer.
But talent and chance sometimes come willfully. You never know, which street corner, the rest of your life will change tracks.
Penny Dai's brother loves music, loves to play guitar and create, and when she was a child, Penny Dai used her brother's room as her own music space, and dabbled in all kinds of music with his walkman.
When he was 17 years old, his brother wanted to participate in Malaysia's largest creative competition, the Conch New Rhyme Award, but unfortunately he did not meet the requirements for participation at his age. In the face of Penny Dai's "ridicule", my brother said "you have the ability to participate"!
With a gambling and joking mentality, Penny Dai took an essay from a classmate and directly made it into a song and signed up for the competition. As a result, he won an excellence award in the final.
(But her creative talent is seen.) The winner of that competition was A Niu, who later sang "Peach Blossoms"; The winner of the Best Interpretation Award is another "love song diva" Liang Jingru. The song "Breathable" composed by Penny Dai was selected by Xu Ruyun for inclusion in the 1998 album "You Are the Favorite". ）
The following year, gold medal producer Chen Zihong became Penny Dai's "Bo Le" and took her to officially enter the music scene.
What happened later was more logical.
Since 2000, she has released a solo original album every year, volunteering to participate in the post-production part.
In addition to the album "How" that received the hit "The Love You Want", there are also the familiar "Crazy Love", "Forgive Me for Being Such a Girl" and so on.
The KTV repertoire must also include Penny Dai's "How" and "Blessing on the Corner".
But for a long time, Penny Dai seemed to "disappear". This is also why when I suddenly see her on a variety show in the past two years, I will feel like a world away.
Because, she was sick.
For three years, Penny Dai retired silently. She suffered from vertigo, cold sweat, fainted, and her physical condition could not support her on stage.
During those days, she learned photography, took photos, shot MVs, worked as a director, and learned editing, and everyone thought that this was a "talented woman" trying to show her multi-faceted talent.
The truth is, she's afraid she'll never get better again, and she wants to continue doing music-related things, so she can do something to get behind the scenes.
Her life, a certain meaning, has little to do with the words smooth sailing, glory and wealth, and among artists, she can even be regarded as trying to survive.
Penny Dai debuted for 23 years, 13 albums, 18 times shortlisted for the Golden Melody Award, 5 times awarded. Penny Dai is the female singer with the most categories of Golden Melody Awards, including composer, producer, arranger, orchestra award and Chinese female singer.
But she has always been, "popular people are not popular".
For more than 20 years, "red" has been twice, once in "Meteor Garden" with the fire "I Want Love", and once in a concert in 2018, a fan sang "Overturned" on the spot, which unexpectedly sent her to the hot search.
This situation is very clear and acceptable to Penny Dai, who is "Buddhist business". She explains it as personality and her own choices.
She values comfort and privacy – "If you're expecting some music, you have to get me back to my life." ”
The low-key Penny Dai's most famous relationship is a relationship with Fang Zuming. She is also Fang Zuming's only publicly acknowledged girlfriend.
It's just that the heart is like the ancestor of the house, no matter how much love you love, Penny Dai also chose to break up decisively.
Penny Dai has been married in 2014, and her husband Lu Xinjiang is an outsider, four years older than him, has a tavern, and also runs an art trade.
When dating, the other party directly took out the passbook to show her "I have this money".
Penny Dai glanced at it: "Well, 200w, can afford my number." ”
The life of the two after marriage is often that she is cutting films and singing, and he is feeding the dog; When he's busy at work, she's in charge of cooking.
Earlier, Penny Dai had already announced that she was not a mother.
Bluntly said that they are older, there is no egg freezing, and both of them enjoy their work. My husband has an older brother, so there is no pressure on him to pass on the lineage.
The life of two people, there is food, there are friends, simply, you can be happy.
But for music, Penny Dai never wanted to compromise, and gradually she got better and became more "crazy".
In 2011, Penny Dai took the initiative to open a new turning point in the music road - the formation of the rock band "Buddha Jumping Over the Wall", she is the lead singer.
"Buddha jumping over the wall" as a dish is itself a collection of various seafood. This is probably the style she wants to try, not only fresh, but also rock, and more possibilities.
She set up her own music label "Nilefo". She is responsible for music production, corporate publicity, and MV shooting.
Penny Dai, who recovered, wrote a song "Wild Rose", which is still filled in and composed and sung, and completed alone.
"I am a rose that never bows its head for love
Freedom flutters to decorate the ashes of my entire city."
Wanting to cheer myself up, Penny Dai said: Wild roses, there are thorns, those hard thorns are enough for me to withstand the wind and snow of life.
Also recently, Penny Dai took her sisters Zhou Hui and Jiang Meiqi, who debuted almost at the same time in the past, to another music variety show together, forming "Crazy Three Niangs", how happy and how to "play" in front of and behind the scenes.
Focused, I saw these three women in the same frame, and I was really emotional.
Zhou Hui, who sang "The Agreement", and Xiaomei, who sang "Why are you not around", in our youth, they have been in the limelight, singing well, absolutely not relying on appearance to win by strength, but in their later lives, they are each bad.
Later, Jiang Meiqi encountered a career trough and once suspected that she had depression.
Zhou Hui was miserable by his mentor, with no money and money, and failed to release records for 5 years during the rising period of his career due to contract disputes.
Looking at them who have experienced physical and mental trauma, after a year of confusion, they still smile as if they have not been hurt.
I think a woman's resilience is the best gift God can give her to imperfections.
Last year, Penny Dai released her new album "Passive Audience", which records the mental journey after the age of 40. It's still like looking for clues in a diary, it's all a first-hand life.