Life's circumstances are uncertain, and you can't be sure where your fate will go.
A philosopher once said that it is impossible for a man to step into the same river at the same time.
Time never stands still, and man does not remain static. Sometimes peaks, sometimes lows, are the norm in life.
The entertainment industry is highly competitive, and it is very difficult to stand out.
Some people dormant for ten years before they became famous, and some people were buried for a lifetime without a name. There are also people who are lucky, with a play or a song to become popular, but behind this luck there are countless days and nights of perseverance.
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Wang Qi became a hit
At the Spring Festival Gala last year, a strange name appeared in the program list.
Wang Qi was an unknown singer at the time, and his popularity was very small.
He is a singer who belongs to the singers who are not popular, and "The Shepherd of the Cocoto Sea" has been scrambled to be forwarded and sung on the Internet.
Wang Qi took her original song "The Shepherd of the Cocoto Sea" to the Spring Festival Gala stage, and 1.4 billion people were watching him.
Wang Qi sang steadily and completed the singing of the song without error.
It was less than five minutes of stage performance that Wang Qi became a hit, and the number of song searches once surpassed Jay Chou and became a singer who attracted much attention.
Wang Qi's ability to appear on the Spring Festival Gala is inseparable from the song "Shepherd of the Cocoto Sea".
This song is full of affection, singing a simple love that is different from ordinary pop songs, combining the yearning for love, beauty, persistence, heartbreak, etc., with a unique taste.
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The story behind The Shepherd of the Cocoto Sea
Sweetheart I am waiting for you in the Cocoto Sea, they say that you married Ili, is it because there is a beautiful Narathi there, or an apricot blossom there, to brew the sweetness you want, and there is a camel bell ringing outside the felt room, I know that it must not be you.
Poignant lyrics are full of affection and helplessness, especially the words "Cocoto Sea", "Ili", "Felt House", "Narathi" and other words take people into the beautiful Cocoto Sea, where the blue sky and green space, the beauty of beauty and the mutilation of love are in stark contrast.
Simple text is full of scenes and emotions.
"The Shepherd of the Cocoto Sea" was published on the Internet last May, and Wang Qi composed and sang lyrics.
The song was not well known at first, drowning in endless musical resources like many songs.
An internet celebrity cover brought a turnaround to the song.
The beautiful melody and beautiful lyrics hit people's hearts, and more and more Internet celebrities began to compete for cover songs.
The "tipping point" is coming!
The influence of these Internet celebrities gathered together, and the songs exploded on the short video platform, and then spread throughout many Southeast Asian countries, which was extremely popular.
Behind this song is a bleak love story, full of the creator's personal thoughts and emotions.
Beautiful Cocoto Sea, there is a shepherd, he is waiting for a beloved girl.
For her, shepherds spent years and years alone in the Cocoto Sea.
Originally, the shepherd and the girl were a couple.
One day, the girl did not quit, and the man could no longer hear her voice.
I heard that she married Yili far away, and she should not come back.
But the shepherd waited day after day for the girl in his heart.
The wait is a long ordeal, and the shepherd may wait until the sky is barren, white-haired, and the love and faith in his heart support him.
Such a story adds more strong life to this song, and resonates with people's heartstrings.
The story was imagined by Wang Qi when she created the song.
In 2012, Wang Qi went on a business trip to the Cocoto Sea, and the local beauty shocked Wang Qi, and he decided to create a song for this beautiful place, giving it richer connotation and imagination.
After eight years of gestation, "The Shepherd of the Cocoto Sea" came out of nowhere and was eventually loved.
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Wang Qi's experience
Wang Qi was born in 1986 in a remote mountain village in Anshan City, Liaoning Province.
Since childhood, Wang Qi has been sensible and diligent, and has taken the initiative to help her parents share housework and farm work.
He likes to work in the fields while singing loudly to the empty fields.
The singing in the TV deeply attracted him, and singing brought him endless happiness.
After graduating from junior high school, he had no intention of continuing his studies.
His parents suggested that he learn to cook, hairdress, repair cars and other crafts, but Wang Qi did not like it, and naturally did not want to.
He thought about it all night, and that night he looked at the starry sky in the distance and didn't sleep all night.
A 15-year-old teenager, facing the future, has some wavering in his heart.
All kinds of contradictions come to mind, listen to parents, learn technology?
There was a voice in his heart that was getting stronger and stronger.
Singing was a lingering thought in Wang Qi's mind, a dream that had been planted in his heart since he was a child.
Wang Qi lay on the bed and silently made up her mind to learn art.
In the morning, Wang Qi told her parents about the tangled thoughts of the night, and of course the parents did not agree, but seeing that her son had already made up his mind, he could not help him, and only agreed.
Tuition and living expenses are an issue.
Spend money on art school, where does Wang Qi's family have it?
In order to help Wang Qi complete her dream, her parents found relatives who could borrow money and borrowed them all.
Wang Qi took the money she had collected and went to school alone.
In the past few years in the art school, Wang Qi has learned a lot, and has dabbled in lyrics, composition, and Peking Opera.
After graduation, for the dream in his heart, he joined the "North Drift" army.
No money and no friends, I found a basement and lived there.
To make ends meet, he went to the bar to sing.
He sang solidly, and the boss was willing to let him be a resident singer.
In 2005, Wang Qi was lying in bed in a daze, when she suddenly had a flash of inspiration and a song appeared in her mind.
He immediately got up and took notes with paper.
It was the first time he had made music composition in its entirety.
After writing it, he was happy and anxious inside.
He was not confident in his own songs and did not dare to give them to his friends.
He contacted a recording studio in Zhengzhou and spent 500 yuan to record the song, the first song in his life.
On the train back to Beijing, Wang Qi had mixed feelings in her heart.
This song is his own "child", but he is afraid of being denied by others.
Back at the bar, he wanted to sing his own songs.
After consulting with the boss, the boss agreed that he would sing the original at the bar.
Wang Qi was not happy in his heart.
He mixed all his inner emotions into this song and sang it with all his might.
After the boss listened, he no longer agreed to his singing of the original.
A sense of loss struck him, a feeling that penetrated his body like a needle, unable to resist and could only bear it.
In the past few years in Beijing, Wang Qi has never found a sense of belonging.
He wanted to go to Xinjiang and feel different customs and customs.
In 2009, Wang Qi came to Xinjiang and stayed for ten years.
This decade of life has injected an infinite sense of life into Wang Qi's creation, making his songs different from ordinary pop songs, which contain a strong exotic atmosphere.
His songs can not only hear the beautiful melody, but also feel the beautiful flower scrolls through the songs.
"Lover's Fan" is his first famous song, and "The Shepherd of the Cocoto Sea" is his most well-known song.
He also wrote beautiful songs such as "Standing and Waiting for You for Three Thousand Years", "Sending Relatives", and "How Do You Look So Good".
At the Spring Festival Gala in 2021, Wang Qi took "The Shepherd of the Cocoto Sea" to the stage and became a hit.
After more than ten years of dormancy, he finally kept the clouds open and saw the moon, achieved a big turning point in his life, and did not live up to his original intention of insisting on learning art.
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The reason why Wang Qi rarely appears
After Wang Qi became popular, he rarely appeared.
After the whirlwind of the Spring Festival Gala, he also disappeared like a shooting star, shining brightly.
Wang Qi likes a down-to-earth, simple, and indisputable life.
He opened a social account, but rarely posted a feed.
In addition to receiving commercial performances, he rarely appears on media platforms.
What Wang Qi wants is a peaceful life, he is a singer, not a star in the entertainment industry.
Some time ago, Wang Qi starred in the movie "Standing and Waiting for You for Three Thousand Years" was released, and he promoted the film on personal social platforms.
Usually there is no business, he rarely updates the dynamics.
This is the state that a star should have, there are works of publicity appearances, never hype, no lace scandals, and no violation of moral laws.
Wang Qi pursues the comfort of self-life, the innocence of works and the spiritual prosperity, such a star is what we should pursue, and it is also the state that stars should have.