When Li Quan participated in the "Irori Concert", he asked Ding Wei to help.
Before Ding Wei took the stage, Li Quan talked about her incessantly, and Ji Jie asked coldly: "Have you ever liked her?" ”
Li Quan was stunned, then his face turned red, and then he played tai chi and jumped over the matter.
The audience's curiosity can't help but be aroused, what kind of person is Ding Wei, who can make Li Quan, a high-cold talent, look shy?
If you count the all-round female musicians in the Chinese music scene, Ding Wei is a representative figure that must be mentioned.
On the stage of "Children of Tomorrow", Li Zerong performed Ding Wei's "Commemoration" and received 300 likes on the spot.
Yi Nengjing, the sister who rode the wind and waves, stomped her feet during rehearsal and sang Ding Wei's "Girl and Quartet" with deep feelings, and the next day she was on the hot search.
Ding Wei has been hidden from the public for a long time, and the public still hears her songs from time to time.
In the days when she rarely came out to sing, the film and television music she created accompanied the audience.
Whether it is in "33 Days of Lost Love", "Waiting for the Wind to Come", or in "If Life Deceives You", "Snail Residence"... The soundtrack that sets off the plot is another way for Ding Wei to continue popular music.
When Ding Wei was studying at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, pop music could not yet be elegant.
If a student goes to sing a pop song, he or she will be scolded by the teacher.
Ding Wei and senior Li Quan belong to rebellious students, not only engaged in pop music in the school, but also called on everyone to play together.
It was then that the revolutionary friendship between the two of them was forged.
Later, Li Quan took the lead in graduating and signing a contract with Magic Rock, which was the Magic Rock Record Company that created the "Magic Rock Three Masters".
When recording his first album, Li Quan needed a harmony note, so he found Ding Wei.
I have to say that Li Quan is the first nobleman ding Wei to go to the pop music scene.
Then came the second nobleman.
When recording, Ding Wei met Zhang Peiren, the person in charge of Magic Rock Records, chatting and chatting, Zhang Peiren asked her: "You also like to sing, and you are learning to compose, why don't you write your own songs?" ”
Ding Wei studied erhu when she was a child, studied composition in college, and wrote her own songs.
But when Zhang Peiren asked this, she vaguely had some thoughts.
What ultimately contributed to this was the two records that Zhang Peiren sent her.
Before that, Ding Wei listened to Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson like many people.
She wondered how she could be a singer because of the big gap between herself and their singing skills.
Records of niche singers from Europe and the United States sent by Zhang Peiren opened up a new world for Ding Wei.
After listening to it, she suddenly felt: It turns out that I think of pop music too narrowly, and pop music is not the only one.
"In fact, what makes pop music more attractive is that it expresses the different personalities of each person. Everyone looks different, so why does everyone say they want to listen to the same thing when it comes to pop music? ”
From that moment on, she decided to write her own songs and sing what she wanted to sing.
She established a belief in making works of art in popular music.
With this attitude, Ding Wei never thought about whether she could write this song a little more familiarly and whether she could make it catchy.
This is also the reason why her songs are not highly sung.
When she started acting, luck came to her.
Soon Ding Wei signed a contract with Dadi Records.
In 1995, he released his first solo music album "Butterfly with Broken Wings", the title song of the same name was composed by Sanbao and lyrics by Huang Xiaomao.
The whole album is filled with the feeling of JAZZ and BLUES, and chinese musicians praised her as a "blues girl".
She was then invited to participate in the Beijing International Jazz Festival, becoming the first Chinese singer to perform at the festival.
But like many young people with ambitions and new entrants to society, Ding Wei was quickly whipped by reality.
This record, which has a good reputation in the industry, has a very poor circulation, so bad that fans write to say that they can't buy it at all.
Most people don't think like Ding Wei, listening to the artwork in popular music.
This is the sadness of the idealist.
Ding Wei, who felt that she was very defeated and very depressed, broke up with the record company in indignation and hid herself.
A girl who had just graduated from college was wandering in Beijing.
No job, no income, every month to worry about rent money, the future is very slim.
The leaky house was in the overnight rain, and Ding Wei's father was diagnosed with cancer at this time.
It was the first time she had spent the winter in Beijing.
The wind outside the house was blowing so strongly that it looked like someone was crying.
Ding Wei listened to the howling wind, and her heart was sad: even God was crying for me.
At this time, hopelessness became her inspiration.
Words and songs poured out of my head at the same time.
"Winter is coming, it feels cold; the water is not flowing, you are gone, the music is playing, it makes me cry."
Ding Wei wrote "Winter is Coming", which has a deep influence in the hearts of a generation.
Ma Xiaoying once heard "Winter is Coming" in the car, heard tears, and used the song to her debut film "The Man Who Hurt Me the Most In the World Went".
Life and movies are always so similar.
By the time Winter came, my father had died.
When Ding Wei was a child, her father was very strict with her.
From morning to night, from spring to winter, she and her sister were constantly urged to practice.
Once, when the father got angry, he stuffed the sisters into a sack and rode them to the river on his bicycle, pretending to throw them into the river to scare them.
Her fear and love for her father had always been hidden in her heart.
In the past, when doing jazz music, my father always said that he couldn't understand it, and Ding Wei thought that his father must understand this song and must feel good.
Unfortunately, her father couldn't hear him, and she didn't even have a chance to please him.
This became a pity in her heart.
Life is always high and low, and there will be sweetness after suffering.
The success of "Winter is Coming" has made Ding Wei usher in the spring of her career.
At the end of the 90s, Ding Wei composed the song "Love Must Be Perfect for You" for Na Ying and the song "I Want Your Every Day" for Andy Lau.
In 2000, she frequently won awards, the Best Female Singer Award, and the Best Singer-Songwriter Award.
"The Girl and the Quartet" is an attempt for Ding Wei.
String quartets are a common form in classical music, but no one has combined string quartets with popular music at the time.
Ding Wei did this, and the song was very popular with the public, and won the best arrangement and the top ten Chinese songs awards at the first Chinese Pop Media Awards.
If you want to say what you like the most, her favorite is "Dog".
At that time, a singer invited her to sing, and she sat in front of the piano every day thinking about it, and suddenly remembered the singer's dog.
Then inexplicably came out the first sentence: I met a dog on the way home that year.
This song is not about warmth, but about helplessness.
Ding Wei used the dog that was not taken home to express the helplessness of some people who missed some things.
At this stage, Ding Wei wants to explore life more.
Laid the groundwork for her transition to film and television music.
After 2000, the advent of digital music had an impact on physical records.
Many companies are facing the dilemma of bankruptcy or poor operation, and everyone is looking for their own way out in the case of a bad environment.
Ding Wei did not want to leave the music, so she went to compose the soundtrack.
In this turning point, Ding Wei encountered a problem that many women encounter - occupational discrimination.
There are very few women who do film and television music composition, and when she first turned here, a director said to her: "Ding Wei, I don't doubt your ability, but can you write this film?" ”
Ding Wei asked why, and the director said it was a man's play.
A woman who dares to take the initiative to hide herself is not willing to lose.
"What's wrong with the man's play, that is, he thinks I can't understand the manhood, or can't write the grandeur?" If he had been dealing with a male composer, he wouldn't have had this problem. ”
Since Ding Wei Primary School, the comments written by teachers every year are almost always "I don't like to participate in group activities".
She was disliked by both teachers and parents.
Her parents taught her not to be a head bird, and you should not be special.
When she grows up, this is what she wants to criticize the most.
The ideals and stubbornness in her character never flinched.
In areas that are not favored, she has made the same achievements.
From 2004 to the present, she has scored more than 40 film and television dramas.
"The Right Way in the World is Vicissitudes" is one of the most important ones, and after this drama was broadcast, many directors and producers began to come to her.
So there are later "33 Days of Lost Love", "Snail Residence", "If Life Deceives You", "Love for Ten Years", "You Are My Brother"...
The soundtrack gave her something else.
In the past, she wrote pop songs in a very self-state, and today she writes when she feels, does not write when she does not feel, and writes what she feels.
But the soundtrack has a time limit, and the source of emotion is the person in the film, not himself.
So she learned a function, how to empathize with others.
Experiences can invisibly change a person.
Her girlfriend, Curran, said that Ding Wei had opened up a lot more than before.
Ding Wei has been able to understand and accept the gap between ideals and reality, and when this road does not work, she knows how to turn.
You can try to go to the other end, and you can also walk back.
After 2014, she found that independent music slowly developed, and copyright awareness and copyright protection were increasingly valued.
Based on such an environment, Ding Wei made the album "Loosen up", which she began to prepare for a long time, and waited until the time was ripe to take it out and remake it.
At first, she was persuaded to learn some singers, sing a few songs first, and then slowly change her style and do what she wants.
She felt that life was so easy, and could she come back with this change.
Even reporters sympathized with her.
Sometimes Ding Wei is interviewed, and some particularly kind reporters will say: "Ding Wei, I think you are not easy, you see you have been insisting." ”
Ding Wei's straight temper came up,
She especially did not give face to the other party to stop: "I did not insist." ”
Ding Wei didn't like the word insisted when others said this.
If you use the word persistence to describe it, it means that you don't like this thing, or you can't do it anymore before you use persistence.
"For me, there's so much fun in making music, why stick to it?"
"A creative person, when I can write a work that I am particularly satisfied with, the satisfaction is definitely no less than when I stand on the stage and am cheered by tens of millions of people." 」
She values self-worth.
One year Ding Wei and He Jiong walked the Avenue of Stars, the two people are two states, He Jiong is to see who is a baby, Ding Wei is looking east and west, like an outsider.
Later, Li Jing, the host of the super interview, asked her, some women will feel that they have left me out, and I want to be the protagonist.
You don't have the desire to be the protagonist?
Ding Wei replied to her: I have another desire to be a protagonist in my heart, and you must pay attention to my value, but on this occasion, I may not need you.
When she was a singer, Ding Wei did not wear makeup every day, wearing a T-shirt and jeans to go to the company.
Sanbao said, Ding Wei, how do you dress like this every day, you are an artist.
Ding Wei is still like this.
One of her most proud things is that she can spend 20 yuan to buy a dress of good quality and style.
She loves to stay at home and stay with herself.
I don't see her friends a few times a year, and she says everyone knows her and embraces her.
She had been married for many years, but every time people asked her how long she had been married, she couldn't remember, and she had to go home and check her marriage certificate.
You see, this is the favorite character of people who do art.
She's talented.
She was absent-minded and dismissive of fame and fortune, hilarity, and contention.
But there was a warmth in her heart, and how could she write so many emotional songs without enthusiasm.
Sanbao, who does not like to show his face, sent her a message in "Super Visit":
"You should cherish yourself more, don't be influenced by the outside world, and follow your own ideas to follow your own music path and life path."
People are always particularly fond of their own kind.
Blessed with luck, talent, and independent free thought, she achieved her original ideal: to be a work of art in popular music.
Ding Wei did not become popular, nor did she fall because of her maverick behavior, she had a very good life.
This is perhaps the best destination for a person who loves art.