At 66, most ordinary people will enjoy a leisurely life after retirement. Sachiko Kobayashi, a Japanese singer queen who was the same era as Teresa Teresa, insisted on taking the stage after encountering a blind crisis and her eyesight in her right eye had not yet recovered. Over the years, there have also been many people who mocked Sachiko Kobayashi's era has long ended, should cherish the feathers, leaving a beautiful back for the audience, but Sachiko Kobayashi does not seem to learn this truth.
Sachiko Kobayashi was a close friend of Teresa Teng, and the two experiences were quite similar. He debuted at a very young age and sang for the audience all his life. However, unlike Teresa Teng's meteor-like life, Sachiko Kobayashi has walked through the flower road for half a century, and finally from the sun in the sky to the loneliness.
In the year of Ear Shun, she has been "reddened" again in these years because of exaggerated stage costumes and active participation in two-dimensional activities, and she has also suffered from various spoofs on the Internet. After the once gorgeous song, she was dressed up in various strange villains in the game, and "went out of the circle" with an almost clown image.
According to Japanese media reports, Sachiko Kobayashi's condition has deteriorated rapidly from floaters due to aging eyeballs, and doctors have told her that if she does not operate immediately, she will lose her vision. Sachiko had to choose surgery, but left the hospital three days later, wearing an eye mask on her right eye, and participated in the NHK live broadcast.
Is it necessary to fight like this in your 60s?
After being kicked out of the NHK red and white song contest list in 2012, many people thought that maybe this was the final farewell of a generation of singers. After all, at that time, Sachiko Kobayashi was nearly 60 years old, lost the stage, and it was almost impossible to turn over in the show business circle.
In fact, since 2011, the 57-year-old Sachiko chose to marry her eight-year-old husband, and it seems that bad luck has begun.
It was her first marriage, and her husband was eight years younger than her and ran a medical company. This marriage is not only not optimistic about the fans, but even the agent who has accompanied Sachiko for more than 30 years and the female president of the Yuki subsidiary have left because of discord with the man, causing an uproar.
Many people scold Sachiko for being ungrateful and not self-aware.
She also paid a huge price for "willfulness", and her half-life career was almost in vain:
The 50th anniversary of her debut was suspended; the contract with Columbia Records came to an end the following year; the new song was suddenly postponed when it was about to be released, and the work that had been set was cancelled one after another; the gossip media also hyped up the rumor that Sachiko was "Little Three"... The endless stream of negative news caused Sachiko to be kicked out of the 2012 red and white song battle and left the most important stage for her.
Perhaps the red and white song battle is slightly unfamiliar to Chinese audiences. It represents the highest level of the New Year singing party in Japan, and all the contestants are selected from the most powerful, popular and word-of-mouth singers in the Japanese music scene that year, which can be called the "Spring Festival Gala" of the Japanese people. Sachiko Kobayashi, on the other hand, has a record of participating in the Red and White Song Battle for 33 consecutive years.
She showed her singing talent at the age of 9 and was known as "The Second Skylark".
It is not an easy task for a person to engage in the same industry all his life, let alone in the fiercely competitive show business.
Losing the stage, which is regarded by Japanese singers as the highest honor of the year, can be imagined how much of a blow to Sachiko. At this time, Sachiko, whose husband forced her mood to fall to the bottom, went out to relax together, and they went to see the cherry blossoms.
"I didn't cry, but I was really, very lost." Sachiko said that she suddenly became a marginal person in the show business circle, and the huge gap made her a little unaccustomed, which is still a small matter. The point is, "I want to do something, there are a lot of fans who support me." For those people, I can't fall. ”
Sachiko's journey has not been smooth. In the 1960s and 1970s, when she debuted as a child star, she fell into a 15-year period of low tide, and could only walk alone with a microphone on large and small radio stations, record stores, and even small bars in Japan, as long as there was a place to sing and perform, all the people would not refuse.
In 1977, Sachiko fell into the trap of having almost nothing, and even took sexy photos for magazines.
It was not until 1979, when she released a 2 million-selling album, that she turned over in one fell swoop, participated in the red and white song battle of that year for the first time, and used overwhelming singing skills to start a legend that appeared for 33 consecutive years.
Every time everyone thought she would be crushed and never had a chance to turn over. Especially after being kicked out of the red and white song battle, Sachiko is no longer young, where is the strength to survive the trough?
But the spirit of man really cannot be judged by age.
With the support of her husband, Sachiko, 60, decided to set up her own record label. Many artists refused to cooperate because of negative news, and the new album only received four songs to gather dissatisfaction, and Sachiko "cheekily" went to find her long-time friends. The studio was reluctant to lend it to scandal artists, so Sachiko secretly completed the recording under a pseudonym. Independent record companies have no sales channels, Sachiko and her husband started from their hometown, "manually" selling records one by one, walking through more than 50 public venues and record stores in Japan, large and small...
She didn't give up any possible opportunity, and things actually took a turn for the better.
In September 2013, Sachiko submitted a contribution to the Japanese video website NICONICO, singing "Me and NICONICO Animation".
"Anyone can post a video on NICONICO, the audience's barrage will still cover the screen, and many of the staff who have accompanied me for many years will advise me not to participate, even if they find it interesting." Sachiko said her addition was seen as a kind of self-degrading "depravity," but "if everyone says it's funny, I'll find it funny too." ”
Sachiko's video reached 1 million views in just two days, setting a record for the fastest NICO at the time.
After being a song of "childhood memories" for many people, he suddenly became an "Internet celebrity" in the unfamiliar Internet field.
In 2014, Sachiko launched a cover album for the fan show, and fans lined up. Her career was miraculously resurrected and she became a "goddess of otaku". In 2015, she was invited back to the stage of the red and white song battle, TV, advertising, radio, movie theme song... The invitations kept coming, and a nice turnaround battle was fought.
Sachiko, who is in her 60s, moved once.
Her husband bought a three-story cottage in Tokyo, designed the drawings by hand, arranged a huge costume room for Sachiko's stage outfit, and a soundproof karaoke room for Sachiko to practice songs.
Sachiko left the old house where she had spent most of her life.
"In my life, I never thought there would be a choice to get married." Sachiko said, "The original house was designed as a place for me to live alone. After deciding to get married, my husband will also live together. And the former owner of this new house once told in his will that if you leave the land, please say a word to Sachiko Kobayashi. I was surprised to hear this news. ”
Everything is so just right. Even though she came a little late, Sachiko, who never gave up her efforts, finally ushered in her luck.
Author: Wu Yu
Editor: Wu Yu