In variety shows or short video platforms, there are often classic songs that have been silent for a long time that have been newly interpreted and become popular again. Classic songs that span the ages are like private wines, with a mellow charm, containing stories precipitated by the years, and can also awaken the innocent memories of the listener's heart, although good songs are good, it is not easy to challenge these pearls and jade in the previous works. However, there is a "singing function", who has successively launched classic covers such as "There is a Lover in the World" and "Is This Love", singing a song of fire and winning the title of "Explosive Style Maker". She is Cool Dog live singer Tong Jun.
The road to dreams is bumpy, and music becomes a window of emotional catharsis
Tong Jun, who has grown all the way to become a "blockbuster maker", is not from a music class, but this does not prevent her from having a strong interest in music. This may be related to Tong Jun's growing environment, her father is an orchestra conductor with a high artistic aesthetic, while her mother is very good at singing, and Peking Opera and commentary can be easily controlled. One by one, the parents composed and sang, and the piano was harmonious, so that Tong Jun was heard from an early age and accepted the "artistic influence" of the family.
Inheriting her parents' artistic genes, Tong Jun, who is extremely talented in music, has a high understanding of music. According to Tong Jun's sharing, "I can sing a song in its entirety when I am not yet literate, and it is estimated that their genes are too strong, which is reflected in their daughters." ”
However, Tong Jun did not study music, and at that time, she had never thought of using music as her own career. Until the end of her studies and entering the workplace, Tong Jun's love for music in her heart did not fade with time, but became more and more intense.
The nine-to-five work and the step-by-step life made Tong Jun feel particularly depressed. In the face of various trivial problems at home and in the workplace, music has also become a window for her to vent her emotions and express herself, and has also found an original motivation for her to pursue her dreams.
At the beginning of the road to pursue her dreams, Tong Jun tried music teachers, bar singing and other work. During the period of music teacher, you can contact a variety of music lovers, who burst out of the purest love for music, invisibly infect tong Jun, and firmly choose the original intention of music.
The work of singing in the bar is even more arduous, requiring you to stand on the stage and face all kinds of guests. However, the long period of exercise allowed her to gain rich singing experience, form a typhoon with unique personal characteristics, and achieve a high level of stable and sustained output.
With the blessing of high-energy mentors, he draws inspiration to explore diverse genres
Although the musical talent is quite high, Tong Jun has not stopped learning and improving:
"When I usually listen to songs, I like to learn from the advantages of excellent singers, such as Lin Junjie's breath and explosiveness, some biting words in Faye Wong's high-pitched area, Xu Jiaying's tone, Zhang Huimei's stability, Lin Yilian's voice, etc. Before many people will say that I am a bit like Deng Ziqi, it should be that the vocal parts of our high pitch are similar, and the timbre of that part sounds a bit like that part."
With super understanding, Tong Jun further understood and digested the teachers' powerful skills and transformed them into her own unique singing style.
Among Tong Jun's representative works, the most eye-catching is a series of popular classic songs sung by strength. She personally prefers tragic songs and film and television works, such as "There is a Lover in the World", a song with a sad background, and after rearranging it, she uses a dynamic rhythm to dilute the sentimental tone and give the song a new sense of listening.
Such an adaptation is more suitable for the preferences of today's listeners, Tong Jun's "There Is a Lover in the World" (Chinese version) once released, it occupied the 4th place in the Kugou TOP500 hot song list, and the historical list lasted for 297 days, and the hot comment in the Kugou comment area exceeded 33,000. The song was also adopted by 770,000+ creators on the short video platform, and the cumulative number of plays in the fourth quarter of 2019 reached a staggering 300 million.
Such amazing achievements continue in many popular masterpieces such as "Is This Love" (Gentle Female Voice Version), "Mythical Love Story" (Chinese Version), "Encounter", "The Possibility of Love" (Gentle Female Voice Version) and many other popular masterpieces.
In addition, Tong Jun, who has loved watching TVB since she was a child, is deeply attracted by the charm of Cantonese. Extremely talented in language, she also slowly learned Cantonese through workplace dramas such as "Magic Hands and Benevolent Hearts" and "Forensic Pioneers". She applied this skill to Cantonese songs, "Some emotions can be expressed through the words and bites of Cantonese songs, which is fascinating." For example, many well-known golden songs such as "Should Not Use Love", "Secretly Fascinated", "Melbourne's Emerald", "Laughing at the Wind and Clouds" and so on, have been easily grasped by Tong Jun, the "singing function force", releasing the unique charm of Cantonese songs.
Next, Tong Jun will also try more diversified musical styles, such as electronic, rock or jazz, and continue to produce high-quality music works to give back to fans.
Kugou star-making system to help, professional incubation of "explosive model makers"
Regarding becoming a Cool Dog live singer, Tong Jun admitted that it was "very accidental".
"(Becoming a Kugou live singer) is a very fortuitous opportunity, originally I was very resistant to live broadcasting, but after understanding the concept of Kugou live broadcasting, I think it may be a good attempt, there are not many professional vertical music live broadcast platforms, I want to try it, and the result proves that my choice is right."
Tong Jun, who has excellent singing strength, was accurately excavated by the Kugou live broadcast team and officially entered the platform to sign a contract to become a musician of the Star Interactive Entertainment Label. Kugou develops a tailor-made training program for it with a mature star-making system to promote the accelerated growth of musicians and become popular out of the circle.
At present, Tong Jun has released a total of 37 solo original albums and 6 choral albums. The first original masterpiece "Hatsumi" was launched on the Kugou Music TOP500 chart, and the Kugou song reviews accumulated 8,000+. The song harvested the excellent results of the 2nd in the original list and the 4th in the hot song list on the Douyin short video platform, with the total number of plays exceeding 100 million, and the use of short videos exceeded 500,000 in only three days.
Tong Jun's title of "explosive model maker" benefits from the professional music production team of Kugou Live, which has a very keen sense of smell. They focus on the personal characteristics and musical styles of musicians, and create explosive music works that fit the personal attributes of musicians based on big data analysis of popular songs. Combined with the platform's huge resources and traffic promotion, musicians can quickly build awareness and cover a wider target audience.
In order to further demonstrate the talent and strength of the "singing function force", the Kugou platform transported Tong Jun to a broad stage. On the large-scale music variety show "The Sound of Dreams", Tong Jun surprised four with the song "piano", challenged Xiao Jingteng with a song "Prince's New Clothes", and exploded the audience with his domineering performance; in the "China New Singer" program, Tong Jun's "Lover" won the first place in the sixth monthly list of Chinese new singers, and also won the professional praise of star mentor Mizuki Nianhua; in the popular variety show "The Voice of China", Tong Jun won the high recognition of Li Yuchun, Xie Tingfeng and Li Ronghao with the energy-bursting "Love to the End".
"On the road of star-making, the Kugou platform has become more and more professional and intimate in the past two years!" Tong Jun said that Kugou, who has been deeply involved in the digital music industry for many years, has continuously explored more creative ways to create stars, providing musicians with a wide variety of stage display opportunities and accelerating the success of musicians.
And Tong Jun, after becoming a hot mother, also admitted that "she has both weak soft ribs and hard armor on her body." In the future, she will continue to explore the colorful life with this powerful force and sing more beautiful music for everyone.