When countless fans are still immersed in Dao Lang's hoarse and low singing, the Chinese music scene has undergone earth-shaking changes. After so many years, Dao Lang has always been forgotten by the history of music, like a speck of dust, blown away in the vast desert.
Is Dao Lang a qualified singer after all? This question was a great controversy that year, and Na Ying, Yang Kun and some Hong Kong and Taiwan artists gave the answer.
There are denials, even ruthless criticisms, and some people directly scold, "What is he singing?" Does that count as a song? Some people think that Dao Lang's music should be sung.
Which is the right one? Everyone has different opinions, but Dao Lang has his own principles, he creates music, and at the same time he does not want to bow down to the world, it is nothing to be suppressed, it is a big deal to "disappear", "I left the music scene, from now on you take your Yangguan Road, I cross my one-wood bridge..."
And what is hidden behind the secret that was sealed back then? Or, do Hong Kong and Taiwan singers really appreciate him or are they acting in a play?
The mysterious Dao Lang
Dao Lang's first label is - mysterious.
When he first became popular, not many people saw his true face, and later found out that he was a man who wore a caps all year round, with a plain appearance, dressed very ordinary, not as fashionable as other singers, and even a little slovenly, but a little linked to the "Western Regions".
But what kind of person is Dao Lang? After he became popular, many media began to dig up the story behind Dao Lang.
"Dao Lang was born in a family of artists in Zizhong County, the only son in the family, originally named Luo Lin..."
Bashu laughed at Xing Liao Jian and said so.
"We used to sing together in concert halls, but the income was not good, one night in the summer of 1991, we went our separate ways, I went to Chongqing, he went to Hainan..."
Later, many people learned that Dao Lang did go to Hainan for a period of time to develop, and then met a girl surnamed Zhu in Hainan, and the two fell in love and got married. Then he went to his lover's hometown - Xinjiang, and began to contact Xinjiang folk music, also fell in love with a different form of music, and officially changed his name to Dao Lang.
When he learned that there were many people looking for his tracks, Dao Lang said:
"This is an ascetic in the music world, I didn't go to college, but Xinjiang's excellent folk music raised me."
At this time, Dao Lang was already the chief musician of Xinjiang Yaci Record Company. At that time, he learned that fame was like this. But I haven't figured out how to face sudden fame.
Immediately afterwards, many media began to turn their cameras on him. In this way, the middle-aged man wearing a cap, was unguardedly exposed to everyone's sight, he looked very ordinary, even like a passerby on the street, perhaps it was just like this, some people felt that he should not be called a singer, but a musician behind the scenes.
The "dervishe" of the music scene
The "dervish" in Dao Lang's mouth is aptly described, falling to the bottom again and again, not knowing where he is ahead, but the power of faith has always supported him.
Dao Lang dropped out of junior high school at the age of 16 and went from Zizhong County to Neijiang, and two years later moved to cities such as Chengdu, Chongqing, and Xi'an, where he "mixed for four years" and learned musical instruments during this time.
According to Bashu Xiaoxing Liao Jian, they should have met at this time. Until 1995, he went to Hainan to sing and then met his current wife. The two went to Xinjiang, Dao Lang was confused and at a loss at this time, and later heard Xinjiang national music, and was instantly inspired, and began to collect a large number of styles and create, which went through 8 years of tempering and endured more than 3,000 songs.
During this period, he also experienced the creation of the first album "Western Regions Love Songs", which was a cover album, which was too poor at that time to hire a singer, so he sang it himself, and later was appreciated by Beijing musicians, and his unique voice was recognized by many people, but in the end, this splash still failed to ripple too much.
Until the release of the second album "Desert Love Song" in 2004, it was successively popular in Xinjiang, Northeast China, as well as Shanghai, Guangzhou, Xi'an and other places, and the famous producer Song Ke heard this album and recommended it in Beijing circles, and in less than a week, the album was also popular in Beijing.
But the problem came, after Dao Lang was completely fired, he didn't want to be exposed to everyone's curious eyes, and the media lenses annoyed him very much. Therefore, he simply turned off the computer and hid from anyone.
In addition to the media, many well-known record companies went to him, and the most common sentence he said to him was "I can make you more popular!" Dao Lang was even more annoyed when he heard this sentence, he didn't want more fire, but an environment conducive to his music, if he blindly pursued fame, it was equivalent to blaspheming pure musical inspiration.
Therefore, for music, Dao Lang has a "cleanliness".
Make his "miracles" and troubles
2004 was indeed Dao Lang's "miracle year" and changed his life at the same time.
Before becoming popular, he lived a quiet life, creating, spending time with his family, and living poorly.
At that time, he and his family huddled in the rental house of the Windsor Building on Youyi Road, drinking a bottle of "Xingyou Daqu" for 1.5 yuan a day, and smoking extremely cheap cigarettes.
Many people around him have bought cars, and he can't afford them. Once, he was invited to attend a nostalgic celebration party for veterans of the Xinjiang women's basketball team, and sang 4 songs on stage at that time, which were free, because no one invited him for a fee. After singing, he left alone in the van where the newspaper was delivered.
At this time, he was not a fart, and no one expected that in just one year, his life would change drastically.
In the 2004 Forbes Celebrity List, Dao Lang was listed with an income of 12 million, ranking 13th. At that time, many people thought that the world was crazy.
Even Dao Lang himself thought so, because many things that broke his cognition appeared.
For example, piracy is a special headache for the Dao Lang team.
Just when Dao Lang's song was the most popular, there were many "impostors", such as what "Western Regions Dao Lang Pan Xiaofeng", "Tibetan Song Dao Lang Daniel Zhang", and what "Dao Lang Elken who ran out of the desert". In addition to the pirated names, there are also pirated copies that are simply out of control, and the number of copies reaches several million.
However, the Dao Lang team took them all to court. For several months, Dao Lang was mired in a lawsuit.
Some chicken thieves' companies took advantage of this opportunity to take advantage of the heat and took the initiative to sue Dao Lang, saying that his song "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" was suspected of plagiarism, and it immediately made a fuss.
Dao Lang was made big by these things.
During this time, few works were launched.
For the first time, Dao Lang had the idea of quitting this circle.
Wang Feng said Dao Lang
It is precisely because of this that Dao Lang caused great controversy, and after digging his background, some people suspected that he was a "liar", and a media report cast a veil of great controversy on Dao Lang.
Why is this? It all started with another introduction about him: Dao Lang graduated from the composition department of the Sichuan Conservatory of Music.
Someone went to Sichuan Conservatory of Music to interview the teacher, and the teacher immediately clarified after hearing it: "Every batch of students entering the school and graduation materials must pass the review, I have never found this person..."
Then some media asked the students of the Sichuan composition department, and they all said that they had not heard of Luo Lin or Dao Lang, and they could not have graduated from the Sichuan Conservatory of Music.
After that, the controversy over his identity was even greater. Until later, the agent denied this rumor, and Dao Lang did not say such things as his graduation "Chuanyin".
In fact, it is understandable that a singer who suddenly becomes popular without preparation will be questioned by everyone.
However, the controversy is not over. A "encirclement" of Dao Lang in the mainstream Chinese music scene officially began.
On July 1, 2004, Wang Feng rehearsed with the "Baojia Street" band in Beijing, and they immediately held a concert. Some media went to interview him and talked about the explosive Dao Lang.
Unexpectedly, Wang Feng was very excited when he heard this name, and said bluntly:
"It's a sad expression of Chinese pop culture or pop music."
Wang Feng said that he had also heard Dao Lang's music, but his music and lyrics were really general.
Immediately afterwards, Wang Feng said:
"The reason why Dao Lang is popular is because everyone is used to listening to exquisite music, and Dao Lang has adopted the sales method of surrounding the city in the countryside, this huge number of groups..."
In other words, Wang Feng always believes that Dao Lang can fire because of the group.
But his words "the countryside surrounds the city", these words are a bit harsh, which is probably the origin of the later rumors that "Dao Lang's song is listened to by peasants".
Market crowding
So, why did Wang Feng criticize Dao Lang so much?
There must be factors that conflict with his professional cognition, and another key point is that he believes in the saying "explosive fire is not necessarily right".
When he looked at his music back then, he also thought that music sometimes needs to hit people's hearts, isn't Dao Lang's music directly hitting people's hearts?
About two months after Wang Feng's statement, Yang Kun also talked about Dao Lang in an interview. The reporter asked Yang Kun how to evaluate Dao Lang, and Yang Kun directly asked the reporter:
"Does he have music? Do you think he's music? ”
Then the reporter asked, "So what is this not music?" Yang Kun replied: "Nostalgia, those old songs he sang, let me sing them will not be worse than him." ”
Immediately afterwards, Yang Kun continued to attack Dao Lang:
"I think Dao Lang's popularity is very strange, we worked so hard to make music, but his records could not hear anything, only pale and powerless..."
Yang Kun has a kind of unwillingness, or helplessness to the market.
Before he made this remark, he was still a popular student in the music industry, and in less than a year, the limelight was covered by Dao Lang, which was really a little humiliated.
He has always felt that if Dao Lang becomes popular in this market, it will be a regression of Chinese music.
In addition to Wang Feng and Yang Kun, other mainstream singers still do not look favorably on Dao Lang, and even dislike Dao Lang, feeling that he has ruined national music.
For example, the singer Kerim said:
"Dao Lang didn't dare to compliment some covers, he covered my four songs, even the original melody and rhythm changed, listening to his cover songs, many people who planned to come to Xinjiang did not come"
In addition, he said:
"These people don't even know whether Dao Lang is a place name or a person's name, which is extremely disrespectful to the national song and the place of Dao Lang."
Speaking of which, it must be clarified. Dao Lang's stage name "Dao Lang" is actually a transliteration of the Uyghur word "DOLAN", which people used to call "Dao Lai". This is the ancient place name of Megati County, Xinjiang, located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yeergai River.
This also shows that Dao Lang's music comes from the territory.
But is Dao Lang's musical work destroying national music?
Let the benevolent see the wise.
"Entertaining" award
Na Ying, as a mainstream Chinese music circle, also boycotted Dao Lang.
In March 2010, in the "Music Billboard Ten-Year Festival", Na Ying, as a judge, first explained the judging rules, first the music awards, then the music industry contribution, and finally the record sales.
The sentence does not mention Dao Lang, the sentence is talking about Dao Lang.
The conference mentioned the explosive Dao Lang, and then Na Ying directly expressed his position:
"Who are the people who listen to Dao Lang? Apart from record sales, what qualifies him to be judged here. As Chairman, I firmly oppose Dao Lang as the object of discussion. ”
A sentence directly blocked Dao Lang's path.
After this sentence was spoken, it instantly caused a huge sensation and controversy on the Internet.
The agent of the same popular "Rising Sun Yanggang" stood up and responded: "What music chart, we don't know what it does." ”
Such a statement also caused Na Ying's anger.
In 2011, before Dao Lang was about to hold the "Dao Lang 2011 Thank You Tour", he gave an interview to the media and also responded to the boycott about Na Ying. He said: "Entertaining prizes, if you are serious, you will lose!" ”
In addition, Dao Lang also broke the inside story of the award.
He said that before the award ceremony, the organizer had informed Dao Lang and asked him, "Will he be coming?" Before Dao Lang could answer, he said, "I will give the prize when I come." Dao Lang smiled, obviously he couldn't go to participate, because they didn't want to give him this award at all.
Having said that, let's mention another thing.
Just 10 years before this incident, in 2001, Tian Zhen angrily slammed the microphone at the "China Pop Song Chart" awards ceremony.
Before she dropped the microphone, she also said something angrily, she said that she was told that she had won the award, but at that time Tian Zhen had other arrangements on the day of the award, asking if the company could send someone to receive the award, and then the organizer said "No, if you don't come, you won't give the award", and then Tian Zhen thought for a while, then pushed off the arrangement of the day and prepared to go to the award ceremony, but was told on the way that the first prize had been given to other singers, this singer is Na Ying.
Therefore, Tian Zhen believes that such an award ceremony is not fair at all, and even feels that there is a "black box operation", so he angrily flicked his sleeves and left, and to this day, this matter is still hotly discussed by everyone.
The mystery of "disappearing" twice
No matter what the inside story is behind it? Obviously, in Dao Lang's opinion, such an award ceremony has no meaning.
But you know, the "Music Billboard" is a very high honor in the mainstream music circle, and many singers will be proud of it if they can win awards here.
This should be seen as Dao Lang's "misfit". He never wanted to stick to this circle, and it also caused his "disappearance".
Looking back, in fact, the mystery of Dao Lang's several "disappearances" is not difficult to understand.
Dao Lang disappeared from public view for the first time in January 2005, when media chased him to Urumqi, Xinjiang, and interviewed Dao Lang's agency, but he never saw him, and even the company said: "We haven't contacted him for a long time." ”
It was also during this time that the outside world became more and more controversial about Dao Lang.
When they were ostracized by the mainstream music industry, what was surprising was that many Hong Kong and Taiwan singers stood up to support Dao Lang. What does a Northwest singer have to do with the Hong Kong and Taiwan music scene?
The first thing to say about is a Hong Kong and Taiwan singer, is Alan Tam.
In fact, Alan Tam is the idol of Dao Lang, in Dao Lang's words, "grew up listening to Alan Tam's songs". After Dao Lang became popular, many Hong Kong and Taiwan singers extended olive branches to Dao Lang, including Alan Tam.
Knowing that he was invited by Alan Tam to cooperate, Dao Lang was surprised and delighted, and agreed to it in one bite.
Dao Lang not only helped Alan Tam write the song "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing", but also gave Alan Tam the right to adapt his famous song "The First Snow in 2002", and Principal Tam then adapted the Cantonese song "Unspeakable Farewell", and the two sang the Cantonese and Chinese versions of the song together.
Speaking of Dao Lang, Alan Tam said: "Dao Lang is a very connotative person, a promise for people, as simple and true as his songs..."
The affirmation of Hong Kong and Taiwan singers
Dao Lang was confirmed to be signed by Universal Records, and Alan Tam "opened the way" for Dao Lang in front. Attended Dao Lang's signing meeting, covered Dao Lang's songs to make his name, and actively recommended him. He even wanted to replace "left Lin and right Li" with "North and South Double Wolf".
Dao Lang went to Hong Kong to record songs and shoot MTV, Alan Tam ran before and after, running non-stop for Dao Lang, in addition to being responsible for Dao Lang's food and accommodation in Hong Kong, he also called a large group of friends in the Hong Kong entertainment industry to introduce Dao Lang to know.
In 2012, Dao Lang held the "Dao Lang Thank You Concert Tour" in the Red Hall, and Alan Tam also appeared to help Dao Lang, and the interaction between the two on stage caused the audience to laugh, and it can be seen that their relationship is quite good.
In addition to the concert's Red Hall Station, in fact, as early as 2011, Dao Lang's comeback first stop "Beijing Wukesong Stadium", Tan Yonglin appeared.
In addition to Alan Tam, there are many palace-level singers who have also commented on Dao Lang, such as Luo Dayou, once in an interview program, the host asked him if he would listen to pop music, he said that he rarely listened, but after mentioning Dao Lang, Luo Dayou said: "Dao Lang's songs can be listened to, Dao Lang has an advantage that he was born to sing, his voice is very good, he can sing as if he were speaking..."
This should be regarded as a high evaluation.
What few people know is that Li Zongsheng actually created an album for Dao Lang, and the producer of the album "Hu Yang of Kashgar" was Li Zongsheng.
At that time, it was Song Ke who found Li Zongsheng, and this music boss heard Dao Lang's voice for the first time, and felt very amazing, so he came to Xinjiang to find Dao Lang. However, Dao Lang was working on a new album at that time, so he didn't see Li Zongsheng until he decided to cooperate with Dao Lang after going around Xinjiang.
The support of these Hong Kong and Taiwan singers makes people feel very confused.
However, at Dao Lang's second peak, he "disappeared" again.
Leave this "circle" and become a pure musician
After 2012, there was gradually not much news of Dao Lang, until the lawsuit with Zhuo Ma in 2019, which put him on the cusp again, after which Dao Lang won the case, but did not appear in the public eye again.
After that, some recent photos appeared on the Internet, a little older, the figure was blessed, the hat was taken off, and the young man of that year became a bare-haired uncle, but the distance from music was still very close.
In fact, Dao Lang has transformed into a behind-the-scenes musician.
Many young musicians have been trained, including Clouds.
After washing away the lead, Dao Lang became an ordinary musician, with his own rhythm of life, no longer bent over for fame and fortune, and did not pay attention to anyone who questioned himself back then.
Because everything is no longer important.
As for the entanglement with the Chinese music scene, I finally let go.
Maybe one day, Dao Lang will be a thing of the past, or he will be forgotten by the history of the Chinese music scene, but those fans who once liked him will definitely not give up their love for Dao Lang.
This man who has a "cleanliness" in his musical pursuits, he can protect the purest things in music, and these gradually lost qualities are degrading in today's pop music scene.
When the market full of the smell of money is messed up by a group of capital, maybe at this time, everyone will think of this lonely and mysterious Dao Lang.
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Editor: Uncle Feng
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