A few years ago, when Li Quan participated in the "Fireside Concert", he asked Ding Wei to help.
Before Ding Wei took the stage, Li Quan talked about her endlessly, and asked Jijie coldly: "Have you ever liked her?" ”
Ding Wei and Li Quan
Li Quan was stunned for a moment, then his face turned red, and then he played a tai chi and skipped this matter.
The curiosity of the audience can't help but be aroused, what kind of person is Ding Wei, who can make the cold talent Li Quan show shyness?
If you go to detail the all-round female musicians in the Chinese music scene, Ding Wei is a representative figure that has to be mentioned.
On the stage of "Children of Tomorrow", Li Zelong performed Ding Wei's "Memorial", which received 300 likes on the scene.
Riding the wind and waves, her sister Yi Nengjing, stomped her foot and sang Ding Wei's "Girl and Quartet" affectionately during rehearsals, and it was on the hot search the next day.
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 still accompanied the audience.
Whether it is in "33 Days of Broken Love", "Waiting for the Wind to Come", or in "If Life Deceives You" and "Snail House"... The soundtrack that brings out the plot is another way for Ding Wei to continue pop music.
When Ding Wei was studying at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, popular music was not yet elegant.
If students go to sing pop songs, they will be scolded by the teacher.
Ding Wei and senior Li Quan are rebel students, not only engaged in pop music at school, but also called on everyone to play together.
Li Quan and Ding Wei
The revolutionary friendship between the two of them was forged from that time.
Later, Li Quan took the lead in graduating and signed with Moyan, the Moyan record company that created the "Moyan Sanjie".
When recording the first album, Li Quan needed a harmony, so he found Ding Wei.
I have to say that Li Quan is Ding Wei's first nobleman to enter the pop music scene.
Then came the second nobleman.
Zhang Peiren
During the recording, Ding Wei met Zhang Peiren, the person in charge of Moyan Records, and chatted, Zhang Peiren asked her: "You also like singing, and you learn to compose, why didn't you write your own songs?" ”
Ding Wei learned erhu when she was a child, studied composition in college, and wrote songs by herself, she never thought about it.
But Zhang Peiren asked this, she vaguely had some thoughts.
What ultimately contributed to this was the two records sent to her by Zhang Peiren.
Before that, Ding Wei, like many people, listened to Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson.
She thought that the gap between her singing skills and them was so big, how could she be a singer.
The records of niche singers in 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 too narrowly about pop music, and pop music is not the only one.
"What's more alluring about pop music is that it expresses everyone's different personality. Everyone looks different, why do people say they should listen to the same thing when they come to pop music? ”
From that moment on, she decided to write her own songs and sing what she wanted.
She developed a belief: to make art in pop music.
With this attitude, Ding Wei never thought about whether she could write this song more familiarly and catchy before writing the song.
This is also the reason why her songs are not highly sung.
When she started acting, luck came to her.
Soon Ding Wei signed with Earth 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 JAZZ AND BLUES FEELINGS, AND CHINESE MUSIC CIRCLES PRAISE 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 aspiring young people who are new 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 that they can't buy it at all.
Most people don't think like Ding Wei about listening to artwork in pop music.
This is the pathos of the idealist.
Ding Wei, who felt that she was a failure and was very aggrieved, broke the contract with the record company in indignation and hid herself.
A girl who has just graduated from college is adrift in Beijing.
There is no job, no income, worrying about rent every month, and the future is bleak.
It rained overnight, and Ding Wei's father was diagnosed with cancer at this time.
It was her first winter in Beijing.
The wind outside the house was particularly strong, as if someone was crying.
Ding Wei listened to the howling wind, and her heart was sad: even God was crying for me.
Who thought that the hopelessness at this time became her inspiration.
The words and music poured out of my head at the same time.
"Winter is coming, and it feels cold; The water stopped flowing, you were gone, the music was playing and made me cry. ”
Ding Wei wrote "Winter is Coming", which had a profound impact in the hearts of a generation.
Ma Xiaoying once heard "Winter is Coming" in the car, heard tears in her eyes, and used this song in her debut movie "The One Who Hurts Me in the World".
Life and movies are always so similar.
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 the piano.
Once the father got angry and stuffed the sisters into burlap bags and drove them to the river on bicycles, pretending to throw them into the river to scare them.
Her fear and love for her father have always been hidden in her heart.
When I used to do jazz, my father always said that I couldn't understand it, and Ding Wei thought that my father must understand this song, and I must think it sounded good.
It's a pity that her father can't hear it, and she doesn't even have a chance to please him.
This became a regret in her heart.
Life is always high and low, and after bitterness, there will be sweetness.
The success of "Winter is Coming" allowed Ding Wei to usher in the spring of her career.
At the end of the 90s, Ding Wei wrote the song "Love Must Have You to Be Perfect" 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.
"Girls and Quartets" is an attempt for Ding Wei.
String quartets were a common form in classical music, but no one at the time combined string quartets with popular music.
Ding Wei did so, and the song was very popular with the public, and won the awards for Best Arrangement and Top Ten Chinese Songs at the 1st Chinese Pop Media Awards.
If she likes it the most, her favorite is "The Dog".
At that time, a singer invited her to sing, and she sat in front of the piano every day thinking and thinking, 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 helplessness.
Ding Wei used the dog that was not brought home to express the helplessness of some people who missed some people and some things.
At this stage, Ding Wei wants to explore life more.
It paved the way for her to turn to film and television music.
After 2000, the advent of digital music had an impact on physical records.
Many companies are facing bankruptcy or poor operation, and everyone is looking for their own way out in a bad environment.
Ding Wei didn't want to be separated from the music, so she went to create a soundtrack.
In this turning process, Ding Wei encountered a problem that many women encounter - occupational discrimination.
There are very few women who compose music for film and television, 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 to admit defeat.
"What's wrong with the man's play, that is, he thinks I can't understand masculinity, or can't write that grandeur? If he were dealing with a male composer, he wouldn't have had this problem. ”
Since Ding Wei's elementary school, almost every year the teacher wrote comments that "I don't like to participate in group activities".
This kind of she does not like in teachers and parents.
Her parents' education for her is that you don't be the first bird, you don't make special.
Growing up, that's what she wants to criticize the most.
The idealism and stubbornness in her character never flinched.
In areas that are not favored, she has also made achievements.
From 2004 to the present, she has scored dozens of film and television dramas.
"The Right Way in the World is Vicissitudes" is one of the most important ones, and after the play was broadcast, many directors and producers began to come to her.
So there was the later "33 Days of Broken Love", "Snail House", "If Life Deceived You", "Ten Years in Love", "You Are My Brother"...
The soundtrack gave her something else.
In the past, she wrote pop songs in a very self-conscious state, but today she writes when she has feelings, she doesn't write if she doesn't feel it, and she writes whatever she feels.
But the soundtrack has a time limit, and the source of the 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 best friend Ke Lan said that Ding Wei 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 walk back.
After 2014, she found that independent music has slowly developed, and copyright awareness and copyright protection have been paid more and more attention.
Based on such a large environment, Ding Wei made the album "Loosening", which is an album that she began to prepare for a long time, and only took it out and remade it when the time was ripe.
At the beginning, someone advised her that she could learn some singers, sing a few songs first, and then slowly change her style and do what she wanted.
She feels that life is so easy, can she come back after making this change?
Even journalists will sympathize with her.
Sometimes when Ding Wei is interviewed, some particularly kind reporters will say: "Ding Wei, I think you are not easy, you see that you have been persisting." ”
Ding Wei's straight temper came up,
She especially did not give face and asked the other party to stop: "I didn't insist." ”
Ding Wei doesn't like the word insistence used when people say this.
If you use persistence to describe it, it means that you don't like this thing, or you can't do it anymore.
"For me there is so much fun making music, why should I keep going."
"A creative person, when I can write a work that I am particularly satisfied with, the satisfaction is absolutely no less than when I stand on the stage and be cheered by millions of people."
She values self-worth.
One year, Ding Wei and He Jiong walked the Avenue of Stars, the two of them were two states, He Jiong saw that everyone was a baby, and Ding Wei looked around on the side, like an outsider.
Ding Wei and He Jiong
Later, Li Jing, the host of the super interview, asked her that some women would feel that they had snubbed me and that I wanted to be the protagonist.
You don't have that desire to be the protagonist?
Ding Wei replied to her: I have another desire in my heart to be the protagonist, you must value my value, but on this occasion, I may not need you.
When she was a singer, Ding Wei didn't wear makeup every day, and wore a T-shirt and jeans to go to the company.
Sanbao said, Ding Wei, why do you dress like this every day, you are an artist.
Ding Wei is still like this.
One of the things she is most proud of is that she can spend 20 yuan on a dress with good quality and style.
She loves to stay at home and be with herself.
She doesn't see her friends a few times a year, and she says everyone knows her and tolerates 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 had to go home and check her marriage certificate.
You see, this is the favorite character of people who do art.
She is talented.
She is dismissive of fame and fortune, liveliness, competition, absent-mindedness, and disdain.
But she has a passion in her heart, how can she write so many songs with strong emotions if she is not enthusiastic.
Sambo
Sanbao, who does not like to appear, sent her a message in "Super Interview":
"You should cherish yourself more, don't be influenced by the outside world, and follow your own music path and life path according to your own ideas."
People always have a special preference for their own kind.
With luck, talent, and independent and free thinking, she achieved her original dream: to make art in pop music.
Ding Wei did not become popular, nor did she fall because of mavericks, she lived quite well.
This is perhaps the best home for an art lover.
Resources:
1. One seat - Ding Wei
2. Super visit – Ding Wei
3, 2018 more entertainment interview - Ding Wei
4. Super girlfriend journey - Ke Lan Dingwei