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Wen | Li said with a big mouth
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preface
Jiang Dawei once again returned to China to "make money".
Once a "national treasure" singer, who has repeatedly appeared on such a big stage on CCTV, can now only perform on the humble township stage.
Even though it was raining, 76-year-old Jiang Dawei still held an umbrella and sang enthusiastically on stage.
The same is "In the Place Where the Peach Blossoms Bloom", sung by the same person, the scene that exploded 39 years ago did not repeat itself, and the audience at the scene only felt that the song was too old, and even most people did not know the singer Jiang Dawei.
As a well-known Chinese singing artist, why did Jiang Dawei fall to where he is today?
01
It all started with Jiang Dawei's "immigration" turmoil.
Jiang Dawei, a native of Tianjin, was born in a wealthy family, received a good education, showed excellent talent in singing, and became famous with a song "Horse Galloping to Protect the Frontier" after being favored by the Jilin Provincial Forest Literary Troupe during his time in the countryside.
Because Jiang Dawei's treble is very loud, his singing skills are exquisite, and he is full of feelings, he was later favored by the Central National Song and Dance Troupe and became an independent singer.
It can be said that in that special era, he relied on his talent to go smoothly.
In 1984, Jiang Dawei participated in the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala and sang "In the Place Where Peach Blossoms Bloom", becoming a well-known figure in the whole country.
After becoming famous with CCTV, Jiang Dawei got more singing opportunities, and the "Journey to the West" TV series found him when he was preparing, hoping that he could sing the theme song "Dare to ask where the way is".
Later, "Journey to the West" became popular, and "Dare to Ask Where the Way Is" became the golden song of the year, and the popularity was no less than that of the descendants' "Little Apple" and "The Most Dazzling National Style" and other "divine comedy".
After Jiang Dawei became popular, he not only gained fame, but also money, a large number of performance invitations, and his appearance fee even reached 25w, you must know that it was 25w in the eighties, which shows how popular he was at that time.
After the fire, Jiang Dawei's whole person was also a little floating, a chance to perform abroad, to see the prosperity of foreign countries, and then compared with the domestic environment at that time, he was very yearning for developed countries and longed to live in such an environment.
With this idea, Jiang Dawei later sent his daughter to Canada to study, his wife went to Canada to accompany him, he also bought a house in Canada, and the family of three spent a lot of time in Canada, and occasionally he returned to China to perform.
When Jiang Dawei was planning to return to China to participate in the performance, he was contacted by a woman named Yao Man, who was his translator when he went abroad.
Yao Man told Jiang Dawei that he had channels to give him commercial performances, so that he could earn money in the shortest time for his children and wife to be dashing abroad.
It was Jiang Dawei, who was short of money, who immediately agreed, so the two worked together frequently and made a lot of money.
Over time, Yao Man took the initiative to speak out, saying that she was "Jiang Dawei's woman".
When Jiang Dawei found out, he was frightened, knowing that he would be "late in life" if he was involved in the problem of men and women, so he immediately proposed to Yao Man to end the cooperation.
How could Yao Man allow Jiang Dawei to stop cooperating, knowing that she would have no money if he stopped cooperating.
So she immediately found a bunch of punks and forced Jiang Dawei to owe 900,000 IOUs.
Then he was taken to court, and both the bright and dark sides had to control him.
Jiang Dawei did not expect that Yao Man turned out to be such a person, and after struggling, he took the initiative to call the police and explained the truth to the police.
Jiang Dawei's influence coupled with Yao Man's violation of the law, so she ended up in prison, paying the corresponding price for her actions.
Although the agent was sent to prison, the case was widely reported by the media, and at this time everyone learned that Jiang Dawei, who had not appeared for a long time, had immigrated to Canada.
After netizens found out, it caused crazy discussions, and many people felt that he was a "traitor", coveting "capitalist prosperity", etc., and his reputation on the Internet was getting worse and worse.
After Jiang Dawei found out, he took the initiative to stand up and explain that he did not immigrate to Canada, and said on the Internet that his immigration was pure rumors, and he was a real "Chinese".
Although Jiang Dawei said so, it is a fact that his wife and daughter immigrated to Canada, and it is also a fact that a family of three bought a house in Canada.
He now also emphasizes the identity of "Chinese", which is nothing more than the need to "make money" in China.
Although Jiang Dawei has a certain reputation in China, no one knows him when he arrives in Canada, and when he accompanied his daughter in Canada, he also wanted to develop a singing career locally, but found that he had no market at that time.
For the livelihood of a family of three, Jiang Dawei returned to China, frequently participated in variety shows, and received various commercial performances.
People like Jiang Dawei, who spend all the money earned at home abroad, and deliberately emphasize his identity as a "Chinese", naturally makes netizens look down on, so there is nothing wrong with netizens scolding him, to a certain extent, Jiang Dawei is worth scolding.
02
In addition to the immigration turmoil, Jiang Dawei's reputation has deteriorated in recent years is that he looks down on "farmers".
When Jiang Dawei found that he couldn't mix abroad, he immediately returned to China, and broke his vow of "absolutely not participating in variety shows" for money.
Although many people think that Jiang Dawei is generally famous, but as an old artist, old singer, he has participated in the Spring Festival Gala many times, and has popular music works all over the country, he wants to participate in variety shows or many people are invited, at least CCTV is willing to invite him as a guest.
In this way, Jiang Dawei became the mentor of "Avenue of Stars" and commented on the contestants.
Because of his professional ability, the players also have great respect for him.
"Avenue of Stars" is a civilian-level show that brings together contestants from all directions, many of whom were ordinary people before participating in the show, and Zhu Zhiwen was one.
Before joining the show, he was an authentic farmer who usually had a hobby of singing and a certain talent for singing.
Zhu Zhiwen is a "post-60 generation", and he happened to be an adult when Jiang was angry, so he has always regarded the other party as an idol.
When participating in the show, he also sang a lot of Jiang's songs, such as "Dare to ask where the way is" and "In the place where the peach blossoms bloom" and so on.
Zhu Zhiwen passed all the way, PK many times, and finally won the fifth place in the annual finals.
His own little fans won a good position in his own show, Jiang Dawei was naturally happy, and he invited each other to dinner outside the show and taught each other singing skills, and the two sides were harmonious for a while.
But the good times did not last long, Zhu Zhiwen became more and more popular, and even participated in the performance of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala.
You must know that Jiang Dawei had rarely participated in the Spring Festival Gala performances at that time, and he felt that an ordinary contestant from a peasant background and no singing skills could actually appear on the Spring Festival Gala like himself and be "on an equal footing" with himself?
Jiang Dawei's mentality collapsed for a while, and he was also very jealous of Zhu Zhiwen, and even some media occasionally mentioned his name when reporting Zhu Zhiwen, as if he was his "accessory".
Under such emotions, Jiang Dawei openly bombarded Zhu Zhiwen in the program, believing that the other party was a farmer, not a great character, nor an "artist", just an ordinary person.
Jiang Dawei even thinks that Zhu Zhiwen and other players, after becoming famous, forget their original appearance and do not remember their original intention.
Of course, Jiang Dawei's bombardment of Zhu Zhiwen did not get everyone's support, and netizens pointed out:
"Aren't you Jiang Dawei also a common people, noble what?"
"You Jiang Dawei is also singing songs written by others, there is no need for this kind of gesture."
Probably because Jiang Dawei's lesson hurt Zhu Zhiwen, he returned to the countryside after that, took root in the countryside, publicized and built roads for the countryside, and used his influence to do all kinds of things.
On the other hand, Jiang Dawei, who prides himself on being an "artist", is mixed in one commercial performance after another, and I don't know if he is as "noble" as he was at the beginning.
03
"Dare to Ask Where the Way Is" is a very important song for Jiang Dawei, and this song brought his career to the peak state.
At that time, the crew of "Journey to the West" decided that the singer of this song was not Jiang Dawei, but another singer, Li Shuangjiang (that is, the father of the famous Li Tianyi).
But I didn't expect that Li Shuangjiang's voice just had a problem, he couldn't sing his voice, the TV series was about to be broadcast, and the theme song had not yet been sung, so in desperation, he could only change the singer.
At this time, Jiang Dawei became a popular singer because of the Spring Festival Gala, and his singing voice is also very suitable for "Dare to Ask Where the Way Is", plus singing skills, feelings and so on.
After receiving the invitation from the crew, he immediately completed the recording of the song.
I thought it was just a very ordinary song, but I didn't expect it to become one of my life masterpieces.
The TV series became popular, the song also became popular, and the singer Jiang Dawei naturally became popular, and received various invitations, all of them singing "Dare to ask where the way is".
He made a lot of money with this song.
Jiang Dawei walked everywhere and sang the song "Dare to Ask Where the Way Is", and every time he sang, he needed to give the song creator a copyright fee.
But at that time, Chinese's awareness of copyright was not strong, and when he made a lot of money, the songwriter Xu Jingqing did not get a penny, and his life was still very poor.
Some people suggested that Xu Jingqing take some copyright fees from Jiang Dawei, after all, he earned so much money with this song that he should pay a little copyright fee.
But Xu Jingqing was embarrassed and never spoke, so Jiang didn't take it seriously and didn't take the initiative to give the copyright fee.
Jiang Dawei felt that when he sang "Dare to Ask Where the Way Is", he did not receive a penny of remuneration, and the income he obtained by singing this song afterwards was all deserved, and there was no need to pay others.
Xu Jingqing was kind and did not take the initiative to ask Jiang Dawei for a penny, but Jiang's subsequent actions made people feel cold.
Xu Jingqing wanted to organize a concert called "Journey to the West" in 2015, but Xu, who had not been poor in his life, was troubled by financial problems and had to pull sponsorship, so he found Jiang Dawei.
Dawei was unwilling to admit Xu Jingqing's original recommendation, and also thought that the fire of "Dare to Ask Where the Way Is" had little to do with Xu Jingqing, and was unwilling to give him a penny of sponsorship.
Not only that, Xu Jingqing later wanted to ask Jiang Dawei to sing "Dare to Ask Where the Way Is" at the concert, but the other party refused, and even took the initiative to lose contact and could not be contacted.
Old man Xu was very helpless, so he could only ask others to sing for him.
After that, Xu Jingqing confessed in an interview that he did not ask Jiang Dawei for a penny of copyright fees, he did not give himself a penny of copyright fees, and he did not authorize him to sing the copyright of "Dare to Ask Where the Way Is".
In other words, any time Jiang Dawei sings "Dare to Ask Where the Way Is" is without the authorization of the original author, it is equivalent to infringement.
If Old Master Xu can ruthlessly sue Jiang Dawei, he will have to suffer a lawsuit and lose money because of this.
epilogue
Although Jiang Dawei is 76 years old and still performing in a small county, some people sigh that he is "no longer beautiful", but I don't know that people have a commercial performance of hundreds of thousands, at his age, he has long been no longer in the unexpected world how to comment on him, money in the pocket is the right thing.
As for immigrants, there are many stars who have immigrated now, like Zhang Tielin and Gong Li, who have long immigrated abroad, but they still do not delay them in earning money in China.
The melon-eating masses have seen the immigration of Jiang Dawei's family, and there is really no need to grasp it.