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"Unforgettable tonight, unforgettable tonight, no matter the end of the world or the cape..."
Every year at the end of the Spring Festival Gala, teacher Li Guyi will bring us "Unforgettable Tonight".
But in the 2023 Spring Festival Gala, teacher Li Guyi did not appear on time as everyone hoped.
Various speculations about Teacher Li Guyi's physical condition began to circulate on the Internet, and many people thought that Teacher Li Guyi was going to quit the rivers and lakes,
Some people found that Teacher Li Guyi had not retired, and in the corner where no one cared, Li Guyi had already taken another avenue.
Rising star Lee Guyi
Li Guyi was born in Yunnan in 1944, and because his parents were transferred to work at two universities in Changsha, Hunan Province, Li Guyi basically spent his student years in Changsha, Hunan Province.
At first, the parents did not prepare for their daughter to study music, but hoped that Li Guyi could become an athlete.
At that time, the music major was not as hot as it is now, and everyone was more inclined to sports and culture.
And Li Guyi has been among the best in sports since primary school, and even won many awards at the provincial games.
Li Guyi's teacher has told Li Guyi's parents more than once that if Li Guyi can continue to learn sports, he will definitely become an ace athlete of the provincial team in the future, and even enter the national team if he works hard to cultivate.
However, Li Guyi's musical performance is not lost to sports performance.
In the city's music competition, Li Guyi won praise from many experts as soon as he opened his mouth, and even a music expert specially found Li Guyi after the game.
"As long as you stick to the path of music, you will definitely become a famous singer in the country in the future." These are the words left by experts for Li Guyi.
Sports or music?
Li Guyi was in a dilemma, and his parents said that no matter what Li Guyi chose in the end, they would support it.
In the end, Li Guyi gave up applying for a sports school and chose to enter the provincial art school.
After graduation, Li Guyi was arranged to enter the provincial theater as a flower drum opera actor.
With his beautiful appearance and excellent singing voice, Li Guyi suddenly became a famous flower drum opera actor in Hunan Province and got the opportunity to study in Beijing.
While studying in Beijing, Li Guyi learned about many famous opera actors and songwriters, and also discovered his biggest flaw - Hunan accent.
When performing in Hunan, the Hunan accent will naturally be liked by countless Hunan people. But in Beijing, the Hunan accent became the reason why Li Guyi was not favored.
In order to change himself, Li Gu began to learn Mandarin like crazy, trying to correct his accent problem.
The first thing you do when you get up is practice your tongue twister.
Every time music was played in the school, Li Guyi sang along with the music to hear the difference between what he sang and what was on the radio.
Sometimes in order to completely correct the pronunciation of a word, Li Guyi will practice dozens or even hundreds of times.
I don't rest until I can fully pronounce the correct pronunciation of the word.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Li Guyi was lucky to be seen by CCTV because of his excellent grades when he graduated, and became a famous singer at that time.
After that, Li Guyi also won the gold medal of the 3rd World Peace Song Competition, the silver award of the 4th Tokyo International Song Festival, the Golden Bell Award of Chinese Music and many other awards.
In 1983, Li Guyi appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala for the first time, and a song "Hometown Love" made Li Gu popular all over the country.
Many titles such as "National Treasure Singer" and "First Lady of the Music Scene" were also posted on Li Guyi.
At that time, no one did not know Li Guyi, and no one would dislike Li Guyi's songs.
A song "Unforgettable Tonight" has become a classic.
Not only the Spring Festival Gala, but also major universities and enterprises will end with "Unforgettable Tonight" when holding the party.
At the time, if the end of that big event was not "Unforgettable Tonight", it would have been called an imperfect event.
In 1977, Li Guyi married Xiao Zhuoneng who was born into a military family, and gave birth to a lovely daughter Xiao Yi.
The double harvest of career and love has made countless people full of envy for Li Guyi, and even Li Guyi's superior leaders lamented that Li Guyi's life is the most envious of them.
But in life, everything cannot go smoothly, and there will always be regrets that cannot be made up.
Because of his efforts in the music career, Li Guyi's family life is not as happy as most people.
The daughter's evaluation of Li Guyi is that she has never felt that she is her own mother, not like her own mother, more like a teacher.
In life, you can rarely feel the existence of Li Guyi, and only when learning music in childhood, Li Guyi will stay by his side for a long time.
But Li Guyi's regret is that he didn't accompany his daughter often?
Blows and regrets
Li Guyi rarely has time to go to her husband's wedding anniversary, and she has little time to travel with her husband, and the time in the world of the two is almost very little.
Her husband Xiao Zhuoneng also knows that Li Guyi is busy with work, and the only requirement for Li Guyi in terms of family is to accompany his daughter more.
But Li Guyi has no extra time at all, sometimes he eats and sleeps in the crew, and rarely returns home.
But in order to protect the family and not owe his daughter too much, Li Guyi decided to bring his daughter into the crew to live together.
While filming herself, my daughter was watching or studying homework and music.
But even so, Xiao Yizhi still rarely feels maternal love.
The overinvestment in the music industry also caused Li Guyi's body to start to have various problems.
Heart disease, high blood pressure, vocal cord bleeding and other diseases are constantly ravaging Li Guyi.
The doctor's suggestion was that Li Guyi had better rest for a while.
If you continue to practice and sing with the intensity of your previous time, Li Guyi's vocal cords are likely to be completely broken, and it will be difficult to even speak at that time.
For any singer, this is tantamount to being sentenced to death if he can no longer sing.
Most singers will not hesitate to announce their retirement from the music scene when they receive this news.
But Li Guyi's love for the music industry made her really unwilling to quit.
Li Guyi decided to temporarily rest her vocal cords, but her pursuit of a music career did not stop.
I couldn't sing the song, so I carefully studied the lyrics and soundtrack in the song.
Except for a few necessary stage programs, Li Guyi basically spent all his time on research.
Xiao Zhuo can see that Li Guyi is so obsessed with music, and has been encouraging and supporting Li Guyi behind his back.
What Xiao Zhuo can give Li Guyi is not only that Li Guyi can have a stable research environment, but also give Li Guyi confidence.
Li Guyi also said that during that period of recuperation, Xiao Zhuoneng was his only light, illuminating the way forward for himself.
But this light was extinguished as soon as Li Gu walked to the finish line before he could accompany him.
In 2020, Xiao Zhuoneng unfortunately passed away, and the most important light in Li Guyi's life disappeared.
At this time, Li Guyi could not accept this fact at all, and he had almost no contact with outsiders in most of the year.
He never appeared on any stage, and even the musical work that never stopped came to a standstill.
New paths
After more than half a year of baptism, Li Guyi finally came out of his sadness.
Songs are not only art, but also life, and singers should also show the attitude of life in the song to face their own lives.
This is Li Guyi's answer when asked how he came out of the shadows.
In 2022, Li Guyi returned to the stage of the Spring Festival Gala and once again brought the familiar "Unforgettable Tonight" to the people of the whole country with his own singing.
After this Spring Festival Gala, Li Guyi decided to continue to radiate his own light and heat and continue to contribute his strength to the country's artistic development.
However, Li Guyi is not ready to continue to perform on stage, except for physical and age reasons.
Another reason is that Li Guyi has found a way that needs to emit light and heat by himself even more.
As early as 2016, Li Guyi participated in CCTV's variety show "Ding Dong Dong Choke", a program that promotes traditional opera.
It was also this show that made Li Guyi discover his new goal in life - to cultivate new musicians.
As an artist of the older generation, Li Guyi has been singing Huagu opera since he was exposed to music, and has also studied other operas since then.
With the changes of the times, Li Guyi has felt that under the influence of modern music, traditional opera has begun to no longer be liked by the majority of young people.
It was also in this show that Li Gu began to think about how to make the majority of young people fall in love with opera.
A fusion of modern pop music and traditional opera!
This is the best way to make young people like opera right now.
It seems that Li Guyi has retired, but she is secretly trying to figure out how to integrate modern pop music with traditional opera.
Due to the problem of age, teacher Li Guyi rarely appears on the stage now, but we now see some innovative operas on major platforms that are basically inseparable from the efforts of teacher Li Guyi.
In recent years, whenever the New Year's Eve or important festival party, whether it is an online platform or a major TV tower, a drama will be arranged to perform.
And these operas not only incorporate modern dance and music, but also bring the charm of traditional opera to everyone.
Why don't you want to be in the public eye anymore?
They are old, the future belongs to young people, and they should also provide more development space for young people and let young people have more opportunities to exercise.
This is Teacher Li Guyi's answer.
epilogue
In 2023, teacher Li Guyi did not appear on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, I don't know how many people regret.
But I believe that with Teacher Li Guyi's always optimistic and cheerful spirit of courage to challenge, this year's Spring Festival Gala, I believe we will definitely be able to meet Teacher Li Guyi again.
The story of teacher Li Guyi along the way is legendary, stepping on the top of the mountain and falling through the trough.
Although we can rarely hear from Li Guyi now, all of us know that she is quietly cultivating a new generation of artists for the motherland.
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, Teacher Li Guyi's face is no longer the pride and vitality of his youth, but more serious and dignified.
However, time has changed only the appearance of teacher Li Guyi, but it has not changed her love for music and art.
Whether in the past or in the future, the name of teacher Li Guyi will always be remembered by the people, and "Unforgettable Tonight" will also become a classic song that countless people cannot forget in their bones.
I believe that teacher Li Guyi will go further and further on the new road and lead the new generation of artists to create brilliant achievements.
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