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The former Jiang Dawei became famous with the song "Dare to Ask Where the Way Is", and then commercial performances continued to earn a lot of money.
However, he was later exposed that he refused to give the composer Xu Jingqing copyright fees, and swallowed 70 million yuan in performance fees.
"This is my own money, what does it have to do with you?"
Moreover, in the face of Zhu Zhiwen after becoming famous, his contempt for his identity as a peasant was not hidden.
"You still farm as a farmer, not a singer!"
Later, he immigrated to foreign countries and kept making money in China, and was angrily reprimanded by Jin Xing for raising taxes.
This year, at the age of 76, he was reduced to singing alone in the open air with an umbrella in a small county.
Immigrants spend their savings on luxury and come to China to make money
In March 2023, Jiang Dawei appeared on the stage of a peach blossom town in Hubei Province.
At the age of 76, he sang on the stage alone with an umbrella under the light rain, which made people ask, it is already the year of retirement, why did he come from afar against the rain?
This has to start when he started with the idea of immigration.
In 1997, Jiang Dawei participated in a performance event in Canada, and this experience left a deep impression on him.
Entering Canada, let him enter the Grand View Garden like Grandma Liu, see that everything is rare, and gave birth to the idea of immigration.
In the year of his daughter's college entrance examination, on the one hand, in order to let his daughter receive a better education in Canada, on the other hand, he decided to spend more time with his family, so he decided to put the ideal of immigration into reality.
With the 70 million yuan in savings earned from singing "Dare to Ask Where the Way Is", he immigrated to Canada with his family.
As soon as he immigrated, he bought a mansion, arranged a very elaborate decoration, and spent a large amount of money to carefully select a school for his daughter.
Although it cost a lot of money, he thought that his influence could eat anywhere, so he didn't care.
Unexpectedly, I thought that I would definitely be sought after abroad and my income would not be affected much, but I was 50 years old overseas and could not receive performances at all, and almost cut off my income.
Seeing that his belongings were running out, he had to consider returning home to earn money to help his family establish himself in Canada.
So he left his wife and daughter in Canada and returned to China alone.
However, he did not expect that China would find it difficult to accept him.
Stepping on the land of the motherland, he found that because he had been living abroad for a while, a large number of new singers had appeared one after another, which had greatly changed the market in the Chinese music circle, and his audience was already few.
Coupled with the news that he returned to China to make money because of the lack of money for immigrants, his reputation was also greatly affected, and there were many sneering voices inside and outside the industry, which made him feel hurt.
When he returned home in the evening, on the phone call to his wife, he complained about these troubles, and her wife had to comfort him and encourage him to cheer up.
In order to break the current dilemma, he found a former friend and hoped to help contact some show events.
The hard work paid off, and soon he was invited to perform at the Peach Blossom Festival somewhere, and offered a high price of 180,000 yuan.
In this way, with the help of friends, he began to receive some performances again, and slowly the family's income problem was solved.
Soon, his daughter also had a boyfriend in Canada, so he was even more motivated to earn more money for his daughter and strive to add another villa for her daughter.
For his daughter, Jiang Dawei was willing to give everything, and even the damage to his vocal cords during this period did not prevent him from continuing to travel around to perform.
Later, he also began to accept invitations to perform in some small places, and even some local variety shows did not refuse, you must know that he had ridiculed Zhu Zhiwen's peasant identity before, but now he has also changed his attitude.
Later, in a variety interview show, in the face of the host's questioning of his immigration, he repeatedly explained that it was just for the convenience of taking care of his daughter.
But Jin Xing put forward a different view of his immigration to Canada in her program, she believes that since he has immigrated and still runs to China to earn money, he should be allowed to pay more taxes for China as a foreigner, and a sharp evaluation has attracted a large number of audience support.
Not only this immigration turmoil, but also the 70 million he prepared for immigrants, but also made him a lot of public opinion.
Give Xu Jingqing a closed-door soup and swallow 70 million alone
Although he appeared on the Spring Festival Gala once, his fame had not yet risen at that time, and his name was really familiar with the song "Dare to Ask Where the Way Is" that later relied on Xu Jingqing.
At that time, the 86th version of "Journey to the West" was in preparation, and the director was also struggling with some casting problems, including the singing candidate for the ending song.
The original choice of the singer of the ending song was not officially selected because Xu Jingqing was not satisfied.
The tune of the song composed by Xu Jingqing is exciting, and he hopes that the singer can also meet this singing requirement, and after he heard Jiang Dawei's voice, his eyes lit up and he immediately issued an invitation.
Faced with the invitation to send to the door, Jiang Dawei naturally had no reason to refuse, and after obtaining the director's consent, Jiang Dawei officially began to sing the ending song.
After the production of "Journey to the West" was completed, it set off a national hit, and Jiang Dawei was also stained and famous, and even relied on this song to finally gain a foothold in the singing industry and get his place.
Subsequently, he used this song to get countless performance invitations, and the old book of this song has been eating for more than 30 years.
His appearance expenses also began to increase exponentially, including earning tens of millions of yuan in one year, which shows the importance of this song to him.
Therefore, he is also very grateful to Xu Jingqing, and even wants to worship as a mentor.
However, later, this song also became the introduction of the grudge between the two.
As the song became more and more popular, Jiang Dawei soon earned 70 million yuan in performance fees.
As a composer, Xu Jingqing saw that he had been performing commercially with his own songs, so he came to the door and asked for payment of copyright fees.
Jiang Dawei completely disagreed with this, and it is said that he refused Xu Jingqing's request on the grounds that the 70 million he received was simply paid to the singer.
Xu Jingqing is not a good person to compete for fame and fortune, but he is at ease to create, and seeing the other party behave like this, he has to regret it.
Because of this characteristic of himself, although Xu Jingqing has created a lot of famous songs, he does not have much savings.
Once, because he wanted to hold a theme concert, he couldn't make up enough money, and he had to travel around to raise funds.
In addition, when Jiang Dawei was in the limelight, he did not even hide his contempt for farmers.
Dislike Zhu Zhiwen is a farmer
In 2011, Zhu Zhiwen appeared on the stage of "Avenue of Stars" for the first time, and Jiang Dawei, who once declared that he would never participate in variety shows, was also on the jury this time.
Before Zhu Zhiwen took the stage, he was not optimistic about this player, but after this competition made Zhu Zhiwen suddenly popular and became a national celebrity, he suddenly changed his attitude.
In the show, he became enthusiastic about Zhu Zhiwen, who achieved excellent results, and also took the initiative to help guide singing skills.
The naïve and open-minded Zhu Zhiwen was very moved by such courtesy, and immediately said that Jiang Dawei was the idol he had always worshiped.
After the show, the two also dined together accompanied by the program group.
Zhu Zhiwen felt very honored to be able to eat at the same table with Jiang Dawei, and the atmosphere was quite harmonious for a while, and everyone also took the opportunity to match Jiang Dawei to accept him as an apprentice, Jiang Dawei did not refuse, Zhu Zhiwen quickly stepped forward to worship the teacher.
However, after the dinner, Jiang Dawei did not recognize this master-apprentice relationship.
In the later performance of the coat brother, in the face of the audience, he excitedly confessed to "Master" Jiang Dawei, but Jiang Dawei did not recognize the student at all, saying that at that time, the worship of the teacher was a formality, and he did not teach him to sing a song for a minute.
Seeing that Jiang Dawei was so excited to draw a line with himself, Zhu Zhiwen also hurriedly sent a video apology, echoing Jiang Dawei's rhetoric and explaining it to the audience.
After seeing Zhu Zhiwen's apology, the attention of public opinion on this matter still did not subside, and they also accused Jiang Dawei of being preoccupied.
In addition, Jiang Dawei was also very dissatisfied with Zhu Zhiwen's title of "peasant singer", he believed that a peasant is a peasant, a singer is a singer, and the two cannot be mixed together.
And he also believes that since Zhu Zhiwen is a farmer, he is a farmer, not a singer.
The reason why he wants to distinguish the identity of a farmer in such a straightforward way may be related to his artistic background from elementary school.
From art student to singer
His uncle was good at drawing Western paintings, and from a very young age, every time he met his uncle to paint, he would often sit on the sidelines and see the gods.
Seeing that he was so obsessed with painting, his uncle simply took him to paint with him, and the young Jiang Dawei studied for 8 years.
During this time, he also set his ambition to apply for the art major in the future, and also began to prepare for the college entrance examination.
However, the college entrance examination system was abruptly canceled when he was about to apply for the exam.
Then, in 1968, at the age of 21, he began to follow the countryside to join the queue.
In this environment, although he could no longer continue painting, which required relatively high tools, he had a new hobby of singing.
During the time of joining the queue, he often sang to the group, and his positive performance also attracted the attention of the propaganda team.
He had more opportunities to sing in the team, and he didn't have to work in the fields as often as ordinary people, so he gladly joined, and he was included in the propaganda team.
Since he joined the team, he and the publicity captain Zhang Peijun have been very close, and the two often discuss performance arrangements together, and even develop a love affection.
Later, Zhang Peijun was transferred to Inner Mongolia to join the team, and without thinking, he asked his superiors to transfer him as well, and after obtaining consent, the two were assigned to Inner Mongolia at the same time.
In 1969, he was transferred to the Jilin Cultural Troupe, where he received more theoretical guidance, and his singing skills began to become professional and gradually became a pillar.
After that, his career development was smoother, and in 1975, the talented Central Folk Song and Dance Troupe admitted him.
When he was in his 30s, a song "Peony Song" made him famous, and he had the opportunity to enter the Spring Festival Gala.
But in the Spring Festival Gala, "In the Place where the Peach Blossoms Bloom" was sung, and although the song became a hit, his popularity as a singer was still not high.
Although he was hit hard, he finally found an opportunity in the "Journey to the West" crew and made his own name.
epilogue
After becoming famous, he immigrated to enjoy life, and then returned to China to make money when he didn't have enough money to spend, and he still didn't miss any commercial performance opportunities at the age of 76.
Although Jiang Dawei's singing skills are good, this incident has made him deeply criticized, which is still a pity.
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