Time only relieves people to grow old. We live in this world, we will see the sunrise and sunset, we will see the flowers blossom and thank you, in the long river of time, people or things, are each moving towards their own "end".
Xie Xiaodong, the once popular "idol male god", is one of them.
He has appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala many times to sing classic songs, and the limelight is no different.
At that time, men, women and children in the streets and alleys could hum a few words of his works. At the peak of his career, his status was not exaggerated compared with Mao Ning, who sang "The Sound of the Waves".
It is precisely because of this that many fledgling artists want to cooperate with him, and the family can be described as a city. Zhang Ziyi, who was still in college at the time, took the initiative to find Xie Xiaodong and successfully starred in the heroine of the MV of "Cherish". At that time, Zhang Ziyi had not yet officially debuted, and Xie Xiaodong had also become her benefactor.
However, the fire suddenly became silent, and even the media could not capture the destination for a while. How is he doing now?
However, today's Zhang Ziyi has become an "international chapter", but Xie Xiaodong, who has promoted her, seems to have suddenly disappeared from the entertainment industry, and even the media once could not capture the destination. How is he doing now?
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Xie Xiaodong was born in 1968 to an artistic family in Bozhou, Anhui Province.
His father was the head of a song and dance troupe, and his mother was an actor who performed a play.
Because of his parents, Xie Xiaodong has had artistic cells since he was a child, and under the influence of his parents at home during the process of growing up, Xie Xiaodong has perfectly displayed his artistic talent in front of his family.
As he grew older, Xie Xiaodong grew more and more handsome and became a dancing young man in the eyes of everyone.
When he was 11 years old, Xie Xiaodong was photographed by his teacher, hoping that he could learn dance.
When Xie Xiaodong heard this news, he hesitated, and the teacher took the initiative to contact his parents when he saw the situation, and the teacher strongly persuaded Xie Xiaodong's parents to let him learn dance, and must not let him miss the opportunity as a "good seedling".
Under the strong recommendation of his teacher, Xie Xiaodong was given the opportunity to enter the art academy.
After entering the art school, Xie Xiaodong practiced singing and dancing diligently every day, and the time flew by, and six years passed.
Because Xie Xiaodong is "gifted", he has become the key training object of dance teachers in art colleges, and in the years of practicing dance, Xie Xiaodong has suffered many injuries of all sizes, but he still grits his teeth and insists, and will train hard every day.
Just when the dance technology was greatly improving, Xie Xiaodong's accumulated foot injury finally "broke out" in a dance practice, which was undoubtedly a thunderbolt on a sunny day for him.
This means that he who loves dance can no longer practice dance, and if he continues to practice dance, he will have to bear the risk of not being able to walk normally again, and in desperation, Xie Xiaodong has to end his dance career.
But he is never a person who gives up lightly, and Xie Xiaodong, who loves art, still maintains an optimistic spirit on the days when he can't practice dance, the so-called "three hundred and sixty lines, the line out of the yuan"
Xie Xiaodong, who no longer practiced dancing, organized a guitar team at school and began to concentrate on singing.
Xie Xiaodong, who graduated from an art school two years later, was retained by the school because of his excellent grades, expecting him to stay in the school to teach, but he was not here, so he politely refused the request.
So after graduating from art school, he entered the Hefei Song and Dance Troupe, where the conscientious Xie Xiaodong soon became a pillar.
After reaching a certain height, Xie Xiaodong began to be dissatisfied with the status quo, and he was not willing to be trapped on a small art stage with the "ambition of the great crane".
He wanted to go up to a higher, bigger stage, that was his dream.
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Xie Xiaodong chose to leave the familiar song and dance troupe and embarked on a "dream journey" to Beijing.
However, Xie Xiaodong, who has just entered Beijing, was shocked by this huge city, and the young and vigorous Xie Xiaodong could not wait to start to show his fists and feet to spread his own piece of the world, but the reality is always cruel.
He did not get the opportunity to sing immediately, and when he first arrived in Beijing, he was no different from countless "North Drifters", "bitter" and "difficult".
In the face of Beijing's unattainable housing prices, Xie Xiaodong can only live in the basement to save money, and the winter in Beijing is bitterly cold, and many times Xie Xiaodong can only curl up in the corner.
In Beijing, he had days of not having enough to eat and the experience of wandering and singing.
He did not dare to tell his parents about all this, and could only bear all his grievances alone, and all the way down his insistence was the burning "dream fire" in his heart.
Over time, Xie Xiaodong attracted many audiences to the bar with his musical talent. More and more people are getting to know this handsome big boy who is singing in the bar.
True talent can never be overshadowed.
By chance, the famous music composer Gu Jianfen heard Xiaodong's singing voice and immediately admired him, and threw an olive branch, saying that he attached great importance to his artistic atmosphere.
This became a turning point in Xiaodong's life.
In this way, Xie Xiaodong entered Gu Jianfen's vocal music training class for further study, and he began to gradually embark on the Kangzhuang Avenue of dreams.
After entering the training class and becoming a teacher, he met Na Ying, Mao Amin, Fan Linlin and other people and established a deep friendship.
During his time at the school, Xie Xiaodong actively cooperated with major literary and art groups to perform, accumulating experience for himself and exercising his abilities.
Not long after, Xie Xiaodong's career improved, and he was given the opportunity to sing the theme song "I Don't Know the Wind" for the annual reform blockbuster "Hot Love".
The following year, with this song , "I Don't Know the Wind" stood out among the many contestants, a song won the third place in the "Wuzhou Cup Young Singers" competition held by CCTV that year, and was rated as "the most popular singer" by the public.
The "Wuzhou Cup Young Singers Grand Prix" originally had an unwritten rule, that is, the winning singers would be given the opportunity to attend the CCTV Spring Festival Gala the following year.
This is undoubtedly the booster for Xie Xiaodong's singing career.
In 1991, the 23-year-old Xie Xiaodong successfully boarded the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, sang the song "Common World" with Cheng Fangyuan, and began to emerge in the song world.
However, Xie Xiaodong, who only appeared on the Spring Festival Gala once, did not become popular because of this, the audience just began to know the existence of such a person, and Xie Xiaodong could only continue to precipitate himself.
The following year, Xie Xiaodong was hired as a special actor of the Central Song and Dance Troupe, and for the first time accompanied the "92 Chinese Style" performance group of the Chinese Ministry of Culture to Hong Kong to participate in cultural exchanges.
In 1993, Xie Xiaodong joined Hong Kong EMI Records, but Xie Xiaodong did not want to be bound by the company, and he terminated his contract with the record company within a year and founded "Xiaodong Art Communication Production Co., Ltd." to develop freely.
"China Baby"
A year after the establishment of the company, Xie Xiaodong once again appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, singing the song "Today is really happy" for the national audience.
With a simple and cheerful melody coupled with a handsome appearance, the 27-year-old Xie Xiaodong finally became a hit and opened his own "Xie Xiaodong era".
With the soaring fame, Xie Xiaodong's career has also developed smoothly, and he has become a guest of singing on platforms and events around the world.
In 1998, Xie Xiaodong, a big red, and Fan Xiaoxuan, the "Little Witch", sang "Health Song" together, which once again swept the north and south of the river and became a song that everyone sang in the streets and alleys.
He has appeared on the spring festival gala stage 14 times, and he is truly worthy of being the "top of the music scene" in the 1990s.
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The encounter with his wife, Yu Jia'en, was a coincidence.
The famous Xie Xiaodong is often invited to attend friend gatherings, in a party Xie Xiaodong met Yu Jiaen, Yu Jiaen who studied in Japan and the musical talent Xie Xiaodong were attracted by each other's temperament, the two fell in love at first sight, and quickly established a relationship.
There is always someone in love who has to learn to give up.
Yu Jia'en gave up the idea of staying in Japan to develop in order to pursue love, and she resolutely returned to China and lived with Xiaodong in Beijing.
The period after Xu Jiaen returned to China was the period when Xie Xiaodong's career development was in full swing.
The two people in the period of hot love were emotionally stable and chose to join hands to enter the palace of marriage, married in a low-key manner in 1995, yu Jiaen became pregnant in 1997, gave birth to a lovely son for Xie Xiaodong, and named "Niu Niu", the life of a family of three is very happy.
But the competition in the music scene is fierce, and the replacement is fast.
With the continuous influx of new forces, Xie Xiaodong gradually became aware of the career crisis, and he had to carry out career transformation.
In 2001, Xie Xiaodong participated in the TV series "Long Tassel in Hand", not an acting professional, he did not receive a strong response from the audience after the drama was broadcast.
In terms of songs, Xie Xiaodong still chose to stick to his own style, and even gave a few good songs to people, and gradually, Xie Xiaodong's status in the Chinese music scene declined.
In 2003, Xie Xiaodong was 35 years old, his age was gradually getting old, wrinkles climbed up his cheeks, age and image were no longer dominant, and Xie Xiaodong's road to becoming a singer became more and more difficult.
In the same year, Xie Xiaodong suddenly retired from the singing world and disappeared into the public eye.
With the support of his wife, Xie Xiaodong decided to go to the sea to do business and set up a company.
He first co-ventured with others to produce mobile phones, and then entered the real estate market after failure, but still failed. Several setbacks have caused many years of savings to be lost and on the verge of bankruptcy.
As the former "top stream" of the music industry, the outside world is still discussing and speculating about his withdrawal from the music world, and under great pressure, Xie Xiaodong in the trough period once suffered from depression.
In order to let Xie Xiaodong out of the haze, his wife Yu Jiaen signed up for the variety show "Dance Forest Conference" for him, and with her husband's dance skills for many years and a handsome image, Yu Jia'en believed that Xie Xiaodong could bloom at the "Dance Forest Conference".
With the encouragement of his wife, Xie Xiaodong, who re-emerged on the stage, felt some relief, and after many days of intense competition, Xie Xiaodong's depression did not heal.
And won the championship in the finals, winning the title of "Dance Forest Alliance Lord" that year.
Xie Xiaodong, who regained confidence in life, started a business again at the suggestion of his wife, opened a cultural company, and opened a music festival in the music industry where he was good at. The ultimate success.
Today, Xie Xiaodong is worth more than 100 million. For his retirement, fans are sorry in their hearts, but now they can see his family career double harvest, and fans are also relieved in their hearts.
On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve in 2020, Xie Xiaodong attended the Spring Evening of Jiangsu Satellite TV, appeared again in the public eye, and sang his famous work "Today is Really Happy".
Dressed in a red suit, he makes people feel as if they have returned to that year, and the enthusiasm of the fans on the stage is still undiminished. Now the clean and neat Xie Xiaodong makes people look at it and can't help but say:
"After a thousand sails, I am still a teenager when I return."
I wish Xie Xiaodong all the best in the days to come, peace and joy.