This person is Daolang - a man who does not make money from music, but wants to make money to support music by himself.
Daolang's path is a bit wild.
He turned his life's pain, regrets, and hopes into songs, and he wanted to follow a national style - to sing songs at any time, instead of being offered in the temple.
"The First Snow of 2002", I only understood when I went to Urumqi in 2016.
Sitting on the No. 2 bus and listening to the "Eighth Floor Station" on the radio of the newspaper station, I realized what Daolang was singing.
Daolang is not a native of Xinjiang, in the early 90s, he was still called Luo Lin, and he also carried a guitar on his back as a resident singer in many places.
For Rollin, music is an emotional outlet, and he slowly turned into a wandering singer as he stopped, opening the music road of his dream.
While working as a singer-in-residence, Rollin met his first wife, Yang Na, a very talented dancer.
The two hit it off at first sight, secretly fell in love with each other in the collision of talents, and finally came together.
At that time, Luo Lin was still a young man with no talents, although he was full of dreams and reality, he was still full of hope for love.
On the contrary, his other half left a note just 40 days after giving birth and was never heard from again.
"You can't give me the life I want......"
A few strokes hurt people deeply.
The emotionally frustrated Luo Lin took his young daughter all the way to Chengdu, Chongqing, and Hainan......
In Hainan, Luo Lin met Zhu Mei, a girl from Xinjiang with a unique charm.
Compared with the fact that Rollin is divorced and has children, Zhu Mei admires his musical talent and indomitable appearance more, and the two overcome all difficulties and finally become dependents.
In 1995, Luo Lin followed his beloved girl to Xinjiang and began to make promotional music for enterprises and TV stations. At the same time, he also joined an audio-visual company specializing in the production of Xinjiang music albums.
Rollin's debut album was released through this company, gambling on his net worth, but it ended miserably.
In order to allow Rollin to better pursue his musical dreams, Zhu Mei quit her job, gave up the music she loved, and took care of the elderly and children at home full-time.
From then on, Ju Mei was Rollin's strong support, supporting him in his most difficult times and encouraging him when he was uncertain.
And Luo Lin, in the dismal exit of the first album, found a breakthrough in marketing, so he defined his music in a national style and named himself "Daolang" to appear more national.
With the firm support of his wife and his unremitting efforts with himself, "The First Snow in 2002" was born.
Under the straightforward lyrics, it is the warmth of being like-minded with his wife, and it is also the love for the city of Urumqi.
When you really get on the No. 2 bus, you will unconsciously hum "The first snow in 2002 came later than usual". Sometimes when it is heard by the local guy next to him, he will proudly say:
"Daolang, alas, we are from Xinjiang. ”
I understood the pride of the young man at that time, and I suddenly understood the love in Daolang's song.
"It's your red lips that stick to everything about me, it's your thoughtfulness that makes me warm again".
When I first heard the song, it took me a long time to get used to the straightforward expression, and many of my peers questioned the straightforward lyrics at that time.
"Not aesthetic. ”
"The sales model of the countryside surrounding the city. ”
But they don't know that the straightforwardness in this song is the background color of the land of Xinjiang.
Friends there, when they are happy, they will sing and dance, and when they are angry, they will blame them in person, and they will not twist and turn, and even in the face of strangers, they can directly put forward ideas.
This is what Daolang felt, so he also sang it bluntly.
Daolang, as he himself said, is an ordinary person who lives an ordinary life.
His songs are also sung in ordinary ways, without flowery rhetoric and lofty artistic commentary.
All you have is the truest feelings and the most straightforward expressions.
That's all.
Now, Daolang is coming with a new song, which has sparked heated discussions.
I don't know how true or false the interpretations of all parties on the Internet are, in the face of these twists and turns, or "The First Snow in 2002", which is the most beautiful.