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In 1972, in a small ravine in Baotou City, Inner Mongolia, a family surnamed Yang gave birth to a son named Yang Kun.
Not long after his birth, his parents fostered him to his grandfather's house.
Yang Kun's childhood was spent under illness and sticks.
The family was poor and materially poor, and Yang Kun's health was very poor since childhood. Every time I was sick, I could only eat tetracycline, and I ate a bad tooth. Once a scarlet fever almost killed him.
Despite this, it could not prevent Yang Kun from doing bad things.
Stealing goat's milk and apples is commonplace, and being caught is a beating.
In school, under the educational concept of "filial piety under the stick" of his parents, Yang Kun was beaten once in three or five days.
The rebellious personality and the collision of strict tutors make Yang Kun gradually become withdrawn.
This doomed him to a bumpy fate thereafter.
In 1987, Yang Kun ushered in the first turning point in his life.
After graduating from high school at that time, he chose to enter Baotou Iron and Steel Company as an electrician, rivet and welder.
This year, Sun Nan entered the coal mine literary troupe with musical dreams; Na Ying named himself Su Bing and began to cover Su Rui's songs in large quantities; Sha Baoliang was still playing acrobatics, and accidentally won a gold medal at the acrobatic festival.
Two years later, Yang Kun also joined the wave of dream music.
At that time, Baotou City wanted to recruit two literary and artistic soldiers, and seeing that Yang Kun sang well, they recruited him.
For Yang Kun, this is undoubtedly from hell to heaven.
Soon, Yang Kun found a way to make money.
Sneak out and sing and make money.
At first it was $5 a night, and then it was $50 a night.
Yang Kun's local popularity spread rapidly, which was unique among all literary and artistic soldiers.
Some of his comrades-in-arms were red-eyed, joined hands, and beat him up.
But Yang Kun did not take long to be proud, and this financial road was snuffed out by the leadership.
5 years later, Yang Kun made a bold decision.
02
In 1993, Sun Nan got the attention of the Hong Kong company and signed the same company with Andy Lau Leung Chao-wei and others; Na Ying had already become popular all over the country with "Mountains Don't Turn water" and appeared on the Spring Festival Gala stage for two consecutive years; Sha Baoliang met Yang Kun in a Beijing bar.
This year, Yang Kun carried 800 yuan to start the life of North Drift. He first sang at poly buildings, but did not sing for a few days before being expelled.
The driver pulled him to a bar called Casablanca, arguably the best musician in Beijing.
As soon as Yang Kun entered, he told his boss that he wanted to sing a song. At this time, it was Sha Baoliang who sang on the stage.
Yang Kun took out the last 100 yuan in his pocket and ordered a song on stage.
As soon as he opened his mouth, he amazed Sha Baoliang. He then told his boss that he would leave Yang Kun behind.
But soon, Yang Kun was expelled again.
Why?
Singing in the bar, everyone has it, and any grievance has to be suffered. Drinking, laughing, flattery is commonplace.
But Yang Kun can't stand this suffering, his temper is stubborn, his self-esteem is strong, and he can't help but play with his face and offend the guests.
At this time, Yang Kun was full of despair and pain, and he especially missed the members of the cultural troupe.
Before he went to Beijing, the group members recorded the cassette for him in the toilet, hoping that he would soon become famous.
Thinking of this, Yang Kun wiped a handful of tears.
In order to survive, he tossed and turned from bar to bar, slept in bus stations, bathhouses, bomb shelters, and moved back and forth 55 times.
This year, Chia Tai Company won the popularity of Sun Yue, and a song "Wish You Peace" resounded through the streets.
Yang Kun also had a dream of overnight fame, but the dream had not yet come true, and another ordeal crushed him.
03
That time, Yang Kun sang for several days in a row, and when he returned home, he found that his voice was uncomfortable.
Go to the hospital for examination, it is a vocal cord nodule, and surgery must be done.
After the operation, the doctor told him to take a three-month break. But on the third day, Yang Kun began to sing.
This singing, the throat directly bleeds, and later becomes a hoarse voice.
At that time, Yang Kun was particularly desperate and wanted to give up music at one point.
Years later, Yang Kun thought of this experience and would burst into tears.
But Yang Kun, who is in his 20s, does not know that his hoarse voice will become an irreplaceable voice in the Chinese music scene.
In 1994, mainland pop music was booming. Gao Xiaosong's campus folk songs, Yang Yuying's sweet love songs, cui Jian's rock band, competing for glory, each leading the way.
Various record companies have sprung up, desperately digging up folk singers and creating the myth of overnight popularity.
Sun Nan and The Manchu Army were both in this wave, quickly having their own piece of the world.
But more grassroots singers don't have such good luck.
Huang Bo and Wu Xiubo also sang in the bar waiting for the opportunity, but they did not stay up and eventually changed careers to become actors.
But Yang Kun was still dead, and he couldn't wait for the explosion, but he waited for a girl.
This year, he met a dancer named Bai Xue backstage and fell in love with him at first sight.
This Bai Xue and Yang Kun are fellow villagers who were admitted to the Beijing Cultural and Labor Troupe two years ago.
At the end of that night's performance, Yang Kun used the only 80 yuan left in his pocket to take a taxi to the dormitory where Bai Xue lived.
He didn't go up, he just looked downstairs at the window where the snow was white.
Later, Yang Kun lived in Bai Xue's dormitory, which was only 10 square meters, and officially opened the day of "eating soft rice".
04
In those four years, Yang Kun was still very depressed. Outside of the bar singing, I learned to compose music with a group of north drifters.
It was also at this stage that he wrote "It Doesn't Matter", but sent it to the record company, but it was thrown into the trash again and again.
Fortunately, there is white snow raising Yang Kun. At that time, Yang Kun swore that he would not fail bai xue.
But love is often vulnerable in the face of reality.
In 1998, Na Ying's third album "Conquest" had sold more than 1 million copies, and Sun Nan's "Not Seen, Not Scattered" once again created a classic.
At that time, Yang Kun had been unemployed for more than a year, staying at home all day and unable to find an exit.
Soon, his relationship with Bai Xue began to crack.
The two always quarreled over trivial matters, arguing more fiercely than ever.
At that time, there was a large pursuit of white snow, which deeply stung Yang Kun's self-esteem.
The two broke out into one last fierce quarrel, and Yang Kun proposed to break up.
Bai Xue tearfully took off the gold necklace that had been worn for 10 years around his neck and put it in Yang Kun's hand. This was the last tenderness that Bai Xue gave Yang Kun, and Yang Kun turned around and took the necklace as a pawn.
After that, there was no news of The White Snow, and Yang Kun was still trekking on the music road.
After 3 years, Yang Kun finally waited for an opportunity.
This year, singer Chen Lin is preparing for the fifth album "Love is Love", and Yang Kun wrote songs for it.
Shen Yongge, the boss of Bamboo Book Culture, listened to it and thought that these songs were more suitable for Yang Kun to sing himself.
Therefore, Yang Kun signed the most important contract in his life.
The following year, his album "It Doesn't Matter" sold out overnight, and the song of the same name directly topped the pop chart.
Yang Kun stood on the stage and sang "It Doesn't Matter", looking at the audience under the audience, tears in his eyes.
10 years of bitterness and tears in the north drift, he wrote into this song.
Unfortunately, the girl named Bai Xue couldn't wait.
After that, Yang Kun was out of control.
05
In 2003, the deaths of Cheung Kwok Wing and Mui Yanfang put the entire Hong Kong entertainment industry in a difficult situation.
This year, the Chinese music scene reached its peak, and many Hong Kong musicians came to seek gold.
Eason Chan quickly became popular with a song "Ten Years", and Twins' "Next Stop Tianhou" triggered countless fans to revel.
Yang Kun quickly became a dark horse in the Chinese music scene, first winning the Newcomer Award and then winning the Golden Melody Award.
At that time, Yang Kun smelled the potential of popular music and soon released a second album "That Day". The album sold 600,000 copies on pre-sale alone.
Everyone says, "There is Adu in the south and Yang Kun in the north."
This year, Sun Nan has married and had children with Mai Hongmei, and Na Ying is about to enter the marriage retirement song scene.
And the era that belonged to Yang Kun had just arrived.
In those two years, Yang Kun was very proud, the album sold well, countless honors, and also entered the movie, and once he entered the group, he was the male number one.
But the good times are not long, behind money and fame, Yang Kun is suffering from unimaginable pain for ordinary people.
It was 2005, and Yang Kun released his third album "2008". At the press conference, everyone found that Yang Kun had changed.
He was thin, gaunt, unresponsive, and the whole person was wrong.
There was a song on that album called "I'm Lonelier Than Before", and Yang Kun wrote the lyrics like this: "I am sad when the sky is not light, and I don't know who to call when I hold the phone." I got so-called too much, but I was getting lonelier and lonelier than before. ”
Soon after, Yang Kun suddenly disappeared into the entertainment industry.
06
That year, Yang Kun went to the hospital for examination 6 times, but each time he got a reply: "You are very healthy, there is nothing wrong with your body." ”
However, Yang Kun lived in great pain.
He often had chest tightness and shortness of breath, his eyes could not focus, he did not dare to turn off the lights when he slept, and even the slightest sound would frighten his soul away.
What the hell is wrong with you? Yang Kun could not find the answer.
He could only return to Inner Mongolia and shut himself in the horse farm every day, and no one was seen.
Until he met a French doctor, Yang Kun did not know that he had major depression.
At that moment, the stone in Yang Kun's heart finally fell.
For such a result, Yang Kun was not surprised.
Bumpy experience, rebellious personality, sensitive heart, in the entertainment industry, this huge vanity fair, he is bound to run into a bloody blood.
In the following two years, Yang Kun no longer appeared in the public eye, and he shut himself up to heal, exercise, take medicine, and see doctors became his daily routine.
In 2007, Yang Kun returned to the stage with his third album "Wrangler".
This album is completely different from Yang Kun's previous style.
After two years of silence, Yang Kun understands the true happiness of life better, and all this he has written into the song.
However, at that time, the Chinese music scene had already changed dramatically.
Record companies fell one by one, and talent shows rose one by one. The emergence of "Super Girl" directly changed the traditional mechanism of the music world.
At this time, Li Yuchun, Zhou Bichang, Zhang Liangying and other newcomers quickly gathered popularity and directly slapped qianlang to death on the beach.
In the change of the times, Yang Kun was not spared.
From an album selling millions to not being able to sell it, it's only two or three years.
Yang Kun had to admit that he was about to pass out, so he was confused for another year.
In 2009, two major events occurred in the entertainment industry: singer Chen Lin committed suicide by jumping off a building and Sun Nan derailed.
This year, Yang Kun made a big move, named the fifth album after himself, and wanted to give it a go.
As a result, the album still has no splash.
The drama is that the depressed Sun Nan and the lost Yang Kun also fell out. For the next two years, the two pretended not to know each other when they met on the same occasion.
It wasn't until 2011, when Na Ying reconciled, that the two crossed that hurdle.
At this time, Yang Kun was almost 40 years old, and he still hadn't been able to make a family.
Na Ying thought about introducing an object to Yang Kun, but he didn't expect to introduce several of them without success.
Everyone thought that Yang Kun might not have forgotten the white snow, but the magic thing was that the later Yang Kun was more of an affair.
In 2012, "The Voice of China" set off a carnival. Yang Kun, who was sitting in the mentor's seat, successfully turned red.
At the same time, the gossip between him and the trainee Tintin spread.
Paparazzi exposed intimate photos of the two, and some people questioned That Tintin wanted to borrow Yang Kun to take the throne.
However, this was only the beginning of Yang Kun's scandal.
Since then, Yang Kun's new songs have not had much splash, but his gossip with various beautiful women has accumulated a lot of talk for the melon-eating masses.
In 2016, Yang Kun carried a post-90s beauty for a ride, and in 2018, he took a little girl to the supermarket.
In 2020, it will be even more exciting, Yang Kun directly embraced the left and right, and the three of them were particularly harmonious.
Now Yang Kun is almost 50 years old, a body of tendon meat, still the sword is not old.
However, all he left the world was the song "It Doesn't Matter" and a basket of gossip.
The girl named Bai Xue had long disappeared into the vast sea of people, and along with her, there was the teenager who was full of ideals in the north drift.