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A native of Henan and a native of Heilongjiang, but by chance, they created a star-splintered combination, and sang Wang Feng's songs to become a household name.
Once famous, the world knows it, and after the tide recedes, these two people finally have their own futures.
The combination went viral
In 1966, Wang Xu was born in a small township village under Minquan County, Shangqiu, Henan.
He had an older sister and a younger sister, and his father died of illness shortly after his sister was born, and he was only 3 years old at the time.
He likes to sing, but in such a family, it is almost impossible for him to stand on stage and sing.
When he was 21 years old, he saw Fei Xiang singing "A Fire in Winter" on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
He spent 45 yuan to buy a guitar and began to follow the grass platform team in the village to walk the streets and alleys.
Such a "bad job" gave her mother a headache, but it was also this kind of prodigal that attracted the attention of Laneige, a girl from the same village, and the two tied the knot in the presence of the villagers.
But this kind of life is not what he wants.
A year after the marriage, not long after the birth of his son, the family was so poor that he couldn't open the pot.
He went to the construction site to work as a porter, also worked as a small worker, and pulled bricks with cement, but his life did not improve.
He was advised to raise chickens, but the chicken plague was everywhere and he lost his money again.
Seeing that his life was getting harder and harder, with his sister looking for someone to help introduce him, he went to Beijing at the age of 24 and started working as a boiler burner.
As a result, it didn't take long for the company to go out of business, and in order to survive, he began to set up a stall.
The stall didn't make money, so he started a warehouse manager again, with a salary of only 1,000 yuan a month.
A few years later, the family was added again, and his wife and children needed money to live.
As a pillar of support, he had to find a way to earn some extra money, and after thinking about it, he regained his musical dream.
After getting off work every day, he began to carry his guitar to the underground passage of the subway station to sing.
In 1981, Liu Gang was born in the countryside of Muling City, Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang.
His parents divorced when he was 3 years old, he followed his grandmother to make a living, grew up eating a hundred family meals, and went to serve as a soldier when he became an adult.
After being discharged from the army, he came to Beijing to wander around, and his relatives introduced him to a job as a security guard.
He worked for a while and learned that the company was in arrears of wages, and many people were owed wages for almost half a year, so he resigned.
He loves singing, and under the introduction of his relatives, he found a job as a bar singer, with a monthly salary of only 800 yuan.
After 3 months of work, he couldn't do it anymore, so he resigned again.
Desperate, he decided to give it a go, so he began to run to the underground passages of major subway stations in Beijing to sing.
In 2004, 38-year-old Wang Xu and 23-year-old Liu Gang met.
The reason was that Wang Xu was going to sing in the underground passage, and when he saw that someone was singing in the booth where he was singing, he went over to discuss with the other party, and when he closed the stall, he let himself sing here.
It turned out that the answer was that there was someone in the booth next.
The first meeting between the two was not pleasant, and they did not want to meet again after a few months, under the introduction of mutual friends.
At that time, a friend found Wang Xu and said that Liu Gang sang very well, and the two could make friends.
At this meeting, I found out that the two had already met.
sat down and chatted, although the difference was 15 years old, the lives of the two had too much resonance, and the two became friends.
However, although there is resonance, the background of the two personalities is not the same.
This has also become one of the reasons why they have gone to different paths after becoming popular.
Scandal
44-year-old Wang Xu and 29-year-old Liu Gang have known each other for 5 years, and they have become a pair of difficult brothers in life and music.
It was also in this year that the two of them and their mutual friend Shang Haifeng got together, and after drinking and chatting happily, Wang Xu and Liu Gang, who were shirtless, decided to sing a song.
Shang Haifeng took a video for the two on the side, so a migrant dormitory version of "In the Spring" was filmed in this way.
The next day, Shang Haifeng posted the video on the Internet, but Wang Xu was very embarrassed, he thought that if he wanted to shoot a video, he should at least put on a shirt and put away the wine bottles on the table.
Just like when he was forced by life to regain his dream, he was embarrassed when he first stood in the underground passage and sang.
Who would have thought that it was such a rough shooting and singing that made the two of them an instant hit.
Countless people shed tears for their soulful singing.
After becoming popular, the two combined the names of both parties and gave a group name "Rising Sun Masculine".
Soon after, they appeared on the first very solemn stage, appearing in the "I Love to Remember Lyrics" program on the Blue Channel.
There is no show-off, no gorgeous choreography, they stand still and speak, and the song flows slowly, which is enough to move the audience to tears.
"In the Spring" took the two of them to become popular and opened the road of soaring all the way.
Then the two participated in "Avenue of Stars", also sang this song, and won the weekly championship.
Immediately afterwards, Wang Feng, as the original creator of this song, invited them to participate in his "Rock Heroes" Shanghai Station concert.
In the stadium of 80,000 people, the three of them worked together to sing the song "In the Spring".
They are thoroughly popular, but their path does not stop there.
At the end of this year, they stood out by singing this song on "I want to go to the Spring Festival Gala".
According to the competition system, they got the tickets for the Spring Festival Gala.
In the 2011 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, they stood on the stage and sang the song "In Spring".
They became a household name, and the song began to be played on the streets.
But soon after, their acting career had to brake sharply.
In February 2011, as the original singer of this song, Wang Feng restricted the two from singing this song in order to protect the copyright of his song.
As the original creator of the song, he has the right to do so, but it still arouses widespread attention from public opinion.
As a group that became popular by covering other people's songs and did not have their own masterpieces, they were instantly at a loss.
Wang Feng also later explained this:
The group frequently performs commercial performances without the permission of the copyright company, and even infringes on his other songs, which is a helpless move.
If they can no longer sing "In the Spring", it will be a big blow to them.
The negative news about Liu Gang, a member of the group, almost wiped out the group.
In 2011, the group experienced ups and downs, and after being banned from singing "In the Spring", it was difficult to continue the popularity of songs such as "This Life".
On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2012, Liu Gang, a member of the group, drove a luxury car to cover the license plate number, and ran a red light on the road, seriously violating traffic laws.
Although he later apologized, the group's reputation plummeted.
Soon after this incident, Liu Gang was once again exposed by netizens on the Internet for constantly honking his horn at others while driving.
It's just that this exposure is quite a bit of an act of adding fuel and vinegar.
According to the exposed content, Liu Gang honked his horn at the old man, and then had an argument with him, so he took out an iron rod from the trunk and used force.
The fact is that Liu Gang impatiently honked his horn to a group of pedestrians in the community, and then quarreled with these people, and the matter ended here.
However, the rumor-mongers broke their legs with one mouth to refute the rumors, which caused the image of the group to collapse again.
And in various scandals, there is also news that the members of the group will disband.
The reason is that Wang Xu wants to open a company, but Liu Gang said that he can open it, but he can't do it.
In fact, the two have no intention of disbanding.
But after a lot of disturbing gossip, the fame of the two began to decline in 2013.
has been popular for less than 3 years, and the two have returned to the ordinary again.
The difference is that they have seen the big world and have more direction for the development of their lives.
After 2015, the two rarely got together again, and later they had different lives.
Respective development
This popularity was unexpected by the two, and after that, their lives have also changed dramatically.
In 2014, Wang Xu was 48 years old, and his son was 25 years old, reaching the age of marriage.
With the support of his parents, Wang Xu's son Yulong held a grand wedding.
In addition to giving his son and daughter-in-law luxury cars, Wang Xu also invited many friends in the circle such as Yang Guang, Jimmy, and Zi Sandalwood to help out at the wedding scene.
Xu didn't expect his life to be so ups and downs, and he choked up several times at his son's wedding.
went out to work when he was young, sang in the subway passage, went from a commercial performance to a concert of 10,000 people to the CCTV stage, and finally returned to the ordinary, such a life, he couldn't have imagined before.
And under the recording of the camera, the public also saw his unpretentious wife.
At the moment when the group gradually faded out of the stage, he was also nearly 50 years old.
Perhaps he wants to go home more than to strive for a better life.
Wang Xu and his daughter
He was silent for a long time, and it wasn't until the wind of the short video blew that he appeared in front of the public again.
He has shot a lot of short videos to record his ordinary life, fitness singing, and communicating with villagers.
With the simple atmosphere of the countryside, he gradually disappeared into the sea of people and became you and me among the general public.
Now that he is 58 years old, it is impossible for him to come back again.
And Liu Gang in the group began to develop independently after the group's popularity declined.
Gao Jin composed lyrics and music, and he sang "Missing Youth", the sentence "Missing our youth" evoked the memories of many people.
After he left the group, he had his own masterpiece.
Since then, he has continued to hold on to his musical dreams.
He traveled around performing at the pace of a few singles a year, and gradually developed his own musical style.
In 2024, at the age of 43, he and Wang Xu will sing "Nothing More Than This" together again.
The song is still about the sorrow of the little people, but it is no longer as sad and struggling as when he sang "In the Spring".
What is even more concerning is that in the signatures of the singers of the song, they are not only the rising sun masculine, but also Wang Xu and Liu Gang.
The old combination has finally died in name only.
epilogue
The year they met, one was 38 and the other was 23.
Time flies, and they became popular from "In the Spring", but two years have returned to peace.
After parting ways for many years, one of them is 58 years old and the other is 43 years old, and they get together again to sing songs.
It's just that the glory of the past is gone, and everything is the same.
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