In 2023, Huang Liling, who has been running with her for 16 years, will finally win the Golden Melody Award.
Mom and Dad and daughter were all in the audience, and Mom was in tears as she watched her daughter realize her dream on stage.
She pulled out a crumpled note and began to give her acceptance speech.
Five times to accompany her, known as a natural singer, she finally got her wish.
And after that, she never proved herself with anything, because she knew: she was very good at singing!
Huang Liling was born in Taitung, Taiwan, and is an Ami ethnic group who can sing and dance, with mountains behind the house and the sea in front of the house.
When she was eight years old, she would pull her sister to sing Madonna's "Like A Virgin" to the shore in front of the house.
When she was 10 years old, she composed a song "I Love You Mama" to give to her mother, who loved and supported her.
When she was 13 years old, her mother asked her, "Do you want to shoot a photo album?" That Rie Miyazawa filmed it when she was 11 years old. ”
Huang Liling felt that she was still young and had not developed well.
Her mother encouraged her: "It's okay, I will feel great in the aftertaste, you are well developed." ”
Huang Liling was watching TV at home, and even when she was in a daze, her mother would come over and say, "Your lips are so sexy, very similar to that Zhong Chuhong!" ”
Mom is the one who builds Huang Liling's self-confidence, and Dad is the one who enlightens Huang Liling's music.
When Huang Liling was a child, she wanted a piano, but her family had no money, so her father went to a colleague to get an old electronic keyboard.
Once, my father happened to be playing the electronic piano when he heard the "clanging" sound of my mother's stir-fry spatula touching the pot, and I was very excited to ask Huang Liling to find a washboard and my sister to take the lid of my mother's stir-frying.
The three of them, playing the piano, knocking on the washboard, knocking on the lid of the pot, and singing with the sound of their mother's stir-frying.
Huang Liling's guitar was also taught by her father, but her father was also the most opposed to her treating singing as a job.
Dad planned a career for Huang Liling very early: to become the third generation of police officers after their grandfather and father.
As long as the school is on weekends, Huang Liling goes to stay in her father's office.
Sometimes there are prisoners in the office, and Huang Liling is still face to face with the prisoners, you look at me, I look at you.
Otherwise, just look at the crime scene photos on the desk to pass the time, the father is very happy, and thinks that his daughter is very interested in being a police officer.
When Huang Liling began to show too much interest in singing, it was difficult for her father to understand, if she likes to sing, she can go to karaoke to sing enough, why do you have to be a singer, isn't it handsome for a girl to be a police officer with a gun?
In order to bring his daughter back to the "right path", her father will show Huang Liling as long as she has some relevant information about the police academy.
Huang Liling was not interested, so she picked up a stack of paper and rolled it into a microphone and raised it to her mouth: "Dad, don't you think I'm more handsome with a microphone?" ”
Dad turned his head and ignored her.
In 1998, after 15-year-old Huang Liling participated in the MTV Freshman Card Battle Singing Competition, she began to work as a resident singer in PUB in Tainan one after another.
She did this from her father.
In the early morning of September 21, 1999, the largest earthquake in Taiwan at the end of the 20th century struck Nantou, Taiwan, which killed many people and injured more than 10,000 people.
People from all walks of life in Taiwan have devoted themselves to the post-disaster condolences, including Huang Liling, who sings at PUB.
In the disaster area, Huang Liling taught the children to sing "Amazing grace", a Christian hymn.
After she finished singing, a man came up to him and said, "Sister, you sing very well." ”
Huang Liling saw this man come over with an artist to offer condolences before, and knew that he was an agent, and she couldn't help but be overjoyed, and finally someone wanted to sign me.
She secretly thought to herself, signing a contract this year, and next year at the age of 17, it is about the same age as Namie Amuro became famous, and it will be Namie Amuro in Taiwan in the future, which is great.
After thinking about it, she was about to leave the phone to the other party, but the agent had already taken her artist away.
A joy and an emptiness.
After making condolences in the disaster area, Huang Liling returned to PUB to continue singing.
But because he loved singing too much, he was almost beaten.
A guest who loves wine, Huang Liling is singing in any PUB in Tainan, and he suddenly borrowed wine to go crazy: "It's annoying, you sing like this every day, you sing the same song, and you don't look good, you come down." ”
After saying that, he raised his arm and gestured to hit her.
Huang Liling was afraid to hide to the side, and when the drunken guests were appeased, she stood back in the center of the stage, looked at the drunken guests and said word by word: "Sir, I'm sorry, this is my favorite job, I have to finish it, please let me sing it well." ”
As a result, after this time, as long as Huang Liling sings anywhere, this guest will appear wherever she is, and she has become a loyal fan of Huang Liling.
The PUB boss has a hunch: this girl has been singing for a short time, and she will soon be signed away.
The PUB boss had a hunch that was too accurate.
In 2003, when Huang Liling was singing on stage, she received a song list with the song title "Amazing grace" written on it.
Huang Liling was very strange, why did someone order the chant in PUB, and the man who ordered the song looked at her with a strange expression.
When she got off the stage, the man who ordered the song chased her and shouted, asking her if she was the girl who taught "Amazing grace" in the earthquake area four years ago.
She blurted out: "Why didn't you leave a phone call with me at that time, causing me to wait so long." ”
This year, Huang Liling signed with Ai Hui Records and began her career as a professional singer.
In February 2006, after more than two years of preparation and experience, Huang Liling released her first solo album "Innocence of Broken Love", and was nominated for the Best Newcomer Award at the 18th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards with the album "Innocence of Broken Love", and also won the title of "Natural Singer".
A few months later, she received a call from diva Zhang Huimei, inviting her to be the second heroine of the musical "Falling in Love with Carmen".
In the year when Huang Liling became famous after her release, Huang Liling invited her father to come to her press conference, but her father rejected her.
Once Huang Liling sang in PUB and invited her father to listen, her father also rejected her mercilessly.
To Huang Liling's surprise, later in her small birthday concert, when she was singing on stage, she saw a hand with a very black back and a very white palm under the dim stage, giving her a thumbs up, Huang Liling knew that the person was her father, and burst into tears for a moment.
In the following years, Huang Liling's career went smoothly.
In December 2008, Huang Liling returned to the singing scene after giving birth to a daughter, and released her second album "Natural Song Ji", which was nominated for the Best Chinese Female Singer Award at the Taiwan Golden Melody Awards for the first time with the album "Natural Song Ji".
In December 2010, Huang Liling released her fourth solo album "Loneliness Does Not Hurt", which included ten songs including the trilogy of hugging love songs "Give Me a Reason to Forget", "Loneliness Does Not Hurt", and "Whether Happiness Comes or Not".
The trough occurred in 2013, when Huang Liling had just finished the concert at the Little Arena, but the owner disbanded without warning, which made Huang Liling's record contract suddenly interrupted.
Huang Liling felt that her future was uncertain for a while, and she didn't know if her singing career was over, because she was overthinking and suffered from shingles.
Facing the unpredictable future, Huang Liling returned to her hometown.
I remember when Ah Gong was still alive, every time she went home, Ah Gong would say: "You have been outside for so long every time you come back, you have to come back more often, our beautiful hometown, we are like that mountain, always here for you to rely on." ”
Huang Liling, like when she was a child, often walked alone on the beach, singing while walking, and the sound of the waves seemed to soothe all her unpleasant emotions.
When she returned home, she realized that now her father can sing her songs, and when her father is fine, he will wear his reading glasses to watch her MV and concert all the time.
Home has always been a place that gives her strength.
In 2014, Huang Liling officially joined Sony Music Entertainment and released the single "Fly Forward".
In 2015, Huang Liling participated in the program "I Am a Singer Season 3" held by Hunan Satellite TV.
She invited her parents to stand on the stage together, and before going on stage, her mother was so nervous that she took the drum as a heartbeat, thinking that she had high blood pressure, and her father was so nervous that he drank to relieve it, and the family joked with each other.
When they sang and danced on stage, Huang Liling's mind suddenly came to mind the picture that her father had always opposed her being a singer, and this person who was once extremely opposed to her was now on stage with her.
Several singers in the audience couldn't help but cry when they saw this scene, they remembered their parents who they hadn't seen for a long time.
In the past, Huang Liling sang just because she wanted to share her voice, but at this moment, Huang Liling suddenly understood the meaning of her singing.
It turned out that she got so many people's responses through singing.
See people in their own songs, find some outlets.
Dad finally understood the meaning of Huang Liling's singing on stage, and he still remembers standing on the stage of "I Am a Singer Season 3" to perform: "That memory feels very beautiful and unforgettable, and we still remember the mood at that time." ”
During the period when Huang Liling went to participate in the singing competition without telling her father and went to PUB to sing, she heard that her grandfather, who was lingering on the sickbed, was dying, and hurried back.
She called to her grandfather in front of the hospital bed, who was suffering from illness and didn't know her anymore, glanced at her, and slowly turned around.
When I was a child, I still remember the happy days when my grandfather taught me to sing, and then I look at my grandfather lying on the bed now, Huang Liling is very sad.
At that time, she suddenly sang the ballad that Ah Gong taught when she was a child, singing and singing, Ah Gong slowly turned his body, and his eyes became very bright.
Ah Gong grabbed her hand: "I know, you are my little granddaughter." I know you love to sing. ”
Huang Liling always remembered what Ah Gong said at the end: "Ah Gong is going over there, you have to work hard and stick to your dreams, because there will be many people in the audience to listen to you sing later." I'll protect you over there and say goodbye to my grandfather. ”
Before coming to Ah Gong's hospital bed, Huang Liling was experiencing a setback, not getting a name in the PUB competition, and being booed off the stage by the guests in the PUB.
She began to wonder if she couldn't sing.
didn't expect that a mountain ballad sung in front of Ah Gong's bed would make Ah Gong remember her.
At that moment, she felt that she was born to sing.
Later, at a concert, she sang a song for her grandfather, and the song was called "Coming Home".
The lyrics of this song were written by Huang Liling herself.
Desperately looking for a true and complete self
The noisy neon of the city brings loneliness
It's been a long time since I've dreamed of my childhood like this
The view is still the same
Waiting for me to get home
In "Coming Home", she wrote two sentences in mountain dialect, because when she was a child she spoke Chinese, and Ah Gong said that this child could not speak mountain dialect.
Those two mountain sayings say, "There are beautiful mountains here, do you see them?" There is a beautiful hometown here, and I want to go back there. ”
Resources:
1, "Look at the version of the character Huang Liling"
2, "Xiaoyan's Covenant Natural Singer's Cultivation Secrets"
3, "Xiaoyan's Covenant is the only way to become a new love song diva"