On the evening of August 20, the third blind selection of "The Voice of China 2021" began, and a player who surprised most people appeared on the stage, Wei Lian, who had won Li Ronghao, actually participated as a student, and finally "worshiped" Li Ronghao as a mentor.
Wei Lian should be regarded as the most surprising contestant of this season's good voice, although there are also many well-known Internet celebrities and "trainees" like Wang Jingwen, Yao Xiaotang, Li Yanxin, Clockwork Moon Group, etc. in front of them, but compared with Wei Lian, they are undoubtedly stars than Haoyue, who is already a well-known musician who has stepped into the music circle, not only has popularity, but also is talented.
Wei Li'an is Li Ronghao's good friend for many years, at the age of 19, he became famous in the campus song contest held by a university, thus entering the music world, launching his first EP "Slowly Waiting" at the age of 22, releasing his personal self-titled album at the age of 23, and won the Best Newcomer Award at the 22nd Taiwan Golden Melody Awards with this album, like Li Ronghao, he belongs to the creative musician, who has written songs for singers such as Rene Liu, Fan Weiqi, Guo Jing, etc., and his talent for creating music can be seen.
Many people did not understand Wei Lian's appearance, including many players who competed with him. In fact, Wei Lian belongs to the singers who are not popular musicians, and in the early years, he won the honor of Li Ronghao winning the "Golden Melody Award for Best Composer", including this year, he also competed with lin Junjie, Wu Qingfeng and other well-known music players, and almost became the king of golden songs in the year.
But even so, Wei Lian's popularity is still not high, especially in the mainland, there are very few people who know him, even the mentor Na Ying also said in the program: "I don't know Wei Lian, I have only heard too many of his golden songs." Perhaps, this is the reason why Wei Lian came to participate in "The Voice", after all, "The Voice", as a popular music program in the mainland, has won many musicians such as Liang Bo, Ji Ke Junyi, Zhang Bichen, Jin Zhiwen and so on.
On the stage of the previous "The Voice", there have been many singers who have become famous or have little fame, such as Da Zhuang who sang "One Step Away", Chen Yongtong who sang "Scattered and Scattered", etc., they all belong to singers who are not popular singers, and the purpose of their participation in the folk talent contest is self-evident.
After releasing 2 solo albums and breaking into the top 10 in the country in a music variety show in 2005, after composing and singing "Beijing Beijing I Love Beijing" for the closing ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and the Shanghai World Expo, he once again stood on the stage of "The Voice" as a contestant, although he failed to win the final championship, but his popularity also improved significantly with the exposure of the program.
In fact, Wei Lian is not the highest-status musician among the contestants of "The Voice". In 2017, Taiwanese singer Jin Zhijuan appeared on the stage of "The Voice" as a contestant and sang a song "Where Does Time Go" with deep affection, but none of the mentors turned for it, and the four mentors also showed embarrassed expressions after learning about this situation.
Born in 1964, Jin Zhijuan, alias "Doll", debuted earlier than the four mentors at that time, and they should all respect Jin Zhijuan as "teacher" in terms of seniority. At the age of 17, she served as the lead singer in the band, and at the age of 18, she released her debut album "Just Tonight", the song of the same name and "Why Dream of Him" were popular all over the streets, and she was listed as the first female singer in Taiwan.
Affected by the copyright turmoil in 2015 and 2016, "The Voice of China" was renamed "China's New Song", and a series of revisions have greatly reduced the ratings and popularity of the program. Therefore, some netizens speculated that Jin Zhijuan was invited by the program team to spend a lot of money to "drag", the purpose is to hype the heat of bo and improve the broadcast effect of the program.
In 2018, after Jin Zhijuan, the stage of "The Voice" ushered in another "coffee-level" musician. No one thought that the 75-year-old Peter Chen would appear on the stage of the voice as a student, leaving aside the age of the elders, he who launched his first solo album in 1981 is definitely the predecessor of the previous mentors of "The Voice". A guitar and a song "Remember Me", Peter Chen sang the vicissitudes and prosperity of the world, and won the recognition and respect of all the audiences on the scene, but did not get the turn of the 4 mentors. Later, when the tutor learned that it was Peter Chen's elder, he quickly got up to say hello and apologize.
On the stage of the previous good voice, Chen Peter should be the highest status contestant, once created a song to win the myth of a person, known by the media as "the first promoter of Taiwanese pop music", is a recognized music godfather in the Taiwanese music scene, of which Fei Yuqing's singing of "A Cut of Plum" is from Peter Chen's hand.
If it were not for the suppression of Taiwan Entertainment, Peter Chen's achievements would be far more than that. In 1988, when the sense of national and national identity of the people on the island began to weaken, Peter Chen wrote a patriotic song "I Love My Country" with a big stroke of his pen and sent the work to Ling Feng, which was banned by Taiwan Entertainment. After that, Peter Chen gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, returned to his hometown in Chengdu alone, and since then he has taken root in Beijing and run a music studio called "Magpie" alone, providing a recording studio for a new generation of young people with "musical dreams" for free, not only wrapping up food and housing, but also buying equipment for them, creating the first batch of rock musicians in Chinese mainland.
It can be seen that Wei Lian, who PK over Lin Junjie and won over Li Ronghao, is not the most bullish student in the history of "The Voice", and his qualifications and popularity are far from being the same as Jin Zhijuan and Peter Chen, who are Musicians in Taiwan, and the reason why the mentor did not turn around at the beginning is most likely that he did not dare to turn, because in front of them, no one dared to call himself a mentor.