In the early 1990s, a tragic and magnificent song "Rolling Water in the East of the Yangtze River" became a film and television golden song.
This song also allows the audience to appreciate the charm of combining bel canto singing with classical poetry.
And the original singer of this song, Yang Hongji, was 53 years old at the time,
As a domestic artist with both virtue and art, he has always been the benchmark of the industry and a model for future generations.
In 1941, Yang Hongji was born in Dalian, Liaoning Province.
His hometown is In Rongcheng, Weihai, Shandong, and when he was a child, his father still spoke a Weihai dialect.
When Father Yang was young, there was a severe famine in Shandong.
Many people fled to Shanhaiguan and stayed in the northeast to live.
Weihai Rongcheng is a heroic city, out of more than a hundred revolutionary generals,
The integrity and boldness in the bones of the people of Shangshan,
Yang Hongji also inherited such genes in his blood, and he has always regarded himself as a Weihai native.
He was the youngest child in the family, the sixth in line,
When he was in elementary school, his brother and sister were already working.
The conditions at home were better, but I had never suffered any hunger.
However, his parents are very strict with him, whether it is reading and writing,
Or eat and talk to have rules,
But in terms of learning, Yang Hongji is very partial,
He is good at subjects such as Chinese and history, but he knows nothing about mathematics.
I couldn't learn how to talk about it, and my father was so angry that he didn't want to tutor anymore.
Fortunately, Yang Hongji did not put his mind on studying.
His sister used to go to school at the music teacher, and after going out to work,
The family left an accordion she used and a hand-cranked record player,
It was these two things that helped him open the door to music.
At that time, Yang Hongji often hummed with the record player,
And Sing like a lot, although I've never studied music,
But the natural voice and musicality are outstanding.
After the neighbors heard him sing, they suggested that he apply for the song and dance troupe.
At that time, several children of the Yang family were college students, either as doctors or teachers.
Everyone was very successful, and in that era singers and actors were still looked down upon jobs.
But the neighbor's words ignited the enthusiasm in Yang Hongji's heart,
After repeated lobbying, his parents agreed to let him take the exam.
I didn't think that this exam was really admitted,
At that time, the very popular "Evening outside Moscow" was sung.
18-year-old Yang Hongji was admitted to the Dalian Song and Dance Troupe without receiving professional training.
After he really started working, he panicked, knowing his own shortcomings,
The secretary who bought a large amount of music began to study music theory day and night.
But only three years later, the Dalian Song and Dance Troupe was disbanded.
Fortunately, the General Political Song and Dance Troupe was recruiting singers at that time.
Yang Hongji, who has three years of acting experience with outstanding conditions, was once again successfully admitted.
It was also in the Zongzheng Song and Dance Troupe that he finally got the guidance of a professional vocal artist.
Let him make great strides in singing, and make the best use of his voice conditions.
Yang Hongji started from the scene of pulling the curtain in the General Political Song and Dance Troupe,
A little bit of the actor who survived to the solo singer, often followed the group to the grassroots to perform,
When he was 31 years old, he finally sang a little fame,
The work is also stable, and at the same time it is still the backbone of the regiment,
At this time, he had been working in the general government for ten years, and still did not marry.
Like many people in those days, Yang Hongji's marriage was also introduced.
At that time, Liu Wenmei was an ordinary worker in the machinery factory, with a clear eyebrow,
Yang Hongji saw her from a distance, and was very prominent in the crowd.
It can be regarded as love at first sight, but Liu Wenmei did not look at him.
Liu Wenmei's first impression of Yang Hongji is that people are tall and tall,
I think this person must eat a lot, and the food stamps are also the cloth tickets,
The profession of singing actor does not sound as reliable as that of a worker.
In the end, thanks to a clever matchmaker, three times and twice matchmaking,
Helping Yang Hongji to say good things, Liu Wenmei relaxed and agreed to try to get along for a while.
In the relationship between the two, Yang Hongji impressed her with his gentleness and thoughtfulness.
In 1972, the two were married after only half a year.
After marriage, Yang Hongji still often went to perform everywhere, and the transportation was inconvenient in the 1970s.
He often went out for a month, and even when Liu Wenmei was pregnant, he could not accompany him.
In 1973, Yang Hongji received a telegram during the performance,
Knowing that his wife gave birth to a son for him, communication was difficult at that time,
He couldn't talk to his wife on the phone, and he was so excited that he told everyone to be a father himself.
Even the seagulls by the river wanted to tell them.
By the time Yang Hongji saw his son, three months had passed.
At this time, the son had not yet taken a name, and he remembered his desire to talk to the seagulls.
He named his son Yang Baojiang, and when he grew up, his son changed his name to Yang Ou.
At the same time, Yang Hongji is very grateful to his wife, he has been away for many years,
The wife is busy alone, both as a father and a mother.
But Yang Hongji never called his wife's name.
Because she had a 'rose' in her name, he felt unlucky and afraid to open his mouth and call it away.
He had a unique way of calling his wife, a little habit that had been maintained for decades.
After the stability of the family, Yang Hongji finally ushered in the peak of his career.
In 1979, the famous Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa came to China to perform.
He has conducted at the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.
He is an internationally renowned Asian conductor.
At that time, Seiji Ozawa conducted the repertoire of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
In one of the odes to joy, he insisted on inviting professional baritones from abroad to sing,
Because he did not believe that there were singers in The country who could be competent in this section.
However, at that time, the Central Orchestra did not agree to invite actors from abroad, so it began to recruit baritones in China.
Many tenors from professional song and dance troupes come to participate in auditions.
Yang Hongji was also one of them, and in the end he won from many professional singers.
And Seiji Ozawa was also impressed by his performance.
This performance made Yang Hongji famous, when Li Shuangjiang was already very famous in China.
He came to the top and began to appear at many important parties.
Yang Hongji began to become the best candidate for many classical singing segments,
There are also many operas that invite him to be the male lead.
Soloist in the classical music work Ode to the Four Seasons,
This work not only gave him the opportunity to work with top orchestras,
He also let him perform abroad many times.
It is said that when he performed abroad, he once had an Australian theater owner,
Wanted to invite him to their theater for a while,
And offer very generous treatment.
But Yang Hongji was not at all moved, and refused the invitation of the other party.
He also said that if he wanted to collaborate, he could invite their orchestra.
Unexpectedly, shortly after returning to China, the orchestra really received an invitation to perform in Australia.
The repertoire of the performance is exactly the part that Yang Hongji performed abroad.
Although Yang Hongji has appeared on many large stages at home and abroad,
But for him, the grassroots is still an irreplaceable job.
When he was young, Yang Hongji often went to the border areas to perform.
The environment there is very harsh, and in some places it is difficult to even boil hot water.
Yang Hongji found that many regional warriors did not have professional shaving tools.
He often carries a set with him when performing,
In addition to performing for the soldiers in the camp, the shaving service is also provided.
Later, as the conditions in various war zones became better and better, Yang Hongji's ability to shave his head could not be used.
But Yang Hongji's opera works, whether they are bel canto works, are works that ordinary audiences are not familiar with.
Very few people go back specifically to attend bel canto concerts, and they are often seen at the party.
What really makes Yang Hongji grounded is the theme song of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms",
And this popular "Rolling Yangtze River East Passing Water" was also won through selection.
At that time, CCTV attached great importance to the remake of the famous work "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
Director Wang Fulin specifically found five composers to create the theme song of the TV series,
And Gu Jianfen is the only female composer among them.
Originally, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was a magnificent heroic story,
Everyone was not optimistic about Gu Jianfen's work, and as a result, after the five composers submitted the manuscript,
It was her song "Rolling Water in the East of the Yangtze River" that was unanimously approved.
The singers of this song also found a lot of people,
Jiang Dawei, Liu Huan, Yan Weiwen and others are all under consideration, and as many as twenty candidates can be selected.
At first, Gu Jianfen also explained this situation when he asked Yang Hongji to audition.
At that time, Yang Hongji was 53 years old, and he was not very interested in this song.
After all, there are many excellent young singers,
And this kind of popular song does not need to bel canto singing at all, and the high-pitched part also needs to be sung by him for the eighth degree.
But his wife encouraged him to try it, and stimulated him with the method of agitation.
Asked if he did not dare to sing, Yang Hongji really won the plan and went to participate in the audition.
He also designed the kunqu feeling specifically for this song,
In the end, he stood out from many powerful singers,
In 1994, his thick voice accompanied the hit "Romance of the Three Kingdoms",
It resounded over and over again in thousands of homes, becoming a singer known to the audience.
After Yang Hongji became popular, his commercial performances also increased,
But he always maintained a principle that he must not conflict with the performances in the troupe.
Sometimes he suddenly receives the performance task in the troupe, and he can only temporarily push off the commercial performance,
After several such breaches of contract, Yang Hongji spread the news of playing big names.
Some performance contracts also involve compensation.
Later, he could only add one to the contract, clearly requiring him to focus on the performance tasks in the troupe.
This made his performance disputes less.
Just when many singers are busy walking the cave and taking endorsements and shooting advertisements,
Yang Hongji has always abided by a principle of not accepting advertising endorsements.
Behind this is also because he has suffered a loss.
Once, backstage of a performance, a small boss who claimed to be a fan came to him for a group photo.
And invited him to visit his factory, saying that many employees in his factory are his fans.
The words were very earnest, and Yang Hongji agreed.
Unexpectedly, this boss made a video of Yang Hongji in the factory restaurant into an advertisement for himself.
And his products are also irresponsible three-no products.
Yang Hongji was very angry and demanded that the other party immediately remove the relevant advertisements.
Since then, there has been no business cooperation.
Yang Hongji has maintained a good reputation in the industry with strict personal principles.
He and his family have never had a scandal either.
Compared with his old friend Li Shuangjiang, he was old and had a son, but he was humiliated by his son.
Yang Hongji once mentioned the son of this good friend, saying that he had seen it when he was a child, and he had a great temper.
As for his own son, he was very proud.
Originally, Yang Hongji also wanted his son to engage in singing.
When I was a child, Yang Ou's voice conditions were still very good,
But after the voice change, the advantage is no longer there, and the interest in singing is lost.
Yang Ou, like his father, is not very good at learning.
I also failed to get into a good university, and eventually only went to a secondary school.
The fall of his son is also one of the most heart-wrenching things for Yang Hongji.
He felt very humiliated, and there was a gap between father and son.
But Yang Ou is very backbone, must break out of a little famous,
After graduation, he started a business with friends, but he had a passion but no experience.
In the end, the toss ended in failure.
Yang Ou was not convinced, still did not want to rely on his parents, he left a letter,
He took his only remaining 1,000 yuan to Zhengzhou to work.
Yang Hongji has been busy with work for many years and belongs to the company of his son.
He always felt indebted to his son in his heart, but he couldn't pull down his face to apologize.
This time his son's departure worried him and decided to go to Zhengzhou to find his son.
At that time, Yang Ou saw his father come to visit him, but he felt that he had not yet become famous.
Without seeing his father, he hid behind a tree and secretly watched his father's figure.
Until a few years later, Yang Ou matured a lot through social experience,
The knot between the stubborn father and son was finally unraveled, and the relationship between the two became much more harmonious.
Once Yang Hongji took his son to visit an old friend,
The cultural relics mentioned by this friend in his speech made Yang Ou very interested,
And found a business opportunity for cultural relics identification.
This time, Yang Ou did not impulsively invest, but bought a large number of books to do research first.
Yang Hongji saw that his son was so attentive and vigorously supported his son's career.
He also specially found various materials for his son to study,
Yang Ou alone spent hundreds of thousands of yuan on data research,
In the end, he also got the certificate of the cultural relics appraiser.
Later, Yang Ou opened an antique shop and started a business of cultural relics identification.
He is shrewd and capable and has real talent and practical learning, and Yang Hongji is also very reassured about his son.
He will also recommend his friends and connections to his son,
Even took his son to a variety show together,
He looked at the son who was said to be the Head of the Word, and his eyes were full of pride.
After Yang Ou's careful management, he is already the general manager of a cultural play company.
His net worth has exceeded 10 million, and he has truly become the pride of his father.
Today, Yang Hongji is eighty years old, but his voice is still loud,
Speaking of the language is full of breath, always maintaining the spirit of the singer.
He has also been active on the stage, and this year also appeared on the Spring Festival Gala,
Sang "Sing a Mountain Song to the Party", he even began to challenge popular songs,
Dressed in trendy clothes, he didn't look old at all.
As a singer who does not love luxury cars, does not love villas, has no scandals, and always has the original intention,
Hopefully he'll be able to sing all the time.
| Nancy
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