In 1976, a tall and strong girl in Heilongjiang Province graduated from high school and was assigned to work in the construction team of the construction company. The daily job was to carry the cement, and she and another girl moved hundreds of pounds of cement from here to there.
Sometimes I have to work with large trucks to transport cement to remote construction sites, which is a job that lasts for two years.
This year, the "Gang of Four" incident was crushed, and the "Cultural Revolution" ended.
Also in this year, the famous songwriter and playwright Qiao Yu was busy writing the script, while the soprano singer Wang Kun was busy practicing songs, preparing for entering the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe.
A few years later, the two teachers of literature and art became the benefactors of the work on the construction site, and at the same time, the girl became the legendary singer Sophie, who sang a song "Husband and Wife Both Return Home".
All this story has to start in 1959.
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In 1959, a family in Heilongjiang Province gave birth to a girl, and the mother who gave birth to this girl had a very hard life, because she died shortly after giving birth to this girl.
And this girl's father saw that his wife had died, thinking that he was still young and only in his twenties, the road ahead was still very long, and he did not want his daughter to be involved with himself, so he gave the girl to her third aunt for adoption, until the girl became famous, he took the initiative to contact her.
In order to raise this child to adulthood, the third aunt and the third uncle no longer considered having a child. This girl has been very sensible since she was a child, and her academic performance is good.
In the year she graduated from high school, Sophie was assigned to work on the construction site of the construction company, and although she lived a hard life of wind and sun, it also trained her to look like a strong boy.
After working on the construction site for two years, Sobriel thought that this was not the way to go, and she had to find another way out. She told her uncle, who was the leader of the Changchun Guest House, and the uncle also pitied the niece.
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In 1979, Qiao Yu and his team went to Heilongjiang to shoot movies and stayed in Uncle Sophie's guest house. Her uncle knew that Qiao Yu was a literary and artistic person, and to see if he could help his niece, he introduced Sophie to Qiao Yu.
At that time, Qiao Yu wanted to find a girl who was familiar with the life of the forest farm to play a role. As soon as Qiao Yu saw that this girl looked very foreign and beautiful, he asked her to sing a song. Sophie sang the song "Nanniwan", and as soon as Qiao Yu listened, he felt that this girl had a great future in acting and music, so he let her participate in the filming of the movie.
Later, because the "Gang of Four" was smashed, the movie made by Qiao Yu was also dismissed, and then Suo Baoli also got off the horse.
However, Suo Baoli still left a very deep impression on Qiao Yu's heart, and when he left, he said, I see if the literary and art team in Beijing can still recruit people, you wait for my news.
Hearing this, Sophia seemed to meet the light like the night, the flowers met the rain and dew, and sometimes they couldn't sleep at night, waiting for the news from Teacher Qiao Yu.
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After waiting for three months, Qiao Yu finally wrote a letter, telling Suo Baoli to let her come to Beijing for an interview with a literary and art team. In fact, Qiao Yu introduced Suo Baoli to his good friend Wang Kun, who was already the head of the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe at that time.
After learning this information, Sophie was overjoyed and told all her relatives the news.
The next day, I rushed to Beijing, but I happened to meet Teacher Wang Kun on a business trip, so I had to wait. Fortunately, he had an uncle in Beijing who entertained all the connections, so he didn't have to spend any money.
Shou Deyun opened to see the moon, and finally waited for the return of Teacher Wang Kun. When Teacher Wang Kun saw Suo Baoli, her heart was full of excitement, this girl looks really good. Then Suo Baoli sang her a song "Nanniwan", and the beautiful song intoxicated Teacher Wang Kun, so Suo Baoli successfully entered the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe.
It wasn't until many years later, when she was interviewed on the show, that she was really lucky to enter the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe without going through a rigorous exam.
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After entering the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe, Teacher Wang Kun found that Sophie was good at Indian and Pakistani songs, so he focused on cultivating her in this regard.
Another partner of Suo Baoli, Mou Xuanfu, graduated from the Heilongjiang Provincial Art School in 1978 and went directly to the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe in the same year.
Together with the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe, the two sang the Taiwanese folk song "Lose Copper", the Pakistani song "Birthday Song" and "My Heart Belongs to You", the Malaysian song "Slaughter duck song", and the Chinese song "Bamboo Rustling".
In 1983, CCTV held the Spring Festival Gala. At the party, Suo Baoli and Mou Xuanfu sang "Husband and Wife Both Return Home", which moved the audience to tears, and also made the people of the whole country remember Suo Baoli. She also rose to fame with the party and became the audience's favorite singer in the mid-80s.
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When the career is booming, bad news comes. Her adoptive mother, her third aunt, died of illness, which invisibly hit her hard. Sophie found some letters while sorting out the relics, and when she opened them, she found her own secrets.
It turned out that the people who had been calling mom and dad were the third aunt and the third uncle, and their own mother died shortly after her birth. Since then, she has cherished her adoptive father and third uncle.
From time to time, Sophie visited and performed abroad with the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe, and arrived in Paris. The beautiful scenery of Paris was deeply fascinated by this woman who had never stepped out of the country. She thought it would be better if I could live here.
Soon after she got married, she gave birth to a son, left it to her sister to help, and she herself went to the show to raise funds for going abroad.
He then lived with her husband in Germany for more than a decade. She confessed that the reason for retiring to the singing world abroad is that on the one hand, it is too hard to perform everywhere, and on the other hand, no matter what kind of applause the audience has when you perform on stage, you have to perform, which makes Sophie feel very confused.
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When you go out for a walk and go back home, everything has changed. Talent is emerging, and the audience's taste has changed. Sophie has been eliminated by the times, but she still wants to start a concert.
In November 2014, her teacher Wang Kun went west by Crane. A year later, she also died in Germany at the age of 56 due to ineffective medical treatment. A generation of legendary singers has thus set the stage. What a jealous talent.
Looking back on Sophie's life, she was lucky and unlucky. Fortunately, she met her third aunt, who regarded her as her own daughter, and met a leader like Qiao Yu Wang Kun; unfortunately, there was no mother shortly after birth, and the disease took her to another world.
I hope that she and Teacher Wang Kun can still sing in another world.