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Not long ago, Sun Yanzi, who was called "unpopular singer" by the post-00s, quickly became a hot search in an online concert on Douyin.
The goal of 40 million likes originally scheduled for this concert was broken a few minutes after the concert began, and then reached 600 million likes in an hour, which suddenly made people have to sigh: "This is the top stream."
However, while on the hot search, it has also gained a lot of questions, and many post-00 netizens have asked: "Is this data real?" "Not really?" "A bit of an exaggeration!"
In the face of such doubts, those netizens who spent their youth with Sun Yanzi's voice have emerged to speak out for their idols: "Your idol is not Sun Yanzi, but your idol's idol may be Sun Yanzi!"
Indeed, the name Sun Yanzi is already very unfamiliar to many young netizens now.
In April this year, there were even netizens who posted on a platform that they found a "cold singer", and the netizens who posted said that although this singer debuted very early, his voice was also very distinctive, but it seemed that no one in China listened.
Other netizens clicked in to see what kind of unpopular singer this is, this is Sun Yanzi, a Chinese-language little diva who was once very popular and Jay Chou.
At the same time, people have to lament that the original time has passed so long, and Sun Yanzi has become the memory of a generation.
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On July 23, 1978, Sun Yanzi was born in Singapore into a happy family of three, as the second daughter in the family, her parents named her "Zi".
Her father, Sun Yaohong, was a professor at Nanyang Technological University, and her mother was also a teacher, so the family conditions can be called favorable.
It is this environment of growth that provides conditions for Sun Yanzi's musical enlightenment, and her father is her leader in contact with music.
As a high-level intellectual, Sun Yaohong naturally hoped that his daughter's piano, chess, calligraphy and paintings would not fall, so he began to expose Sun Yanzi to music when she was very young.
Sun Yanzi began to learn piano at the age of five, other children are lively and active age, but she can honestly sit in front of the piano for hours, from the touch of the black and white keys, she is deeply attracted to those wonderful notes.
In addition to her talent in music, Sun Yanzi did not fall behind in terms of learning, and successfully entered her father's Nanyang Technological University.
During college, the mother thought that her daughter's musical talent could not be wasted, so she enrolled her in the Lee Wai Song Music School.
After that, Sun Yanzi officially began to learn to sing, which was a decision that completely changed Sun Yanzi's life.
Studying at the music school allowed Sun Yanzi to lay a solid foundation for her singing career, and her teachers, well-known musicians Li Weisong and Li Weisong, also became the most solid backing and escort on her musical road since then.
During the music school, Zhou Jianhui, chairman of Warner Music, visited the school, and under the arrangement of the teacher, Sun Yanzi became one of the outstanding students of the performance.
Among the many outstanding students in the school, Sun Yanzi stood out with her unique voice and successfully attracted the attention of Zhou Jianhui, and Warner's producer immediately decided to sign her.
However, such an opportunity that no one else could dream of was vetoed by Sun Yanzi's father.
Sun's father felt that no matter what he did, he should first complete his studies on the ground, so he hoped that Sun Yanzi could wait until after graduation to engage in music.
Faced with such a situation, Warner unexpectedly said that he could wait for her to graduate in two years before signing a contract.
There are too many variables in two years, but Warner is willing to compromise for Sun Yanzi, which shows that they see unlimited potential in Sun Yanzi.
Two years later, Sun Yanzi successfully graduated from Nanyang Technological University and officially signed a contract with Warner, starting her own singer career.
At that time, she did not expect that she would be invited back to the school to perform many times as an outstanding alumnus many years later, and even become a national treasure singer in Singapore.
In addition to Sun Yanzi, her two sisters did not live up to Sun's father's expectations, and they were all talented.
Her sister, Sun Yanjia, works as a vice president at an investment bank in Singapore, while her sister pursues a master's degree at the National University of Singapore, all thanks to the guidance and guidance of their parents.
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Around 2000, as the era of the "Four Heavenly Kings" gradually fell lonely, singers of various other styles sprung up, and everyone hoped to seize a place in the new musical era.
This year, the new generation of singers accumulated a lot of hair, catching up with the final golden period of the Chinese music scene.
And Sun Yanzi as a secret weapon prepared by Warner was carefully packaged and launched, Jay Chou turned out to be born, and the girl group SHE that was popular across the strait and three places also debuted in that year.
Warner Records was the launch of Sun Yanzi's debut album "Sun Yanzi", which was extremely popular as soon as it was launched, becoming the number one album sales in Taiwan at that time.
The album that made Sun Yanzi a hit wrote Warner's evaluation of her: "There is no 22-year-old girl who sings like her!" ”
The album's title song "Dark Sky" is even more popular throughout the streets, and people can be heard humming this song everywhere in the streets and alleys.
It's dark and it's going to rain
It's dark, it's black
I fell in love with someone who made me desperate
I thought this was the world I was after
However the rampage was misunderstood and deceived
......
Traditional folk songs and simple piano accompaniment, coupled with Sun Yanzi's clear voice, singing out there is a kind of sentiment that turns thousands of times in it, directly singing to the hearts of the listeners.
This song not only won the first annual top ten gold songs of the music chart, becoming one of Sun Yanzi's important masterpieces, but also allowed Sun Yanzi to win 15 newcomer trophies in various regions of Asian countries, setting a record that no one has broken so far, and has become a classic that has been handed down to this day and has become one of the songs that people sing K must point.
And Sun Yanzi is also quickly remembered by the audience with her highly recognizable voice and strong personal style.
Seeing this grand situation, Warner hit the iron while it was hot and released a second album for Sun Yanzi, "The Happiness I Want".
As the sister chapter of "Dark Sky", the album inherits the melancholy and elegant style, and the "Beginning to Understand" in the album has become another classic after "Dark Sky".
Love is fluid
Not by people
Why get excited for reason
Believe you're just afraid of hurting me
Not lying to me
Loved who would give it up
Shake my dream awake
Declare that happiness will not come
I smiled bitterly and forgave it
On November 7, 2000, Jay Chou released his first album "Jay", which integrated a variety of musical styles to set a new weather vane for popular music, and once launched, it attracted widespread attention.
This is one of the reasons why Warner is so eager to launch a second album for Sun Yanzi.
It is worth mentioning that even the "Zhou Dong", who later had unlimited scenery, was inevitably crushed by Sun Yanzi in that year.
Because of her, Jay Chou missed the Best Newcomer Award at the 12th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards.
This also caused Jay Chou to win all kinds of awards after that, but he never had the opportunity to win a grand slam again.
In addition to Jay Chou's defeat in this award, there are also excellent singers such as Fan Weiqi and Penny Dai, which is only the beginning of their confrontation.
The appearance of Sun Yanzi and Jay Chou also pushed the Chinese music scene to a new climax, and in the Chinese pop music market in the early 21st century, their album sales accounted for nearly half.
In that era of shining stars, Warner knew that once he stopped, he would be forgotten, and in order to make Sun Yanzi firmly in the position of "top stream", they released seven albums for Sun Yanzi in just three years.
And Sun Yanzi herself is like a spinning top, with no chance to breathe.
In January 2003, Sun Yanzi released her sixth album "Unfinished", which also successfully pushed Sun Yanzi's career to a new height.
The song "Meet" in the album triggered a new humming boom and became a classic masterpiece that people must not avoid when talking about Sun Yanzi later.
Hear the departure of winter
I woke up in a certain month of a certain year
I think I wait I look forward to
The future cannot be arranged because of this
Cloudy evening out of the car window
There is a person waiting for the future
Look left to right and forward
Love takes a few turns to come
Under such an aura, no one noticed Sun Yanzi's abnormality.
But in fact, Sun Yanzi's body and spirit have been seriously damaged, and she is completely pushed forward, without her own life, and even without time to think about the meaning of doing something.
Singing is something that makes her happy.
But during that time, when she stood on the stage, she didn't feel her own happiness.
In addition, she also developed mild autistic symptoms and became reluctant to talk to people again, such an abnormality was finally detected by the company, and at this time they realized that Sun Yanzi really needed to rest.
In 2003, Sun Yanzi announced to the media that she needed to take a year off, not because she didn't care about her music career, but because she really couldn't support it.
Sun Yanzi felt that she should take a good rest for a while to balance her life, but also to find her true self.
In the three years since her debut, what does the light and honor she has endured mean to her?
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Announcing retirement at the peak of a career requires great courage and determination in any industry, especially in the fast-changing entertainment industry.
In the year that Sun Yanzi left, many singers secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but even so they could not be happy for too long.
Because it was immediately replaced by Jay Chou, who occupied the top of the list with the momentum of lightning and could not hide his ears, occupying the position of Sun Yanzi.
It is worth mentioning that in the year when Sun Yanzi disappeared, another very strong female singer also strongly topped the list of female singer sales in Taiwan.
That year was the second year of Jolin Tsai's transformation, and she completed the transformation of style with "Love 36 Plans".
At that time, no one thought that jolin Tsai would have countless entanglements and regrets with Jay Chou soon.
But Sun Yanzi's silent year did not fully rest.
While living her own life, she is still immersed in creation, but she is more and more aware that her original style will make the audience some aesthetic fatigue, while Jay Chou, who has a more diversified style, is rising step by step.
In order to seek a new way out, but also to break through herself, Sun Yanzi began to find a new style.
In 2004, a year after leaving the music scene, Sun Yanzi made a strong comeback with her eighth album "Stefanie".
The album sold well, and she also won the Best Chinese Female Singer Award at the 16th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards for this album.
And became the only female singer in the history of the Golden Melody Awards to take the newcomer Wang he and the queen into her arms.
Although the achievements achieved this time are still not cheap, everyone can also faintly perceive that Sun Yanzi at this time is not as good as before.
Compared with the previous style, the performance of Sun Yanzi's transformation this time is actually not prominent.
On the other hand, Jay Chou, this year is the peak of his creation, for Jolin Tsai wrote "Rewind" to Wen Lan's "Summer Wind" has triggered a wave of singing, this year he was also called "The King of Asian Pop" by Time Magazine.
In addition to Jay Chou, many other singers have also rushed to the head, and Zhang Shaohan Pan Weibai's "Happy Worship" has triggered a hot dance trend.
And Lin Junjie's "Jiangnan" is also popular all over the country, compared to these achievements, although this new album is famous in the sales list, it seems that there is no track to get a hand.
In addition, in 2004, the first year of the mainland draft, a "Super Girl" program put countless ordinary girls on the stage and became a big star in the spotlight, and Li Yuchun was the most successful example.
The big TV screen has been dominated by female singers of various styles, and at this time, Sun Yanzi's company has also realized that the Chinese music scene has changed.
But do you want to ask Sun Yanzi if she regrets it? The answer is no.
After all, she has already had the honors she should have, she has not been a very enterprising type of person, she is more concerned about her own life than career.
Because she knows that the inspiration for the song comes from life, if she even messes up her own life, she will lose both herself and the audience.
In 2006, Sun Yanzi's contract with her old club Warner Records expired, and she left Warner to sign to EMI.
As of 2006, she has won four awards for Best Female Vocalist and Most Popular Female Vocalist in the Music Charts.
In the Top Ten Chinese Golden Melody Awards in Hong Kong, it also won the Most Popular Female Singer Award in China for five consecutive years.
These records are still unsurpassed.
In March 2007, Sun Yanzi released her tenth album "Backlight".
The results of this new album are also very remarkable, winning many awards at home and abroad, but while being added by the aura, she is also caught in an unprecedented storm.
Sun Yanzi encountered extortion from tour guides while filming the mv of the "Backlight" album in Egypt, and even threatened her personal safety, which spread back to China and was hyped up by the company on the opportunity to stir up a wave of heat.
So some people even said that she was kidnapped and injured.
Seeing that this storm was getting worse, Sun Yanzi immediately arranged an interview after returning home safely after finishing work in order to calm the mood of fans.
The media looked at Sun Yanzi, who could almost be said to be unharmed, and turned around and aimed the spearhead at Chen Zeshan, the chairman of EMI at the time.
Saying that all this is just the hype arranged by Sun Yanzi and her team, the overwhelming questioning makes Sun Yanzi, who has just returned to China, feel exhausted, she does not know how to explain, which has become the only stain on her career.
She was disappointed in vanity fair, which could put people on the altar and eat people, and the bluff of the media and the company's operations made her physically and mentally exhausted, and for the first time she had the idea of never wanting to come back.
Sun Yanzi is such a personality, she looks pure and gentle, but she is stubborn in her bones.
She is not good at complaining, and she is even less good at explaining.
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In the four years since, she has not released a new album.
After the disappearance of the music scene, Sun Yanzi shifted her focus to charity.
After the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, she donated about 2.5 million yuan of supplies through charities, and as a charity ambassador of the Singapore Compassion Aid Organization, she visited the disaster area and the primary school in the disaster area, and actively participated in some disaster relief activities.
In March 2011, Sun Yanzi returned to the music scene with her eleventh new Chinese album "It's Time".
This is Sun Yanzi's first time as the producer of the entire album, which is enough to see her seriousness and attention.
What surprised fans was that this time she only came back for a year and then retired again, which made netizens have to sigh that being a singer was really just a hobby of hers.
This time, when Sun Yanzi returned with a new album, she also brought her own good news.
On May 8 of the same year, she and her boyfriend of 6 years, Nadim, were married in Singapore.
Although low-key, but also sensational enough, after all, Sun Yanzi was once the youth of so many people.
Looking at the bearded man in the photo, Sun Yanzi next to him wore decent light makeup and a gentle and delicate smile on his face, and the whole wedding was too simple to be good.
Fans can't understand what exactly attracted Sun Yanzi to this man, but they can only tearfully bless it no longer, because Sun Yanzi has always been very clear about what she wants.
A reporter once asked Sun Yanzi why, as a singer, she can fall in love if she wants to, and leave when she wants?
As the reporter said, as an idol, Sun Yanzi is indeed a bit willful and rebellious, but her rebellion is not at all disgusting.
Because she has long since ignored those fame and fortune, no matter how much money she earns, it is only a number on the account, and for her singing is love and spiritual sustenance.
But living her own life and falling in love is also what she wants to do, and she wants to do it for so many reasons.
After many years, the second time I saw Sun Yanzi was in the program of "Children of Tomorrow", still familiar with short neat hair and simple shirts.
It's just that her identity has changed from that stubborn and wanton girl many years ago to a senior predecessor.
What is surprising is that for more than twenty years, she has become a mother of two children and still maintains that girlish heart.
When you encounter your favorite performance, you will be happy to swing twice, and the eyes of each player are full of patience and gentleness.
If you want to ask why Sun Yanzi's popularity is so good, it is probably such a gentleness to the world and life, in order to exchange for the heartfelt love of others.
In the traditional record era, Sun Yanzi's thin body contains infinite explosive power and vitality, and her voice penetrates through one album after another to reach the depths of people's hearts.
There is a very wonderful fresh and alienated girlish feeling in her body, which people can't forget at a glance.
Although there have been countless times over the years to mock her for eating the old book, the achievements she has achieved in the years of her debut, even if she has been in the same place all her life, are beyond the breakthrough of others.
Maybe you don't know Sun Yanzi, but you have to admit that she is the last diva of the golden age of the Chinese music scene. Which of Sun Yanzi's songs do you like the most?