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In the 1980s and 1990s, sweet songs were one of the most popular musical styles.
At that time, there were some singers who were good at singing sweet songs in the music scene, li Lingyu was one of the most dazzling, she released more than 80 albums, the sales of each album easily exceeded one million, and her singing at her peak was in the streets and alleys of all over the country.
She not only has a good image, can sing and dance, but also has been involved in film and television drama shooting.
The jade rabbit essence she played in the classic version of "Journey to the West" is still an unforgettable bright color in the public's memory.
Music critic Wu Zhoutong said that at that time, the dream lover in the hearts of many men was Li Lingyu.
The host Dazuo also recalled that when Li Lingyu became popular, his uncle was talking about friends, in order to promote a marriage, the woman's relatives would claim that she looked quite similar to Li Lingyu when introducing her own girl.
This is enough to see that Li Lingyu's sweet and lovely image of IKEA is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Many years later, many old friends who were good friends with Li Lingyu gave a very subversive evaluation when talking about her. Singer Jiang Dawei said that her songs are indeed sweet, but people are not sweet at all.
Tenor singer Zhang Yingxi also generously broke the news when mentioning her predecessors that although she was petite, she had an amazing amount of alcohol.
In her friend's description, she was a brash woman. And sweet seems to be just a career-related label on her.
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On April 9, 1963, Li Lingyu was born in Shanghai into a family of four, the youngest daughter of this family, and she was cared for by her parents and two older brothers since childhood, and her childhood was happy.
However, although Li Lingyu was born beautiful and cute, she was always treated as a boy, and the gift given to her by her father on her birthday was a pair of slingshots, which was very much in line with Li Lingyu's wishes, and during that time she often took the slingshot and beat herself.
At that time, the plane tree in front of her house was Li Lingyu's paradise, and she often climbed up to hide in the branches and read comfortably.
If she walked by someone Li Lingyu hated below, she would immediately pick up the slingshot and hit the other party, and under the influence and nature of her family, Li Lingyu became a living tomboy.
If there are any setbacks in Li Lingyu's growth process, the political trial that has not passed again and again is probably the most colorful one.
Li Lingyu has liked to sing and jump since she was a child, coupled with a pleasing image, she will always be looked at by some art admissions teachers, but when Li Lingyu walks out with joy again and again, what awaits her is to be returned again and again.
The reason for the return is not Li Lingyu herself, but because her family composition is not good, and she will be screened out as soon as she arrives at the political trial.
The young Li Lingyu was extremely depressed, she did not know how to break this spell, but she was more determined to study art.
Perhaps it was heaven's love talent, when Li Lingyu was 17 years old, she finally seized an opportunity.
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In 1980, a Yue opera troupe founded in Beijing came to Shanghai to enroll, Li Lingyu was a year older than a year, she did not want to wait any longer, although she did not know anything about Yue opera at that time, but still wanted to try to apply for the exam.
When Preparing for the exam, Li Lingyu followed the record to learn several famous Yue opera clips, and just when she lined up for an afternoon and was ready to show her skills in front of the examiner, she was told by the other party that she was older and did not have to perform.
Li Lingyu, who has a straightforward personality, theorized with the examiner on the spot, and the result was that Li Lingyu won a big victory, and she not only got the opportunity to perform, but also was selected as she wished.
You should know that it was a selection of thousands of candidates, and after several rounds of rigorous examinations, the Yue Opera Troupe only picked out two people, one of whom was Li Lingyu.
Although she stood out from the crowd, from Shanghai to Beijing, Li Lingyu had too many places to adapt.
First of all, she felt very unaccustomed to diet, that is, the era when food stamps were needed, and everyone had a ration of white rice noodles and coarse grains.
Li Lingyu from the south naturally prefers rice, but the rice provided by the food stamps is not enough for her to eat, and for a while he often shed tears because he could not eat rice, and when she could not bear it, she had to borrow other people's food stamps to solve the urgent need.
Fortunately, the small troubles in life did not affect Li Lingyu's road to learning art, and after a year of hard study, she put on Xiaosheng's costume and became a real Yue opera actor.
At that time, Li Lingyu also played the role of Jia Baoyu in the Yue opera "Dream of the Red Chamber", which shows that her appearance is very good.
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In those days, many people's dreams were to have an iron rice bowl, and it was common to work in a unit until retirement.
However, when it came to Li Lingyu, there were more changes.
In 1983, Li Lingyu had just emerged in the troupe, and a teacher quietly revealed to her that the troupe would soon be disbanded, reminding her to find a way out for herself.
After Li Lingyu learned the news, she began to pay attention to the various recruitment information in the literary and art circles, and it was at this time that the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe threw an olive branch to her.
In fact, before Li Lingyu already had a boyfriend from the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe, she often took advantage of her leisure time to run over to watch people rehearse, and the number of times a teacher noticed this beautiful-looking, beautiful-eyed little girl.
Under the recommendation of this teacher, Li Lingyu took the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe once, and it is very regrettable that the same exam with her are music students, and she is an opera actress who naturally did not pass because of singing problems.
However, because of this exam, more people in the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe remembered her. When the song and dance troupe needed an actor who could sing and dance well for rehearsing a new concert, someone thought of this opera actor named Li Lingyu.
At that time, the song and dance troupe contacted Li Lingyu and gave her several sets of songs, asking her to go back and practice on her own, and use her if the examination passed.
The Oriental Song and Dance Troupe is one of the best art troupes in China, and Li Lingyu attaches great importance to this opportunity.
She practiced day and night alone, and she couldn't leave her songs in the dormitory, and when Li Lingyu stood in front of the examiner a week later, everyone was surprised that she could finish the song so well.
There is no doubt that Li Lingyu once again succeeded in the face of the turning point in her life, and she transformed from an opera student to a song and dance actress.
After that concert, the applause from the audience was thunderous, and Li Lingyu returned to the stage to thank the curtain three or four times.
When the spring breeze of the career was triumphant, love was also cultivated, and in the mid-1980s, Li Lingyu and the boyfriend of the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe got married.
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If one is lucky, opportunities keep coming.
After marriage, Li Lingyu's career is still busy, she often dresses up as an exotic beauty in the performance to sing and dance, and once played the Pakistani song and dance performed by Li Lingyu on TV.
Director Yang Jie, who was selecting actors for "Journey to the West", was suddenly bright when she saw her, when Li Lingyu was in her early 20s, she wore exotic costumes and performed bright and playful, which was very consistent with the jade rabbit essence in "Tianzhu Harvest Jade Rabbit".
In this way, director Yang Jie found Li Lingyu and gave her a chance to dabble in film and television.
Although Li Lingyu is a mature stage actor, she is very unaccustomed to facing the camera, and some of her subconscious reactions will always make the picture imperfect, and director Yang Jie has reprimanded Li Lingyu for this matter. And Li Lingyu? After secretly crying, she would still reshoot over and over again.
In the play, she has a scene that needs to imitate Sun Wukong, and playing a monkey is another test for Li Lingyu, who is filming for the first time, but under the teaching of six young children, she still shows the characteristics of Sun Wukong very perfectly.
Under the meticulous carving of this episode alone, Li Lingyu filmed for a full month. After the TV series was broadcast, the beautiful Li Lingyu mixed her face in front of the audience, but what really made her popular was the albums with sweet song labels.
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As early as 1985, the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe recorded an album for Li Lingyu called "Oriental Rookie Li Lingyu" to test the waters.
In 1987, the tape dealer released her second album Midnight Street for Li Lingyu, in which Li Lingyu began to show a sweet singing voice.
It was a stage when popular songs were just beginning, and it seemed that only such sweet songs could awaken everyone's ears, and Li Lingyu's super high sales of 700,000 copies a day were enough to explain her popularity.
After this album, Li Lingyu took advantage of the victory and released sweet style albums such as "Sweet and Sweet" in succession, and the sales of "Sweet and Sweet" alone reached 8 million copies a day.
The unified style makes Li Lingyu more and more proficient in singing, and she can record an album containing more than a dozen songs in 4 hours, which is a speed that is breathtaking in the music industry.
Career is in the sky, Li Lingyu, who has many friends, invested in a bar, acquaintances came to her all free of charge, a birthday showbiz participated in the star celebrity over a hundred, friends Chang Rong once broke the news, at that time they often played together, but never saw Li Lingyu drink too much.
The high-intensity work has brought Li Lingyu great fame and rich remuneration, but it has also brought her some changes and differences.
Because of the long-term external recording of albums, Li Lingyu, who could not take into account the work within the troupe, had to take the initiative to quit the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe, and it was at that time that her marriage also had problems, during that time Li Lingyu was like a poor person who ran out of luck, divorced and quit the group, her world was no longer soaring, but some Xiao Suo.
Without other things to do, Li Lingyu focused on singing, perhaps bored with the familiar style, and decided to release an album unlike before.
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In 1993, Li Lingyu presented fans with her own transformation work "Woman's Mood".
She may have imagined the reaction of the public many times when the new album came out, but she must not have expected that fans would be so resistant to her transformation.
Fans can't accept that the former Sweet Song Queen has suddenly become a resentful woman, and they are not only reluctant to bring this album home, but also give Li Lingyu a selfish title.
Such a surprise to prevent a large number of powder drops is Li Lingyu unexpected, she is already in the trough of life seems to have another straw on her back, light life is not unthinkable, but the love for her parents made her finally overcome despair.
In order to get out of decadence, Li Lingyu accepted the advertising invitation of a Japanese company and went to a foreign country to work while adjusting her mood, and after the advertising work, Li Lingyu worked as a host in the local area for a period of time.
In July 1995, Li Lingyu, whose contract expired, returned to China for a short stay, but then chose to go abroad to recover her mood.
At this point, Li Lingyu pressed the pause button for her career, and her second love quietly arrived at this time.
Speaking of this marriage, it is also quite a bit of an idol drama.
Li Lingyu and the Canadian Jew named Jerry first met when they were going through immigration procedures, but at that time, the two did not have in-depth communication and did not leave contact information.
Not long after, Li Lingyu, who lived in Toronto, was invited to a party in Montreal, where Li Lingyu inevitably sang a song.
And it is precisely because of this stunning four-seat performance that Jerry, who is sitting in the crowd, recognizes this beautiful woman who has a relationship with one side.
After that, Jerry, who was moved, began the classic way of pursuing girls, sending flowers every day and calling often. Although their verbal communication was not very good at that time, this did not affect the desire of the two to communicate at all.
After a period of time, Jerry solemnly proposed to Li Lingyu at the beach, and Li Lingyu was scared back to China by his hot feelings, in fact, she did not have a good feeling for Jerry, but there was a failed marriage, and she felt that she should be more cautious when dealing with feelings.
What Li Lingyu did not expect was that she had just arrived home the day before, and the next day Jerry followed, where Li Lingyu's relatives and friends had seen the deep affection and demeanor of this foreigner, and his persistence finally touched the goddess Li Lingyu.
In 1997, Li Lingyu bravely walked into the city again to taste the taste of marriage.
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In the 3rd year of marriage, Li Lingyu gave birth to her and Jerry's son, Jessie.
Li Lingyu is a person who originally did not like children much, but at the moment of holding her child, the maternal love in her heart seemed to be instantly stimulated, and for her son Jessie, Li Lingyu poured all her efforts.
After experiencing marriage and children, Li Lingyu has matured a lot, and recalling the ups and downs that almost crushed her, she can finally laugh it off.
In 2005, Li Lingyu returned to the public with her carefully created album "Beauty Yin" ten years after she left the music scene.
Her singing skills are still sophisticated, and her style has regained the love of fans.
After her comeback, Li Lingyu did not put her career in the first place in her life, and she began to enjoy a life that moved with her heart. Sing a song when you meet a favorite, and shoot a shot when you encounter a favorite movie.
The rest of the time she spent enjoying life, among her friends Li Lingyu's cooking skills are quite good, the most unexpected thing is that she herself enjoys the cooking process very much.
Every time she invited friends to a party, Li Lingyu was willing to be busy in the kitchen alone, and if anyone came in to help her, she would be unhappy.
In 2017, Li Lingyu complained when she participated in the show that she had been divorced for many years, but in fact, she and her successful husband lived very happily, but she was not willing to share her personal family life with everyone.
In recent years, Li Lingyu has participated in TV programs many times, and the audience has gradually learned that the real she really has nothing to do with sweetness, and her sweetness is in her singing voice and happy life.
In June 2021, Li Lingyu once again put on the costume of "Journey to the West" in the variety show.
Her whole state of being hasn't changed much from more than 30 years ago, and maybe that's exactly what a woman who lives authentically, disciplined, and happy should look like.