On June 5, Liao Changyong sang "One Hundred Years" again with a hundred people at a music festival.
Hundreds of people sang on the same stage, and the scene was spectacular and shocking. Teacher Liao Changyong's thick and full baritone voice was deeply moved and conquered by all the audience.
The audience said, it's wonderful! This is indeed a world-class baritone.
"One Hundred Years" is a centenary birthday gift presented by Liao Changyong to the party, and he sang his admiration for the party with a grateful heart and the most sincere feelings.
In October 1968, in a peasant family in Pi County, Sichuan Province, a naughty, jumpy little boy was born, he was Liao Changyong.
In the same year, Domingo was 27 years old, born into a Spanish musical family, and he has long been famous all over the world, "bouncing" in well-known opera houses around the world.
When Liao Changyong was 7 years old, his father died of illness, and the life of a rural family without labor force was very hard, but his mother loved him very much. This love is enough for him to grow up healthy and happy.
Liao Changyong still loves to jump and likes to "just" sing while jumping and singing on the big loudspeaker in the village.
One day in 1982, in the loudspeaker at the head of the village, Domingo "sang" "My Sun" in Italian, and Liao Changyong, who was sitting in front of the door, was stunned.
"Son, what is this singing?" What words? Mother asked with a smile.
"I don't know! It's good. Liao Changyong replied foolishly, finished, and hummed.
Little did he know that Domingo's "sun" was like "his sun", and that the sun was beginning to penetrate his world little by little, and it didn't take many years to shine throughout his life.
When he was in high school, the music teacher came to him and said, "Liao Changyong, you like to hum songs so much, and you come to sing a song at the school literary and art show?" ”
"Good!" Liao Changyong happily agreed.
Liao Changyong did not expect that a song "That Is Me" won the applause of the whole house, and the music teacher suggested that he go to the conservatory.
Ignorant of what he understood, he rejected the teacher and happily went home for the summer vacation.
One day, it suddenly started raining on a clear sky.
"Oh, it's raining! Rice had to be harvested. The mother said as she ran to collect it. But as soon as it was taken back, the sun came out again and moved out again.
After several trips back and forth, the exhausted and breathless mother said to her son, "From now on, I will rely on you." ”
"Okay." Liao Changyong listened to his mother's slightly choked voice, responded firmly, and thought in his heart, "We must work hard to let my mother live a good life." ”
As soon as Liao Changyong returned to school, he went to the music teacher to learn music, thinking of hurrying to learn art and come out to work to repay his mother's nurturing grace.
So, the music teacher wrote him a letter of recommendation and asked him to find Zhou Weimin of the Chengdu Drama Theater.
Liao Changyong embarked on a musical journey with a grateful heart for learning to succeed and let his mother live a good life.
In 1986, after teacher Zhou Weimin learned about Liao Changyong's basic situation and family situation, he agreed to accept him as an apprentice for free.
For more than a year, Liao Changyong applied for three music colleges in China, but there was no news.
"Good news! Changyong, the acceptance letter of Shanghai Conservatory of Music came. Just as Liao Changyong was preparing to sign a contract for the cultural troupe, Uncle Dabo called excitedly.
"It's great." Liao Changyong was happy and broken.
He went to school a day early.
When he arrived in Shanghai at night, it was raining heavily, and no one was picking him up, and Liao Changyong didn't know where the school was, and he wanted to take a taxi.
"Driver, how much is it from here to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music?" Liao Changyong asked.
"$20." The driver said.
"Oh, I'll take the bus anyway." Liao Changyong looked at the only 20 yuan in his hand and gave up.
The rain outside has been falling, looking at the new shoes bought by his mother at his feet, Liao Changyong bent down to take off his shoes very preciously, wrapped them up and stuffed them into the quilt on his back, and walked into the rain barefoot.
In this way, on a rainy night in 1988, Liao Changyong walked barefoot into the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
At that time, he would not have thought that this time, he would never "step out" through the door of shangyin again. Here he met two important women in his life.
In 1989, Wang Jia, who studied piano, entered the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, because she and Liao Changyong were fellow countrymen, so the two of them were closer to each other in the school.
At school, Liao Yongchang's monthly living expenses were only 60 yuan sent by his three sisters in turn.
"Liao Changyong, go, let's go to the canteen to eat." Classmates often asked him to eat together.
"I'll read the book again, later." Liao Changyong always refused, he often went to the canteen last, did not want others to know, he did not have money to eat meat.
One day in 1989, Liao Changyong suddenly received an anonymous remittance of 50 yuan.
"Who is this?" No sender, no address, no return and no return. Liao Changyong couldn't figure out who it was.
Since then, every week there will be one or two remittances of 50 yuan, and once there is a sentence: "Go buy some meat to eat, eat a few good meals." ”
Liao Changyong really couldn't think of who it was, thinking, the grace of dripping water, when the spring repays, after knowing, we must repay people well.
In the same year, Liao Changyong's teacher Luo Wei was going to the United States, and he asked his teacher Zhou Xiaoyan to continue teaching Liao Changyong.
"I'm so blessed to teach my son and my grandson." Zhou Xiaoyan said with a smile.
When Liao Changyong knew that his idol Teacher Zhou taught himself, his heart was even happier.
Zhou Xiaoyan has a high reputation in the music industry, she taught Liao Changyong not only the technique of singing, but also the way to live in the world, she taught Liao Changyong to be a low-key person, and strict requirements for herself.
Once, Liao Changyong went to the town to perform, the work was not shown to Zhou Xiaoyan, Teacher Zhou was very angry, said, "Why didn't you tell me?" ”
"It's just a little show." Liao Changyong said indifferently.
"An artist on stage a hundred times is what it should be, the hundredth and one times is not good, others will think you are proud, professional requirements are low." 」 You represent your alma mater, the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Zhou Xiaoyan scolded him.
And this experience, Liao Changyong said that he is still unforgettable, so that in the future in his life every performance he did not dare to take lightly.
In the program, he thanked Zhou Xiaoyan for her teaching many times and thanked her for her strict requirements, and it was her high requirements that made Liao Changyong.
Academically, Liao Changyong has a good teacher, in life, he and Wang Jia also have a long-term love, a chance, he saw his girlfriend Wang Jia's notes are very familiar, it turned out that the girlfriend is the anonymous sponsor. Liao Changyong was very impressed.
The grace of dripping water, Liao Changyong's happy "promise to each other".
In 1995, Liao Changyong graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music with a master's degree and stayed on as a teacher.
A year later, Liao Changyong ushered in his most brilliant year. This year he won the first place in three world-famous vocal music competitions, which shocked the world music scene.
The first is the "41st International Vocal Competition of Toulouse".
In September 1996, Liao Changyong rushed to France to participate in the Toulouse vocal competition, but he only sang until he was halfway through before he stopped and bowed down.
Immediately, with a "bang", Liao Changyong fainted as soon as he stepped off the stage.
This frightened the staff, rushed to the rescue, made phone calls, and everyone rushed him to the hospital. This check turned out to be low blood sugar.
"Hey, it's over! This time I missed the qualification. After hanging a few bottles of water, Liao Changyong, who woke up slowly, was heartbroken.
Just when he was remorseful, the door of the ward opened, and the program team came and said, "Teacher Liao Changyong, you have a good rest, and you can continue to compare at night." ”
Liao Changyong listened, was very grateful, and said a few good things in a row.
It turned out that although Liao Changyong only sang half a song, the judges felt very good, and if they were out of the game like this, it would be a pity, so they unanimously decided to give him another chance.
After Liao Changyong rested well, as soon as he took the stage, he conquered all the listeners with a beautiful singing voice and won the first place in one fell swoop.
In 1997, he went to the "Domingo World Opera Competition" and won the championship. He meets his childhood idol Domingo, the man who sang "My Sun" in Italian.
"You're the best baritone I've ever seen, a great singer." Domingo said to Liao Changyong.
"No, no, no Liao Changyong replied stupidly, he felt that the dialogue with the idol was too incredible.
He is the first person in Asia to win the Domingo World Opera Competition, and no Asian has ever reached the final before.
Later, Liao Changyong competed in the "Norwegian Queen Songya International Vocal Competition" and won the championship in one fell swoop.
"Liao Changyong is a great singer among the previous contestants, and I set today as China Day." After the game, Queen Song Ya said excitedly.
Winning three consecutive international tournaments, Liao Changyong became famous all over the world.
The head of a well-known theater in New York, Liao Changyong, said, "We sincerely invite you to come to our opera house, are you willing?" ”
"Thank you very much for the offer, but I still want to stay at my alma mater." Liao Changyong returned.
He once said, "Shangyin has made me, I will stay in school, repay the cultivation grace of my alma mater, and will inherit the mantle of teacher Zhou Xiaoyan and continue to cultivate the next generation." ”
Liao Changyong stayed at the school as a teacher, and within a few years, he soon became the head of the vocal opera department.
In order to better develop his alma mater and repay the favor of his alma mater's cultivation, Liao Changyong not only did not go to "overseas" to seek a job, he also rushed back to teach teachers from "overseas".
Once, Liao Changyong and the famous mezzo-soprano Yang Guang went to the United States to perform operas. As soon as he heard Yang Guang's voice, Liao Yongchang especially liked it, and Liao Changyong, as the head of the vocal music department, had a "crooked" mind.
"Yang Guang, I think your singing is very good, the time to communicate with you is really too short, I really hope to communicate with you more, the best, so that my students can also appreciate it." Liao Changyong said sincerely.
Yang Guang listened, the appreciation from the world-class music masters, happy and broken, hurriedly said, "Teacher Liao has passed the award, and I also hope to have the opportunity to communicate with you more." ”
After Liao Changyong listened, his face smiled and blossomed, and he quickly said, "I have a good idea, you can come to our department for classes, we can communicate at any time, and you can also bring students." ”
"It's a good idea, it can be." Yang Guang readily agreed.
Liao Changyong, who tasted the sweetness, fished everywhere overseas, and fished sopranos Huang Ying and Li Xiuying, bass wang Kaiwei, Shenyang and other "turtles".
Liao Changyong's vocal music department has gathered many teachers with experience in the international stage.
This plays a pivotal role for the alma mater to connect with the times and go to the world. He added to the thick history of his alma mater.
Liao Changyong fulfilled his childhood wish to let his mother live a good life, and became the greatest pride in his mother's life.
Liao Changyong, who has a successful career, and Wang Jia have also achieved positive results, and the family business has a double harvest.
One day, when Liao Changyong was returning home with his father-in-law and mother-in-law, it was raining again in his hometown, and the road was potholed and muddy, and the car could not drive in. Liao Changyong bowed his head in shame.
"Boy, you've worked hard." Father-in-law patted him on the shoulder and said. Liao Changyong listened, and his heart was incomparably warm.
Liao Changyong said, "They are so good to a poor and useless rural baby who wants nothing, and I have been grateful all my life." And secretly swore that he would treat his father-in-law and mother-in-law like his own biological parents.
In 2003, Liao Changyong's daughter Liao Minchong was born. It is said that the daughter is the lover of the father's previous life. Liao Changyong was eager to hold his daughter in his arms every day.
The next year, 1-year-old Liao Minchong actually sang a foreign song in Liao Changyong's arms, which frightened him. He quickly hugged his daughter and rushed to his wife.
"Take a look, no! Listen, she's singing, in foreign languages. Liao Changyong said excitedly.
"Huh?!" The wife looked at Liao Changyong in disbelief, then at her daughter, and stayed.
Then, his wife, Wang Jia, also discovered her daughter's amazing memory and language skills. Although his daughter was gifted, Liao Changyong did not force her daughter to learn bel canto and inherit her father's business.
He said, "I don't ask her to learn anything, as long as she likes it." ”
It is said that good family education is not what kind of person parents will cultivate their children to become, but to accompany their children to grow into what they like.
Liao Changyong is such a father, and he also loves Liao Minchong in this way. Since she was a child, Liao Minchong has done anything with her, watching animations and playing games. Liao Minchong himself liked to sing when he was a child, and Liao Changyong took her on stage to sing hand in hand.
In 2013, 10-year-old Liao Minchong released his children's voice album "Mud Doll", and in June of the same year, he and his father Liao Changyong appeared on the stage of CCTV June 6 Night, singing "Our Field".
Liao Changyong is cultivating students on the one hand and his daughter on the other, but he feels that it is not enough.
In 18 years, at the age of 50, he did not forget his roots, an ordinary farmer, simple him, wanted to pass on more songs to the public.
Therefore, in the following years, he participated in TV programs such as "Classic Arias Circulating" and "Sound into People's Hearts". In the program, a song "Nanxiangzi" sang generously, classic and beautiful, and his gentleness, humility and humor were also greatly loved by the audience.
Because of him, more people fell in love with Bel Canto.
In August 2020, Liao Changyong's daughter, 17 years old, Liao Minchong, a sophomore in high school, held her first solo concert in Shanghai. Sang songs such as "Rose Life" and "Midsummer".
Liao Minchong said, "I and my dad's singing style is completely different, his is bel canto singing, and I prefer pop music singing. I am very grateful for my father's companionship and support along the way, and my father's kindness cannot be repaid. ”
Offstage, Liao Changyong's loving gaze never left his daughter. In his view, being confident and beautiful on stage and bravely being his daughter is the best reward for himself.
In April this year, 2 hours before the recording of the entertainment program "Praise for Songs", Liao Changyong suddenly had low back pain and could not stand up, and was very anxious.
He looked at his daughter next to him: "Can you sing for your father?" ”
Liao Minchong looked at his father with heartache and nodded silently.
Previously, Liao Changyong was grateful to his mother, his father-in-law and mother-in-law and his wife, and his teacher and alma mater.
From the countryside to Chengdu, from Chengdu to Shanghai, and then from Shanghai to the world, he always moved forward with a grateful heart.
Today, his daughter is also full of gratitude, taking the stage for her father, full of deep love for her father.
In the world, the family inheritance is not only money, the most precious thing is the good character.
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