In 2020 "The Voice of China", the post-00 champion Shan Yichun performed many classic songs.
"Love That Never Loses", "I Wish People a Long Time", "Love Letters to Filmmakers"...
With so many songs, my favorite is Forever Young.
It's a song for quiet listening, with a soothing arrangement and a natural sound that's enough to loop through the single all day.
After "The Voice", many people began to pay attention to this song, and its singer-songwriter, Ai Yiliang.
In 2019, Ai Yiliang won the golden melody award "Best Composer" with this song.
When many people are still lamenting that the Chinese music scene is not picking up, some musicians are hiding behind people, studying music, honing themselves, and adding bricks and tiles to the music scene with good songs.
Even if the song is more popular than the people, they have no complaints or regrets.
Among so many people, Ai Yiliang is one of them.
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Mainland fans first knew Ai Yiliang, and wanted to talk about the variety show "China's Strongest Voice".
At that time, although she was a newcomer in the music industry, she was quite mature in both singing and typhoon.
Recognizable hoarse voice, sexy and attractive.
For acting, she has her own set of ways, unique singing skills, let go of the interpretation, queen fan full.
She sang Jay Chou's old song "Indian Old Spotted Dove", a unique adaptation and singing tribute to the classic.
Not many people dare to choose Jaylen's fast song, and Ai Yiliang not only sang it, but also successfully won the recognition of Jaylen's fans.
This confidence deserves recognition.
In addition to Chinese song, she also has an English song, which also left a deep impression on me.
It is one of Adele's "Set Fire to the Rain."
Ai Yiliang chose the Adele style of singing, and her voice was full of energy and very powerful.
Especially in the treble area, it is still easy to transpose the sound and maintain the texture of the sound.
With this song, Ai Yiliang let everyone see that she has the strength to go to the world stage.
Although she did not win the championship in that year's "China's Strongest Voice", she won more important things than the championship.
Luo Dayou, who was sitting in the mentor's seat, publicly announced that he would accept Ai Yiliang as an apprentice.
Luo Dayou pointed out the fatal wound of her Chinese biting words and not pronouncing steadily enough, and also comforted her: Your singing career has just begun.
The following year, she participated in "The Voice of China".
She used the song "Wet Hair" to eventually join the Na Ying team.
That year's "The Voice" won a lot of people.
Zhou Shen, Zhang Bichen, Geng Sihan and so on.
Compared with them, Ai Yiliang was like a meteor that briefly crossed the sky, and he was eclipsed without releasing much light.
The final step was a 16-in-8 match.
However, a variety show, a few games, can not hide a "golden stone" that will glow.
As Luo Dayou said, the singing on the stage is over, and the singing offstage has just begun.
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Reappearing in the public eye, Ai Yiliang returned triumphantly as the "Golden Melody Award".
Her album "Say Ai Yiliang" was nominated for several awards at the 28th Golden Melody Awards, and finally won the "Best Chinese Female Singer".
If you have participated in variety shows before, Ai Yiliang's vocal makes people begin to know her.
That original album, Ai Yiliang relied on her talent to make people start to like her.
The new album has 10 songs, most of which are composed by her.
She is not only a powerful singer, but also a talented creator.
The electric rock-filled Escape Project is layered in style.
"Empty Cheque" has a very Western film atmosphere, and the whistle of the first ten seconds takes people into a desolate single-player trip in an instant.
The delicate emotions expressed in "Our Sum" are so touching that the narrative is very strong.
In the production of this album, Ai Yiliang hopes to close the distance with fans through his own telling of love and life.
Since this album, her personal style has also slowly become prominent, telling the story, cold and warm are in the song.
Overall, "Say Ai Yiliang" is a high-quality album, and Douban also has a good rating of 8.0.
But to say that her most widely known album is "Living Vertically, Staying Nostalgic Horizontally".
The most popular "Forever Young", not much introduction.
The rap elements of "Glass Heart" plus the changeable singing voice and the whimsical arrangement are too burning.
"Give Julian" a lot of piano music, blending with clean vocals, very ear-catching.
Of course, in addition to these two albums, Ai Yiliang has other well-crafted albums, which are also very good.
But looking at the entire music scene, her music does not have a screen-level fire, and there are not many people who know her.
However, this is not bad, some people are destined to belong to music, not to traffic.
Immersing yourself in music and speaking to your work is a happy thing.
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From "The Strongest Voice" and "The Voice" to the Golden Melody Awards, from "Say Ai Yiliang" to "VerticalLy Alive, Horizontal Nostalgia".
Every time, Ai Yiliang will bring different surprises to fans.
She also uses her love and efforts for music to show her great potential to the outside world.
In a few days, she is about to celebrate her 34th birthday.
This age group is a person's peak.
Ai Yiliang made many people believe that she did not reach the highest peak and that she was still on the road.
After winning the Golden Melody Award, she once said: I am no longer the player who wants to win the competition in everyone's eyes, and now I can also express my emotions.
She honestly handed over herself, all her strengths, all her inadequacies, an imperfect but authentic version of herself.
When you learn to express yourself in music, no one in the world can disturb you.
Ai Yiliang deserves to be heard by more people.