"Xiu mei does not have a star shelf, as long as she hears that any of her classmates have difficulties, she will certainly be generous to help." When lu Xiumei is mentioned, whether it is her teacher, classmates or compatriots, they are full of praise for her.
She has been honored on the Spring Festival Gala stage many times, whether it is "Where is Spring", or "Ode to the South Lake", "Want to Kiss", a classic song with a popular population, which has been sung to this day and has been named "China's Top Ten National Soprano Singers".
However, because her husband fell off the altar after he was imprisoned, he faded out of the public eye, and finally the pressure was too great, coupled with the day and night work, Lu Xiumei, who struggled to support, unfortunately died of cancer at the age of 55.
Her voice is between the national and the bel canto, the tone is sweet, relaxed, let people sound like a star,the second half of her life is really very bumpy, it is really regrettable.
<h1>Go forward for singing</h1>
Lu Xiumei, born in 1957, her parents are northeasterners, but Lu Xiumei herself grew up in Yuci in Jinzhong, Shanxi, she has always regarded Yuci as her hometown, and after becoming famous, she has spared no effort to make a lot of contributions to her hometown.
She was gifted at an early age, especially liked to sing and dance, and more enviously, she had a natural bright voice.
More than 40 years ago, a tall girl with a ponytail, full of enthusiasm for vocal music, walked into the "special class" of Yuci Chinese Art Promotion, she was Lu Xiumei, at this time she had just entered junior high school.
It was also at this time that she met a person who was crucial in her artistic career, The Enlightenment Teacher Li Qinglong.
Mr. Li Qinglong is a high-caliber student who graduated from Nanjing Conservatory of Music, has been engaged in and studied vocal music for many years, has a wealth of teaching experience, and it is thanks to his careful cultivation that Lu Xiumei has laid a solid foundation for her future career.
Lu Xiumei is not only particularly prominent in vocal music, but also has not relaxed a moment in the study of cultural classes, and has always taken the excellent students in the class as an example.
Classmate Fan Weizhong recalled: "Lu Xiumei loves to sing, she can hear her singing all day long, she gets up at 5 o'clock every morning to practice her voice on the playground.
It is precisely with this tenacity and step-by-step persistence that her road is getting wider and wider, and she has a later glory.
Teacher Li Qinglong is not only good at various musical instruments, but also put a lot of effort into cultivating students, soon after Lu Xiumei enrolled in school, her unique voice was discovered by Teacher Li, at that time, Lu Xiumei was not yet literate, Teacher Li patiently taught singing sentence by sentence.
"Xiu Mei is a gifted child, she loves to sing, I tried my best to cultivate her, she did not disappoint me." Old Teacher Li is now in his old age, but when he talks about his proud protégé Lu Xiumei, he still gushes endlessly.
Lu Xiumei just started to learn to sing model drama at that time, but how to sing is almost meaningful, Teacher Li let her imitate Peking Opera singing first, which was originally unintentional, but she did not expect that she had a high degree of understanding, and soon had great progress.
Playing classic characters such as Ke Xiang and Jiang Shuiying, she often performs on stage in the local area, and she is already famous at a young age.
Once, some Peking Opera artists came from Anhui, and after watching Lu Xiumei's performance, they praised her for her good figure and good singing.
In 1974, Lu Xiumei, who graduated from high school, ushered in a turning point of great significance in her life in a condolence performance, and was fortunate to be appreciated by an old leader who engaged in cultural propaganda in the central government.
In 1976, she was successfully admitted to the Chinese Opera and Dance Theater with excellent character and outstanding vocal music. This was not easy at that time, you know, many students of the Chinese Opera and Dance Theater at that time were from the class, and Lu Xiumei could only be regarded as an "amateur" player.
When she entered the opera house, she studied hard and practiced day after day, without stopping, because she had a higher goal in mind. In 1986, her highlight moment finally came, and with her superb performance, she won the Silver Peacock Award of the second CCTV Young Singer Competition at the age of 29.
However, Lu Xiumei's career really reached its peak in 1988, when she was invited to the Spring Festival Gala and Niu Baolin to sing "Want to Kiss", a euphemistic and beautiful rhyme, free and easy to let people sing to this day, after the 90s, it brought a series of popular classic songs such as "Where is Spring" and "Ode to the South Lake".
Lu Xiumei, who ascended to a higher stage, did not forget her fame and fortune, and often took advantage of the performance gap to visit her mentor and invited the teacher to share the stage with her.
And do not forget to promote the younger generations, student Bai Yun said that the teacher is full of gratitude: "Teacher Xiumei is the Bole who led me to the road of music, and has given me too much guidance in artistic cultivation. "
In addition, she has also sponsored more than a dozen poor out-of-school children to help them return to school, and has never forgotten this hot land of raising her, such as "Want to Kiss", "My Hometown is Really Beautiful", "Father and Fellow Villagers" and many other songs, all of which are based on the theme of praising Shanxi or taking Shanxi folk songs as the keynote.
Such a talented, grateful, and extremely talented person should have been happy for a lifetime, but fate is always impermanent.
<h1>The husband went to prison and fell to the altar</h1>
With the gradual popularity of Lu Xiumei, she came into contact with more outstanding talents, including her later husband Zhao An.
Zhao An is a particularly talented person, who has directed the CCTV Spring Festival Gala 7 times, including 4 times as the general director, and the works he has directed are magnificent, unique style and charm.
He has always been a "bearded" image, it seems that he is five big and three thick, and his mind is actually very delicate. The combination of the two people is undoubtedly a talented woman and a talented woman.
In 2003, a change broke all this good life, and her husband Zhao An was sentenced to ten years in prison for accepting bribes and expelled from the public service party.
After this, life fell to the bottom, before Zhao An was the general director of CCTV, the family was often in the market, all kinds of celebrities often came to visit, the phones of the husband and wife were about to be broken, and even the younger daughter went to and from school as a star pick-up, and she didn't have to worry about it at all.
However, after the husband was imprisoned, the family suddenly became deserted, except for the occasional few old friends who came to the door, almost no star was willing to go to Zhao An's door, a star who had been cared for by Zhao An many times, and even claimed that he did not know Zhao An at all, and the gap was really chilling.
Lu Xiumei is also "discriminated against" everywhere, and the appearance fee is suddenly from 50,000 to 2,000 yuan, and the huge gap and pressure make her experience a painful life.
But even so, she did not choose to divorce her husband, while earning money to support her family while taking care of her daughter, neither appearing in public nor giving interviews.
Fortunately, her husband actively performed in prison, received many meritorious rewards, and the sentence was reduced to 6 years.
Because of the double blow of life pressure and spirit, the miserable Lu Xiumei was diagnosed with rectal cancer at the end of 2007, when her husband was only one year away from prison.
Unfortunately suffering from cancer, in order not to trouble others, she has been hiding her illness, and even singing affectionately for the people of her hometown when she is seriously ill, in the year of her death, she still happily agreed to sing for the 60th anniversary of her alma mater, but she can no longer come.
After battling cancer for four more years, on March 1, 2012, Lu Xiumei died at the age of 55. Her husband has been accompanying Lu Xiumei in the hospital, and after his death, he was very sad and cried bitterly.
<h1>epilogue</h1>
Lu Xiumei has been helped by many people along the way, she has never forgotten her roots, even if she is sick, she still goes to the mountains to perform, and has experienced great ups and downs in her life, and has seen the world cold.
Now, we can no longer listen to her lark-like singing on the spot, and her husband Zhao An has been very low-key after he was released from prison, and has been taking good care of his daughter, knowing that mistakes should be made, and giving Zhao An some space and time, and also wishing their father and daughter a smoother life in the future.