On Valentine's Day in 2014, Jin Weiqi, who had just finished watching "Beijing Love Story", found the same emotional concept as himself in the movie, and it took only an hour after returning home to write the song "The Thief of Years".
According to her past habits, she put this song on the Internet, and she did not expect to be seen by Chen Sicheng, the director of "Northern Love". Soon, Kim received a message from Chen Sicheng's studio inviting her to sing the song at the film's promotional event.
Such inadvertent willow insertion became a turning point in Jin Weiqi's life.
Time goes back to the year of the third year of high school, and everyone is nervous about preparing for the exam. One day in class, Jin Weiqi listened to his thoughts wander, and began to think about what he really liked, whether he wanted to be like his peers, step by step to enter a bachelor's degree, and then graduate to find a stable job, followed by marriage and children, living such a plain life?
Obviously, the answer is no.
However, in the eyes of Jin Weiqi's mother, her daughter should live according to the trajectory of ordinary people.
The mother knew that her daughter loved music since she was a child, and did not prevent her from learning piano and accordion, but she was only allowed to learn to play, cultivate and cultivate sentiments and the like, but did not expect that over time, her daughter's love for music was out of control.
Kim Wentukuk went to the school's teachers in private and secretly studied music for a month. One day when she came home, she told her mother that she wanted to go to music school. How is this possible? The mother was completely shocked and firmly disagreed that her daughter should also learn some "wild road" things.
However, Kim Hyun-gi is very stubborn, and the mother and daughter are deadlocked several times, and finally reach a settlement on the terms she promised her mother. Her mother allowed her to learn music, but she had to learn bel canto. In order to be closer to his dream, Jin Weiqi agreed without hesitation.
Jin Weiqi was admitted to the Xi'an Conservatory of Music as he wished. After three years of bel canto, she once again asked her future: What am I going to do after I graduate? According to my mother's idea, either studying abroad or going to graduate school is a stable life that a girl should have.
However, after thinking about it for a long time, she found that she still liked popular music and decided to make a living by writing songs in the future.
This time, Mom almost broke down and said she didn't agree with anything. The stubborn Jin Weiqi only dropped a sentence of "I will make money from this", and ran away from home, and did not return home for more than a year.
However, when she went to see the record company producer with her proud work full of joy, she was beaten to the head: You write songs and sing like this, what kind of singer will accept your music?
Jin Weiqi, who had just come into contact with society, was denied by "authority" before he said much, thinking that the problem was in himself. So, for the next year, she was writing songs like crazy every day, trying out any style, just to write music that the producer population "singers will accept".
Yao Beina's "Without You", Chen Xiang's "Fireworks", Wuyi's "Wish", "Strange Hero A Branch of Plum" theme song "Heaven and Earth Plum Blossom" and "Grumpy Angel" theme song "I Am Me" are all from Jin Weiqi's hand, each work is carefully created by her, and all of them are highly sung.
But after groping for so long and helping others create a lot of excellent works, Jin Weiqi has never found his own style. Gradually, she found that she did not like the songs she wrote, and she began to fall into confusion, not knowing where the road ahead was.
Until 2012, the legendary end of the world, Kim Hyun-gi met the famous music producer Lee Jong-sung by chance.
Li Zongsheng's words woke her up: your age and qualifications have no way to analyze what the market is like and what kind of music the audience likes, so why don't you try to write what you want to write? You will definitely meet your kind, no matter how much or how little they are, you will meet them one day.
Yeah, why bother to cater to others, be yourself, make your favorite music, isn't it good? As long as you persist, you will eventually become a firefly in the night and be seen by the whole world.
So, she found the former Jin Weiqi, quietly behind the screen, writing the emotions she wanted to write, singing her favorite melodies, and living happily and satisfied every day. Although there are not many people who like her music, the group of people understands her.
Two years passed in the blink of an eye, and I did not expect that the unintentional creation of "The Thief of Years" actually ended Jin Weiqi's ten-year behind-the-scenes career, allowing her to officially transform into a voice in front of the stage.
Ten years is a decade that makes her miserable and confused, and it is also a decade in which she accumulates strength.
Jin Weiqi finally found her own musical style - a faint sad love song, with the gentleness of a little girl and the intellect and maturity of a woman, murmuring about the quiet and good life of the years.
Many people say that Jin Weiqi has Sun Yanzi's voice and Deng Ziqi's biting words, and the song lacks its own characteristics, which is probably because he has not carefully listened to Jin Weiqi's songs.
Her lyrics never deliberately pursue rhyme, the various harmonic melodies in the arrangement are seamless, the song is always transposed in unexpected places, such lyrics, and only with such a melody, is the best way to express a song, if it is composed into other tunes, or filled in other lyrics, it will become unremarkable.
The years when Jin Weiqi officially debuted were also the time when Chinese music talent shows began to rise. She wanted to try to get more people to hear her music. As a result, she appeared on the stage of "Chinese Good Songs" for 14 years. Although she was already famous at the time, not many audience members knew her, and none of the mentors had heard her name.
An original song "Love", the unique voice and fresh melody surprised everyone as soon as it was opened. After that show, many people began to know the name Kim Hyun-gi, and more people became curious about this girl with such a strange voice, and people began to pay attention to her music.
Many singers became popular after participating in the talent show, and they are even more powerful like Jin Weiqi. The music industry should have flourished at this time, but I did not expect that after the program was broadcast, Jin Weiqi's singing part was completely deleted by the program group. Not only that, but "Love", which was supposed to be included in Zhou Huajian's "New Energy of Jianghu", was also deleted when it was broadcast.
The enthusiasm of the audience came and went quickly, and as waves of new hotspots appeared, people slowly forgot about her.
It took Jin Weiqi only half a month to go from the spotlight to the Gate Ofelo. Without asking why, Kim Hyun-gi returned to his home, acting as if nothing had happened, and returned to his previous days of concentrating on writing songs.
In March 2015, Kim Hyun-gi officially released the album "Perfect World". This is the first album she has accumulated in ten years and slowly groped out her own musical style, appearing in the public eye as a singer-songwriter rather than a behind-the-scenes producer.
This album does not have the mind of a little woman, but uses precise language to paint a picture of life. Among them, there is a song "Talent Co., Ltd.", which vividly describes the gap between the ideals and reality of hard-working people, and many people smile and resign after listening to this song.
In August of the same year, Kim Hyun-gi held a "Perfect World" tour, a total of six stops, all selected for theaters with a scale of 1,000 people.
She did not see the performance as a tool to make money, but like a wayward girl, with a sense of "freshness" in an unprecedented attempt, she said: "Walking in front of the stage, being able to contact different people and things, it is quite fresh." ”
The box office has never been the focus for her. What Jin Weiqi cared about was that the people who came to the scene, no matter how many, were her kind, and they came to listen to her sing the songs she had written.
Now Jin Weiqi will still help others to create, but also still sing the songs he wrote, still can't talk about the big red, but it is precisely because he is not in the spotlight that he can stay away from a lot of right and wrong, and live freely.
Perhaps for Jin Weiqi, the brilliance of the stars holding the moon is not as good as the warm snuggling of the same kind.
(Part of the picture in this article comes from Jin Weiqi Weibo, and the rest comes from the Internet)
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