Qi Yu, recognized in the Chinese music scene as a natural sound.
Gao Xiaosong once included her "Camel, Bird, Fish" in her top ten records of his choice, and praised it, "hearing poetic music for the first time".
She is also the goddess in Zhou Yunpeng's mind, "Her voice shines with a metallic luster, and the high notes are like jade gliding on the ice, low back, and there is a moonlight shining into the deep sea." Qi Yu stood there, and her tranquility could spread to the whole place..."
Some people say that she unconsciously went through all the paths that young women in literature and art wanted to take: entering the best universities in Taiwan, studying impractical anthropology majors, becoming the queen of guitar ballads, and making friends with Sanmao...
Qi Yu himself said, "In my life, everything is the best arrangement. ”
Nowadays, because he believes that "his favorite style and music can no longer cater to the current music market, he chooses to quit", Qi Yu has rarely released new works.
As music fans, we can only review her classic music in old works and taste her voice that does not stir up dust.
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olive
Qi Yu liked Joan Baez very much. The American folk queen is Bob Dylan's ex-girlfriend and the woman Jobs had in mind.
In 1978, Qi Yu's cover of Joan's classic "Diamonds & Rust" came to the fore and won the music draft of that year.
Qi Yu's musical style is also very folk, "the content of the folk song is a relatively true story, some very ordinary stories in life, but it is very touching."
What really made her famous was "Olive Tree" released in 1979.
Li Taixiang composed music, Sanmao composed lyrics, the melody is beautiful, Qi Yu's voice is ethereal and ethereal, like taking us through the dream.
△ Li Taixiang and Qi Yu
Don't ask me where I'm from
My hometown is far away
Why wandering
Wandering Far Away Wandering
"Olive Tree" sings the yearning of a generation of young people for the distance, and also contains Qi Yu's own feeling of wandering to the United States to study and being alone.
The song has a high intention, for freedom, for the ideal. It was popular all over the Chinese world, and to this day, it is still the standard of many young people's single loop series.
Qi Yu once said that "Olive Tree" has been sung thousands of times, but every time she takes the stage, she still feels nervous, and every sound cannot be relaxed.
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Yumeda
In 1985, three Taiwanese women with the characteristics of the times collaborated to make a highly literary album, called "Echo". Sanmao completed all the lyrics, and Qi Yu and Pan Yueyun sang. At the same time, Qi Yu is also one of the album producers.
Among them, "Yumeda" must be one of the most feminine works among the many folk songs that sing dreams.
Qi Yu is responsible for the high-pitched part, Pan Yueyun is responsible for the midrange part, the two voices are clear and clear, delicate and sensitive in the gentleness, and the music part is accompanied by pure guitars with seemingly innocent flexible drum beats, which unfolds a dreamy pastoral scene for us.
Sanmao likened Qi Yu to an angel and Pan Yueyun to Cleopatra.
And Qi Yu frankly said, "The biggest difference between me and Sanmao is that Sanmao is the wandering of footsteps, and I am the wandering of the soul." ”
In 2018, Qi Yu and Pan Yueyun held an "Echo" concert with the theme of "The Magnificent Life of Three Women", recreating Sanmao's classic works such as "Dream Field", "A Sunshine Avenue" and "Olive Tree".
They said, "We just want to do our best to do a good job, sing well, and finish this concert with all our friends who like Sanmao." ”
△ Sanmao once said that she, Qi Yu and Pan Yueyun, are the most suitable people in Taiwan to wear bohemian clothing
Qi Yu, who is 14 years younger than Sanmao, bluntly said that she was still naïve when she worked with Sanmao and did not understand a lot of Sanmao's pain and emotions.
Later, after experiencing two marriages, the first husband cheated, the second husband did not match, Qi Yu was alone again, and only then did he understand Sanmao more.
Women's life experiences are similar, and what motivates them to continue to move forward must be the dream field that once was.
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Stories
In 1987, Qi Yu covered Belgian singer Victor Laszlo's Stories.
The piano and the female voice blend together naturally, telling the story of a woman's memories of childhood and first love. It was lonely and painful.
The rain was killing the last days of summer
You had been killing my last breath of love
Since a long time ago ......
Rain kills what little summer remains
You've been killing my dying love
once
The most touching thing for fans is the large section of English pronunciation in the song, the original song has a little French accent and European taste, and Qi Yu's pronunciation is very standard, the same sincere, touching.
Qi Yu is very persistent about English songs, and as of 1999, a total of 7 English albums have been released.
In the film "Sky Bath" directed by Chen Chong, the English version of the theme song "Whispering Steppes" was written and sung by Qi Yu himself.
Her voice is like a lament in the universe, a breeze in time.
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September's high heels
Walking through the early folk music, Qi Yu began to try pop.
In 1988, his younger brother Qi Qin composed "September High Heels", which became the favorite of many young girls that year.
The song opens up a theme for Chinese music, with lyrics adding Paris, Tokyo and New York to illustrate the life and journey of a "globetrotter", either lonely or tenacious.
Later, many Taiwanese female musicians have tried to create similar themes, including many popular works.
But the deep tranquility of Qi Yu's body is difficult to replace. When her trait is placed in martial arts music, it is naturally different.
In 1995, Gu Tianle Li Ruotong's version of "Divine Eagle Hero" was launched, and the theme song "Mythical Love Story" was composed by Zhou Huajian and lyrics by Lin Xi.
When I was a child, I only remembered "Homecoming", and when I grew up, I found that the lyrics of "Mythical Love Story" actually wrote love so thoroughly.
The singing part is ethereal and breathless, as far as the valley. The female voice who sings with Zhou Huajian must be Qi Yu.
In the music, she was born but has a "human flavor", can fully immerse herself in stories and emotions, deeply empathizes with the tiny feelings of all sentient beings, and has the tolerance and compassion of seeing through the red dust, which reminds people of Sanmao's description of her: angel.
"Mythical Love Story" is perhaps one of the most difficult martial arts divine songs to sing, just like Yang Guo's long-lasting love affair with Xiaolongnü, extinct in the jianghu.
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Birds and fish
In 1998, Qi Yu produced an album that was completely his own: "Camel, Bird, Fish", which was like a natural sound and had a strong literary atmosphere.
She is not only a singer, but also a producer and lyricist for 5 of the songs.
Listening to this album, you will see women's reflections on their own lives, about love, about family, about children, about wandering and fate.
Personal favorites are Birds and Fish and Happiness, which offer two perspectives on love.
Qi Yu compares two lovers who are difficult to intersect to birds in the sky and fish in the water, both animals that are originally lively and free, pinning on human fantasies of freedom.
People in two worlds fall in love with each other, which is destined to be a tragedy of nature.
But even if fate obstructs, for love, you must fight for yourself.
What heaven and earth, four seasons, day and night
What the sea and the sky are the same as the hell heaven Twilight Drum Morning Bell
Birds and fish, sighing.
And in "Happiness", Qi Yu put aside the sadness that went deep into the bone marrow and explored love through the reflection of women themselves.
She injected her own emotional experience: "Someone sings about love is easy to get along with / Who knows better than me about it".
As a master of anthropology, she explained the lyrics "marriage is against the system of nature": after all, marriage is only a system formulated by human culture, and a person is not born to marry.
Is happiness married or single? She takes a higher perspective: "Some people treat happiness as a career / Some people stop for free marriage / In the end, who loses and who wins / No one can judge."
Qi Yu seems to have been concentrating on creating her dream field with olive trees, where every woman can harvest warmth and comfort.
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The Great Compassion Curse
When Qi Qin was young, he was imprisoned for 3 years for alcoholism and fighting, and after he was released from prison, with the support of Qi Yu, he studied music hard, thus opening his musical path.
In 1998, Qi Yu went to Lhasa to participate in Qi Qin's personal concert, and was given a Buddha statue and continued to be a Buddha. A few years later, she began her buddhist music career, and she set out to sing to the world the truth, goodness, stillness, and beauty that she had realized in Buddhism.
In this way, the sisters and brothers are both noble people who are destined for each other, so that their lives have a big change.
"When I was in my thirties, I felt like my olive tree had been found. After the buddha ceremony, it felt as if another olive tree had appeared, and there was another goal to be reached. ”
Qi Yu has been seeking a calm heart, hoping that Fo Le will make the world less strife and eliminate hostility.
"Whether it is theism or atheism, I find my own peaceful faith in Qi Yu's singing." Soda Green lead singer Wu Qingfeng once said.
It seems that Qi Yu has at least partially fulfilled his wish.
No matter what he did, Qi Yu wanted to do the best, the arrangement that best suited his nature.
Singing, she wants to use her most comfortable way, not to pander, not to be indignant, because it is important to convey to the outside world "a way of life".
In life, she admitted that she was not as brave and enthusiastic as Sanmao, "The real me only likes to sit at home and read books, listen to music, and study things that interest me." ”
Sober, self-aware, soft, authentic.
Only such an indifferent and casual Qi Yu can sing so ethereally, and can he use his voice to lead generations of dreamers to wander far away.
stray.