The sudden outbreak of the epidemic in the Spring Festival this year seems to have seized more of our life attention, inadvertently, even the Lantern Festival has passed, and the handsome guy who sang "Meet Again for 20 Years" with Zhang Shaohan, Yang Zi and Wang Yuan has not yet had time to know, it is really not checked, a check is frightened, it turns out that his name is Xu Ziwei, and there is a big head!
Xu Ziwei is actually the only person in history who has 10 songs on the "Spring Festival Gala" so far, and is known as the "Spring Festival Gala Royal Musician".
He was born in 1979 in Fengcheng, Liaoning Province, a remote rural area of Manchu ethnicity, and his grandmother was still an authentic Zhenghuangqi Ai Xinjue Luoshi. His father was originally an amateur actor in the army, who could play a variety of instruments such as erhu, and was a "music enthusiast".
His father's versatility and love for music naturally influenced Xu Ziwei and his brother Xu Zichun, and singing and playing musical instruments were the common language and hobbies of their father and son.
As the saying goes, "no matter how bitter you can't be bitter children, no matter how poor you can't be poor education", fathers are very generous to their learning, can be said to do their best to provide better conditions for them, fathers with a monthly salary of only 800 yuan actually spent "heavy" 6,000 yuan to buy a Yamaha electronic keyboard for the children.
According to Xu Ziwei's words: "Others grew up playing, and the two of us grew up 'learning'." "
The father did his best to teach them to play various instruments, but he was an amateur after all, and jackie Chan's father naturally hoped that his son could get a better education, so he also took Xu Ziwei to Shenyang Conservatory of Music and other places to study, but unfortunately failed to achieve his wish in the end.
At the age of 13, Xu Ziwei was unexpectedly recruited into the army because of the children's singing song "Father and Fellow Countrymen", and then he was specially recruited by the Dalian Army Academy, and at the age of 19, he was admitted to the Chinese People's Liberation Army Art College by strength, under the tutelage of Wang Kun.
Under the guidance of his teacher Wang Kun, Xu Ziwei systematically learned all the knowledge of folk songs and laid a solid musical foundation, which also provided the most powerful guarantee for his future creations.
The poor family makes Xu Ziwei, who already loves music, cherish this hard-won learning opportunity, and the weight and cultivation of the teacher have benefited Xu Ziwei endlessly throughout his life.
In 2000, the 21-year-old Xu Ziwei participated in the 9th BBK Cup CCTV Young Singers Television Grand Prix and won the Outstanding Singer Award. Subsequently, he was also able to sign a contract with Hong Kong Era Records, but later due to the company's capital problems, the development did not go as desired, which made Xu Ziweikong, who was ready to show his grand plans, rejoice.
At the age of 25, Xu Ziwei, whose contract with Hong Kong's records expired, came to Beijing, where he dreamed of setting sail.
At that time, he fell in love with pop music, and he wanted to make his own music, so he rented a basement and co-founded the "Chun Music" studio with his brother Xu Zichun and his manager Wu Keyi.
The following year, the 26-year-old Xu Ziwei released his first EP of the same name, "Xu Ziwei", which included 4 songs including "Long Time Not Home", "Jealousy", etc., and officially entered the music scene.
But the start of their careers is not as easy as imagined, especially these poor children who do not have strong economic strength.
A penny forced the hero, and the production of a song needs 40,000, no money, for the sake of musical dreams, had to reach out to every relative, friend, comrade-in-arms, colleagues to borrow money, almost all the people who know, a total of 300,000 owed, the "loan book" is full of more than 200 names.
The debt precipitated on their shoulders and the pressure on Xu Ziwei, who is only in his early twenties, can be imagined, in addition to constantly listening to music and writing songs, they also have to take some commercial performances, sing at the door of the store, or go to the countryside to perform and earn living expenses.
The days were difficult, the pressure was enormous, but he was full of creative passion, and in the dark and damp basement, he wrote more than a hundred songs, but unfortunately none of them were sold.
How poor was Xu Ziwei at that time? At one performance, when he and his friends arrived at 9 p.m., the two people who had not eaten dinner were hungry, but the money on the two of them was only 30 yuan, and they couldn't even afford to eat a box lunch.
Just when someone was selling reed orange clearance goods, they bought a bunch of reed oranges for 15 yuan and survived a hard meal. It wasn't until the next day that the show made a deposit that they had money to eat again.
He lived in hunger and a full meal, but his love for music never diminished, and he kept telling himself: I must make music well, I must succeed, and I will return the money to others.
At the age of 27, Xu Ziwei's "Long Time No Homecoming" was favored, and on the Spring Festival Gala of Tianjin Satellite TV, the market for his music slowly opened, and the days gradually improved.
After 4 years of north drift, Xu Ziwei finally paid off the 300,000 arrears and survived the severe winter, will spring be far away?
Xu Ziwei has seen the splendid spring in front of him, and for the sake of his musical dreams, he continues to create and perform, seeking all possibilities and opportunities.
Opportunities are always left to those who are prepared, and the light will come one day. Singers who don't want to go to the Spring Festival Gala are not good singers, and the Spring Festival Gala is even more sacred to Xu Ziwei's family.
The Spring Festival Gala as a child was the most solemn ceremony for their family. Before 8 o'clock, the whole family will be ready to sit on the kang early and wait for the start of the Spring Festival Gala. Since the trailer, they have begun to record and comment on the program, and they seem to be more familiar with the sequence of the program than the staff of the Spring Festival Gala.
Now that he makes music himself, how can Xu Ziwei think about the stage of the Spring Festival Gala? At the age of 30, Xu Ziwei finally plucked up the courage to send his work "The Best of China" to the Spring Festival Gala crew. The night before, he had neatly sorted out the creative process, lyrics and sheet music, printed 25 pages, and repeatedly confirmed several CDs burned and packaged them.
He was nervous and excited, and he rehearsed the scene with the director several times in his mind, but the plan could not catch up with the change, and the director only sent him away with a sentence of "Let it go, we will listen, if you can contact you".
The days turned over day after day, when he almost forgot about this matter, he received a call from the Spring Festival Gala crew, and the program team arranged for Stringer Rile, Feng Ruili, and Lin Yilun to sing with him, but the day before the recording, Lin Yilun was temporarily transferred to other programs.
The director suggested finding Teacher Liao Changyong, but he had no way out and had to wait in the performance hall for most of the night, but fortunately he finally got his wish.
Unfortunately, Tiangong was not beautiful, because he had been frozen the day before, and his tonsils were inflamed, but this was his Spring Festival Gala debut, so he endured a sore throat and finally successfully completed the singing, which also opened up a broader market for his music.
After that, his works frequently appeared on the Spring Festival Gala, according to statistics, it has reached as many as 10 songs, and he himself is also on the Spring Festival Gala stage for 3 times and the CCTV Lantern Party twice.
However, the moon has clouds and sunshine, people have misfortunes and blessings, Xu Ziwei at the age of 35, when he woke up, he was rushed to the hospital by his family because he could not move his right half of his body.
An examination actually had a stroke, for him it was a thunderbolt, the career was not easy to improve, but he fell ill, if not better, he would no longer have a connection with music, he was depressed, depressed, but also painful, the sun of the past also disappeared without a trace.
This illness hurt Xu Ziwei greatly, but in his desperate moment, his brother recorded his Spring Festival Gala works on his mobile phone and played them for him from beginning to end.
Listening to his favorite music, he cried loudly, releasing all the pressure and pain in his heart during this time. He suddenly realized that he could no longer go on like this, and after that he began to actively cooperate with the doctor, not only taking medicine and acupuncture treatment on time, but also starting to do rehabilitation training seriously.
Every step of starting over was hard, but the love of music made him grit his teeth and persevere. After 3 months, he miraculously recovered, saying that interest is the best teacher, and for him interest is the best medicine!
Lying on the hospital bed, Xu Ziwei still insists on creating, but xu Ziwei has also undergone some changes after experiencing illness, and his works no longer only write about national feelings, but also begin to pay attention to emotions and health, which should also be said to be a blessing in disguise!
His song "Blink of An Eye, Turn Around" was sung by his friend Zhang Liangying; "Take the High-Speed Train to Beijing" was also widely sung, and he was also praised by many singers.
On the road of music, he has also won numerous awards, such as the Universal Travel Music Chart "Best Male Singer, Best Singer-Songwriter, Top Ten Golden Songs...
As long as the heart is full of love, as long as the dream is full of persistence, one day, we will finally stand on our own stage and wave the square...