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Dai Yuqiang is a well-known tenor singer, known as the Prince of Opera, and the media has called him the world's "fourth largest tenor".
Born into a peasant family, he worked as a north drifter before he became famous, and he worked at a construction site and ate only half a pancake a day. His wife, Liu Yan, is a soprano singer, like a flood of warm spring water, washing away Dai Yuqiang's inferiority and lack of self-confidence.
In the eyes of his wife's approval, he went all the way to glory...
Dai Yuqiang was born in 1963 in Dongdai Village, Sunshi Town, Wen'an County, Hebei Province, to farmers. Dai Yuqiang has an older brother and two older sisters above him, and he is the youngest in the family.
Dai Yuqiang's father was an old party member and an old eighth road. When Tianjin was liberated, the organization arranged for him to be the mayor of Hexi District. Father Dai felt that he had a low level of education and was incompetent, so he returned to his hometown to become a farmer.
His father had a loud voice, could sing Hebei Zizi, Peking Opera, folk songs, and was a well-known country singer. Dai Yuqiang inherited his father's loud voice and artistic genes, when "15 songs loved by listeners across the country" could be sung once or twice from the radio.
In 1980, when Dai Yuqiang graduated from high school, he wanted to enter the Conservatory of Music. His father felt that singing was not a serious profession and asked him to study engineering so that he could be assigned a job after graduation.
In this way, Dai Yuqiang was admitted to the Civil Engineering Major of Beijing Coal Mining School. Perhaps born to sing, Dai Yuqiang's blood is always surging with singing passion.
He wanted to learn to sing from a teacher, so he wrote a letter to a famous singer. Two months later, the other party did not reply, Dai Yuqiang went to knock on the door again, and was politely rejected.
The school is located in the remote Shijingshan District, and Dai Yuqiang often borrows bicycles from his classmates and rides for more than two hours to the conservatory to observe. Where there was a concert, he tried to find a way to blend in to see it.
After graduation, Dai Yuqiang was assigned to the construction site of the Gujiao Mining Area of the Seventh Engineering Department of the Taiyuan Coal Ministry in Shanxi Province, and was promoted to the iron rice bowl and later promoted to captain. The son finally jumped out of the farm, the Dai family's parents were full of expectations, and the older brothers and sisters were also proud of Dai Yuqiang.
After getting his first month's salary, Dai Yuqiang bought a black brick tape recorder and worked on the construction site while learning songs.
In 1984, Dai Yuqiang learned that the Shanxi Provincial Song and Dance Theater was recruiting students and preparing to send them to Beijing to study, so he took a car to Taiyuan overnight.
His image and voice conditions are first-class, and he was successfully admitted. Subsequently, Dai Yuqiang was transferred to the Shanxi Provincial Song and Dance Theater, and the unit sent him to the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing for further study.
After completing the transfer procedures, Dai Yuqiang informed his family of the matter. Parents and older siblings feel that the coal system is very effective, and they are very sorry.
Dai Yuqiang comforted them: "Don't be sad, I would rather die of exhaustion on the stage than live a life of blandness." One day, I will be the brightest star in the sky. ”
The father thinks that the son of a farmer, who has no relationship and connections, can go far in the music world? Since then, Dai Yuqiang's future has become the knot in his father's heart.
In order to earn tuition and living expenses, Dai Yuqiang used his spare time to return to the construction site to do small work. Dai Yuqiang suspended ceiling, paving floor tiles, cutting glass, budgeting, doing statistics do everything. He also worked as a security guard at the construction site, guarding the stones and not sleeping all night.
Two years later, Dai Yuqiang graduated and returned to the Shanxi Song and Dance Theater and became a professional opera performer. However, due to the impact of popular songs, the troupe has no opera to perform all year round.
Dai Yuqiang was idle in the dormitory all day, and his heart was suffering greatly. Under these circumstances, he once again made the decision to break the wrist of the hero and resigned to go to Beijing to seek his dream.
Beijing has a wealth of performing arts talents, and grassroots singers like Dai Yuqiang have no chance to take the stage at all. With no source of income, he lives in a low, dilapidated bungalow with his classmates. With some clutter piled up inside and a single bed, there's no more room.
Dai Yuqiang could not afford to buy a mattress, so he retrieved an inflatable mat from the shicha coast. He blew his mouth all afternoon before blowing the air cushion up as a mattress, and his cheeks were sore.
In order to survive, Dai Yuqiang worked on the construction site in the summer and autumn. He sang while working, often reprimanded by the contractor.
Winter came, there was no work on the construction site, Dai Yuqiang borrowed 500 yuan from his classmates, and built a temporary shed next to a roast duck shop in Shahe Town, Changping District, selling aluminum alloys and glass, and making art characters.
Once, Dai Yuqiang met his fellow countrymen on the construction site. As soon as the other party took his downfall home, the whole village knew that Dai Yuqiang had lost his iron rice bowl and was in a dismal situation.
Dai Yuqiang's parents often shed tears at home, not knowing where the wave of fate would push their son.
That was the most depressed time in Dai Yuqiang's life. There was no heating in the bungalow in the winter, he slept in his clothes and was still frozen in the middle of the night.
He ate only one meal a day, only half a flatbread. At 1.82 meters tall, he is often dizzy with hunger. Waking up in the middle of the night frozen or hungry, he followed the tape recorder in the moonlight and learned to sing the arias of foreign opera. Sing and sing, and the sky will light up.
At that time, Dai Yuqiang was particularly confused, could not see the bright light in front of him, and insisted on becoming his only choice. But he believes that Starlight does not live up to the passers-by, and his fate will be blessed by Starlight!
In 1989, Dai Yuqiang applied for the General Political Opera Troupe and conquered the examiner with a song "Starry Sky". So Dai Yuqiang enlisted in the army and became a professional opera singer at the General Political Opera House.
Dai Yuqiang's wife, Liu Yan
He finally ended the turbulent life of the North Drift, Dai Yuqiang reported good news to his parents and brothers and sisters for the first time, and the family cried with joy and no longer worried about Dai Yuqiang's future.
In 1990, the unit seconded a soprano named Liu Yan from the Beijing Song and Dance Troupe to perform temporarily in the troupe. Liu Yan is a native of Changsha, Hunan Province, 8 years younger than Dai Yuqiang. She was beautiful and beautiful.
At that time, Dai Yuqiang's first impression of Liu Yan was not good. She felt that this man had a beard and a tight brow, as if there were two or three children to raise in the family, and it was as if he had eaten the last meal.
But Dai Yuqiang's singing talent made Liu Yan admire. Liu Yan was arranged to sing "Sister" in "Brothers and Sisters Open the Wasteland" and "Xi'er" in "White Haired Girl". During the half-year-long performance, the two admired each other, were like-minded, and sparked a spark of love.
In 1993, Dai Yuqiang and Liu Yan formed a family in Beijing. After marriage, Liu Yan also entered the General Political Opera Troupe. Because of his rural background and the ups and downs of his life, Dai Yuqiang is introverted, inferior, and lacks self-confidence.
At that time, he often participated in the national singing competition, from the preliminary round to the second round was the first place, as soon as he entered the final, he was nervous and insomnia, and the result was either out of tune or forgot the words, and every final was sung. Dai Yuqiang has been distressed by this.
Liu Yan is also a powerful soprano, who has appeared on the CCTV stage many times and has also launched a personal music album "Plum Blossom Introduction". Her singing of "Plum Blossom Introduction" and "Phoenix Tail Bamboo in the Moonlight" is deeply loved by fans.
In August 1996, his daughter Dai Ziyi was born. After becoming a mother, Liu Yan faded out of the singing world and returned to her family, fully supporting Dai Yuqiang's career.
She often enlightens her husband: "You are talented, have solid basic skills, fully have the strength of a first-class singer, and the key is lack of self-confidence." ”
Dai Yuqiang and his wife with their daughter
Every time her husband went out to perform, she used her eyes of approval to watch Dai Yuqiang go out. When Dai Yuqiang returned home from a performance in other places, Liu Yan stood in front of the window and welcomed her husband's return with an appreciative look.
Dai Yuqiang found confidence in his wife's eyes, and today, Dai Yuqiang has become the "fourth tenor in the world". Liu Yan's eyes are still inspiring him, accompanying him to continue to glory.
Dai Yuqiang's family of three
The love in his wife's eyes completely eliminated Dai Yuqiang's inner demons. In 1996, he participated in the first national vocal competition of the Ministry of Culture and won the second prize in the bel canto category, and in the same year, he went to Shizuoka, Japan to participate in the International Opera Competition and won the first prize.
In 2001, Dai Yuqiang appeared on CCTV Spring Festival Gala again, singing the song "Family Portrait", which began to become popular in the country. He was with Mo Warren and Wei Song and called him "China's Three Tenors".
Dai Yuqiang and Pavarotti
In the same year, the world's top opera master Pavarotti came to Beijing to perform, discovered Dai Yuqiang's singing talent, and accepted him as a disciple. He was also Pavarotti's first Asian disciple.
Since then, Dai Yuqiang has embarked on the international stage and frequently performed around the world. His operas "Rigoletto", "La Traviata", "Turandot", etc., let foreign audiences marvel again and again! The media hailed him as "the world's fourth tenor".
Liu Yan acted as a strong backing behind her husband, took care of housework, raised her daughter, and supported the family alone, never letting housework interfere with Dai Yuqiang.
Dai Yuqiang's father died of illness in 1999, and his mother lived in the countryside. Liu Yan treated her mother-in-law kindly, paid the living expenses to the elderly on time, and sent them to buy food and clothing.
Dai Yuqiang's older brothers and sisters are ordinary people with general economic conditions, and Liu Yan often gives financial support. Daughter Dai Ziyi inherited her parents' excellent artistic genes, and Liu Yan sent her to learn piano from an early age and taught her to sing.
Dai Ziyi released a solo music album at the age of 10, and later went to the Manhattan Conservatory of Music in the United States to study bel canto, and is now also a singing actor.
Dai Yuqiang with his daughter
The daughter is the pride of Dai Yuqiang, the father and daughter often sing on the same stage, and the family of three also filmed MTV's "Beautiful Home".
In 2020, Dai Yuqiang is 57 years old and has been married for 27 years. Looking back on his bumpy life path, he feels that he can go from a peasant boy to today, one is to thank him for his perseverance in adversity, and the other is to thank Xianshu's wife for her encouragement and support.
For a man to achieve a career, in addition to being talented, having perseverance, and having a good wife, all three are indispensable!
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