Yesterday I was chatting with a group of friends, and one of them said to me: "Dude, you said that folk singers, especially female singers, have become more and more popular lately. ”
In fact, I usually don't listen to folk songs sung by female singers. It's just that these female singers have very different styles and singing voices, so I don't know where to start for a while.
And when it comes to female folk singers, I often think of a distant name. Her name may be a little unfamiliar to young folk music fans, but there is a turbulent era in her singing.
This woman is called Ai Jing, and 18 years ago she was the hottest folk song talent in China, recording records, filming and television dramas, and bringing her songs to the world.
Just when she was at her most popular, she picked up the paintbrush alone and continued to outline her life with color until now. It's just the voice she left in the memory of fans, I'm afraid I can't forget it.
Like most people, I first learned Ai's name because of one of her songs called "My 1997." There is also a widely circulated video about this song on the Internet.
That year, Ai Jing performed his masterpiece at the Tokyo performance site. For the people at that time, 1997 was a year of anticipation, and many people wanted to go to the flower world there after the return of Hong Kong and see the 800 Companions and Hung Hom Stadium.
Hence the song "When is Hong Kong, and what about Hong Kong people?" This has become the wish of most people in the country. People are therefore remembered for this sweet-looking, clean-sounding female singer.
In the autumn of 1969, Ai Jing was born in Shenyang, Liaoning Province. She is the eldest sister of the family of five, her father is good at ethnic instruments, and her mother sings very well.
Under the influence of the family environment, Ai Jing was exposed to music very early. With her unique talent, she has always been able to come out on top in Shenyang's major singing competitions. When she became famous at a young age, she felt that perhaps she should stand on the stage of Beijing and sing to the people of the whole country.
At the age of 17, she left home to run alone, and with her unique talent, she was admitted to the nationally famous Oriental Song and Dance Troupe at that time. After spending some time in the regiment, the restless genes worked in her body.
She said she took on a lot of "private jobs," which was to go out and record other records. As a result, she gradually became famous in major record labels.
While people admired the melodious sweetness of this female voice, many people were surprised to find that this girl even had a fascinating appearance. "Looks like Momoe Yamaguchi, laughs like Kurihara Komaru" was an evaluation of her by a director at the time, who later invited her to participate in the TV series "Love Demon".
Probably because of this relationship, a few years later, Ai Jing also participated in Zhao Benshan's TV series "Ma Dashuai", and achieved a lot of repercussions.
Soon, the girl reached the climax of her musical career, and she created her first album, "My 1997".
In an interview with "Six Roots" Wu Yunpu, she recalled that this album gathered almost half of the Beijing rock circle, not only Wang Di helped arrange the music, but also Zang Tianshuo played the piano, drum San'er, Liu Xiaosong played the drum, and even He Yong came to help from time to time.
This work made Ai Jing indisputably on fire, and her singing voice not only spread throughout the country, but also sold well in Japan. At that time, she became a well-deserved "folk sister" in China, and her music was between bright and deep, like a child and like a genius.
When her songs were sung in Japan, foreign journalists had ulterior motives in interpreting the political metaphors in her songs. And she said, "This song is a love song, a love song." And the twilight lover in the song is Liu Zhuohui, who wrote countless cross-burning lyrics for beyond.
In the classic record "School Ballad" that left "You at the Same Table", "Youth", and "Brother Sleeping on My Top Bunk", Ai Jing's voice was also left.
The song she performed was called "That Day", and this song was the work of the talented woman Jin Li. This song is heartfelt throughout the whole process, and has a unique charm that people will fall in love with as soon as they hear it.
The phrase in the lyrics, "Why do you say that friends are like water, why do you part, and why you laugh at the teenagers to see why they often remember in the future" has also become a sentence that students in that era often copied on the title page of their notebooks.
Fans call Ai Jing a "wandering swallow", and in her body you can always see a sense of wandering that other female singers do not have. She signed to Sony Records in Japan in 1996 and focused her career on the Japanese market. She said: "I can't repeat myself, I have to get out. ”
The fourth album, "made in china", was completed by Ai Jing in New York, and she devoted a lot of effort to this record. She used the word "love" for the first time in her own song, and she said that she loved her homeland from the bottom of her heart.
But at that time, she was in the midst of a wave of going abroad, and the authorities believed that her song "made in China" was unclear in meaning, so it did not pass the review.
This incident made Ai Jing very sad, and his own piece of sincerity was wasted in this way. So she put down her guitar, picked up a paintbrush, and used color to continue to express her inner world.
Perhaps such setbacks can bring her more strength, after more than ten years of training, her skills in painting have become more and more sophisticated, and now she has the ability to exhibit her works to any corner of the world.
At the end of 2011, Ai Jing picked up the guitar and brought her latest single "Lover" to fans, and she once again used the word "love" in the song.
Maybe she's destined to sing for "love"...
Suddenly found that the woman in the mv is no longer the "wandering swallow" she once was, and after experiencing the mainstream and marginalization of culture, she has become quieter.
Looking back at the road, she smiled and sang eloquently: "Please don't ask me what I have been through, as long as you hold me tightly." ”
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