In 2010, in a music festival, Daolang was nominated for "Top Ten Influential Singers in the Mainland" with his high popularity, but was belittled and ridiculed by some well-known singers.
A female singer of the Tiantian level said:
"Daolang's songs do not have an aesthetic point of view, and no matter how well they sell, they are not eligible to participate in the selection of 'The Most Influential Musical Figures of the Decade'."
A male rock singer even criticized: "The Daolang phenomenon is the sadness of Chinese pop music. ”
So, why is Daolang, who is loved by the audience, criticized by many professional singers?
From "extremely popular" to "disappearing", how much bitterness has Daolang experienced?
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On June 22, 1971, Daolang was born into an ordinary family in Sichuan, and his parents were engaged in literary and artistic work in the literary troupe.
Because his father's surname is Luo and his mother's surname is Lin, perhaps Xiu En'ai, he was named Luo Lin, and Daolang is his stage name.
When he was a child, his parents often performed outside, so his older brother, who was 5 years older than him, took on part of the responsibilities of his father as he grew up.
His brother has a hot temper, and as long as Daolang is slightly disobedient, he will punch and kick him, which also causes Daolang's introverted and taciturn personality when he was a child.
When Dao Lang was a child, he had no friends and could only go to the place where his parents worked, and he developed a strong interest in music in the face of a variety of instruments.
At the age of 8, his uncle discovered that he could play music according to the score without being taught, and his musical talent attracted the attention of his parents.
But in the 80s, learning music was an unattainable dream of ordinary children.
But his parents were very supportive, saving money and buying him an electronic keyboard to learn music.
After Dao Lang came into contact with the electronic keyboard, he frantically learned music knowledge and rarely contacted his peers, so he was often bullied in the class, and it was often his brother who took the blame for him.
Growing up, his brother became his father and brother.
When Dao Lang was fifteen years old, his brother brought back a girlfriend, and he respected and loved this "sister-in-law".
But one day, Daolang heard some gossip from his friend and learned that his sister-in-law had betrayed his brother, so the angry Daolang asked his brother to break up.
Daolang, who has always been silent and taciturn, had a fierce quarrel with his brother, but the mother, who did not know the reason, favored Daolang, and in the face of his eccentric mother, the brother slammed the door in anger.
Unexpectedly, a few days later, the news came that my brother had died in a car accident.
Dao Lang, who heard the news, was struck by lightning, and he felt that he had killed his brother.
It turned out that after the quarrel at that time, the brother was angry and did not take the key, and the brother who could not return home had a car accident while wandering the streets and unfortunately died.
In the following year, Dao Lang's spirit was highly tense, and he was originally introverted in the class, and he became the existence of a strange child.
The guilt of his brother's death, the bullying of his classmates, and the huge pressure made him step out of school and embark on the road of studying music.
Daolang, who has not yet graduated from high school, left a note for his parents and ran away from home.
In the eyes of his parents, this is a rebellious act of Daolang's youth and ignorance, but Daolang believes that this is his own redemption journey.
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With no education and no background, Daolang, who is only 16 years old, can only work as a waiter in a dance hall after running away from home.
Luckily, here, he came into contact with some friends who played music and learned some music knowledge.
In 1991, at this time, Dao lang and a few friends discussed forming a band, named "Scalpel", young and crazy, hoping to change themselves and change the world through music.
Slowly, in the dance hall in the city, they have a certain fame, and it is also at this time that Daolang met his first wife, Yang Na, and in the 3rd month of love, Fengzi got married.
After marriage, they gave birth to a daughter, and life was even more difficult.
The "Scalpel" band is only an amateur band, there is no professional team to operate, so although it is a little famous, the band earns less than 1,000 yuan per month.
Faced with this cold reality, the band members gradually recognized themselves, lost their former ambitions, and disbanded the band to go their own way.
And Daolang's wife Yang Na also left a sentence:
"You couldn't give me the life I wanted, and you left your daughter, who was more than 40 days old, and left him."
At that time, Daolang was poor and miserable, and could only live by singing in the dance hall, and his future was slim.
Unable to see the future, he contacted the band's friends at the time, entrusted the child to his parents, and began his wandering career like a gypsy.
Chengdu, which he did not want to go when he came, Tibet, the last paradise of Tibet, and Xi'an, the ancient capital of the Thirteen Dynasties, all left his footprints.
Eventually, in the coconut grove at the southernmost tip of his country, he stopped.
Here, a friend introduced that Dao Lang found a job with a monthly salary of 10,000 yuan and worked as a keyboard player in the band Children of the Earth.
Although his life has improved during his time as a keyboardist, the band's commercial performance after commercial performance has made him very confused, and he feels that music is not like this.
Dao Lang told his teammates that music is purer, not commercialized, but his teammates think he is an alien.
The stubborn Daolang quit his job and found a job that was not well paid but had creative freedom.
Fortunately, Daolang met his second wife, Zhu Mei, in Hainan.
Zhu Mei's attitude towards music is similar to Dao Lang's, so after learning about Dao Lang, Zhu Mei fell in love with this man with unique charm.
Zhu Mei has always had a different kind of confidence in Dao Lang's music, and even in order to support Dao Lang's music career, Zhu Mei gave up her career.
Although they are not rich in life, in spirit, they are each other's confidants, and in the days when they live together, they find the joy and meaning of life.
Later, Zhu Mei's mother fell ill, and Daolang followed Zhu Mei to Xinjiang, the second hometown that affected his life.
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Influenced by the strong Xinjiang style, Daolang gradually formed his thick, soul-piercing unique voice.
In the days of living in Xinjiang, Daolang was loved by the people of Xinjiang through excellent cover songs in Xinjiang.
But Dao Lang knows that as a musician, it is not qualified to just rely on cover songs.
Therefore, Dao Lang has always insisted on making the music he wants to make, and set up the Rollin Studio.
This also led to him being liked by the audience, but not helping his family life at all. Therefore, the whole family can only live in a small house of less than 10 square meters.
In 1999, Daolang's daughter Luo Haoyue was born to bring joy to the family, but in the face of heavy family pressure, Daolang had to face reality and bow to commercial music.
Some people say: talent is hungry. This sentence was placed on Dao Lang, which was exactly the lonely and poor life of these years, which made him have feelings for the songs he wrote next.
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In 2001, due to the advent of the Internet era, the Chinese music scene faced a major reform, and there was a huge conflict between traditional music and online music.
Taking advantage of the major reforms in the music scene and the benefits of previous work, Daolang released his first album.
But the album is a bit different, a hodgepodge of pop and traditional music.
It is conceivable that the response of this album is mediocre, and fate has once again given Dao Lang a blow.
Faced with a bleak future of self-creation and heavy family pressure, Daolang once lost confidence, and Zhu Mei's tolerance and support became the only driving force for him to persevere.
Daolang, who regained his confidence, ran to the library every day to learn systematic music knowledge, ran to the Gobi Desert, enjoyed the customs of nature, ran to the homes of Uyghur people, and learned the singing of mountain songs.
During this period: In the winter of 2002, Daolang went out to collect materials and encountered the musical elements he wanted in the "Daolang people", a branch of the Uyghur people.
Full of joy, I went home to create, just below the bus station "Eight Road" station, saw his wife waiting for him, and held her in his arms, and that day just happened to fall in Xinjiang's first heavy snow of the year.
Thus, the popular song "The First Snow of 2002" was born and is widely circulated to this day.
This song is the first peak of Dao Lang's creation, containing too much of his emotions, and this simple and unpretentious song has also resonated with countless listeners.
In 2003, Dao Lang, who had been precipitating for two years, once again published his own CDs "Western Love Songs" and "Silk Music Soul".
It was also at this time, in order to package themselves and better contact with the audience, the stage name "Daolang" came out.
In 2004, it was a year of fighting gods in the Chinese music industry, and major record companies released their aces: Jay Chou's "Qilixiang" and Lin Junjie's "Jiangnan", which were loved by the majority of fans.
It was also at this time that an album called "The First Snow of 2002" blew like a gust of wind from Xinjiang to the mainland.
The album sold more than 2.7 million genuine albums without any publicity, including more than 10 million pirated copies.
At that time, the album sales reached 50,000 platinum albums and 100,000 double platinum albums. Therefore, Daolang was able to achieve such results far beyond everyone's expectations.
Daolang's hoarse voice and subtle and restrained personality have not only been loved and supported by the audience, but also appreciated by many insiders.
The big director Zhang Yimou invited Daolang to participate in the premiere of "Ten Years of Ambush".
Tan Yonglin recommended DaoLang to his boss, causing Daolang to sign with Universal Music, the world's largest record label.
Andy Lau also said in public that Daolang's songs are full of emotion and are deeply loved by the public.
Dao Lang wanted to find a producer, and Song Ke invited Dao Lang to li Zongsheng of the godfather level.
When Li Zongsheng first met Daolang, he also felt that Daolang was an ordinary person, and he didn't understand why so many people liked Daolang.
But in order to get more support from Daolang and change the perception of some singers on Daolang, he decided to help Daolang change his image.
So Li Zongsheng invited a foreign DJ to produce a second album for Daolang, but unfortunately, the second album sold dismal.
Li Zongsheng and Dao Lang also finally understood that Dao Lang had his own style, and he only needed to go his own way.
In the following years, Dao lang continued to compose his own music along his own path.
In this way, Daolang, who insisted on his own path, did not participate in activities after the explosion, did not vigorously promote himself, and even some important activities, Daolang only wore a duck-tongue hat, covered half of his face with a trench coat, and was unwilling to overexposure himself.
What is more interesting is that at that time, there was a singer named Pan Xiaofeng, who had been tepid before.
However, since the name "Yuyu Daolang", the albums released have directly sold 400,000 copies.
A reporter even stole a colleague's interview diary and unpublished article about Daolang and sold it to a publisher, and then a book called "Who is Daolang" sold well nationwide.
The third Daolang is a singer from Xinjiang, Elken, in 2002 he released an album "Daolang Out of the Desert", has been unintentional, after the Daolang burst into flames, he took it out to sell, and also obtained good results.
Dao Lang was unknowingly involved in a Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which forced Dao Lang to go out of the mountain by himself and let the audience know himself. You can imagine how hot Daolang was at that time.
However, Daolang's explosion in the mainland and the album's ability to absorb gold have made major record companies very dissatisfied.
As a result, many well-known singers began to criticize Daolang. So there is the opening scene.
All kinds of insults and ridicule against him filled the mainland entertainment circle, making his musical road extremely bumpy.
In 2019, Daolang won the "Five One Project" award for the construction of national spiritual civilization with the song "Family".
In 2012, he won the award again with the song "Love is You and Me", and won this award twice in a row, which is rare in the entire Chinese music scene.
However, these awards did not bring more popularity to Daolang, but more and more doubts about Daolang came from the outside world.
Slowly, the doubts turned into criticism: Daolang's lyrics were too explicit and vulgar; Daolang's songs were only sung by migrant workers in KTV.
There are even well-known singers who say: If Daolang goes to the Spring Festival Gala, she will smash her own TV.
In 2018, the Spring Festival Gala really invited Daolang, but Daolang refused the invitation of the other party with a sentence: "I will still be red if it is not red".
More and more questions and criticisms, Dao Lang did not care at first, but felt that no one would make everyone like him. This part of the population should be only a minority.
But he did not expect that more and more people questioned him, and it became a social phenomenon.
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"I'm not ready to be famous"
Dao Lang, who calmed down, understood that his personality was not suitable for the entertainment industry, and in the face of the conflict in the music world, he really did not have the ability to deal with it. After becoming famous, it did not bring much happiness and a sense of accomplishment to Dao lang.
In Dao Lang's eyes, he is still the one who just wants to express his feelings with music.
So in 2011, Dao Lang disappeared from the public eye after singing twelve "Thank You" tours.
After Dao Lang withdrew from the song world, many people continued to criticize him, thinking that he was Jiang Lang's talent, embarrassed to mix in the song world, and chose to retire.
On this point, Dao Lang responded in the interview: "Maybe it is because of personality, I always feel that this is not the life I want."
Today's Dao lang is the age of "knowing the destiny of heaven", from 2011 to the present, except for accompanying his apprentice Yun Duo on the show, he has hardly seen him.
It wasn't until October 2020 that he finally waited for his 7-year-old album "Playing Words", and some time ago he released the album "Everyone in the World".
However, in this ever-changing entertainment industry, the two albums did not stir up much waves, but for those who like him, these two albums are Daolang's best results.
Throughout Daolang's life, he has experienced great ups and downs, but he still insists on his heart, just like his dream: I just want the whole family to eat and wear warm, and then I can always write my music.
In everyone's life, there will be a storm whirlpool, different is the size of this whirlpool.
Although the world gave him a lot of pain and suffering, he still felt a lot happier.