In this mixed entertainment circle, stars who rely on hype to catch fire abound.
They have a very strong team behind them, but very few of them fight alone.
There was once a presence in the Chinese music scene that could not be ignored, and the songs he composed were well known to all ages.
This is reminiscent of the classic representative of that era, Dao Lang.
Speaking of Daolang, it can be said that it is a symbol of an era in the Chinese music scene.
His singing voice is hoarse and vicissitudes, and his unique smoky voice reveals a sense of sadness and desolation.
Listening to Dao Lang's song, it is like following him through one story after another.
After crossing the vastness of the Gobi Desert, I felt the romance of soft intestines and experienced the vicissitudes of the world for a hundred years.
In 2004, Dao Lang's song "The First Snow of 2002" directly broke the highest play record in the music industry.
Without any publicity, it exploded overnight.
However, in the place of right and wrong in the entertainment industry, there will naturally be many people who are "red-eyed" and feel that Daolang has robbed his job.
Dao lang became the top stream from the initial explosion, and finally was "besieged and excluded" by his peers in the music circle.
What is difficult to understand is that the same are all music singers, why do they have to distinguish between "high and low"?
But the story of the deep knife lang in that year, only to know that there is a sad story behind every song.
So where has Dao lang gone all these years?
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In 1971, Daolang was born into a family of four in Neijiang, Sichuan.
At that time, he was not yet called Daolang, and his parents named him Luo Lin.
Dao Lang's parents both worked in the literary troupe, so Dao Lang has been interested in art since he was a child.
For Dao lang's hobby, his parents are also very supportive, so he saved a long time to buy him an electronic keyboard.
However, his parents were away all year round and work was very busy, so when he was a child, Daolang was brought up by his brother who was 5 years older.
The feelings of the brothers are very good, as long as Daolang is bullied outside, the brother will stand up for him.
But at the same time, the brother was also quite harsh on Daolang.
As long as Dao Lang is disobedient or naughty, his brother will solve the problem by force.
Therefore, when he was a child, Daolang loved and hated his brother.
When Dao Lang was 15 years old, his brother brought his girlfriend home.
However, Dao Lang heard from elsewhere that his brother's girlfriend was a person with a rich love history and an unruly style.
When he got home, the young Daolang felt that he had seized the opportunity, and began to laugh at his brother, and pointed at him: Wear a green hat.
This kind of insulting vocabulary overwhelmed the elder brother as an elder, and he fought with his younger brother.
After the parents knew, they felt that their brother had bullied Daolang, so they scolded their brother.
After this fierce quarrel, the brother slammed the door in a huff.
However, the sky is unpredictable, and people have bad luck.
Within a few days, I received the news that my brother had been in a car accident and died on the spot.
After his brother's death, the family was deeply saddened, and Daolang blamed himself very much, thinking that he had killed his brother.
The mother was also very desperate, and from then on the house no longer locked the door, and repeatedly instructed Daolang:
"Your brother was in too much of a hurry when he left, he didn't take the key, so don't lock the door."
This is really very painful, I have not experienced a white-haired person sending a black-haired person, it may be difficult to empathize.
And Dao Lang was also caught in self-blame every day and night.
Originally, he had no friends before, and he became more introverted and did not like to express himself every day with his brother.
So in the second year, Daolang chose to give up his studies and leave his hometown to pursue his musical dreams.
He left only a note for his parents that read: I'm going to chase my musical dreams, don't look for me.
In the eyes of others, this is Daolang's willfulness, but only Daolang himself understands that this is his salvation.
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That year, Dao Lang was sixteen years old and began his wandering life.
Dao Lang without academic qualifications, coupled with an introverted personality, this way to say how difficult it is.
After leaving home, Daolang has been to many places, Chengdu, Chongqing, Xi'an and even Tibet.
He sang on the streets of Chengdu and worked as a keyboardist in a song hall.
In 1989, Dao Lang and a few like-minded friends formed a band called Scalpel.
But the band singing in the bar is not enough to feed five people, and the monthly income is only 1,000 yuan.
Even the problem of food and clothing is difficult to solve. So, it didn't take long for the band to disband.
However, Dao Lang, whose career has not improved, has made rapid progress in his feelings.
Dao Lang met his first wife in his life, Yang Na.
Yang Na is a dancer who had a failed marriage before meeting Dao Lang.
Dao Lang saw Yang Na and fell in love with her at first sight and launched a fierce pursuit.
However, Yang Na, who had just suffered a marriage failure, obviously could not accept Daolang immediately.
In this way, Dao Lang comforted Yang Na by her side every day, making her out of her sadness, so the two gradually came together.
Yang Na is a person who covets wealth and wealth, and she feels that Daolang is a person who has no appearance.
However, just when he wanted to break up, he found that he was already pregnant with Daolang's flesh and bones.
Therefore, the two of them married their sons.
In 1991, Yang Na gave birth to a daughter to Daolang and named her: Luo Tian.
But who could have imagined that 40 days after the birth of the child, Yang Na chose to leave.
Dao Lang Xiang was crazy and asked all his relatives and friends that there was no news of Yang Na.
It wasn't until three months later that Dao Lang received a call from Yang Na to break up.
Dao Lang was difficult to accept for a while, so he created a song called Child.
The lyrics of this song are quite touching, and Dao Lang is also quite heart-wrenching when singing.
It was enough to see how much of a blow Yang Na's departure had brought to Dao Lang.
Some people may scold Yang Na's ruthlessness, but it has to be said that
If it were not for Yang Na's departure, Dao Lang would not have created so many excellent songs.
Perhaps because of the pain of married life, the songs written by Dao Lang are always different.
The band disbands, his wife leaves, and Daolang, who suffers a double whammy, is disheartened, but life goes on.
So, after entrusting his daughter to his parents, he embarked on the journey to Hainan alone.
In Hainan, everything went much smoother than at the beginning.
Here he re-formed a band called Children of the Earth.
Summing up the experience of the previous band, this time he did it very successfully, and the band is also very famous in Hainan.
Here Dao lang also met the person who accompanied her all her life, this girl named Zhu Mei.
Economically, Daolang has a good material foundation and the love of his wife Zhu Mei spiritually.
At this time, Daolang is not too much to describe as a "winner in life".
However, in this happy material life, Dao Lang always felt that he was just concerned about making a living, but he forgot his original intention of making music.
For the pure and sincere music in his heart, Dao Lang desperately chose to leave the "Children of the Earth" band.
Fortunately, Zhu Mei attaches great importance to Daolang's talent and is very supportive of Daolang's dream of pursuing music.
Subsequently, the two returned to Zhu Mei's hometown of Xinjiang.
This is a place where countless people yearn for freedom, and it has also become a place where Daolang realizes his ideals.
Xinjiang, a city with a great regional style, allowed Daolang to gradually find his own musical style.
But he didn't want to go with the flow, he just wanted to do his favorite music.
Then Dao Lang set up his own studio and began to release albums, but sales have been very dismal.
In particular, the sales of the first album "Xinjiang Original First Strike" were only 2,000 copies, which made Daolang very hurt.
But this was not the first time he had failed, so Dao Lang quickly perked up.
Fortunately, at this time, there was a record company that admired Daolang, and Daolang, who had nothing, could only choose to sign.
After signing the contract, he began to try to change the style of his songs, and the popular "Western Love Songs" was created at that time.
It was also in this year that the company changed his name from the original Rollin to Daolang.
Until 2004, "The First Snow of 2002" turned out to be a complete hit for this grassroots singer.
For a time, Dao Lang's album became the sales champion of video stores across the country.
That year, Dao Lang's genuine album sold 2.7 million copies, you know, Jay Chou's "Qilixiang" only reached 2.6 million copies worldwide.
If it is a pirated album, Daolang's is even more than ten million copies.
As a result, the records of professional singers can not sell grassroots singers has become a hot topic of discussion.
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There are not many people who are popular, and they are not wrong at all.
After becoming popular, Daolang has been controversial, and everyone's evaluation of his songs has always been "two-level differentiation" is more serious.
The famous singer Andy Lau and Li Jian believe that Daolang's songs are very sincere and can drive the inner world of the masses.
The Central Propaganda Department also awarded the "May Day Project Award" to Daolang twice to highlight his contributions to culture and art in the field of music.
Similarly, the big director Zhang Yimou also invited Daolang to participate in the premiere of the movie "Ten Faces Ambush".
However, Dao Lang is very out of place among many celebrities.
In Dao Lang's heart, in fact, he didn't want to be popular at all, he just wanted to be a singer with three or four lines.
He was always unnatural when it came to interviews, and he felt as if he were being tied down.
Dao Lang believes that the public should be more concerned about the music itself, rather than some insignificant private matters.
Their own works can be seen by everyone and known by more people.
He insisted on making his own music, so he also touched the interests of many people.
A grassroots singer crushed most of the Chinese music scene, which will naturally cause dissatisfaction among many singers.
They banded together to squeeze Dao Lang out and try to drive him away from the music scene.
After the explosion of "The First Snow of 2002", Wang Feng publicly expressed his views.
He believes that Daolang's popularity is completely a manifestation of the sadness of the Chinese music scene.
Whether from a professional point of view or from the perspective of creative strength, Dao Lang's works themselves are very ordinary.
Dao Lang's success is entirely dependent on the continuous hype of the media, and if there is no vicious speculation, he will not be on fire at all.
Not only that, Wang Feng also said that part of the reason why Daolang can be popular is because he has adopted the sales method of "rural encirclement of the city".
The audience has listened to enough exquisite music, and suddenly this kind of music in the form of a rural group will make everyone feel very fresh.
Isn't Wang Feng a person who belittles the rural class? Do you think rural people only deserve to listen to this kind of music?
Wang Feng's speech seemed to have taken the lead.
Subsequently, Yang Kun also directly insulted Daolang and unabashedly commented on Daolang's works.
In an interview, it was also unabashedly said: Daolang's music, is that music?
He also said that he did not understand music, his songs could only be regarded as nostalgic, and listening to his songs could only be heard as pale and powerless,
And Na Ying, as the eldest sister of the Chinese music scene, is even more blunt about Daolang's music.
In 2010, Daolang was nominated for "Most Influential Singer of the Decade" in the Music Chart with his high popularity.
However, as a judge, Na Ying strongly opposed Dao Lang's selection.
Her reasoning was that Daolang did not have an aesthetic point of view, and the work lacked musicality.
It even claims that the people who order daolang songs in KTV are farmers.
Na Ying would rather leave this award vacant than give the award to Dao Lang.
In the end, only nine of the top ten influential people were awarded that year.
Na Ying even made a big fuss in a variety show: "Dao Lang went to the Spring Festival Gala, and I smashed the TV." ”
Later, Daolang did receive an invitation to the Spring Festival Gala, but was rejected by Daolang.
For a time, all the pressure of public opinion came to Daolang's body, and some derogatory words came to the face: old soil, not on the table.
In the face of these doubts and incomprehensions, Dao Lang almost collapsed.
In fact, Dao Lang is also self-aware, he knows that he alone cannot compete with these so-called musical predecessors.
He was just a "simple" music maker and didn't want to think of himself as a "star" on top.
It's such a singer who insists on making music in his heart,
In 2012, after the end of the last concert tour, it gradually faded from the public's vision.
The sudden disappearance of Daolang once attracted the attention of the majority of netizens.
But he had no agency or record label, and no one knew where he went.
Therefore, there are many suspicions about the current situation of Daolang.
Previously, Daolang sued his friend Yang Zhuoma in court for copyright issues, and Daolang received a compensation amount of 250,000 yuan.
Some netizens speculated that Daolang was in financial difficulties, and even his former friends sued in court.
But Dao Lang understands how important his music copyright is,
But it's also sad that my former friends have gotten to this point.
There are also people who speculate that Daolang can't withstand too much controversy and is psychologically depressed.
However, this is just speculation after dinner, and there is no evidence at all.
As he once said:
"I don't know how to be red, how not to be red can still be done."
Like it or question it, it doesn't matter, because we will eventually be forgotten by everyone. ”
I have to say that Dao Lang is really sober in the world.
The disappearance of Daolang is worth regretting for us, but for Daolang it may be another kind of freedom.
In the end, I couldn't help but sigh: the stars of Zi Yanhong were singing falsely, but the real singers were wandering.
Although there is no longer a daolang in the jianghu, there is still a legend of daolang.