More than 20 years ago, Hong Kong and Taiwan singers frantically poured into the mainland, their songs were both European, American and Japanese styles, their shapes were unique and personality, and they became the idols that people at that time frantically pursued.
Just when these Hong Kong and Taiwan singers occupied half of the mainland market, a folk singer from Sichuan joined the crowd with a song called "The First Snow of 2002", when the streets and alleys were full of his singing voices.
This singer is Dao Lang.
Recently, Dao Lang's fans updated the photos of Dao Lang and his beloved wife inviting fans to dinner, and there was a signed group photo activity during the banquet, without any publicity, without too many shots, and there was no star shelf at all.
From the photos, it can be seen that Daolang, who is over fifty years old, has a lot of blessings, and has been ridiculed by fans as "becoming more and more rounded"
Zhu Mei, his wife, who has spent 18 years hand in hand with Daolang, wears a gauze skirt and heavy makeup, and the sweetness of the two is not inferior to that of the couple in love, between career and love, Daolang chose the latter.
In fact, Zhu Mei was not Dao Lang's first wife, and Dao Lang's first marriage ended with his wife's farewell.
What exactly happened to make Dao Lang part ways with his ex-wife?
What did Daolang, who came from a poor background, compete with the Hong Kong and Taiwan singers who were popular in the mainland?
Where has Dao Lang, who has not been heard from in the past few years, gone?
Dao Lang's family is not rich, but his parents are very kind to him. He also had a cousin who studied composition, and under the influence of his cousin, he fell in love with instruments and arrangements, and his parents gave him a piano to encourage him to learn music.
At the age of 17, the family suddenly changed, and his only brother died in a car accident.
Perhaps it was the sudden departure of his brother that made Dao Lang realize the fragility and brevity of life, and he decided to leave home to realize his musical dream.
He left a note saying "I'm gone, go after my musical dreams" and left alone.
After leaving home, Dao Lang worked as a keyboard player in the dance hall, and he persuaded Liao Jian, the lead singer at the time, to form the band "Scalpel".
While Dao Lang became a well-known singer, he met the dancer Yang Na.
The two young men, both of whom liked art, appreciated each other's talents and confirmed their relationship.
Sometimes, love and ideals are the same, can not withstand the test of life, worthless in the face of reality, and there are many young people who choose the latter between love and bread, and choose to compromise with reality on the way to realize their dreams.
The band without background and backstage runs every day, but the income is minimal, and the members do not even have the most basic food and clothing.
Who wants to work when they don't have enough to eat?
Forced by the harsh reality, the band was forced to disband, and Daolang's musical dream died.
At this time, Daolang was shy, the blow of his career had not yet passed, the setbacks of love followed, and shortly after his wife Yang Na gave birth to her daughter, she left Daolang a note: You can't give me the life I want. After that, there was no news.
Many years later, daolang recalled the first relationship and said that people can't love too deeply, otherwise they are too easy to get hurt.
After experiencing the double whammy of career and life, life still has to go on, and reality will not give you time to grieve. Dao lang sorted out his mood and sang all the way from Sichuan to Hainan.
In 1993, Dao Lang founded the Band Sons of the Earth in Hainan, where he met a Xinjiang girl, his current wife, Zhu Mei.
If the ex-wife Yang Na left Daolang with a love wound, Zhu Mei is the angel who saved Daolang.
With the support of Zhu Mei, Daolang continued his music creation, produced many albums, but the sales were unbearable, and it was very optimistic to sell more than a thousand copies.
At that time, Dao Lang had been confused and wandering, but he was still reluctant to give up his musical dream.
In 2004, a song "The First Snow of 2002" suddenly became popular enough to make Daolang himself blindfolded, and the streets and alleys at that time were looping this song, and Daolang also became famous.
Dormant for many years, has been eager to achieve fame and success of the daolang for a while can not find himself, fortunately, his wife reminded him to keep a normal heart.
How hot was Daolang at that time?
Within a year, Daolang's albums sold more than 2.7 million genuine copies, and it should be noted that the records that sold more than 50,000 at that time were platinum records, and even pirated albums sold more than eight million copies.
At the premiere of Zhang Yimou's film "Ten Faces Ambush", Dao Lang was invited to help.
It's just a pity that there are not many people who are popular, and Daolang has been questioned and suppressed from the mainstream at the same time.
Na Ying, who shared the stage with The Mainland Singer Faye Wong, commented on Daolang: His songs do not have an aesthetic point of view, they are songs sung by farmers. Na Ying once made a big statement on the jury seat of "The Voice": If Dao Lang is on the Spring Festival Gala, I will smash the TV.
Wang Feng also complained that Daolang's songs only have sales in the countryside, records can sell so much, and the huge sales volume is simply sad in the music world.
In this regard, I just want to say that music has different styles, different realms, different inspirations, and different singers sing different songs, otherwise how can there be folk, pop, classical music?
If these "high-level" singers really love music, they should not only use their aesthetics to appreciate music, and the musical styles of Na Ying, Wang Feng and Dao Lang are not the same, since they cannot understand others, they should not deny others.
Being ridiculed by the singer of the palace level, Dao Lang was devastated, he did not know how to resist, he left a sentence, I am an ordinary person like everyone else, I think that what can resonate with people is good music, and there has never been a distinction between noble and lowly.
Dao Lang chose to leave.
Overnight red all over the country, overnight and fell to the bottom, when you are happy to maintain a normal heart, when frustrated to accept is the true meaning of life.
After the ups and downs of the entertainment industry, Daolang chose to quit the stage and turn to behind-the-scenes work
His love for music has never disappeared due to external doubts, he lives for music, no longer active on the stage, he hides behind the scenes to write songs and cultivate singers.
To say that Dao Lang's most famous disciple is Yun Duo.
The girl's grandparents had lived in the mountains for generations, and she had never even been to the county seat.
People in the village communicate in dialects, and Yun Duo can't even speak Chinese.
Yun Duo, who came out of the poor family as a teenager, came out to work to subsidize the family, had no academic qualifications, and could not even understand Mandarin, she could only wash dishes in restaurants, hand out leaflets on the street, and even the 1 yuan bus was reluctant to sit when it was the most painful.
God will open a window for you when he closes a door.
Heaven gave Yun Duo a good voice, she liked to sing, her singing voice was full of vitality, and she was recommended to Qin Wangdong by her friends.
Talented people love talent and cherish talent, Qin Wangdong appreciates Yunduo, but at that time he was more than sixty years old, and he had several positions, and he was really powerless to teach Yunduo.
But he was reluctant to give this good seedling, so he recommended it to his cousin Daolang.
At that time, Dao Lang, who was already single-mindedly cultivating apprentices behind the scenes, saw in the young cloud the shadow of his own dream of running away from home many years ago, also as a teenager.
Dao Lang did not know whether this young girl really loved music or was hot-headed, he and Yun Duo proposed an agreement to go to Xinjiang to study hard for 5 years, and you could leave at any time if it didn't last long.
Dao Lang first taught Yun Duo to speak Mandarin, and in 2006, he took Yun Duo to participate in the performance, and the two of them sang "Love is You and Me", and people were amazed by the high-pitched singing voice of the little girl next to Dao Lang, but Yun Duo still had no fame.
Three years later, Dao Lang tailored the song "My Love, Where Are You" for the disciples, which proves an old saying, three years without sound, a blockbuster.
Yun Duo completely entered the public eye with this song, and even the Spring Festival Gala threw an olive branch to her 4 times.
Yun Duo proved his determination to Dao Lang with his actions.
In the past five years, Dao Lang has given Yun Duo great help on the road of music, so that Yun Duo can have a place in the Chinese music scene, and has appeared in the Spring Festival Gala four times in a row.
Being able to go to the Spring Festival Gala is something that Dao Lang has not achieved in half a lifetime. When Yun Duo told master Daolang the news of the Spring Festival Gala, Daolang only replied with two words: effort.
Yes, learning is endless, and even gifted people who do not study hard can only waste their talents. Isn't there a saying that a point of hard work is a point of gain? Although sometimes effort does not necessarily yield gains, but not working hard is necessarily unproductive.
It is really inspiring that this girl in the mountains who has not even read high school can have today's achievements, and Yun Duo has once again proved Dao lang's strength and musical talent with her achievements.
For Dao Lang's retirement, Yun Duo once said: Master only wants to concentrate on making music, and being a simple musician, I am the same as master's dream.
People live only a short few decades, if you want to live meaningfully, you must realize your own value, have your own dreams, maybe the cruel reality may not allow you to achieve your dreams, but after hard work, there is nothing to regret.
Now Dao Lang has returned to his family, but his singing voice is still unforgettable, and I hope that in the future he can enjoy the joy of heaven and live a good life.