Recently, a new issue of "The Voice of China" has been launched. In the blind selection stage, we saw the figure of mentor Na Ying again, which was her eighth time as a mentor on the stage of this singing competition; not only that, in April this year, she also participated in the recording of "Sister Riding the Wind and Waves Season 2", and successfully formed a group with the first place.
Na Ying became famous in the late 1980s, and was popular for more than thirty years; not only her parents were familiar with her songs, but also the songs produced in recent years were widely sung among young people.
Nowadays, she is also favored by major variety shows, and her exposure on TV and online platforms is no less than that of some traffic idols, which can be said to be the real evergreen tree of the song world.
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So, how was the status of Na Ying's big sister in the song world refined? Speaking of which, her path to fame also has an interesting history.
Na Ying has loved singing since she was a child, and when she was a child, she was the lead singer of the Shenyang Children's Choir. In 1983, at the age of 16, after taking the exam three times, she was finally admitted to the dream Shenyang Song and Dance Troupe and started her own singing career.
At that time, just in time for Taiwanese singer Su Rui's "Hitchhiking Movie Soundtrack" to become popular in China, the streets and alleys were singing "if the wine is dry and sell nothing", and the stage of the singers imitating Teresa Teng came to an end, and instead imitated Su Rui's singing voice, and Na Ying also became one of them.
In 1988, Na Ying participated in the "Sunshine Cup" Young Singer Competition, won the appreciation of musician Gu Jianfen by singing a cover of Su Rui's "I Find Myself", was accepted as a student, and began his singer career.
In the days that followed, Na Ying almost sang Su Rui's songs over and over again, and also produced a lot of cover cassettes. In order to sell cassettes, the record company gave Na Ying various stage names, Su Bing and Su Ran, to rub Su Rui's heat.
So we saw that on the cover of the tape at that time, Su Rui's name was written in a big way, and the cover was Na Ying, who was wearing sunglasses and imitating Su Rui's shape, and Su Ran, as Na Ying's stage name, was placed in a small corner.
Now looking at these operations is really tearful and laughable, and even suspected of deceiving consumers. But Na Ying relied on these "cottage" cassettes at that time, rubbing Su Rui's fame, coupled with good singing skills, and really broke out of some famous halls, known as "Little Su Rui".
After Na Ying became famous, she did not shy away from her own cottage history, and very frankly said that her musical enlightenment was Su Rui, and her imitation was most similar to Su Rui, and singing Su Rui's songs was a sign of her embarking on the musical road.
In 2004, Su Rui came to Beijing to hold a concert, invited Na Ying to be a guest, and the two sang a song "If the wine is dry and sells nothing".
For his act of rubbing Su Rui's fame in the first place, Na Ying has always felt guilty. But that day, Su Rui took Na Ying's hand and said, "The first time I heard Na Ying sing, I was touched by her voice." At that time, I firmly believed that I was only her temporary imitation object, and one day, she would no longer be 'Su Bing' and would sing her own piece of the world. ”
As it turns out, Na Ying did.
Many young friends who have only heard Na Ying sing "Mo" must not have thought that Na Ying's famous work at that time was a northwest wind folk song called "Mountain Ravine".
At the end of the 1980s, while the national culture was confident and rising, the local consciousness of mainland pop music also began to awaken, people were no longer satisfied with cover songs and imitations of Hong Kong, Taiwan and European and American music, and began to try to make their own voices, and a northwest wind full of local characteristics was blown on the music scene.
During that time, the two most popular songs were called "Xintianyou" and "Loess High Slope", and Na Ying also followed the trend of the times, composed by Chen Xiaoqi and composed by Bi Xiaoshi, and tailored this "Ravine" for her. You can poke the video to feel it, full of local atmosphere, but with the unique power of that era.
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"Ravine" made Na Ying a little fire, becoming a real famous song since her debut, and even entered the annual top ten golden songs in Hong Kong, China, and later accompanied her on the stage for a long time.
In 1990, at the "Asian Games Prelude" party that raised funds for the Beijing Asian Games, Na Ying won the "National Radio" selection champion and the "National Young Singer Newcomer Award" with a song "Mountains Don't Turn Around". This time, her voice was finally heard by more people, and the gentle and high-pitched tune of this song has become a kind memory in the hearts of a generation.
At this time, although Na Ying has become popular with two masterpieces and the name of "Little Su Rui", she can only be called a "party" singer at most.
What does that mean? After the first Spring Festival Gala was held, a wave of evening parties was set off all over the country, and when encountering any festive festival, a party would be organized to celebrate, and this required singers to perform the scene, so the prototype of the popular singing commercial performance market was formed. Singers participating in such evenings are called "walking holes", which is now commercial performances.
At that time, as a second-tier singer behind Mao Amin, Wei Wei, Tian Zhen and other popular singers, Na Ying could only make more money if he wanted to make more money, so he became a regular visitor to these commercial performance evenings. Unlike those commercial performances with mature mechanism constraints now, the singer's cave walk was not so smooth.
Sun Yue once talked about Na Ying's "cave adventure" on the show, once after the performance was asked by the organizers to accompany the dinner, Na Ying was unwilling, so he hid and ran, it was difficult to hit the car, the organizers will also drive behind the chase, staged a "life and death speed".
As we all know, Na Ying is a big grinning, straightforward Northeastern woman.
But in order to further develop in the Chinese music scene, she had to be forced to transform, playing a tender little woman, and singing those tender love songs with the big voice that imitated Su Rui earlier.
Before that, Na Ying had been crushed by his fellow disciple Mao Amin.
Not only in the status of the music scene, in the mind of the teacher Gu Jianfen, Mao Amin also got more favoritism. Gu Jianfen believes that Mao Amin's voice is more atmospheric, and he has written more songs to Mao Amin to sing, while Na Ying, for a long time, can only sing small samples for Mao Amin, and he also had a temper tantrum with the teacher.
But with the advent of the record era, the identity status of the two has quietly been reversed.
In 1993, Mao Amin signed with Hong Kong Huaxing, and Na Ying signed with Taiwan Fumao. It seems to be the same starting point, but the ending is very different.
Mao Amin's "Throwing Handkerchief", whether it is the shape or the singing voice, the style has changed suddenly, completely imitating the Hong Kong-style singing voice at that time. It should be known that At that time, Mao Amin was already an officially recognized famous singer in the mainland, and this extreme transformation instantly caused a huge controversy. Teacher Gu Jianfen said bluntly: Mao Amin sang "Lost Handkerchief" and lost himself. Even Eastern Time and Space criticized her transformational style.
At this time, Na Ying was also forced to transform, and the original grinning ravine girl was packaged by the Taiwan Record Company as a gentle lady with long hair and fluttering hair and a small family jasper, and at first Na Ying was very uncomfortable, and even wiped tears during the recording.
But apparently, crying didn't affect her good fortune. Her second album, recorded during the Fu Mao period, went viral.
This album is called "The Black of Day and Night", the song fully demonstrates her solid singing skills, wide vocal range, and delicate emotional processing skills, once released, not only opened the Taiwan market, but also let the mainlanders know a new Na Ying.
Since then, the earthy girl who sang "Ravine" has transformed into a generation of love songs. In 1997, Na Ying signed a contract with EMI Records, officially transforming from a party singer to a well-known professional record singer.
But the song "Ravine", which is full of local characteristics, will always be the most distinctive mark of her singing career. Not only for Na Ying, but also for the entire Chinese music scene, the "Northwest Wind" that now sounds earthy and uninhibited is also of great significance. It set off a collective creative climax of mainland pop music, and was the beginning of mainland pop music forming its own original scale and beginning to explore the development path independently.
In this week's update of the "History of Chinese Music Cultivation: Multi-dimensional Analysis of Pop Music" course, we focused on the "Northwest Wind" that swept the country in the late 1980s. Why is it that in the era of disco domination and reform and opening up in southern China, popular culture is brought to the rhythm by this native northwest wind? What kind of magic does a song "Loess High Slope" have to make the whole people sing? Welcome to unlock the course to find the answers