They sang in the song:
"I want to keep up with this era,
Even if the pace will be slower."
Author: Chen Jiali
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Take 4 people in their seventies and eighties on the high-speed rail, Dong Yunrong Be careful and careful.
87-year-old Grandpa Tian is not convinced of his old age and walks faster than everyone else. He can lose someone if he is not careful; 81-year-old Grandpa Hong’s wife just passed away and needs to take care of his emotions; the other two younger ones should remind them to bring antihypertensive drugs and reading glasses .
The most important thing is that Dong Yunrong herself is already 79 years old. In another year, if she wants to fly out for a performance, she will have to issue a certificate in the hospital before she can board the plane.
But it is such a team, wearing leather pants, vests, sunglasses, and guitar, and immediately "reborn".
"Rock Grandma" band, it's already started!
After retirement, Dong Yunrong lived out her own life completely. She studied guitar at the age of 64, and her cover of "Because of Love" was popular on the Internet at the age of 68, becoming a "vibrato grandma" that made Faye Wong "quivering" after listening to . Now, she has led a group of grandparents to start the " rock life", showing programs, recording MVs, and doing charity all over the country...
"Why do you work so hard? If you are not crazy, we will be 'older'." Dong Yunrong told the reporter of "Global People".
Practicing guitar hard
Dong Yunrong became popular because of the song "Because of Love" and first started learning guitar, which was also "because of love".
My wife was a teacher at Hangzhou University before. She also served as a teacher herself. The couple respected each other for life and had a good relationship. On the 30th anniversary of their marriage, they also took wedding photos.
Unfortunately, in 2005, his wife who had known each other for 37 years suddenly died of illness. Dong Yunrong was depressed for a long time and "stayed at home and hardly went out."
Until 2007, she saw a newspaper in the Senior Citizens University to open a guitar class. With the encouragement of her children, she brought a idle guitar at home and found her own stage at once.
"I liked music when I was young. I felt that playing guitar and singing can definitely forget a lot of worries."
started learning guitar in my 60s. It is conceivable how much effort Dong Yunrong has to put in.
"When I get older, I have a bad memory and can only rely on hard memorization. When I cut vegetables, I put the lyrics in the kitchen and recite them while cooking. Sometimes, pressing the chords with my hands makes it painful to wash vegetables."
Usually, she sends her granddaughter to school, and on the way, she also takes out a song score to memorize the chords. On the weekend, the granddaughter carried her schoolbag and she carried the guitar. The two went to the Children's Palace together. The child learned electronic piano inside, and she practiced guitar outside.
guitar class started with 30 people. At the end of the first semester, there were only 4 people left. Dong Yunrong persisted until the end.
Slowly, she was not satisfied with the simple cover, and she began to create herself.
"That winter, you looked at my eyes and said you would go first this time..." Because my wife liked to give her a blue scarf before she died. After learning guitar, Dong Yunrong wrote a song "Blue Scarf" to commemorate her wife.
·3Dong Yunrong often wears a blue scarf given by her husband.
"Many young people came to ask me, saying that guitar is so difficult, what should we do if we can't learn it? I told them that I started learning it at the age of 64 and can still learn it well, why can't you learn it?"
alone was not satisfied with playing guitar. She pulled her classmates at work together and started playing a band. Every time they rehearse, they are in "Quyuan Fenghe", one of the ten scenic spots in Hangzhou, and are named "Fenghe Guitar Team".
Become a "Internet celebrity"
In recent years, Dong Yunrong has always had a habit of setting up a selfie stand at home, recording while playing, and uploading it to the Internet to record his own progress.
·3Dong Yunrong's early singing works uploaded on the Internet platform.
Once, she uploaded Jay Chou’s " Rainbow " by , singing while playing, "How can I sleep if I can’t see your smile?" Netizens were surprised that an old lady of such an old age can hi and rap , and the number of clicks reached 270,000.
In 2011, Dong Yunrong released a self-singing and singing "Because of Love". Unexpectedly, this video was forwarded by Faye Wong and commented that "I trembled my heart when I sang it." In just one week, the number of video clicks exceeded 1 million.
Dong Yunrong instantly became an internet celebrity, known as the "vibrato grandma", and therefore appeared on the stage of " China's Got Talent Show ". On the
platform, she sang softly, and the song was melodious. The judge Yi Nengjing couldn't help but red her eyes: "Grandma Dong's singing is like the sound released from the phonograph many years ago, singing into people's hearts."
In May 2018, Dong Yunrong led the band to the stage of CCTV's "Avenue of Stars". This time, the director suggested that you try the rock style, "The contrast between the elderly singing rock songs is large, and the effect must be particularly great."
Sure enough, white hair, wrinkles, leather pants, sunglasses, electric guitar, mix, and a song "Blooming Life" is exciting to the audience.
In this way, the gentle "vibrato grandma" completely transformed and embarked on the road of rock and roll, and the band was also renamed "Rock Grandma Band".
After the broadcast of "Ball of Stars", Dong Yunrong and the band became famous. They went to various channels of CCTV alone five or six times, not to mention other local stations. Shandong TV, Shanxi TV, Hunan TV , etc. have all gone to sing.
"We have sang with Xiao Jingteng and . Liu Yifei and also came to take the initiative to take a photo with me. However, my favorite Jay Chou has never seen it..." Speaking of the stars I have seen, Dong Yunrong suddenly became a fanatical star chaser.
Holding this team
The band is getting more and more popular, but there are many things that make Dong Yunrong worry.
started to form a band in 2009. The main members have been replaced several times, and Dong Yunrong is the only one who is the veteran. If the waist is not good, the instrument cannot be played, and the legs and feet are not smooth. If someone is sick and uses a knife, she dares not pull others to practice.
Two years ago, the first group of members, the grandfather who played cello passed away. Dong Yunrong was sad for a while after learning about it.
Old music fans are coming and leaving. Dong Yunrong needs to constantly find suitable newcomers to fill it. "There are many people who can sing, but they can play and sing too little. They can't get on the stage without three to five years of hard work."
Once, I saw a grandfather standing there with a guitar on his back in the park. Dong Yunrong wanted to find a new team member and immediately asked the other party "where to practice". As a result, he was the guitar he carved for his son...
new team member came, and Dong Yunrong felt that she was not as tacit understanding as the old team member.
band lead singer Grandpa Hong is 81 years old this year. His wife died of illness. He has not participated in the event for more than a year. This time he went to CCTV to record the Double Ninth Festival party. He was worried that he would lose his chain if he didn't go on stage for too long. He practiced hard at home for a long time, and two strings were broken.
87-year-old Grandpa Tian was an English teacher before retirement and played accordion for more than 60 years. He is now the oldest member of the band. On the train to perform in another place, he got up at 5 a.m. to memorize the score, without feeling tired at all. He even joked that he was like a young man, and he could recover after being tired after rehearsals.
·333·On September 22, Dong Yunrong (second from left) took the band to participate in the recording of the Double Ninth Festival Gala on CCTV Variety Show Channel. The average age of the five team members was 74 years old. (The first one on the left is the 81-year-old lead singer, Grandpa Hong, and the first one on the right is the 87-year-old Grandpa Tian)
Compared with these old members, Dong Yunrong often has to worry more about bringing young players to the stage. "Some people are easily nervous when they come on stage. I tell them not to speak out when they forget the lyrics, for fear that they will play the chords incorrectly, and the microphone is always on my guitar."
However, the old group will withdraw sooner or later, Dong Yunrong still hopes to cultivate more young successors and often urge them to learn from the older generation. "The band that has persisted for more than 10 years cannot be easily disbanded. "
strives to keep up with the times
In the years since the band became famous, there have been agencies constantly coming to "sign" Dong Yunrong, but she feels that it is not for money or reputation for learning to sing, but only for a single thing. It is better to participate in charity more than once when there is time.
talk about the first time I came into contact with charity more than ten years ago, Dong Yunrong smiled He said that at that time, he "didn't know what it means to do charity."
At that time, at the invitation of a network platform organizer, she brought her little granddaughter and went to a blind school in Hangzhou with two other members of the band to perform.
The classroom was surprisingly quiet, and the blind students sat straight.
"No fragrance of flowers, no tree height, I am a grass that no one knows..." When the singing sounds, the students' lives The force was suddenly stimulated and followed it to sing. The atmosphere of
deeply touched Dong Yunrong. She discovered for the first time that playing guitar can help others.
After that, when there is happiness and music in the community, welfare home, orphanage, Dong Yunrong and the band members brought guitars and used their enthusiasm to infect more people.
·Dong Yunrong and band members participated in charity activities.
In recent years, more and more elderly people are almost out of touch with society because they don’t know how to use smartphones. Dong Yunrong and the others are also constantly hitting walls, but they are always studying hard. Everyone has a sudden inspiration, wrote their own experiences into the lyrics, and created "Song of the Blue Vest".
"With cash in hand, I want to rent it out, but I find that the times have changed. "I want to keep up with this era, even if I'll be slower. "Dong Yunrong hopes to use this song to encourage more elderly people to learn to use smartphones and keep up with the new era.
· "The Song of Blue Vest" was also made into an MV, and Grandma Dong and the band members are the protagonists.
In 2018, Dong Yunrong was awarded the title of "The Most Beautiful Elder in Hangzhou". In August this year, she was selected as "2022 Chinese Charity and Filial Piety Figure/Group".
Zhejiang Radio and Television Station is based on Dong Yunrong's story A micro-film was made, hoping to infect more elderly people and "surf" the trend of the times with a rock rhythm.
Many people envy Dong Yunrong's attitude towards life because they live out what they want when they are old.
As Hedgehog band sang in the song, "A generation will eventually grow old, but there will always be someone young." For Dong Yunrong, age and skin can grow old, and the soul and spirit will always be young.
Director Producer: Lu Hong
Monitoring: Zhang Jiankui
Editor: Xu Chenjing
Editor Review: Su Rui
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