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"The first snow in 2002 came later than before."
Daolang , a singer we are both familiar with and unfamiliar with. The snow in 2002 made him the top star. His influence at his peak was no less than that of Jay Chou , Jolin Tsai and others. After the popularity became popular, he chose to retire.
Many people questioned his song "rustic", "vulgar", "low-style" and "untasteful" . For a while, he was ridiculed by the crowd and overwhelmed by negative reviews. However, since his debut, many people still play the song "Impulsive Punishment" when they suffer from emotional injuries.
grassroots Daolang was pushed into the spotlight by the wave of the times. He went from being cramped, panicked, exhausted to being discouraged and left silently.
Is a musician destined to be "isolated"? He used his own experience to tell us: there is no accident of success overnight, only natural inevitable.
1. The runaway caused by an accident
Daolang's musical talent cannot be separated from the influence of the family environment. he grew up in a literary and artistic family in Sichuan Zizhong . His father was responsible for stage design and lighting in the art troupe, and his mother was a dancer.
My parents have been performing in other places all year round. He and his brother live at their grandparents' house. Their childhood was accompanied by longing and tears.
The separation from his parents made him a lonely and insecure child, with a withdrawn and taciturn character.
However, when facing music, he is like becoming another person.
12 That year, Daolang could already understand the music score. Without anyone teaching, he would play chords with three fingers. found some comfort in this pure land of music and determined to become a singer when he grew up.
First of all, the parents poured cold water on his dreams. His own experience tells them that artistic pursuit is based on money and is unrealistic for ordinary families.
Maybe even Daolang himself did not expect that what really made him decide to leave home and pursue his dream was an accident.
When his parents performed outside, his brother took on the role of his father. He has a straightforward personality and strict discipline. After his younger brother fought with his classmates outside, he returned home with a bruised nose and a swollen face. He always found that group of people at the first time to "make justice."
However, in the end, they would close the door and "teach a lesson" to their younger brother. The overly rude education method made the young Daolang unable to accept it, and he felt resentment in his heart. even knelt on the ground and begged God to let his brother die.
by chance heard from outsiders about his rich love history of his brother’s girlfriend. He seemed to have waited for the long-awaited opportunity to take revenge, and put the needless cuckold on his brother’s head. The two brothers started a fierce fight because of this.
The mother, who was unknown, spoke to her younger brother. Finally, her brother was angry and slammed the door and left without even getting the key.
has never come back after leaving, and a car accident took away this live life.
Daolang looked at the cold corpse at the scene of the car accident and was so scared that he trembled all over. He thought that the poisonous oath had come true and he became the "culprit" who killed his brother.
When he was keeping his mind in the funeral home, he was indifferent to his steps, fear, guilt, self-blame, and resentment. Various emotions were piled up in his heart and could not be removed after more than 20 years.
After the brother passed away, the background color of the family turned gray, and the father became even taciturn and just smoked silently. His mother kept instructing Daolang to not lock the door when leaving home, so that the brother who did not have the key could go home.
In the end, Daolang could not bear this depressing living environment. At the age of 17, he left a farewell letter at his mother's bedside and chose to go far away and embark on the road to pursuing his dreams.
2. "Impulse Punishment"
From every song by Daolang, it seems that the footprints of his life can be traced, and "Impulse Punishment" represents that short marriage.
After leaving home, Daolang went to the Sichuan Neijiang Song and Dance Group to learn from his skills. Then he traveled to Xi'an, Tibet, Chengdu, Chongqing and other places, accumulating a lot of creative inspiration in the wanderings, and also met a group of like-minded friends.
They are full of passion for music and are eager to do something. people have created a band called "Scalpel", hoping to dissect society like the music of idol Luo Dayou .
Ideals are full, reality is skinny. Due to economic pressure, the band disbanded after barely maintaining for two years, and the members go their separate ways.
When Daolang was most depressed, love came. The other party was a dancer named Yang Na . Two young people who had a good impression of each other quickly got together. Not long after they fell in love, they entered the palace of marriage and gave birth to a daughter after marriage.
After the passionate love, what awaits them was the real life's food, rice, oil and salt. 40 days after the child was born, Yang Na left a note and left, which read: "You can't give me the happiness I want."
For a long time, he was immersed in the sadness of broken heart, and used alcohol to numb himself. He once thought that he would never love again in this life. until Zhu Mei's appearance made his heart stir again.
Rather than calling Zhu Mei a partner, they are confidants, without too much words. is just a look, and they understand each other. They appreciate each other and make an appointment to spend the rest of their lives together.
Soon, the first test of their relationship came. Zhu Mei's mother was ill. She needed to go back to her hometown, Xinjiang to live a stable life. I hope her boyfriend can walk with her.
At that time, Daolang still wanted to develop in Beijing, but he could not withstand his girlfriend's persuasion. He followed Zhu Mei to Xinjiang with his "love brain".
The endless Gobi Deserts, deserts and oasis made Daolang feel the long-lost sense of belonging. Every inch of land is particularly close, as if he had lived here for the last life.
Going to Xinjiang seems to be the most correct decision he has ever made in his life, because here, he ushered in the peak of his career.
3. The birth of "The Prodigal Son in the Western Regions"
Xinjiang brought Daolang not only psychological enrichment, but also infinite creative inspiration. He set up a personal studio here and devoted all his energy to music. The next year, the song " The First Snow in 2002 " became popular.
This snow came vigorously and swept across China . Immediately afterwards, songs such as " Lover ", "Impulse Punishment" and were released one after another. The name Daolang was well-known for the first time.
2004 was a year when Chinese music scene bloomed.
Jay Chou's "Qi Li Xiang", Xu Wei's "Once Upon a Time" by Wang Xinling's "Love You" by JJ Lin's " Jiangnan ", Pang Long 's " Two Butterflies ", , different styles, each song is a classic.
Daolang's arrival made them mess up. Without any publicity, the sales of album reached 2.7 million! (excluding pirated sales) , and Jay Chou's album "Qi Lixiang" just exceeded 2.6 million.
At that time, mobile phone ringtones became popular, and it cost 2 to 3 yuan to download a song. The three songs "Love", "Impulse Punishment" and "The First Snow in 2002" downloads reached 8 million times.
After nearly ten years of polishing, the snow completely pulled Daolang out of his troubles. Countless performance invitations, cheering applause for it, and singing throughout the streets and alleys. This success made him excited for several months.
After excitement, fear and fear followed.
First of all, it is the impetuousness of not being able to calm down and do things. Because of the company's requirements for stable development, in this album, some are their own original works, and some are from folk song covers. has previously had seniors who collected folk songs, who commented on their names in the compiled songs and were misunderstood by their compatriots. He was afraid of repeating the same mistakes.
Daolang's greater pressure comes from industry controversy and public opinion violence.
think that there are many people who have rustic and vulgar songs. Yang Kun said in an interview: "Do he have music?" Na Ying said: "He does not have an aesthetic point of view," and the saying is widely circulated on the Internet: "The people who listen to Daolang's songs are farmers."
The more popular he was at that time, he was scolded as cruelly. In that era when the Internet was not yet developed, Daolang had already tasted the taste of being raped by the Internet. After reading the negative comments, he felt uncomfortable and was thinking about the future music direction.
7 years old, he could resolutely run away from home for his dream of music. After the first marriage failed, he had the courage to take his daughter to the world without any fear. But this time, all he left was helplessness and at a loss.
Daolang even had suspicion of himself. In the studio, when he heard the "First Snow in 2002" playing in the opposite block, was actually disgusted.
This time, he chose to escape, return to Xinjiang, and live in seclusion in a small town more than 30 kilometers away from Urumqi, away from the troubles of the world, simple and free.
Until 2008, at a critical moment in the country, Daolang delivered a satisfactory answer.
4. The indissoluble bond with his apprentice yunduo
In the past few years, Daolang has been silently doing his own creations. His once ups and downs have given him a new understanding of society. From childhood to great love, from individual to country, he broke through the shackles of past love songs and began to pay attention to society.
He wrote to Wenchuan disaster victims "Chinese Children" and "My Love", and also created the song " Thank You " for fans, and " Huang Rose " was written for his daughter, and he also composed and sang for the Olympics.
In 2012, he was invited to attend a concert in Hong Kong and was on the same stage with Andy Lau , Nicholas Tse , Jacky Cheung and others. After this time, he completely disappeared from everyone's sight.
When I saw Daolang appear again, he had changed his appearance. His familiar baseball cap disappeared, replaced by a shiny bald head and a fat body. The performance venue was not a big stage, which made people sigh that time is a killer.
But when he opened his mouth, Daolang was still the same Daolang as before, and his singing was still very penetrating, as if he was instantly traveling back to 2002.
In the past few years, he has not given up on music and has been persisting in creating. In , he released the album "Tanci Word Book" and "So Is My Speak" in 2020, and released the album "Everyone in the World" in 2021.
But in this current society where traffic is king, he has not been able to escape the fate of being overwhelmed by the waves of the times. As Daolang once said in an interview: "I think we will be forgotten by everyone in the end."
Although he became behind the scenes, his apprentice Yunduo still carries his mission and is active in front of the screen all year round.
Yunduo is a poor girl from Qiang tribe. In order to earn tuition for her younger brother and sister and reduce the burden on her farmers, she gave up her studies and went to the city to work, singing while working as a waiter, pursuing her ideal of music.
When I saw the clouds, Daolang seemed to see himself when he was young, so he took the girl under his command, taught her music, ate and lived with her family, and did not charge any fees, and helped her make records.
With his passionate help, Yunduo has a place in the Chinese music scene with songs such as " My Loulan " "Yunduo" . As of 2021, she has appeared on the Spring Festival Gala 5 times. No matter how high she stands, she will never forget the kindness of Daolang for her.
The two did not have the relationship between men and women as rumored by the outside world, but were more like family relatives, teachers and friends.
And what about Na Ying, Wang Feng , Yang Kun and others today?
Some people frequently appear on variety shows to "make quick money".
Some live streaming products have lost their favor.
Some people are almost "not checking this person" and are criticized by netizens wherever they go.
Did they remember the original intention of musicians? Only Daolang is still persisting, persisting in love, and persisting in inheritance, because his pursuit of music is pure and does not mix with any money and material things. these people seem to owe Daolang an apology.
Conclusion:
Cleaning Daolang's first half of his life, "sincerity" seems to be his most prominent feature. This is true for music, family, younger generations, and fans. He infected the people around him with his passion.
The popularity of that year was like a fireworks, blooming enthusiastically and briefly, but it illuminated countless people.
To this day, many netizens still share the memories brought to themselves by Daolang's songs on the Internet. Whether it is happiness or pain, it seems extremely precious.
, which belongs to Daolang, may have been gone long ago, but the memory accompanied by the singing will never change.
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