A while ago, Mika Nakajima , who just finished her debut 20th anniversary, announced a shocking news to the outside world-
After 10 years, her hearing has finally recovered!
She choked a few times during the interview-"I can hear my own song again with my ears..."
br5 , This diva-level singer, was once one of Japan's "Four Great Dancing Girls" in Japan:
" Snow Flower" became popular in Asia and was adapted and sung by singers from more than a dozen countries;
The classic ", I thought about it once ", it is a single song that reduced the suicide rate in Japan to the lowest in history!
Although it was a smash hit, the queen of the song has a bad fate. She has experienced bullying, retired from injury, divorce...
After her hearing recovered, Nakajima Mika once again On the show sang the famous song "I used to think about a hundred times".
If she sang 10 years ago, she was confused and struggling in the dark.
So in the latest version, the sorrow that once came to an end has turned into a peaceful force.
calmly told us about her ten years of ups and downs and tolerance.
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From a girl who dropped out of school, it’s hard to imagine that
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In 1983, Nakajima Mika was born in Kagoshima, Japan. Her father was a truck driver and did not have a home; her mother was a traditional housewife who relied on sewing to help her family.
The family is poor, the grades are not good, and the introverted little Nakajima has no friends in the school...
punk dyed her hair colorful smoky makeup, and wanted to use the "Little Taimei" dress to "fully armed" herself, but she was subjected to intensified campus bullying.
The 14-year-old Mika Nakashima couldn't stand it anymore and dropped out of junior high school to work.
At that time, Japanese girl idol groups were on the rise.
The young, beautiful, and lack of money Mika Nakajima gave birth to the idea of stepping into the show business.
While working in a fast food restaurant, I’m so tired,While quietly carrying a shining dream.
She sent photos to the model agency, but after a few years, there was still no news.
The model couldn't work this way, so she changed her way and sent the tape of her singing to the record company.
Unexpectedly, a record company really invited her to participate in the draft.
Competition audition, never trained in professional music, with talent and recklessness, she just let herself stand out from the 3000 players.
debuted "stars", which reached the top three in the Japanese music charts on the day it was launched, and won the best newcomer award at the Japan Golden Record Awards.
Only two years later, with the song "Snow Blossoms", she firmly sits on the throne of the new generation of Japanese singers, even and Ayumi Hamasaki Regarded as an award winning rival!
The comic film " NANA ", she was selected by the film industry to become the heroine and play the lead singer of the rock band in the film.
With a punk hairstyle and flamboyant smoky makeup, a small town girl lives in Tokyo for music dreams..
Isn't it Mika Nakajima herself!
The bitter heart, the power of barbaric growth, turned into bursts of shouts on the screen.
During the filming, she even got up suddenly, jumped on the table and sang a rock improvisation, fantasizing that she was having a concert.
This footage was later included in the feature film by the director and became the most classic shot in the movie, symbolizing the awakening of NANA.
Perverse and unreasonable, Nakajima Mika played "Osaki Nana" to life.
For the first time as a cross-over singer from a singer, she won a stunned audience in a Japanese movie
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Fame spread all over the country, and the audiovisual amphibious awards were soft. This year, Mika Nakajima was only 18 years old.
However, destiny always loves to lift people up and down.
Only five years after the popularity, Nakajima Mika ushered in her darkest period.
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"This song,I can only sing.”
The audience who watched Nakajima Mika’s concert video were all shocked and weeped by her singing.
This is "I used to think about a hundred too." ", a version that cannot be reproduced.
In the video, the sound of music gradually rang, and Mika Nakajima was uncharacteristically, constantly stomping and squatting down to touch the speaker.
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The low singing voice gradually turned into a roar, a heart-piercing cry, like a cry for help.
Only then did the audience know about Nakajima. , Can’t hear it anymore.
The cry on the stage is the loud sound of her inner collapse.
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At the concert, in front of thousands of fans and listeners, she suddenly could not hear her singing.
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became ill, Mika Nakajima immediately went to the United States for medical treatment, but was told that “there is no cure.”
This is undoubtedly the cruelest thing in the world for a singer;
Mika Nakajima had no choice but to retreat temporarily.
During those days, Mika Nakajima no longer wanted to remember how she got through...
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I sit on a bench in the park and cry every day. After crying, I practice vocalization and continue to cry after I practice.
Gradually she could speak, and her voice seemed to return to normal.
Originally the doctor advised her to stop performing activities indefinitely, and her voice eased slightly.
Mika Nakajima, who was eager to return to the stage, announced her return within six months.
The viewers take it for granted that if the queen announces the return, it means that the disease is cured.
Nakajima Mika held the first performance after the return with great fanfare;
However, she ran out of tune under the expectations.
"Deaf" again at the concert, she was panicked and could only use her voice to shout, but in the end she also screamed hoarse.
"Sing like a ghost, cry, wolf, howl!"
Questions and abuse are overwhelming.
In the darkest moment of life, a song saved Mika Nakajima. It was the opening song "I once thought about a hundred times".
At that time, she only read the lyrics and decided-"This song can only be sung by me!"
The topic of suicide is too sharp. At that time, radio and television were not allowed to play this song;
The only chance to be heard by everyone was to sing it live.
In 2015, Mika Nakajima came here in a red dress at the concert, like a nirvana.
She beats the rhythm with high heels, touches the vibration of the sound to find resonance, and every sentence explodes with strong vitality.
Maybe, only those who have really suffered know how to heal.
Now open station B. The video of this concert is full of goodwill from strangers:
The future"
"Live well, stranger!"
"Bring me to face life bravely!"...
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3p Become after "Snow Blossoms",Nakajima Mika’s most vocal work;
not only accompany her through the difficulties, but also heal countless people who are also besieged in pain.
never stepped into desperation, how to understand life to death , as Mika Nakajima said in an interview:
Falling. May we never give up looking for hope when we are in despair."
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Fortunately, after a long period of rehabilitation, in the interview program on the 20th anniversary of his debut, Mika Nakajima announced that his injury has finally recovered.
She smiled and said: "The staff asked me why I am so happy? I said, I can hear my voice out now."
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, The audience can clearly feel that Mika Nakajima, who has recovered from ear disease, has returned to the peak of her singing level.
In 2021, Mika Nakashima released the first rock single " Love is Ecstasy " after his comeback.
breath controls easily,The treble is steady and powerful, and the aura is fully open.
When she sang the high notes easily and calmly, an imperceptible smile appeared on her face.
She knows that her strength is back.
National [Joker] concert tour in 2021, Mika Nakajima stands in the center of the stage, picking up the microphone, like a king.
Usually stars hold concerts. In order to ensure that there is no error, Live will drop one or two tunes than the recording studio.
But in the whole performance, Queen Nakajima not only turned on the microphone, but also did not drop the pitch, and even the harmonies were not needed for the whole performance!
Nakajima with punk hairstyles, rivet collars and cat-eye smoky makeup on stage, the shadow of "NANA" seems to reappear.
from childhood bullying, deafness to divorce;
climbed to the peak with great pains, but fell to the bottom in an instant;
failed.
As early as ten years ago, Mika Nakajima used the mouth of the movie “NANA” to herald her half-life:
It’s a third-rate TV series,It doesn’t matter how others add fuel and jealousy to my dark past;
But I will write the script to the light! ”
A few months ago, she and Mao Buyi dreamed of linking a song "You Who Live Elsewhere" in the lyrics, once again healed countless p
listeners. "The embarrassment of swallowing destiny is actually brave enough." After telling Qianfan, he reconciled with himself indifferently.Perhaps, we have all thought that we are at the end of the road, and there is no sun in the chaos ahead.
can be experienced All pain and love, we will finally see that this is just a part of life;
Light and shadow coexist, tears and hope are mixed.
You can see more brilliant stars in the dark night sky, and every bit of it is hope.
You who live elsewhere, please don’t give up.
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