In 2004, the biggest highlight of the mainland pop music scene was not Park Shu, nor Jay Chou's super-popularity, but an unheard-of singer from Xinjiang, who swept in with a strong Western flavor, destroying everything, occupying the streets and alleys and stores in a short period of time, and his raspy, mellow, and expansive voice was heard everywhere.
There is no sign, no package publicity, no advertisement, not played any music charts,
It seems that overnight, this late snow in 2002, urged the opening of a thousand trees of pear blossoms. The snow, indeed, came a little late, took away the last yellow leaves, but scraped the wind blowing all over the western region of the north and south of the Yangtze River. What is more unexpected is that underneath the rough singing voice of the Western Desert is a doll face with a huge contrast. This young man with a duck-tongued cap, in the repression and brewing for 16 years, finally energy explosion, ushered in his golden age. This year, he was 33 years old. 1
川娃子不容易 His real name is not called Diolang, nor is he a native of Xinjiang. His name is Luo Lin, born in 1971 in Zizhong County, Neijiang City, Sichuan Province, an ordinary literary family, his mother danced in a cultural troupe, his father was in charge of lighting, and his cousin was a composer. When he was a child, he was in the cultural troupe, followed by others to learn the piano, and in his spare time, he also helped his cousin to copy the score, because each score can earn 50 cents. He often fiddled with various musical instruments and heard a lot of folk songs about Xinjiang, and from then on, he began to like Xinjiang's music. Luo Lin inherited his parents' literary cells and was born with a unique voice, and has loved music since he was a child. As the only son in the family, his parents were very strict in their parenting, which led to Luo Lin's character being a bit withdrawn and cold, but he had his own opinions.
At the age of 16, before he graduated from junior high school, Luo Lin, with his own musical dreams and pursuits, defied his parents' objections and came alone from Zizhong to Neijiang's opera house to learn keyboard instruments. Luo Lin was fascinated by ethnic music and very fond of ethnic instruments. After that, he spent more than 4 years in Chengdu, Chongqing, Tibet and Xi'an, learning various ethnic instruments while drifting around.
In 1989, while singing in concert halls around Neijiang and Chengdu, he and Liao Jian, a comedian from Ba Shu known as "Jian", formed the band "Scalpel", with Liao on vocals and Luo Lin on keyboards. The two worked well together, but the concert hall business was not good, could not make ends meet, the band finally had to disband. Luo Lin's music career, very bad. However, his relationship was even worse. The name of Luo Lin's wife is Yang Na.
Yang Na was an artist of Hong Kong's TVB, and later transformed into a host, experiencing a failed marriage. When Luo Lin met Yang Na, she had just been divorced and suffered from the shock of her failed marriage. Luo Lin fell in love with Yang Na at first sight, and after the pursuit and comfort of Knives put her out of her misery, the two of them came together, and later got married and gave birth to a lovely daughter, Luo Tian. But unexpectedly, a month or so later, Yang Na left her husband and her newborn daughter without saying goodbye.
Luo Lin like crazy, looking for all the corners of the neighborhood, ask all of Yang Na's friends and relatives, but no news of her. Three months later, the disheartened Luo Lin received a phone call from Yang Na: "Forgive me, I'm gone, I can't live a hard life, and you can't give me the happiness I want." In the face of Yang Na's departure, Luo Lin heartbroken, a heartbreaking song is in his pain in the heartbreak condensed. Under the double frustration of career and relationship, Luo Lin created the song "Child Her Mother". The song is tear-jerking, drenched in the tears of a man's heartbreak and cries of despair. Perhaps because of the psychological trauma brought about by this relationship, Diolang later wrote songs in the rough always vaguely have a deep and moving complex. 2
For the music dream breakthrough In 1991, the discouraged and hopeless Luo Lin entrusted the child to his parents. Never forget his dream of music, he drummed up the courage, the righteousness to carry a guitar alone, south to Hainan, began the life of another wandering wanderer. In Hainan and music lovers, once again set up the band "Children of the Earth", this time he still serves as the keyboard player. Unfortunately, due to the pressure of life, the band had to be disbanded once again. Even though Luo Lin was very talented musically, his life was still not getting any better. In 1993, in a wandering singing, he met Zhu Mei, a singer from Xinjiang, and she was y attracted by the talent of Knife Lang. Similar experiences and **** the same music hobby, so that the two closer and closer, and soon fell in love. At Zhu Mei's suggestion, the two decided to go to Xinjiang in 1995.
Luo Lin later recalled that in Xinjiang, saw the passionate Maxi Lai Pu, funny humor Nazir Kum, heard the melodious Lak, and passionate high-pitched Dailang people singing, finally found the most wanted voice of his heart. Xinjiang is a diverse ethnic minority, everyone can sing and dance, providing Luo Lin with many creative inspirations. Here, Luo Lin put the mysterious western flavor, are written into the song. It is often said that behind every successful man, there is a woman like a treasure. Luo Lin and Zhu Mei were soon married. Regardless of the Knife Lang has not become famous, or become famous after the scenery, or after the scenery of the life of how plain, Zhu Mei has always accompanied and supported him. For the sake of Luo Lin's development, Zhu Mei gave up her favorite music and became a good wife, fully supporting her husband. The days were bitter, but sweet and happy. Zhu Mei gave birth to a daughter for Luo Lin, and also took the initiative to ask Luo Lin to take over the eldest daughter born to his ex-wife to live together, as if she were his own.
In Xinjiang, Luo Lin served as the music director of Xinjiang Dewei Long Audiovisual Company and the chief producer of Urumqi Luo Lin Music Creation Studio. Before and after, he independently produced albums such as "Love Songs of the Western Regions". Initially, he could only write songs for other people to earn money for daily expenses, and his life was so uneventful. The amount of songs he wrote was staggering, and in 2001 he used the money he earned from writing songs to release his first album, a mix of pop and fashion styles, but it was poorly received and little was known about his album, which sold less than 3,000 copies at the time. The failure of his debut album was a serious blow, but he didn't let it discourage him. He chose to enrich himself in another way, looking for materials in libraries and going from the Gobi Beach to the homes of Uyghur people. He insisted on writing three to four songs every day and wrote more than 1,000 songs in a year. What sustained him were his yet-to-be-realized musical dreams and Zhu Mei's silent support and encouragement. Gradually, with the success of CDs such as "Silk Road Music Soul" and "Love Songs of the Western Regions", Luo Lin was faced with the requirement of convergence with the national market, and the necessary packaging for individuals became more and more important. Luo Lin felt that the name "Diolang" was more appropriate, reflecting his own musical style and direction. So since the planning of "Love Songs of the Western Regions" began, he started to use the name "Dolang". There is a Meigaiti County in the south of Xinjiang, which is known as the "hometown of Dolan culture", and "Dolan" means "concentration" and "gathering together in heaps" in Uyghur. In Uyghur, "Dolan" means "to concentrate" or "to gather together in a heap". In ancient times, people living in individual areas of the Tarim Basin called themselves Dolan, and they were brave, tough, hard-working and simple. Luo Lin's voice is very similar to the voice of the Dolan people in Makgaiti County, which is hoarse with a bright tone. The "Dolan" songs and dances there are even more remarkable for their simplicity, roughness, warmth, exuberance and full of mysterious colors. 3 The Dream Sets Sail In the winter of 2002 in Urumqi, Duelang walked out of his studio, and it happened to be snowing heavily outside. In the distance, there was an ethnic minority girl in a white snowy landscape, dressed in brightly colored clothing, very eye-catching, with a strong color contrast. At this time, someone among my friends said, "This is the first snow in 2002." At this moment, the scene suddenly touched the inspiration of the knife Lang, he rushed back to the studio, improvised and wrote the song "the first snow in 2002". In the song, there are still traces of his former relationship that had hurt him y. Diolang, who is very strict about creativity and music, had more confidence in this work and kept the song in the back of his box, revising and brewing it for two years. In August 2003, the album "Love Songs of the Western Regions", featuring covers of Xinjiang's best folk songs, came out, which was not only loved by listeners in Xinjiang north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, but also let people outside Xinjiang recognize Xinjiang's pop music and know about Knifelang, Huang Chan, Swallow, and other pop singers in Xinjiang.
After the release of "Love Songs of the Western Regions", six large-scale concerts were held in Xinjiang within two months, and Xinjiang's local music was warmly welcomed by the people. On January 6, 2004, the long-prepared album "The First Snow of 2002" was finally released. It was the right time. In the absence of any publicity, the album's "Lover", "Impulsive Punishment", "the first snow in 2002" and other songs successively from Xinjiang fire to the country, overnight, from south to north, are Duelang's songs. In the Cutter Lang songs attacked the city unstoppable when, only Beijing indifferent. If Beijing is not on fire, it is not a real success. Finally, after Dolang's bole, the famous music producer Song Ke's recommendation, in May in Beijing, the major video stores to launch the album, within five days, in the streets and lanes of Beijing, the genuine sales of up to more than 2.7 million, the real fire to the extreme. Everyone recognizes the singer wearing a hat, silent for a long time Cailang finally to the public, become a popular pop star. In 2005, with the "impulsive punishment" won the national "Golden Record" award. In 2006, he released the albums "Thank You" and "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing". It is said that after Cutter Lang became popular, his ex-wife Yang Na regretted it and wanted to get back together with him. However, if she had known that, she would not have been so determined, and it was impossible for Cutter Lang to go back to the old days. After the hardship, Dolang has y understood what he needs and what is precious. The song "Impulsive Punishment" is the cry of helplessness from the depths of his heart, the pain of the past, let it stay in the song. Song Ke once commented on Knife Lang, "His songs are really rare fire songs, typically catchy, the voice is extremely rich in qualities, the voice is even better. His popularity is surprising, and it all boils down to the fact that his work has really returned to the essence of music, which is to sound good." A pair of college students in love enrolled in the environmental protection volunteers, together to minus 40 degrees Celsius due to the cold and lack of oxygen and known as the "forbidden zone of life," Coco Sili. The boy was arranged in the difficult conditions of the Doduo River Observation Station, unfortunately sacrificed in the collection of information on the road, is the first sacrifice in Coco Sili volunteers. The girl waited day and night for the boy's relics, and the pain of parting with him. Diolang heard this poignant story circulating in the West Sea during one of his wind-picking trips, and was y touched by it, so he created this song "Love Song of the West Sea" specifically for the two of them. Just like the other songs of Knifelang, the lyrics of "West Sea Love Song" are poignant and touching, the melody is tearful, the background story of the poignancy, 4 more this song adds a few points of sadness and desolation. Sentimental words, sad melody, the vicissitudes of the voice. From beginning to end, always touching the soft and fragile place of the human heart, West China Sea love song, the depth of love is like the sea. The song sounded, people seem to see the snowy mountains, a lonely and weak figure is tearing his heart and lungs to call the distant lover back to the past. That parting love is tearing the heart of the blood dripping. The song is like a sob. Eternal classic.
At the annual meeting of the Wanda Group, the chairman of the board, Wang Jianlin, sang this song, "West Sea Love Song" by Blade Lang. 4 pop music world jianghu also complex knife Lang, is a zero scandal zero stain low-key music creator. He hardly packages himself and publicizes himself. Even when he was a big star, Duelist still kept an extremely low profile. Duelang once said in an interview that he was not a star at all, but just an ordinary person, a wanderer on a musical journey. In 2004 and 2005, when he was at his most popular, he was very uncomfortable with all the things that came with fame, and was afraid of being entertained, even with a sense of fear. He once said that everywhere he went, anywhere, he would hear the sound of his songs. When he arrived at Dingxi, Gansu, a very small place, he thought he could stay there for a while in peace, but as soon as he got off the bus, he saw a newsstand with a magazine with Duelang's head on it, and a few big words next to it, "Cold Eyes on Duelang". Still unable to escape, he felt his world was about to collapse. He decided to retreat from the world, and went behind the scenes in the jianghu. In those years, Diolang transformed into a behind-the-scenes creation, in addition to their own several albums, do musical "Gobi children", but also to other singers as a producer, for the singers Huang Chan, Yusa, as well as for the protégé Yunduo do albums. Just like the knife Lang himself said, although the fear of being entertained, but to live, to feed the family, my requirements for life is actually very simple, a family of four can eat on the line. The pop music world is characterized by popularity and mobility, and movement is the norm. The heart wants to be quiet, but the wind is more than that. After Knifelang became famous, the music industry appeared different versions of Knifelang, all want to rub some Knifelang's fame, mixed with some traffic and popularity. Knife Lang's brokerage company as a big enemy, intended to prosecute each other's followers, on both sides of the war of words continue to escalate more and more intense, in the media are waiting for this farce how to end the time. The knife Lang himself, but in the night returned to the hidden disappeared.
In 2010, in the selection of the "music industry ten years of influential singers", a major female judges strongly opposed to the knife Lang shortlisted, that the knife Lang's sales, although high, but does not have an aesthetic standard, the work of the lack of musicality, and even said, "go to the KTV to point the knife Lang songs are peasants! He even said, "All peasants who go to KTV to order Duelist songs are peasants", which undermined his identity, and in the end, Duelist lost out on the award. Knifelang's manager and fans were outraged, but Knifelang simply said "don't take it too seriously", and later reportedly apologized to one of the judges. On July 20, 2010, in one of his few appearances, he was invited to be the guest of honor at a concert by Hong Kong singing sensation Alan Tam. This pair of former mentors and brothers have quite a history, to say the least. When Kelang joined Universal Records, he became the younger brother of Mr. Tam, and the two of them were very close to each other. For the sake of his senior brother, Knifelang generously gave "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing", which was intended to be the title track of his own album, to be included by Tan in his album.
In 2018, the famous music talent show "The Voice of China". A contestant chose to sing a song, and as soon as he opened his mouth, the tutor Li Jian said to the other three tutors: his voice is very unique, I vaguely hear the voice of Knife Lang. Later, the host asked Li Jian: How do you feel about Knifelang's music? Li Jian replied: Many people, even many singers, think that internet songs and folk songs are not allowed to appear on the table and are usually not officially recognized, but in this sense, pop music is a kind of contemporary folk song. Blade's music is very musical.
In the end, this episode of the talent show, Li Jian's team, Tenzin Nima, with outstanding strength, beautiful folk song singing, conquered the audience and won the program. Knife Lang sent his blessing to Li Jian and Tenzin Nima for the first time, thanking them for singing the style of folk songs. Li Jian was very grateful to Knifelang for his blessing. Li Jian, who came from Tsinghua University and is known as the music poet of the singing world, has his own understanding of what he thinks of Knifelang.
In 2005, because of fate, Diolang met his protégé, Yunduo from Aba, Sichuan. Dolang composed lyrics for her, made a record, took her to various places to sing, taught her how to grasp the pitch of the song, how to sing a song full of passion, but not to lose their own style. In Yunduo, Dailang saw the shadow of himself in the past, and supported Yunduo with everything he had. In recent years, Yunduo has rapidly become popular in the music industry. The success of Yunduo today cannot be separated from the painstaking cultivation of her mentor, Diolang. When Diolang felt that Yunduo was mature enough to take charge, he chose to let go and let Yunduo soar on his own, and also gave his deep hopes and good wishes to this disciple. Growing up in a Qiang village, Yunduo has a mountain-like bosom, the human climate of the plateau shaped her sunshine, pure and innocent character and the sound of heavenly music.
Yundo lived up to her teacher's high expectations, and her good innate qualifications and hard work made people recognize her and fall in love with her simple and touching voice. 5 away from the jungle, not forgetting the original heart of the popular music world of fickleness and entertainment, and Cailang's own character and interest is too far away. After 2011, Cailang basically faded out of the jianghu. The most important thing to remember is to rely on the songs to speak, and rely on the strength of the audience to win.
Fifteen years later, people still remember the only Dolan. The company has a lot of people who are interested in the company's products and services, but it is not the only one. With the pop music world is becoming more and more bland, fans of the knife Lang always remember. Occasionally there are always rumors of some of the knife Lang news. Especially in recent years, with the changes in the music market, the knife Lang's songs and back to people's vision, some of his classic songs are always people in the major stage. As far as the jungle is, it still can't escape the search of the fans. It turns out that since 2017, Knifelang has been stealthily studying kunqu in Suzhou, hoping to combine pop music and kunqu. Knifelang is living well in Suzhou, and on the path of music, he is still holding on. It's just that the years have not been kind to him, and he has put on a lot of weight and has a big bald head.
Due to the body fat, even walking on the street is difficult to be recognized. In order to travel easily, the knife Lang also bought a motorcycle. The spirit of the state is very good, even now become a middle-aged uncle, but the elegance is still the same. Some people tease, Diolang now looks like Mr. Ma Dehua, with decades of hat finally removed. In the past, Cutter Lang always wore that hat. Once someone teased him, can you take off the hat.
The knife Lang humorously replied, take off the hat on behalf of their own in the life, usually go to buy food, but also and vendors can cut prices. Wearing a hat, it is not the same, is the stage singing Knifelang. Cutter Lang hat or take off, return to the life of ordinary people. His wife, Zhu Mei, is a beautiful woman with an even more beautiful heart, and he doesn't have to worry about anything at home. That represents the gratitude of the "Thank You" is the previous Cutter Lang sent Zhu Mei and fans. After Diolang became popular, she warned Diolang to look at himself with a calm mind. Her two daughters have also grown up, the eldest daughter has a very high face value, and the youngest daughter adores him and only listens to his songs. Very happy family of four. It's gratifying to see the blossoming of Dagger on the photo, and the life is full and happy. Bless this music dreamer who insists on fighting for his dream. May his music, like the poplar in the Northwest Desert, be tenacious and evergreen, with the softness and ruggedness of the Northwest, so that the hearts of people passing by are full of hope.