In 2004, she was 16 years old and wandered into Beijing alone. The first stop in Beijing, from the coach station in Muxidi to Tiananmen East Bus Station, the bus stopped at the opposite side of the Tiananmen Square, she looked for half a day did not find a place to cross the road. She could only sit on the opposite side of the road, staring straight at Tiananmen Square for two hours.
When she was working as a waitress in a restaurant in Beijing, she didn't like it. Once, walking through an underpass, there was a man playing a musical instrument and singing, pedestrians passing by, put a few dollars to him. Later she realized that it was called a guitar. Ren Yue Li thinks she has a talent for singing. Since she was a child, she has loved to sing, in the yard, on the roof, in the pigsty, in the cornfield, wherever she sings. Next door to the family's favorite "Slender Man's Love", a school, an old man and a small, squatting on the roof of the two families to sing. She stayed for two hours, watching the male singer enough to earn a few dozen dollars. She thought, this is much more money than a restaurant waiter, do a channel singer is not bad. Immediately learn from a teacher, and then embarked on the road of channel singers. At that time, Xidan and Fuxingmen neighborhood only she and Sun Lili two female singers. Sun Lili is also a Hebei native, 7 years older than her, the two have similar personalities, became good friends.
Every morning at six or seven o'clock, she left from the rental house, rode a bicycle for more than an hour to the channel to start singing. 60 songs is a round, sing a round, and then come back to the next round, up to a day can sing six or seven hours. "Sing whichever song makes money." At the time, the most profitable ones were going to be "About Winter", "Love Song 1990" and "Overcooked". She sang them over and over again, and at the end of the day, she could earn fifty or sixty dollars. Beijing's winter, minus five or six degrees, through the wind blowing, cold to the bone, she called that "three meters under the cold". Ren Yue Li remembers, wrapped in a down jacket, gloves, take the guitar plectrum hand or often lose consciousness, snot unconsciously dripping out, dripping to the side of the mouth, chin there before realizing. A girl less than 20 years old, carrying the whole family on her shoulders. Her father, Ren Yongsheng, had trouble with his legs, and her mother's IQ was only two or three years old. She not only had to support herself, but also had to subsidize her parents. Usually okay, encountered her father in the middle of the night sudden cerebral hemorrhage, she could not return home and could not come up with the medical expenses, only to realize that "life is really a desperate even a desperate". Later, recalling the four years in the channel, she felt that, at that time, her body was full of energy, and her mind was all focused on singing, and she did not feel that life was too hard. "Maybe life pushes people to this point." In the coldest days of winter, she and Sun Lili went to the Shanxi Noodle House behind the National Palace of Culture to spend five dollars, eat a bowl of noodles, the largest bowl of the kind, and talk about their own interesting things, that is the only bright spot in life.
December 20, 2008, is a Saturday, pedestrians a little more than usual. Ren Yue Li sat on the speaker, playing and singing "angel wings", through the wind whistling blowing, her face was frozen red. Netizen "non-me non-me" passed by, a few simple lyrics, actually heard him in tears. "My brain lit up at that moment." He took out his cell phone, captured the 99-second video and uploaded it online. Overnight, the video received more than 3 million hits, an average of more than 10,000 hits per minute, creating an Internet myth. Netizens through this 99-second video, into the Ren Yue Li four years of channel life. Some people commented, "her singing voice is like heavenly music", and some people lamented that from that thin figure and ethereal voice, it seems to see themselves. The ethereal voice and the harsh environment of the channel, forming a certain contrast. Chen Ming (a pseudonym), who considers himself a fan of Ren Yue Li, felt that this was what attracted him at that time. Chen Ming was 29 years old and had never been a star chaser before, but there was just something about Ren Yue Li that appealed to him - a girl who was so weak, who didn't rely on anyone else, who drifted northward, who was busy with her life, and who sang as if she were singing herself.
The 2011 Spring Festival Gala stage, Ren Yue Li felt that it was her "so far the pinnacle of life". Just after the Spring Festival Gala that moment, the appearance fee was once as high as 100,000 yuan. The boyfriend Li Gang set up Beijing Yue Li Reed International Culture and Media Co. Encountered program invitations, commercial invitations, come and go, desperately pick up. At most, the year, media interviews and commercial performances, a year received more than 300. In Beijing, sometimes you have to catch two or three shows a day.
"It's just a matter of singing and earning money." As for the music of this road to go on, but did not seriously think about it. Ren Yue Li explained, she was too young when she went to the Spring Festival Gala, only 23 years old, and did not go to college, know too little, short-sighted, did not plan the future of the road. The company positioned her as a pop and ballad artist at the time. But in reality, pop is for the masses and folk is relatively niche, two very different development paths.
In 2012, she found her own songs, practiced, recorded, and figured out how to make her first album, Xidan Girl, which was released at Xidan Joy City. She recalls that her first album, and so far her only one - had no sales. Later on, she also released some singles online. But she also admits that over the years, the masterpiece was still "Angel Wings", but that was someone else's song. Once, passing by a square, amazons were dancing to "Above the Moon". Ren Yue Li told the fans next to her that she would make a song in the future for the amazons to dance to. Chen Ming heard this sentence, a little sad, he has been looking forward to Ren Yue Li out of some stylish works, did not expect her to position themselves "so grounded". But on second thought, maybe she also wants a popular masterpiece.