Shepherds of the Cocoto Sea Square Dance Original Song is Wang Qi.
"Shepherds of the Cocoto Sea" is a song written, composed and sung by Wang Qi, which was released as a single on May 8, 2020.In 2020, the song won the champion of Tencent Entertainment White Paper 2020 New Songs Passing Chart.
In 2012, a colleague from Wang Qi's company went to CocoTokai on a business trip and photographed the beautiful scenery, and then Wang Qi learned that CocoTokai has a "No. 3 Pit" that is particularly beautiful, and the name of the place CocoTokai left a deep impression on him, and so he had the impulse to write a song for CocoTokai.
When Wang Qi writes a song, he usually comes up with a story first and then writes a song about it. The Shepherd of Cocoto Sea" describes a love story: a beekeeper who has lost her husband and her two children are bullied by the locals in Cocoto Sea, and a young shepherd stands up to guard the mother and her three children, and the two of them fall in love.
The beekeeper leaves quietly on a stormy night, telling the shepherd that she has married someone else. In the late fall, the Cocoto Sea grass is yellow and the water is dry, not suitable for shepherding, but the shepherd is reluctant to leave, waiting for his lover there. The main idea of the song is still the couple who can't get married due to the pressure of reality, the good-intentioned lies made up for the sake of each other, and the faithful waiting and waiting.
Release Information
"Shepherds of the Cocoto Sea" was released in May 2020, and did not quickly become a hit, including the popularity of the original singer, Wang Qi himself. Later, after an Internet singer covered the song, the popularity of "Shepherds of Cocoto Sea" skyrocketed. With the help of the Internet and social media, the song instantly spread throughout China, and also quickly spread to Southeast Asian countries such as Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, Singapore, and even covered by singers in Greece and Africa.
As of March 2021, "Shepherd of the Cocoto Sea" has exceeded 3.3 billion plays across the Internet. Among them, the song has over 1.3 billion plays in Kugou, reached the third place in Kugou TOP500, and continued to be on the list for 158 days, and has won the first place in many lists such as Kugou Soaring List, Kugou Network Red Songs List, and Kugou Sharing List.