[Song Video] "Shanghai Ballad"
[Commentary] The beautiful melody and the soft words of Wu Nong are mesmerizing... A Shanghainese song "Shanghai Ballad" was once widely sung in the south of the Yangtze River.
With the increasing rise of short videos, the online play volume of this song has exceeded one billion times.
Many people sang the original song of this song-Shanghai singer Lin Bao may just "hear his name but never see him", and many people even think that Lin Bao came from the Republic of China period.
Recently, a reporter from China News Agency interviewed Lin Bao, the original singer of the popular song "Shanghai Ballad".
[Concurrent] Singer Lin Bao
This song was also shared on short video platforms and some music websites a while ago, including some self-media platforms (hot broadcasts), and many friends reposted and commented on it.
We saw the most funny comment saying that Lin Bao is still alive?
Isn't Lin Bao from the Republic of China?
I think it’s not a bad thing either, because everyone has such reactions and thoughts, they must think this song is very classic.
[Commentary] Singer Lin Bao was born in Shanghai, and enjoys the reputation of "Shanghai Style Singer" and "Silk Road Bailing". Xinjiang is her "out-and-out" second hometown.
When he was two or three years old, Lin Bao and his family went to Xinjiang with his father and grew up in Aksu, a small city on the edge of Taklimakan. They did not return to Shanghai until the age of ten. It was precisely because the nearly ten years of life in Xinjiang gave her a wealth of artistic "nourishment." Special feelings for Xinjiang.
[Concurrent] Singer Lin Bao
I grew up in Aksu when I was young.
A few years ago, I sang a Kazakh song "The Eyes of Love", which attracted the attention of friends from ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, including Kazakhstan and Central Asia.
When I sang this song, I felt very special and emotional.
Because Aksu is my second hometown, I spent it there before I was ten years old.
[Explanation] It is precisely because of growing up in Xinjiang and his attachment to this land, Lin Bao, who has been away from Aksu for nearly 30 years, will burst into tears whenever he sings a familiar melody.
[Concurrent] Singer Lin Bao
When I remembered how many kilometers we walked in the Tianshan Mountains, we could see the Tianshan Mountains when we were young. At the foot of the Tianshan Mountains, when we grew up on the edge of Taklimakan, I especially miss it.
I really want to see the sky I saw when I was young, as well as Populus euphratica, cotton fields, fruit gardens, and so many more.
[Commentary] Singer Lin Bao said frankly that the enlightenment in music was also due to his father’s training. At the age of six or seven, Xiao Lin Bao was already able to play the Shanghai opera "A Star’s Encounter" and "Thunderstorm" and other heroines from beginning to end. The contents of the hour or so have all been memorized, and this has also strengthened her pursuit and love of art.
[Concurrent] Singer Lin Bao
He (father) took the cassette recorder, and there was a little more at the back of the tape, so he said that Jiejie (the name of the milk) sang.
Mother Frog woke up, croaked and croaked, and then it was my three-year-old voice, which my father recorded.
And my dad is in Xinjiang when he meets people. In addition to dancing Xinjiang dance, my dad will sing a Shanghai opera when he meets people.
He just pretends that he is an erhu, he will come and start to chuckle, and then I will sing where the golden silk bird is, and he will be right next to it, which has been like this since childhood.
My dad has nurtured me in this way since I was young, so when I was ten years old, I was already acting whenever I met.
[Commentary] During the interview, Lin Bao said with joy that a number of Shanghai-language MVs such as "Shanghai Ballad", "A Bridge on the Suzhou River" and "Great Shanghai", which she filmed recently, will be released soon.
In addition, the Xinjiang-style songs at his solo concert in May will also be a highlight. Lin Bao said that he would use his singing to express the emotions between Shanghai and Xinjiang.
Reporting from Shanghai by Zhang Jian, Ji Jiangtong
Editor in charge: [Wang Yu]