China News Service, Beijing, March 19 (Reporter Zhao Yifan and Ren Siyu) "They're sold out again!" As predicted by many netizens who didn't get tickets, the tickets for the Little Shenyang concert in Harbin were sold out quickly.
However, if the time was set back more than a month, no one would believe this result.
At that time, netizens never thought that Xiao Shenyang would burst into everyone's sight wearing a skirt again.
In the 2009 Spring Festival Gala, little Shenyang floated on the stage wearing kilt pants that were off-kilter, and her "eyes closed and opened" time became famous all over the country.
This time, he wore a black horse-faced skirt on the stage of his first concert in his life. In the past two years when the concert market has recovered, he has become a real "dark horse".
The clips from the scene instantly flooded the screen, and many people started searching immediately after seeing a certain clip, "putting it all together to watch a shocking concert."
Many people were surprised to see a "new little Shenyang" they had never seen before. At the same time, more passers-by were curious, where did the "piaoerpiaoer" little Shenyang go after so many years?
Faced with this question, Xiao Shenyang said that he had been "precipitating" these years when he lost contact with the public.
He had been waiting for this airborne concert for 15 years.
Gone with the wind and sinking are two key words in his life.
Those scenery that is not understood by everyone, between pitches and elevations, became the nourishment of the Xiaoshenyang concert 15 years later.
This tour itself is an answer. It answers the public's questions and deconstructs how Xiao Shenyang went through the ups and downs of life.
Got higher
The theme of this concert is "I'm not! I'm a singer." The exclamation point slanted in the middle is easy to think of. Is this a kind of denial or resistance?
After receiving this question, Xiao Shenyang smiled slightly and said, "It's not that complicated."
He said that he actually wanted to call it "Humph! I'm not a singer" at first. "Humph" came from his iconic tone in the Spring Festival Gala many years ago.
But after repeated consideration, I felt that the wording would not look good on paper, so I changed it to the current version.
He doesn't think he can be considered a singer yet. From a professional point of view, he has not received very systematic training as a singer. At best, he can only be regarded as a cross-border singer. "I actually sing opera, singing the folk duo of Northeast China."
In those days and nights when everyone didn't know Xiao Shenyang, he had been singing on the stage of Northeast Duo.
At that time, it was all about making a living.
The family is poor, and Xiao Shenyang has only been studying for less than six years. As Errenzhuan actors, her parents want to have a bright future for their children, and the only way they can think of is Errenzhuan.
When Xiao Shenyang's parents have free time at home, they often pick up the erhu and bamboo board and sing. Xiao Shenyang also grew up with the sound of Northeastern opera.
Picture: "A Date with Luyu"
The road was rocky from the beginning.
15-year-old Xiao Shenyang went to a training class run by Tieling Theater Troupe. His family couldn't even come up with 1,000 yuan for tuition. He took 700 yuan and impressed the teacher with his good voice, so he stayed.
Like other duet actors in rural areas, teenage Shenyang's awe for the stage may stem more from his awe for survival.
Starting from scratch, you can only move forward. What you see every day when you open your eyes is the stage.
Later, some changes made him different.
One is the appearance of Shen Chunyang. They met when they were 16 and 19 years old, and they were partners on stage.
Before a performance, Shen Chunyang proposed to stop being a partner and break up the group.
As a result, in the last scene of that performance, "The Tower Party", the two of them cried so much that they couldn't sing any words, and finally decided not to separate and try to be with each other.
Then, Shen Chunyang gave Xiao Shenyang a home, and living a good life became the simplest wish shared by the two of them.
Xiao Shenyang and his wife Shen Chunyang sang together on stage.
Picture: "A Date with Luyu"
Another difference from other actors is that Xiao Shenyang is the only duo actor who dares to sing popular songs in nightclubs.
When he was eleven or twelve years old, little Shenyang was working in the fields with his mother. The background music was the duo playing on the old tape recorder on the window sill of the old house.
One day, Zheng Zhihua's song "Sailor" came from the tape recorder.
Little Shenyang's heart trembled, "Is this a song?" From then on, he fell in love with pop music at first sight.
At that time, cassette tapes were very expensive and he had to borrow them if he couldn't afford them. He listened to the four Hong Kong kings, "Kiss Goodbye" and "Love Forgetting Water", and the theme song "A Thousand Years of Waiting" from "The Legend of White Snake". I heard "Tracker's Love" from "My Deskmate".
In the years before and after his wife Shen Chunyang became pregnant, Daolang's music came out, and Abao won an award for his good singing.
Little Shenyang, who lacked a stage partner, began to imitate their singing seriously. In the summer, he closed the windows tightly and drew the curtains. He sweated in the house and practiced repeatedly with a broken computer and a small microphone for calling wheat. The more they sang, the better they became. The less, the more you practice, the brighter your voice will be.
It wasn't until the 2009 Spring Festival Gala's "Not Short of Money" that Xiao Shenyang surprised everyone with her "Raising High" song "Shandan Danhua Blooms Red" and became an instant hit.
But the three words "rising high" have become a metaphor for Xiao Shenyang's life in the following years.
Spring Festival Gala sketch "Not Short of Money".
In fact, before he went on stage, Master Zhao Benshan had already told him, "This time it will be a big hit." But that night, so much attention, fame and traffic swept in, and it was so overwhelming for an ordinary person who just wanted to live a good life. Say, it's a storm.
Everything is different.
Xiao Shenyang is familiar with all kinds of things on the stage, but the things you have to face after becoming famous are often outside the stage.
On the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, Xiao Shenyang returned to the familiar Liu Laogen stage to perform, with the same outfit and the same tune. The tickets were sold out instantly, and a dozen more seats were added in the corridor, each priced at 300 yuan.
Every day when he went out, he would be surrounded by all kinds of people, forcing him to buy a car for transportation.
A large number of "copycat versions of Xiao Shenyang" have even begun to appear in talent shows, imitating his...
The audience is constantly looking forward to and urging him to bring funnier performances.
Xiao Shenyang, who has no plans for the future, can only rely on the instinctive actions developed on the Errenzhuan stage, "I will give the audience whatever they want."
Xiao Shenyang only remembers the feeling at that moment: I seemed to be floating, I could be more proud of myself, my life was easier, and it was much easier to do things.
He was like a balloon that was suddenly blown up by "Not Short of Money" for a full breath. When the breath stopped, he was floating around in the air without direction.
downward view
During those years of floating in the sky, Xiao Shenyang did not gain much sense of stability from his "red".
In the years after "Not Short of Money", Xiao Shenyang became a frequent guest at evening parties. His performances toured the country for more than 100 shows, and he filmed 19 plays in three years. "He almost never stopped for a day."
He had no time to think about his future path. The consumption of the performance also exhausted his spirit and physical strength. The balloon gradually deflated and needed another breath to replenish it.
Sadly, that breath will never come again.
In the promotional video for this tour, Xiao Shenyang in 2024 met himself in 2009 and told him personally: "Not Short of Money" is your funniest work.
Xiao Shenyang recreated his 2009 classic image in the concert promotional video.
People become the focus at high altitudes, but the thin air makes people dizzy; in the process of going down, the weightlessness makes people feel at a loss, but the support of the wind and the overlooking scenery make people feel at ease and make them grow.
The moment when I realized this was perhaps the beginning of Xiao Shenyang's precipitation.
The first person to catch him was his former self on the duo stage.
On stage, every duet actor must burn himself and use all his skills.
This made him understand that "learning a craft is a craft."
Therefore, Xiao Shenyang, who has many talents and is not stressed, feels that he can let go and try, "I will do whatever I can do."
In addition to sketches and TV series, Xiao Shenyang appeared on the screen and starred in Zhang Yimou's "Three Guns". The film received mixed reviews, but the theme song "I'm Just a Legend" he sang often sounded in the streets and alleys, making people excited. Unforgettable.
In Wong Kar-wai's "The Grandmaster", his character Sanjiang Shui is said to be the biggest laugh point in the movie, but in fact it is the title of "The Grandmaster" of Yixintian.
Xiao Shenyang plays the hilarious Sanjiang Shui in "The Grandmaster".
He became a disciple of Yixiantian, played by Zhang Zhen, and captured the theme of "a great master".
Later, he tried to make a movie himself and directed "Moths Crossing the River".
In a trailer full of questioning barrages, he laughed at himself, "Actually, I question myself more than anyone else."
During the downward process, praises and doubts were whispered in the ears. Xiao Shenyang had to go through the hustle and bustle to find direction and a way to land.
Fortunately, there was always a pair of Shen Chunyang's hands behind him, like the wind, lifting him up and supporting him forward.
When filming "Moths Crossing the River", Xiao Shenyang was always active and candid in talking about creation and filming when being interviewed by the camera.
But his wife Shen Chunyang remembered that Xiao Shenyang often came home very late when filming movies. She sat on the bedside to massage Xiao Shenyang, and her tears fell uncontrollably because she saw her husband's pillow was full of fallen hair.
In the special episode of the movie "Moths Crossing the River", Xiao Shenyang, a first-time director, responded to the controversy in the form of a monologue.
From their acquaintance in 1999 to their marriage in 2005, and the days they spent together, Shen Chunyang felt that he and Xiao Shenyang "seemed to have become one person" over the years.
They understand each other's needs, just like each other's other personality, and use their most "vigorous" power at the most critical moment.
In a talk show variety show not long ago, Shen Chunyang stood next to Xiao Shenyang and joked about it. In four years of acting, he won the "Golden Broom" award three times.
Regarding all kinds of comments from netizens, he accepted them all, "I accept criticism, and I hope everyone will encourage me. Work hard! See you on the road ahead, bow!" Shen Chunyang immediately forwarded support, "Regressing turns out to be moving forward. ! Come on! Well done!”
Xiao Shenyang also had hesitation about holding this concert. In the hot performance market, he was worried about the evaluation of netizens and did not have much confidence in his performance.
Until one day Shen Chunyang asked him directly: "What do you like? Do you like singing or acting?"
In the year when he became famous, Xiao Shenyang's singing talent was seen on stage, and he also learned about the concept of "fans" for the first time. Fans said that he sang well, so he promised everyone that he would sing by the age of thirty-five or six. Release a new album.
As a result, due to fate, this promise was pushed back again and again, until I was in my forties, but the new album and the concert were like small flames that danced in my heart from time to time, and I never let go.
"If you still want to sing more, don't be submissive. Just do it if you want to and see if you can finish it and whether you can hold on." Just like that, the voice of "another personality" Shen Chunyang rang in my ears. , Xiao Shenyang no longer hesitated.
Xiao Shenyang and Shen Chunyang sang on the same stage at the concert.
The person who was descending found his direction along the wind, and the little flame in Xiao Shenyang's heart also found a way to burn. He was going to light the fuse and ignite the concert stage that belonged to him.
The direction was already clear. He found professional musicians such as Hao Lei and Liu Shuiji who he had met in music variety shows. Together with the organizer who always believed that he could start singing, it took only half a year to prepare and plan the tour.
landing on stage
Liu Shuiji, who was in charge of the planning and publicity of the concert, remembered that when the team first formally discussed the creative concept of the concert, Xiao Shenyang proposed to add elements of the Northeastern duo. Someone at the scene raised the issue of compatibility between opera and modern concerts, and Xiao Shenyang told everyone Listen to the traditional duet piece over and over again, introducing the origin and evolution of the piece as you play.
Behind the theme "I am not! I am a singer", there is a subtext of "Why am I who I am?"
Xiao Shenyang wants to use this concert, which has been 15 years in the making, to tell everyone how he went from the Northeast to the whole country, and how he got all the way to where he is today.
At the Little Shenyang Hefei concert, "snowflakes" fell on the scene.
Therefore, there are many little Shenyang’s little ingenuities hidden on the stage.
He brought the snow from the Northeast to the stage. The Northeast is the place where he grew up and started.
There are some songs in the playlist that he must play. They come from his idol Zhang Yusheng, from his eldest brother Daolang who has supported his singing all the way and gently reminded him with "Brother, don't mention this" every time he mentioned the copyright fee, and from his elder brother Daolang who has given him strength. Zhao Yingjun comes from the friends who accompanied him all the way to the stage.
The styles of horse-faced skirts and kilts that have been collectively praised by netizens are actually Shen Chunyang's ideas.
"My wife takes the lead in choosing clothes, and she knows my clothes very well." Speaking of this, Xiao Shenyang's tone was filled with unconcealable pride.
The first concert of this time was held in Hefei, not at the northeastern home stadium of Xiao Shenyang, and the time was already approaching the Spring Festival.
In this situation that can almost be said to be "unfavorable from time to time", the people singing on the stage have no reservations, and the people listening to the songs in the audience have been looking forward to it for a long time. All of this bursts out a power that transcends "humanity".
In fact, when he sang the opening song "Winter in the Northeast" on the first day, Xiao Shenyang was visibly nervous. Even though he had rehearsed it many times, he still clutched the microphone tightly in many parts where he could wave and interact with everyone, for fear that any part would Nervousness makes mistakes.
But soon, the audience gave him enthusiastic feedback.
When singing "My Good Brother", Shen Chunyang went directly to the stage wearing a large flowered jacket to help him control the field, and asked everyone to wave their light sticks left and right according to the beat. The stadium with nearly 10,000 people began to sing in unison.
The fluorescent sticks flickering under the stage were like rays of scorching light, constantly "piercing" into little Shenyang's heart.
This sense of solid gain was something he had never experienced before.
Xiaoshenyang "I'm not! I'm a singer" concert scene.
15 years ago, he played a game of "pretending to be a big star" with the audience on the sketch stage. He had just finished singing Zhang Yusheng's "The Sea" on stage, and the next second he jumped into the audience and pretended to be a loyal fan and shouted, "You You can sing well, let’s do one more!”
Now, "Yang Zai" no longer needs to go on stage and off stage. He stands at his own concert and thanks everyone for buying tickets over and over again. When it comes to the familiar "The Sea", the audience doesn't even Give him a chance to sing solo.
Many viewers noticed that Xiao Shenyang turned around many times to wipe his tears during those two days, and Shen Chunyang on the side also shed tears during the chorus.
Whenever the song ends, Shen Chunyang always pushes Xiao Shenyang from behind and asks him to talk to the audience.
Starting from a small theater where two people played, the two of them landed firmly on the stage again.
But this time, the venue became bigger and the stage was upgraded. They felt as if they had "recovered" the audience.
"Seeing how happy they are and how relaxed they are when they sit inside makes me very satisfied, and I feel so happy in my heart. It's great. I said I'm back again, and I feel the love given to me by the audience again. These feedbacks are my greatest wealth.”
What they can do is continue to show sincerity and hard work, and sing the song with 100% energy. "We both always say one thing, you have to be worthy of the money people spend to support you."
With the experience and encouragement from the first day, Xiao Shenyang quickly got into the rhythm of enjoying the stage. On the second day of the concert, the opening song "Winter in the Northeast" was also played. He came up and started shouting to the audience: "Friends from Hefei" Are we ready?
Get dry!
In just two days, Liu Shuiji felt like he was experiencing a large-scale reality show.
Watching Xiao Shenyang become more and more comfortable in the company of the audience, and looking back at the words "I am not! I am a singer", it seems to have become a prophecy: Xiao Shenyang is indeed not a singer, but he is loving him With the help of people and fans, he slowly became a real singer.
Xiaoshenyang "I'm not! I'm a singer" concert scene.
The day after the first concert, everyone left Hefei one after another. Liu Shuiji received a message from Xiao Shenyang: "Brother, we have to start preparations for our new album." One day later, Xiao Shenyang officially announced For the second stop of his concert, he chose to return to Harbin to sing.
This northeastern city, now affectionately called "Erbin", has become a travel destination for many people because of its sincerity and unreservedness.
In those years, Xiao Shenyang, as an actor, has been waiting for truly satisfactory works to appear.
And now, as a singer, Xiao Shenyang has taken the first step on the stage.
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