In 1984, Lin Ruwei was about to make Lao She's famous book "Four Worlds Together" into a TV series, and he was exhausted in order to find someone who could sing the theme song "Reorganize the Rivers and Mountains for Future Life".
The Western big band of more than 30 people heard that Lin Ruwei had found a wonderful singer, and all of them stretched their necks on the day of recording and waited to see.
Can you sing such a magnificent song, maybe which beautiful singer?
Who knew that they had waited for half a day to wait for a white-haired old lady on crutches, weak and small.
The eyes of the people became strange.
They said, "It's over, what can this little old lady sing?" ”
A group of people were a little reluctant to accompany them, feeling that they had delayed their time.
At the end of the song, everyone was shocked by the old lady's open voice and full strength, a group of people clapped empty-handed, and those who had musical instruments in their hands beat instruments, and the recording studio was not busy.
This scene frightened Luo Yusheng on the side, and she quickly approached the director and asked, "What leader is coming?" ”
Lin Ru smiled for haha: "No one is coming, this palm is for you Luo Lao's drum." ”
Once this drama was broadcast, this song "Reorganizing the Rivers and Mountains for Future Life" directly became popular at home and abroad, and also let today's young people know the world-famous "Golden Voice Drum King" Luo Yusheng.
Born in the old society, she was sold since she was a child, but she became popular with a golden voice, and was forcibly occupied by the leader of the Green Gang to have a child, experiencing the darkest decade on the stage.
When she finally survived the chaotic world and suffered the pain of losing her husband and son, the life of Luo Yusheng, the "Golden Voice Drum King", was really tragic and wonderful...
In 1914, Luo Yusheng was still a swaddling baby, and she was only six months old when she was sold to the jianghu artist Luo Caiwu, and before she could speak, she had to cooperate with the trick on stage to make money.
In the "big world" where people come and go, Luo Yusheng showed a very high talent for singing, and no one had to teach her, but just held her on the table and listened to her for a few days before she could start singing.
At that time, Luo Yusheng was only 4 years old, but because she had no children's voice, she sang the voice of an adult and got the nickname of "Little Monster".
The poster of the big world also put her message: Today's little monster appeared on the stage.
After each performance, there were guests who gave her money, from copper plates, silver, and foreign money, but because she was too young, she took a few copper plates and went to buy candy to eat.
As a result, after returning home, she was beaten by her adoptive mother, and she was always questioned, "Why don't you take foreign money", luo Yusheng was frightened and trembled.
When he was 5 years old, his adoptive mother asked Luo Yusheng to go to the boiler room to wash his feet, but the water tank was too high, and Luo Yusheng had to move a stool and bend in.
Who knew that the two feet were in the air, and the whole person plunged into the water tank, fortunately, someone passed by and fished her out.
After returning home, the adoptive mother saw that Luo Yusheng had wet the cotton jacket on her body, and she was so angry that she directly smoked a feather duster to greet her.
This beating made Luo Yusheng, who was already terrified, even more uncomfortable, and he was directly ill for three months, and finally he was cured by an earthen son brought back by his adoptive father.
Every time Luo Yusheng saw her granddaughter and her child hugging together, she would always show a sad expression and remember her difficult childhood.
"I grew up singing."
At that time, Luo Yusheng was either being beaten or running for food and clothing.
When she followed her adoptive father to sing in Hankou, Luo Yusheng was only 7 years old, but she dressed up and opened her voice, not like a child at all, and she made Meng Xiaodong scream even when she played "Empty City Plan".
At first, Luo Yusheng sang Erhuang on the stage, playing the role of an old student, until he listened to Liu Baoquan's Beijing rhyme drum when he was a teenager, which had the idea of changing careers.
During this period, she also received a click from Bai Fengming, the founder of the Jingyun Big Drum Shaobai Sect.
Coupled with the fact that Luo Yusheng knows that being short is his innate shortcoming, it is difficult to find a green coat to match with himself on the stage, and this kind of artist's income is to order a play for the guests in the teahouse, and then they take the commission.
Luo Yusheng is not good at socializing, nor is she willing to accompany her to laugh, and there are always very few people who order her.
Without money, she couldn't afford to do it, so turning to Jingyun Big Drum became a way out for her.
Until 1931, when his adoptive father Luo Caiwu died, Luo Yusheng officially changed his stage name to "Little Color Dance" in honor of his adoptive father.
After groping for three years, Luo Yusheng met Liu Baoquan's string master", Han Yonglu, and she performed a prayer to the other party and became a closed disciple.
At that time, there was a saying: Beijing learned art, Tianjin sang red, Shanghai made money.
But Tianjin at that time was Liu Baoquan's world, and Han Yonglu thought about it and let Luo Yusheng enter Tianjin in the summer of 1936, taking advantage of Liu Baoquan's performance in Nanjing.
After three days of audition at Zhongyuan Company, the name of "Little Color Dance" rang directly.
When Liu Baoquan returned, Luo Yusheng had already been invited into the small pear garden, and when he landed on the ground, he could see the name of "Xiaocai Dance" everywhere, which was really a little dissatisfied.
"I'd like to hear how well she sings."
Liu Baoquan blocked his face with a fan and went to the small pear garden, and whispered "Old Man Liu is coming" from the stage, but Luo Yusheng, who was singing "Yu Boya Wrestling" on the stage, did not know it.
After stepping down from the stage, she asked Han Yonglu what to do with some uneasiness, and the other party just smiled: "He just doesn't obey you." ”
Later, once Liu Baoquan was dressing up, he heard that Xiaocai Dancing had come to listen to his play, and Liu Baoquan deliberately sang a lot of high-skilled gadges that day.
At that time, Luo Yusheng did not know that this was Liu Baoquan's rectification of her, and when he went back, he followed the practice, but fortunately he was found out by Han Yonglu in time and changed it.
In less than two years, Luo Yusheng has created his own style with the characteristics of round words, sweet voice, euphemism and lyricism.
During this time, Luo Yusheng's fame was so great that all the juggling gardens were vying to grab her.
On the most day, she drove three consecutive sons and sang seven paragraphs in a row, but her voice became brighter and brighter, and her confidence became more and more sufficient, so she won the reputation of "King of Golden Voice Songs".
Even Liu Baoquan couldn't bear to speak: "Xiaocai Dance will become the second drum king behind me." ”
Since then, one of the two has been in the small pear garden and the other in the big view garden, but they have been safe and sound.
Although Luo Yusheng's fame has risen, after all, she lives in the old society, and her status as an artist is really low.
Usually, in the theater garden, I meet those hooligans who can't receive money, and people who meet official uniforms can't receive money.
Luo Yusheng was once invited by a bureau chief to sing for a birthday for Koreans, and she went a little late that day.
The other party pointed directly at her and scolded: "What stinky shelf?" Who do you have behind your back? Who's going to support you? ”
At this time, Luo Yusheng heard that this was pointing at her and scolding The Locust, but none of the people present could afford it, so she had to stand there awkwardly.
Finally she was sent to the courtyard, and in the middle of winter, dressed in thin clothes, she sang the song of the day with tears.
The artist was wronged and could only swallow in his stomach.
Song Fengyi once recalled Luo Yusheng: "At that time, the music and art actors were very difficult, and they had to accompany food and drink with wine, but Luo Yusheng refused to accompany the wine even when he arrived at the Marshal's Mansion. ”
Seriously perform on stage, clean and innocent offstage.
But fate has always loved to tease people.
Tianjin encountered great difficulties, countless charms drilled out, peers suppressed and excluded each other, life had to be blackmailed by hooligans and assholes, and no matter how much money they made, they fell into the pockets of others.
Among them, the influence of Yuan Wenhui, the leader of the Green Gang, should not be underestimated.
He borrowed the small pear garden by force for two months, during which time he forcibly occupied the "Little Color Dance" and made him pregnant with a child.
Luo Yusheng, who encountered misfortune, lived for the sake of life, but also for the sake of innocent children.
She first went to Shanghai to perform, knowing that the turmoil of the times not only did not make money, but also lost her savings for many years, and then she went to Nanjing to find a job, but at that time, the Chiang dynasty was crumbling and still ended in failure.
Luo Yusheng, who returned to Tianjin in a hurry, had lost the aura of a famous horn, and could only temporarily find a musician to go to the small tea house to take someone else's class to survive.
With his own resolute character, Luo Yusheng has been standing up until the great liberation.
At that time, she happened to be eating at a friend's house in Shanghai, a group of people played mahjong all night, and Luo Yusheng slept until four o'clock in the afternoon.
The manager rushed to her and called out: "Little boss, Shanghai has been liberated." ”
Confused, Luo Yusheng seemed to be in a dream, busy asking what the other party was saying.
"You go to Nanjing Road and have a look, it's all twisting and singing."
After liberation, Luo Yusheng joined the Tianjin Qu Art Troupe, no longer using the stage name "Xiaocai Dance" but changing back to his real name Luo Yusheng.
Her newly compiled revolutionary repertoire "Huang Jiguang" and "Glorious Voyage" are still classics and works passed down to generations.
She also changed from a selling artist in the old era to a respected people's actor.
Luo Yusheng's career reached its golden age at this time, and her love also quietly came.
In 1954, Luo Yusheng and Zhao Kuiying, then head of the Tianjin Quyi Work Troupe, married each other, and the two walked together because of their mutual admiration for each other in their careers, and they were inseparable after marriage.
Zhao Kuiying not only vigorously supported Luo Yusheng's career, but also in order to take full care of Luo Yusheng's son Luo Jiaping, he was determined not to have children again in this life.
But Luo Yusheng's bumpy life is not over, she has encountered the era of being taken away from the stage life, and for ten years, she has been suffering in the cold.
Her drums were taken away, and she was not allowed to sing anymore, and Luo Yusheng was asked to deliver newspapers and clean the toilet.
He also asked her to go to the qu art troupe every day before 6 o'clock to tell the students to get up and shout their voices.
But those children felt that their throats hurt and refused to shout, Luo Yusheng shouted alone, they felt that they did not want to practice, Luo Yusheng practiced alone.
When Luo Yusheng, who had survived these dark years and had been away from the stage for ten years, stood up again, she was already an old lady of the flower armor, but her artistic path did not stop.
Luo Yusheng likes to learn the characteristics of the people, and when she sees who has good characteristics, she puts whose things are put into the Jingyun drum.
"The literary and artistic circles are my teachers, and I learn everything, and when I learn it, I put it in my paragraphs."
Fast forward to 1984, and Lin Ru was worried about not knowing who to find to sing the theme song for "Four Worlds Together".
He had thought about Luo Yusheng at that time, but when he thought about how old she was, his voice was afraid that it would be difficult to take on heavy responsibilities, but After going to the scene once, Lin Ru was stunned.
"Be sure to ask Elder Luo to sing this song."
Luo Yusheng's first reaction to receiving the invitation was to refuse.
"I don't sing, I don't know staves, how can I be asked to sing this?"
In order to persuade her, the well-known composer Lei Zhenbang wrote a thousand-word letter overnight, and asked his daughter Lei Lei to personally bring it over to ask for her permission.
Luo Yusheng was touched by such sincerity, and Luo Yusheng, who was already in his seventies at the time, handed the score to Lei Lei.
"I don't know music, you sing, I learn."
Lei Lei only sang it once, and the old lady had already learned it, and it was really surprising that she had such an age and such a learning ability.
When Luo Yusheng went to Beijing to record, she proposed to watch the sample film, and after watching the film, she was very excited, and she tried to sing on the spot, and when she sang the third sentence, Zhao Baogang cried and ran away.
Later, they were going to join the Western band, and Luo Yusheng could obviously feel the contempt and contempt of the crowd when he entered with a cane.
Someone else whispered, "What? The director is crazy? ”
But she didn't care at all, although she couldn't understand the conductor of Western music, but she had her own violinist to show herself, and the whole recording was written from beginning to end.
After the song was finished, there was a warm applause around him, and Luo Yusheng thought that the leader was coming.
Lin Ruwei clapped and told her, "This is to applaud you." ”
In 1989, Luo Yusheng's "Sword Pavilion Smelling Bells", which has been unbroken for fifty years, won the first China Golden Disc Award together with Mei Lanfang, Hou Baolin, Ma Lianliang and others.
Since the 22-year-old exploded in Tianjin, Luo Yusheng's name has resounded throughout the country.
Ma Sanli, Hou Baolin, Zhang Shouchen, Zhao Peiru and other well-known cross-talk artists have all opened for Luo Yusheng.
In her later years, Luo Yusheng experienced a turbulent survival and also gained a brilliant reputation, but she was not happy.
In 1980, Luo Yusheng lost his beloved Zhao Kuiying.
Due to a sudden cerebral hemorrhage, Zhao Kuiying regrettably passed away, and in the last moments of his life, the most uneasy thing in his heart was Luo Yusheng.
"You took good care of Luo Yusheng for me, this is the only thing I can't rest assured."
In the face of the sudden death of her wife, Luo Yusheng was sad, and many people advised her to remarry, but she refused.
"I am satisfied with one Zhao Kuiying in my life!"
After that, Luo Yusheng's life has always been entrusted to the care of his son Luo Jiaping.
Luo Yusheng loves his son, and his discipline is also strict, every time he goes to see her, Luo Jiaping must respectfully say, "Mother, I am coming", and when he leaves, he must also say, "Mother, I am gone."
However, one day in 1992, after Luo Jiaping left, he could no longer say a word of "Mother, I am coming", and he died of a sudden emergency heart attack.
Luo Yusheng felt that his sky had collapsed, and people had become a little confused.
Luo Yusheng, who is nearly 80 years old, sends black-haired people with white hair, and there is no pain on her face, only endless silence, and the most common thing to do is to silently look at her son's photos in a daze.
Every time she took the train to Beijing to perform, hold a meeting, or give a lecture, she would pass by the North Railway Station, and always sat in silence when she passed near the Beicang Funeral Home.
Luo Yusheng felt that she was once again closest to her dearest person, and she could only miss her relatives in this unique way.
Whether it is emotions or life, granddaughter Luo Weiwei has become her dependence.
Usually, when guests come, she can understand what others say through her granddaughter's translation, and if she forgets something, she has to rely on her granddaughter's reminder to remember it.
In 1998, Luo Yusheng returned to the Shanghai "Big World" where she first appeared on stage.
She said with some excitement: "I want to teach, I can still sing, I want to serve the people." ”
A few years later, the Tianjin Archives wanted to collect her personal files, she said: "As long as it is conducive to the development of the Jingyun drum, I am willing to do it." ”
In the last stage of her life, she is still constantly promoting the development of Jingyun, and her biggest worry is that the mainland music industry is in decline, and her only wish is to "have a successor".
In the last interview of her life, Luo Yusheng held the reporter's hand tightly and made a request in a trembling voice.
"There must be someone to follow, I ask you!"
On May 5, 2002, "Drum King" Luo Yusheng died in Tianjin due to respiratory failure.
End:
When the dust of the times falls on ordinary people, it is a mountain that is difficult to climb.
Luo Yusheng survived the old society and came to the new world, leaving a classic like the Jingyun Big Drum for the world.
Whether she is oppressed or nearly old, she has never stopped looking for art.
"Shame for the snow country to go first, reorganize the rivers and mountains for later life."
Luo Yusheng is an artist who has walked through the times by himself, and he is truly worthy of our respect.
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