Song Zuying, the "national face of the Spring Festival Gala", has been on the Spring Festival Gala for 24 consecutive years, and what is happening now after "disappearing" for 10 years

Author: Lin Meimei (rich book author)

Recently, Song Zuying, who has not appeared for a long time at the age of 57, appeared in a photo with netizens.

In the photo, Song Zuying is wearing a pink cardigan, a scarf over her shoulders, loose jeans, and short shoulder-length hair, which is eye-catching. This is very different from her appearance on the screen in gorgeous costumes, but it makes her more dignified and atmospheric.

Many netizens sighed that the last time they saw Song Zuying on TV was the Spring Festival Gala in 2013, ten years have passed, and the goddess is still so elegant and temperamental.

The name Song Zuying may be familiar and distant to many young people.

But the song "Good Day", you must have heard it. Every Spring Festival, the streets and alleys will invariably play this cheerful and festive song.

The singer of this song is Song Zuying.

She is a first-class actor in the mainland, and she is also China's "Folk Song Queen", with both beauty and talent, she has appeared on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala for 24 consecutive years, and has held 10 solo concerts overseas for 5 times.

Some people say: She can obviously rely on her appearance to get out of the circle, but she works hard to cultivate her talent, and what is even more commendable is that in the showbiz where she is drunk and gold-obsessed, she still retains a sincere and pure heart like gold.

However, behind her glamorous background, there are little-known hardships.

In order to support his family, he dropped out of school at the age of 15 to join the troupe, and went to the Spring Festival Gala after several hardships

In August 1966, Song Zuying was born in Guzhang County, Xiangxi, an old village with only a dozen families, and his family has been farmers for generations.

She also has a younger sister and a younger brother.

When she was young, Song Zuying had a well-behaved and quiet personality. Although the family is poor, the family lives a simple and happy life together.

However, the peaceful life was shattered when Song Zuying was in junior high school.

Her father died of tuberculosis, and her younger brother was misdiagnosed as deaf by the village doctor. A series of sudden changes brought a painful blow to the family.

After losing his father as the pillar of the family, life began to be very poor. Relying on her mother to go up to the mountains every day to collect firewood and plant crops, it is still only enough to maintain the family's food and clothing.

The most embarrassing thing is that once, when school was about to start, the family couldn't even get 5 yuan for tuition, and it was a kind uncle of the exploration team who lent money to Song Zuying so that she could continue to go to school.

Later, the relatives at home persuaded Song Zuying's mother to let Song Zuying drop out of school, which could not only reduce the burden, but also help take care of the younger siblings at home.

But her mother firmly refused, she thought that she had suffered from being uneducated, so she couldn't let Song Zuying repeat her mistakes.

The little Song Zuying is also more sensible, she silently took care of all the housework, laundry, firewood, water, and did not shout tired of multiple tasks.

However, the difficult childhood did not wear out her childishness and innocence. Because her mother loved to sing mountain songs while doing farm work, Song Zuying gradually fell in love with the long and tactful tunes of mountain songs.

Although she didn't know what music was at the time, she knew that singing could bring joy.

When she graduated from junior high school at the age of 15, in order to reduce the burden on her mother, she decided to participate in the recruitment of the prefectural opera troupe, so that she could work early to earn money.

Fortunately, fate did not treat her favorably this time.

Even though Song Zuying has not received professional training, she also stood out among the students with her natural and innocent timbre and was successfully admitted.

After entering the troupe and practicing vocal music for a year, Song Zuying became the only student who unanimously passed the assessment by the 7 judges, and officially became an actor in the county opera troupe. After that, she began to appear frequently in various art performances, and relying on her outstanding performance, she was transferred to the Xiangxi Song and Dance Troupe.

Subsequently, Song Zuying ushered in another opportunity to change her fate.

In 1985, the Central University for Nationalities recruited students in Xiangxi, and her bright temperament and beautiful voice were attracted by the recruitment teacher at a glance. ”

At that time, Song Zuying had just graduated from junior high school, but she was not deterred and plunged into the study of cultural classes. She began to gnaw on books without sleep or food, and she was visibly emaciated.

Fortunately, the hard work paid off, and after hard work, she finally successfully passed the cultural class exam.

In September of the same year, Song Zuying entered the Central University for Nationalities as she wished, which was also her first contact with a truly professional vocal coach.

As she learned about professional vocal music, she became even more eager for the opportunity to continue her studies.

However, unfortunately, after the end of the 2-year study period, due to financial difficulties, she could not afford to pay the 800 yuan tuition fee for further study, so she had to return to the Xiangxi Song and Dance Troupe again.

It is comforting that in the year she came back, Song Zuying has emerged in major competitions one after another, and she won the first place in the Young Singer Competition and the gold medal in the "Golden Phoenix Cup" Competition.

Just when she was full of ambition, at the age of 19, she suffered a big blow.

When participating in the Youth Singer Competition, the judges asked her to sing pop songs unprepared, so she refused. As a result, she received only an honorable mention.

Afterwards, Song Zuying learned that the judges thought that she wanted to leave Hunan by winning the competition, so they deliberately embarrassed her.

However, she just wanted more opportunities to learn. This misunderstanding made Song Zuying very sad, so much so that she participated in the later "Golden Dragon Cup" invitational tournament under the persuasion of the teachers, and won the first place.

But what made her even more happy was that after the competition, with the encouragement of her friends, she successfully apprenticed to Jin Tielin and began to follow him to receive higher-level and more professional vocal guidance.

At that time, Jin Tielin was the president of the China Conservatory of Music. It is also because of this that Song Zuying had the opportunity to return to Beijing and enter the graduate class of the China Conservatory of Music, starting her third study career.

In 1989, at the age of 23, she officially came to Beijing from Xiangxi to study with Mr. Jin.

At that time, by chance, she was also named by Qiong Yao to participate in the costume drama "Wanjun", and sang the episode "Little Back Basket".

Later, Hunan Satellite TV sent this "Little Back Basket" to CCTV. And it was this move of Hunan Satellite TV that kicked off Song Zuying's 24-year dominance of the Spring Festival Gala.

In 1990, Song Zuying, who was only 24 years old, appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala for the first time, and "Little Back Basket" with strong hometown characteristics made the national audience remember the name Song Zuying.

Since then, she has appeared on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala for 24 consecutive years and has become a household name.

confessed his poor life experience and gained love, and almost died in Lugou Lake when he made a music album

Later, she was arranged to go to the famous composer Xu Peidong's home to record.

The recording results had exceeded Xu Peidong's expectations for a newcomer, but what surprised him even more was that Song Zuying called him three days later to ask him if the song could be re-recorded and she could finish it better.

After so many years in the industry, Xu Peidong has never met a singer who took the initiative to ask for a re-recording. Song Zuying's spirit of excellence in music greatly touched him.

Since then, he has felt that Song Zuying will definitely have some achievements. After that, the two also became the "golden partners" in the industry, bringing dozens of widely sung golden songs to the audience.

While studying with Teacher Jin in Beijing, Song Zuying also unexpectedly gained her love.

At that time, in addition to practicing songs, she also kept in touch with friends who encouraged her to apprentice with Jin Tielin. This friend's name is Luo Hao, who is the director of Hunan TV, and the two have become friends since the "Golden Dragon Cup" event.

Luo Hao's concern and encouragement to Song Zuying in the letter made her feel warm in a foreign land. Soon, in the letters you exchanged with me, different feelings also spread in the hearts of the two.

Finally one day, Luo Hao expressed his admiration in a letter to her. Song Zuying did not agree or refuse, she just confessed her life experience in a reply to Luo Hao:

"My father died at an early age, my younger brother was still deaf and mute, and I was the eldest sister in the family, so I would need to take care of a large family in the future. "Let him think carefully.

Luo Hao smiled after receiving the letter, and Song Zuying, who was kind and responsible, convinced him that he had found the right person. He immediately rushed to Beijing and said a word to Song Zuying, which moved her, he said:

"I will definitely treat your family as my relatives, especially your brother, and I will definitely care more about him. ”

In 1992, the two got married in a low-key manner and walked into the palace of marriage hand in hand.

Although after marriage, Song Zuying often performs in the north and south, and the two get together less and leave more, but Luo Hao has no complaints. In the 31 years since marriage, she has always been her strong backing, and her mother and younger siblings have also been well taken care of by Luo Hao.

After graduating from the teacher's vocal class, the well-known Song Zuying became the object of competition among major art groups. In the end, she was moved by the sincerity of the Haizheng Song and Dance Troupe, and she chose to join Haizheng.

In the past 10 years in Haizheng, she will perform more than 100 performances on the front line every year, and almost every unit on the coastline of the motherland, and work tirelessly to sing for the troops and the masses.

In 1998, when the Yangtze River was hit by a catastrophic flood, she took the initiative to apply to the front line of flood fighting and performed condolence for the flood fighting troops. On the flood control levee, she performed an average of 2-3 shows a day, and always devoted herself to the performance with full enthusiasm, bringing comfort to the soldiers who rescued the rescue with her singing.

When she was praised by everyone for her good artistic ethics, she said from the bottom of her heart: "It was the simplicity, bravery, and selflessness of the soldiers that moved me, and it was they who allowed us to live in an era of peace." I just did what an actor should do and sang for them as best I could. ”

During this period, Song Zuying also released a number of music albums one after another.

Among them, the most classic is the album "Earth Flying Song" released in 2002. This is also the first time that Song Zuying has recorded a dance performance in his music and television career.

However, while filming this album, she almost lost her life.

At that time, it was filmed at Lugu Lake in Yunnan, and there was a scene in the play where Song Zuying was asked to stand on a glass platform in the middle of the lake and sing and dance.

So, the crew built a boat out of glass in the middle of the lake.

However, due to the unstable construction of the glass boat, when Song Zuying's dancing moves began to get bigger, an accident happened - the boat capsized and she fell into Lugu Lake.

At that time, Song Zuying was wearing a heavy performance costume, and once the performance costume was soaked in water, the weight would be doubled, and danger would come.

Fortunately, the director reacted alertly and immediately jumped into the lake and fished her up. Everyone turned pale with fright, but she looked calm and kept comforting everyone: "It's okay, it's okay."

Over the years, with this love and devotion to good music and good works, Song Zuying has brought us widely sung songs such as "Hot Girl", "Brother Bing", "Love My China", "Today I Will Be You", etc., and won numerous awards and honors, and she has become one of the best singing artists in China.

Since becoming famous, she has won many awards such as the "First Prize of the All-Army Art Show", the "Best Singing Award of World Chinese Music and Folk Songs", and the "Achievement Award of the Favorite Singer of the National Audience".

 Flying out of the country to sing was questioned, and she continued to work at an advanced age and pregnancy

Gradually, Song Zuying's music also sang abroad and was liked by foreign music lovers.

In 2002, Song Zuying was invited to South Korea to participate in the celebration of the World Cup football match on the eve of the theatrical performance, but unexpectedly encountered unprecedented abuse.

In this performance, Song Zuying, as the only Chinese singer invited, politely declined the high appearance fee offered by South Korea.

Because this is the first time that a Chinese singer has been invited to a major sports event in the world, Song Zuying feels that it is a matter of winning glory for the country to promote Chinese national vocal music, so he did not ask for an appearance fee.

However, she was accused of admiring foreign flattery, singing in China for a fee, but singing for free to foreigners. For a while, rumors were spreading, and various versions of the rumors were overwhelming.

After a short period of pain, Song Zuying still thinks that "those who are clear are self-purifying", so that the rumors are self-defeating.

Later, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Australia, she held a solo concert at the Sydney Opera House, becoming the first Asian to hold a concert there.

The success of the Sydney concert made Song Zuying even more determined to sing Chinese folk vocal music to all over the world.

A year later, at the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria, she once again gave us an unprecedented performance.

What's even more surprising is that when Song Zuying was 39 years old, she was 5 months pregnant when she recorded the album "Centennial Phonograph", and no one at the scene knew about it before the recording was completed.

In April 2005, in order to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Chinese films, Song Zuying planned to sing the theme songs of various styles of movies in the past 100 years and record them into an album "Centennial Gramophone".

At the end of more than ten hours of high-intensity recording every day, Xu Peidong asked her if she was too tired and had a few inaccurate breaths. Only then did she tell her about her pregnancy.

frightened his partner Xu Peidong a lot, saying that if he had known that Song Zuying was pregnant, he would never have let her work so high-intensity. Fortunately, 5 months later, Song Zuying successfully gave birth to a 7.4-pound son, which made everyone breathe a sigh of relief.

Song Zuying was also nominated for the 49th Grammy Awards with this film music album. The Grammy Awards, known as the "Oscars of the music industry", are the dreams of countless musicians, and this is the first time that Chinese folk music has won this award.

She said: "I recorded this disc because of my admiration for Chinese film songs. I want to record the hardships and glories of Chinese film music creation, commemorate the centenary of Chinese film, and dedicate it to the centenary of film. ”

Since then, she has held a special recital at JFK in the United States and a concert at Taipei Arena, starting a 12-concert tour.

In June 2012, she appeared on the stage of the Royal Concertgebouw in the United Kingdom, once again promoting Chinese folk songs to the world.

She co-organized the "Beyond the Peak Concert" with Lang Lang and Bocelli at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

All 3,000 tickets were sold out on the first day of ticketing, and before the performance, the 140-year-old concert hall sounded the "March of the Volunteers" for the first time, and the Chinese present were moved to tears.

This performance of "East Meets West" has achieved results that have attracted the attention of the world.

Song Zuying has made great contributions to the world stage of Chinese national vocal music. In 2010, Song Zuying won the title of "2009 Chinese Cultural Figure", and in 2019, she was named on the list of 100 Huxiang Figures for the 70th Anniversary of New China.

It's a pity that in the 2013 Spring Festival Gala, after she performed "Jasmine" affectionately, she disappeared from the stage of the Spring Festival Gala. On other stages, there are only a handful of opportunities to make appearances.

In 2014, she appeared at Lincoln Center in New York, USA, participated in the New York Philharmonic Chinese New Year Concert, two years later, she sang the song "Looking at the Moon" in the "Barracks Stage" column, and in 2019, she sang the song "Dream Track" at the 70th anniversary gala held by the People's Navy.

In recent years, Song Zuying, who "disappeared" on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, seems to have become the object of everyone's search.

In fact, fading the halo of "diva", she is both a wife and a mother.

In an interview in the early years, she revealed that her husband Luo Hao and son have been supporting her singing career for many years, and she has always felt guilty and wants to turn her focus back to her family and spend more time with them.

She said: "In addition to singing, I am like everyone else, old and young, I have a big family, I can take care of everything at home, I enjoy my family, I love them very much, and we live happily." ”

Many years ago, after she and Luo Hao got married, she brought her mother, younger brother, and younger sister to Beijing, and the family lived together.

Now, her younger sister has entered the showbiz with the help of her husband Luo Hao and has become an actress, and her younger brother has set up his own art studio after graduating from the Fine Arts Department of Changchun University, devoting himself to the art he loves.

After becoming famous, Song Zuying not only took care of the "small family" as much as she could, but also helped "everyone" with gratitude.

As early as 2001, Song Zuying actively participated in social charity activities and donated to Chinese charity for many times. She also set up the "Song Zuying Scholarship Foundation" in 2006, and has been continuously supporting poor students.

Song Zuying often said that he was raised in the mountains, had a very happy childhood, and was often grateful for his mother's education and the cultivation of his teacher. The achievements I have made are the credit of the team, and it is also the country that has given musicians a good era, so that music can flourish.

Such a Song Zuying makes people can't help but feel respect.

I wish her happiness and health for the rest of her life, and I also hope that our Chinese national vocal music can continue to go to the world and let the world listen to the beauty of Chinese songs.

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