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A singer who had a rough background but finally became an inspirational idol with his own efforts, do you know who it is?
That's right, it was the singer Huang Qishan, who was once called "Chongqing Xiao Su Rui". From a little girl with an unhappy family and ridiculed on her appearance, to a poor woman who has lost her marriage three times and suffered from domestic violence, to an inspirational star who finally appeared on the stage of CCTV Spring Festival Gala at the age of 55 with her tenacity, Huang Qishan's life experience can be called "Activity Script".
Let's dive into her story and see how the singer reinvented her life with music and perseverance.
A difficult childhood
On March 23, 1968, Huang Qishan was born in Chongqing in an ordinary working family. Since she was a child, she has shown an extraordinary talent for singing, and was praised by her teacher as "outstanding in singing". However, the poverty of her family and the crisis of her parents' relationship gave her a shadowy childhood.
"My parents started to quarrel frequently when I was very young, and the whole family atmosphere was very bad." Huang Qishan recalled that her parents lacked an emotional foundation and were full of contradictions, and they quarreled until the end. When she was 15 years old, her parents finally officially separated, and Wong lived with her mother in a small rental house.
This difficult time left an indelible psychological shadow on her at a young age. Homelessness, lack of father's love, living in poverty... Wong's world is plunged into darkness. The only solace is that after school, she will come to the group and sing a few songs, and forget the boredom of life for a while.
"At that time, I found that as soon as I started singing, all my worries were swept away." Wong said that this sense of relief made her more and more addicted to singing and strengthened her determination to pursue a career in music in the future.
However, Huang Qishan has been short and ordinary-looking since she was a child, and she has been ridiculed by many people as "Huang Shorty". In her heart, this is undoubtedly worse. Extreme low self-esteem and uncertainty about the future once made her want to give up her dreams, but in the end, she relied on her tenacious will to survive and her love for music.
At the age of 15, her family's financial constraints forced Wong to stop at junior high school and unable to go on to higher education. In order to alleviate the financial burden on her family, she resolutely ran away from home and began to sing and beg for a living in the streets and alleys. It was this lonely experience that made Huang Qishan learn to be self-reliant and pushed her onto the road of music.
The dilemma of three unmarried
Despite her career, Wong's personal life has been difficult. At the age of 19, she married a man she had just met. However, the rough nature of the other party was soon exposed, and domestic violence was frequently committed against her, and the marriage broke up after only 10 months.
"It was a nightmare, I was locked up at home and beaten, and I wondered if I wouldn't survive." Wong said the trauma had caused her to lose faith in her marriage. However, a year later, she married Taiwanese musician Tu Huiyuan, but three years later she divorced due to differences in living habits and values.
The 45-year-old Huang Qishan is married again, this time to music director Zhang Ying. The two were once known as a "model couple in the music industry", but after only three years, the scandal of Zhang Ying's derailment broke out. As a result, Huang Qishan embarked on the road of no return for divorce for the third time.
The failure of three marriages has exhausted almost all the singer's confidence in her feelings. "I really shouldn't be killed, the men I met were all soft rice men." Huang Qishan said helplessly, but she does not regret getting married, because deep down she has always longed to have a complete family and children.
Due to the physical and mental trauma she endured over the years, she was never able to have children. Whenever she sees someone else holding a child in her arms, Huang Qishan will feel great regret and self-blame. This regret continues to this day, and even though she is over half a hundred years old, she still regrets not being able to be a mother.
Despite the failure of her marriage, music has become the biggest driving force for Wong Yee Shan's life. Whenever she encounters setbacks and blows, she will use singing to relieve the pain in her heart. It is precisely by relying on her persistent pursuit of music career that she walked out of the haze and rediscovered the hope of life.
Adversity and take-off in the music industry
After running away from home at the age of 15, Wong began a life of wandering, earning a living by singing on the streets. After graduating from high school in 1986, she was admitted to the Chongqing Huahua Song and Dance Troupe, where she touched countless audiences with her infectious voice on the stage and made important connections.
In 1991, because of her outstanding performance, she was selected by the famous musician Song Chengji and became the resident singer of Guangzhou Butong 100 nightclub. Huang Qishan became famous in one fell swoop, and her popularity is on par with the rookie Na Ying in the music world, and she is known as "Chongqing Little Su Rui".
However, the good times did not last long, and the following year she married Taiwanese musician Tu Huiyuan, and moved to Taiwan to develop according to her husband's wishes, and her music career was interrupted for a while. It wasn't until the two divorced that Huang Qishan returned to the mainland, but it has been nearly 20 years since her career went up and down.
The turning point came from this year, when she was 45 years old and participated in Hunan Satellite TV's popular variety show "I Am a Singer", unexpectedly won the fourth place in the finals, and became the focus of national attention in one fell swoop. Some media called her "the strongest dark horse in the music industry".
Taking advantage of this shareholder trend, Huang Qishan's career became popular again, she not only launched a number of albums one after another, but also frequently sang theme songs for film and television dramas, both at the box office and word of mouth.
The interlude "Red Dust Love Song" she sang for the TV series "Legend of Wu Median" won the Magnolia Award for Best Music. The theme song of the 2016 costume drama "Signing" is also from her. With the continuous improvement of popularity, Huang Qishan also performed with bare hands, touring everywhere.
At the age of 51, she released her 10th album "Red Wall and Yellow Tile", with a unique and novel song style and great acclaim. The judges were full of praise and said: "Huang Qishan is like a bottle of old wine that is getting more and more fragrant the older it gets, and the timbre is getting more and more mellow and flavorful."
But for the singer, appearing on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala is her biggest dream. She made this wish at the age of 15 and has been fighting for it for 40 years. Over the years, Huang Qishan has hit the stage of the Spring Festival Gala several times but has repeatedly failed, and once almost gave up.
Until 2023, when the 55-year-old finally stood on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala and performed the song "It's a Mother is a Daughter" full of maternal love with a vicissitudes of life, the audience burst into long-lasting applause. The audience was deeply moved by the family story contained in this song, and cheered for this singer who persistently pursued his dreams.
Overnight, Huang Qishan's fame exploded across the country, and her Weibo fans exceeded 10 million. Both the live and online audiences were moved by the story of this "actress mother who married late at the age of 55". Some netizens commented: "Looking at her is like looking at a relative, it's not easy for her!"
Her work partners affectionately call her "Huang Ma", and Huang Qishan also turns her mother's love into music to warm every listener. Although her life path was bumpy, she finally used her tenacious will and perseverance to achieve her music career and won the love of the people across the country.
From a little girl with an unhappy family and ridiculed on her appearance, to a poor woman who has lost her marriage three times and suffered domestic violence, to an inspirational idol who finally appeared on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, Huang Qishan has used her life to interpret the power of tenacity and tenacity. Her story is like a tragic song, a combination of struggle, frustration and rebirth, with a complete structure and strong sense of rhythm, which makes people think about it and linger after reading it.
There is no doubt that this 55-year-old singer who "realized his dream" will become the most infectious inspirational idol in the new era, inspiring and warming countless dreamers with his personal experience. In the process of pursuing our dreams, we will never give up easily, which is the greatest wisdom of life that Huang Qishan wants to pass on to us.