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In April, there was a post on the Internet that made the post-80s and post-90s netizens cry and laugh.
The person who posted it was probably a post-00s, didn't know where he overheard a singer's song, and felt very appreciative. Then it was like discovering a new continent and wanted to share it with everyone.
On the title of the post, he wrote solemnly, "Recommend an unpopular Singaporean Chinese singer." It's just that when many people see the name behind it, they laugh at it.
This person is, Sun Yanzi.
For a time, the netizens after the 80s and 90s were dumbfounded: "Where is she a 'cold singer', she is our youth!" ”
However, there is such a misunderstanding, you can't completely blame a post-00s "child".
Because it really seems that there are not many diva singers in the Chinese music scene, they can be like Sun Yanzi, who debuted for 21 years, about 10 years, and retreated from the public eye.
Except for Faye Wong, I can't think of a second person.
But you have to say, because this Sun Yanzi has become a "cold singer", there may be a group of people who will not raise their hands to agree.
Not long ago, in the voting of "Favorite Chinese Female Singer" and "Tiger Flutter Goddess" launched by a website, Sun Yanzi, who has not often appeared on the screen in recent years, actually won the second place.
And the first place is Faye Wong.
Therefore, when the news of her entry into a short video platform a few days ago went away, it immediately attracted millions of people to watch.
In the few hours that followed, the first short video she sent exceeded the 200 million mark.
Then, many people rushed to tell each other:
My goddess and my youth are back together!
Because of her songs, but the youth of countless people...
After all, in the Chinese music scene, she is second only to Faye Wong.
Some people also say that Sun Yanzi is probably the "most difficult woman" in Jay Chou's life. Because in his Grand Slam award resume, only one Taiwan golden song "Best Newcomer Award" is missing.
Because other awards can be countless times, but the newcomer award is only once.
And it was Sun Yanzi, who debuted at the same time, who took away this award!
Even Han Hong, who has always been a straightforward "mainland singer", praised her:
There are almost no people who can conquer me, sun Yanzi counts one.
Because as soon as she debuted, she was the peak.
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Compared with Jay Chou's downfall and embarrassment before his debut, Sun Yanzi's singing career can be described as smooth sailing.
She learned to play the piano at the age of 5, sang on stage at the age of 10, and wrote songs independently at the age of 18.
The record company waited for two years to make her debut. Because Sun Yanzi insisted on completing her college studies.
But no one expected that in 2000, she became popular as soon as she debuted.
On the cover of her first self-titled album, Sun Yanzi, this is how the 22-year-old girl is introduced:
There wasn't a 22-year-old girl who sang like that.
As a result, the album sold 1.8 million copies as soon as it was released in Taiwan. And the song "Dark In the Sky" in the album has become Sun Yanzi's famous song, and it has also become a popular song in the streets and alleys.
Even years later, many people will hear this melody and sing it softly:
It's dark/it's going to rain/it's dark/it's black......
I fell in love with someone who made me desperate, and I missed the simple and beautiful little happiness of the past.
However, rampage, being misunderstood and deceived, whether the adult world is always behind the mutilation...
This song mixed with Hokkien and Chinese, Sun Yanzi sang it in a semi-folk and semi-popular singing voice, accompanied by her unique and clean voice, singing the complex emotions of this song, so that everyone can hear different emotions in this song and resonate with it.
I think that if 100 people listened to it, there were 100 kinds of "Dark".
This song not only brought fire to Sun Yanzi, but also made her sweep a number of best newcomer awards in the two years of her debut, which is still an unbreakable record in the Chinese music industry.
This song has become the common youth memory of two generations. To this day, it is still a popular on-demand song in various KTV boxes.
There is also a song of the same period, "Start to understand", so that many people will not help but start singing as soon as they hear the melody: "I believe that you are just afraid of hurting me, not lying to me, and who loves me very much will be willing to ..."
This song is a classic love song of high quality in the early days of Sun Yanzi's debut. At the same time, it is also the sincere work of Sun Yanzi's hall-level royal composer Teacher Li Kaisong and the arranger Kenn C.
It has been released for 22 years. But many people will still use it as their own reserved tracks in KTV.
Next is "Green Light", Sun Yanzi's first popular fast song.
A group of people danced on the stage to the rhythm of tap dance, and Sun Yanzi sang along with the fast-paced soundtrack in front of her: "Electrocution is incredible, like a miracle, across my life..."
This song was an infinite loop in the headphones of many people at that time, just like poisoning.
The song also won her the Most Popular Song Award in the 8th Global Chinese Music Chart in 2001.
There was also the theme song "Meet" composed for the movie "Go Left, Go Right" in 2003.
Not only did it become another of her highly sung hits, but she also won the first place in Hitfm's annual 100 singles; the 2004 Asia Highest ON-DEMAND Gold Award...
In just three years since her debut, she has released 7 albums. Moreover, the quality of each sheet is extremely high, and the sales volume is full, and there are countless awards.
Sun Yanzi is known as "the ceiling of female singers after 2000".
Some people even commented that her music achievements in the first 3 years were enough to stand still.
03
Some people say that in the song world, Sun Yanzi is a special existence.
Because three years after her debut, Sun Yanzi, who was at the peak of her career, suddenly "said goodbye" to her fans at the concert, saying that she wanted to temporarily leave the entertainment industry and said that you would not see me within a year.
At that time, she was completely empty, bound by too many things, without any emotion, and did not know how to find happiness.
After a year off, she returned with a new album as promised.
Once again, it refreshed everyone's perception of the "retired singer": the new album sold more than two million, and the concert venue was full.
In the rapidly developing entertainment industry, there are presumably few people who can return to such a good result after disappearing like Sun Yanzi a year later.
But Sun Yanzi did.
Not only did she do it, but her fans did it: never abandoned her, always loyal to her.
So much so that some media quipped: "When Sun Yanzi's fans are really tired, they have come back and disappeared five times, and it takes several years to wait for a song." ”
But what does it matter? Because every return of Sun Yanzi is the "return of the king".
After a period of silence, in 2011, Sun Yanzi once again appeared in front of fans with a long hair.
She said: "It took 4 years, silently fought a battle with myself, conquered the perfect requirements for music, and finally returned triumphantly. ”
This time she brought her new album "It's Time" as a gift for her 11 years of debut and her 11th album.
At that time, the attendance of the director's audience was limited, and only 199 lucky people could hear the song before the media broadcast. In order to be able to hear the new song of Sun Yanzi for the first time after four years of absence, the event broke out a ticket rush at the beginning, and even a fan registered more than 60 accounts to register.
In the end, "It's Time" sold 85,000 copies in Taiwan, ranking fourth in annual sales in Taiwan and no. 1 female singer.
Then less than 1 year later, after finishing the tour, she disappeared again.
She always treated herself as an ordinary person. She said that red is not red is not the point, it was not before, and it will not be in the future.
Therefore, Sun Yanzi's specialness is not only in her unique voice and singing skills, but also in her maverick personality.
She said that the reason for the retreat was because she wanted to do subtraction and use more experience to do important things. "When you have too much, it takes over you".
And such a clear and sharp mind comes from her original family and good origins.
Sun Yanzi is the second daughter of the family, and the "second + female" plus is "posture", so it is named "Yanzi".
Dad Sun Yaohong, a professor at Nanyang Technological University, a famous university in Singapore, and his mother is also a teacher, which is a typical scholar.
Sun Yanzi has an older sister who is three years older than her, named Sun Yanjia, who is a vice president of Barclays Investment Bank in Singapore. Her sister, Sun Yanmei, is six years younger than her and holds a Master of Medicine degree from the National University of Singapore.
The family is elite.
Therefore, in the elite education of her parents, Sun Yanzi clearly knows what to do and what not to do, when to stop, and when to continue to move forward.
Not impressed by the glitz of the entertainment industry, nor led by the strange lusciousness of the entertainment industry.
She has her own rhythm and her own life trajectory.
04
In the year of her second return, she got married.
The husband is an outsider named Nadim.
Judging from the photos, this bearded man and Sun Yanzi, a singer who combines wisdom and beauty, are not at all compatible.
But Nadim is also an elite.
Born in 1977, he is a Dutch national and has worked as a marketing executive for a Hong Kong company.
In 2007, she shifted her career focus from Hong Kong to Singapore for Sun Yanzi, where she settled. He is currently a Senior Executive in Aviva's Brand & Marketing Department in Singapore.
Although the introduction of Sun Yanzi's husband on the Internet is limited, from Sun Yanzi's evaluation of him, we can see that he, like Sun Yanzi, is a person with a firm heart and a clear mind.
Sun Yanzi said that he is definitely a very simple person, often reminding me that what is the most important.
Just 3 months after Sun Yanzi announced her relationship, they held a low-key wedding.
Afterwards, everyone learned that the day of the wedding was the fifth anniversary of their relationship.
In October of the second year of marriage, Sun Yanzi's son was born. Soon after, a daughter was also born. Sun Yanzi also began to shift her focus to the family.
On her social platform, it is more difficult to see her new news in her singing career, but more like ordinary people, sharing her life and parents. He also often joked that he was a "housewife".
Seeing her in such a state, fans are anxious, waiting for her to come out with new songs, waiting for her concert.
Finally, in 2014, she returned again, releasing a new album " Kepler " , and began a tour of "Kepler".
As a result, this time, it is still "the return of the king" - she won five awards such as the most popular female singer at the 19th Singapore Golden Melody Awards.
In that era when the music market began to disappear, Sun Yanzi was still an alternative existence.
Her songs are like magic, even if the album does not have a little element of pleasing the market, it is still hot and still in short supply.
It is also from this album that Sun Yanzi's creative mentality seems to have changed, from catering to the market to creating well.
So in this state of mind, she released the single "Dancing Van Gogh" in 2017.
The song is that she went to see van Gogh's painting and listened to the story of him shooting himself in the wheat field, and felt that she was very similar to Van Gogh. For example, persistence, such as reason and madness, like the two little people in the heart will always fight.
As a result, the album won the Most Popular Pop Record Award at the 7th Abbey Deer Music Awards.
Subsequently, she began a low-key life, until the epidemic in 2020, in a plain and ordinary way, singing for everyone online.
05
For so many years, she was like an elf in the music world, and no one knew when she would appear or when she would disappear.
Just like in early 2021, she came back without warning, with the single "Balance".
It wasn't a god or a nostalgic song, it was a song she could sing whenever she wanted.
Although this song, for the first time in history, did not cause any super high popularity, there appeared a post after 00 called her an "unpopular singer".
And she herself did not care at all, and quipped: the unpopular singer thanks everyone for their attention, and soon there will be a new song.
Just under this post, many people began to shout:
"Unpopular Singer" let's start a concert, I can afford to buy tickets now.
I have to say that this "unpopular singer" debuted for 22 years, and every song she has spoken has accompanied the youth of many people.
How can we forget, and how can we forget?
So when she returned this time and entered a short video platform, countless people poured into her account. Because here is our youth, there is a past that we can't go back to.
Finally, on September 9, 2021, the night of "Love You for a Long Time", she sang in a summer song party held by a short video platform.
Straight Forward, Peace, Kepler, My Love, No Man's Direction, Whirlpool, Escape, Encounter.
There are old songs and new songs. Unfortunately, the only thing missing is "I Miss" that everyone wants to hear.
Every listener is like sitting on a time machine, and the thoughts come from 22 years ago to the present.
She is still so sassy, so beautiful, and her songs are still so touching.
For the first time, I also experienced what is called "ten thousand empty alleys". Take a look at her watch likes:
16 minutes likes exceeded 100 million;
24 minutes likes broke 200 million;
34 minutes likes exceeded 300 million;
46 minutes likes exceeded 400 million;
59 minutes of likes exceeded 500 million;
66 minutes of likes broke 600 million.
The total number of viewers was 8.286 million, and the number of viewers was 12.221 million!
I don't know if she counts as an "unpopular singer", but as one netizen said:
Our youth will never come back, but the man who brought us the memories of youth is back!
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