From her, we can see that no matter how great the glory, it will return to the plain, and the sad trough will eventually be smoothed by time.
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In the past two days, a small thing has attracted the attention of Yu Yanjie:
Open Douyin, the boot interface is a particularly bland promotional map - on September 9, the unpopular singer Sun Yanzi entered Douyin.
I suddenly realized that it seemed that it had been a long time since I heard the news of this female singer who had been popular for 20 years and had been extremely popular.
The last time I saw her news, it was because a 14-year-old netizen sincerely "recommended a cold Singaporean Chinese singer", and carefully pointed out that "Kugou QQ can be downloaded for free".
There are also media reports that "Sun Yanzi" is written as "Sun Yanli" without knowing it.
Therefore, many young netizens simply can't figure out why the promotion of this strange female singer blew up the entire social network as soon as it came out.
On the 7th, Sun Yanzi's Douyin account only sent 2 videos, attracted 2.229 million fans, and received 2.32 million likes, which is equivalent to 13 people uninterruptedly liking her every second.
The topic of "Sun Yanzi settled in Douyin" quickly exceeded 200 million in a few hours.
▲Now the number of plays is definitely more than this number
Millions of people rushed online to tell each other: the goddess and youth are back together! This includes a fan named Xiao Zhan.
Young people who have not experienced that era are mostly hard to imagine how red she once was.
Sun Yanzi can be called the ceiling of female singers after 2000.
In 2000, the album sold first among female singers, and the self-titled album "Sun Yanzi" sold 260,000 copies in mainland China, and the album had pre-ordered more than 1.2 million copies as of 2002.
Whether it is in the classroom of the provincial key high school or in the street corner hairdresser, everyone can hum a sentence of "I fell in love with the person who made me desperate", and now it still sounds like it has the power to make people break through the defense in an instant.
That is, that year, the music scene had the saying that "men have Jay Chou, women have Sun Yanzi", because at that time, the annual sales volume of Taiwanese albums, the four albums of the two of them accounted for nearly 40%.
In the years when she was active, almost 95% of the nomination lists of major music awards ceremonies had her share, and she was also recognized as a soft hand at winning awards.
At that time, some people jokingly said that Faye Wong would choose a successor, and the always tireless Queen of Heaven did not want to say "then Sun Yanzi.".
In fact, these achievements and talents are not the place where Yu Yanjie appreciates her, what interests me most is that she actually chose to retire 3 times under the support of her predecessors and the bright star path.
1. Shuxiang Mendi, the first peak
Born on July 23, 1978 in Singapore, sun Yanzi's ancestral home is Chaozhou City, Guangdong Province, China, her father Sun Yaohong is a professor of electrical engineering at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and her mother is a teacher.
▲ Sun Yanzi and her mother
She has an older sister above and a younger sister below.
Sister Sun Yanjia is currently serving as Vice President of Barclays Investment Bank in Singapore, and sister Sun Yanmei is a M.D. from the National University of Singapore. The feeling of the tiger woman will be doord.
It is also funny to say that the reason why she will be called "posture" is purely because she is the second eldest, the second + female = posture, so she named "Yanzi" (the father is worthy of the theory, the thinking is so direct).
Parents are teachers, and the temperament of the children they teach is somewhat different from others.
Since she was a child, her parents did not deliberately prescribe what she was going to do, but only encouraged her to contact more "extracurricular projects".
Sun Yanzi chose the piano, swimming and fighting, her idea was very simple, the girls who played the piano were very beautiful, swimming and fighting can strengthen the body and defend themselves, each choice is full of pragmatism, so that parents look very relieved.
By the time she really showed her musical talents and dreams, she was already in college, and she formed her own band on campus and had a lot of fun.
Her enlightened parents were quite supportive, and simply enrolled her in music school and let her concentrate on music.
In 1998, Warner Music Chairman Zhou Jianhui visited the school, was attracted by her voice and solid skills, and said that he wanted to sign a contract with her. But Sun's father said that his daughter was still young and would wait until she graduated from college.
Two years later, she graduated from Nanyang Technological University's Department of Marketing, and the record company immediately signed her.
With this signing, a huge treasure was harvested.
Debuted 3 years, 7 albums, a big hit.
In June 2000, he released the first self-titled album "Sun Yanzi", and at the end of the year, he released the second album "I Want Happiness", and won the 12th Golden Melody Award "Best Newcomer Singer Award" from Jay Chou, who debuted in the same year, which made many Zhou Dong fans hate for a lifetime.
Although there was a saying of "four big and three small" in the Taiwanese music scene at that time, in the hearts of many young people at that time, Sun Yanzi was a unique top stream with a unique temperament.
Yu Yanjie has a good friend, as long as Sun Yanzi comes out of the album, she will inevitably run to buy it for the first time, and the eighteen pieces of hardcover will make him hungry for half a month. You know, at that time, the monthly salary of ordinary wage-earners was only about 1,000 yuan.
Therefore, many students are very cherished, the first thing the album takes home is the shell film, the tape is taken out to rip a disk, and then only listen to the ripped tape.
At that time, copying the lyrics of Sun Yanzi's album was also very popular, and many girls copied several large copies by hand, which would be quoted in diaries and love letters.
When in love, sing "Meet", when you are in love, sing "It's Dark", and when a group of youthful boys and girls gather, they will sing "Backlight" shoulder to shoulder.
Sun Yanzi's influence is so great that even Singapore's prime minister Lee Hsien Loong is proud of her: "When I went to Taipei and Shanghai, I saw huge billboards full of Yanzi endorsements, and I was very proud to hear her songs played everywhere." ”
When she harvested this huge impact, Sun Yanzi was only 22 years old.
However, the shadow under the aura gradually spread because of her talent and popularity.
2. Mental breakdown, rapids retreat
With the popularity of Sun Yanzi, concerts, signing parties, and variety shows filled her schedule.
Each signing session was crowded, resulting in a serious overstep of the security workload.
Some staff members complained that every time they went to sign, they made it seem as if they wanted to go to the Causeway Bay code group shelf, saying that Sun Yanzi was like Hong Xing's thirteenth sister in "Ancient Puzzle Boy", so he simply called her thirteenth sister.
▲However, outsiders only see her peak, but they can't see her exhaustion
She describes herself losing herself in this state of busyness, not knowing what role she is, having nothing to share with the audience, and the pleasure of being a singer is gone, becoming a necessary job.
After her album The Moment was released in 2003, she wasn't in a very good personal situation.
Because she had to release three albums a year, she could not be relaxed mentally, and she was nervous and anxious for a long time but could not be released, and Sun Yanzi at that time was almost on the verge of mental collapse, and it was difficult to communicate with normal people.
Most importantly, the long hours of high-intensity work made her doubt herself and even began to be confused about life, so she decided to retire and adjust her state.
She said, "I really thank you very much for the past three years, I feel really lucky to have fans like you, you really give me a lot of strength in spirit, I will definitely come back in a year, and then I will definitely do better for you."
In the golden age of the singer's heyday, she abandoned everything, retreated from the rapids, and spent a year reading, traveling, in a daze, spending time with her family, and regaining the lost time alone.
On November 30, 2004, Sun Yanzi accompanied World Vision to visit four slums in Kolkata, India, where she adopted a girl named Sumita at a local rescue center for street girls, and raised a sum of money for the aid station before leaving.
A year later, Sun Yanzi counted and returned with her new album "Stefanie", and the "My Love" in the album directly won the Top Ten Golden Melody Awards of Hong Kong and Taiwan in the 5th Music Chart.
It was also from this time that the speed of her filming gradually slowed down, one a year, she was comfortable, and fans could afford to wait.
However, Sun Yanzi did not gain calm, and the storm rose again.
3, the aura is scorching, 2 times retreat
In April 2005, Sun Yanzi released her 9th album "Perfect Day", which undoubtedly won the Best Female Singer Award in Hong Kong and Taiwan and the Most Popular Female Singer Award again.
However, only half a year later, dennis, her boyfriend of four years, suddenly proposed to break up.
Paparazzi stalking, the pressure of "Sun Yanzi's boyfriend" identity, so that Dennis can not let go, Sun Yanzi did not expect that even if the open love, her burning aura still stings the beloved.
The simple and precious love of youth has now ended up in such a result, and to make matters worse, the contract with the company has also gone wrong at this time.
The pain of lost love and the pressure of work made her fall into negative emotions again for a long time.
Sun Yanzi decided to retire for the second time.
It was also during the year of rest that she met Nadim, who watched movies, dated, and drank milk tea like couples who had just left school, and under the nourishment of love, the eccentric Sun Yanzi returned.
In 2007, Sun Yanzi, who made her second comeback, unexpectedly won the 6th China Golden Disc Awards Music Video Award for her new album "Backlight", as well as the 2008 MTV Asia Awards Most Popular Singer Award in Singapore.
But this comeback was extremely short-lived.
When Sun Yanzi went to Egypt to shoot the MV of "Backlight", there was news that she was extorted and even threatened with her personal safety in the local area.
As a result, the Egyptian tour guide came forward to clarify that there was no so-called "extortion" and that Sun Yanzi was "lying".
The entertainment world was in an uproar, and the news was huge.
Suddenly, Sun Yanzi's image was implicated, many fans disengaged, and the media also reprimanded her.
In the face of wave after wave of sharp questions, Sun Yanzi was tired of coping, only to say that all this was a hype manipulated by the company's top management, she was physically and mentally exhausted, and once again terminated her contract with the company and faded out of the singing world.
As a result, the following year, "Backlight" won numerous awards, but Sun Yanzi did not care anymore.
She experimented with fashion design, learned culinary techniques, and devoted herself to public welfare, freely pursuing areas she had never set foot in.
She loves music, but she is not kidnapped by love.
Her last big move was the release of her 12th album Kepler in 2014 and a 28-in-a-row "Kepler" tour, which has been rarely reported since.
She got married and had children, gave up the cake of the entertainment industry, and only used a pseudonym to make a head when needed.
For example, in the list of people donated by entertainers to Wuhan in early 2020, the name of "Ms. Sun, an old friend of Han Hong" was faintly left.
Lin Junjie's song "stay with you" sung to cheer for Wuhan is also written by Sun Yanzi.
For the stage she once shone, neither keen nor forgotten, she lived in her own rhythm.
Maybe someone was waiting for her, but she already had something she wanted to cherish and wouldn't act hastily to cater to anyone.
A 22-year-old girl said to her in the talent show:
"I've loved you for twelve years, I can sing more than eighty of your songs, I didn't have any money when I was a kid, so I didn't see your concerts but you didn't have any concerts after that."
Yes, it may not matter whether there is a concert or not.
Because, she has found a way to get along with fame and self.
In the eyes of Yu Yanjie, Sun Yanzi is a magical being.
Debuted 19 years, retired three times, never banned, never hyped.
Jay Chou, who was at the same time as her, has long been a god, and even his ex-girlfriend and wife can bring up a wave of topics.
Only Sun Yanzi, no new songs, no variety shows, no New Year's Eve party, 0 gossip 0 gossip 0 hot search, almost fell into the situation of no one.
But as soon as she starts singing, someone will be moved, like rain over a sunny day.
Because from her, we can see that no matter how great the glory, it will return to the plain, and the sad trough will eventually be smoothed by time.
The face of life is calm, and only the free mind is difficult to find.
May we be free.
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