In his early years, he won the first China Gold Record Award, the fourth Top Ten Fever Records Music Art Achievement Award and the title of "China's Most Influential Musician in the 20th Century" with Song of Peony and In the Distance.
As a national first-class actor and winner of special allowance from the State Council, David Jiang's life is not as smooth as his career, and the evaluation of him by the outside world has gradually begun to be mixed.
Under the public comments, what kind of unknown David Jiang is there?
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A young man from Tianjin, David Jiang, his father is a pharmacist in a township and his mother is a school teacher. He has a sister in the world and a younger brother in the world, ranking second in the family. Because she is white, lovely and obedient, she is loved by her elders.
Although David is at home in the music world now, in fact, he only wanted to be a painter when he was a child. When I graduated from junior high school, I entered the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts for in-depth art study without being admitted to the middle school attached to the Central Academy of Fine Arts.
I wanted to be admitted to a better academy of fine arts, but after entering high school, the college entrance examination system was cancelled, and David Jiang's dream of academy of fine arts was completely shattered.
Fortunately, David Jiang's artistic path has not been cut off from here, because his voice condition is excellent and he has his own unique views and opinions on music, so he was chosen by his neighbors who can sing and dance well.
The two began to practice singing together. Gradually, David Jiang began to be influenced by her neighbors and began to reshape her dreams in singing.
Because he was born with a good voice, the neighbors in the street praised him for his ability. David Jiang will be invited to any activity of the neighborhood committee, and since then, the title of "Little Song God" has spread among the neighbors.
Because David Jiang's family owned a private drugstore before liberation, his background was not good, which led to the rejection of him by all propaganda teams at that time. When I was old, I didn't have a serious unit, so I had to go to the propaganda team in Heping District, where I met the most important person in my life, his wife Zhang.
At that time, Zhang was the captain of the propaganda team, but only a rookie intern. Even Zhang was able to enter because he pushed his way through the crowd.
The identities of the two men are very different, and everyone advised Zhang to stay away from this seemingly useless man. But Zhang was not affected, and he was very attentive to him.
If there is an opportunity, I will arrange for David Jiang to sing a few words with me and accumulate stage experience. The team was short of ingredients, so Zhang made his own meat dishes and sneaked them into the lunch box. In this way, two people spent a period of time tacitly.
Everyone in the group knows that Zhang He is in love, but the paper between them has never been punctured. One is shame, and the other is inferiority. They are connected after work.
Finally, a big sister in the propaganda team made it clear to them. Only then did the two of them begin their formal contact life.
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Happy hour arrived 1968, and their life trajectories began to be forced to take a turning point.
Because of the unique voice condition, David Jiang was selected by his hometown Tianjin Song and Dance Troupe, and was able to return to his hometown with a secure iron rice bowl. Zhang will be arranged to jump the queue in Inner Mongolia to go to the countryside, and a couple of immortals are forced to be separated by hundreds of kilometers because of the arrangement of the organization.
But I couldn't stand the pain of long-distance love, so I resolutely gave up my bright future, added my name to the volunteer list of educated youth who jumped the queue, and volunteered to accompany Zhang to jump the queue in Inner Mongolia.
Although they wished to stay together in Inner Mongolia, the hardships of jumping the queue gave them a head-on blow.
Winter in Inner Mongolia is very cold, so local people have been storing firewood for heating in winter since summer, but educated youth have no such concept. Sometimes the firewood they cut is spoiled by the animals in the village, and the hard work of the day is in vain.
In order to save that piece of dry wood every day, we can only save it when cooking, so we often eat half-baked food. I dare not burn an extra kang even when I sleep at night in winter. I can only squeeze a kang for boys and a kang for girls.
Although the days of jumping the queue were hard, it was the purest time for David Jiang. Every day, Zhang and I work at sunrise and rest at sunset. In the evening, I sat on the haystack and looked at the stars all over the sky to talk about the future.
Make full preparations before each festival and enjoy the joy of the festival with the local people. Before every winter comes, hug each other heartily and remember each other's truest heartbeat with temperature.
There are beloved women and trusted teammates, and it seems that the hardships and pains just arrived are not so hard because of the existence of these people.
The educated youth jumped the queue to give David Jiang's favorite singing career a new opportunity. He Zhang was called away by the production team when he was planting soybeans. What really called them were two soldiers.
At the request of the soldiers, David Jiang sang a "Quotations from Chairman Mao", which was praised and recognized by two soldiers. The two also sang excerpts from model operas.
It is precisely because of this little "interview" that Zhang and I started their military singing in a new stage of their lives.
From then on, David Jiang's tall and straight figure can be seen in more and more performances, and a song "Woodcutter's Heart to the Party" made him popular in three northeastern provinces.
Passionate melody, struggling lyrics, everyone's post-70s are deeply branded by this song. In the journey of time, David Jiang has become the most dazzling mark of the times.
The happy life with his wife Zhang officially opened, and the birth of his daughter added a joy to this glorious family.
However, the birth of a daughter also raises a realistic question for inseparable couples: who sacrificed their dreams for their families, two people who also love singing?
Both husband and wife are hesitant, but the hungry daughter is just around the corner. Looking at the tangled husband and this newly-built home, Zhang decided to suspend his current job and return to his family.
Although she loves this industry very much, home is more important than love. She wants to continue her husband's artistic life with her own artistic life.
For her, serving this family wholeheartedly is her top priority at the moment.
Many people once thought that Zhang's choice was not worth it, and even wanted to know why people who made sacrifices for their families were not.
As time goes by, fewer and fewer people remember Zhang, who paid for love, and only call her his wife. But Zhang never took these changes to heart, and even this was not a sacrifice.
The feelings of two people are never right or wrong, fair or equal, and respect each other's opinions and choices. I don't need to say anything else.
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With the help of my wife, David Jiang had no worries and her career began to flourish.
1979, when he visited Japan with the youth league team, he met the first famous song in his singing career.
At that time, this song was still a Japanese song, and no one in China could understand it. But it is this unique melody that deeply attracts David Jiang. He sought the help of a tour guide and learned the English version of Spring in the North.
Later, under the translation of the famous composer Lv Yuan, this song became popular all over the country, even in the distant island country of Japan.
Then, "Song of Peony" and "In that faraway place" were released. These two popular songs directly established the position of the strongest tenor in David Jiang Chinese music scene.
However, after the prosperous times, David Jiang chose to move his family to Vancouver for his daughter, and gave up his prosperous career in China. The couple suddenly became poor in Vancouver.
As we all know, China artists have no passion for overseas, and David Jiang has no job or income in Vancouver. However, a series of expenses such as her daughter's studies, family expenses and local real estate are deeply on Lao Jiang's mind.
Because there is no economic pressure brought by work, the couple began to save from various details. Vegetables in the supermarket are discounted, and coupons are distributed on the way. Life in Vancouver is still barely enough.
David Jiang's younger brother couldn't stand their present situation, so he volunteered to act as David Jiang's domestic agent and take over the domestic work for David Jiang who was far away in Vancouver. Thus, the days of separation from family began.
Also performing in China, watching the audience crazy about him, David Jiang suddenly understood. Only China is his root, and only the audience in China can understand the emotions contained in his songs. For the sake of his fans, he should stay in China. Only China knows his home. Staying is the most sincere wish of the old man.
But the media don't think so. They made malicious guesses about David Jiang's behavior and raised questions about the interview under clear guidance. And put maliciously edited and topical interviews on the Internet. As a result, the old man was demonized and forced to the forefront of online public opinion.
The public opinion of earning money at home and spending money abroad has tarnished David Jiang's reputation. Coupled with the malicious editing of the program and the out-of-context of netizens, David Jiang didn't dare to speak again for a long time, for fear that he would fall into the whirlpool of the internet if he was not careful again.
Now, David Jiang is 73 years old and has entered a new stage of his life. His wife and daughter are also enjoying family happiness, so they don't have to worry about survival and economy.
An old artist built a complete home with his passion and created many popular songs.
Everything is because of love, love for singing, love for family and love for life, which is David Jiang's original intention and final destination.