Now many people say that I am a "creative singer" and will ask me to write some songs, such as Wu Yunzhen, a semi-blind girl in Jiangsu Satellite TV's "Dreams Come True" column, so I wrote a song "Mom and Dad" for her. Most of my music skills were learned in the army, including lyrics and composition. Because they are literary and art soldiers, their comrades are versatile and know everything. They often communicate with each other, ask them if they are all right, and then figure it out for themselves.
At that time, our monitor sat at the gate of the barracks all day, playing the guitar and singing. At that time, he loved to sing "Green Flowers in the Army". When he sang, I cried and was homesick. Later, I followed him, and he often played, so did I, and followed the practice. At the beginning, I didn't pop up a famous name, which belonged to self-entertainment. For this reason, I bought books and played them every day for three years. Only when I came home from the army did I know that my parents had divorced long ago and went their separate ways. No one knows where they have gone. I have no home to go back to, so I have to find a way to support myself. I have found many jobs, sold mutton kebabs and candied haws, run a waste collection station, worked as a security guard, worked as a waiter and worked as a Dutch worker in a restaurant. Once, I picked up rotten hawthorn in the warehouse of a fruit shop and picked the good ones to sell. My previous dream was to live, but I never gave up music. I sang it myself if I had nothing to do. I found a teacher, from Shenyang Conservatory of Music, and took some basic courses such as solfeggio and vocal music production. Although they are acquaintances, they cost three or four hundred yuan a class.
When I was selling mutton kebabs, I wrote a song "I strung my life into mutton kebabs", which was sung while roasting, and many people listened. Once, an assistant director of the TV series Snow Wolf passed by and heard me sing this song. Later, he asked me to play the villain in the crew. This is my first team. I also took over a play, Anti-Japanese Imperial Stormtroopers. I played Captain Kuroda, and this time I'm an official actor. I played my play from beginning to end until I was killed and the play was over. I'm a little angry when I come to Beijing. At that time, I was welcoming guests at the door of a bath, and guests often came and knew that I liked singing. Once he said to me, "You are really a bear. You can't do what you like in your life." So I made up my mind to come to Beijing in early 2007. When I first came to Beijing, I felt that everything was new. Although I want to make music, I don't have any direct goals. I'm a little blind. At that time, I wrote a song called Lost Ideals, which later became the title song of my album.
I have been a street singer since I came to Beijing, and I have also been to bars and KTV to sing. A friend introduced me to three record companies, and none of them wanted me. The interview process was particularly exciting. What impressed me was that one of the bosses was also from the northeast. He said to me, "at your level, even you can't see what records you have made in your life."
The more people say I'm stubborn and you say I can't, then I'll show you a piece. My works are grounded and popular, and all my creations come from life. I just want to write and sing all my experiences. At that time, I knew nothing. My friend introduced me to a record company, saying that it costs 500 thousand to make an album. 500,000 yuan, I think it is impossible to earn, but I still want to try, so I made up my mind to travel around the country and make money by singing. In order to save money, I sang songs in Xidan underground passage for two months. One underground passage, three roads singing, one guarding one side and one guarding the middle. Carrying 100 kilograms of equipment every day, singing for more than ten hours. I sleep in the tunnel when I sing late, and I often get kicked when I fall asleep.
Two months later, I left Beijing and began to make money and pursue my dreams. Hangzhou, Harbin, Lhasa, Haikou, Urumqi, India ... In the past three years, I have been to more than 60 cities in more than 20 provinces. At that time, I always took the cheapest car, and the most expensive ticket was only 100 yuan. I rode my bike and approached a passing truck. In those days, I often sang for more than ten hours. When I am thirsty, I drink tap water. Eat steamed bread and pickles when you are hungry. A meal is 90 cents. Still sleeping on the street in Haikou, Hainan, and sleeping for more than half a year. What supported me at that time was a belief: making money to make records and blocking back what others said to me!
In June 2009, I returned to Beijing with 630,000 yuan saved by the singer. It was also in this year that I had my first genuine album Ideal, which included 10 songs, all of which were composed and sung by myself.
In fact, in retrospect, I spent all my money on my first album. There are five or six songs in one song, and two sacks are printed on the card alone. I often go to Tianjin to record today and Haikou to do publicity tomorrow, so I lose a lot of money on my travel expenses. The first time I made an album, I knew nothing. The record company said what it was. I spent more than 600 thousand back and forth and issued 30 thousand copies. I have spent all the money I have saved. Three months after the album was released, there was not a single performance and no record sold. I tasted a little, and then I fell out with the company and took the album and sold it myself. I started singing in the street again. I also went to bars and KTV. I sing first, and then promote my own records. I will sing wherever it sells well.
Life seems to be back to square one, but I don't regret it. Every album, 25 yuan. I sold more than 17000 copies last year. I think I'm fine. Now I still have more than 4000 in my hand.
Participated in China Dream Show of Zhejiang Satellite TV in 20 12. At that time, the director heard my story and found me, hoping I could attend. The director asked me, "Do you have a dream?" I thought for a long time and finally asked, "I have a dream." Can you help me achieve it? "
Growing up, I didn't think I had a future. The most gratifying and proud thing is that I can get my parents back and buy a house for my father in Shenyang and a house for my mother in Jinzhou. I think I've been quite a man. Although I have to pay 6200 yuan a month now, I have a home again.
I opened two fruit shops in Shenyang and a cosmetics shop in Jinzhou, which is also a stable income. I want to sing. I have a musical dream, but I won't forget that my parents should support me. Speaking of which, the clerk in the fruit shop is still my "fan". They all know each other by listening to my songs, which is also a kind of fate. Now every day before opening the store, the shop assistants sing "Breaking and Breaking" together, which was also written by me. 20 13 July, my brand-new digital EP "Hope" was released on major websites. After so many years of accumulation, I have made some reliable friends. The production cost of this EP is much cheaper than the first album, but I feel that the production level is much better than the first album, at least not like the first album, and the cover of the physical album is also fake. Meanwhile, new singles will be released one after another. I hope everything will get better and better.
"Zhang Mingyuan will always be Zhang Mingyuan. Even if tomorrow is particularly good, I will be there to give my singing to those who stop to see me. "
"When I get better one day, let my parents live a good life, let my friends around me get better and live responsibly."
"I will do more public welfare in the future. Those little loves can't write and write about society. ..... Now you can eat and wear warm clothes, there is no need to fight for trivial things. Maybe I made some mistakes when I was young and frivolous before I was 30, but now that I am old, I should make some contributions to society. "
This is Long Yao, and this is Zhang Mingyuan, an original singer born in 1980s with a heart and love.
His singing skills may not be perfect to many people, and his appearance may not be outstanding in the crowd, but these cannot hide his unique personality and pursuit of music.
If one day, you walk in the street and hear this voice:
"For the sake of ideal, you and I walk on different roads.
Without choice, we will lose each other's direction.
Who is in the blue sky is not the original dream.
Only the vast universe can replace the vast chest of each of us.
……"
Then please stop a little, find the dream that many of us have long lost, and feel the touch and strength that this 29-year-old boy has brought you. ...