On January 27, 2022, NetEase Cloud Music’s first village party “Our Village Evening” started the New Year’s carnival ahead of schedule. The party focused on retro themes, using music to lead the audience back to the 1990s.
As the leader of Xinhua Liu’s rap, GAI Zhou Yan once amazed four with his new song “A Laugh in the Sea”. His heroic and chivalrous voice and superb singing skills that are not limited to rap conquered the audience. On the retro stage of NetEase Cloud Music Village Night, GAI Zhou Yan once again paid tribute to singing the classic martial arts songs “Sword Like a Dream” and “End of the World“. The familiar melody and GAI Zhou Yan’s passionate interpretation instantly brought the public back to that Chinese martial arts and Chinese music. peak era.
GAI Zhou Yan sang “Sword Like a Dream” live, full of aura. “Sword Like a Dream” is the opening song of the 1994 Taiwanese martial arts TV series “Eternal Dragon Slayer”. It was written by Zhan Demao and composed and sung by Zhou Huajian. This is a very difficult cover work. GAI Zhou Yan’s interpretation of Chinese style and martial arts style songs can be described as perfect I was as moved as I once sang “A Laugh in the Sea” on the stage of “Singer”. In the popular variety show “Brother Overcoming Toughness”, Zhao Wenzhuo gave GAI Zhou Yan a custom-made two-handed sword. He bluntly liked his singing “A Laugh in the Sea” and praised his heroism, loyalty and chivalry. Another “End of the World” brought by GAI Zhou Yan is the ending song of the 2000 version of “Swordsman”, originally sung by Ren Xianqi, which is a highly popular classic pop song. GAI Zhou Yan’s singing is very imposing and infectious, and the soaring high pitch once again convinced everyone. He has a blood and righteousness, heroic and free and easy that are highly unified with the songs he performs, and his speech can not only substitute people into the martial arts rivers and lakes of happiness and enmity.
The tribute and re-singing of the classic Chinese golden songs in the 1990s gradually revealed GAI Zhou Yan’s ability to control various styles of music. As early as in the variety show “The Masked Singer”, GAI Zhou Yan’s super strength in singing “Don’t Talk”, “Missing is a Disease” and “Love Like Tide Water” amazed the judges present. On the public welfare live broadcast to support the anti-epidemic, he sang Zhang Zhenyue’s song “Xiaoyu”, and sang the song “We will do what you say” in “Brother Overcoming Toughness”. These lyrical pop music also let the audience see tenderness The warm-hearted GAI Zhou Yan. The classics travel through time and space, and they have been sung for a long time, and after the precipitation of time, they have been endowed with a new era of meaning in terms of emotions and feelings, and they can be renewed and sustainable through the singing of musicians in the new era.
Some netizens commented, “The reason why GAI can stand out from all the singers and become the most out-of-the-box in the rap world is that he not only has 90 points of singing skills, but also 90-95 points of rap. It’s a good combination of the two. In the singer circle, he must be the strongest in rap, and his singing skills are not bad. In the rap circle, he deserves to be the first in singing skills. 90 points of singing skills plus 95 points of rap, and There is an almost perfect combination between the two, he is the unique person in Chinese music, and no one can replace him for at least ten years.”
An almighty singer who inherits and innovates and retains the original intention of pure music
On the road of music, GAI Zhou Yan is constantly refreshing everyone’s perception of him with his strength. As a creative musician, he is not only capable of cover singing, but his adapted songs “Laugh at the Sea”, “The Great Wall” and “Orchid Grass” are widely known. The original songs written and composed by GAI Zhou Yan are also very influential, both in the market and in the society. weight.
“Huaxia” was included in the nine-year compulsory education textbook, “Empty City Plan” and “Orchid Grass” were included in provincial middle school students’ books, and “War Horse” was selected by the Chinese People’s Rocket Army Dongfeng Express and China Police Network as the theme song of the tribute video. Recently, China Police Network and GAI Zhou Yan released a song “Tianming” dedicated to the Police Festival, which was highly recommended by official media such as Learning Power, People’s Daily, and CCTV.
Chen Xiaochun once said that GAI Zhou Yan’s weapons are paper and pen, not only can rap, but also have singing skills and strong creativity. This is only true for those who have a deep understanding of GAI Zhou Yan. Once on a piece of paper, he wrote four sentences of consecrated gods: “Going forward, tigers and mountains, clearing the clouds and mists to see the light, flowers blooming in the peony pavilion in dreams, illusions come true, singing and dancing rise to peace”, and wrote the well-known golden sentence “The world is in a panic. , but the picture is broken and a few taels of silver”, wrote the proud “The earth understands my chest best, a good man is far away” “The long river of life, I take wine as a song, and the blood flows, the Yangtze River and the Yellow River”, wrote “The head of the poor, you can’t look to the sky,” “Dare to ask when the bright moon will be there, it’s hard to drink up my nostalgia, I’m confused and understand each other, and I persuade heroes not to look back.” Optics Valley”, there are many lyrics with Chinese aesthetic conception and profound thoughts, which shows GAI Zhou Yan’s musical talent and artistic attainments.
Among these lyrics and songs created by GAI Zhou Yan, there are the expression of encounters focusing on the humanities of the market, and the expression of strong and passionate family and country feelings, as well as the inheritance and innovation of traditional Chinese culture. Undoubtedly, he is a rare creation and singing rapper in the current Chinese music scene. He is also an all-around singer who still retains the original intention of pure music. In the development in recent years, he can see his positive energy creation track. Actively disseminating the spiritual power of Chinese culture, looking at the Chinese music scene in the new era, GAI Zhou Yan’s forward-breaking and forging ahead attitude is obvious to all. After the NetEase Cloud Music Village Gala, GAI Zhou Yan will also appear on Hunan Satellite TV’s Chinese Spring Festival Gala together with the artists of Zhongmeng Music, singing the song “Common Dream”, a tribute to the times.
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