There is no shortage of precedents for relying on talent to reverse life in the entertainment industry, many people can achieve a completely different life with a song, a talent show will be able to quickly scamper on the top stream, after that cheers, shouts, halo, wealth come with it, life has been open since, but there are also people because of the speed of the start and failed to avoid the potholes on the road, fallen once it is difficult to rise again.
Adu once completed a beautiful turn from a contractor to an Asian singer with the song “He must love you very much”, and then returned to a quiet life after several ups and downs.
Adu, whose real name is Du Cheng Yi, was born in a very ordinary family in Singapore, and lived a difficult life during his early childhood. After his parents divorced, the five siblings followed their mother, and their lives became more and more stretched. Although the work is hard, but the income is stable, this dry is seven or eight years of light.
Because the hands and feet, work properly, Adu also did a not too small “contractor”, talent this thing may be inherent, even in school Adu has not been any formal musical enlightenment and vocal training, but the only fun Adu when closing is the old radio, the songs inside he Once learned, and sang with style, when many workers also urged him to participate in singing competitions, but at that time Adu was the breadwinner of the family, he did not have extra time and energy.
But there were always many opportunities coming his way. At the beginning of the second millennium, the famous record company Haidie organized a city-wide talent show, gathering more than 3,000 contestants and eventually selecting two newcomers for key training.
It was not expected that this was the wrong opportunity for Adu to stand out with his unique husky voice and become the final winner, entering the newcomer training class with another contestant, named Lin Junjie.
After a short period of training, Adu released his first album “Sky Darkness” and the title track “He Must Love You” became a hit in the north and south of the country. Adu was a true peak debut, winning four pop music awards including the Bronze Award for Best New Artist in the Global Chinese Chart.
The unique hoarse voice, hissing singing style, and sad lyrics melody is a perfect match.
Every note in Adu’s songs seems to hit the heart, with the power to penetrate the soul, irresistible sadness, people are intoxicated, Adu and his songs quickly spread to the north and south of the country, the streets, the singer red without warning.
The once unattainable dream suddenly came true, he could not just go out on the street, there would be people chasing after him for autographs, he could finally solve his family’s financial problems, no longer worrying about a meal, he finally stood on the stage and watched a thousand hands dancing for him on the stage.
In 2002, Adu’s status and popularity was even comparable to Jay Chou’s, who had just emerged, and was also ranked among the top performers that year. The music MTV of the single “Haro” even had Zhao Wei, who was a popular actress at that time, as the lead actress.
Adu debuted just over two years ago, three albums in the whole of Asia sales exceeded 5 million, such achievements in the Chinese music industry is also rare, not to mention that he competed with the same stage are professional singers.
But Adu is different from them all, his vicissitudes are given by life, the story in his eyes is the real experience, his muscles are the site bricklaying practice, his hoarse voice is born, he just likes to sing but he does not know how to be a singer, if he just let him keep singing simply may have another miracle.
It’s just that the entertainment industry is a place of fame and fortune, the record companies are looking for money, and sentiment cannot be a meal. So the man wearing jeans and a T-shirt, already approaching 30 years old, had to change into a straight suit, to learn to face the world of flowers, to learn to face the press microphone with ease, to learn to improvise to deal with activities beyond the stage plan, these are much more difficult for Adu than singing.
The story of his rise to fame and the hardships he endured was also used by the media to make a big deal out of it, and the more miserable the past of the god of bitterness, the more weight the piece carried.
But Adu didn’t like it, he was originally a very shy person, not good at dealing with strangers, he felt so stupid in that suit holding a red wine glass.
Suddenly one day he was standing under the spotlight, watching thousands of fans cheering for him, his palms began to sweat and even tremble, he could only sing the whole song with his eyes closed, but the fans mistook it for his unique way of expressing the song, a deep-hearted singing style, and went even more crazy.
He was so stressed that he didn’t even dare to go on stage. His agency noticed the difference and rushed to adjust his work and reduce his business activities to avoid worsening the situation, and by this time he had been diagnosed with a serious mental illness and had to stop all work to rest and adjust.
And at this time, his ex-girlfriend returned to him, because the two of them could not see each other for a long time during the period of Adu’s popularity, his girlfriend chose to break up, and when she learned of Adu’s condition, she returned to him to take care of him without any hesitation.
He still likes to sing, but no longer in a hurry and panic, one album a year, although no longer dominating the charts, but there are still fans who write to him about their love for him, and encourage him to The first time I saw him, I was in a hurry.
In 2010, the album “Nothing to be afraid of”, the title track of the same name, reached the top of the mainland new songs chart, the third in the same period was Faye Wong’s “Legend”, but even so, both Adu himself and the Chinese music industry are on a rapid decline, the great gods that can remain are already few and far between, and Adu is also gradually forgotten by time, the wave after the Yangtze River pushes the wave before, the record company The record company has to rely on newcomers to make money, and Adu has already passed away.
In 2011, Adu’s contract with Haidie Records expired and he switched to Lehua. The company gave him a mansion in Beijing as a gift, and Adu returned the favor with his new album “9th Love”, which topped 12 music charts in total.
The next year Adu participated in the “I’m a songwriter”, after years of silence again back on stage Adu is not nervous sweating, although fat body can not return to the original, but the magnetic voice singing once the love songs still refreshing.
After the big storm, Adu returned to a quiet life, opened a beauty salon in Beijing with his girlfriend, and then gradually faded out of the music scene.
Even so, he still has more than 1.5 million fans on his personal social accounts. In 2016, Adu and his girlfriend ended their long run of love and sweetly completed their marriage, fans brushed their wedding blessings on the hot search, and their son was born in May of the same year, and since then Adu has become the route of the baby show-off maniac, sharing his happy life all the time.
In 2018 Adu released the album “I shouldn’t hide” with the help of his friend Wu Kequn, the title song of the same name is from Wu Kequn’s hand, the words tell the story of the year, it is Adu’s plan to the fans and also to reconcile with himself, he can bravely face the dark time, and then openly accept the current self quietly live in the present.
Although Adu has not released any more songs since then, but he never said he wanted to quit the music industry, and the song “He must love you very much” is still a popular KTV jukebox, he represents a generation of youthful memories, telling a generation of love, hate and anger, the Asian song saint will not be easily forgotten by fans.
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