Wang Xu

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Early experience

Wang Xu, from Minquan County, Shangqiu City, Henan Province, was born on May 24, 1966 in the second team of Shangqiu state-owned Minquan farm (now Shangqiu state-owned Minquan farm). I have been working in Beijing since 2000. Wang Xu worked in Beijing, singing in his spare time, and finally became a migrant worker singer. In the early 1980s, due to his poor family, after graduating from junior high school, he became a worker in the civil rights farm. In May 1988, a song and dance troupe went to Minquan county to recruit actors. Wang Xu's song "about in winter" asked the recruiting team leader to chase him to the farm in person. In order to let Wang Xu go with him, the team leader took more than 10 actors who had just recruited to Wang Xu's home and helped him pull peanuts for a day. In order to support his family, Wang Xu decided to work as a porter in Ankang, Shaanxi and Urumqi, Xinjiang.

In the Spring Festival of 2000, Wang Xu came to Beijing. What satisfied him most was that the upstairs where he burned the boiler was a KTV. When there were no guests, he could sing for free. However, it didn't take long for the KTV to go out of business. In order to survive, Wang Xu also set up a stall, sold fruits, vegetables, pancakes and so on, barely survive. Until 2006, introduced by Wang Rong, he became a warehouse keeper of a pharmaceutical company, receiving and coding goods. He works in a pharmaceutical factory in Beijing and now lives in a dilapidated tube building in Fengtai District of Beijing. He lives in a room of 89 square meters with a rent of 600 yuan per month. After graduating from University, his son, who works in Beijing, also lives in the same room with him. Every weekend, Wang Xu takes his guitar to the subway station to sing.

Acting experience

In 2010, the video of 44 year old Wang Xu and 29 year old Liu Gang singing the cover song "in spring" in the rental house was uploaded to the Internet and attracted attention on the Internet. On November 6, Wang Xu, a farmer singer from Henan Province, and Liu Gang, a farmer singer from Heilongjiang Province, won the championship in the weekly competition of "Avenue of stars" on the common people stage of CCTV. On November 27, 2010, it was officially renamed "liangtang" group in Xingguang Avenue and won the monthly champion. In the same year, Xuri Yanggang appeared on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, singing the song "in spring", and began to get attention.

On February 12, 2011, Xuri Yanggang won the second group championship of 2010 Xingguang Avenue finals. On February 17, the song "in spring" sung by Xuri Yanggang won the first prize of the Spring Festival Gala. Sing the song "my future is not a dream". On February 26, Wang Xu's "fellow townsman meets fellow townsman" appeared. On March 4, the first single "ordinary wonderful" was shot. On October 29, Zhejiang satellite TV "I love lyrics" invited Xuri Yanggang to perform "migrant workers" version of "in spring". On February 21, 2011, Xuri Yanggang signed a contract with Zhejiang satellite TV, becoming the lead singer of the program "I love lyrics" of Zhejiang satellite TV. Xuri Yanggang's forbidden singing door has just ended. Xuri Yanggang's single was selected as chuanzi's famous song "fate of this life" by record company singer in March. On February 16, 2011, the two brothers of Xuri Yanggang arrived at the record studio of shisanyue in Chaoyang District, Beijing, and finished the recording of the new song together with chuanzi. Chuanzi and Xuri Yanggang chorus version of "fate of this life". Xuri Yanggang will also perform the song at the Lantern Festival Gala of Hunan Satellite TV on the evening of February 17. In April, he took part in the film "Xiaojian's Chorus", in which he played a migrant worker who brought his children to the city. On June 23, the original song of Wang Xugang was released.

In November 2012, Wang Xu, the leading singer of Xuri Yanggang, was invited to participate in CCTV's seven series of "big country world" column group, to participate in the "closing ceremony of the 25th world guest's intimate conference" held in Sanming, Fujian Province, and present a song "me and my motherland".

In July 2013, Wang Xu released his first album "beipiaoyu". The album's main song "beipiaoyu" is also the theme song of the movie "beipiaoyu". In the album "beipiaoyu", Wang Xu participated in the creation of six songs: "the power of love", "where are you", "Hometown", "I am a song for you", "about life" and "sparrow".

On November 20, 2014, he was invited by the voice of literature and art of fm106.6 Central People's broadcasting station to participate in the recording of "new voice of the music world". In December, he was invited to attend the launching ceremony and press conference of 2015 China Youth Online Spring Festival Gala. In the same month, the song "when the wind blows through the endless wilderness" was released.

On July 28, 2015, he performed in Mercedes Benz Pavilion, the first theater in East Asia, for the public service concert of Hongshi · Xingguang grand ceremony.

Personal life

Wang Xu's father used to work in Xi'an aircraft factory, but when Wang Xu was 3 years old, he died of illness in Xi'an, when his mother was only 35 years old. Later, the family moved to the civil rights farm because her mother taught at the farm school. Wang Xu has a sister named Wang Qi, two years older than him, and her sister Wang Rong is two years younger than him. The three children grew up with their mother's meager salary. Wang Qi teaches in sunliu Town, Minquan county. Wang Rong is a professional manager of a pharmaceutical enterprise in Beijing. Her 77 year old mother now lives in her home.

In 1988, Wang Xu got married. My daughter-in-law is Lanzhi. In 1989, Lanzhi gave birth to a fat boy named Yulong.

Music Album

Music single

social activities

From May 6 to 8, 2012, Wang Xu attended the first meeting of the fourth Shangqiu Municipal Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference at Shangqiu gymnasium in Henan Province. Wang Xu, as a member of the new municipal CPPCC Committee of Shangqiu City, Henan Province.

On May 23, 2014, he won the title of "public welfare ambassador". On the evening of May 10, "hand in hand, share the sunshine" Chinese youth volunteers helping the disabled "Sunshine Action" university public welfare inspirational lecture series activities officially opened in the Centennial lecture hall of Peking University. As a guest of the first university lecture, Wang Xu sang the original song "the power of love" for the audience.

Award winning record

Character evaluation

With the popularity of Xuri Yanggang group in 2010, singer Wang Xu entered the public's field of vision. In 2011, he appeared on CCTV Spring Festival Gala, and released his first album "beipiaoyu" in 2013. Wang Xu is known as the "godfather of folk rock" (Tencent Entertainment review). As a "grassroots" singer, Wang Xu experienced the process from the Spring Festival gala's overnight popularity to the low popularity. What Wang Xu moved the audience was not the music itself, but the "grassroots" and inspirational symbols of Wang Xu. Wang Xu is a singer of strength shouting school (Netease Entertainment review). Liu Gang and Wang Xu, two men who have the same love for music, come together. Like many other Beipiao who have music dreams, the first step of Xuri Yanggang's dream pursuit is also the standing singing on the roadside (city express evaluation).

Character controversy

In 2010, the video of Xuri Yanggang singing the song "in spring" written by Wang Feng became popular on the Internet. Therefore, Xuri Yanggang was familiar and loved by everyone, and then was discovered by CCTV variety show "I want to go to the Spring Festival Gala", and finally stepped onto the stage of the Spring Festival Gala. Li Dong, the agent of Xuri Yanggang, revealed that Wang Feng called and made it clear that Xuri Yanggang could not sing "in spring" in any form in the future.

After the report was published, Wang Feng published a 5000 word article on his blog on February 11, 2011, complaining for himself, saying that the stop is a normal right protection, and also for the development of the rising sun and masculinity, "if you cover other people's works forever, it won't last long in the end."

In this article entitled "about the stories that have to be told in spring", Wang Feng said that he was deeply moved by the rising sun's masculinity, and that he was willing to make friends with them and take them to his "in full bloom" concert. But then he found that things had changed, "Xuri Yanggang used and sang my" in spring "and other works without permission of me and the copyright company more and more frequently." he also asked Xuri Yanggang, "any artist's works and rights have been used for all activities including pure commercial performances (including) without permission for a long time, which company or agent One can turn a blind eye.

As for the speculation on the Internet that "Wang Feng's popularity is unbalanced due to the rising sun", Wang Feng retorted: "first of all, I won't take them to the" in full bloom "concert. If I regret it later, I should not allow and sign the agreement that "in spring" will be sung by Xuri Yanggang in 2011 CCTV Spring Festival Gala. " Wang Feng revealed that he even told the Spring Festival Gala that he would transfer the fees paid to Xuri Yanggang. The "no singing storm" between Xuri Yanggang and Wang Feng has come to an end. The two sides have reached a preliminary settlement, and Wang Feng has also accepted Xuri Yanggang's apology. The two sides are expected to reach a comprehensive settlement.

Xuri Yanggang has publicly apologized to Wang Feng through the video. Liu Gang, a member of Xuri Yanggang, revealed that he had planned to stop singing Wang Feng's songs after the new year's end. He admitted that Wang Feng would always be their benefactor on the music road. Wang Feng, who had seen the video, readily accepted the apology and responded: "in fact, he doesn't ask for anything in return, but it doesn't mean that things can change their nature. Their own strength is the most important thing

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