Lin Guangcai

Lin Guangcai

Nganer nganer, the leader of Taiwan's Paiwan ethnic group, is a well-known native singer. In 1999, he joined the "flying fish and clouded leopard music Troupe" set up for the 921 earthquake relief, combining music with Taiwan's ethnic minority movement. Many years later, Lin Guangcai, who became famous for his song Laisu, returned to the tribe to learn the ancient tune from his parents and the old people. In 2011, he became the winner of the best Aboriginal singer of the Golden Melody Award, and together with Hu De Fu and Yun Li Si, he was called "the most beautiful voice in Contemporary Taiwan".

Personal resume

Lin Guangcai, born in Jiayi village, Ma hometown, Pingtung County in 1962, belongs to tjaljimarav family (father) and kazangiljan family (mother). His years of growth witnessed the glory and decline of tribal culture. With the disintegration of the tribal system, it was not only the decline of the "nobility", but also the fate of the entire Taiwan ethnic minorities swept into the bottom of society in the economic development of Taiwan after the war.

At the age of 16, Lin Guangcai left home and went to the flat land. He worked as a porter, a tie worker, an ocean runner, and a forest class During his urban exile, Lin Guangcai's only special family wealth is the old tune that has been around his ears since he was a child. The ancient tune is the epic of the Taiwan minority. It is one of the important duties of the family to spread the ancient tune. There is no doubt that Lin Guangcai is advantaged by nature. Moreover, young Lin Guangcai already has a clear and distant singing voice and amazing singing ability.

In the late 1960s, the dazzling modern society and its fashion had already captured the hearts of tribal teenagers. On the construction site at night in the city, Lin Guangcai, who plays guitar with friends to relieve his homesickness, sings pop songs and Lin bange songs. Lin Guangcai said that when he was young, he played with his friends in the tribe and could sing the songs of Lin Ban sung by his elder brothers. After he retired from military service, he once went to work with his father in Lin Ban and realized that music is another language. People of different nationalities can sing with music even though they can't understand it. It is true that this is how Lin BangGe came back to the tribes from the high mountains and forests, and then was taken to the cities by young people. It has been continuously circulated, modified, enriched and re created, becoming the common "sound of music" of Taiwan's ethnic minorities.

In 1999, after the 921 earthquake in Taiwan, Lin Guangcai joined the "tribal task force" composed of Taiwan's ethnic minorities and Han people, and went to the mountain tribes of Ren'ai Township in Nantou County to provide disaster relief. At the end of the rescue work, we discussed holding a tribal concert to boost morale. Since it's a tribal concert, why not sing a native song? Who can sing? There are yunlisi's Taiya ancient precepts and Lin Guangcai's Laisu. Lin Guang's wealth comes from the influence of his family since he was a child. Before that, they had never sung classical tunes in a formal chorus! And then into Taipei's Square concert, for the city audience and record companies attention.

Lin Guangcai recalled the grand occasion at that time, "we sang an old tune and sold a cloth for a lonely old mother of the Central Plains tribe. As a result, it sold for more than NT $300000." A general manager of a record company climbed to the lamp stand to watch them sing.

Looking for the ancient tunes directly contributed to the establishment of "flying fish and clouded leopard music Troupe". Members of the group went to the mountains and the sea to collect ancient tunes, held dozens of concerts in various tribes in Taiwan, and produced a series of albums of "heart of darkness" in the form of workshops, which were then sold on the streets of Taipei. "In addition to maintaining the necessary expenses of the music troupe itself, what we earn from music is to feed back to the Taiwan minority movement."

In Lin Guangcai's hometown, many people use him as a benchmark to learn from him. In many primary schools, there are student choirs mainly singing ancient tunes. By learning ancient tunes, children can connect the roots of culture and go out of the house to communicate with the outside world. The ancient tune condenses the national self-confidence of minority children.

Today, the tribal task force is still committed to promoting and supporting the teaching of ancient tunes and traditional skills in ethnic minority schools. The ancient tune has really become the cultural starting point for Taiwan's ethnic minorities to start again. For the music troupe and the tribal team, this is the biggest achievement of the decade.

For Lin Guangcai, the old tune he found opened the way for him to himself, his family, his ancestors and his ethnic group. On the streets of Taipei that year, the stereo played "Lai Su", and Lin Guangcai, who sold "heart of darkness", said, "Oh! I'm afraid I've heard it a thousand times.

Since then, Lin Guangcai began to follow his parents and old people to learn and collect ancient tunes. In the eyes of many musicians, Lin Guangcai's talent for singing is unique. When he meets the ancient tune, he can explore and show it most incisively and vividly, because it is the re encounter of a person's talent and the soil of his birth and nourishment.

Lin Guangcai has always been a manual laborer. He is a real plain singer. He can't remember music scores. A lot of improvised melodies are lost, but perhaps his singing has never been commercially "clean". His interpretation of the ancient tune retains the flavor of tribal vegetation and firework, retains the light of ancestral spirit, and also retains the face of vicissitudes and heavy.

In 2000, "Laisu" was selected into the album "the original wave - het Eyland formoa";

In 2003, as one of the flying fish and clouded leopard music troupes, he published heart of darkness series album crossroads, etc;

In 2010, he published his first music album "Huanhui Paiwan" in Taiwan;

In 2011, he published the introduction version of his first music album in the mainland, the reappearance of Paiwan in a century.

Achievement and honor

On June 18, 2011, the 22nd Taiwan Golden Melody Award was held in Taipei little dome, and won the best Aboriginal singer award;

In 2011, Lin Guangcai's first album won the Chinese Music Media Awards of "best producer" and "best recording".

On November 15, 2011, he participated in the grand ceremony of "Chinese Golden Melody Award 2011" held in Zhongshan, Guangzhou

personal works

Glory family

Lin Guangcai's only self created track in his first album is also the prelude of Paiwan in a century. The melody, full of strength, solemnity, pride, but with some inexplicable sadness and tension, flowed from the bottom of my heart. "We are the kazangiljan family, well-known all over the world. We are the kazangiljan family, supreme. " Lin Guangcai seems to be standing on a remote mountain singing, leading us to follow the song, and the song is more and more bright: the glorious kazangiljan family takes us back to the free past of the Paiwan People.

《Lumi》

When Lumi rings out, it seems that Lin Guangcai is calling his people to come among them and sing this ancient song at the harvest festival. Once upon a time, when millet was harvested in July and August, the tribe held a celebration ceremony for about ten days. This was the biggest sacrifice at the age of 20, and also the site of the tribe's "History Teaching". Lumi is a function word in tune. It centers on the joy of harvest and the feeling of ancestors and gods. The lyrics are improvised. In the repeated chanting of one person singing and others singing, the poetic nature of labor and survival can be most naturally presented. "Come on, let's sing the songs of our ancestors. It's so beautiful. Don't forget today's singing and laughter. Let the story of our ancestors spread forever. "

Treasure and Liangshan love song

They are all urban forest songs produced in the 1970s. Another name for it is "song of the wanderer.".

"Farewell to my hometown, farewell to my lover. When you wake up tomorrow morning, I am already wandering in Taipei." In fact, the lingering sorrow of vagrants is not only because of parting. The descendants of hunters are in the concrete jungle, where there is some confusion and perplexity derived from cultural memory, and the vagrants themselves may not be clear. It is true that ethnic minorities, like rural children, enter the city under the drive of capital structure. However, in Taiwan, ethnic minority teenagers run away with the instinct of hunters, which leads to more complicated tragic implications.

What does it mean to be a tribal teenager, 15 or 16 years old? If you want to go out, you can hunt or grass. To use the head of prey, or enemy, to declare their "adult.". "At this age, you can't do without going out."

Just like the content of the song treasure, in the past, as soon as Taiwan minority children graduated from junior high school (or did not graduate), they carried their bags and a bag of white rice and went to Taipei. When he arrived in Taipei, he found an older member of the clan to take refuge in. He offered a bag of white rice for a place to sleep and began to go out to look for a job. Truck binding workers, site porters, formwork workers, movers I dream of returning to my hometown one day, building a house, becoming a family (lover) and getting happiness (Hunter status). This is also a true portrayal of Lin Guangcai.

"My parents told me to go wandering", in fact, subconsciously is "after the juvenile stage, it's time to go hunting". However, when the traditional hunting culture intrudes into the utilitarian urban jungle, tragic stories will happen all the time, resulting in the tragic songs of Taiwan's ethnic minorities.

The ethnic minorities who wandered to Taipei lost their youth on the scaffolding and in the mines and began to return home in the mid-1990s. The era of relying on labor to earn foreign exchange is coming to an end. The remaining labor-intensive industries have turned to foreign workers, and the ethnic minorities who have been kicked out have to return to the tribes. Lin Guangcai has personally experienced such 20 years.

"Liangshan love song" is also a popular song, which has been sung by many popular singers in Taiwan. Lin Guangcai, with his admiration for ethnic cultural traditions and the fate of a generation of young people of Taiwan's ethnic minorities he witnessed, sings "tears fall after a step."

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