Difang

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Characters and deeds

Difang duana is a native of malanshe tribe of AMI nationality in Taiwan. People of all ethnic groups call him "a Gong". Guo Lao was born, grew up and died here. For him, singing is like drinking and eating betel nut, which is the most common thing in his life. He said: "when I was a child, my family was poor. When I went to herd cattle, I heard adults practicing singing, so I followed them." Malan tribe has four or five Guo Yingnan's Baba brothers. In the past, everyone sang, enjoyed the cool and practiced harmony while fishing and farming. They all had a good tacit understanding with each other. These old brothers died one after another. In order to keep the AMI singing popular, Guo Yingnan began to teach his wife, younger brother, younger sister and relatives to sing and set up a "Malan singing team". But Mr. Guo is not like the ordinary aborigines. At the age of 17, he became the leader of the tribe. He has been looking forward to one day coming out of the tribe with AMI music so that the world can hear him. Ah Gong's efforts were not in vain. He went to France in 1988 and then to Japan in 1999, which caused a sensation there. In 1993, enigma created "return to innocence" by quoting "old people drinking songs", which made the songs of Guo Lao and Malan singing team become the focus of the world. The simple and pure song conquers everyone who listens to it, and also proves that "the national is the world's". Dan lacksman, one of the members of deep forest, collaborated with Guo to produce two albums, circle of life and across the yellow earth. Although the album music formally follows the consistent electronic style of deep forest as a popular packaging, the nature of the deep-rooted voice has not changed, and the wild vitality is still moving. Because of his great contribution to the promotion of Aboriginal music, the 13th Taiwan Golden Melody Award presented a special commemorative award to Guo Yingnan and Guo Xiuzhu, who both died. "return to innocence", which was sampled from this song, did cause copyright disputes later. Compared with Enigma's return to innocency, this old man drinking song without lyrics is more crude and rustic. It's hard to imagine that it's from an old man in his 60s.

Guo Yingnan and

The whole story of Ingmar's copyright dispute, return to innocence, comes from Enigma's 1993 classic album the cross of changes. This song is known as one of the "three big songs of music in the new century of the 20th century", and also selected as the theme song of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics propaganda film. And "the cross of changes" has created tens of millions of sales so far. It must be mentioned that the old man's singing and melody throughout the music are sampled from the old man drinking song by the AMI folk artist Guo Yingnan and his wife in southern Taiwan, China. Unfortunately, many versions of the album did not indicate that the singer of the song included Guo Yingnan and his wife. At the beginning, no one knew that such a beautiful melody and voice came from Guo Yingnan! the incident triggered one of the most famous lawsuits in the music industry in the new century, sparking a worldwide dispute over aboriginal music works and their rights and interests: in the same year, Guo Yingnan and his wife entrusted Moyan record company to hold a press conference and asked lawyers to fight for relevant legal rights and interests on their behalf. It was not until June 8, 1999 that Guo Yingnan and his wife signed a settlement that the lawsuit came to an end. In 2002, Mr. Guo Yingnan, who devoted all his life to promoting Taiwan Aboriginal music, died of illness. most music lovers have two different views on the song return to innocency: one is that without Enigma's strong composition and production, the original old man's drinking song is not very pleasant to listen to. It is Enigma's ability that makes these songs become the hymns in the hearts of music fans all over the world. Therefore, the achievements of the music should be attributed to Yu enigma; another opinion is that it's hard to imagine what "return to innocency" would look like without Guo Yingnan's voice? Foreigners may not have this kind of Buddha like feeling in their whole life. Without the original melody sung by Guo Yingnan, enigma did not have the inspiration to produce "return to innocency".

Character experience

He was born on March 21, 1921 in malanshe tribe of AMI nationality in Taitung. In July 1978, a "national music investigation team" formed by Professor Xu Changhui of Taiwan Academy of Arts discovered Guo Yingnan when collecting AMI national music. in 1979, under the supervision of Xu Changhui, the Chinese folk art foundation and the first record factory released and published the "AMI folk songs" vinyl record. In 1988, the French Ministry of culture and education invited the Chinese folk art foundation to lead Taiwan aborigines to the world culture museum in Paris to participate in the Pacific aboriginal dance and music festival. Guo Yingnan and other AMI singers were invited to attend the festival. In April 1993, enigma Orchestra produced the album "the cross of changes", signed a contract with world culture house, obtained the license to use the record "Taiwan Aboriginal polyphonic vocal music", and incorporated the first song of the record into the single "return to innocence" in the form of mixing. For the summer Olympic Games held in Atlanta in 1996, the clip of "return to innocence" was used as the soundtrack of the Olympic promotional video. The album sold tens of millions. In the same year, Mr. and Mrs. Guo entrusted Moyan record company to hold a press conference and asked a lawyer to fight for the relevant legal rights and interests on their behalf, starting a three-year lawsuit. On June 8, 1999, Guo Yingnan and his wife signed a settlement, and the lawsuit came to an end. In 1998 and 1999, magic rock released two CDs entitled "circle of life / reincarnation of life" and "across the yellow earth / across the Yellow Earth", respectively. The songs sung by Guo Yingnan and his wife and Ma Lan's polyphony were edited and mixed with modern music elements such as electronics. In September 1999, Guo Yingnan and Ma Lan's singing team were invited to Japan to participate in the "love and Dream Music Festival" concert and achieved success. In 2001, Guo Yingnan's right foot was bitten and inflamed by a centipede, but he was not cured after three operations. On March 29, 2002, Guo Yingnan died of sepsis complicated with pneumonia in Taitung Christian Hospital. 21 days later, Guo Xiuzhu, Guo Yingnan's widow, died of heart disease due to excessive grief.

course

Guo Yingnan is a man who brings "the voice of Taiwan, China" to the world. Although the indigenous people have their own language, they do not have their own written records. Through word of mouth, they make their own nation accumulate cultural heritage wisdom with a strong matriarchal clan social relationship. Among them, singing is a communication medium in their daily life and sacrifice to heaven, nature and ancestors. Therefore, singing is a common and solemn thing. In this family, there is a leader who not only needs to be able to sing, but also has high prestige. However, at the age of 17, Guo Yingnan was designated as the leader of the tribe. Guo Yingnan said that singing is as common as drinking and eating betel nuts. When he was a child, he went to herd cattle. When he heard the adults practicing singing, he sang along with them. There were several Baba worshippers in the family. They used to sing together while fishing, farming and enjoying the cool. When he was very young, Guo Yingnan thought that this kind of beautiful voice should be brought out to let more people in the world hear and understand their voices. He taught his wife Guo Xiuzhu and some relatives and friends to sing, and formed a Malan humming group. Guo Yingnan also created a song called "song of praying for rain" by himself. The content is to scold the God of rain for not loving to clean and take a bath. If he scolds the God of rain for crying, his tears will turn into rain. This song has created such a miracle that every time he sings it will rain. Magic! In 1978, the "national music investigation team" came to Taidong to collect AMI folk music. Guo Yingnan and his Malan humming group hummed in their own courtyard, which shocked the investigation team. The next year, the Chinese Folk Art Foundation helped Guo Yingnan record a black gum record "AMI folk songs". In 1988, the Chinese Folk Art Foundation led Taiwan aborigines to attend the "Pacific aboriginal dance and Music Festival" at the world cultural center in Paris. Guo Yingnan and other AMI singers were invited to attend. In this activity, Malan humming group was greatly welcomed, and the media reported "sounds of nature, the voice from Taiwan". Because of the brilliant performance, the temporary French "world culture house" asked them to record some Ami's oratorio, but because the temporary recording effect was not good, the Taiwan side gave them some of the songs previously recorded, and later released them - "Taiwan Aboriginal polyphonic vocal music.". In 1993, when the Ingmar band produced the album "the cross of changes", they bought the song "drinking song for the elderly" from "world culture house", and brought Guo Yingnan and his wife together

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