In recent years,
Zhou Shen’s resources have improved dramatically, and he has appeared in major variety shows. Not only that, but also in CCTV’s talent show "Huacai Youth" They all extended an olive branch to him.
His current success is purely based on his singing ability. It reminds me of a sentence in "Farewell to Innocence":
"Genius will definitely succeed, it just takes time." Question."
In 1992,
Zhou Shen was born in Shaoyang, Hunan, from an ordinary family, both of his parents were migrant workers. Later, due to his parents' job transfer, he settled in Guiyang with his parents.
The core of Zhou Shen’s success is that “God will reward you with food”. Due to his modest family background, he had never received professional singing training before college.
However, his singing ability has been outstanding since childhood. When I was in the third grade of elementary school, the city held a choir competition, and the school teachers had to select representatives to participate.
When the teacher heard Zhou Shen singing, he immediately judged him to be a rare talent. As a result, he basically led the singing every time he went to the city to participate in competitions. Many years later, when he recalled his childhood experience, he proudly said:
"Every time I participated in a chorus competition in Guiyang City, the songs I sang as the lead won first place."
It was his choral experience as a child that cultivated his interest in music and allowed him to see his talent in music, paving the way for his future career in music.
Zhou Shen, who was fourteen or five years old, fell into low self-esteem and confusion. At this time, everyone of the same age gradually changed their voices, from the previous high-pitched voice to rough and deep.
But Zhou Shen’s voice did not change at all, still thin and feminine. When he was in his teens, most of his peers were outspoken and did not care about other people's feelings.
Therefore, many people in the class began to look at Zhou Shen in a strange way, and even more ignorant people still looked at Zhou Shen in a strange way. Give him ugly nicknames like "shemale".
As a result, throughout junior high school, he never sang in public for fear of being teased.
It was not until high school that he regained the courage to participate in singing competitions again with the encouragement of his classmates. Due to his outstanding talent and the long time he spent studying his singing skills alone, he won the championship in one fell swoop.
Before college, singing was just his hobby. His family did not support him taking this path and thought it would be better for him to treat singing as a hobby.
Therefore, when he failed the college entrance examination and went to Ukraine to study, his family also forced him to choose the medical major. In the eyes of the older generation, studying medicine is the best major for employment.
He didn’t dare to sing in front of the public, and his family didn’t support him taking this path, but he liked it very much, so he could only sing on certain singing platforms.
Today, many people don’t know the origin of Zhou Shen’s Weibo name “Kabula”. In fact, it is a sign that he has not forgotten his original intention. This was the name he used on the platform back then.
Later, Zhou Shen recalled his college days in "Heartbeat Offer" and bluntly said that at that time, he felt like he had entered an abyss of pain.
When he first arrived in Ukraine, he didn’t study the major he liked, and he didn’t know the language well. He couldn’t understand the language in the textbooks, so he had to look it up word by word.
After persisting like this for a year, he couldn’t hold on anymore, so Zhou Shen decided to transfer to the vocal music department. When the parents heard the news, they felt like they had heard "bad news."
His family was already in a tight situation, and his parents asked him to study medicine abroad in order to have a good future. He suddenly said that he wanted to learn unreliable music, and his parents got angry and said they did not want to support his studies. .
But Zhou Shen resolutely decided to transfer to the vocal music department. He relied on borrowing money and teaching Chinese in Ukraine to support his studies, and his life was extremely gloomy.
At this time, he already had many fans who loved his singing on the singing platform. And he has already been noticed by the person in charge of "The Voice of China".
Zhou Shen participated in the third season of "The Voice of China", but as early as the first and second seasons, he had already received invitations from the organizer.
The reason why he did not come was because he had been worried about a problem, which was the trauma left over from his youth. He was afraid that the audience would call him "neither boy nor girl" after hearing his voice.
The organizer kindly invited him, and he liked singing very much, so he finally decided to give it a try. Therefore, we will hear his natural voice in "The Voice of China 3".
Wang Feng sighed after hearing this: "I didn't expect to hear such a beautiful voice in my limited life. Zhou Shen's voice makes people feel that no matter how much suffering in the world, it can become beautiful."
p>Zhou Shen was naturally overjoyed when he heard such comments. After all, at that time, he was full of confusion about his future. His family did not support him in singing, so he relied on his lonesomeness to hold on.
Just like what he said about his purpose in coming to The Voice: "I just want four professional music instructors to listen to me to see if I can sing and whether I have a future."
However, unfortunately, Zhou Shen stopped in the top 16.
During his PK with Li Wei, because he relied on his ethereal voice to sing, his skills and emotional control were not as good as Li Wei at that time.
So Na Ying said: "I'm sorry Zhou Shen, I prefer Li Wei "Let his journey of "The Voice of China" stop here.
Perhaps Na Ying was hesitant at the time. After all, skills and emotions can be developed later, and Zhou Shen’s rare natural voice is the weapon that can save the music world.
However, "gold can shine wherever it goes." It was his wonderful acting in "The Voice of China" that made Gao Xiaosong know him.
Many years ago, Gao Xiaosong once composed the song "Blue Parachute" for Gu Changwei's movie "Peacock", but due to various reasons, the song was not able to meet the audience.
After hearing Zhou Shen's singing, Gao Xiaosong breathed a sigh of relief and sighed: "Finally I found the person suitable to sing this song." And the nickname "One Man's Choir" is also Gao Xiaosong gave it to him.
Not only that, Gao Xiaosong also sent songs and wrote lyrics to Zhou Shen at his own expense, which shows how much he loves him. A few years later, when Zhou Shen came to "I Am a Singer", the recommender was also Gao Xiaosong.
Na Ying is a pop singer who prefers skills and looks. Gao Xiaosong is a poet. The voice that Gao Xiaosong regards as a treasure is a poetic "sound of nature", so he treats Zhou Shen like this. appreciation.
Perhaps, Na Ying never saw at that time that today's music circle has been completely commercialized. The excitement of commercialized songs is driven by capital and is mostly an illusion.
The public is waiting for a singer who can truly sing into their ears and hearts. Therefore, Zhou Shen's arrival caused a storm in the music circle.
Although the album Gao Xiaosong produced for him failed to get Zhou Shen out of the music industry, more people in the music circle knew him, and more people invited him to sing movie theme songs.
In 2016,
He encountered the song "Big Fish". This song is the theme song of "Big Fish and Begonia", a movie that wants to show the beauty of traditional Chinese culture.
Poetry is one of the cores of traditional Chinese culture. Therefore, the lyrics of "Big Fish" are quite poetic, and coupled with his ethereal voice, they accurately express the "beauty of artistic conception" in Chinese aesthetics.
"Big Fish" made him appear in a small circle in front of the audience. Nowadays, many fans who like Zhou Shen have been with him since then.
After that, although the industry first considered Zhou Shen when looking for someone to sing theme songs for literary and artistic movies, it was impossible to survive and gain a foothold in the music industry in Beijing by just performing a few songs.
Singers need listeners.
He has to participate in variety shows to gain exposure. Before participating, he was actually very anxious and worried, fearing that the public would call him "neither" or "shemale" when they saw him.
In the end, he overcame his inner demons and stood bravely in front of the audience. At the beginning, he chose "The King of Masked Singer" because it is a variety show where you can't see people and can only hear voices.
The audience quickly fell in love with his singing, and when he finally revealed his face, although there were a few who couldn't accept it, he gained many, many fans.
This gave Zhou Shen great encouragement, so he became bold and not only sang the movie theme song behind the public, but also stood in front of the public and participated in "Our Song" , "Singer" and other popular skill competition shows.
Every time he opens his mouth,
the public will be impressed by his singing, making him quickly become popular. Nowadays, she has begun to become a mentor for various talent shows. "My daughter-in-law has also become a mother-in-law."
Zhou Shen’s success is inevitable.
Gao Xiaosong’s evaluation of his voice is:
“The magic sound between a child’s voice and a female voice, a choir of one person; everyone sings and sings in a crooked way. It’s so rare to see a quiet, handsome man like him who can sing quietly, so I couldn’t resist him at all when I heard his voice.”
His voice made the public unable to resist. force. His success relies purely on his singing ability. A genius in a certain field will definitely succeed.
It's just a matter of time.