In the 1990s, when Zhao Yiran became famous, he was a musician with a unique style. I don't say he is a singer, because I think the musician is him, and the singer is a little impetuous. Zhao Yiran's voice naturally has a sense of vicissitudes, with a strong blues style and the flavor of northwest folk songs. Whenever I hear him sing, I think it is a folk song, a voice that really grows out of the soil. Musicians in the northwest are more or less inextricably linked with the land. Perhaps it is that barren land that nourishes their hearts. Just like the literary works of Lu Yao and Chen, people always feel a strong earthy atmosphere, but when you think about it carefully, the spiritual core of the works is particularly strong and impenetrable.
Zhao Yiran's songs, whether his cover works or his own works, are interpreted in an alternative way that you can't refuse. In this respect, I personally feel that no singer can reach his level. To the extreme, it is style. We always overemphasize internationalization, but lose our own characteristics. In fact, it is the stupidest thing to dislike your own land and abandon your own customs. This can be seen from the recent textbook incident.
Zhao Yiran's voice is not gorgeous, not even beautiful. But it is this kind of voice combined with his guitar that has more exquisite skills and profound vicissitudes. Let people who are hit by life and tortured by suffering have a little comfort. Zhao Yiran's old songs not only turned his youth into a solemn and stirring hymn, but also united many people infected by joys and sorrows to resist the hardships of life together.
Zhao Yiran seems to be cursed by himself. 1989, he came to Beijing. Enter the underground music world, take drummers as a profession, and make money in various entertainment places. Later, he experienced some bad things himself and slowly stopped singing in public. Wandering from place to place will inevitably lead to its own decline.
Zhao Yiran is also known as Boss Zhao. And his circle of friends is basically underground rock musicians. People who have experienced the glory of rock music with him have all lived a better life. And he's been wandering around Besides wandering, he always sings pop songs from the 1980s. And this may be his most emotional time, playing the guitar and singing songs, which is full of blues and northwest folk songs. After listening carefully to his album "Living in 1988" in Netease Cloud, I can feel that he is not singing a song, but fate. All the beauty, all the suffering, his poverty and sadness, his free soul. But he didn't live so freely, although I believe his soul is freer than anyone else.
Time has forgotten him. This kind of forgetting is not his own selective forgetting, but you will find that he has fallen into the abyss of suffering. I've never been married in my life and I don't have much money. My friend has a better life than him. Among the freedoms he pursues, he himself is the least free. This may be the sorrow of most people in this world. They want to live a chic life, but they are always trapped by life.
Finally, in such a lonely world, he left us forever on September 30 last year. This is a silent era, and those traffic stars can make hot searches in any action, and Zhao Yiran has quietly left this world. In the middle of the night, in the sunshine without money corrosion, in the smile and sadness that only ghosts can see, Zhao Yiran sang his own songs, still full of vicissitudes. Unfortunately, no one in this world heard it, and perhaps no one understood it.