Da Qiao Xiao Qiao - 37-year-old man Qiao Xiaodao and 15-year-old girl Qiao Munan collaborated in a band (they are uncle and niece), and their song "The Lost Light Years" Taking the entire internet by storm.
Da Qiao: This Northeasterner now lives in Changping, a suburb of Beijing. He makes prints on canvas and makes meaningful toy puppets; he usually loves LOMO and makes weird photoshop. His photos are good at capturing close-ups of people; he is said to be a strange person by his Zheng friends; he is also good at recording life with poetry - the kind of eclectic poetry that is deeply influenced by hazy poetry and has learned from third-generation poetry. body.
Xiao Qiao: She is like a living treasure. Lying in the white clouds and sleeping is the little girl’s ideal when she was 9 years old. Her uncle would listen to Zhong Lifeng in the quiet mornings, and she would sleep with her teddy bear in her arms. She dreamed of white clouds and kites while we were busy.
Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao recently released an album and held their first solo concert. More than 1,000 viewers came, most of whom bought 40 yuan tickets with their own money. .
Compared with the current production costs of hundreds of thousands or even millions of yuan for an album produced by record companies, the cost of Da Qiao Xiao Qiao's album, which also received a formal "birth certificate", is surprisingly low. , including recording, packaging, and production, the total cost was only 10,000 yuan. "Many of them were helped by my buddies, and we didn't spend any money." The cloth envelopes were printed by Da Qiao himself, and made by Xiao Qiao and grandma using sewing machines.
"Publishing an album is not a serious matter, but recording our growth is a serious matter." Da Qiao, who is used to laughing, said seriously.
On the day of the performance, Xiao Qiao, who was wearing a pink suspender skirt, wore four butterfly hairpins of different colors on her head that could flap its wings, and seven or eight thin braids hanging on her chest. A bunch of colorful plastic piggy heads were tied tightly with ropes. She was quite satisfied with the "look" designed by her grandma, and despite the persuasion of a beautiful aunt, she pushed a purple hairband to her forehead.
No one knows where the other protagonist, Da Qiao, is. An hour before the show started, the band officially entered the venue, and were immediately told that due to power supply issues, the venue might lose power at any time. Lead singer and manager Da Qiao had to deal with at least 20 things during this period: tuning, picking up guests, and making emergency power outage plans... It wasn't until the guests started singing that Da Qiao, wearing a T-shirt and sweating profusely, appeared backstage. At this point, he has not eaten for a day, and his skinny appearance makes people sigh that "small body, big energy". Da Qiao designed a "highlight" for the first performance: the band members were on the stage during the curtain call, playing "Tiannu Sanhua" with a commemorative CD with a cloth cover.