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Singing about homesickness in Chaoshan dialect, Gong Linna: It’s great that my unique music is getting attention

2024-08-11

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Jimu News reporter Zhang Cong

The special program "Enjoy It" Music Festival, which focuses on the exchange of ethnic music, was officially launched on the evening of the 9th. Ayunga, Ma Tiao & Muqam Artists, Gong Linna, Shanren Band, Tailor Shop Band, Yang Ge & Maria Boyezhaeva, Yang Jima, Alicia Evelyn and other 8 groups of singers brought stunning top-level music performances to the audience. The premiere of the program that night not only won the ratings championship, but also received high praise from many viewers and netizens for its ethnic music characteristics, emotional creative expression and sincere and friendly music exchange atmosphere.

It is reported that on the night of the show, "Enjoy It" won the first place in the ratings on Huan.com, ranking first among provincial satellite TV stations in the same period; its ratings on CVB and Kuyun dual networks also ranked first among provincial satellite TV programs in the same period. "Enjoy It Music Festival" and "A Yunga's seamless bilingual singing" and other topics have become hot searches. Topics such as singers' singing skills, the appreciation of folk music, and the differentiated expressions of domestic and foreign music have set off a wave of discussion on the entire network. Gong Linna's homesickness song "Return" sung in Chaoshan dialect has been trending online.

In addition to the long and melodious "Return", that night, Ayun Ga teamed up with three outstanding ethnic performers to cleverly combine the traditional Korchin long tune "Nongjia" with the Mongolian folk song "Waiting for Your Return"; the Tailor Shop Band, characterized by "national tide", brought "Old Man of the East China Sea", using the cross-cultural instruments of pipa and bass to collide with the romantic color of Chinese rock; "Mountain Man" sung by the Mountain Man Band combined the customs of the Yunnan-Guizhou region with modern music elements; Chinese singer Yang Ge and Russian singer Maria Boyezhaeva collaborated on the Russian song "I Like It", folk singer Ma Tiao teamed up with three Xinjiang Muqam artists to bring the song "Outside the Great Wall", Yang Jima's bilingual interpretation of the song "The World" also conquered the audience, and the Brazilian singer Alicia Evelyn's full aura performed the song "Hold On", which amazed netizens with its overwhelming vitality.

After the live show, the eight groups of singers and the program creators accepted media interviews. A Yunga mentioned that folk music has a unique inheritance and vitality, and he hopes to use his own strength to inspire more young people to fall in love with folk music; as for the inheritance of folk songs, Gong Linna said that folk music grows out of the soil and has roots. Jimu News reporters noticed that Gong Linna also posted a special message on WeChat Moments on the 10th, saying: "The inheritance and dissemination of folk music requires more channels and the efforts of musicians" and "It's great that distinctive music is loved and paid attention to."

Gong Linna posted on WeChat Moments, expressing her gratitude for the attention paid to folk music

Wang Qin, the producer of the show "Enjoy It", mentioned that she hopes that through the performances of Chinese and foreign singers on the same stage, more audiences will get to know China's traditional folk music and appreciate a wider variety of global music genres, so that world music can be "brought in" and folk music can be "exported".

(The pictures are of the live performance of "Enjoy It" and a screenshot of Gong Linna's Moments)

(Source: Jimu News)

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