This summer solstice, Chen Juan tried his first outdoor live broadcast in his life. There was a slight problem with the sound midway, but the audience, along with those in the live broadcast room, patiently stayed with her until the music started again. That night, Chen Juan's li

This summer solstice, Chen Juan tried his first outdoor live broadcast in his life. There was a slight problem with the sound midway, but the audience, along with those in the live broadcast room, patiently stayed with her until the music started again. That night, Chen Juan's live broadcast received more than 140,000 likes. What moved her even more was that some fans she had never met before made a special trip to watch her perform.

Chen Juan was once the monthly champion of CCTV's "Avenue of Stars" program. Now he is a well-known singing anchor with nearly one million fans on Douyin. On the night of the summer solstice that just passed, Chen Juan organized a successful "Village Gala" by the Qiandeng Lake in Foshan. "The live broadcast, using his unique skills of switching between male and female voices, conquered online and offline audiences, attracting 938,000 netizens to watch.

"Actually, for a long time, I couldn't adapt to the 'gap' from the big screen of TV to the small screen of mobile phones." After the performance that day, Chen Juan confessed to a reporter from the Yangcheng Evening News, "But along the way, I have gained something from live broadcasting. I gained an audience, gained growth, and gained my latest album... I am very glad that I persisted in this path. "

One person is responsible for male and female duet singing, and his skill is amazing in the live broadcast room

Chen Juan's unique skill is switching between male and female voices. , that is, playing two male and female roles in one song, seamlessly connecting male singing and female singing.

In Chen Juan's first live broadcast on April 9, 2021, she performed the Tujia duet folk song "Huang Fourth Sister" with one male voice and one female voice, which shocked the live broadcast room. At that time, many people expressed disbelief: "The male voice is lip-syncing, right?" As a result, more people immediately testified for her: "It's really a person who sings it! I have seen her on TV."

At that time, Chen Juan had logged in many times Been on the CCTV stage. Among them, in 2005, Chen Juan participated in the "Avenue of Stars" program with a male and female singing performance. He won the weekly championship and monthly championship along the way and finally made it to the stage of the annual competition. There are very few singers who can handle both male and female voices at the same time, not to mention Chen Juan's professional performance in both voices. Soon, she became a frequent guest on major CCTV programs and various local satellite TVs. Every time she appears, the contrast between Chen Juan's changeable singing voice and sweet appearance always leaves a deep impression on those who watch her perform for the first time.

In real life, Chen Juan speaks in a clear and tactful voice. But she said that when she was a girl, her voice was a mezzo-soprano like Xu Xiaofeng and Tsai Chin. Because he liked singing, Chen Juan liked to choose male vocals when singing duets with his friends. Later, the male-female duet song "Tracker's Love" became popular across the country, and Chen Juan learned both male and female vocals by himself. "Tracker's Love", sung by male and female voices, became her "repertoire" at the time, and people asked her to show off her performance wherever she went.

In her early years, Chen Juan liked pop songs, but gradually she became obsessed with the Tujia folk songs that her grandmother’s generation loved to sing. "I am a descendant of the Tujia people. Although I grew up in the city, maybe that blood is still hidden in my bones." Chen Juan said, "To this day, I still think the folk songs of the Tujia people are the most beautiful to sing. It's also the most enjoyable."

Before becoming famous with "Avenue of Stars", Chen Juan received two years of professional bel canto training in the vocal performance department in Beijing, and later won the first prize in the National Folk Singing Competition in the Hubei Division of the National Young Singer Competition. She was participating in the competition, and what conquered the judges was the Tujia folk song "Sister Huang" that later made her a blockbuster in the live broadcast room.

used the rewards in the live broadcast room to save a new album

Before 2021, Chen Juan never thought that one day he would sing in the live broadcast room. Something changed her mind. "I have a good friend who is a literary volunteer of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles. In 2021, she participated in a live broadcast performance to express condolences to shelter patients and medical workers. After that, she began to try live broadcasts. I saw that this seemed to be quite fun, she said You should give it a try. Within two days, a set of live streaming equipment was sent to me.”

Chen Juan has a job at the Yichang Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and his responsibility is to serve artists. At 8 o'clock in the evening, she will appear in the live broadcast room on time as a singing anchor. Chen Juan is very diligent in live broadcasting, two hours every night from Monday to Saturday. Unless he has important work, he never lets his fans down."Those viewers who watch me every day from the beginning to the end, they really like me, and I am not willing to let them wait in vain." Chen Juan said.

Strength, diligence and sincerity have brought tangible rewards to Chen Juan. Chen Juan's Douyin account has been gaining popularity rapidly, and he can gain 60,000 fans in one day at the fastest. The rewards brought by the live broadcast also allowed Chen Juan to save a creative fund. Before this Summer Solstice "Village Evening" performance, her fourth solo album "Listen" had just been released, and the production costs came from the support of die-hard fans in the live broadcast room.

Chen Juan said that she originally wanted to put the fans’ names on the album, “but they all selflessly refused.”

Chen Juan’s fans are not limited to Hubei where she is located. She revealed that there are many fans from Hunan, Sichuan, Chongqing, Jiangsu, Yunnan, and Guizhou, and the largest proportion is from Guangdong. “I don’t know whether it’s because there are so many fellow villagers in Guangdong, or because Guangdong people have a deep understanding of various cultures. Highly inclusive”.

fans often use gifts to order songs, and fans from Guangdong like to order Cantonese songs the most. Chen Juan said: "I can't sing many Cantonese songs, but they always say it doesn't matter. Just give them a gift and treat it as a reservation." Come back the next day and listen to me sing."

In order to do a good job in the live broadcast, Chen Juan learned many new songs, including Cantonese songs. At this "Village Evening" in Qiandeng Lake, Foshan, Chen Juan sang with the background accompaniment of the live music fountain. , impromptuly sang a Cantonese song "Men Should Be Strong", and their standard pronunciation won applause from the audience.

Having held a "Village Party" before, I can hold it in any venue in the future.

Chen Juan attaches great importance to holding a "Village Party" in Foshan this time. She brought a truckload of everything from live broadcast equipment to audio equipment. In addition, she also invited two senior percussionists Liu Jiaming and Liu Jialiang to help out. The two are twins and brought several sets of expensive musical instruments specially for this performance.

Chen Juan himself put on Tujia costumes and made a grand appearance. On this day, she sang not only Tujia folk songs such as "Fourth Sister Huang", "Liukou Tea" and "Dragon Boat Diao", but also familiar classic songs such as "Border of Lake Baikal" and "Kangding Love Song". She encouraged the audience to request songs and picked up the songs they requested. There was constant applause and cheers by Qiandeng Lake.

"There was a slight problem with the speakers, but fortunately it was solved quickly." After the two-hour "Village Evening" ended, Chen Juan breathed a sigh of relief, "I didn't expect the response at the scene to be so good, and there were fans coming from other places. It was so disappointing. I was touched."

She sighed: "After this training, I feel that I can hold my own in any situation in the future."

The experience of being an anchor has undoubtedly made Chen Juan more independent today: "I used to go to a TV station. For performances, everything is arranged for you, from sound to makeup, you just have to stand up and sing. But for live broadcasts, you have to do everything yourself." Chen Juan admitted that when she first started live broadcasts, she was not used to it. "There was a gap. , I feel aggrieved." But slowly, she felt the rapid growth brought about by live broadcasting: "My business capabilities are constantly improving, and it is more obvious that I have kept up with the times - I know what is popular online and what kind of songs everyone likes to listen to... Artists are We need to keep up with the times."

Chen Juan also generously admitted that he likes the beauty function in the live broadcast room. "Looking at myself in the camera looking young and beautiful makes me feel good when I sing."

Chen Juan’s original name is actually Chen Juan. In 2008, she changed her name from "Juan" to "Juan". She said that she hopes her artistic life can flow continuously like a trickle. Now, her wish seems to be slowly coming true in the live broadcast room.

In December 2023, under the guidance of the Public Service Department of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Chinese Cultural Center Association and Douyin Live jointly launched the "I Want to Host a Village Gala" Douyin Live Support Plan for Rural Cultural Talents. During the Spring Festival this year alone, more than 1,600 anchors conducted about 3,500 "village evening" live broadcasts on the Douyin platform, which is equivalent to an average of 110 live broadcasts per day. #我要做村夜# There are talent ceilings hidden on the village evening stage and other related topics. The cumulative play volume on Douyin platform exceeds 110 million times.

From June 20th to 21st, Douyin Live launched a special summer solstice event called "Host Hosted Village Party", and Chen Juan was one of the participants.She said that the performance in Foshan was just the beginning. "If I have the opportunity in the future, I would also like to organize 'village evenings' in more places across the country."

text | Yangcheng Evening News·Yangcheng Pai reporter Li Li

picture | Douyin @陈Juan's fourth album "Listen" is released