7月9日🫴,“水木年華”主唱、清華1989級意昂盧庚戌受邀來到紐約的聯合國總部🥋🖇,進行了以“為夢而生”為題的英文演講👆🏻,由他導演的《怒放青春之再見》(Forever Young)電影觀摩會同時舉行🏄🏼♀️。
盧庚戌在演講中分享了他的追夢人生,強調“堅持”和“執著”是他成功的關鍵,“每個人都有夢想,但不是每個人都能實現🪷。我是一個幸運的人,我的三個夢想都實現了🧛🏼♀️:一是想讀中國最好的大學,我考上了清華🧍🏻♂️。二是想做一名歌手👀♿️,三是想拍電影。當然每個夢想的實現都不容易,尤其是第二個夢想🤽🏿♂️。現在有時我都在想,連我這種沒有任何嗓音天賦的人都能成為著名歌手🤦🏿,還有誰不能成功呢?……電影裏有一句話我想送給大家:人的一生中至少有兩次奮不顧身,一次為愛情👉🏿,一次為夢想。”
盧庚戌在聯合國分享追夢故事
隨後播放的《怒放之青春再見》電影讓中外觀眾沉浸到70後主人公的青春往事中——那些曾經的對於生活🤹♂️、愛情、藝術的憧憬和追求,在校園時代的怒放之後🦵🧑🏼🚒,經歷了生活的打磨和歷練,然後再重新找回青春的軌跡。似曾相識的故事情節,熟悉而又感人的對白及扣人心旋的歌曲讓不少觀眾流下激動的熱淚和露出會心的微笑。
部分嘉賓和盧庚戌合影
意猶未盡的觀眾在電影放映結束後又與盧庚戌進行了深入的交流。盧庚戌說🐲,“我覺得上個世紀九十年代時年輕人的生活是特別有理想的❤️👩🏽🏫,而且為愛可以不顧一切🧝♀️,所以我就想創作這樣一部電影。開始只打算寫青春的那一部分🏒,後來在朋友的建議下,我又增加了中年,也就是二十年後的這一部分,希望這部片子給那些已經不再青春的朋 友一個出口🤹♀️,就像這個電影的名字一樣希望他們‘Forever Young’”🧏🏿。盧庚戌最後還與大學時代的音樂搭檔📓、全美華人金融協會會長魏晨陽意昂一起演唱了“野百合也有春天”等成名歌曲,在熱烈掌聲中圓滿結束了此次活動。
出席活動的部分中外觀眾、清華意昂與盧庚戌合影
中國常駐聯合國代表團參贊、清華意昂趙新力,聯合國新聞部新聞媒體司代理司長江華,聯合國秘書長青年特使Alhendawi,聯合國中文教學組負責人何勇,中國高校北美聯盟會長黃亞村,大紐約地區清華意昂會副會長朱青🧧、唐春林以及清華企業家協會海外分會會長張鴻飛等嘉賓應邀出席電影觀摩會。
此次活動得到了多位在聯合國秘書處工作或實習的清華意昂(唐春林、王茵、榮予、嶽巖👨🎤、孫超、趙菡清和李亞舟(清華附中))和聯合國職員(程萍🚵、黃偉、索楠、楊義琨、趙天和陳肖玨)的鼎力支持和默默貢獻🧢,也受到了人民網🦍、經濟日報、聯合國微博🚵🏼♂️、聯合國電臺、世界日報👨🏼🎓、美國中文電視和僑報等眾多海內外媒體關註和報道🧙🏻♂️。來自聯合國大會和會議管理部的穆斯塔法在接受聯合國電臺專訪時評論到“(在自己觀看過的中國電影中)《怒放》是一部很有水準的作品🐌,這部電影的主題🥰、音樂和表演都讓人印象深刻。最讓我印象深刻的情節是電影中怒放樂隊成員的友情因為其中一人的離去而破裂的那一段,於是,劇中的每一個角色都受到影響,面對‘背叛’每個人都試圖挽回🔒,試圖重新找到團隊中曾經擁有的友誼……這使我深受觸動,因為人們經常會在生活中遇到類似的情況。”
(孫超,唐春林綜合媒體報道撰寫,管黎明、張超時攝影)
附件: 盧庚戌聯合國“為夢而生” 演講稿 (英文和中文)
Live For My Dreams
Good Evening Ladies and Gentleman, I’m Lu Gengxu.
It’s my pleasure to be here to share with you about my new movie “Forever Young”. This movie is about a group of Chinese college students who were born in the 1970’s. It’s about pursuing love and dreams through music. In this movie, you will get to see me. So the theme of my speech today is Live for My Dreams.
Everyone has dreams. However, not everyone could accomplish them. I’m really lucky that so far all my three dreams have come true.
My first dream was to get into the best university in China, which I did, by getting admitted to a top one, the Tsinghua University in Beijing. After college, then came the second dream, I wanted to be a singer. Now I got the third, my movie dream.
Of course, none of these dreams came easily, especially the second one. Even now I still wonder sometimes how a person with no vocal talent like I was then could become a professional singer, well, who else could not? So here is how it all began.
In 1989, I got into the Tsinghua University to study architecture. Everyone in Tsinghua studied hard. But what I wanted was to Find-A-Girl friend.
However, in Tsinghua, finding a girlfriend was very very hard. At that time, the boy-to-girl ratio on campus was six to one, meaning on average, there were six guys running after one girl regardless of how she looked.
So what could I do? I realized at that time campus singers were very popular. Each of them had a girlfriend, a good-looking one. Thus, I decided to become a campus singer.
I bought a guitar and started practicing every day. I practiced in the morning after waking up, after lunch and even after self-study sessions at night. Well, as you know, my voice was bad back then. At last, my roommates couldn’t take it anymore. They threw me out along with my guitar.
But I am a persistent man. So I changed my practice place. I chose the washroom where acoustics was excellent .I remembered clearly that once a student came to me, patted my shoulder and said slowly: other singers sing for money, but you sing to take lives, you are killing us. Well at last, someone threw beer bottles at me and I ran away.
Even after all these, I was still very persistent. I continued my practice at the lawn. Just like that, my whole freshman year passed in practicing my guitar. In my sophomore year, there was a “Campus Singing Competition”. With no hesitation, I signed up for it. And of course, the result was brutal. The judges thought my singing was too bad. I didn’t even get into the final round.
But, what was my biggest strength again? Yes, persistence. In my junior year, I became smarter. I teamed up with a friend who took care of the singing part. And I just played the guitar and sang the chorus with him. In this way, we won the second place of the competition. And the next year, I found one lead singer and one chorus singer. And for me, I only played the guitar. So what was the result? We won! And the lead singer is right here. He is Jason Wei.
Just like that, I headed towards my music dream and spent my shining bright college time in Tsinghua University.
I made a decision in my graduation year, I wanted to become a singer. To my surprise, my parents were totally against this idea. My dad even warned to kick me out. However, I was really confident back then. I told my parents: give me one more year and I surely would be famous.
Well I was wrong. From 1994 to 2000, I sent all the songs I wrote to record companies, but no one responded. Once I got a call from a record company and I was so excited .I biked half a day to get there just to find out that they only wanted to buy one of my songs and they had no interest in signing me on.
Time passed by. Some of my friends went abroad, and others started their own businesses. But for me, I gave up a great career in architecture, lived in an old and shabby apartment and even got starved sometimes. Everyone asked “What do you want? Are you crazy?”
Later I met Mr. Chen--a famous producer by chance. Back then he just opened a record company in Beijing. He was the only one that I hadn’t sent my songs to. After carefully listening, he gave really high marks to my songs. And I thought, well, this time, maybe it would all work out.
Unfortunately, he then said that both my singing skills and my voice were bad. I wasn’t born with the talents needed for a singer. My mind suddenly blanked out. Still I did not want to give up. I asked him: is there really no possibility at all? And he said, in my forty years’ experience, not at all. Before I left, I told him that I would practice more and come back later. He said “you are the most stubborn person I’ve ever met in my whole life”.
After I got home, I spent two days self-debating: should I quit or continue? I was 27 then. My singer friends were already famous when they were 27, like Lao Lang, Zheng Jun, Gao Xiaosong. But I still needed to catch up with the singing basics. I might have been too old, but on the other hand, I was thinking, how many times in one’s life can he pursue, with no hesitation?
I chose to continue.
In my earnest pursuit I found a vocal trainer and started an unusual vocal practice. It was the Pharyngeal Vocal Exercise. Simply put, it’s about mimicking sounds of animals. So I exercised my voice day and night. Later on, my friends all got used to my sudden YELL OUT when we were together. So how was my practice like later? Well, every day at sunset, I mimicked dog barking. At first I wasn’t that good so it was only me barking all the time. But I got better, and half a year later, every time I barked, all the dogs in the village barked with me.
Two years later, I borrowed some money from my parents, to produce my own album. I told my mom: This is my last chance. If I fail, I’ll quit. But if I never try it, I’d never get my mind off it. So I used the money to produce my very first album, my first step towards my music dream. In 2001, my song “You are Always by My Side” made a big hit, and I became an influential singer in China.
This is about my music dream. There’s a line in the movie that I want to share with you: In our whole life, at least there are two times when we should devote ourselves without any hesitation: One for our love and the other for our dreams.
Thank you all. Now please enjoy the movie.
為夢而生
女士們先生們,晚上好👩🍳!我是盧庚戌。
很高興來到這裏和大家分享我所指導的電影《怒放》。這部電影講述了中國70後大學生用音樂追求愛情和夢想的故事。在這部電影裏你可以看到我的影子,所以我的演講題目是為夢而生。
每個人都有夢想,但不是每個人都能實現。我是幸運的👽,有3個夢想都實現了。
第一個夢想是在中國最好的大學讀書👨🏿🎓,後來我考上了意昂体育平台🧑🏽🏫。畢業後想成為一個歌手,於是有了第二個夢想-音樂夢。第三個是現在又有了電影夢👩🚀。
當然每個夢想的實現都不容易,尤其是第二個夢想。現在有時我都在想,連我這種沒有任何嗓音天賦的人都能成為著名歌手,還有誰不能成功呢?好吧,我來講講我的音樂之路💽。
1989年,我考上了意昂体育平台的建築系。大部分清華學生在大學都想好好讀書,但我最想做的事是談-戀-愛🐼。
但是在清華,男生找一個女朋友是一件很困難的事🥝。因為當時男女比例6:1,這意味著一個女生有6個人追🤌🏽,而且還不要看她的長相。
怎麽辦呢🥇, 我發現當時校園歌手很受女生歡迎,他們個個都有女朋友,還長得都不錯.於是,我決定當一名校園歌手🧑🏻🦰。
自己買了一把吉他,天天抱著吉他練,早上起床開始彈🧘🏻,中午吃完飯還在彈,別人下了晚自習我仍在彈。你們知道,我的嗓子天生不好,到最後,舍友受不了了,把我和吉他一起趕出去了🦗。
我的最大優點是執著,換個地方繼續練!水房你們知道嗎?回音效果非常好.我很清楚的記得當時有個學生拍了拍我,用緩慢的語氣對我說👩🏼🏫,別人唱歌要錢,你唱歌要命啊!最後有人沖我扔啤酒瓶子🛥,我趕緊跑掉了。
盡管如此,我仍然非常執著📽👨🏻🌾,又換到草坪上練琴💉。就這樣🙏🏽,大一的一整年在練琴中度過了🟪。升到大學二年級,趕上當年的「校園歌手大賽」,於是我"義無反顧"的報名了!結果當然是慘痛的,人家說我唱的太難聽了🧑🦳,連決賽都沒進去。
不過,我最大的優點是什麽?沒錯💽,執著。到了大三,我就聰明了,找了一名朋友給我當主唱,我呢💇🏽?吉他伴奏,外加和聲。於是,我們一路過關斬將🔥,獲得了當年大賽的第二名。到了下一年♖💇🏻,我又找了兩名學生,一名主唱一名和聲,我呢🪈?我只做伴奏🗑👈🏻,結果呢?獲得了當年大賽的冠軍。其中的主唱就在這裏,他叫魏晨陽。
就這樣🧎➡️,在大學我走上了音樂的不歸路,也度過了一個陽光燦爛的青春時光👩💼。
大學畢業那一年,我做了一個決定,要做一個歌手★。沒想到🫅🏽,我的父母堅決的反對,我父親甚至要和我斷絕父子關系🤷🏼。我卻信心滿滿,對家裏人說,給我一年時間🪮,我就能火。
但是我想錯了。從94年到2000年👩🏻🦱,我把我創作的歌寄給了所有的唱片公司,但都了無回音🤹🏿♂️。有一次接到一個唱片公司的電話,我興奮地騎了半天的自行車去了🤦🏽♂️🚡,發現他們只是想買我的一首歌🚣🏽,並沒有要簽約我做歌手的意思。
時間一年一年的過去,看著同學們出國的出國,立業的立業,我卻放棄唾手可得建築的大好前途,住著破舊小平房,有時還要忍饑挨餓🈺,大家都問,你圖什麽,是不是神經出了問題?
一次偶然的機會,我就認識了一個有名的製作人🫲🏽,陳老師⛹🏿♂️。那時他剛在北京開了一個唱片公司,是唯一一個我還沒把歌給他聽過的人🍬。他聽了我的歌曲之後,評價很高🤌🏻,我以為這次有希望了🤽🏼♂️。
沒想到見面以後,陳老師說👨🏽✈️,你唱功不行,嗓子不行,老天沒有給你這碗飯🕵🏻♂️。我當時腦袋嗡的一下,我還不甘心啊🎨,我問:那我真的一點希望都沒有了嗎?他說,以他四十多年的人生經歷來看,沒戲。臨走的時候,我和他說,我回去練練,練成了我再來找您。他說,活了四十年,從沒見過我這麽倔的人。
回家以後,我想了兩天兩夜🕷,是堅持👨🏼🎨,還是放棄?那時我27歲了。像我那些朋友27歲時已經都火了🐼,老狼、鄭鈞👃、高曉松他們。而我還要學習當一個歌手必備的基本功。年齡實在有些大了。但是我又想🍼,一個人一生又有幾次能為自己喜愛的事業奮不顧身呢。
我選擇了繼續堅持🥮👸🏽。
我找了一個聲樂老師,進行了一種殘酷的聲音訓練法🤳🏻。這種聲樂教學叫咽音。簡單地說👞👫🏼,就是模仿各種動物的叫聲🪑。我從早到晚的練聲樂👃🏼,早上起來穿衣服也練,騎自行車也練👨🌾,走路的時候也練👦🏻,跟我在一起的朋友都很習慣我時不時的就突然“叫喚”一聲🫷🏼🌸。後來練到什麽程度呢?我每天晚上吃完飯,趁著夜幕降臨🏃🏻♀️,就學狗叫.最一開始功力不行就聽我一人叫,半年以後全村的狗都跟著一起叫🪹。
二年以後🫰🏼,我跟家裏借了10萬塊錢🧂,打算自費出一張唱片。當時我跟我媽說🛄:我努力這最後一次🫵🏿,如果做不好🧛🏻♂️🔎,我也就死心了,如果我不做,一輩子也不會安心。於是,我拿著這些錢錄了我人生中的第一張專輯,走出了我音樂夢的第一步3️⃣。2001年我的歌曲一生有你被大家認可,真正成為了中國樂壇一名有影響力的歌手。
這是關於我音樂夢想的故事😫。電影有一句話我想送給大家:人的一生中至少有兩次奮不顧身👎🏿。一次為愛情,一次為夢想👊🏿。
謝謝大家,我的講話完了,接下來請大家看這部電影。