Xu Wei’s status in music is obvious to all. Because Dou Wei quit the rock music scene at that time, only Xu Wei and Wang Feng were left as the main players, and the finale of all performances must be Xu Wei and even Wang Feng said that Xu Wei's benchmark for each album is very high.
Xu Wei disappeared for more than ten years. When all singers were afraid that they would become obsolete, Xu Wei hid himself. He stayed away from the world, rarely appeared in public, and did not participate in any variety shows. program, so what has he been doing all these years?
Gao Xiaosong once said that he always remembers when Xu Wei first came to Beijing to record, Dou Wei and Dou Wei were all watching from outside the studio, saying that this guy was so awesome. He sang a song called "Two Days" and another called "Perseverance". Those two songs were so good that all of us were shocked at the time and said they were amazing. It was 1994, when Xu Wei was 26 years old, and the lyrics of "Two Days" will be included in the "Selected Chinese Contemporary Poetry". There is a sentence in it: "I only have two days, one day for birth and one day for death." ”
The fact that 26-year-old Xu Wei can write such lyrics is inseparable from his experience and state of mind. In 1994, Xu Wei's "Persistence" was included in Tian Zhen's album. The song became popular, but few people knew Xu Wei's name. He didn't have much income, and he couldn't afford to eat in a house of less than 6 square meters every day. He had been sitting on the bench and managed to survive until the album "Elsewhere" in 1997, but he still wanted to gain fame or gain.
Later, Xu Wei struggled with insomnia every day and went to see a psychiatrist every day. “Every day I fought against 10,000 suicidal thoughts, and then defeated them with 10,000 thoughts that I wanted to live on.” "Xu Wei suffered from severe depression. The Red Star Company where Xu Wei worked asked Xu Wei's wife Yuan Feng to send Xu Wei to a mental hospital. Yuan Feng refused: "He is just depressed, not nervous. Find me a car and I will take him." He went back to Xi'an." In 2000, Xu Wei decided to return to his hometown in Xi'an to open a grocery store, at least to support himself first.
In the next eight years, it was precisely because of the company of his wife Yuan Feng that Xu Wei came out of the haze of depression. True love never leaves, so Xu Wei decided to make a comeback. His subsequent album "Time Walk" sold over 500,000 copies and won many music awards. Xu Wei was approached by many variety shows, but Xu Wei refused. He said that he would not participate in any variety shows or go to any red carpets at award ceremonies.
When Xu Wei first came to Beijing, he wanted his musical talent to be seen by others, but when one day he gets all of this, fame and fortune no longer matter. After Xu Wei had a lot of money, he bought a small courtyard house in Beijing's West Fifth Ring Road, and his wife Yuan Feng was still by his side. Many people thought that Xu Wei had made himself "outdated" when he was at his most popular, and had not found a "good voice" Xu Wei became a mentor, but Xu Wei refused.
In 2016, Xu Wei contracted an orchard in the western suburbs and lived there with his band members to concentrate on making music. Now Xu Wei is far away from the crowd. Although he bought a house in Beijing, he chose to buy it in Xishan, so that he could He felt at ease only when he saw the mountains and immersed himself in nature.
Ten years ago, Xu Wei wrote in a song that he once dreamed of traveling to the end of the world with a sword. But now, Xu Wei has experienced the waste of time and just wants to be silent in the mountains and rivers.