Behind how bright the spotlight burned down on her, there’s, that miserable part of her childhood, that’s, made her into who she is today, from the Entertainment News section of the papers, translated…
The twenty-two Malaysian singer, Ribbon Ooi hosted a press conference for her new album “Winning”, she’d started competing in the singing competitions at the age of six, had the nickname of “prize bounty hunter”, there were 532 trophies that she’d won, and she’d, accumulated over four million dollars N.T.s in prize money too, but, because of her early fame, she’d become, the target of her classmates’ bullying, she’d started having suicidal tendencies, the Malaysian rap artist, Namewee had written the song, “Ten Ways to Kill Myself” for her, the lyrics, “Why not just slash, and allow the blood to spill upward”, “Take that leap into the rivers, the body would bloat up and I’d smelled like fish”, it’d made people who’d read the lyrics shocked.
Huang recalled back in the fifth grade, that she’d taken leaves because of the singing competitions from school, and the other classmates believed that she received special treatments, and she’d become, the targets of bullies, and what made her felt the worst was being called a “whore”, “I was only eleven, and I just couldn’t enter the school for an entire year, the other students called me these awful names”.
here’s one of her songs, marking the passages of the trials of her coming of age from Youtube…
Her mother lost her vision after having her, and three years ago, her father had a stroke too, from when she was younger, she’d competed in singing, to help her family’s household economics, the highest prize money she’d ever received was $100,000N.T.s, which all went to her mother’s medical bills, “My mother had me then became blind, so I’d, blamed myself”. At the age of eighteen to nineteen, she’d gone to Thailand and stationed in the bars to sing for nine months, she’d brought in $60,000N.T. at most for her family, “helping to pay up the debts we’d accumulated, the debts were up to $70,000 to $80,000N.T. per month.”
At the press conferences, Danny Tsao, a singer from Taiwan went to vouch for her, he’d acclaimed at how she’d resembled Sandy Wu, Jacky Wu, the T.V. host’s daughter, and said he wanted to be her godfather.
And so, this still just showed, how behind the flash and the lights, there’s, someone who’s, ordinary as you and I are, and this woman had, gone through the trials of her life, because she’d reached fame so early, she’d become, the targets of bullies by her peers, and yet, she’d, overcome this part of her early childhood traumatic years, and, became strong.