The first job that Zhang Dingbang arranged for An Zhizhi was as a street performer.

Los Angeles is a city full of art and star dreams. Countless people flock here every day from all over the world in the hope of getting a chance to get ahead. However, after all, there are only a few people who can be favored by large companies, so some of them have to stay here, working to support themselves while looking for opportunities.

For actresses, it's easier to get opportunities to work as a restaurant waitress or something else near Hollywood. For singers, in order to fully express their singing voices, most people choose street performances or live in bars and other places. Thus gathering popularity.

Music is the best language in itself.

If you want people to know themselves, know themselves, and pay attention to themselves, then it is naturally a good way to greet them in their own language.

It stands to reason that with the identity and resources of An Zhizhi, there is no need to do this kind of thing, but with the advent of the Internet era and the opening of the era of national entertainment, this method has begun to be liked by more ordinary people, and many famous singers have started from here, resulting in both the media and the industry have paid attention to it. Zhang Dingbang thinks that starting the first step of An Zhizhi from here may be a miracle.

And that's exactly what happened.

An Zhi's first singing was to choose a relatively open place next to the subway station. They didn't bring sound equipment, not even accompaniment, but let her bring her own guitar to play and sing, just to highlight Ann's unique timbre.

Ann knew that she was singing a song she had written. After arriving in the United States, she finally had a bit of a "singer-songwriter", mainly because the mainstream here is like this, and she has to follow the local customs. Shen Yanru is very sorry about this, although there is no need to use this way to show her "ownership" of An Zhizhi, but she is used to two people being bound together, and sudden changes will inevitably make her heart uncomfortable.

So although Zhang Dingbang asked An Zhizhi to come alone, Shen Yanru finally followed. After Zhang Dingbang found out, he had no choice but to follow, and it took a lot of effort to let Shen Yanru squat not far away with him to watch, so as not to be discovered by people nearby.

"Do you want to be so exaggerated?" Seeing that Shen Yanru's gaze had barely left An Zhizhi, he couldn't help but tease.

Shen Yanru ignored him.

Zhang Dingbang and Zhang Chongyuan are both children named cousins like Shen Yanru, but they actually grew up under the shadow of Shen Yanru's genius. Probably because of the awe of honor students when she was a child, she still existed in her heart, so Zhang Dingbang didn't dare to tease her too much. After thinking about it, he said, "Actually, if you want to follow her all the time, I have a good way." ”

Shen Yanru finally turned his head and looked at him with stupid eyes.

"What kind of eyes are you?" Zhang Dingbang was uncomfortable by her, "I promise it's a brilliant idea!" ”

"Don't you just want me to make my debut with Zhizhi?" Shen Yanru turned his gaze back to An Zhizhi, "Do you dare to go back and tell your grandfather about this?" ”

It's not that she hasn't thought about it, it's just that she is already old, and it's a little funny to change careers from producer to become a singer, and secondly, her family may not allow it, after all, when she insisted on becoming a singer, the elders already had a headache. The most important thing is that if both of them are standing in public, then any dealings she has with Ann must be carefully considered, so as not to be discovered by the media.

Shen Yanru didn't want that.

When Zhang Dingbang heard her question, he immediately made a zipper movement on the side of his mouth, signaling himself to shut up.

An knew that the "business" was not bad, more than a dozen people stopped to listen to her sing a song when they passed by, and a few of them even paid for it, only to find out that she didn't put out the case like others, so she had to take the money back and give her a round of applause.

There are people passing by, and some of them will stop and listen to a song or two before leaving. Although they didn't say a word from beginning to end, they had a short but pleasant exchange in the language of music. An Zhizhi likes this feeling very much.

She has always loved the way she performs that allows her to interact directly with the audience. For her, being able to get feedback and feedback directly from them is already the best thing. It's a pity that she had a lot of such opportunities in her previous life, but in the past few years of her debut, she only had one singing club and three concerts. So now this kind of street performance makes her feel very enjoyable and happy.

In fact, singing like this for an afternoon is much more tiring than having a concert. When he returned to his residence in the evening, An knew that his throat was hoarse, and after eating and drinking Chinese medicine to moisten his throat, he was so tired that he fell asleep.

Speaking of which, these important things were specially sent to Yujie after she heard that she was going to "sing" on the street.

This cousin is so dedicated to what Ann knows that she even plans to come to Los Angeles to take care of her. It's just that there are still things to deal with in San Francisco, and secondly, there is Shen Yanru, who is here as an elder, and she is afraid that young people will not be comfortable, so she has not acted for the time being.

An Zhiyi sang in the same place for three days in a row, and there was also a group of regular audiences. After they knew the performance time that Ann knew, they would even make a detour to listen to a song or two before going home. And on this day, after Shen Yanru and Zhang Dingbang arrived at the squatting place and settled down, they immediately noticed that someone in the crowd was holding a mobile phone and a camera, and they were shooting in front of An Zhi.

Sure enough, after returning home, Zhang Dingbang searched the Internet and immediately grabbed his mobile phone and shouted excitedly, "It's successful!" ”

He sang the video on his mobile phone to Shen Yanru and An Zhi. It was a video uploaded by passers-by, the pixels were not very high, and the sound was a little impurity, but the response among netizens was very good, and the on-demand volume was quite large. There are even many netizens who left messages asking where this is, and plan to go over to listen to the scene.

"Our PR team hasn't shot yet." Zhang Dingbang looked very excited, "I know, you're going to be popular!" ”

Shen Yanru said lightly, "She has long been popular." ”

"That's different!" Zhang Dingbang said, "That was only in China, and now, she is about to become an international superstar!" ”

This is not an exaggeration. An Zhizhi's videos and photos have been posted on social networks by many people, and he has now become an Internet celebrity. If you add FMC's promotional packaging, the popularity can be expanded immediately. The album will be released next, and if the response is good, she will soon be able to gain a firm foothold in this circle.

Zhang Dingbang, who has been disgusted by Shen Yanru every day in the past few days, finally has a place to use, and he has worked hard to build momentum for An Zhi.

He first guided the comments of netizens on the Internet - but to be honest, it was not effortless at all, because netizens almost didn't need his guidance, so they began to discuss a topic by themselves: Who is this oriental beauty in the video?

She is well-dressed, well-dressed, she doesn't look down, and although she sings in the subway station, she doesn't charge money, all the conditions add up, and many people already see her as a rich person who comes out to experience life.

And the mining ability of netizens is very strong, not to mention that there are not many Chinese in the United States, so Zhang Dingbang soon found that he didn't even need to guide himself, and An Zhi's true identity was picked up. Everyone knows that she is a Chinese singer who seems to have come to the United States to visit relatives or travel, and then experience life in the subway station.

It is worth mentioning that this video was moved back to China by netizens who went over the wall, and then An Zhi was unanimously ridiculed, and some media even marked such a title: "Glory or shame in the language music scene?!" ”

For them, it is too bad for domestic first-line singers to go abroad and say that they are impacting the international market, but they go to the streets to sing. - They don't care about the specifics, as long as the news is strong enough. Under the guidance of the media, there was a lot of scolding in China, and An Zhizhi's fans were also silent.

puzzled, questioned, ridiculed, ridiculed...... Fortunately, Ann didn't know about it for the time being, she just followed the established plan and sang every day. And her reputation on the Internet is getting louder and louder, after all, she is a singer in the first place, and she started much better than other street singers, and it is almost certain that she will get the attention of the media and the public.

And at this time, something happened that no one thought of before, but the effect was very good.

That is, cousin Xiang Yujie finally came to Los Angeles to visit An Zhizhi - in fact, she saw the situation in China from the Internet and was not very relieved, so she came over on purpose. She herself is a well-known pianist and has played □□ in Vienna. But it wasn't all smooth sailing to get to where she is today, and she had some trials when she was young. At this time, I was afraid that An knew that he would not be able to withstand the blow and slander when he was young and vigorous, so he hurried here.

As a result, Ann didn't know about it at all. She now wakes up every morning and thinks about what song to sing today, and when she goes home in the evening, she eats something and falls asleep, so naturally she doesn't have the heart to pay attention to what people in China are saying.

However, when Xiang Yujie came to find someone, passers-by took a photo of her and An Zhixiao and posted it on the Internet together.

In fact, this person's original intention was to prove to other netizens that An Zhixiao was indeed from a good background, and the elders in the family were also such temperamental and personable people. But Xiang Yujie, as a Chinese-American pianist, is not low in popularity in the United States, and he was quickly recognized.

Not only did they recognize it, but the two faces in the photo were placed together, as long as they weren't blind, they could see that these two people looked so similar, they must be related!