Chapter 029 Singing Finals Down
I have to say that Anita Mui's singing skills are very good, and she interprets this song to the fullest. Especially she has experienced a lot of things herself, since she was four and a half years old on stage and began to sing, she has been involved in this turbid world, and she is very emotionally involved when she sings, and this song has brought her a lot of feelings, so she sang the essence of this song. And her stage style is also very good, calm and atmospheric, without the slightest nervousness, which is thanks to her many years of career in stage performances.
After singing the song, both the audience and the judges applauded warmly. Its deep magnetic voice and calm atmosphere won the unanimous praise of the judges present. Especially Huang Zhan, he even gave her a full score directly.
However, Gu Jiahui deducted one point on the grounds that there was no perfect score in art, but other judges, including Gu Weiqi and others, gave her full marks. Although the next two contestants performed well, they were much worse than Anita Mui.
It wasn't until Ye Qianwen appeared in the end that Gu Weiqi cheered up, only to see that she was wearing a lemon-colored dress, with a shawl curly hair, a pair of eyes that were not very big, but quite spiritual, with a tall nose bridge and moderately thick lips, she was not a big beauty, but she could definitely handle it. But the dress is a bit westernized.
The other party sang a European and American romantic classic song "Yesterday Reappeared", this song is the representative work of the Carpenter band, founded in 1973, has been covered by countless singers. Nominated for the Oscar Centennial Golden Song, Richard? Carpenter and John? Bedis wrote the song in response to the nostalgia of the early seventies. It was the runner-up in both the United States and the United Kingdom, and has become one of the best-selling singles of the time.
Because it is a classic, it is not easy to sing this song well. But since she chose to sing this song, it shows that she is still a little confident in her singing skills. Sure enough, when the song was sung, after all the judges exchanged their heads and ears, they all felt that they sang well, and the final comprehensive score reached 88 points, which was not much different from Anita Mui.
In fact, Ye Qianwen's voice is very powerful, often giving people a feeling of reverberation, and the stage performance is calm and atmospheric, swaying freely, like a beautiful cursive calligraphy, it is simply hearty! In particular, there is almost no trace of the transformation of lip and tooth sounds to nasal and laryngeal sounds, the change of resonance position is also quite ingenious and delicate, and the sound explosion point is very concentrated, which is very rare among female singers at present, regardless of their own conditions and future achievements.
This is also the main reason why she has occupied the position of the queen of Xiangjiang for many years since Anita Mui. In Gu Weiqi's impression, it seems that the other party grew up studying in Canada and has developed a rather Westernized habit. Sure enough, even the songs selected are from Europe and the United States. But in any case, her singing skills are indeed good, and she is definitely a potential stock worth cultivating.
At this time in the game, the champion had come out, and Anita Mui won the first place by narrowly beating the runner-up Ye Qianwen by one point. Ye Qianwen was the runner-up, while Chen Huixian and Xue Ke were both third runners-up. The other contestants did not make it to the top three, but they all performed well.
Gu Weiqi secretly made up his mind to sign all these people. In fact, when the contestants entered the finals, everyone had already initialed an agreement, and they were not afraid of being signed.
With the end of Ye Qianwen's performance, Yu Xue announced: "The champion of the first 'Myth and Legend Singing Contest' is Anita Mui, and Mr. Gu Weiqi, chairman of 'Tian Lai Legend International Music Company' and 'Phoenix TV', is invited to present prizes and certificates to Anita Mui!" ”
So Gu Weiqi walked on the stage, and Anita Mui also walked out from behind the scenes again, he shook hands with her, and said with a smile: "Amei, you are doing well, I will help you tailor an album when you go back, you have to be mentally prepared to release a record!" ”
The girl said excitedly, "I...... Can I really put out a record? ”
"There is no doubt about it!" Gu Weiqi nodded heavily, and took the garlands, gold trophies, certificates and signs representing millions of prizes from the hands of the four staff members and put them in her hands one by one.
Yu Xue took the microphone and asked at the right time: "Miss Mei, you won the championship today, not only won the gold trophy, but also got a million bonus, do you have anything to say at this moment?" ”
"First of all, I would like to thank my mother for raising me to be a human being."
Anita Mui bit her lip with tears in her eyes and said, "I also want to thank my sister, she has been unswervingly supporting me to participate in the competition all this way." Finally, I would like to give special thanks to Phoenix TV and Ethereal Legend International Music Company for organizing this competition and giving me this platform to perform! ”
Subsequently, other judges also went up to award silver cups, bronze cups, certificates and bonuses to the runner-up and third runners-up respectively. The runner-up prize is 500,000 Hong Kong dollars, the third place is 100,000 Hong Kong dollars, and even those who did not enter the top three also received a consolation bonus of 20,000 Hong Kong dollars. It can be said that none of the top 10 have failed.
Xu Guanjie said suddenly: "Mr. Gu, you can afford to pay the capital, it is a gold and silver cup and a million bonuses." Seeing that I want to compete."
Gu Weiqi chuckled and said, "Brother Xu just call me Archie, Mr. Gu and Mr. Gu's are too out-of-the-box." As for being willing to spend the money, that's nothing. You see, if you are not willing to spend money, how can you discover so many good seedlings with potential? ”
"That's right. Especially if you are so good at creating songs, not to mention the previous song 'I like you', you can make the little girl named Chen Huixian popular. Anyway, Archie, you shouldn't be that old, right? ”
"I'm 16 years old."
"Only 16?" Xu Guanjie said in surprise: "I didn't expect that you were only 16 years old and not only became the chairman of two companies, but also wrote songs so well, and now young people are getting more and more powerful!" ”
"Brother Xu said with a smile, my achievements are far worse than yours." Gu Weiqi waved his hand, and suddenly remembered that the other party seemed to be the starring role of "Modern Bodyguard".
In fact, in history, this film is the first high-grossing comedy film directed and acted by Xu Guanjie's brother Xu Guanwen to exceed 10 million Hong Kong dollars. The brothers co-starred and received a box office of 17.76 million Hong Kong dollars that year, ranking first at the box office in 1981.
Gu Weiqi wondered that since he had met Xu Guanjie, should he cooperate with the other party to shoot this film first? Turning his thoughts, he said: "Brother Xu, I opened a film company, I have tinkered with a few good scripts, and I plan to invest recently, and I want to invite Brother Xu to star in you, I wonder if Brother Xu is interested?" ”
"Oh?" Xu Guanjie asked with interest: "What film?" ”
"Ghost horse comedy. The title of the film is Modern Bodyguard. ”
"What?" Xu Guanjie stared at Gu Weiqi with a strange expression and said, "Are you sure you call a modern bodyguard?" ”
"yes, what's the problem?"
"Coincidentally, recently our Xu's Film Company also filmed a 'Modern Bodyguard', and now it is almost finished."
"Isn't it?" Gu Weiqi sighed, the Xu brothers have been filming this movie for a long time, fortunately they didn't let the other party read the script, otherwise the joke would have been a big one.
"What's wrong?"
"I didn't ...... It's nothing. Gu Weiqi shook his head and said with a wry smile: "I didn't expect such a coincidence, I'm just a little surprised." ”
Xu Guanwen glanced at him inexplicably, not knowing what he was surprised about. Isn't it just that the names of the two films collided? What is there to fuss about. Of course, he didn't know that the "modern bodyguard" that Gu Weiqi was tinkering with was their Xu's signature movie.
Gu Weiqi frowned slightly, and said in his heart that he really wanted to speed up the pace of entering the film industry, thinking about it, he turned his head to look at Deng Lijun, who was sitting back in his seat after presenting the prizes, and asked, "Sister Li, don't you mind if I call you that?" What do you think of the 'Like You' song I just wrote at random? ”
"It's very good, the tune is fresh, and the lyrics are catchy." Deng Lijun praised without hesitation.
"Oh, how about Sister Li join my 'Legend of Heaven International Music Company'? As long as you are willing to join our company, I can write twenty or thirty songs for you every year! ”
"Twenty or thirty songs a year?" Deng Lijun looked at him and said, "Archie, you can't be joking, right?" ”
"No, no, no."
Gu Weiqi waved his hand and said solemnly: "I'm not joking, as long as you agree to join Tian Lai, I can help you create a few classic songs now!" You may not believe in my strength, so I'll help you write a song that will sweep you across Asia. With that, he took out a pen and paper from his pocket and quickly wrote and drew on it.
Soon a song "I only care about you" appeared in his pen. However, with a turn of the pen, he wrote down a "sweet honey", which seems to be not enjoyable. After writing two songs, I was so excited that I finally wrote another song "Walking on the Road of Life", and then gave the song manuscript to the other party.
Deng Lijun took it over and looked at it carefully, and couldn't help but be surprised, because these songs can be called superb. In fact, these songs in history are her masterpieces. Especially when the song "I Only Care About You" came out that year, it really swept the entire Asian music scene, and was later changed to an English version.
It is no exaggeration to say that just these three songs can be launched casually, and a newcomer can become popular. The potential economic value is enormous. And these songs aren't the kind of saliva that floods around in the 21st century. In particular, "Walking on the Road of Life" is still a rare inspirational song.
The reason why classics become classics is that they can stand the test of time and time. It's like "I like you", like "I only care about you", and in the 21st century, many people still like to hear it. Unlike some Internet songs, many of them are short-lived, and after that period they are drowned in the pile of history.
And what surprised Deng Lijun the most was that Gu Weiqi's creative speed was too perverted. It's only been a few minutes, and she has written such a high-quality song, which is what really shocked her. At this time, she also had to believe that the other party was really a musical genius.
There is no doubt that she likes these songs very much. But her contract is now in PolyGram. In order to regain her popularity this year, PolyGram has made great efforts to help her hold a concert tour in the United States. Changing jobs now seems a bit out of place.
The most important thing is that "Legend of Heaven International Music Company" is still a new music company, and its distribution capacity and sales channels are far inferior to Polygram, which makes her very conflicted.