Chapter 126: Reika Sakurai
The opening of the TV series "The Prequel to the Road Suga School" will basically wait until after the New Year to officially start.,And one of the most important questions in front of Kagawa Yu is that the final selection of Nogi Board 46 is about to begin.,After the first two stages of selection,More than 70 girls finally stood in the concert hall of the Blue Bird of Paradise.。
This time, the final judges were Yasushi Akimoto, Hazuha Kagawa, and Tsuyoshi Inoue, the head of the future Nogi Theater. It was the first time that Yasuya Akimoto came to the Blue Bird of Paradise, and the old guy was shocked as soon as he entered the concert hall! Although he already knew in the media that Kagawa Yu had established this headquarters very luxuriously and atmosphericly, he still had a feeling of entering a local tyrant's house after seeing it with his own eyes.
"Kagawa-san, your concert hall is a good place to be an AKB theater." Suddenly, Akimoto said.
Kagawa Yu was taken aback, "Don't come to this set, doesn't AKB already have its own theater in Akihabara?" This place I kept specifically for Nogi. ”
"Actually, I think AKB is the most suitable place for this place, but you don't even give them a chance to perform here."
"It's less because you say it directly when you fall in love with this place, but I'd better advise you to die of this heart. Here is for Nogi board 46, and it is not suitable for AKB to come. Kagawa Yu's face was full of contempt.
Inoue Tsuyoshi watched these two people bickering with interest, his personality is more similar to Togasaki Tomonobu, both belong to the type of stuffy gourd, despite the fact that Inoue Tsuyoshi is more serious and rigid than Togasaki Tomonobu.
At nine o'clock. The audition has officially begun! The girls were also shocked and attracted by the setting in the concert hall, but a few girls reacted to this shock.
"Welcome to the selection of Nogi Board 46 students, and congratulations on being able to stand out from more than 20,000 peers. I hope you will be able to continue to perform at your level in the next performances! The two people sitting on the judges' bench should all know each other, so I won't introduce myself. Inoue's serious face made the girls present very nervous and apprehensive.
"Alright, Number One!"
As Inoue's words fell, a girl who was not tall and looked quiet with long lemon hair walked out of the crowd, and when she stood in front of Yasushi Akimoto, Kagawa Yu and Tsuyoshi Inoue, the girl was trembling nervously.
"Hello three teachers, I'm No. 1 Reika Sakurai from Kanagawa Prefecture. He is 14 years old. I like Kitagawa Keiko-san very much. Reika Sakurai looked at Yasuya Akimoto timidly.
"Can you tell me why you auditioned this time?" Yasu Akimoto asked.
"Because I liked the Good Morning Girls group when I was young, I wanted to be an idol, so I came to participate in the audition of Nogi Board." Reika Sakurai said truthfully.
"Then why didn't you participate in the Good Morning Girls group or the AKB audition?" Yasu Akimoto continued to ask.
"Because I like Kagawa-san very much, and Nogi is more challenging than AKB and Good Morning Girls. That's why I came to the Nogi board audition. Reika Sakurai glanced at Kagawa feather shyly.
"Alas, these children now, are honest. I appreciate this kind of honest child. Kagawa glanced triumphantly at Yasusu Akimoto.
"And what's the song you brought?"
"I'm going to sing Udo-san's 'Firstlove'!"
"Alright, let's start your show."
After bowing slightly to the three judges, Reika Sakurai began her own singing: The Last Kiss. With a faint smell of cigarettes. A bitter and heartbreaking scent. Where will you be at this time tomorrow, and who will you be thinking about, you will always be my love. No matter who I fall in love with later in life, I remember that loving you taught me
As soon as Reika Sakurai opened her mouth, her voice conquered Kagawa Yu and Yasuya Akimoto, especially Yasuya Akimoto, who saw the shadow of Minami Takahashi when she participated in the audition from Reika Sakurai's body, and the same height was not high. But the singing skills are very good. At the same time, he felt a little pity in his heart, why did such an outstanding child not participate in the AKB audition?
Kagawa Yu saw this quiet, mature girl perform so well. I feel secretly refreshed, although Reika Sakurai is only 14 years old this year, but her skills are already very mature, especially this girl's music style has strong R&B characteristics, R&B music has two main characteristics, one is a fresh rhythm Most of the R&B works are in 4 beats as a bar, and 12 knots are a paragraph. Unlike traditional white pop music, the Rhythm Grievance emphasizes the 2nd and 4th beats of a stanza, which is a very fresh rhythmic effect.
The other is that the sound quality is varied, and the singing voice and the instrument part often echo each other - in R&B songs, when the singer sings a few notes, the music part or harmony singer will repeat the replay/sing of those notes, like "ask and answer", or make the effect of "echo worm".
And among the current RB female singers, the best in r&b music are the two divas of Hikaru Utada and Mai Kuraki, especially Hikaru Utada, her attainments in r&b are among the best in the whole of Asia, as for other people who are much worse in this regard, Reika Sakurai is also a girl with the most stylish musical characteristics that Kagawa Yu has ever seen, so he feels that he has picked up a baby!
After Reika Sakurai's performance, she looked at Kagawa Yu and the three of them with a nervous face.
"It's a very good singing, this song by Udo-san is not easy to hug me, it's very good that you can master this song to this extent at such a young age, but when I'm your age, I can't do it!" Kagawa Yu said with a smile.
"Kagawa-san is right, if you don't make the cut, I think you can go to the AKB audition, maybe AKB will be more suitable for you." Yasu Akimoto dug up the corner of the wall in front of Kagawa Yu.
Kagawa Yu's face immediately darkened, "Okay, now you can go back." ”
After Sakurai Reika bowed, she happily returned to her father's side, and the other girls looked at their lucky peers with envy, judging from the conversations of the judges just now, they already knew that this girl had already occupied a place. Reika Sakurai stood very quietly beside her father, seriously waiting for the next performance.
"Number 2!" (To be continued......)