183. Recruitment

Long Piaopiao, anyone who had fantasies about Hong Kong and Taiwan pop music in the 1980s should be familiar with this name, her songs and unique names have always been a notch in the minds of fans. "Where Does the Wind Come From", "How Much Tenderness and How Many Tears", "Dancing Girl", "Evening Breeze", "Farewell Shore", "Let Me Leave Silently", each of which is popular and circling the beam for three days.

Long Piaopiao and Teresa Teng, Xu Xiaofeng, Feng Feifei are singers of the same generation, is the second Taiwanese singer to release records in the mainland after Teresa Teng, after her debut, where there are Chinese, there is Long Piaopiao's singing voice, she became popular on both sides of the Taiwan Strait with her own unique dragon tone elegant singing voice.

Her singing voice is powerful, and her style is diverse, but it is unchanged to respond to all changes, which complements each other as well as her name, Chen Yihua has heard many songs of Long Piaopiao in her previous life, and she also likes this singer very much, I think she is very neutral and charming, I feel that she has a fearless momentum towards the treble, and she has no hesitation, her unique dragon voice is full of magnetism, gentle and delicate feelings, and a very shocking trill, the higher the tune, the stronger the dragon cavity; The lower the tune, the softer the dragon cavity. She sings high notes with a real voice and is always straightforward, does not convert falsetto, does not evade and adapt, and gives people the feeling of being arrogant.

In the Singapore and Malaysia regions, whenever the New Year is approaching, the Star and Horse Radio in Southeast Asia will play the New Year's song, and Long Piaopiao's familiar voice will always float into the ears of Nanyang people, in her more than 30 years of singing career, Long Piaopiao with its unique "dragon cavity", the record is out one by one. Sold one by one.

Chen Yihua's Rolling Stone is a record company, of course he will not let go of this generation of singers who have just begun to show their strength, this is a gold mine that can be seen, for Long Piaopiao, Chen Yihua can be said to be determined to win, even if she signed a contract with a Malaysian record company, the conditions of the contract are very high, Chen Yihua will finally try to include her under his own banner, in his opinion with the memory of later generations, this investment. No matter how much you spend money, you won't lose money. The rate of return is still calculated in hundredfold.

"Bai Tao, how about you do the things I asked you to follow up" After instructing Li Mingyuan to focus on Long Piaopiao for this time, Chen Yihua turned his gaze to Liang Baitao again.

'Boss, Leslie Cheung's kid is good. People are handsome. The singing is not bad either. As long as you hone it again, it will not be difficult to become a great tool in the future, and Chen Shuhua. I have arrived in Hong Kong some time ago, I have also tested her strength, her singing skills are very good, her singing voice is delicate and clear, her mother Xu Hui has also agreed to sign a contract with our Rolling Stone, according to your instructions, the role of Chen Shuhua's agent will be given to her mother first.

'Leslie Cheung and Chen Shuhua are both fine, but Zhen Ni's side has not done it yet, but I don't think the problem is big, although Zhen Ni has not given me a clear answer yet, but she is very moved by my conditions, and she did not refuse' Hearing the boss ask himself, Liang Botao of course did no stage fright, and the preparations of several people here were quite sufficient, although Liang Botao was the oldest among the several people, he was no exception, and did not hesitate, as soon as Chen Yihua finished asking, he interfaced.

Looking at Liang Botao's confident appearance, Chen Yihua couldn't help but open his mouth and reminded, "Botao, you still don't have to be too careless about Zhen Ni, our Rolling Stone Records is a start-up, although it has some fame in Hong Kong now, but after all, it is not a monopoly, if other record companies know that Zhen Ni intends to develop in Hong Kong, it will inevitably cause extraneous branches."

Nodding, Liang Botao acquiesced to Chen Yihua's words, paused, and then said, "Boss, what you said is right, I will be careful, if I can, I will try to hurry up to avoid the leakage of news, but boss, I talked to Zhen Ni, although in my opinion, it is not a big problem to let her sign a contract with our Rolling Stone, but the contract period is not expected to be very long."

Chen Yihua has very lenient conditions for his singers, and believes that no record company in Hong Kong can open as high as Rolling Stones now, but only the number of years of signing and liquidated damages are very harsh, generally not a very famous singer now, newcomers want to sign a contract with Rolling Stones, and they debut by Rolling Stones, and it will be ten years long to sign a contract.

Listening to Liang Botao say this, Chen Yihua is not very disappointed, after all, Zhen Ni is different from several other singers under Rolling Stone, she has not signed a contract with Rolling Stone, Zhen Ni is a very famous singer in Taiwan and Hong Kong, and stars like them who do not need to be specially promoted by Rolling Stone certainly do not want to be restricted from freedom.

After thinking for a while, Chen Yihua said, "Bai Tao, you can look at Zhenni's matter, we can give her more conditions and signing money, and try to sign for a few more years if you can, but if you can, I hope to sign with her before the concert in May, and if time permits, you can also let her go on stage, so that our concert at Rolling Stone will have another heavyweight player, which is not only an extra layer of insurance for our concert, The fame of the Rolling Stone can be further enhanced'

Speaking of which, Chen Yihua doesn't want to discuss Zhenni's affairs anymore, the specific operation of the people under his hands will watch it, and he just needs to tell it, which will help his subordinates to play freely, too much interference is not in line with Chen Yihua's original intentions, and then said, "Bai Tao, you see if Chen Shuhua can go to work now, I hope she can come to our studio as soon as possible to record the song, I think the style of the Cantonese song "The Edge of Love and Pain" some time ago is quite suitable for Chen Shuhua to sing, When the time comes, if you can, arrange for her to go to a concert."

Liang Botao did not expect that Chen Yihua would want to give the song "The Edge of Love and Pain" to Chen Shuhua to sing, except for Chen Yihua who has the most say in this song, the first song sung by Wen Na Band after joining the Rolling Stone is a combination of the Cantonese song "The Edge of Love and Pain" and the Chinese song "How Much Love Can Come", Liang Baitao got the version of the two songs from Chen Yihua a long time ago, and he is very familiar with the song "The Edge of Love and Pain".

After thinking about it for a while, Liang Botao still agreed with Chen Yihua's idea, he thought it was not bad. The song "The Edge of Love and Pain" is indeed not suitable for Wenna Band and Su Rui to sing, taking advantage of the fact that the craze of Wenna during this period has not passed, and now launching this song can also have a good publicity effect on Chen Shuhua.

'By the way, Bai Tao, how are those music producers recruited' Looking at Liang Baitao, Chen Yihua then asked.

"Boss, I've been in contact with those music producers, and many of them are willing to join our record company," Liang Baitao replied confidently, this kind of poaching work was the most difficult, but because the conditions of the Rolling Stones were good. So doing this is not as laborious as Liang Botao originally thought.

'Bo Tao. Don't relax with those songmakers and lyricists, and don't just look at the music producers who have become famous, we at Rolling Stone want to be stronger and bigger. You have to take a long-term view. Know how to invest in the future. Cultivating music producers who have grown up from our Rolling Stones is the royal way'

After a pause, Chen Yihua continued. 'When we were founded at Rolling Stone, I said that it was not just empty words to welcome people who really love music to join our record company, because if the record company wants to grow, the most important thing is that the record company can grow with people, and with talent, the record company can grow and grow'

"Those musicians who want to join our company may not be famous now, but it is difficult to guarantee that there will not be one or two talented talents, in my opinion, there are many talents in the people, but they have not been discovered because they have not been given the opportunity to show, we Rolling Stone must know how to give others opportunities, take strength as the standard, and don't blindly talk about qualifications."

Hearing Chen Yihua say this, Liang Baitao opened his mouth, hesitated for a moment and said, "Boss, I think that now that the music producers we have in our company have met our needs, is there no need to recruit any more people?"

Because Rolling Stone Records has not been established for a long time, many employees are newly hired, but after this period of recruitment, many positions have been in place, although there are enough people, but I don't know why Chen Yihua still keeps recruiting, in Liang Botao's view, this is a complete waste.

"Waves, for this kind of person who creates music, we Rolling Stone will never be too much, you see, just in such a short time, our company has five signed singers, and there will be more in the future, it is better to be well prepared now than to be overwhelmed in the future"

And you should know the value of a good song, I think there are four aspects of whether a singer can be popular, the first is appearance, the second is publicity, the third is the strength of singing, the fourth is to see if the singer has sung any good songs, and among these four aspects, I think the most important thing is the good song, there are many singers with strength and appearance, publicity, as long as the company has money, it can be widely informed, but good songs are not necessarily available from time to time, and it does not cost much money to give those music producers who are not famous. But as long as one of them can write good songs, then the rate of return is not the little money we invest in them, and I hope that we at Rolling Stone will be able to pull up a voice team of our own as soon as possible."

If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, of course, a record company can't just have singers, music producers are indispensable, and although Chen Yihua has countless good songs in his hands, but halfway people like him must have the help of some professional music producers to complete a song, and Chen Yihua alone can't play it, he can plagiarize, but he can't create, classic songs Chen Yihua remembers a lot, but he doesn't remember a few ordinary songs, a singer can't let him go back and forth just a few songs, Rolling Stone Records, Chen Yihua can only provide some help in the early stage, and if you want to develop later, you still have to rely on those professional talents.

The current prices in Hong Kong are not very high, the labor wages are not too high, it is outrageous to hire a professional music producer, it does not take much salary, singers and music producers are two concepts, a singer needs to spend time and money to invest in them, music producers are different, Chen Yihua does not need to make any investment in the early stage, and the production fee of a famous music producer is calculated on a per-song basis.

And now most of the music producers hired by Rolling Stone are not famous, the salary is about the same as those temporary workers, and they belong to the kind that can leave at any time, as long as these people have not passed the internal assessment of Rolling Stone for a period of time, then they will be dismissed, even if there are more such employees, it will not cause much trouble to Chen Yihua. (To be continued......)