Volume 1 Chapter 426 Luo Dayou (II)
Sitting in the speeding car and reading the newspaper for a while, Lin Xiaozhi soon felt a slight dizziness in his head, "Ni Zhen can be called a little talent in Xiangjiang by the outside world, and it is not all in vain."
He lightly placed a copy of "Cheng Pao" on the vacant seat next to him, because he rarely asked about the specific management of the company except for meddling in the long-term strategy, so the consistent business philosophy of "Cheng Pao" was well preserved. Although the Hong Kong genius Ni Zhen was very unhappy with him in his early years, everyone in Hong Kong knows that the new movie "Baby Lucky Star" written by Ni Zhen recently won the box office of more than 100,000 Hong Kong dollars in only one week, although it is far inferior to the box office of 15.37 million Hong Kong dollars in eight days of "Once Upon a Time" co-screened by the two lines, it still unexpectedly won the second place at the box office this week, attracting attention and discussion in the film industry.
Whether it is in terms of life style or the talent he shows, Ni Zhen is very similar to Lin Xiaozhi in previous years, and now he has almost copied the path he has taken, and I don't know how Lu Dao contacted a Macau boss to invest in a film company to make movies, whether he wants to or not, now the media has begun to use the title of Xiao Zhi's second on him, plus Ni Zhen is often rumored to go out of nightclubs or have scandals with some female artists, there are really a lot of topics, The number of readers who like to read his gossip has gradually increased, and it is no wonder that "Cheng Pao" has also begun to publish some news about him.
After closing my eyes and recuperating, I soon arrived at my destination, Kai Tak International Airport.
"Boss, we're already at the airport"
The bodyguard slowly drove the car into the airport parking lot, and after it was parked, the bodyguard sitting in the passenger seat opened his mouth to remind him, Lin Xiaozhi slowly opened his eyes, and he didn't need to go to the car door, and soon a bodyguard opened the car door for him and waited respectfully aside.
"Mr. Huang has arrived ahead of schedule on the side of Xinya Records, and he called five minutes ago to say that he had received someone," another bodyguard spoke, taking the briefcase from him and helping him carry it.
Lin Xiaozhi got out of the car, shook his body that was a little sore because he had been sitting in the car for dozens of minutes, and nodded: "Fortunately, we arranged someone to pick up at the airport in advance, although we came over in time, but there was a traffic jam on the road for a while, and it was a little rude to not arrive before the plane arrived."
I can't help Lin Xiaozhi not pay attention to it, just because it is naturally not an ordinary person who can let him come to pick up the plane in person today, but Luo Dayou, who is known as the "godfather of Taiwanese pop music."
Although there is a new Yibao record company under his name, Lin Xiaozhi has not had much dealings with Luo Dayou before, so naturally he has no friendship. Coincidentally, this time, under the pretext of the 'East China Flood and Disaster Relief Fundraising, Lin Xiaozhi is preparing to make a film aimed at reflecting the lives of several generations of Hong Kong immigrants - "Pearl of the Orient", which will use the song "Pearl of the Orient" composed by Luo Dayou in 1985.
Although Gu Jiahui also composed a song of the same name for Zhen Ni in 198l, Lin Xiaozhi felt that it was not as expressive as the one created by Luo Dayou for Guan Zhengjie in 85, and the copyright of this song is in the hands of Luo Dayou's own music studio. There are 85 years, Luo Dayou composed and created the most successful public welfare song in the history of Chinese "Tomorrow Will Be Better", this song he is also ready to use, although the use of public welfare songs does not need to be paid, but after all, it is also copyrighted, a CCTV station can be used at will in the future is also relying on various barriers between the mainland and Taiwan, it will not work in Hong Kong, and you have to apply with the copyright owner to use it.
Of course, there are actually two reasons why he can be so solemn and personally pick up Luo Dayou, one is because I heard that Luo Dayou, who formed his own music production company in 87, recently disbanded the company and only kept the studio, as the king of Chinese music who has not signed any record company, not only Rolling Stone, Warner, Polygram and other record companies want to take him in, Xinya Records also has this idea, so naturally they want to fight for it. Second, he is ready to buy face from this king of the music world, hoping that he can bring Xu Ruoxuan, who has good vocal conditions, into his door.
A few people walked quickly, and sure enough, they entered the airport hall and searched for a while, and soon saw Huang Baigao, vice president of Xinya Records, who was standing and talking in a corner where there were relatively few people, one of them was wearing a light gray short-sleeved shirt, and a man in his thirties who often appeared in the report and wore a pair of black sunglasses, it was Luo Dayou.
"Mr. Huang, Luo Sheng, I'm very sorry, I encountered a traffic jam on the road and delayed the meeting"
"Lin Sheng is polite......"
"Lin Dong ......"
Hong Kong is currently an airport in Kai Tak, so there are many paparazzi reporters squatting in the airport every day, no, when Lin Xiaozhi and they rushed over, Huang Baigao and Luo Dayou were entangled by a person who looked like a reporter, fortunately, it was a "Ming Pao" reporter, and the soldiers brought out by the old man Jin Yong were generally some literati and arrogant, Huang Baigao said a few kind words, and the reporter over there quickly deleted the photo and promised not to see the newspaper. If you meet the paparazzi of "Next Magazine" and "Oriental Daily", I don't know how Lu Dao will write.
Seeing that Lin Xiaozhi was coming, Huang Baigao and they finally didn't have to stay at the airport, because they were worried that they would meet reporters from other media, several people just said hello, and hurriedly left the airport to board Lin Xiaozhi's extended Mercedes-Benz and leave the airport.
got into the car, Lin Xiaozhi had time to carefully look at the godfather Luo Dayou, who is still very young now, only to find that Luo Dayou was also looking at him, the two looked at each other, Lin Xiaozhi suddenly smiled, and took the initiative to reach out and shake hands with him sitting opposite, "I wanted to contact Luo Sheng a month ago, and the phone call reached your studio, only to know that Luo Sheng, you were invited by your friend Li Zongsheng to go to Taiwan to be a special guest for his concert."
After 87 years, Luo Dayou came to Hong Kong to develop, and later after marrying his wife Li Lie in Hong Kong, he returned to Taiwan less frequently. Some people say that he wrote a few reactionary songs with lyrics that slightly ridiculed current politics, which aroused the dissatisfaction of the Taiwan authorities, and they could only stay in Hong Kong to avoid trouble. Some people also say that he willingly left Taiwan to come to Hong Kong for the sake of his ex-girlfriend Zhang Aijia.
He didn't know why Luo Dayou came to Hong Kong, but he accidentally saw a gossip news in yesterday's "Next Magazine", saying that Luo Dayou had been going back to Taiwan at the invitation of his friend Li Zongsheng since the end of last month, but in fact, it was to avoid the limelight, just because a newspaper broke the news that the child conceived by Zhang Aijia, who suddenly gave birth out of wedlock last year, was his species, although this gossip has been excluded by many media, thinking that the silent Zhang Aijia may be the child of a wealthy man surnamed Wang, but there is one thing that has recently been reported in the newspapers, That is Luo Dayou's jealous wife Li Lie, who is not small in the circle, and separated from him to fight a cold war.
Luo Dayou naturally didn't know that so many things came out of his head in an instant, and seeing that he didn't have the slightest big boss's shelf, he couldn't help but have a good impression of him: "I haven't been back to Taiwan for half a year, and this time I went back to Ah Shengkai's concert to find me to cheer, but I also took the opportunity to stay in Taiwan and play with a group of old friends for a few days." ”
After speaking, he smiled shyly at him, then turned his face to look at Huang Baigao, vice president of New Asia Records, who was sitting next to him, and said: "Mr. Huang has already told me just now, Lin Sheng contacted me this time because he wanted to use the two songs "Pearl of the Orient" and "Tomorrow Will Be Better". That's fine, I'll talk about it over there, after all, you're also raising money for disaster relief."
He was easy to talk to, and didn't mention the issue of song usage fees at all, obviously not ready to ask for money. Although it doesn't cost much to use a song like his, this attitude does make people feel good.
No, before Lin Xiaozhi could speak, Huang Baigao replied first: "Then this matter is going to trouble you, by the way, we are going to have a disaster relief fundraising concert at the end of the month, and some singers have been invited to come, do you have time for you." If you have time, come and participate, Lin Sheng is contacting the media and TV stations in the mainland to promote it, which should help your singing career."
In the August issue, Lin Xiaozhi once mentioned at a press conference that the love show that will be organized is in charge of New Asia Records, which is under the name of Media Asia. Huang Baigao and Zheng Donghan, president of Xinya Records, have been busy for it recently, and they are almost unable to occupy the ground, and many singers under Xinya Records will definitely participate, in addition to Liu Dehua and Li Keqin, who signed a contract with the entertainment company, will also come, and the king of Chinese songs, Wang Jie, has also received an invitation, Zheng Donghan personally went to Taiwan today to contact Wang Jie's record company, hoping to pull him over to participate.
In addition, Media Asia has already negotiated with Polygram, Warner, Columbia, and Baina Records, and their singers such as Lin Zixiang and Xu Guanwen will participate in the charity performance for free, and Mei Yanfang and Teresa Teng, who have announced the launch of the music scene, have also accepted the invitation...... Although from the perspective of the lineup, Hong Kong's first-line singers and queens basically participated, but no one will dislike that the lineup is too small, if Luo Dayou agrees to participate, there will be another singer with huge influence.
In addition to singers, there are actually many showbiz stars who will also sing one or two songs at that time. For example, Zhou Yunfa agreed to sing a song "Light of Friendship" on stage when the time comes, this is the classic song that he was born in "Prison Storm", although Fa Ge's voice is too hoarse and not suitable for singing, but the charity performance is a personal performance.
Unexpectedly received an invitation to the Forgetfulness Gala of Media Asia, this time Luo Dayou pondered for a while. And Lin Xiaozhi and Huang Baigao did not urge, both of them knew his Taiwanese identity, with Li Huihui completely mastering the political situation in Taiwan, in the past year, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the mainland have begun to appear an invisible rift, far less friendly than in previous years. I didn't see that in the donations for the flood in East China this time, more than 20 million people in Taiwan have only donated a small $5 million to the mainland so far, which is not as good as half of the donations made by any of Lin Xiaozhi, Huo Yingdong, and Li Jiacheng.
So he is now participating in disaster relief fundraising in Hong Kong as a Taiwanese singer, which is still risky.
The car suddenly fell silent, and there was silence for about two or three minutes, and then Luo Dayou slowly raised his head, looked at the two of them and nodded slightly: "Okay, count me in."