The overwhelming advertising attracted countless men and women who love to sing, this is not a Canadian, who likes stars and skeletons, often paints smoky makeup, and is keen on ties and baggy pants, 15-year-old "tomboy" who followed his mother to shopping in Times Square in New York City when he looked up and saw the huge LED billboard on the skyscraper scrolling "The Voice of America" advertising can no longer take his eyes off.

"I'm going to sign up for The Voice."

"Avril, we're going back to Canada tomorrow, but we don't have time to participate."

"No, I'm not going back, I'm going to sign up."

"Avril, are you serious?"

"Yes, I'm serious."

The tomboy's serious tone made his mother sigh helplessly. Her daughter has a different personality since she was a child, how to say that she doesn't look like a girl, rebellious, wild and uninhibited. She knew that if she didn't agree, this girl would probably disappear tomorrow morning.

Avril's mother was having a headache for her rebellious daughter when a hard-pressed heavy metal rock band in California saw the ad, and seemed to see hope.

said that they were struggling because this band was formed in 96, and now it has lasted 3 years and is still an underground band. The heavy metal rock band changed its name several times, initially as Xero and later as the band's lead singer, Chester Brown. Bennington joined and changed their name to the Mixed Theory Band. Soon after the name change, they discovered that the band of the same name already existed, so the band changed the name to "Linkin Park" again.

The new band name and the new lead singer did not bring good luck to the band, and countless underground concerts ended in failure, and no record company was willing to sign them.

Hope fell from the sky, and they saw a glimmer of light from The Voice of America.

Like Linkin Park, wandering at the crossroads of life, wondering where to go, and a rock band in Los Angeles, seeing the overwhelming advertising and thinking that the opportunity has finally come.

The members of this band are also 5 people, and when the band was formed in '94, all 5 of them were high school students. They were luckier than Linkin Park and had been signed to a record label. also released an album. But their luck ended there, the album response was mediocre, from the failure of the debut album to bend over bread, and within a few years they were warm-up guests, bar singers, commercial gigs, and touring performances.

The five-person compilation "SongsAboutJane" (love songs for Jenny) has also been quietly left in the record store for more than a year.

They also saw a glimmer of light from "The Voice of America", and forgot to say that the name of this band is Maroon5, which is translated into Chinese as Magic Red Band.

That's all it takes to say New York. California, Los Angeles, and San Diego, California, USA.

A street artist saw the advertisement for The Voice, and his heart was pounding, and he resolutely picked up his beloved guitar and ended his wandering career.

Don't underestimate the street performers from abroad, among them are outstanding artists, Jason Marz. Mayez) is a handsome 22-year-old street performer who is a top student at the American Academy of Music and Drama. He is good at composing songs on guitar.

Jason. Mayez has a nickname called "The Witch", a nickname that he did not acquire by others, but how he described himself. Not many people would doubt this description, after all, for a boy who is used to playing guitar in a bar at night and singing some melancholy tunes, the description of "wizard" is probably just right.

"Wizard" Jason. Mayez picked up her beloved guitar. It's time to end your wandering career and start your new musical journey with The Voice.

As the "The Voice" advertisement is in full swing, many young people like Avril, Lincoln Park, Magic Red, and Witch who have dreams of music and pursue their ideals have signed up for the audition of The Voice.

The Voice group is in 8 major cities in the United States: New York. Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, Houston. Philadelphia, San Francisco, Boston. Registration points have been set up. Audition points were set up in the first four cities.

April 6, New York.

The Voice rented a four-star hotel in New York for its three-day auditions, and auditions for three other cities were held on the same day.

Chen Lin and two new veteran musicians from Star Media served as judges for the New York audition.

Chen Lin has experienced many auditions, and served as a judge to select actors when filming TV dramas in China, and this time in New York, he feels that there are really many American folk artists, and the overall level of the contestants is higher than that in China. This is not that he admires foreign flattery, in fact, this is also a normal phenomenon, the more economically developed the country, the richer the culture of the people, very simple truth, the material life is good, the natural pursuit of spiritual life, just like a few years later, with the improvement of material life in China, the old man and aunt have begun to go to the square to dance every night.

The audition process strictly follows the principle of the first element of "The Voice". I don't know any talent, as long as you have a good voice, OK, the judges will give YES, on the contrary, you look like a flower, and your voice is like killing a pig, then I'm sorry for the elimination.

Chen Lin felt unlucky, interviewed several contestants in succession, and other conditions were good, but the five tones were incomplete, especially a five-year-old boy hip-hop dancing was awesome, and it was also very good to imitate Mike's space steps, unfortunately the little boy's voice was hoarse because of a cold, Chen Lin really couldn't bear to say NO, and couldn't bear to say NO to a five-year-old child.

After some inner struggle, he still raised no, but he thought of a remedy, promised to give the little boy a signed photo of Mike, had the opportunity to take him to meet his idol, and encouraged him to continue to work hard not to give up his dream and take care of his body for the next season of "The Voice".

After sending away the little boy who broke into tears and laughed, a 15-year-old girl holding an acoustic guitar came in, and the little girl attracted Chen Lin's attention as soon as she came in.

I saw her big bell-bottoms, chains, good guys, and a skeleton and a dragon tattooed on her bare arms. If it weren't for her bright blonde hair, I would have thought she was a boy at first glance.

In fact, the little girl's non-mainstream dress is not particularly unusual, and several of the students in the previous interviews are even more bizarre than her.

The reason why a little girl can quickly attract attention is that she has delicate facial features and is very beautiful, and it is difficult for a beautiful little girl to be unattractive with a fancy dress.

"Hello judges, my name is Avril. Lavigne, Canadian, I'm 15 years old and love rock. ”

"Oh, your name is Avril, isn't it, Canadian-ahem-ahem-"

Chen Lin coughed suddenly, because at this time he finally remembered that the name Avril was very familiar, and Avril Lavigne, a rock diva who would become popular all over the world in the future, was also Canadian, wouldn't it be the little girl in front of him?

Chen Lin carefully looked at the little girl's face again, hey~~ I can't judge from the appearance, because many foreigners in Chen Lin's eyes look the same, which is the same as foreigners looking at Chinese.

At this time, Avril played the acoustic guitar and sang a rock song.

The little girl's voice was sweet, sweet with a hint of wildness, and her performance won the applause of the three judges and the audience of more than 10 people next to her.

Chen Lin applauded and was pleasantly surprised, he was already able to determine that this 15-year-old Avril was the future rock diva.

"Avril, you're very talented, you're amazing. The teacher gives you a PASS card. ”

Chen Lin directly gave her a pass card, which means that Avril does not need to be eliminated in the second round and directly promoted to participate in the Voice program as a student. There are only three judges in the three constituencies for direct promotion cards like this.

Avril was surprised to see that the judge teacher actually gave her a PASS, she quickly ran to the judges' seat, Chen Lin smiled slightly when she saw this, got up and hugged her.

"Teacher Xie Lu, Teacher Xie Lu!"

"Avril, come on, the teacher is very optimistic about you."

"Xie Lu, Mr. Xie's encouragement, I will work hard."

Avril salvaged to Chen Lin's other two judges, and then ran out of the hall with a cheer, the little girl couldn't wait to tell her mother about this joy.

After Chen Lin saw Avril leave, he handed over her information to a female agent of Star Media next to him, and told her to sign her today.

The female agent of Star Media is a senior agent brought by Yueya from China, and she didn't dare to slack off when she received the boss's order, so she hurriedly went out.

After Chen Lin finished the interview that afternoon, he rushed to the hotel to meet Avril and her mother, and personally signed a brokerage contract with 15-year-old Avril.

Also on this day, Lincoln Park, a Los Angeles sea constituency, was given a pass card by the judges.

As for the five young men of the Magic Red Band and the wizard Jason. Mayez both auditioned the next day, and they both received their passes the next day.

Of course, Chen Lin also learned all this, and Linkin Park and Magic Red are also well-known European and American singers in China.

Linkin Park's theme songs for the "Transformers" series, "WhatIveDone", "NewDivide", and "Iridescent", used to make him tired of listening.

The Magic Red Band also has many classic songs that are familiar to us, among which this "MoveslikeJagger" is the most popular song in China, and it was covered by Shang Wenjie in "I Am a Singer".

And Jason. Although Mayez Chen Lin is not familiar with his musical works, he has heard the name of "Wizard", and knows that this is also a great American king-level singer. (To be continued......)