The Japan Record Awards (Japanese: 日本レコード大大奖) is a famous music award in Japan since 1959, and it is the most authoritative music award in Japanese commercial music. And the newcomer award should stand out from all the newcomer singers in Japan that year, with pointers, so it is the dream award of all newcomers, this time Tang Ning was invited as the guest of honor of the newcomer award, originally he didn't want to go, but when he saw the shortlist, he resolutely decided to participate in this award ceremony no matter what, because there is a female singer he likes very much and enjoys a high status in the Chinese music scene, she is Teresa Teng.

Teresa Teng, born in 1953, launched her first solo album "Teresa Teng's Song - Fengyang Flower Drum" in 1967 and began her singing career. In 1969, he became famous in Taiwan for singing the theme song of the same name of the Taiwanese TV series "Jingjing". In the early 70s, he opened up the Hong Kong and Southeast Asian record market with works such as "A Thousand Words" and "Sea Rhyme"; In 1974, he laid the foundation of his Japanese acting career with the song "Airport".

She is an eternal cultural symbol of the Chinese pop music scene. A highly influential singer in the Asian region and the global Chinese community. Her songs are widely known in the Chinese society and their enduring popularity has won her the reputation of "one billion applause", and she is respected as the "Queen of Asian Singing" by the Japanese entertainment industry. During his lifetime, he performed in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, the United States, Southeast Asia and other countries and regions, and published more than 1,000 songs in Chinese, Japanese, English, Cantonese, Hokkien and Indonesian, which had a profound impact on the enlightenment and development of the Chinese music scene, especially the mainland pop music scene, and also made important contributions to broadening Japanese music forms and promoting mutual exchanges between Asian music cultures.

Many people don't understand why Teresa Teng, who was already popular in Hong Kong and Taiwan in 1973, wanted to go to Japan to develop, in fact, opening up the Japanese market at that time has always been the common dream of Asian singers. Because this market is large, and there is real money, and there is less piracy. Deng is already half the sky in Taiwan. There is limited room for redevelopment. The mainland could not enter for political reasons, so it had to give up to piracy. The Hong Kong market is small, and the rise of Cantonese pop songs has made it difficult for her to get started. Going to Japan was a natural choice. And Teresa Teng's singing skills and stage performance have improved by leaps and bounds after she went to Japan. This is due to the fact that Deng is the "invincible and lonely" in Tai Deng, and the Japanese singers are full of masters, competing with each other, and Japanese composers, lyrics, performances, stage performances and designs are all in charge of extremely professionals. Deng naturally benefited a lot.

And Teresa Teng is not the first female singer to go to Japan to develop, Ouyang Feifei and Chen Meiling have developed well in Japan before her. The first Chinese to board the Red and White Song Battle was Ouyang Feifei in 1972, but it was not in 1971 "Rain's Midosuji" and boarded, and then in 1973 Chen Meiling also jumped on the Red and White Song Battle, compared with these two people, Chen Meiling can be said to be better than Ouyang Feifei quite a lot, that little tiger tooth that is more Japanese than the Japanese has added a lot of points to her, and its popular momentum makes Yamaguchi Baihui feel threatened, and the Japanese idol magazine "Weekly Ordinary". Chen Meiling and Yamaguchi Baihui appeared on the cover the same number of times, which can be seen until 1977, when Chen Meiling went to Canada to study and quit the music scene.

Ouyang Feifei has never been a big hit in Japan, she belongs to the ups and downs, and she doesn't have too special performances. Teresa Teng is the third Chinese singer to develop in Japan, but it is very unfavorable for her to develop in Japan after Ouyang Feifei and Chen Meiling. At that time, Japan probably had these two singing routes, and Ou and Chen already had a place in the music world. To have one more seat for the development of the Chinese, in fact, there is no singing route left for Teresa Teng, no matter how Teresa Teng sings, the audience can easily regard her as another Chinese Chen Meiling, otherwise it is just another Chinese Ouyang Feifei.

So the first song to try the idol route "Tonight or Tomorrow" made Teresa Teng look like another Chen Meiling, who failed because she had no characteristics. Until the conversion runway of "Airport", 700,000 copies were sold at once, setting a record for the best-selling singer under Polygram since its establishment, and winning the Record Award Newcomer Award at the end of the year.

Because there are more than 700 people competing for the newcomer award this year. Therefore, the pressure of competition is unprecedentedly great, and Teresa Teng is not easy to get as a foreigner. A year before Teresa Teng, Chen Meiling rose to the top in the Japanese music scene because she won the newcomer award. Teresa Teng's tears rained down after winning the award, crying so much that she couldn't sing the whole song at all, and the reporters and the audience under the black pressure coaxed a burst of "come on", the scene was very touching, until she returned to the Japanese music scene in 1984, Teresa Teng talked to reporters about her most memorable thing, which was still the 1974 newcomer award.

Although Teresa Teng doesn't know Tang Ning very well, she only knows that he is a very accomplished American businessman in Japan and has a very large film and television company, so she has a lot of respect for Tang Ning, but because she was too excited at that time, it was difficult to calm down her emotions for a while, Tang Ning explained with a smile: "I feel very honored to be able to present Miss Teresa Teng with an award today, because I also like the songs that Miss Deng sings, and even I can sing it." ”

Although there were people next to him, Tang Ning was self-conscious, how could he sing in such a place, just to give the award and then step down, but after stepping down, he remembered another thing, that is, in his previous life, it had always been rumored that Teresa Teng was a Taiwanese spy, and he didn't know if it was true or not, so he casually instructed Matsuda Yoshiko and Nishikawa to investigate the matter.

As a result, the results of the investigation made him dumbfounded, because this rumor was actually true, but fortunately, Teresa Teng was forced in this matter. At that time, Taiwan was under martial law, and all kinds of civil society activities and personal freedoms were under "overt and covert" surveillance, and anyone entering or leaving Taiwan without exception was subject to strict scrutiny by Taiwan's Security Bureau, not even the foreign minister.

There is a very important item in the examination of entry and exit applications, that is, whether the applicant can use the existing conditions to carry out intelligence work for the Taiwan government. Since Chiang Kai-shek's reorganization of the Kuomintang secret service system in 1949, the course of action of "spy politics" has dominated Taiwan's Kuomintang army, government, and civil society. Many non-governmental figures, intellectuals, and people in the literary and artistic circles in Taiwan have been incorporated into the Kuomintang spy organizations under different circumstances and conditions. A large number of them had no choice but to accept the quid pro quo of Taiwan's Kuomintang spy organization in order to obtain permission to leave the country, and they were incorporated into the intelligence staff of the "Taiwan National Security Bureau." Teresa Teng falls into this category. (To be continued.) )