"It seems to be laughing and suffering,
How can we separate the false from the true?
There is no distinction between grudges and grudges, but there is also hatred.
There is darkness on the bright back.
Don't remember the past and ignore it,
How many bitterness and sweetness are there in your life?
Cherish the hope of today,
Striving hardship and trouble together
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Xianlin Dance Hall, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong.
The girl on the stage held the microphone in her hands, twisted her body gently, and sang Xu Xiaofeng's "Road with the Wind and Rain" affectionately. On the dance floor below, the guests hugged and danced, and no one paid attention to what the singers sang on the stage.
After singing several songs in a row, Anita Mui retreated to the backstage and prepared to take off her makeup and go home.
Anita Mui's father died of illness when she was four years old. Her mother made a living by running a dilapidated dance hall to support four children under the age of 10.
Less than a month after her father's death, Anita Mui performed on stage with her mother and sister, and helped clean it when there was no performance. Until Anita Mui was thirteen years old, an unexpected fire broke out in the dance hall at home, and the whole family returned to a state of poverty. From then on, Anita Mui had to drop out of school and sing in various dance halls and nightclubs all day to make money. In addition to supporting the whole family, she also had to support her two brothers to study.
"Yihua, someone is looking for it!" the dance hall manager shouted at the backstage door.
Yihua is the stage name of Anita Mui as a singer. When she and her sister were young, they were often ridiculed by teachers and classmates for singing.
Anita Mui packed up casually and took her bag over, but saw her mother and sister coming over. She asked in surprise: "Mom, sister, why are you here?"
Anita Mui's mother is getting older and can no longer sing, or the customers don't like to listen to old women singing. So she usually helps her two daughters contact the venue to negotiate prices. She is considered her daughter's "agent" and nanny.
My sister Mei Aifang came over happily and grabbed Anita Mui, pointing to Deng Yimin behind and said, "This is Mr. Deng, the general manager of Fengxing Records Company. Mr. Deng came to his home in person today and said he wanted to help you make a record."
"Help me release the record?" Anita Mui widened her eyes in disbelief, thinking that she had heard the wrong ears.
Some time ago, Anita Mui saw the promotional advertisement for the first Chinese Rookie Singing Competition held by TVB and Huaxing Company. She thought she was singing well and immediately ran to sign up for herself and her sister. But the result was that Anita Mui was very disappointed. She was defeated during the knockout round. Her sister failed to even enter the knockout round.
Fengxing Records Company is an old company. Anita Mui, who can sing hundreds of songs at the age of 10, often saw the words Fengxing Records written on the records when she was a child.
Deng Yimin looked at Anita Mui carefully and found that the girl was inferior to her image on the stage, and she could only say she was pretty. She was a little disappointed. In contrast, her sister Mei Aifang was more beautiful.
However, Deng Yimin could not refuse the task that Kang Jianfei ordered. At the same time, he was still confused and wanted to know why Kang Jianfei fell in love with this girl.
"Let's find a place to talk." Deng Yimin said.
What else can Anita Mui say? She is still floating in the clouds and can only nod her head constantly.
After finding a cafe to sit down, Deng Yimin said, "I have also seen Amei's performance in the singing competition. To be honest, there are some problems with singing..."
Mei Aifang suddenly interrupted, "Mr. Deng, my sister was sick that day and her voice was not very good."
Deng Yimin was interrupted and said with some dissatisfaction: "Can you finish listening to me?"
The mother quietly took a photo of Mei Aifang and smiled apologized: "Mr. Deng, you said that the child is ignorant."
Deng Yimin continued: "I can hear that your voice should be good, but you may not have received formal training. There are many minor problems when singing, which are completely wild ways. Of course, these minor problems can be corrected, and your feelings about music are still great."
Mei's mother has been living in the dance hall for decades and has a good attitude towards her. She knows that Deng Yimin has decided to sign her daughter, so she hurriedly said, "Yanfang, don't you please thank Mr. Deng for giving you this opportunity!"
Anita Mui also reacted, realizing that this was a time to change her life, suppressed the excitement in her heart, stood up and bowed repeatedly, "Thank you Mr. Deng!"
Deng Yimin smiled and said, "Thank you, I don't have to, Mr. Kang insisted on signing you."
The surname Kang is originally rare, and Kang Jianfei is the famous Hong Kong entertainment industry. When Deng Yimin said that both the mother and daughter of the Mei family knew who it was.
Mei Aifang asked happily: "Is it Mr. Kang who filmed "The Legend of Dao Ma Dan"?"
"The Legend of the Dao Ma Dan" and "The Dragon Master" are two of the most popular movies in Hong Kong today. Although the Mei family and the daughter have never watched it, the name of the movie has been heard many times.
Deng Yimin nodded and said, "If you want to come up with a record, you will come to the company to sign a contract tomorrow."
Deng Yimin left the company address and left, leaving the three mothers and daughters of the Mei family in the cafe.
Anita Mui asked, "Mom, why did this Mr. Deng suddenly come to me?"
Mei's mother said, "I don't know either. He suddenly came to the door. Maybe he watched your singing competition."
Mei Aifang said: "Didn't Mr. Deng say that Mr. Kang wants to sign the younger sister? Mr. Kang wrote a great song. It must be because he fell in love with the younger sister's voice."
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"One, two, three, two, three, four..."
In the training room of Fengxing Records, Li Meifeng, Li Yanshan, Li Lizhen and Xie Ning were practicing dance steps under the command of the dance teacher.
After the release of "Happy Ghost 2", the soundtrack led by Xie Ning sold well. The couple also formed the Happy Girls group and participated in some live performances.
However, due to the average singing ability of several people, only some young fans supported him, and their influence has always been high and low.
Nowadays, the music industry is not popular and sings while dancing. The reason why we have to practice dancing every day is because Kang Jianfei insists on doing this, even Deng Yimin doesn't understand it.
"Dongdongdongdong..."
The knock on the door interrupted the dance teacher's command, and Wen Bixia's head reached into the training room and said, "Teacher, I'll report it."
The dance teacher nodded and said, "Come in."
"It's Wen Bixia!" Li Meifeng, Li Lizhen and other four girls suddenly exclaimed.
Wen Bixia is the heroine in the first part of "Happy Ghost", while the four of them are the heroines in the second part, and they will pay close attention to each other quietly.
Wen Bixia was very confident because she lived at Kang Jianfei's house. Looking at the four beautiful girls, she had an inexplicable sense of superiority and said in a generous tone of an older sister: "I am here to join the Happy Girls Group. If you have any help in the future, come to me."
Wen Bixia has acted in nearly ten dramas now. Although many of them are supporting roles, they are much more famous than Li Lizhen and others. So when this statement is said, it does not arouse the disgust of many people. Instead, it feels kind because they have all acted in "Happy Ghost".
Just as a few girls were training dance steps, Deng Yimin was in the office, staring at the ten songs in front of him in shock.
These songs were brought by Kang Jianfei today. Deng Yimin felt that his boss was so amazing.
Kang Jianfei flipped through the song score and said, "The eight songs here are for Happy Girls. The other ones "Thousand Thousand Songs" and "Dream Chaser" have singles for Anita Mui. After a certain popularity is achieved, you will find someone to write lyrics and compose songs to write new songs for Anita Mui, and then release records together with those two singles."
Kang Jianfei is very lazy and wrote eight songs to the Happy Girls group, all of which were copied from the third and fourth records of another time and space twins group. The title song is "Big Red" and is considered a joke. In addition, the lyrics of "Friends" include Ayumi Hamasaki. Kang Jianfei also changed it to the three words "The Queen of the Heavens", and other songs have some minor changes.
As for the "Dream Chaser" written for Anita Mui, it is not the Mandarin version of Feng Feifei, but the Cantonese version of Liu Dehua's movie interlude.
Deng Yimin asked: "Mr. Kang. I still don't understand, what do you want the Happy Girls to learn to dance?"
Kang Jianfei smiled and said, "In their "Big and Big Purple" record, each song will be accompanied by a specially arranged dance to show their youthful vitality."
Deng Yimin still couldn't figure it out. He said, "But fans can't see these dances except for live singing."
Kang Jianfei asked: "Have you ever heard of what mv is?"
"?" Deng Yimin asked.
Although Kang Jianfei couldn't speak English, he still understood these two words and nodded and said, "What I mean is to shoot all eight songs into mv, and some life and campus shots are interspersed in the dance."
Although MV has not become popular all over the world, MV has appeared in both the United States and Hong Kong. For example, Xu Guanjie has filmed MV for his songs.
However, the content of MVs is very simple now, most of which are singers singing in front of the camera, and there are not many plots.
Deng Yimin reminded: "There are not many families with video recorders in Hong Kong, and the MV video tape cannot sell much sales, and it is too expensive to produce."
Indeed, at this time, whether it is a TV program or a MV, it is necessary to shoot it with film, which is a huge expense, unlike later digital cameras that can be recorded at will.
Kang Jianfei smiled and said, "I know your concerns, but I don't just use these mvs to sell video tapes, but to play them on the TV station."
Deng Yimin asked: "It's another money to go on TV."
Kang Jianfei said: "It can be counted as the promotional fee of the record."
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"Dongdongdongdong..."
The voice of Secretary Deng Yimin came from outside the door: "General Manager, Anita Mui and her mother are here."
Deng Yimin said: "Let her come in."
The three of Anita Mui and her daughter came. After Mei’s mother smiled and thanked the female secretary, she carefully pushed the door open and went in. She saw Manager Deng whom she had seen yesterday and Kang Jianfei who often appeared in the newspaper.
"Hello Mr. Kang, hello Mr. Deng!" Mei's mother hurriedly bowed and greeted.
Kang Jianfei nodded and smiled, "Sit down."
Deng Yimin handed over the prepared record contract: "You can take a look first, if you have any questions, you can raise them."
Mei's mother looked carefully one by one, and nodded after half an hour and said, "No problem, but can you ask, if we sign the contract, when will Yanfang be able to release a record?"
Kang Jianfei smiled and said, "Are you worried?"
Mei's mother smiled and said, "Why would you be worried about it? But after all, she signed a 15-year contract, so it's better to ask a little bit."
Yes, Anita Mui’s record contract is more ruthless than DreamWorks, and it will be signed for 15 years. The contract, including Su Rui, was also revised when recording "Wine Dried and Selling Nothing". The same contract was signed for 15 years.
Although the 15-year sale contract is too long, it is very common in Hong Kong at this time. Even twenty or thirty years later, 15-year contracts often occur in both China and abroad.
For celebrities who have become popular, a 2015-year long appointment is a contract, but for newcomers like Anita Mui, it is a good opportunity that has to be seized.
To put it bluntly, most of the lower-level singers who make money by running the field, even if they want to sign a contract for sale, they are not as popular as record companies.
Deng Yimin handed the "Dream Chaser" and "Thousands of Songs" written by Kang Jianfei to Mei's mother, and said with a smile: "Look, this is the song written by Mr. Kang personally for Amei. You should be relieved now."
Mei’s mother is a singing girl who has been singing for decades. She even understands what good songs are and what bad songs are. She even knows more than Deng Yimin. After singing the two songs silently in her heart a few times, Mei’s mother knew that this was a rare good song. She smiled happily: “Yanfang, thank you for your care.”
Anita Mui didn't know the content of the song, but she still thanked her quickly and quickly signed her name on the 15-year contract.
Deng Yimin said to Anita Mui: "Amei, go to the next door to find Sister Zhang later. She will help you arrange a singing teacher to correct some minor problems when singing. About half a month later, the company will record a single for you, and you must prepare it well."
Anita Mui started singing on stage at the age of 4. She has been singing other people's songs for more than ten years and dreamed of singing her own songs. Now she has just signed a record contract and was notified to record the song half a month later, which makes her feel as unreal as if she was dreaming.
The mother and daughter left with great gratitude, while Deng Yimin and Kang Jianfei continued the previous topic.
The final result was of course Kang Jianfei convinced Deng Yimin.
Even if Deng Yimin is not convinced, he has to be convinced, because Kang Jianfei is the real boss of the company. After sitting down and making a decision, Deng Yimin, a small shareholder, could not refute it.
Moreover, Kang Jianfei has made all the suggestions he said in person so far, and he has already gained an authority in front of Deng Yimin.
With the popularity of "Hitting the Wrong Car", the record "Drinks and Selling No" sold more than 1.2 million yuan in Taiwan, surpassing Emperor superstar Liu Wenzheng and setting a new record for single record sales in Taiwan.
In addition to Taiwan and Southeast Asian countries, the total sales of "Dry Wine and Sell Without" is more than 2.6 million copies.
This is a very, very scary number. Even Teresa Teng, who is now popular in Southeast Asia, is far from selling such scary single-record sales.
Chapter completed!