Liang Liang and his group rested for two hours, then had dinner before heading to Haikou Stadium.
The Pacific Arts Troupe performed five shows in Haikou, and this was their last performance in the city before returning to Guangzhou.
Having tasted success, Liu Wen plans to take the Pacific Art Troupe on a tour to Shanghai and Beijing next year.
It can increase the popularity of its singers and make money at the same time, so why not?
The Pacific Art Troupe's trip to Shanghai and Beijing will have no further connection with the Blue Shark Band. Liang Liang has no plans for what the Blue Shark Band will be doing next year.
On the morning of November 27th, Liang Liang and members of the Blue Shark Band went to Haikou Airport to see off the Pacific Art Troupe.
After seeing off the Pacific Arts Troupe, the Blue Shark Band began preparing for the Tengda Junior High School Song Competition that afternoon.
The Tengda Junior High School Cup Popular Song Grand Prix will officially begin on the first of next month.
Originally, it was planned to start on the 28th, but who would have thought that not only were there many people signing up, but the area was no longer limited to Haikou.
Because of the generous prize money, the number of singers who signed up for this competition was overwhelming. Not only did many people from Haikou City register, but music professionals from surrounding counties and cities also came to participate.
The total number of applicants exceeded three thousand.
This startled both Zhou Anming and Huang Dasheng.
Huang Dasheng is the owner of Tengda Construction Engineering Company.
He was a regular at the National Chung Chung Dance Hall and a friend of Zhou Anming. He paid for the prize money for this grand prix, while Zhou Anming was in charge of the venue.
As for why he held such a singing competition, it certainly wasn't the inhumane, formulaic claim made by the government to promote local arts and culture and support grassroots singers.
Whether Huang Dasheng was actually feeling cheated on and, in a fit of anger, impulsively organized this competition to vent his emotions is unknown.
With so many people signing up for the competition, a time conflict naturally arose.
There was no other way but to postpone the date by two days.
In the 1990s, the most common method used for auditions of singing competitions was judging based on audio demos.
The Tengda Junior High School Cup Popular Music Competition also uses this open audition method.
A ten-member judging panel, comprised of renowned musicians from Haikou City and hired by the Guozhong Song and Dance City, conducted a preliminary selection of these demos.
From the day registration began, all the recording demos of the singers who registered for the competition were collected at the National Chung Kung Dance City.
Three thousand cassette tapes filled a small room of ten square meters.
The judging panel was completely bewildered by the tapes, and Liang Liang and Luo Lin were also called in by Zhou Anming to listen to the demos.
A significant portion of these tapes were recorded by singers using home tape recorders.
Due to the limited conditions at the time, a considerable portion of the tapes sent by these singers were recorded by themselves using home tape recorders.
This kind of recorder has a very high distortion effect. You can't even be sure if the sound you hear is the singer's own voice. In addition to the distortion effect, there is also a lot of noise.
These demo tapes are almost always rejected outright unless the singer has a very distinctive voice.
Although many gems may be obscured, there's nothing that can be done about it.
It's absolutely unacceptable for someone like Liang Liang, who is both a contestant and has been called in to review these samples, to happen under normal circumstances.
However, it's not surprising that a singing competition held by the locals in a medium-sized city is not very formal.
However, Liang Liang did not throw away the demos of talented singers just because she was also a contestant.
On the contrary, he listened very carefully, and during this time a female vocal demo caught his attention.
This tape was clearly recorded using a home tape recorder, as it has a lot of background noise.
Liang Liang listened to it repeatedly.
If this cassette tape contains the singer's real voice, then this female singer is truly remarkable; her voice has a distinctly Sun Yanzi (a famous Chinese singer known for her vocal talent).
Although her singing technique is only average, her understanding of the songs she sings reveals that she has an excellent musical sensibility.
Even if the distortion in this cassette tape isn't due to her original voice, she is still a very promising female singer.
Liang Liang took a closer look at the singer's name left on the cassette tape. It was a very ordinary name that Liang Liang had no recollection of: Zhang Liyuan.
Liang Liang couldn't recall that there was a singer named Zhang Liyuan in mainland China in the 1990s.
There were only a dozen or so famous female singers in mainland China in the 1990s, but none of them were named Zhang Liyuan.
Is this someone who has been overlooked or hasn't found a place to grow?
That afternoon, Liang Liang listened to sixty or seventy cassette tapes, but only remembered the female singer named Zhang Liyuan.
On the evening of the 27th, the Blue Shark Band officially moved into the National Chung Chung Dance Hall.
The National Chung Kung Fu City provided the Blue Shark Band with very good conditions.
Not only do they receive generous salaries, but they also receive 60% of the money from audience requests, unlike other singers who split it 50/50.
In addition, there are subsidies for travel expenses to and from get off work every day.
To receive such treatment, one must naturally have the qualifications.
On the first night that the Blue Shark Band stayed at the Guozhong Dance Hall, the hall was packed to capacity. In Zhou Anming's words, not counting the Blue Shark Band's concert yesterday, this was the first time the Guozhong Dance Hall had been full since its opening.
Ticket revenue alone increased by nearly 2,000 yuan compared to usual.
A significant portion of these people were fans of the Blue Shark band, who came to the National Chung Chung Dance Hall to support the band.
These fans immediately requested songs by the Blue Shark band, and some of them were wealthy, showing off their extravagance.
This seems to have stolen the limelight from the original star of the nightclub, "Love of the Old Home".
At the National Chung Chung Dance Hall, the performer who receives the most tips each night is given a red flower.
The National Chung Chung Dance Hall has a special wall displaying photos of these singers and dancers. The singer or dancer who receives the most tips that night will have a gold cup hung under their photo as encouragement.
It's just a psychological effect; there's no real benefit to it.
This little golden cup had been hanging under the photo of "Nostalgia for My Hometown" for half a month, but today it seems to be in danger.
In fact, the person in question was chatting and laughing with the Blue Shark band backstage.
But the fans on both sides were about to start fighting.
When the fans of "Homeland Love" saw that their idol's gold medal was about to be lost, they immediately protested and launched a strong counterattack, also requesting songs by "Homeland Love".
The atmosphere inside the venue became strangely heated.
The happiest person in this situation is, of course, the boss. Only in this situation can large sums of money be spent on song requests.
Sure enough, the final cost of the first song exceeded three thousand yuan.
The song requested by the Blue Shark band was "Legend".
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