Chapter 5 Apprenticeship
Li Yangshu looked at the woman in front of him and couldn't help but think about Dai Sicong's profile.
A famous educator in Xiangjiang, he has a very high status. How high is he? As high as three or four stories.
Known as the "Father of Music" and "Father of Superstars," most of the students he taught became stars.
The Four Kings of Hong Kong are collectively known as Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau, Aaron Kwok and Lai Ming. They are not a group, but four competing individuals. However, they also have many friendships and cooperation in private, and they also have many connections.
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Before the Four Heavenly Kings became superstars in the music industry, they did not study music professionally from childhood. Instead, they became monks halfway and then studied under their teachers. Therefore, although the songs of the Four Heavenly Kings are very popular, from the perspective of professional vocal music, except for Zhang Xueyou, the others
The singing skills of the three are not top-notch.
Coincidentally, the three great kings, Andy Lau, Lai Ming and Aaron Kwok, once worshiped the same master, Dai Sicong, who is known as the godfather of Hong Kong music.
Dai Si studied music in the Mainland since childhood, and moved to Hong Kong in the 1960s. She worked as a backup singer for Shaw Brothers. Later, she went to RB to further her studies. After returning to Hong Kong, she began to work as a vocal teacher and started classes at home to recruit apprentices.
Dai Sicong's first student was Zhang Mingming, who sang "My Chinese Heart" in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in 1984.
Zhang Mingming's instant success also made Dai Sicong famous in the Hong Kong music circle. More young people came here to learn from him.
Among them, there are not only future kings who have just entered the music industry such as Andy Lau, Aaron Kwok and Lai Ming, but also queens such as Faye Wong and Anita Mui, as well as Lu Fang, Tony Leung, Lui Leung-wai, Kwong Mei-wan, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Li Jiaxin, Wu Guojing, Ma Junwei, Raymond Lam, Chen Xiaodong, Zheng Jiaying,
Nicholas Tse, Lin Wenlong, Gigi Lai, Xiang Hailan and other singers.
Putting these names together is enough to support half of the Hong Kong music scene.
This is much more reliable than those people who claim to be responsible for half of the Chinese music industry.
The earliest time was 1976, when Zhang Mingming was the first to become a disciple;
In the early 1980s, Lu Fang, Mei Yanfang and others got started;
In the mid-1980s, Liu Dehua, Li Ming and others started;
In the late 1980s, Wang Fei, Aaron Kwok and others got started;
Chen Xiaodong, Zheng Jiaying, Lin Feng, Nicholas Tse, etc. are the disciples who were recruited in the 1990s; even since 2006, Dai Sicong has opened training classes in the mainland to accept apprentices and teach skills.
In 1982, Hong Kong TVB and China Star Records jointly organized the Rookie Singing Contest.
Anita Mui is the first champion,
Lu Fang is the second champion,
Dai Sicong's eldest daughter Dai Wenhui was the runner-up in the third session. It is worth mentioning that this daughter was Tian Wangming's first love.
Li Ming is the third runner-up in the fifth session.
From Dai Si's point of view, Zhang Mingming can be regarded as the senior brother of Liu Dehua, Li Ming, Aaron Kwok, Mei Yanfang, Wang Fei and other heavenly kings and queens.
Therefore, Dai Si can definitely be called the godfather of Hong Kong's music scene.
In fact, Dai Sicong did not open the school with great fanfare, but like a music private school, providing one-on-one guidance at home.
Because it is one-on-one guidance, Liu Dehua, Li Ming, etc., as brothers in the same discipline, actually have no overlap, so in the music world after that, they will basically have a tit-for-tat competitive relationship.
Also because it is one-to-one teaching in accordance with their aptitude, every apprentice Dai Si teaches has his or her own characteristics and is never the same.
Okay, this introduction is full of words, cool.
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Perhaps out of boredom, perhaps because of Li Yangshu's handsomeness, Tian Wangming's girlfriend sat next to him and started chatting.
At this time, Tian Wangming had just made his debut and had already started dating her.
"Hey, what's your name?"
The beauty took the initiative to talk to her, but there was no reason why she wouldn't reply. Li Yangshu's saucy personality was revealed again.
"Li Yangshu, the son of Hong Kong tycoon Li Zhaoji, the sun is shining brightly in the sky, and the sofa in my house is big and comfortable."
"Pfft, since you are so eloquent, why not go talk horse racing with Uncle Biao."
Li Yangshu chuckled, "Riding...horse...is what I like. I'm not very good at horse riding. Besides, my dream is to be a great singer."
Dong Piao's movies are quite good, and he and Chen Long are considered old partners. They have talked about horses all their lives and are very famous in Hong Kong.
Dai Wenhui heard his ridicule, rolled her eyes fiercely, and said disdainfully, "Are you the only one who is a great singer?"
"Well, it must be big."
"Rogue, where are you looking?" Dai Wenhui raised her hand and hit Li Yangshu hard on the arm.
Hong Kong Island is really hot in June.
"Still watching." Then he was hit on the waist again.
"You two, stop making trouble. I have no intention of disturbing you. Forget it, let's talk to Ashu first."
"Hey, Teacher Dai, tell me."
"Do you have a vocal foundation?"
"One thing is that you know the staff and simplified musical notation, but you don't understand anything else."
"It's not bad. Many people don't even know how to make music when they come here. What do they want to learn specifically?"
"I plan to learn notation, note duration, ways to express rhythm, and pronunciation when singing."
However, Dai Si has always taught one-on-one teaching, and Li Yangshu didn't want to come here every now and then to waste time, so the two agreed that Li Yangshu could come to listen at any time, but he couldn't disturb other students. The price was to pay more for tuition.
"Teacher, it's almost noon. I'll treat you and my senior sister to dinner."
After seeing that Li Yangshu was not a shabby person, Dai Si agreed, after all, they would be together often in the future.
A restaurant with integrity.
"Ashu, what do you usually do?"
"I write novels and publish them in Oriental Daily."
Dai Wenhui: "Are you the only one who can write novels?"
"Senior sister, don't look at my handsomeness, but I rely on my talent, not my face."
"You know how to play, you must not be good at writing, otherwise you wouldn't come to my dad to learn how to sing."
Ouch, I have such a bad temper.
The receipt slip from Oriental Daily happened to be still in his backpack, so Li Yangshu immediately took it out and slapped it on the table below Dai Wenhui's head.
"Damn, is it so profitable to write novels? Just 100,000 Hong Kong dollars per book?"
"Ah Hui, don't say bad words to girls."
Li Yangshu has long been accustomed to women swearing. The culture of swearing in Xiangjiang is normal and quite pleasant.
"Excuse me, don't say I'm bragging. I'm still not famous, and the price of Ni Kuang's novels with my word count is 600,000."
"Writing novels makes so much money, why do you want to learn to sing?"
"That's not the case. I'm not famous now. Few big newspapers are willing to publish my novels, and I don't like small newspapers, so I can't make much money. It's not like Ni Kuang, who earns 5..6 dollars from writing at the same time.
The master is also willing to publish it. Besides, I really love music."
"I believe you now."
Chapter completed!