Middle-aged and older TV viewers should remember the Sino-Japanese friendship song party held in 1992 to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the normalization of Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations.
At that time, I was still very young and watched live television. The large terrace stage is set in front of the Taimiao Temple of the Working People's Cultural Palace, with the ancient buildings of cornices and arches as the background. Ni Ping served as the Chinese host, and it can be said that the top singers in the entire Chinese mainland have appeared. There were only five people in the Japanese side, including the host Weng Qianyu, and I remember the names very clearly, including five rounds of makoto, Takao Horiuchi, Tomomi Sakamoto, and Shigee Yamamoto. It should be said that the Japanese side is not a top configuration, and Miyuki Nakajima, who has great influence in Japan and in The Hong Kong and Taiwan regions of China, did not come.
In Japan, TV audiences are also watching simultaneous live performances. The working groups of the two sides made a lot of efforts and coordination in advance, and the first sentence in the original script was that Ni Ping said: "Hello dear Japanese friends, first of all, I bow to you here on behalf of Chinese people." After a fierce debate with the Japanese translator, ni ping's objections were met, and then changed to ni ping's meaning: "Dear audience friends, good evening, this is Beijing, the capital of China, allow me to greet my Japanese friends from afar." ”
The song will be played in a one-on-one ring, except for the two sides of the chorus, both sides will take turns on the first one. Due to the large number of Chinese singers, except for a few important ones, one person can only sing one song. And these five people on the Japanese side can repeatedly go on the field and sing one song after another. To be honest, I had long been aware of the cocoons of domestic songs, mainly because I wanted to hear songs from Japan.
Jiang Dawei sang a song "Spring of the Northern Kingdom" in Japanese with Sakamoto Dongmei, and it can be seen from Jiang's shaking his head that he is very proud of his singing level and Japanese level. However, when Sakamoto Dongmi, who was dressed in a kimono, opened her mouth, it was a tone and taste, with a strong Japanese style, completely without the cheerfulness and atmosphere of Jiang Dawei, but with sadness and helplessness. I think this is the nostalgic taste that this song should have!
Jiang Dawei and Sakamoto Dongmei
Takao Horiuchi and Su Xiaoming sang "Night of The Military Port" together, and Takao Horiuchi looked at the book and sang in a very non-standard Chinese. This makes me wonder if Jiang Dawei's Japanese singing is also a little strange in the ears of Japanese people.
Takao Horiuchi and Su Xiaoming
Among the Japanese actors, the most famous is the five-wheeled real bow, she not only in Japan, but also in Hong Kong and Taiwan in China also has a great influence, many songs have been covered by Hong Kong and Taiwan singers. In the Chinese mainland, people in the music industry should know her, but the general audience does not know, and the author also learned about her coffee position many years later.
Wulun Zhengong sang "Song of The Four Seasons" with Cheng Fangyuan, and Cheng Fangyuan used Japanese, and his image and temperament were stunning. In addition, Goku Makoto also sang songs such as "Lover", but unfortunately the author was too young at the time to appreciate her style. The most impressive are Takao Horiuchi, who has a beard, and Tomomi Sakamoto, who wears a kimono, and feels that these two people are characters with typical Japanese temperament.
There is also a very young Japanese singer, Shigee Yamamoto, who has not been seen since the song party. She is very beautiful, her singing style is more bold, jumping and jumping, and the range of movements is relatively large.
Weng Qianyu hosted while interspersed with several songs, such as the theme song of "Zhengda Variety" "Dedication of Love", which is not Wei Wei's song of the same name. Because she is Japanese-Chinese and has contacts in Japan and across the Taiwan Strait, she uses her advantages to engage in cultural exchanges between China and Japan. The Chinese side has always attached great importance to her, otherwise how can she, with a Japanese working group of four singers and a total of only a dozen people, deserve to let the entire Chinese music industry move?
The leader of the Chinese side is Mao Amin, and I am impressed that she sang a song "Applause Rings Out" at the request in addition to the normal few singing, which was definitely decided on an ad hoc basis, without accompaniment, and the whole oratorio was sung. It is also in this way that her strength is fully demonstrated, and the sound quality is extremely beautiful, which is beyond the reach of the so-called singers who record songs sentence by sentence in the recording studio.
In addition, there are chen ming, Xie Xiaodong, Mao Ning, Chen Hong, Lin Ping, hongdou, etc. On the Chinese side, I can't remember too much, anyway, the three generations of old, middle and young people, nationalities, bel canto, and popular singing methods have all come up, and the revolutionary songs with the main theme are not absent. To be honest, I was quite embarrassed to watch it at the time, and I felt that the things of eight hundred years had been taken out, which was too outdated.
Later, after reading the reminiscence article written by Ni Ping, I learned that there are many untold behind-the-scenes stories. Although the personnel of the Japanese working group are very small, they are very professional, and there are also professional rain gear cover machines when it rains during rehearsal, unlike so many people on the Chinese side who are busy. And Weng Qianyu is very grand, living with her family in the best hotel, there are special makeup, rest rooms, and temporary locker rooms. On Ni Ping's side, it felt like she had arrived in the other country, and it was inconvenient everywhere. When the official live broadcast, she originally prepared three sets of costumes, but found that there was no place to change clothes, and could only run to the back of the tree in the middle of nowhere, hurriedly changed one set, and forced herself to endure tears and full of grievances, and the other two costumes were not used. Instead, Weng Qianyu has changed five sets of clothing, each of which is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
During the preparation stage of the whole program, Ni Ping felt the preferential treatment for the Japanese personnel. The conditions of the Japanese side are actually better than ours in all aspects, and they are responsible for their own food and eat very well. She once refused Weng Qianyu to leave her to eat, and returned to her side to line up with everyone to lead a box lunch, but found that her time was simply not enough, and simply stopped eating. Ni Ping is holding back a lot of energy like this, trying to overwhelm the other party in the performance. Fortunately, she has the advantage of height, which is enough to suppress the other party in the aura.
After the performance, the two sides held a celebration banquet together, but Ni Ping did not attend, and she hid in her room and cried a lot before venting her grievances.
Of course, as a TV audience at that time, I didn't know this, but it was absolutely possible for us to use the strength of the whole country against such a few people on the other side, and it was just a tie. At that time, the level of development of Chinese pop music can be seen.
thereafter. Friendship song parties have been held many times between the two countries, and the scale is getting bigger and bigger. And the rapid development of ours in all aspects have been perfected, no less than each other, no longer let their host feel wronged.