Music World: Kazumasa Oda's music and the little me

According to the habit of the Chinese people, it is very impolite to call the old man in his 70s Oda. But there is no way to take the surname Oda, but can only be called Oda. Speaking of Oda kazumasa, I understand people very well in Japan. Half a person who does not understand may understand his songs and not himself. And those who don't understand simply don't know that there is this number and people don't understand his songs.

Speaking of my fate with him for more than 20 years, it should also be regarded as "iron powder". Although I like his songs and like his people, I have never been close to him in his concerts. Having said that, I should not be considered "iron" but only "powder".

I recall that my first handover with Mr. Oda was when I first arrived in Japan 20 years ago. A brother in the same dormitory borrowed me a few tapes to listen to. And the first time I heard the old man's song, to be honest, I was shocked! I had never heard such a clear and bright singing voice before! How to describe it? Anyway, in a word, his singing voice is very discerning. It is so strong that you can remember his voice only once, just like the "Oda voice" can be clearly identified in the crowded street.

I love his songs and his people, and probably a factor that people are not very familiar with. You may not know that this talented singer, who can be influential in Japan and even in East Asia, is a graduate of a graduate school of a famous Japanese university. This is a master's degree graduate of the famous Waseda University Department of Architecture! What is the concept of the architecture department of this university in Japan? Give you a simple example to know its positioning. It is usually the practice that the chairman of the Architectural Society in Japan is chaired by the head professor of the Department of Architecture at Waseda University! The students who were at the same time as the old master were all Taishan Beidou in the field of Japanese architecture! For example, the famous contemporary Japanese architectural historian Terubu Fujimori is his classmate! In this way, do you think of the old wolf's "brother who slept on my top bunk"?

He began with the determination to take the path of music from the performance of the university college festival, perhaps there is one less master builder in the world and one more talented singer. Whether this is fortunate or unfortunate for our society is not clear. And he also had a traffic accident that killed nine people once. Perhaps he has had such a life-and-death experience, and since then many of his songs have also changed a lot, and the lyrics have a lot of various philosophies of life that need to be deeply sung. His songs never roar hysterically, but more like the neighbor's uncle telling stories on cool summer nights, telling you that the most important thing in a person's life is not a big event that shocks the world, but the ordinary day with his closest people is the most precious!

In his later years, he not only ran in the front line of singing, but also proposed to use his own singing voice to understand and interpret the songs of other singers of the same generation, promoting the famous "Christmas constraint". Of course, everything was difficult at the beginning, and for the first time, he invited many singers who were popular at that time to try to sing each other's famous songs in the "Christmas Constraint", but none of them took care of it. He was the only one who sang one song after another of other people's fame songs alone. Of course, people who have heard the old man sing know that as long as he sings once, other people's fame songs will also become "Oda songs". That's interesting. Maybe many people also have that kind of fear. I'm sorry or afraid to sing with him! Just like SMAP's boss, Masahiro Nakagami, did not dare to admit that he was a singer in front of him.

A talented singer with a full personality who refuses to appear in the red and white war all his life is a strict and extreme polytechnic man's style in his own singing world, but he is particularly generous in promoting and supporting the younger generation. In his "Christmas Constraint", many young singers who have been re-recognized by everyone have won a second acting life and once again flourished in a virtuous circle!

The new crown virus in 2020 not only hit the Chinese New Year, but also hit the New Year atmosphere in neighboring Japan. Even the old man's "Christmas restriction" was lifted due to the so-called ban on social distancing. alas. To be honest, "Christmas Constraint" has also been 10 years, and he and Fuji Radio have been thinking about how to end this show and it hurts their brains. But this show is really a well-known IP that lays a golden egg, and does not dare to cancel it at will and cannot find a suitable alternative IP for a moment and a half. But to be honest, I actually pray silently in my heart, just like the first "one-person Christmas constraint", in 2020, also through the "one-person Christmas constraint" to say goodbye, will it be more memorable?! Among the people who have lived in the same era, Oda and Masa, our lives have become more colorful, and although we have not known each other or seen "real people", we have communicated together through the same song, which is a blessing! [Tears]