HuaYu97: Starting as a Singer

Chapter 93 [093] The Era of Qi Ren, No, the Era of Qi Yuan Has Arrived
"Qi Yuan... Congratulations Qi Yuan... Qi Yuan, hurry up and come up on stage... You're the best newcomer again."

Tao Jingying offered her congratulations.

This time, Qi Yuan was even happier than when he won the Best Mandarin Male Vocalist award.

If you don't win Best Mandarin Male Vocalist this time, you can try again next year; but if you don't win Best Newcomer this time, you'll have to wait until your next life.

Qi Yuan took the stage a second time and went through the same process again.

With this trophy, Qi Yuan will be the strongest newcomer of 1997-1998, and no one will question it.

After winning Best Newcomer, the Best Pop Music Album award was presented next, and Qi Yuan, Tao Ze, A-mei, and Karen Mok all lost.

The award goes to Zhang Yusheng's "Saying One Thing and Meaning Another".

In the Best Composition category, Qi Yuan lost to Tao Ze's "Beach," and Tao Ze finally won a trophy.

The best lyricist has nothing to do with Qi Yuan.

When it came to the Best Album Producer award, the presenter called out Qi Yuan's name again: "Qi Yuan, winner of the 9th Golden Melody Award for Best Album Producer!"

Qi Yuan once again defeated powerful enemies such as Tao Ze and Qi Yu.

And then he went on stage to receive an award once again.

At this year's Golden Melody Awards, Chi Yuan was the most dazzling person, without a doubt.

The next day.

Taiwanese media outlets have begun reporting on the winners of this year's Golden Melody Awards.

[A true genius: a newcomer who debuted less than a year ago won three awards simultaneously – Best Newcomer, Best Mandarin Male Vocalist, and Best Record Producer]

The dominance of the Four Heavenly Kings has crumbled once again as Qi Yuan defeats Zhang Xueyou in a head-on battle to win the Golden Melody Award for Best Male Vocalist.

The era of the Four Heavenly Kings has passed; the era of Qi Ren has arrived.

Richie Jen's music can't compare to Qi Yuan's; it's Qi Yuan's era that has arrived.

……

The cast and crew of "My Fair Princess," who are currently promoting the show in various cities in Taiwan, have learned about this year's Golden Melody Awards.

"This guy is amazing, three trophies," Zhou Jie said admiringly.

Fan Xiaopang looked at the article about Qi Yuan in the newspaper, his eyes filled with admiration.

Although Qi Yuan is a bit of a jerk, he is really capable.

No, Qi Yuan isn't a scumbag, he's a womanizer. How many talented men aren't womanizers?

If Qi Yuan isn't a womanizer, will she have a chance with him in the future?
……

Warner.

Zhou Jianhui, who had just returned from a business trip, was so excited when he saw Qi Yuan's three trophies that he wanted to kowtow to Qi Yuan.

Once the report is written at the end of the year, Qi Yuan's achievements alone will secure his position as general manager of Warner.

In the short term, he doesn't need to worry about headquarters parachuting in someone else to replace him.

"Ah Yuan, I didn't misjudge you. You're amazing. You're the first newcomer to win both Best Mandarin Male Vocalist and Best Album Producer. No one in the previous eight Golden Melody Awards has ever had such a strong newcomer."

Zhou Jianhui felt more confident about Qi Yuan's second major and his own future.

After chatting about the Golden Melody Awards for a while, Zhou Jianhui took out the trophies he had accepted on behalf of Qi Yuan in Singapore and Malaysia, sighed, and said...

“A few days ago, I discovered a young girl with a very unique voice at the Lee Wei Song Conservatory of Music in Singapore. Her voice was truly distinctive, clear, pure, penetrating, and highly recognizable. I wanted to sign her at the time, but unfortunately, her family disagreed and wanted to wait until she finished her studies before allowing her to sign with us.”

Qi Yuan: "..."

Upon hearing the clear and bright voice, and knowing it was from Singapore and belonged to a young girl, the image of the relatively unknown singer Sun Yanzi came to Qi Yuan's mind.

It's easy to see from Lao Zhou's regretful expression how much he admires Sun Yanzi.

A moment later, Lao Zhou added, "I also watched a songwriting competition in Singapore and discovered another promising talent, a young girl, a Malaysian Chinese."

After the competition, I contacted her privately. She's a fan of yours and sang "Starry Night" for us. She sang it quite well, so I signed her.

"what is her name?"

Qi Yuan was a little curious. Could it be Liang Cuiping?
It's unlikely. Liang Cuiping signed with Rolling Stone in 97; it's impossible for her to have been lured away by Lao Zhou.

"Her name is Dai Peini. She'll be coming to Taiwan soon. If you have time then, please personally create a test single for her." Old Zhou's tone was somewhat humble.

There was nothing she could do; after all, Qi Yuan had the ability to bake cakes herself.

Old Zhou was hoping Qi Yuan would take him flying, so he had to coax Qi Yuan.

If Qi Yuan can personally help him make Dai Pei Ni famous in the second half of the year.

After that girl named Sun Yanzi finishes her studies, he will make her famous again. Not to mention the position of General Manager of Greater China, he would even dare to covet the position of General Manager of Asia.

Qi Yuan thought to herself, "What kind of luck does Lao Zhou have? He got two gold cards while on a business trip."

The talent of lesser-known singers needs no further explanation.

Dai Pei-ni wasn't very popular in mainland China in her early years; she was known for her songs but not for herself. She only became famous because of a fan's mishap at a live performance.

Dai Pei-ni can be called a true talented woman. Despite having bad luck, she won five Golden Melody Awards.

It includes two highly prestigious awards: Best Mandarin Female Singer and Best Record Producer.

She has one more Golden Melody Award trophy than Lin Junjie and Wang Lihong, who both have four.

According to Lao Zhou, Dai Peini was his fan and sang a song called "Starry Sky" before Lao Zhou decided to sign her.

In other words, without the butterfly effect he brought, Lao Zhou would have missed his chance with Dai Peini.

Old Zhou really needs to give him a big red envelope; without him, Warner Music will lose a talented female writer.

Old Zhou asked again, "Do you remember Liang Yongqi, whom I asked Ah Hao to tell you about last time? Her Hong Kong record release with Leo Ku is here."

"I remember, I've finished writing the song for her. Have someone give it to her. I'm going back to the mainland to film the music video." Qi Yuan handed a sheet of music to Lao Zhou.

"Coward?" Old Zhou glanced at the song title; he had great faith in the quality of Qi Yuan's work.

Qi Yuan wanted to contribute to his career as general manager, so naturally, he, as the general manager, had to give Qi Yuan his full support: "I won't set a budget for the filming of your other music videos. Remember, no budget. You can film them however you want, even like movies."

"You said it yourself, so I won't stand on ceremony." Qi Yuan was very satisfied with Lao Zhou's response.

Since there was no budget constraint, he had many ideas. He wanted to film the beautiful scenery of Jiangnan in the music videos of "Jiangnan" and "Dongfeng Po".

He also wants to increase the budget for "Romantic Romance" to make it more refined. Now that he is a major shareholder of Tencent, he can't help but include some personal agendas. He's happy to use Warner Bros.' money to make a better promotional video for OICQ.

He wants to use this music video to teach mainland netizens a lesson and tell them that the era of online dating has arrived.

In a year or two, he will write a new promotional song called "Gray Avatar" and ask netizens if they have experienced heartbreak.

From online dating to heartbreak, the two songs echo each other, forming a closed loop.

(End of this chapter)