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Because of Zhou Yi’s existence, this truly restarted first Sino-Japanese Friendship Song Contest has many more big names than Zhou Yi’s impression——

Among the older generation, in addition to the famous Japanese musician Shinji Tanimura who promoted the resumption of the China-Japan Song Festival, there are also the original singer of "Straw Hat Song" Qiao Sanzhong, one of the living fossils of the Japanese industry, an acquaintance of Zhou Yi, and Zhong Zhong who is celebrating the 30th anniversary of his debut this year. Miyuki Shima all came to the scene.

Compared with these three, Kimura Takuya, Kimura Shizuka and his wife, Nakamori Akina, V6 group and others can be considered "young" people.

As for the younger generation, since Utada Hikaru has not returned, due to Hamasaki Ayumi's big-name incident at the Sino-Japanese Song Contest last year, this popular diva in the Japanese music scene was not selected for the list this year. Instead, Nakajima Singers who debuted after the millennium such as Meijia are representatives of new singers.

This lineup is obviously very different from the lineup of the 2004 China-Japan Song Contest in Zhou Yi's memory. There are a lot more real popular celebrities and idols.

According to what Qian Jiang told him, this is the strongest lineup that the Japanese music industry could send after knowing that the big devil Zhou Yi would come.

You need to be sentimental and affectionate, and you need to be popular and popular.

Fortunately, Hikaru Utada, the most powerful young queen in the Japanese music scene, is currently in the United States and cannot come over. Otherwise, judging from the current situation of being beaten to disgrace by Zhou Yi, the meeting between the two would be somewhat murderous...

"Welcome, Zhou Yijun."

As the promoter and founder of the Sino-Japanese Song Festival, Shinji Tanimura came forward immediately with a very kind smile.

"Hello, Mr. Tanimura, I have heard of you for a long time."

In front of this respectable old man, Zhou Yi's attitude was truly elegant and easy-going, and his smile came from the bottom of his heart.

As one of the veteran musicians in the Japanese music scene, Shinji Tanimura, who was born in 1948, is almost 60 this year. His peak period may be unfamiliar to many people in China, but many domestic fans who have experienced the peak period of the Hong Kong Philharmonic should actually be familiar with his songs -

Singers such as Teresa Teng, Yonglin Tam, Leslie Cheung, Jacky Cheung, Chen Huixian, Mui Yanfang, etc. have all covered his songs. The most popular Chinese cover song is "Distant Her" sung by Jacky Cheung.

Moreover, the most commendable thing is that this old man is a rare "tongzhong" school in the Japanese literary and art circles——

Not the kind who bets on both ends, but the kind who runs in the direction of Lao Zhong from the beginning.

In 1981, he was able to get approval to hold a concert in the Workers' Stadium, making him the first Japanese artist to enter China and hold a concert in the capital;

When he passed away on October 8, 2023, the official evaluation was that he was an old friend. Diplomatically, they expressed condolences and condolences to his relatives, and also affirmed his efforts and achievements in building a bridge of communication between the music circles of China and Japan.

The gold content can be imagined.

After Mr. Tanimura Shinji, Zhou Yi, the other straw hat singer, is really unfamiliar. After all, he really doesn't feel anything about this song.

Miyuki Nakajima and Akina Nakamori are old acquaintances. The latter even bought the cover rights of his songs by attending the Golden Melody Awards as a presenter, such as "Fairy Tale" and "The Wind Rises". ——

There is no way, the song "Silver Dragon's Back" is so popular in Japan. Zhou Yi himself doesn't know how many singers have covered his songs in Japan. Anyway, he only knows that Japan's copyright system is strictly controlled. , he charges more in copyright adaptation fees here.

The Japanese version of "The Wind Rises" also became popular due to the addition of Zhou Yi's fame, coupled with the fact that Akina Nakamori joined Universal Music Group and was strongly promoted.

And it is precisely because of Akina Nakamori's popularity that the right to cover Zhou Yi's songs has become even more popular - especially his English songs.

People like Kimura Takuya and his wife, V6 group, etc. all came here hoping to make good relationships.

Due to the former's marriage, the couple's popularity in Japan has indeed declined somewhat seriously. Fortunately for Kimura Takuya, Kudo Shizuka, who changed her name to Kimura Shizuka, is a singer, but her popularity has plummeted since her comeback after getting married;

As for the latter, V6 itself is a super popular idol boy band from Japan's Johnny's. They dream of making friends with a producer like Zhou Yi.

Although Zhou Yi is only familiar with one person in this boy band - Nagano Hiroshi, the human body of Ultraman Tiga, nicknamed the Car Accident Hero.

As for other young singers like Mika Nakajima, Zhou Yi just nodded and said hello in the past. After all, they were not related to Miyuki Nakajima, whom he was familiar with.

"Hey, hello, Zhou Yijun."

In Japan, where the status of juniors is clearly defined, as a junior among juniors, even though she was very familiar with Zhou Yi, Nagasawa Masami still had to say hello to Zhou Yi at the end: "How are you? I haven't seen you for a few months. Is my English good?" progress?"

Toho Princess Masami Nagasawa, who once again gained popularity in Japan last year with her starring role in "Robot Race" and her supporting role in the Godzilla series, also showed off her English after the assault.

She also reaped dividends from Zhou Yi's "Qili Xiang" MV, attracting a large number of Zhou Yi's Japanese fans to support her. Of course, the same goes for Yui Aragaki. After becoming popular, she has left the modeling world and gone into acting.

However, compared to Toho who is behind Masami Nagasawa, the agency behind Yui Aragaki is obviously unable to send her to this China-Japan Song Contest, and can only wait for the opportunity in the next one.

After all, according to rumors, Zhouyi will participate in two sessions.

This is the case in Japan. If she can participate in Zhou Yi's English MV, then she will be exposed in the United States and receive more resources in Japan, which will be of great benefit to her.

Of course, if possible, she would also like to sing a cover - a cover of Zhou Yi's song.

"Let me tell you a secret. You may not know that tonight many singers will choose to cover your songs to pay tribute to you~"

Standing on tiptoes and secretly whispering in Zhou Yi's ear, Masami Nagasawa told him a secret that was not a secret.

Zhou Yi came to Japan late, and he was the only person in the audience who had rarely rehearsed - he had not seen many Japanese singers' early rehearsals.

"Pay tribute to me?"

Zhou Yi raised his eyebrows noncommittally, but didn't take it too seriously.

The Japanese music scene has its own system after all. At most, it can be just covers and covers of the Japanese versions of his songs that are popular in Japan.

After returning to the Chinese singer area and saying hello, Zhou Yi sat next to Luo Zhixiang because they were both young people. At this moment, the future time management master looked envious: "Hey Zhou Yi, are you familiar with them all?"

He quite likes Japanese actresses such as Nagasawa Masami, Kudo Shizuka and Nakamori Akina, especially Kudo Shizuka, but unfortunately they are only acquaintances with him.

"Ask me, aren't you from Ai?"

"I am from Ai Hui, and she is not from Ai Hui, although I met her several times at some events during my training in Japan..."

Sitting in the seat and chatting with him, Zhou Yi could only rely on this method to relieve boredom for the opening of the party, which he had no interest in.

Aihui Records' two Chinese-speaking aces - Wang Xinling and Luo Zhixiang.

This is probably one of the reasons why Luo Zhixiang was able to attend this China-Japan Song Festival. It was promoted by the parent company of Japan Ai Hui.

If Wang Xinling hadn't been able to escape while filming, he would have been stuffed in.

However, seeing Luo Zhixiang's enthusiastic look, Zhou Yi thought for a while and held back and didn't ask Artificial Teng Shizuka. She was already married and her husband was Kimura Takuya. Why are you so worried about people?

After all, he is a man over forty who can challenge his limits during the day and at night. Apart from anything else, his waist is really good.

"By the way Zhou Yi, I have a party after the party. Do you want to come? Cai Yilin and the others are also there, as well as some Japanese actresses."

"I would like to, but unfortunately I don't have enough time. I have to rush back to the United States without stopping."

Zhou Yi smiled, raised his hand to applaud the program on stage, and refused: "The Oscars are at the end of the month, and I have to make an English album after that. There is no time to play."

Although he also likes to play, he is obviously not on the same path as this master of time management—unless he is the only man at such a so-called carnival party, and the others are all women.

Don’t play with men!

"That's a shame."

Luo Zhixiang smacked his lips, obviously feeling a little pity.

The two were chatting. When the prelude of a new program sounded on the stage, Zhou Yi's tone suddenly paused——

Um?

"Happy Worship"?

Looking up, the popular Japanese idol boy band V6 were lined up in a row, and everyone was doing their usual moves, causing the Japanese fans in the audience to scream——

This was a Japanese version of Funa Shin that he had never heard before.

As he looked at the subtitles and could guess 60% to 70% of the meaning, Zhou Yi was a little surprised: Squirtle is so willing to buy the copyright for V6?

When the song ended, V6, who stayed on the stage to be interviewed by the host, even mentioned Zhouyi in the audience many times——

"Yes, Zhou Yijun is actually an idol that we admire very much. Our adaptation of this song is actually like paying tribute to him in person..."

Hiroshi Nagano, who plays Dagu in Ultraman Tiga, bowed slightly in the direction of Yi offstage: "Thank you very much, Mr. Zhou Yi, for giving us this opportunity."

After that, Kimura Takuya and his wife took the stage one after another. In addition to each singing a masterpiece, they also sang the Japanese versions of Zhou Yi's "Jiangnan" and "Fireworks Easily Cold". The camera once again showed Zhou Yi in the audience -

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Anyway, he collects copyright fees every year, but I have never heard of it.

Needless to say, Miyuki Nakajima played "Silver Dragon's Back" directly, and in the second half of the song, she directly switched to the Chinese version of "First Dream", which shocked everyone. field;

The original singer of "Straw Hat Song" Qiao Sanzhong also sang the Japanese adaptation of "Goodbye" after singing the Straw Hat Song...

After Akina Nakamori sang her past masterpiece, she sang the Japanese version of "The Wind Rises".

Mika Nakajima and Masami Nagasawa sang the Japanese versions of "Dongfeng Po" and "Qili Xiang" by Zhouyi respectively.

Correspondingly, singers such as Cai Guoqing and Chen Ming on the Chinese side also put on kimonos and sang Japanese songs by the other party's singers. Even the song Luo Zhixiang sang on stage included a Japanese rap.

Sino-Japanese Exchange Song Concert Sino-Japanese Exchange Song Concert perfectly embodies the meaning of exchange——

It’s just that the amount of “Book of Changes” involved in this exchange is a bit high.

Most of the Japanese songs chosen by the Chinese side are old-school songs, and the singers are not limited to one person;

On the Japanese side, eight out of ten songs are adapted from songs from Zhouyi, and the rest are other popular hits...

He himself doesn't know how to do it--

No, is this his fan club or a Sino-Japanese singing club?

"It's normal that you have many songs. It's hard to have your original song library. Do you still want them to choose those popular cover songs in the past?"

Qian Jiang said calmly: "You have to know that many popular songs in the past were actually Japanese songs with new lyrics. You can't let them choose these songs again when they choose the popular song library. Who can save face?"

Zhou Yi: "..."

Hiss, it seems to make sense.

Let alone, the old man Shinji Tanimura and Miyuki Nakajima on the stage now directly occupied more than 100 songs in the past Hong Kong and Taiwan music scene-

Tanimura Shinji had a total of 55 songs covered by the Hong Kong and Taiwan music scene in the past, and Miyuki Nakajima had 71 covers. The total number of covers of these two people is 126.

That is, Koji Tamaki, who has the most popular songs covered, did not come, otherwise the number would be even more unsightly...