1977: The beginning of the blind date with the daughter of the king

Chapter 602 The Voice of Hong Kong!
Hong Kong Island, Central

"Jingle Bell"

The phone on the table rang and a young man picked up the phone.

"Hello, this is the Hong Kong Trade Development Council"

After a moment, the man put down the phone.

Then I leaned back in my seat and received another useless call.

Fortunately, this is the last day and I won’t have to do this boring job anymore.

"Jacky, have you really submitted your resignation?"

Next to him, his colleague joked with a smile.

"Hey, sitting here answering the phone every day is so boring, Brother Bing!"

The young man said in a low voice.

"Well, since you are going to resign, you might as well take a look at this."

"You sing so well, I think you can give it a try!"

Brother Bing placed a newspaper in front of the man.

The man picked up the newspaper and looked at it curiously.

[Asia Satellite TV holds the first Hong Kong Island Voice Contest]

"Asia Television is holding a singing competition. They want newcomers to participate. They don't look at appearance, they only listen to the voice. Jacky, you sing so well. I think you can participate."

"The champion will receive a prize of one million Hong Kong dollars, and there will also be a chance to sign a contract with a record company and release an album. Go and give it a try. I think you can be as famous as Alan."

Bingo continued to encourage.

As Jacky looked at the advertisement in the newspaper, he slowly began to be interested.

The champion will receive a prize of HK$1 million, the runner-up will receive HK$500,000, and anyone who makes it past the group stage will receive an incentive bonus of HK$5,000.

Even if I don't expect to be the champion or runner-up, at least I can get through the group stage.

"Jacky Cheung, you can do it!"

Jacky silently cheered himself up in his heart!
At the Liyuan Amusement Park, Anita Mui, who had just come down from the stage, sat alone at a table nearby.

She is rebellious and arrogant, and cannot get along with ordinary people. Also, because she has been singing on the Liyuan stage since she was a child, many people ridiculed her as a "singer", so she is even more disdainful of dealing with some people.

So after stepping down, she got used to sitting alone.

Coincidentally, there was a stack of newspapers on the table for the singers to pass the time.

Anita Mui picked up the newspaper and soon saw the promotional advertisement for "The Voice of Hong Kong" on it.

After a moment, she put down the newspaper with a determined look.

She has secured the one million dollar prize.

On the island, Li Zongsheng, who had just dropped out of technical secondary school for a year and a half, had just finished delivering gas to his father's gas shop and then came to his base.

This is a small concert room, which is the base of a band he and several classmates set up. The band is called the Acoustic Guitar Band.

"Ah Sheng, look at this. The Asia Television in Hong Kong is holding a new singer competition. The champion will receive a prize of one million."

When Li Zongsheng came in, several teammates had already seen the newspaper and started chatting with him enthusiastically.

The young men are full of passion and want to make a name for themselves in the music industry, and this singing competition seems to have provided them with a brand new stage.

A stage for "pure singers" where appearance is not important, but singing skills are the only factor!
Similar scenes can be found all over Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. Shao Weiming has invested a huge sum of money in this music competition. He not only wants to make the competition bigger, but more importantly, he wants to make the name of Asia Television known in one fell swoop.

"Your move this time is really big. Not to mention the whole world, I'm afraid the whole of East Asia and Southeast Asia knows about it now."

In the office of Asia Television, Li Changhe said to Shao Weiming with a smile.

"If they want to be generous, TVB won't follow!" "They are so stingy, they definitely won't be willing to spend so much money, so they won't do the same music program as us."

"Otherwise, if we just organize a simple music competition and the other party just does another one, then we will lose out!"

Shao Weiming said to Li Changhe proudly.

As the saying goes, no one knows a son better than his father, but the same is also true conversely: no one knows a father better than his son!
Shao Weiming also understood his father Shao Yifu's personality. Given his calculating character, it was absolutely impossible for him to give out millions of dollars in bonuses to singers.

Shao Weiming made such a big fuss, on the one hand to promote Asia Television, and on the other hand to prevent TVB from following suit.

After all, "The Voice of China" is such a big show that if you want to follow the trend you'll have to spend a lot of money. Otherwise, it'll seem petty and you might as well not do it at all.

"Okay!"

"By the way, which ones did the instructor choose?"

Li Changhe asked curiously at this time.

"Currently, several people have already agreed. Sam Hui has no problem with this, and Alan Tam has also said that he is considering it. He is very interested."

"We are also considering a female mentor. We are initially considering choosing one between Teresa Tsui or Frances Yip."

"Then there is another mentor who has not been decided yet. I prefer Roman Tam, but he is from TVB, so I need to communicate with them."

Shao Weiming said thoughtfully.

"Rowan?"

"Why don't you use people from our own company? I remember Leslie Cheung is also from our company?"

Li Changhe asked curiously at this time.

"Leslie is from our company, but to be honest, he's not very well-known right now. Isn't it a bit weak to let him be a mentor?"

Shao Weiming said objectively at this time.

He is a fan of Leslie Cheung, and because of this, he knows that Leslie Cheung’s current audience is actually not that large in Hong Kong Island. Leslie Cheung can only be said to be a new star in the Hong Kong Island music scene, and he is not really a big star.

"Why don't we just find someone to help him write a good song? We also want to promote a core figure, so isn't Leslie Cheung the perfect person?"

"You've already spent so much money. Why don't you spend a little more money to have a famous songwriter from Hong Kong Island write a song for Zhang Guorong, and then release it on the stage of The Voice of China? Isn't that killing two birds with one stone?"

"In my opinion, The Voice of China is not only a stage for students, but also a stage for mentors. It is not necessary to choose singers with particularly high reputation."

"My opinion is that the tutor does not necessarily have to be very professional, but he must have his own characteristics and style."

"We shouldn't choose the serious and preachy mentor. The audience doesn't like to watch him."

"The audience likes to watch people who are funny. I think Sam Hui is a very good example. He is good at making comedies, so his performance will definitely be very interesting."

“You need to encourage interaction between mentors, such as competing for students.”

"And then add in the instructor's performance on stage, give Leslie some shots, and bring out his characteristics, isn't that a characteristic?"

"One more thing, I've seen your plan. Since you're going to broadcast the games every Saturday and Sunday, can you broadcast the highlights from Monday to Friday?"

"For example, we have interviews with mentors and selection of singers behind the scenes. We let the audience vote and interview popular singers. Then we broadcast it every Monday to Friday to maintain the popularity of the competition."

"I believe this style, which does not require any fakery and is presented entirely by real people, is also a feature."

Li Changhe made another suggestion to Shao Weiming.

In fact, he wanted to provide a song for Zhang Guorong, but he was not familiar with the other party's representative works, so he only had "A Chinese Ghost Story". It might not be suitable now, after all, it was the theme song of the movie.

"I see. I'll tell the production team about your opinion and ask them to make further adjustments."

"That's great. I'll also inform Leslie and ask him to get ready to go on stage and be the mentor!"

Shao Weiming nodded and said at this time.

(End of this chapter)