Sharing Before the Concert

承諾演唱會前的分享

HitoRadio.com/2006.5.30

English Translation

●What are the things do you proud of or regret?

▲’Do I have any?’ I asked myself. I think it’s not something I proud of, it should be happiness. ‘Understanding’ is a precious and classic song and I have had it. At the beginning I didn’t think it’s special, but after wards I realized many people wanted to sing and failed to do so.  I must say thank you very much to Jonathan Li. As he gave me a song that can put a equal sign to me, and it’s no way for others to sing better. So I have to feel gratitude. I don’t think I have anything to regret, as I did and they were my experience. If I should say something for regret, than I say Leslie. He promised me to come to my concert. However it can’t be come true… Recently I read many messages from his fans and they said they will come for Gor-gor. It’s very touching.

●Do you think you’re experienced enough to be a judge in programmes like singing contest?

▲(Smile) In fact some popular TV programmes invited me to be a judge but I didn’t accept the offer. If I’m a judge, then I will give appropriate comments that the candidate needs to improve. I will tell the truth! Encouragement is necessary but it’s no need to hurt others.  That’s why so far I didn’t take part in those judging activities completely.

●Which newcomers do you think are really good?

▲Angela Chang (張韶涵) is not bad. There are many good male singers, like Soler. Another one is Yang Pei An (楊培安). I was surprised about his voice when I heard his advertising song from TV. His voice is bright and sonorous. It’s rare in these years.

●Are you afraid of others singing your songs?

▲No. They give me different feeling.

●Would you like to introduce the differences on singing skills between vocal music and popular music?

▲My major in the university was vocal music and I practiced all day long for the voice and sang artistic songs, opera etc. In fact I didn’t want to sing popular songs, but fate is a strange. Those unexpected chances kept on approaching you.  I ‘m familiar with popular songs, however, after learning vocal music for years, singing those songs become a difficult task. It is because the singing skills and the place for resonance are not the same. For vocal music, most are in the head (showing to the audience ). The popular songs will become very beautiful if I sing like this! However popular music no need to talk about this. It’s in our daily lives. If I sing it perfectly then feeling will be disappeared. I keep thinking about it and want listeners to feel concretely. In fact I had changed in singing ‘Waiting Behind Your Shadow’. After I worked in the Rock Records, Jonathan told me, ‘you have had the skills so don’t care about it. If you sing too artistic, the song will become dull without any characteristics. You will disappear in the showbiz.’ ‘Understanding’ is a very very good practice for me. Later on I sing naturally, using the throat more.

●What did Jonathan say to you after you met him ?

▲Before I signed the contract with the Rock Records, we met several times. He called to the Linfair Records after listening to my song ‘Selfish’ in the album Flower. I was so nervous as I didn’t believe he wanted to meet me. His first question was, ‘Winnie, do you think you can sing?’ If I wanted to be modest then I would say I sang not good. But why he meet me? On the other hand, I couldn’t be so modest. So at that time I replied, ‘Not so bad, isn’t it?’ He smiled then said something about me. I felt a bit overwhelmed by an unexpected favour.

●Please talk about the following persons.

▲Jonathan Li (李宗盛): Benefactor! Doesn’t he?

▲Jerry Huang (黃舒駿): He was my neighbor, when we were studying kindergarten, primary and secondary school. We are good friends. We kept contact when he worked in Taipei. So that’s why I invited him to write songs for me. I just could find writers that I knew. He also like my relative as sometimes I need his help when I have problem.

▲Zhong Ming Xue (薛忠銘): We had worked together for many albums. I think his Soft Rock is very good. He lets you feeling him as a gentleman but in fact… I don’t know. I ‘m not familiar with him… (laugh)

▲Zhou Shi Hui (周世暉): He is important to me. He produced many songs for my ‘Understanding’ album. I had sung the theme song for about a month. As Jonathan was not always there and he understood Jonathan’s requirement, so he was responsible for many things. His requirement is very high and in the studio, he is quite…

▲Qian Yao (姚謙): He’s smart. I didn’t have strong feeling when I receiving the song ‘Scent’, but after a few years, we met one time and he said, ‘Do you know how I wrote the song? I caught a cold at that time and my nose was uncomfortable without any feeling. After I recovered, oh! I could breath again and wrote down the song…’ He had destroyed my imagination about the song! But frankly speaking it’s quite interesting for him to say so.

▲Ruo Long Yao (姚若龍): I had a long chat with him during working in the Linfair Records. What he wrote for me were very fit to me. He’s very sensitive. Later I always need him to write the lyrics and his works are touching and he understands me very much.

▲Xie Qin Pan (潘協慶): His ‘Admit’ is another song that loved by many people. We have special relationship as he is also an Aquarius. After the song we came closer. He writes in good quality if you tell him clearly.

▲Man Ting Li (厲曼婷): She is also an Aquarius and very artistic. Sometimes she hides herself and you can’t find her; but when she appears, her works are perfect.

●Nowadays the target audience are very young. Do you think you are hard to keep a place for yourself (sorry to say so…)

▲No! I won’t force them to listen to my songs. I’m familiar with the songs by Jay Chou and David Tao, as my nephews listens their songs all day. I think their songs are very good.

●Your images are contradictory. Queen of Discovery with a pair of sexy beautiful legs. Which is you?

▲Both. A person can has many personalities. Don’t separate them clearly. People who have a pair of beautiful legs also have their sad moments! (laugh) Am I right?

●What would you bring to us in The Promise concert?

▲The song list is quite complete. I will try my best to prepare it. True heart is sure to give you all!

Chinese Original

因為〈在你背影守候〉她是華語歌壇裡難得的學院美聲派；因為〈領悟〉她變成橫掃流行市場的療傷歌后，入圍過金曲獎，留下多首傳唱不墜的情歌經典；也翻唱過日劇與韓劇的主題曲；更讓人見識過她修長的美腿！這些看似衝突的經歷，每一個部分皆讓這昔日的鋼琴老師成就為今天的辛曉琪。曾擔任張國榮生前世界巡迴演唱會130多場的嘉賓，張國榮承諾只要辛曉琪辦演唱會他一定會義氣站台；如今張國榮雖已過世，她謹記此諾，將在演唱會中透過VCR播放隔空對唱，重現兩人合唱情歌的風采！並請出知名製作人陳子鴻跨刀為演唱會創作主題曲「承諾」，這是辛曉琪給歌迷最美好的『承諾』！

●回首自己出道20年的歌唱生涯，最驕傲跟最遺憾的事。
▲我自己也才驚覺︰「有嗎？」我覺得也不是驕傲，是有點欣慰。〈領悟〉這個歌，我覺得是很難能可貴的一首經典歌曲，然後我唱到了；本來我還沒有覺得怎麼樣，是後來發覺這個歌很多人都想要唱，可是好像後來都打退堂鼓。我很感謝大哥李宗盛，因為你要遇到一首歌跟你畫上等號，別人沒有辦法再去詮釋得更好的時候，你就是很感恩，因為真的很難得。遺憾呢是還OK，因為我覺得我做過、經歷過的事情，我都不會後悔。的的確確是最近要做演唱會的關係，然後會發覺還真是一件很遺憾的事，因為當初張國榮很阿沙力告訴我說︰「曉琪，到時你開演唱會，沒問題！一句話！我一定到場給你打氣！」可是現在真的是沒辦法了…最近我就看到有很多張國榮的fans給我留言，她們說︰「曉琪，你太晚開演唱會了！哥哥已經不在！不過我們一定會到場，替哥哥幫你加油打氣！」看了就覺得很窩心，很感動。

●這年頭流行「新秀偶像選拔」的節目，意外捧出評審第二春。其實你不覺得經過大風大浪的你，才是最有資格當評審的嗎？
▲(笑)其實在內地有一些收視率很不錯的選秀節目，曾經找過我去。我這個人就是有點龜毛，要是我當評審，我會給一些非常中肯的建議，提出你需要改進的地方。可是如果不是朝這方向走的話，我可能就不會去，因為我要講真話！我的個性就是這樣，鼓勵是一定要的，也沒必要去傷害別人，但若真的要為他好的話，真的要提出一些讓他有進步的實際做法。所以我到現在並沒有完全參與這些評審事情。

●這幾年出道很多新人，有誰是你覺得唱得真好的？
▲張韶涵不錯。其實男歌手有蠻多實力派的，像Soler，我覺得他們很不錯。還有一個人，我覺得他的聲音的的確確是我第一次在電視上聽到他的廣告歌時，我的耳朵的確有一亮，覺得現在還有這樣的聲音，想要聽下去。他應該是叫楊培安吧！聲音很嘹亮高亢，是近幾年比較少有的。

●最怕人家唱你什麼歌？
▲我不會怕，說實在的，都是不同的感覺。

●大家都理所當然說你在福茂時期是學院美聲派唱法，在滾石時期則加入更多流行唱法。今天是否能為大家說明所謂的這兩種唱法，技巧上發聲上等的差別？
▲我是古典出身的，主修聲樂，所以我以前一天到晚在練發聲，唱藝術歌曲、歌劇那種東西。說實在我也不想要走流行音樂，是真的。可是命運就很奇怪，一直這方面的機會去找你，其實我對流行歌曲不陌生，可是學了那麼多年聲樂之後，要唱流行歌的確不是一件容易的事，因為唱法跟共鳴的地方是不一樣的。美聲的共鳴大部分都在頭部(現場示範了一下)，如果這樣去唱流行樂的話，很美沒錯啦！可是流行音樂不是那麼講究技巧，它是很生活化的，唱得太美毫無瑕疵，感情躲在技巧跟美聲後面，就沒有了。我自己就一直在琢磨，要讓聽者覺得真實一點。其實《在你背影守候》就已經轉換了，沒有那麼美聲了。當我進了滾石，大哥跟我說︰「你技巧都有了，不要再管它了，太美聲沒有特色，沒有味道，辨識度不高，在這個圈子你就會被埋沒」剛好有〈領悟〉這首歌，我得到非常非常好的磨練。後來我唱歌時就比較不想技巧層面的東西，讓它自然，用喉嚨多一點，共鳴降低…

●加入滾石是你歌唱生涯的大轉折，當初李宗盛第一句跟你說什麼？
▲我還沒簽約之前，他就跟我見過好幾次面。他是聽到《花時間》裡面的〈自私〉那首歌，打電話到福茂唱片去，主動約我談一談。我記得第一次我很緊張，因為覺得「怎麼可能」他問我的第一句話是︰「曉琪，你覺得你會不會唱歌？」我那時心裡想，如果我很謙虛說自己唱得很爛，那他約我幹麻；可是你又不能太不謙虛，我當時應該是這樣說︰「沒那麼差吧？」他就笑了，然後開始講他對我的看法，所以我有點受寵若驚。

●以下這幾個人，請各自用一句話形容他們。

▲李宗盛：恩人！不為過吧？

▲黃舒駿︰他算是我鄰居，兒時的。幼稚園小學國中都是鄰居，也是好友。他到台北來發展時，我們一直都有聯絡，所以當時才會邀他幫我寫歌，因為我只能從我認識的人下手。他還扮演一個更像家人或親人的感覺，我遇到問題的時候，有時我會找他來討論。

▲薛忠銘：我們合作過很多張唱片，我覺得他是台灣寫Soft Rock是非常不錯的。他會讓你覺得他是個溫文儒雅的好好先生，其實…我不知道，我跟他沒那麼熟…(笑)

▲周世暉︰他對我來說很重要，在〈領悟〉時期他是陪伴我最多的製作人，因為其實〈領悟〉我大概唱了有一個月，大哥並不是都在，他對Vocal的要求是得到李宗盛的真傳，所以大哥把東西交給他會很放心，他要求很高，在錄音室裡蠻那個的。

▲姚謙︰他很能幹。〈味道〉當時沒什麼接觸，反而是後來，隔了幾年，我們有次碰面，他說︰「你知道〈味道〉這歌我是怎麼寫出來的嗎？我當時重感冒，鼻子不通了一個禮拜，完全沒有嗅覺。忽然感冒好了，哇賽！什麼都來了，就寫了味道…」我說你、你破壞了我對它的印象！後來想想我也覺得蠻有趣味的。

▲姚若龍︰我在福茂時就跟他長談過一次，之後幫我寫的東西都非常貼切。他非常細膩，後來我蠻多歌詞都找若龍幫我寫，寫來我也都覺得非常感動，因為他很了解我。

▲潘協慶：他寫的〈承認〉這個歌算是在我歌唱事業上，另一首被多數人喜歡的歌，所以跟他有一種特殊的緣分。他也是水瓶，我也是。〈承認〉之後我們就變得還不錯，你想要他寫什麼樣的東西，你只要講得很明確，他出來的就是你要的。

▲厲曼婷︰她也是水瓶，也算是一個非常藝術家的人。她可能會躲起來，找不到她，可當她出現時，她的東西就非常完美。

●如今市場主力目標族群年齡很小，會不會讓你有種地位不保的感覺(這樣講好像有點失敬…)
▲不會啦！我不會很強迫他們要去聽我的音樂，我為什麼會對周杰倫及陶哲的歌那麼熟，是因為我姪子一天到晚在聽，他們很喜歡唱，我聽了也覺得真的很好聽。

●你的形象其實挺矛盾，有療傷歌后與性感美腿，真正的你是怎麼樣的人？
▲其實我覺得都是，人有很多面，每一面都是我，不要分得那麼清楚。有美腿的人她也是有很傷心的時候啊！(笑)對不？

●承諾台北演唱會準備給大家什麼樣的感動與驚喜？
▲曲目還蠻完整的，我會很努力去準備，感動一定是在真誠的部分！