Reborn Hong Kong Wild Age

Chapter 13 Huaxing Records
"Morning, boss."

Amy, the little girl at the front desk, showed a sweet smile when she saw Gu Xiayang. During this time, this smile has become her signature.

"morning."

The current 7-14, Block A, Xinde Center is completely different from when Gu Xiayang first came here.

Walking into the company, the workstations were already full of people busy with their own work. Some people saw the boss entering their office and didn't say a word.

After getting along for a period of time, everyone found that the way to get along with this young boss is: 'Work hard, don't call unnecessary greetings'.

This group of people were all poached by various newspapers and magazines by Wang Letai, and some of them were from gossip weekly magazines. Of course, Gu Xiayang, a wealthy boss, is also a gossip. Unfortunately, there is no definite evidence to prove his boss's background. Gu family'.

Busy "Cool! The overall atmosphere of the magazine is good, and Gu Xiayang also highly recognizes Wang Letai's ability.

The main writers of each column, after screening, are young people with delicate writing and suitable for teenagers. Gu Xiayang is also very satisfied with what he wrote.

"Uncle Tai, we must hurry up. The magazine must be distributed throughout Hong Kong as soon as the middle school students start school. During this time, you ask everyone to pay more attention. If it succeeds, I will make a celebration drink for everyone."

"In the future, we will also launch a ranking list of the most popular artists among teenagers. This way, we can create topics. In addition, we will keep track of the trends of the artists they care about most, killing two birds with one stone."

Regarding Gu Xiayang's opinion, Wang Letai said noncommittally: "This ranking should at least wait until the sales volume of our magazine is stable, and we can just do the annual ranking..."

After the two communicated about some details of the magazine, Gu Xiayang looked up at the clock.

"It's almost time, we should go."

"Okay, I'll go to the garage to pick up the car."

……

"I heard that Zhang Guorong lived in Taikoo City these two days, and it was on the news?"

Cheung Kwok Rong has already flourished in the music scene, surpassing his good friend Chen Baiqiang whose career has been in a downturn this year. However, his home is still located in Taikoo Shing, which he bought earlier.

At this stage, the popular fried chicken in the music scene lives in Taikoo Shing, which is in the early [-]s, and the price will reach one million Hong Kong dollars.Because of this incident, Zhang Guorong was made fun of by many newspapers in the first few days.

In fact, Taikoo Shing, located in Quarry Bay, East District, Hong Kong Island, is considered a gathering place for the middle class, and many RB people and Koreans in Hong Kong also live here.

Zhang Guorong lived in more than 100 square meters on the [-]th floor of Taikoo City for three years. It is reasonable to say that it would not be a news, but it is a pity, who made him popular now!
"It's normal, he is such a big star, he lives in Taikoo City, it's a bit shabby."

Wang Letai, who was driving, said, "Let's not talk about villas and mansions, it should be a top-level apartment anyway. I guess he will live in another place immediately after he sings in Hung Hom."

"No need to estimate, it will definitely be replaced."

Gu Xiayang knew that this Mr. Zhang was a 'moving maniac'. Taikoo Shing was already his sixth home since he entered the industry, and he would move about ten more times in the future.

"I don't know if he will be in the company today."

"That's not clear. If we have an agreement with Mrs. Chen, I will ask her to arrange it as soon as possible. Our interview cannot be delayed."

Originally, it would be good to contact Zhang Guorong directly for an interview, but I heard that it is a newly established magazine and still needs to be a cover character and an exclusive interview. Zhang Guorong, who has been polished by the entertainment circle for many years, did not agree rashly, but Hand over the matter to your manager.

"You said that the Huaxing high-level executive you met today is Mrs. Chen?"

"Boss, do you know Mrs. Chen?"

At this time, Chen Shufen is not the famous "Mrs. Chen" in the future. Although she is not Zhang Guorong's exclusive manager now, she can be said to be Zhang Guorong's exclusive manager. Few outsiders know her name.

"She and her husband, Chen Liuquan, are both senior executives of Huaxing Records, and they have a lot of power to speak."

"China Star Records is backed by Wireless TVB, the couple are very powerful..."

In fact, Huaxing Records was established not long ago. Five years after the establishment of TVB, TVB decided to establish Huaxing Entertainment Co., Ltd.In the beginning, Chen Shufen and Chen Liuquan were responsible for holding the concert.

It wasn't until a few years ago that the record department was established, and Zhang Guorong, the first singer with a manager contract who signed Huaxing Records, but at that time Huaxing mainly focused on recording TV series songs.

Although Huaxing Entertainment Co., Ltd. was established by Chen Shufen and her husband Chen Liuquan, the current general manager of Huaxing Records is Su Xiaoliang, and the music director is Li Xiaotian who has a close relationship with Zhang Guorong.

Chen Shufen, Chen Liuquan, Li Xiaotian and Su Xiaoliang, together with the image director Liu Peiji invited by Su Xiaoliang, constitute the main organization of Huaxing Records.

Rib, Zhen Ni, Zhang Guorong, Anita Mui, and future Zhang Xueyou, etc. in the Hong Kong music scene were all unique singers of Huaxing Records, which also gave Huaxing Records a fighting power in Hong Kong record companies.

Zhang Guorong was brought by Chen Shu from Li's TV station (now ATV) to TVB and Huaxing Records. He was the first manager contracted singer and Huaxing's first male singer.

Under her creation, Zhang Guorong quickly became popular in the music world, so if you want to do an exclusive interview with Zhang Guorong, you must first meet Chen Shufen for a while.

The office of Huaxing Records is located at the Lee Theater. In the early years, when someone came to collect samples, they had to go in through the front door of the theater lobby. Those who went there for the first time didn't know where they were, and they dared not go in.Later, when the location was changed, everyone had to go in through the back door of Lee Theater, and everyone was "going through the back door" for a long time.

After signing the contract, Anita Mui and Zhang Guorong often come to this office. If they need to record records, they will go to the Singtao Transsion Recording Studio in the North Point News Building.

As a subsidiary of TVB, it existed as early as 1971. Its original function was to hold concerts and release records for TVB.

In 1982, Huaxing and TVB co-organized a rookie contest, and a group of newcomers such as Anita Mui were selected, and the record department and manager department were established.

Before Huaxing Records, the record company and the manager company were separated. Huaxing merged the two into one, which was a win-win situation for the company and artists at the beginning.

Huaxing's background is TVB, so it has a good platform and resources. Its artists have the opportunity to appear on TV stations or participate in related TV programs, and the company can also fully control the commission part of the artist's income.

"Are there a lot of people today?"

Looking at the extraordinarily noisy Lee Stage, the banner outside Gu Xiayang said: "Today is the preliminary round of the Rookie Singing Contest?"

"Seems to be."

Wang Letai, who didn't care much about this kind of competition, led Gu Xiayang into the back door of the Lee Stage, and said, "After the rematch, we will probably know which ones are the hottest ones, and our magazine can also make predictions at that time."

During this period, there were numerous talent shows in Hong Kong. For example, Anita Mui came out of the Rookie Contest, Zhang Guoyi participated in the singing competition of Li TV, and Zhang Xueyou won the amateur singing competition in the [-] districts of Hong Kong.

Hearing this, Gu Xiayang smiled and said: "We will predict a champion for them at that time."

After entering the Lee Stage area, he took the elevator straight to Huaxing Records. Gu Xiayang failed to see Zhang Guorong, and shook hands with Chen Shufen slightly disappointed.

"Mr. Gu founded his own magazine at such a young age, he is really a formidable young man..." Chen Shufen did not because of Gu Xiayang's youth or "Cool!" "The name is unknown and indifferent, but with a warm smile on his face, very refreshing.

"Mrs. Chen is very complimentary. I have been admiring Huaxing Records for a long time, so this time I came to visit in person."

Seeing this one of the most prestigious gold medal managers in Hong Kong in the future, Chen Shufen gave Gu Xiayang the first impression of enthusiasm and intimacy.

When many people meet strangers for the first time, there is often a sense of resistance and alienation, but Chen Shufen, as one of the managers of Huaxing Records, has maintained a good professionalism, especially in the face of news like Gu Xiayang Practitioners.

If you can make good friends, try to make good friends.If you can't make friends, you can also avoid offending.Whether it is an artist or a practitioner in the entertainment industry, most of them are like this.

"Behind me, there is a woman who has greatly helped my career, and this woman is Chen Shufen."

Zhang Guorong said this sentence more than once in public, which shows that the relationship between the two is irreversible.

"Mrs. Chen, I don't like deviousness." Gu Xiayang said straight to the point: "For the first issue of our "Cool!" magazine, we hope that Zhang Guorong can be the first cover character, and we also hope that we can give him an exclusive interview. .”

"Of course, our reports will definitely have a positive image and will not be taken out of context."

"I heard that Zhang Guorong's Red Hall concert has been applied for, and he has signed several film contracts with New Art City. In terms of publicity, our magazine will be happy to help Huaxing in this regard in the future."

Seeing the eloquent and eloquent young man in front of him, Chen Shufen smiled even more, and said, "I didn't intend to refuse for him. As long as we don't deliberately discredit Leslie, we are happy to have more friends."

"There are still many places to deal with each other in the future. We are willing to make friends with Huaxing Company and artists, instead of planning to be an unscrupulous weekly gossip magazine."

Gu Xiayang knew that this matter was not difficult before meeting Chen Shufen. After all, Chen Shufen was not crazy enough to refuse a media to give you a cover or an exclusive interview, even if it was just established.

Otherwise, people will still find a photo and make a false report, which will really offend people. Maybe they will smear you, and the lawsuit will be delayed again and again, which is meaningless.

However, Zhang Guorong's personality is too straightforward, and it is easy to suffer immediate losses. Every time he does an interview, he will turn into a negative news because of one or two sincere words.

So Chen Shufen began to selectively arrange for him to do interviews. Over time, every interview had to be arranged by her, and she must be present. In many cases, she had to supplement Zhang Guoying's answers to avoid misunderstandings by reporters.

An artist can be the cover character of the first issue of a magazine, and the publication will do a detailed interview. This makes the magazine, and it is more friends and more paths for both of them.

We must know that from 1982 to 1988, Huaxing emerged suddenly with the support of TVB. In addition to organizing the annual Hong Kong Rookie Singing Contest to find talents, it also recruited a large number of superstars to join its group.

It won't take long for it to become the largest and most dynamic Chinese-funded record company in Hong Kong. Together with BMG, Polygram, Warner, and EMI, it will be called the top five record companies in Hong Kong, although the glory is not long.

Seeing that Zhang Guorong was not there, after Gu Xiayang and Chen Shu finalized the interview and shooting time, they left a business card and prepared to leave with Wang Letai.

At this moment, a staff member knocked on the door and came in and said, "Sister Chen, Director Li said that a few contestants who are paying attention to him are going to speak up immediately, and tell you to get down quickly."

This is not a secret, Chen Shufen nodded and said: "I'll come down right away."

"Mrs. Chen, is it the Rookie Singing Contest? Can I go to see it with you?" Gu Xiayang wanted to see if the Little Jew focused on the contestants.

"no problem."

Naturally, Chen Shufen didn't care, and took Gu Xiayang and Wang Letai to the scene of the Rookie Singing Contest on the Lee Stage.

(End of this chapter)