Entertaining Children

  Chapter 590 Father and Son on the same stage

   After Xiao Yao’s whistle and the piano sound stopped together, the chasing light above his head went out, and the main light above the stage was also lit up, and the whole stage regained its brightness.

   "Thank you!" Xiao Yao took off the microphone from the microphone stand in one hand, and took the saxophone in the other hand. He walked to the side of the microphone stand and bowed to the audience.

   There was a burst of warm applause from the audience. Similar to the last time when Xiao Yao performed "When You Are Old" on this stage, many audience members stood up from their seats, some of them had red eyes with tears on the corners of their eyes. Everyone was just applauding silently, and there was no cheering or screaming.

"Thank you, the band teacher!" Xiao Yao thanked Liu Tong and other live band members on the side of the stage. After handing over the saxophone in his hand to the staff who walked onto the stage and took the microphone stand, he turned to use the free one. He pointed his finger at the saxophone player who was standing on the stage behind him, who had not yet left the stage, and said, "I would also like to thank Mr. Shuokai on the stage, a great saxophone player!"

Although this saxophone player named "Shuokai" was found by the show team to help Xiao Yao, he was not invited by Xiao Yao himself, but since he appeared on the stage with him, Xiao Yao thought it would be better to thank him alone. .

Turning around, Shuo Kai also bowed to the audience. After leaving the stage, Xiao Yao went on to introduce the next singer's competition song: "The next singer will bring you a Chinese song. The classic old song in the music industry, "Iris" sung by Gao Wei, a senior in the music industry. I just counted it. When this song was most popular, I didn't seem to be born yet. This should be a classic song that everyone remembers deeply. , But the singer who will appear next has made a relatively large adaptation of the arrangement of this song, which I believe will definitely bring you a whole new feeling. Applause, please invite the next singer to appear!"

  The audience, led by Xiao Yao, gave a round of applause to the next singer. The lights above the stage dimmed, and the back-to-front spotlights in the exit aisle at the back of the stage turned on, which also attracted most of the audience's attention to the singers. At this time, not many people noticed that Xiao Yao, who introduced the next singer, did not walk off the stage from the front side of the stage as usual, but quietly retreated to the side and back of the stage.

  Stepping out of the stage aisle, Xiao Siqi walked directly to the front of the stage, smiling and bowing to the audience. At the same time, in the darker area in the middle of the stage, a group of staff also ran up quickly and quickly started preparations.

  Seeing Xiao Siqi's appearance, the audience also greeted Xiao Siqi's appearance with a round of applause and cheers.

  Xiao Siqi straightened up and waved to the audience, then turned and looked at the stage behind him. Unlike the audience in the audience, where he is standing, he can clearly see the preparation of the band behind him.

  The lights around the outside of the stage changed their colors, reminding everyone that the preparations have been done and the performance will begin immediately. The audience at the scene calmed down. Xiao Siqi turned to face the audience, turned his head and nodded in the direction of the band conductor Liu Tong, indicating that he could start.

   "Woo~" Liu Tong, who is in charge of the live band conductor, waved his hands, and a flute rang. The sound of the flute is soft and melodious, giving people a quiet and gentle feeling all at once.

  Shortly after the "ding~" flute sounded, another special sound rang, adding to the melodious flute sound.

"Boom, Ding Ding~ Ding, Ding~ Ding dong Ding dong..." The newly added instrument is a percussion instrument, which is more rhythmic than the flute sound, and the sound is exquisite and translucent, and it sounds not only soft and warm, but also sound There is also a particularly ethereal feeling.

"The prelude is really nice, and it feels more flavorful than the original. I just don't know what instrument the sound behind it is." Such a special prelude, especially the sound of the ethereal and unfamiliar instrument, caught the audience all at once. The ears of the audience.

  At the end of the prelude, Xiao Siqi also raised the microphone to his mouth and began to sing.

  This is a very famous classic old song in this world. The audience is familiar with it, but when Xiao Siqi sang it, he did hear a different taste.

  This song is the most popular typical lyrical song in the 1990s, and it is also the characteristic of Xiao Siqi's early debut. Xiao Siqi's adaptation of this time, on the basis of retaining the characteristics of the original song's lyrical song, changed the song to be more "big", both in the soundtrack and in the singing, it appears very profound and far-reaching.

  Actually, it is not the first time that Xiao Yao has appeared on stage for this kind of style adaptation. As early as when Xiao Yao participated in the first stage of the show, which was the first round of the kick-off competition, Xiao Siqi added the ocarina soundtrack to the arrangement of the song he performed, and also invited the ocarina master Cao Zhongyun to live. Accompaniment. It’s just that Xiao Siqi’s adaptation was a pop rock song, and the chorus kept the original excitement of that song. It’s not as thorough and vivid as this adaptation.

  After the chorus of the first part is sung, there is an interlude in the middle of the song. The flute sound similar to the melody of the prelude part sounded again, Xiao Siqi also put down the microphone raised to his lips, turned and walked towards the middle of the stage.

  "Boom, Ding Ding~ Ding, Ding~ Ding Ding Ding Ding..." Soon after the flute sounded, the unusually ethereal instrument sound also rang again. And as Xiao Siqi gradually walked to the middle of the stage, the lights in the area where the musicians were on the stage gradually turned from dim to bright!

  As the lights in the upper middle of the stage come on, the live audience and the singers watching the live broadcast in the lounge can also see the musicians in that area. The most eye-catching thing is the musician who sits in the middle of a chair and keeps tapping an instrument resting on his legs with his hands.

   "I'm going! Is that Xiao Yao?" The audience and the singers in the lounge suddenly widened their eyes.

  Although the singer in the middle position is lowering his head and tapping the instrument on his leg, from the clothing point of view, it is clearly Xiao Yao, the host who just finished the performance. Many audiences subconsciously looked to the front of the stage, and found that when the previous singers sang, the position where Xiao Yao was standing under the stage watching was really empty. As a result, many audience members confirmed that the musician on stage was Xiao Yao.

It seems that he felt Xiao Siqi walking to his side. Xiao Yao slowly raised his head while playing. The camera mounted on the rocker arm immediately pushed forward to give a close-up shot of the singers in the lounge watching the live broadcast. I also clearly saw that the musician playing the weird instrument was indeed Xiao Yao.

   "Wow~" The audience and other singers watching the live exclaimed in a low voice.

  Since Xiao Yao appeared in this show as a kick-club singer, the competition between the Xiao family and his son has always been a big attraction. Although the two people compete with each other in the show, both live audiences and TV audiences are also looking forward to the father and son performing on the same stage.

According to the program rules, both the regular season and the breakout match are solo singers, and guests cannot be invited to sing in a chorus, so unless one of the two is boring or shameless ran to the other's lineup of harmony singers to become a harmony singer. Otherwise, if you want to see father and son sing on the same stage, at least it will be possible to get the help of singing in the first round of the final. The audience is also looking forward to both of these two being able to enter the finals of this season, and then in the first round of the finals you will help me sing, I will help you sing, and I will sing two choruses, just like that. If I think about it, I find it very interesting.

  However, since Xiao Yao appeared in Liang Xueying's performance as a live electronic DJ, the audience also thought of another possible way for the father and son to perform on the same stage. Xiao Siqi and Xiao Yao are not and have never been harmony singers. It is a bit boring and shameless to be a harmony singer for each other on the show, but both of them can play musical instruments, if they are on the show. It's not that unacceptable to be a musician and accompany the other party on the spot. Just like Xiao Yao doing the live electronic DJ for Liang Xueying, it is completely acceptable.

  According to the identities of the two, most people guess that it is mostly Xiao Siqi who will accompany Xiao Yao. Although Xiao Yao's reputation as an evildoer is not inferior to Xiao Siqi's performance in this program, the majority of people still think that Xiao Siqi is better than Xiao Yao's son in terms of musical instrument performance. But what everyone didn't expect was that when the father and son performed on the same stage for the first time, it was the son Xiao Yao who came to help Lao Zi Xiao Siqi as the live accompaniment.

   "What is the thing that Xiao Yao knocked on?" After the surprise that Xiao Yao appeared in the stage musicians, many people's attention was focused on the strange instrument on Xiao Yao's leg.

   "It looks like two pot lids are closed, it looks a bit like a flying saucer, is that sound made by this thing?" Some viewers wondered in their hearts.

  Xiao Siqi asked Xiao Yao as the live accompaniment, not for his father and son on the same stage, but he felt that, including himself, there was no better choice than Xiao Yao among the people he knew. In terms of instrument performance, Xiao Siqi could be ashamed of himself, and could not find a better musical instrument than Xiao Yao. It could only be a new instrument in this world that Xiao Yao himself invented-the hand disc.

  At present, the hand-disc production company of Xiao Yao and Ake Robinson has not been established for a long time, and there are not many pieces of this kind of musical instrument in total. Several singers and musicians who had ordered a hand-disc from Xiao Yao at the backstage of Donghai TV's New Year's Eve party did not take long to get their instruments, and they were still in the stage of learning. Xiao Siqi is the person who has owned this instrument for the second longest time, and he doesn't even dare to say that he has mastered it completely. He can perform perfectly in public performances, let alone other people. Therefore, in addition to Xiao Yao, Xiao Siqi does not have a better choice.

Since playing once at the New Year’s Eve party of Donghai TV this year, Xiao Yao himself has recorded several hand-disc performance videos and put them on the Internet. He has never played publicly on other occasions. Other people who have this instrument include Xiao Siqi. They are still in the groping and learning stage, and they will not perform public performances, so this kind of instrument has not really become popular yet. This is the second time that Xiao Yao has played a hand-disc in a TV show, so it is normal for some people on the scene to not recognize this instrument.

  Of course, the influence of Donghai TV’s New Year’s Eve party is not small. There are also people in the audience who have seen and remembered the instrument Xiao Yao played, but they will not and will not have the opportunity to do science popularization to people who don’t know. So whether you know it or not, you can only temporarily press your surprise and curiosity about the instrument in Xiao Yao's hand, and focus your attention on the father and son on the stage.

  Xiao Yao raised his head to look at his father Xiao Siqi on the side, and Xiao Siqi also happened to look down at Xiao Yao who was playing. Both are smiling. Judging from the interaction of their eyes, they are not like a father and son, but more like a pair of like-minded friends in music. When the live director put the close-up shots of the two people's eyes captured by the camera on the big screen, the audience burst into enthusiastic applause.

The   Interlude part ended, Xiao Yao's hands fluttering on the instrument also stopped, Xiao Siqi also ended the interaction with Xiao Yao, and began to sing the back part of the song. While singing, Xiao Siqi also walked towards the front of the stage again, and the light above the area where Xiao Yao was also dimmed again.

  In the second half of the song, the ethereal voice of the hand-disc will also occasionally sound. In conjunction with Xiao Siqi's singing, it will further bring the feeling of emptiness to the audience.

  After the singing part, Xiao Siqi's performance was not over yet, and the ethereal voice of the hand-disc was ringing at the scene. Xiao Siqi also turned around again and walked to the middle of the stage.

  The light above the middle of the stage lights up again. Everyone was surprised to find that there was an extra chair beside Xiao Yao, on which there was another strange instrument in the shape of a flying saucer that Xiao Yao was playing.

   "Is it?" the audience thought excitedly.

  Sure enough, Xiao Siqi inserted the microphone in his hand into the microphone stand with a short rod in front of the chair, and took the instrument with both hands and sat on the chair. After Xiao Siqi sat down, he put the hand-disc he was holding on his lap, and also stretched out his hands to knock on the hand-disc, and began to play.

  Two ethereal hand-disc sounds sounded at the scene, and the audience felt even more special.

  Xiao Siqi and Xiao Yao are both playing hand discs, and they both turned their heads and looked at each other with smiles, but their hands were different. Judging from the proficiency, fluency, and frequency of percussion, it is obvious that Xiao Yao is the main one of the two, and Xiao Siqi is only cooperating with Xiao Yao in assisting performances.

  Nevertheless, the audience saw Xiao Siqi and Xiao Yao sitting side by side playing the same musical instrument and performing on the same stage with such a beautiful picture. They also gave out a burst of excitement and applause.

  (End of this chapter)