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附錄：水木年華盧庚戌演講稿
為夢而生
Live For My Dreams
Good Evening Ladies and Gentleman, I’m Lu Gengxu.
It’s my pleasure to be here to share with you about my new movie “Forever Young”. This movie is about a group of Chinese college students who were born in the 1970’s. It’s about pursuing love and dreams through music. In this movie, you will get to see me. So the theme of my speech today is Live for My Dreams.
Everyone has dreams. However, not everyone could accomplish them. I’m really lucky that so far all my three dreams have come true.
My first dream was to get into the best university in China, which I did, by getting admitted to a top one, the Tsinghua University in beijing. After college, then came the second dream, I wanted to be a singer. Now I got the third,my movie dream.
Of course, none of these dreams came easy, especially the second one. Even now I still wonder sometimes how a person with no vocal talent like I was then could become a professional singer,well, who else could not? So here is how it all began.
In 1989, I got into the Tsinghua University to study architecture. Everyone in Tsinghua studied hard. But what I wanted was to Find-A-Girlfriend.
However, in Tsinghua, finding a girlfriend was very very hard. At that time, the boy-to-girl ratio on campus was six to one, meaning on average, there were six guys running after one girl regardless of how she looked.
So what could I do? I realized at that time campus singers were very popular. Each of them had a girlfriend, a good-looking one. Thus, I decided to become a campus singer.
I bought a guitar and started practicing everyday. I practiced in the morning after waking up, after lunch and even after self-study sessions at night. Well, as you know, my voice was bad back then. At last, my roommates couldn’t take it anymore. They threw me out along with my guitar.
But I am a persistent man . So I changed my practice place. I chose the washroom where acoustics was excellent .I remembered clearly that once a student came to me, patted my shoulder and said slowly: other singers sing for money, but you sing to take lives, you are killing us. Well at last, some one threw beer bottles at me and I ran away.
Even after all these, I was still very persistent. I continued my practice at the lawn. Just like that, my whole freshman year passed in practicing my guitar . In my sophomore year, there was a “Campus Singing Competition”. With no hesitation, I signed up for it. And of course, the result was brutal. The judges thought my singing was too bad. I didn’t even get into the final round.
But, what was my biggest strength again? Yes, persistence. In my junior year, I became smarter. I teamed up with a friend who took care of the singing part. And I just played the guitar and sang the chorus with him. In this way, we won the second place of the competition. And the next year, I found one lead singer and one chorus singer. And for me, I only played the guitar . So what was the result? We won ! And the lead singer is right here. He is Jason Wei.
Just like that, I headed towards my music dream and spent my shining bright college time in the Tsinghua University.
I made a decision in my graduation year, I wanted to become a singer. To my surprise, my parents were totally against this idea. My dad even warned to kick me out. However, I was really confident back then. I told my parents: give me one more year and I surely would be famous.
Well I was wrong. From 1994 to 2000, I sent all the songs I wrote to record companies, but no one responded. Once I got a call from a record company and I was so excited .I biked half a day to get there just to find out that they only wanted to buy one of my songs and they had no interest in signing me on.
Time passed by. Some of my friends went abroad, and others started their own businesses. But for me, I gave up a great career in architecture, lived in an old and shabby apartment and even got starved sometimes. Everyone asked “What do you want? Are you crazy?”
Later I met Mr. Chen--a famous producer by chance . Back then he just opened a record company in Beijing. He was the only one that I hadn’t sent my songs to. After carefully listening, he gave really high marks to my songs. And I thought,well, this time, maybe it would all work out.
Unfortunately, he then said that both my singing skills and my voice were bad . I wasn’t born with the talents needed for a singer. My mind suddenly blanked out. Still I did not want to give up. I asked him: is there really no possibility at all? And he said, in my forty years’ experience, not at all. Before I left, I told him that I would practice more and come back later. He said “you are the most stubborn person I’ve ever met in my whole life”.
After I got home, I spent two days self debating: should I quit or continue? I was 27 then. My singer friends were already famous when they were 27, like Lao Lang, Zheng Jun, Gao Xiaosong. But I still needed to catch up with the singing basics. I might have been too old, but on the other hand, I was thinking, how many times in one’s life can he pursue, with no hesitation?
I chose to continue.
In my earnest pursuit I found a vocal trainer and started an unusual vocal practice. It was the Pharyngeal Vocal Exercise. Simply put, it’s about mimicking sounds of animals. So I exercised my voice day and night. Later on, my friends all got used to my sudden YELL OUT when we were together. So how was my practice like later? Well, every day at sunset , I mimicked dog barking . At first I wasn’t that good so it was only me barking all the time. But I got better,and half a year later, every time I barked, all the dogs in the village barked with me.
Two years later, I borrowed some money from my parents, to produce my own album. I told my mom: This is my last chance. If I fail, I’ll quit. But if I never try it, I’d never get my mind off it. So I used the money to produce my very first album, my first step towards my music dream. In 2001, my song “You are Always by My Side” made a big hit , and I became an influential singer in China.
This is about my music dream. There’s a line in the movie that I want to share with you: In our whole life, at least there are two times when we should devote ourselves without any hesitation: One for our love and the other for our dreams.
Thank you all. Now please enjoy the movie.
