| Current mood: | excited - ウキウキ、ワクワク |
| Current music: | For Good- Idina Menzel; Kristin Chenoweth-Wicked: Original B |
shooting star?
I've entered this karaoke contest sponsored by Hiroshima City for their annual Flower Festival, which is held during Golden Week at the beginning of May. One of my sister Sayuri's English conversation students, Matsumoto-san, mentioned that I should enter a singing competition all the way back in November. I'd treated a few of my mom's friends to a little show at the Karaoke Kan. ^^; Originally, she had mentioned there being some kind of singing event just for foreigners, but I don't think she ever found any concrete info about that. Anyway, Matsumoto-san looked up the information about entering the Flower Festival Karaoke Contest and strongly encouraged me to participate. She had high hopes of me showcasing my Japanese singing skills. The committee took entries by postcard starting from March 5, and I sent mine in on March 6. Only the first 100 entrants have a chance to audition, and since I had no idea how popular (or not-so-popular) this contest was, I rushed to decide on a song to sing and send in my info. People had until March 21st to send in their information, and the audition is scheduled for Sunday, April 6. So the Flower Festival people had a couple of weeks or so to let us know which entrants got a spot reserved or not. I was number 13. So, yay! I got a spot for auditioning on this upcoming Sunday.
The song I'm singing is called "I Wanna Know" and the original artist is AI. Maybe you've (never) heard of her? The song is about wanting to know what's going on in the world, and how a little kindness can go a long way. I wanted to sing a song with meaning, and that's the first one that popped in my head. Anyway, here is the song. Check it out! Or not. ^^; If I need to do something to convert the file so you can hear it, let me know! I kind of altered the karaoke version I'm using to include AI's voice on some overlapping singing parts, but I was doing the cutting and pasting of the sound bytes with solely the aid of my ear and women's intuition. So it's not as awesome as it ought ot be. The timing's a little off in places, and I don't like that. I'm going to try to fix the unbalanced bits today and tomorrow. I have to go into Kure for an extremely rare, but not-at-all-awesome meeting at the BOE on Friday, and I'll just stay over in Hiroshima until Monday. So I have today and tomorrow to adjust my altered karaoke version of "I Wanna Know."
My host family is quite confident in my Japanese language abilities, and my host mom's leaving me to go to the audition aloooone while she goes cherry-blossom viewing. Sayuri will have started grad school by then, and she won't be able to while away a morning waiting for me to perform, either. Well, entrants numbers 1 through 50 actually audition in the morning from 11:00 until 1:00 (doing the first verse of their little songs), and I assume that entrants 51 through 100 do their bit from 2:00 until 4:00 the same afternoon. That doesn't really leave time for the judges to eat or urinate or anything that they might need to do other than listen to entrants. I don't know if one hundred people even entered. Maybe only 70 people entered, so the afternoon auditions that I'm imagining will be short and sweet. The postcard I received only talked about info for my group of entrants (entry numbers 1 through 50). Everyone who made the cut from the preliminary round(s) will have to perform again from 4:00 on. Regardless of whether or not I get bumped from the roster that morning, I've decided to take April 7th (the first day of school) off so that I don't have to worry about getting my stuff together and getting on the bus that Sunday. The audition is in an actual recording studio, I think, or maybe it's just a stage. (It says, "Satellite Studio", but you never know...) Crossing my fingers for a recording studio. That seems more fun somehow. From the proposed 100 contest entrants, ten people will be selected to perform on stage during the Flower Festival in early May. They also have an enka section and a live band section, which will be auditioning on different days. No matter the result, I'm looking forward to the audition and seeing people on-stage during Golden Week! ^_____^
So, if you happen to think about the Janitha sometime this weekend, say a little prayer for me~~. Or just wing a "good luck!" my way, please. I'm practicing at home and at my favorite karaoke box when I get the chance.
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