新聞★Shoot me? I still won't say sorry 96/5/16
Being blunt cost Taiwanese singer Yang Pei An other jobs, but he vows he
won't change... that much
By Wendy Teo
May 16, 2007
IT is probably just as well that Taiwanese singer Yang Pei An finally landed
his first recording deal at the ripe old age of 35.
For, after a decade of singing at pubs, he was so disillusioned by pandering
to the patrons' song requests that he was starting to pick fights with them.
Speaking to The New Paper during his promotional trip here last Friday, Pei
An recalled how he nearly came to blows with one drunk patron.
The man was hugging everyone in the pub, including complete strangers.
'Nobody dared to stand up to him because he was drunk,' said Pei An. 'So I
spoke into my microphone and told him to stop making a nuisance of himself.'
MOCKED HIM
The man was furious at being publicly humiliated and confronted PeiAn,
demanding that the entertainer sing the songs he requested.
'Because he was drunk, he wrote one of the words wrongly. I knew what he
meant, but I deliberately mocked his grasp of the language.
'He was so angry that he reached into his shirt and yelled that he was going
to shoot me.'
Pei An had no idea whether the man had a gun or not, but stubbornly refused
to apologise.
In the end, the man's friend ended the confrontation by dragging him away.
Pei An admitted: 'I think my band (at the pub) and my boss were actually
relieved when I quit. I had so much frustration festering inside me that I
was being a brat.'
For a year after he quit the pub, PeiAn became an event manager of sorts,
coordinating gigs for other acts.
Unfortunately, his blunt nature meant that career move also went nowhere.
'I was very adamant about the way I did business - 60per cent of my deals
fell through because I refused to compromise.'
Luckily for Pei An, he bumped into an old friend in a hotel lobby about this
time. The friend was now working as a music producer and asked Pei An to
submit a demo tape.
After hearing it, his friend's boss signed on Pei An immediately - without
even asking about his looks or his age.
'When I was younger, I dreamt of cutting albums. But after numerous
rejections, I thought I was never going to be accepted as a mainstream singer
because I was neither good-looking nor very talented musically.
'I only know how to sing, honestly. I don't have any formal music training, I
can't read notes, I can't play any instrument at all.
'All I have is my voice.'
By then, after seeing his peers - VanFan, Julia Pang and rock band Shin -
land recording deals one after the other, Pei An's hopes had dimmed.
'I had met a lot of recording company bigwigs during my pub singing career,
but none of them have ever contacted me with an offer.'
He thought he would never stand a chance until that fateful reunion with his
well-connected old pal nearly two years ago. He hasn't looked back since.
Pei An has been likened to late singer Chang Yusheng and boasts an impressive
three-octave vocal range.
Such power pipes have also led to him being nicknamed Iron Lungs by the
Taiwanese media.
His debut album, Me At 2.30am, lasted 19 weeks on the Taiwanese sales charts,
while his second album, Yang Pei An II, made it into the HMV Top Ten here in
less than a week.
Despite his unexpected success, PeiAn says he's still very much his stubborn
old self.
He still drives around in his 20-year-old second-hand car.
'This is what I can afford within my current means - what's wrong with it? I
certainly don't want to be keeping up appearances just for the sake of it.'
PRICKLY
But one concession he has since made is to rein in his hot temper.
Acknowledging that a prickly nature can kill a career in showbiz, Pei An
said: 'I can be tactful if I want to... Ultimately, I still cannot betray
myself.'
◎楊培安照片：His debut album topped the charts in Taiwan for 19 weeks, but
Pei An still drives a 20-year-old second-hand car. -- Picture: MOHD ISHAK
◎網址：
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/show/story/0,4136,130548,00.html
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新聞★（翻譯）開槍殺了我？我仍然不會說抱歉… 96/5/16
也許幸好台灣歌手楊培安在35歲的高齡終於發行了他的第一張專輯。
因為，在pub駐唱十年之後，他對於迎合客人的點歌要求是如此心灰意冷，使他開始想要
與他們對抗。
上星期五在他首次來本地做宣傳與The New Paper的訪談中，培安回想起了他如何差點與
一位酒醉的客人打起來的往事。
這醉鬼在pub緊緊擁抱了每個人，包括陌生人。
「因為他喝醉了沒有人敢去惹他」培安說：「所以我用我的麥克風對他說不要再令自己討
人厭了」
嘲弄他
這醉鬼面對培安如此公然羞辱感到很憤怒，要求台上表演者演唱他的點歌。
「因為他喝醉了，他寫錯了其中一個字，我知道他的意思，但是我故意嘲弄了他語言的理
解力」
「他是如此生氣地伸手進他的襯衫而且大吼他要開槍殺了我」
培安不知道這醉鬼是否真有一把槍，但是倔強地拒絕道歉。
最後，這醉鬼的朋友將他拉走結束了僵局。
培安承認：「我想當我辭職不幹時，我在pub的樂團及老闆確實鬆了一口氣，我有如此多
挫折令我內心深感痛苦，使我成為一個被寵壞的孩子」
在他辭掉pub工作一年後，培安成為一位表演活動的接案經紀人。
不幸地，他直率的性情也意謂著這份職業沒有出路。
「我非常堅持我工作的方式－因為我拒絕妥協，因此我的交易百分之六十失敗了」
培安很幸運地，他此時在一間飯店大廳巧遇了一位老朋友，這位朋友現在是一位音樂經紀
人而且要培安交一捲demo帶給他。
在聽過了demo帶之後，他朋友的老闆立刻簽下了培安－甚至沒有詢問他的長相或年齡。
「當我年輕時，我曾夢想出唱片，但在經過多次拒絕後，我想我不可能再成為一位流行歌
手，因為我長得不帥也不是在音樂方面非常有才華」
「我只知道如何唱歌，老實說，我沒有受過任何正規音樂訓練，我不會樂理，我不會彈奏
任何樂器」
「我唯一擁有的就是我的聲音」
在當時，看到他的好朋友們－范逸臣、彭佳慧及搖滾樂團「信樂團」－一個接著一個相繼
出了唱片，培安覺得希望渺茫了。
我在我的pub駐唱生涯曾經遇見過很多唱片公司大老闆，但他們沒有一位與我接觸過合約
的事情。
他認為他不會再有任何機會，直到近兩年前那次與他感情很好的老朋友的宿命相遇，從此
他沒再回頭看。
培安被認為聲線近似已故歌手張雨生，而且擁有三個八度音的寬廣音域。
如此具有力量的聲音也被台灣媒體暱稱為「鐵肺王子」。
他的首張專輯，午夜兩點半的我，曾在台灣銷售排行榜停留了19週之久，而他的第二張專
輯，楊培安II，已經打入本地的HMV Top Ten至少一週以上。
儘管他意外地成功了，培安說他仍然非常堅持原有的自我。
他仍然開著車齡有20年之久的二手車。
「這是我目前收入負擔得起的－它有什麼問題嗎？我確定我不想僅為了這個緣故而去維持
光鮮亮麗的外在」
易怒地
但他曾做過的一個讓步是去控制他暴躁的脾氣。
承認易怒的個性會扼殺在娛樂圈的工作，培安說：「如果想要…我可以變得比較世故圓滑
，但最終我仍不能出賣我自己。」
圖：他的首張專輯曾在台灣銷售排行榜停留了19週之久，但培安仍然開著一輛車齡20年之
久的二手車。
(SINGAPORE-THE ELECTRIC NEW PAPER)
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◎網址：
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/show/story/0,4136,130548,00.html
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