Those international giants would not do this kind of business. After evaluating it, they knew very well that the value of this kind of shoes is much greater than this number in the future, so they did not accept Ouyang Zhenhua's opinions. Finally, after negotiation with Naike, they got a compromise plan. Naike paid for the R&D funds themselves, but Ouyang Zhenhua had to order 20 pairs of such shoes for US$50,000 per pair.

In other words, Naike wants to get a return of $1 million first. Even if it is not satisfactory, Ouyang Zhenhua can only accept this. After all, Chen Kangjie urgently needs such shoes. Otherwise, he could invest in such research and development by himself, but it would take a long time to do it by himself, and Chen Kangjie couldn't wait.

Just when Ouyang Zhenhua ordered shoes for Chen Kangjie, something big happened. Feiyang Entertainment received an invitation letter from the National Academy of Recording Arts & Science, inviting LONG and the 38th Grammy Music Awards held in Los Angeles on February 14, 1995.

The Grammy Awards are known as the "Oscars in the Music Industry". It began in 1957. The first Grammy Awards were awarded in 1958. After that, the Recording Society held an award ceremony every year.

Although the Grammy Music Awards are an award in the American record industry, it has now become one of the most influential music awards in the world. The Grammy in the music industry is like the Oscars in the film industry. Although it has undoubtedly been marked by American culture, most musicians around the world are still proud of being able to win this old gramophone.

The reason why Grammys can be talked about by musicians around the world is that in addition to the United States has always been the center of global pop music and represents the high level of pop music, there are three reasons.

First of all, its authority. The American Recording Society is an institution composed of many senior musicians. It has set up 12 regional branches and a producer and engineer branch across the United States. Currently, there are more than 10,000 members, including singers, performers, lyricists, composers, conductors, photographers, commentators, and music video producers. However, only those who have at least 6 works published are eligible to hold this position. People who do not have real talents and lack persistent pursuit of the music career generally cannot join the jury. The jury composed of so many senior professionals will naturally be trusted by music lovers.

Secondly, its fairness. The selection of Grammy Music Awards has a very strict system and procedures. The recommended works must be selected from the year. After the works are recommended, they must first be screened and confirmed by more than 150 experts from various fields of the music industry, and then classified. In addition to works that need to be voted by the special nomination committee, all works that pass the primary election must be sent to the judges for the first round of voting, but each judge can only select 9 items of their own specialty to vote. Of course, they also have to vote for 4 awards for the year, namely, album of the year, song of the year and newcomer of the year. The list after the initial evaluation will be submitted to the judges for the second round of voting. In addition to the 4 basic awards, each judge can only choose 8 awards for voting. These strict measures effectively ensure the fairness of the selection.

The third is its wide influence. The Grammy Awards were not very famous at the beginning of its release. It was TV that helped. Not only did the Grammy’s original stereotyped award ceremony turn into a colorful music program, but it also greatly increased the international popularity of the Grammy Music Awards by broadcasting to the world. A large number of European and American music superstars took to the stage to perform. In addition, the stage art and technical means that Americans are good at using, the Grammy Awards ceremony became an entertainment event that was popular all over the world. The 44th Grammy Awards Gala attracted about 1.7 billion viewers from 170 countries around the world to watch. The Grammy Awards Ceremony went to the world and made great contributions to the Grammy Music Awards becoming a widely accepted award by musicians around the world.

In 1994, Feiyang Entertainment recommended Chen Kangjie's first English album "youarebeautiful" to the National Audio Recording and Science Society of the United States.

During the selection process of the Grammy Awards, it is mainly recommended by the judges, but the number of music products released every year is too large, so the judges cannot cover everything. In order to avoid the shock of the remains, various record companies can also recommend some of the works that their artists have been ignored to the Grammy during the nomination stage.

I don’t know if Chen Kangjie’s “luck” is not very good or other well-known reasons. He is a person who is missed and the nomination time is about to end. Fan Wenxuan and Chen Kangjie’s producers have not received any news that Chen Kangjie’s album was nominated.

As a last resort, Fan Wenxuan and the others had to take the initiative to recommend it, and the result was not bad. They won four nominations, Best New Artist, Best RB Song, Best Instrumental Composition, and Non-Classical Producer of The Year.

The four awards have only the first focus and belong to one of the four general awards. The other three general awards are Record Of The Year, Album Of The Year, and Song Of The Year. The other three awards are not that heavy. Moreover, the last nominated award has little to do with Chen Kangjie, which is mainly aimed at Jeff Casey and Safta Jaffery.

Because Chen Kangjie just debuted in the music industry, it is reasonable to say that singing awards such as Best Pop Vocal Performance and Best Rock Phoenix (Best Male Rock Vocal Performance) cannot be nominated for singing awards, how can the albums that sweep the world's major rankings not even nominated for Best Record, Best Album of the Year, and Best Single of the Year.

This has to be said that Grammys are indeed not affected by the rankings. They mainly consider technology and art, because the judges are all professionals and not ordinary fans. Moreover, it is still unknown whether Chen Kangjie can win the award, because the Grammy Awards were announced on the spot at the award ceremony. Before that, only the staff responsible for managing the envelopes of the accounting firm Deloitte Touche (Deloitte Consulting Company) had the opportunity to know that Deloitte, together with PwC, KPMG, and Ernst & Young belonged to the world's four largest accounting firms, and their reputation was guaranteed. The judges' votes were delivered to them by email and obtained the results of the award on the day of the award.

"Mr. Jie, do you want to go to this award ceremony?" After Chen Kangjie finished his full-day training, he lay lazily on the bed, Ouyang Zhenhua called him.

"What am I going to do? I can't afford to lose that person. This is an honor for the Chinese, but it is not for me personally. You don't know that before that, only Yo-Yo Ma won the Grammy Award, and it was a performance award. Yo-Yo Ma is not a Chinese nationality. Do you think I can win the award?" Chen Kangjie said indifferently.

"Mr. Jie, you mean you can't win an award, no, right?" Ouyang Zhenhua felt that this was a bit unlikely. After all, Chen Kangjie's album is too popular. So far, more than 63 million copies have been sold worldwide.

"That may not be, but the possibility of winning is small. If I really can win the award, I should be nominated by the judges in the nomination stage. How could I have to wait until the company recommends it? Could it be that they really missed it? Now in the West, few people don't know my album, but they are just like they haven't seen it. You are a person in the music industry. Isn't that strange?" Chen Kangjie asked with a clear idea.

"I am not a person in the music industry. I am just a half-baked person. Besides, that happened several years ago. I have been out of the music industry for five or six years." Ouyang Zhenhua is now a person in the business and financial industry. His experience at Rolling Stones was no longer taken seriously by him.

"Haha, yes, that's what happened before."

"Young Master Jie, what you mean is the racial discrimination of the judges. Because you are Chinese, you exclude you." Ouyang Zhenhua did not continue to joke with Chen Kangjie, but asked seriously.

"In Western traditions, we actually don't look down on Chinese people very much. Of course, we are not saying that most people discriminate and prejudiced against us. Objectively speaking, there are a few who have discrimination and prejudice." Speaking of this, Chen Kangjie changed his tone, "However, most of them must be unacceptable to the Eastern people entering their core areas. This discomfort will inevitably lead to some kind of rejection. In the fields of pop culture and pop music, Western musicians have always been Western musicians, and cultural people are in control. I suddenly broke in, and the results have been quite good. Do you think they can adapt? Can they have no idea?"

"If it were me, I wouldn't be able to adapt," Ouyang Zhenhua answered truthfully, "Then what you mean is that you can't win a certain prize in this."

"Actually, it doesn't matter whether I win or not. All I want is the fans. I'm very open about the awards. The legends in the music industry such as Queens and Diana Ross (Diana Ross, who have 18 championship songs), have never won the Grammy Award. What's so strange about me?" Chen Kangjie has always been very open about these awards.

Chen Kangjie's current state of mind has been separated from the stage of pursuing fame by winning awards. He dare not say that he is extraordinary, but indeed he has taken those personal honors in his heart.

"As long as you say, you really won't participate, don't experience it." Ouyang Zhenhua said temptingly.

"I won't go anymore, let JeffCasey and SaftaJaffery be representatives. Anyway, they have nominated this time, so Fan Wenxuan can go. If I can really win one and a half awards miraculously, she will lead me. You can just make up the reason for not going." Chen Kangjie's decision rarely changes.
Chapter completed!