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| 当代灵魂演唱人 |
很有性格的齐藤静惠是音谷贝特的第一代演唱人。她的声色沉重而特别，就像咖啡，越喝越浓。然而，她在音谷贝特扮演着的并不是只有演唱人那么简单……
静惠这个名字听起来一定是非常陌生，但是当你听到SAITO这个名字时，你就会知道这个人在沙大乐坛里曾经是风云人物。爸爸是日本人;妈妈是马来西亚华侨的她一直以来都非常光荣自己的身份。也许是特别；也许是她人生里的其中一个特征。SAITO从小就喜欢唱歌，不管是中文歌，或是英文日语歌，也或者韩国歌，她都能够轻松掌握。只能说她是一个语文能力非常强的演唱人。
虽然说SAITO喜欢唱歌，但她却没有学过真正的声乐。她是靠着听专业歌者的演唱技巧而慢慢把自己的声乐设定起来。一切说起来，她对学唱歌的欲望是非一般的高，所以才照就今天的成就。除此之外，SAITO也学会了弹钢琴的技巧，虽然不是她的强项，但她还是能够弹出许多乐曲。
大学时期的SAITO很顺利的在第一届沙大中华晚会试音面试里脱颖而出，获得当时担当评审的学长们青睐，让她终于在千百人的面前表演。她述说，当时唱的歌是邓丽君金曲，歌唱表演是数十位的沙大演唱人一起合作。由于时间有限，SAITO的出列时间并没有很长，加上SAITO自己本身并没有在当晚演绎得特好，所以当下她给自己的评语是需要更多的时间和技巧来磨练自己。值得一提的是，她还是很满意当晚自己的表现。
就那一次，她开始喜欢上了原创歌曲，她喜欢唱着朋友一起写的歌和曲，因为她觉得原唱者就像是歌曲的根，扎得好就能够把歌曲捧上台，甚至有机会在大学里发表。于是，她答应了要求，在音谷贝特里担当演唱人一职。
在音谷贝特成立后的日子，SAITO开始有机会表演，也预期所料，她把原创搬上舞台，而这一次的表演就在沙大中秋灯笼晚会，她非常满意自己的表演。她说，这是因为大家的努力，才让自己的表演在当天如此成功。她补充说，虽然是音谷贝特第一次的表演，当时也有很多事并未完全组织起来，但是在过程中，她享受着大家一起练习演唱原创歌曲的乐趣。
从此，她就是音谷贝特里的第一代演唱人。如果没有她，原创的歌就没有了灵魂。而现在，她虽然再也没有沙大里演出，但她现在还为音谷贝特做着文书类似的幕后工作，她凭着会员们的每次报告以及元老们的意见，把文书一篇篇整理好，留在属于音谷贝特的电子笔记本里。她在音谷贝特有着音谷代表人物的称号，那是因为SAITO永远都是以热诚去催促会员记得要出席列常活动的那个人。
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| SAITO永远都是以热诚去催促会员记得要出席列常活动的那个人。 |
后记：原来齐藤静惠就是她啊！小记其实有点晃然大悟原因是，跟她同一间系院三年现在才发现她的名字就叫齐藤静惠。2014年的盆踊日本节，近距离看着她演唱“后来”的日语版本，她一点也不怯场，甚至还有很多观众和她一起合唱高举双手，共鸣得很。也许，她就是个自学演唱家，天才般的自学演唱家。
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| 如果日子允许的话，她希望音谷要更早成立，把地基打得稳一点，那么今天的音谷贝特就会是比现在更强的音谷贝特。 |
She has a
distinctive character. She has a unique but profound voice. She is among one of
the most outstanding vocalist we ever have.
Saito Sizue- this name might
sounds familiar to you. She is very proud with her identify of mixed race of
Japanese and Chinese. Due to her identify, perhaps, her presence is always
attentive to the people around her. You might not know her well enough if you
never realize that she is so talented in singing. Since her early childhood,
singing has become her utmost interest. Markedly, she has a good grasp on songs
of different languages ranged from Mandarin, English, Japanese and Korean.
Surprisingly, Saito has never
attended a professional vocal class before. She said that she learned to sing
by listening to professional singers and thereby, she set her own vocal up. It could be deduced that she has a strong
desire to sing, which leaded her achievement today. Apart of that, Saito can
play piano and violin too.
In the university, Saito stood
out from the audition of the first Chinese Cultural Night event. Her singing
has received a good recognition from the reviewers. Thereof, she successfully
grabbed the chance to sing. She was so thrilled to be included in the oldies
medley performance in the hall accommodated with audiences up to a few
thousands. There were UMS idols, she said, singing along with her. The performance
was satisfactory. However, she realized that she had to practice more and more
to improve on her skills.
She said she was glad to know Ee
Theng during the event. She treasures this friend so much as they can do
countless crazy things together. In the 2nd Chinese Cultural Night,
each of them had their own roles. Saito was the actress as well as the vocalist
for the musical dance theater during the event. It was a full musical band
accompanied live performance. For her parts, however, she thinks that the
performance was not satisfactory as they did not have the adequate time to
synchronize with the musical band. Nonetheless, this did not discourage her but
instead she pushed herself to do better in the following performances.
She did not expect but to get so
attached to original songs. Her involvement in the performance highlighting
original songs leaded her to start singing original songs written by her
friends. A vocalist is the root of an original song, she commented. If the song
is well presented, she feels proud to perform the song on stage and make it
publishable. Owing to this interest and vision, she agreed to immerse herself
in Incubator Workshop.
Upon the establishment of
Incubator Workshop, Saito started to perform during their first performance. As
in her expectations, their original songs were played on stage. She was astonished
by their first performance. Despite the facts that there were a lot of
unsettlements during the early stage of Incubator Workshop, she said she truly
enjoyed the moments practicing new songs with the team.
She was the first to sing, and
the first to act in Incubator Workshop. Without her, the original works would
not be graced with a soul. Today, she no longer performs in UMS. Instead, she
puts tremendous efforts on administrative works in the background. She collects
and keeps every documents of Incubator Workshop in order. She owns the name of
the representative feature in Incubator Workshop. This is because she is the
one who always give so much inspirations and motivations to everyone.
She added that she wished
Incubator Workshop could be formed earlier. If that is the case, she would strengthen
the foundation of Incubator Workshop to a greater extent. She is confident that
the current management committee will make Incubator Workshop better. She will
be always here to support and to work together with the bunch of awesome people
who having the same passion and dream!
Epilogue: I
have no idea that this girl is Saito Sizue! I had enjoyed her performance so
much during the Bon Odori 2014. The Japanese song she sang is still fresh in my
mind. She was so charming and I like how audiences sang together with her. The
atmosphere was just perfect! Perhaps, she is a born vocalist. She is a brilliant
and talented vocalist!
