(1529) MUSIC AND ME (April 19, 2018) WHO CAN BEAT THIS? -Japanese Lady Singing "Subaru" and 4 American/Russian Couples DANCED!

WHO CAN BEAT THIS?
Japanese Lady Singing "Subaru"
and 4 American/Russian 
Couples Danced!

TWO young Japanese ladies and their grandpa came at Breeze Bar of Palau Royal Resort in April 17, 2018. There are already a group of 10 American/Russians next to their table. 

My first song for the Japanese is "Yume No Tochu" as the large group is not listening to my music.

I notice that they like Japanese songs so I give them my songbook of Japanese and American popular songs to Japanese.

The Japanese lady at left went back to their room and when she come back, she gave me $20.00 tip. I think they don't have cash so she get from their room. What I don't like is when she put her glass of drink on top of the keyboard. I remember in 1988 at Khayam Taverna (Greek Restaurant in Bahrain, where I played Greek/Arabic music with my partner from Cyprus Antonis Sergiou) where a guest accidentally pour his white wine on the keyboard that I am playing and it got defective.

They gave me also a glass of red wine. I sang Yesterday, Tsugunai, Wakaretemo Sukinahito, Kawa No Nagareno Yo Ni, and the very hard song "Tsunami", where both of the ladies sang with me.

After every song, both of them is giving me high fives, which I haven't experienced from Japanese ladies.

 When this lady at my left sang "Subaru", the 4 American/Russian couples danced!
   It's a wonderful and first time experience for me to see Americans/Europeans dancing to a Japanese sing-along music (live!) And she is singing it without looking at my songbook. I know by heart only 70% of the song.

If I had the chance to video that moment, it should have been a wonderful and touching moment.

We continue singing more Japanese songs -- Ihoujin, Kampai, Sukiyaki (Ueo mu ite) and Love is Over. When she sing "For You", I sing with her to make my diction better because that song is the most popular Japanese song in the Philippines that everywhere I go (weddings, reunions, karaoke bars), that song is always requested--in Japanese.

Another high five after that song.



At 11:00 pm, I stopped playing music and while I am securing the keyboard, the 2 Japanese ladies gave me more high fives. I gave them also my card.



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               Music and Me by Roberto Hernandez
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