Yang Haitao, a blind singer, sang "Heavenly Domain" at the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Paralympics. Yang Haitao was born to a peasant family in Yonghua Village, Tongyi Township, Helan County, Yinchuan City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. In 1991, at the age of one, Yang Haitao began to go to school. In the school music class, the teacher taught some songs, which was a formal learning opportunity. 1993, Yang Haitao got the opportunity to represent Ningxia to participate in the Third National Arts Performance for the Disabled and won a bronze medal, which undoubtedly brought him more self-confidence. However, up to this point, Yang Haitao had not made singing his life's work. His idea was to find a technical job and make a living with his skill.
In 1998, he came to Lanzhou Special Education College to study massage. In the cultural performances organized by the school, Yang Haitao often became the focus of attention, until one day the relevant leaders of the Gansu Provincial Disabled Persons' Federation noticed him while watching the performance. In order to cultivate Yang Haitao, the Provincial Disabled Persons' Federation invited Ms. Wang Ling from Gansu Dunhuang Art School to be his vocal coach. Under the guidance of Ms. Wang Ling, Yang Haitao made rapid progress, and in 2001, Yang Haitao represented Gansu Province to participate in the Fifth National Arts Performance for the Disabled. In this performance, he sang Tengger's "Paradise". This song in the Wang Ling teacher's guidance he did not know how many times to practice, from the spitting, pronunciation to the rhythm, the sense of music have a long time to grind, refinement, the results with this song "paradise", Yang Haitao won the gold medal of the performance.
After the performance, Yang attracted the attention of the China Disabled People's Art Troupe and was selected to join the troupe, and it was not until then that Yang was convinced that he could support himself by singing. He came to the troupe and performed frequently, Yang Haitao as a soloist, he likes to sing some atmospheric and bold songs, this congenital blindness, has a very broad mind.
The troupe often travels all over the world to perform, and in order to get closer to their foreign friends, they often perform local programs. Yang Haitao naturally has to sing some foreign songs, but this is undoubtedly a great difficulty for him who graduated from elementary school. But Yang Haitao was born with an unyielding personality, and he came up with the most awkward and effective way to solve the problem - rote memorization. He memorized one word at a time, and asked language experts to help correct him. In this way, he learned songs in English, Korean, German, and even Arabic. In Australia, Korea, Switzerland and Mexico, his singing was recognized by the locals. In Switzerland, he dedicated to the audience the local famous song "Rose of the Alps". The songwriter of this song was specially rushed to the scene to accompany him personally. After the performance, the composer shook his hand and said, "I am amazed by your beautiful voice and pure Swiss German pronunciation, you are a gift from God!
The multi-talented Haitao not only sings and gives massages, he is also learning to tune the piano, and he says he wants to strive to become a good piano tuner. His life and career are full of light, and that's how he tirelessly treks toward a brighter future, toward the paradise in his heart.
Name: Yang Haitao
Gender: Male
Hometown: Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
Occupation: Singer (blind)
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