Tan Peiyi, born in February 1926, is a Cantonese opera singer, a national first-class actor, a member of Chinese Quyi Association and a director of Guangdong Quyi Association. Representative plays include Cai Moon Hee Returning to Han, Leifeng Pagoda, Ode to Night in Gusu, Swallow House, Princess Wencheng, Raining Night in Xiaoxiang, Jinjiang Poet, etc. From 1939 to 1958, she was engaged in Quyi singing in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong and Macao. He is now a member of Chinese Quyi Artists Association, a director of Guangdong Quyi Artists Association and a member of Guangdong Musicians Association, and has served as a representative of Guangzhou Municipal People's Congress for many times. He is one of the representatives of folk art circles in Guangdong Province.
Chinese name: Tan Peiyi.
Nationality: China.
Place of birth: Gaohe County, Guangdong Province
Date of birth:1Feb. 926
Occupation: singer, actor
Representative works: Cai Moon Hee returned to Han, Leifeng Tower.
The life of the character
Tan Peiyi likes music and folk art since childhood. At the age of eleven, I studied music with Tan Yuchu, a famous musician in Guangdong. In addition to singing with a big, flat and split throat, he also learned to play dulcimer and other musical instruments, laying a solid foundation in music. At the age of thirteen, she formally took to the stage to sing. Through long-term artistic practice, on the basis of inheriting the tradition, she borrowed and absorbed the vocals of famous artists such as Sister Hu, Drama and Xiao, and merged them into her own unique style with clear articulation, elegant temperament, mellow singing, beautiful euphemism, full of emotion and good at expressing the inner world of characters. The late Xue Juexian, a famous Cantonese opera actress, also called her the "King of Throat".
Artistic feature
Tan has never chosen a song at random in his life, but after choosing a song, he must go through his repeated study and careful handling in singing before singing. Therefore, from "Gusu Late Fu" in the early 1950s to "Cai Moon Hee Returning to Han" in the late 1970s, each of her singing tracks is highly artistic. At the end of 1984, Li Ling, vice chairman of China Musicians Association, wrote: "Tan, an old artist, really has their unique accomplishments. She has a deep understanding of the characters' emotions. With her simple, steady and tearful style, she showed the differences with Xue Tao in mental outlook, life experience and mood in detail and profoundly. She is not only pursuing the richness and twists and turns of her singing, but always maintains her unique sincere, affectionate, concise, simple and elegant demeanor because of the different characters. Her melody is solemn and rigorous, and I don't expect too many miscellaneous songs to be interspersed, which makes the melody mixed. " He spoke highly of Tan's artistic achievements in singing. Even if she chooses to sing famous traditional songs such as Swallow House, Rainy Night in Xiaoxiang and Leifeng Pagoda, she will study in cooperation with musicians. Strive for new brilliance and sing personal characteristics.
Teaching achievement
Tan has the lofty art teaching spirit of tireless and selfless dedication. She teaches both Quyi and Cantonese opera actors. Teaching both professional actors and amateur actors; Both local students and students from other places (including overseas, Hong Kong and Macao) are allowed. For those who love Cantonese opera and are modest and eager to learn, she never refuses people to stay away, and always does not spare her time and energy. Together with other teachers of Guangdong Music Quyi Troupe, Quyi classes were held in Guangdong Cantonese Opera School, and a number of successors of Quyi undertakings were trained. She teaches art enthusiastically, pays attention to methods, is persuasive, and teaches students in accordance with their aptitude, so the teaching effect is remarkable, and the world is full of talents and peaches and plums. Professionally, there are Ni Huiying, Guan Qing, Ceng Hui, Mai Suixiu and Qi Liao. Amateurs include Huang Moyanheng, Zeng Yanfang, Zhang Jingnan and Liang. Two mentoring concerts were held in 1987 and 1995, which were warmly welcomed by the masses.
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How did she become the "King of Throat"? As a Cantonese opera singer, Tan has been singing for more than half a century. She never randomly chooses songs, but after choosing a song, she must go through her own repeated learning in singing and then use it to sing. Therefore, from Ode to Gusu in 1950s and Raining Night in Xiaoxiang to Cai Moon Hee's Return to Han Dynasty in the late 1970s, Princess Wencheng, Zhaojun's Journey, Green Yangcheng and Whitehead, each of her tracks has a high artistic quality. Even if you choose to sing traditional famous songs such as "Swallow Tower" and "Leifeng Tower", you should cooperate with musicians to learn, and strive to glow with new brilliance and sing personal characteristics. Use different voices to represent different roles. Writing people by singing is the biggest feature of Quyi. Because Cantonese opera is different from Cantonese opera, it does not rely on "acting" but on "singing" to express characters. Every character's experience, age, thoughts and feelings are different, such as Shi's melancholy and sadness in Gusu Night Fu, farewell in Cai Moon Hee's Return to Han Dynasty, Xue Tao's deep affection for his poetry friends in Jinjiang Poetry Friends, Xue Tao's hatred of power traitors in Baiyun Songtao, and the innocence of girls. All these need to be carefully distinguished and expressed in different voices to avoid similarities. So, how to portray the characters in each song just right? Tan has made a lot of efforts to this end. After each song is selected, she will find relevant materials to read carefully, until she knows the background of the times, the identity, age, personality, hobbies and sentiments of Song Like people like the back of her hand, before she starts to create her own aria. In order to give the singer an accurate and beautiful singing voice, she often fascinates herself and forgets everything. There is a joke when writing the aria of Rainy Night in Xiaoxiang: once Tan was cooking, humming lyrics in his mouth, thinking about how to handle the melody more beautifully, and actually picked up a briquette and put it into a rice cooker, cooking a pot of white rice into a black paste.
Boldly reform the traditional singing method
The Cantonese opera Cai Moon Hee Returning to Han mainly describes the mixed feelings of sadness and joy when mother and son are separated. One of them sang "Cry for Love". Tan Peiyi felt that Cai Wenji's mood at that time could not be well expressed, so he changed it into a oratorio: Alas, the effect after the reform sounded more touching and achieved better artistic effect. The audience also expressed their love for this reform.
Learn the skills to improve western pronunciation.
Tan said that to sing a good voice, you should not only sing high notes, but also sing alto and bass. If you only pay attention to high and sharp, it will be harsh, so you should master the correct vocal methods and sing naturally with wide range, high octave and low octave. Therefore, in the method of vocalization, we should know how to use abdominal force (commonly known as Tian Danli) and prepare the position of high area, so that the voice can be heard clearly, the voice can spread far and it is not easy to lose voice. Tan pays great attention to exploring the methods of sound production, such as where the sound can be accurate, how to hear the high notes and how to make the timbre beautiful. Every time she hears a beautiful piece of music, she thinks about how to integrate it into her singing. At the same time, she also pays attention to learning some western pronunciation methods to enrich herself and improve herself.
The era of bonfires
1952, as the representative of Guangdong Cantonese Opera, Tan and other three actors participated in the first national opera performance, and her duet with the singer won the award. After returning to Guangzhou, Tan and another "Pingzizi" singer initiated and organized the "Guangzhou Music and Quyi Team", and she served as the team leader. At the same time, they organized a Quyi Mutual Aid Group, which was later renamed as "Guangzhou Quyi Friendship Association", and provided more than 10 venues for Quyi singing through hard work. This organization gathered artists scattered all over Guangzhou to form a group, and the efforts of Tan and others played a great role in the promotion and inheritance of Guangdong Cantonese Opera. Later, the "Guangzhou Music and Quyi Team" merged with the folk orchestra to form today's Guangdong Music and Quyi Group. 1958, Tan officially joined the Guangdong Quyi Troupe, and was rated as a national first-class actor in the same year.
Life outside the play
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Tan was born in Gaohe County, Guangdong Province. He comes from a poor family, but he likes Cantonese opera since he was a child. When she was a child, there lived a big family next door, and that person was Tan Yuchu, a famous Cantonese musician. At that time, famous schools such as Xu and Shanghai Sisters were heard in Tan Yuchu's home almost every day, and he often invited some people who liked music at that time to get together and play music. So for a long time, as long as there is music from Tan Yuchu's home, Tan, who loves Cantonese opera, will hide outside the door and listen secretly and sing along. After about a year, finally one day, Tan Yuchu was moved by a girl's obsession with Cantonese opera at such a young age. He invited Tan, who was hiding outside the door, to join him at home to enjoy Cantonese opera. In this way, at the age of Tan Peiyi 1 1, she began to learn from Tan Yuchu and became Tan Yuchu's "disciple". While studying under the master, Tan learned to play a variety of musical instruments, and had the opportunity to listen to the vocals of famous schools such as Xu, Shanghainese, Hu Meilun and Xiong, and gradually learned from the vocals of various schools.
Tan Yuchu is a Cantonese opera fan, but after all, he is not a Cantonese opera singer. Therefore, Tan only learned to sing in Cantonese opera in his initial career, but Tan, who was born with a high understanding of Cantonese opera singing, learned what kind of songs to sing. She can sing three kinds of guttural sounds: loud guttural sound, flat guttural sound and infraguttural sound. Later, under the recommendation of an old artist, he began to study Tan's most suitable larynx.
War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression spread to Guangdong, where homes were destroyed and relatives were separated. Her mother who lives alone is very ill. In order to make a living, Tan began to perform in teahouses in urban and rural areas of Guangdong and Guangxi. Since then, she has really started her career as a Cantonese opera singer. She was only 13 years old that year. Although young, Tan has a gifted voice, and her singing is beautiful, elegant and subtle. She quickly became popular in Guangdong and Guangxi and became a minor celebrity in the circle. Gradually, some unknown composers began to seek Tan's cooperation, and the songs written by these people for Tan were also famous for Tan's success in singing.