From a certain level, Li Yugang is indeed a legend. He broke through the barrier between ancient culture and prevailing culture, allowing the art of the two periods to experience a successful separation again and again. What is even more valuable is that after he has achieved a certain degree of fame and experience, he still carries a pilgrimage heart, persistently pursuing higher and farther artistic attainments. In the past, he has combined traditional opera with Western opera to bring audiences around the world one unique audio-visual feast after another
Born in 1978, Li Yugang was born into a poor family. He suffered a lot as a child, but when it came time to go to college, he couldn't afford the tuition fees, so he had to leave the campus and go out into the world. During that time, Li Yugang had to live in a low-slung shantytown, living on a full stomach due to the shyness of his pockets. Because of his almost paranoid love for singing, he worked part-time while learning to sing, and insisted on taking every music lesson no matter how difficult the financial situation was. It is often said that opportunity changes destiny. Li Yugang insisted on learning to sing, in order to be able to grasp the opportunity when it came. At that time Li Yugang in the nightclub as a waiter, suddenly one day, the night singing female singer lost contact. And he did not have the slightest due to, immediately said to the anxious boss: "Why don't you let me simulate the female voice and finish the play?"
By all accounts, no boss would agree to such an absurd proposal. But given Lee's usual performance and solid character, the boss gave him a chance to sing on stage. This was the first time he sang with alternating male and female voices, and in just a few minutes of play, his singing voice was sometimes resonant and sometimes delicate. After the performance, the audience applauded like thunder, he realized that he had seized the opportunity to change his fate. The play let the boss saw the strength and market of Li Yugang, and thus generously gave him countless opportunities to sing on stage. As for Li Yugang, he formally opened his own music life, in the large and small stage for all kinds of audience to provide a beautiful song. Certainly such a life does not make his material life to get essential improvement, but it makes his physical world increasingly full. As a result, he sang in KTV, small bars and other places for eight whole years.
In 2006, the "Avenue of Stars" program group wanted to invite a countertenor to participate in the recording, but in a ghostly way to call Li Yugang. Many years later, he informed the reporter: "I'm very grateful to the Avenue of Stars for this call, because it changed my fate; also very grateful to myself, because I seized this opportunity." Participating in "Avenue of Stars" is the first time for Li Yugang to appear in front of the public. As a result, he rehearsed very seriously and controlled the details to the point of near paranoia. In the end, he performed the woman's grace on the stage to the fullest, and convinced all the audience and judges on the scene by switching between male and female voices with ease. That year, Li Yugang won the third runner-up of the year of "Avenue of Stars". After this incident, it is not difficult to realize that overnight success seems easy, in fact, also need a person who can seize the moment at any time. Because fate only favors those who are ready, if Li Yugang missed this opportunity, I'm afraid it's hard to change life. Fortunately, he has been on this long and bumpy road of art, has been down enough time, well prepared.
After his rise to fame, Li Yugang could finally afford to hire a vocal teacher with a higher level of professional skill. But he didn't expect the teacher to make a very "strange" request: "You're so beautiful, why don't you try to sing like Mei Lanfang, by disguising yourself as a woman?" He said, "I don't know what to say. Hearing this, Li Yugang froze on the spot. Previously simulated female voice is only a frivolous attempt, if now usual completely change the way of playing, it must be from the heart to pursue, love this thing. After some deep thought, Li Yugang buried a seed in his heart to pay tribute to the giants.
After that, Li Yugang began to sleep and eat to learn the playing style of the Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang, and became more and more immersed in the historical significance and artistic value of the male role. In his heart, he secretly gambled that he would convert the difficult task of "dressing as a woman" into a wonderful performance, so that everyone could have a refreshing experience from the traditional art. With a purpose, Li Yugang also has a source of motivation. Even if many people at that time to his play buckle "not into the mainstream", "can not take the stage" hat, he also quietly adhere to the art of love and pursuit. For an adult male with no dance foundation, it is simply impossible to complete a female dancer's performance with a soft posture. But the 23-year-old Li Yugang is fearless, even if he was in tears from the pain of splitting the horizontal fork, he never thought of giving up.
Li Yugang in order to turn the ideal into an ideal as soon as possible, began rampant learning the basic learning of dance, but also in the after-school to Yang Liping, Venus and other dance celebrities play video repeated research. In addition, he also spent a few years to personally visit vocalists, dancers, masqueraders and Peking Opera men, trying to make my play to the extreme. Perhaps because people were impressed by Li Yugang's hard work, they gave him advice and made a lot of pertinent comments. This is naturally an immensely powerful aid to Li Yugang, and thus his playing is becoming more and more wonderful, and the level of popularity is becoming more and more universal.
When his career entered a smooth phase, Li Yugang immersed himself in traditional culture as usual. He not only put the home decoration of the ancient flavor, all around full of literary treasures; also began to apply the leisure time to learn guzheng, Chinese painting, calligraphy ...... He has been enriching his skills from time to time, in order to come in handy one day and seize the next opportunity to rewrite his destiny. Of course, all the people in the show business circle after becoming famous, are inevitably being "splashed with dirty water". Li Yugang's habits are very simple, and usually comparatively like to eat vegetarian food, so the Internet has presented some bad sound: "Li Yugang had become a monk!" "Li Yugang ah, so mother, how will a woman like him?" "Li Yugang must be GAY, otherwise how a handful of years old is not married!"
On all these kinds of criticism, Li Yugang smiled faintly and responded, "I just want to be a quiet artist ah." In addition, the CCTV manager Chen Luyu once also said a moving words: "I watched all the way to the growth of Li Yugang, is he let me believe that fantasy can really come true." That's right, fantasy come true has never been a fairy tale. But it is not something that can be accomplished overnight, only like Li Yugang such a conscientious effort, adhere to the resolute and fearless perseverance, can be in the dark to the bottom of the valley of life to send out the light of hope.
The experience of living in the countryside from a young age has made Li Yugang stick to his simple and grounded side after he became famous. The company's main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers," he said, adding that the company has been working on a number of projects in the past few years. In the "cross-border comedy king", Li Yugang is not afraid of other people's eyes, valiantly shed the "coat" of art, play a variety of small people. By virtue of his witty and witty playing strength, as well as distinctive personal charisma, he won the annual championship of the program. I think this is exactly the center of the fans to be proud of - Li Yugang has been sticking to the habit of learning for more than a decade after he became famous, and he has shown his progress on big and small stages. In the current mixed entertainment circle, he does not set up a persona not hype, adhere to the face to show people's flesh sincerity seems particularly valuable.
Additionally, no one can admit that Li Yugang got a better life after becoming famous, but we need to understand, enjoy the rich rewards at the same time he was burdened with a huge pressure. There has been a famous Peking Opera master in front of the national audience, openly blamed Li Yugang's play and Peking Opera does not exist any relationship, and there is a suspicion of defilement of the traditional art! How did Li Yugang respond? He visited famous artists all over the world, and even though he was at the center of the storm, he always maintained his face and friendliness. So much so, that he also emphasized that he was not a Peking Opera student, but merely a traditional culture enthusiast. Humble or not, low-key or not, in the curse and misunderstanding, we seem to go through Li Yugang's victory to discover: the art of opera does need to change according to the development of the period, more in accordance with the audience's aesthetics to stop the innovation and improvement. Otherwise, fewer and fewer people will understand the culture of opera, so how can we talk about inheritance?
We often say that it is better to keep the splendor than to invent new splendor. Li Yugang, on the other hand, has modeled for a generation of young people with his practical actions - he has made more and more people fall in love with traditional culture through his influence. At first it was a lecture in the domestic university, since 2009, he went to Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore, New York and other places to hold a personal concert, with his own power will be the traditional Chinese art to the world! Now, Li Yugang has been invited to Harvard University, the University of California and other world-class schools to stop the traditional culture of the lecture, he is worthy of the "cultural messenger". In addition, his photo was presented on the big screen of New York's Times Square for four consecutive days, showing the world Chinese art in the same way **** ....... There are many other achievements left by Li Yugang on the world stage, basically every place he goes, he will do his best to show the profoundness of Chinese culture. At this time, cultural innovation is not only a choice, but also a strength. In my opinion, Li Yugang can be based on traditional culture, re-imagine the classic image, not only let the traditional culture renewed vigor, but also the prevalence and young people's music and dance into a real art.