essential information
Early experience
Yao Weitao grew up in a single parent family in Pudong New Area of Shanghai. He has loved singing and dancing since he was a child. Yao Weitao became a western chef when he was 17, and then he worked as head chef in a five-star Italian restaurant for seven years. In addition, he also won the national popular champion of singing bar.
Acting experience
In 2013, he took part in Guizhou satellite TV's blind date show "perfect" as a regular guest. Then, he took part in Hunan Satellite TV's entertainment show "happy male voice" competition, and finally failed to be promoted to the top 14 of Hangzhou singing district. In the same year, he took part in Shandong satellite TV's star cultivation reality show "China Star power" competition, and was eliminated in the 12-6 finals, and finally won the national finals 1 During the competition, he also sang songs such as "the most dazzling national style" and "looking back again"; later, he took part in the competition of South Korea's SBS singing talent show "kpopstar Season 3".
In 2014, he participated in the singing talent show "voice of China Dream Season 2" competition of Oriental satellite TV, and finally won the top 10 of the national finals. During the competition, he also sang songs such as "suddenly want to love you" and "destiny".
On February 11, 2015, he launched the song "dream lantern" in chorus with Yuquan, Tang Bao, Li Anmei, etc.; in the same year, he participated in the Tencent Video Star food talk show "please the refrigerator" as a permanent guest.
In 2016, as a permanent guest, he participated in Hunan Satellite TV star Yineng cooking competition show "touxiandi Sunday"; in the same year, he participated in iqiyi Chinese dialect singing program "1.3 billion decibels"; in October of the same year, he participated in Youku Video social experiment reality show "beauty and the best"; later, he starred in fantasy food comedy "please" with Hu Shasha In the film, he plays the hero Shuai Meng culing from an alien.
In 2017, he signed up with Shao brothers to become his contracted artist; in the same year, he played in the police bandit suspense online drama "Flying Tiger battle" starring Huang Zongze, Miao Qiaowei and Wu zhuoxi; in April of the same year, he participated in the recording of Hunan Satellite TV variety show "happy camp". On March 19, 2021, the fantasy idol drama "Romeo formula", starring Li Xinran and Xu Zhenyao, began broadcasting, in which he played the male musician Liang Jinyu.
Main works
Take part in the film
Take part in TV series
Music single
variety show
social activities
On October 15, 2013, he attended the Yan'an welcome ceremony of "new journey to the West - Taking the road of snow again" and was awarded the honorary certificate of "Yan'an Tourism Image Ambassador".
Character evaluation
Yao Weitao is a temperament type man, he has perfect singing skills and handsome appearance, his singing is fresh and elegant (Tencent review).
Although Yao Weitao sings the song "looking back again" flatly, his strength on the stage and manipulation of the repertoire are very moderate, while his stage performance is very calm. Yao Weitao has very good conditions, not only the appearance, but also the temperament, speech and the tone of singing have become the style of a mature artist (comments by Zhan Hua).
Yao Weitao is known as "walking Viagra" and "Takeshi in the culinary world". He not only can sing and dance, but also is a man with mature charm (Sina review). Yao Weitao has made a deep impression on the audience by virtue of his handsome image and delicate voice.
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Yao Weitao