Cai Guoqing

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Cai Guoqing, born in Beijing on September 17, 1966, is a male singer, actor, TV program host, member of the Standing Committee of the all China Youth Federation, director of the China Musicians Association, executive director of the China pop music association, first-class actor and singer of the song and dance troupe of the political Work Department of the Central Military Commission. He enjoys special allowance from experts of the State Council. Visiting professor, Department of vocal music, Shenyang Conservatory of music, PLA Academy of art. The judges of the national young singers TV competition and the national vocal music competition. The image ambassadors of China Charity Federation, China Disabled Persons' Federation, China Great Wall Protection Committee, the Ministry of health's volunteer propaganda for AIDS prevention, the Ministry of health's "prevention of hepatitis" love image ambassador, and the first batch of members of the national health science experts database. He won the title of "national young and middle-aged literary and artistic workers with both virtues and arts", and won the advanced model of serving the army.

At the age of 7, Cai Guoqing appeared on the stage to sing. At the age of 10, China record company published his first record, Premier Zhou came to the children's palace. He graduated from the performance Department of the Central Academy of drama in 1981. In 1986, he stepped into the singing world. By 2016, he has been on the stage of CCTV Spring Festival gala for 21 times. He won the gold medal of the seventh, eighth and ninth art performance of the whole army. In the music and dance epic "Renaissance road" performance as the main actor.

Early experience

Cai Guoqing was born in an art family. His father, Cai Zhongqiu, is a baritone actor in the Chinese opera and dance theater. In order to cultivate the interest of the little national day, he often goes to the opera house to rehearse with the national day. On the way home or at home, Cai Guoqing always remembers some opera arias, and imitates adults to sing aria in operas such as "Lady Camellia" and "lady butterfly" in a tender voice.

Cai Guoqing began to learn piano when he was just 3 years old, but when he was 4 years old, because his family was labeled "counter revolutionary", his mother was put in the "cowshed", his father was sent to the May 7th cadre school, and Cai Guoqing and his younger brother were sent to his grandmother's home to live. When Cai Zhongqiu went home to visit his relatives, he found that his son could only play in the Hutong every day, which was not his expected growth. He decided to take Cai Guoqing with him when he went back to the May 7th cadre school. In the hard life of the May 7th cadre school, Cai Guoqing learned opera clips and Soviet songs from his father, and also practiced basic dance skills such as leg pressing and waist bending.

As a child, Cai Guoqing has been learning according to his father's expectations, practicing solfeggio, learning Korean song "today's Changcheng" with Li Guangxi, and learning Uyghur language "red light". As long as it meets the requirements of that era, any new singing art form will try to contact.

At the age of 7, he joined the children's chorus of China Central People's broadcasting station, the galaxy art troupe of China Central Television station and the Beijing Children's Palace Art Troupe. He recorded many solo programs for the radio station, and often won the first place in the children's song competition in Beijing. Cai Guoqing's proudest childhood performance experiences were the performance for Prince Sihanouk at the Great Hall of the people at the age of 10 and the performance for the central leader at the May Day garden party at the age of 11. At the age of 11, Premier Zhou came to the children's palace, the first record published by China record service. In addition to the performance activities of the children's palace art class, Cai Guoqing's father also asked his son to learn martial arts, so he studied martial arts in the martial arts class of Beijing Amateur Sports School (now Shichahai Sports School) for three years.

1977 was the first year after the Cultural Revolution when colleges and universities began to recruit students. Cai Guoqing was recommended by people and after many setbacks, he was the last one to report to the youth class of the performance Department of the Central Academy of drama. Singing and reciting were performed easily here by Cai Guoqing, who had performed since he was a child. However, because Cai Guoqing was so beautiful in the physique examination, the invigilator thought it was not in line with the aesthetic requirements of the workers, peasants and soldiers at that time However, Cai Guoqing's father told him to perform martial arts at this time, making CAI Guoqing the youngest student in the history of the Central Academy of drama. Because of his poor family background, he had to live a miserable life in Chinese opera. And because the teachers who worked in political and ideological education often said that Cai Guoqing lacked the temperament of workers, peasants and soldiers, Chang Li and Yao Xiangli, who were in charge of the performance class, took Cai Guoqing as a key point and intended to cultivate him, such as playing the little Bolshevik of the former Soviet Union in the sketch practice of the performance class. However, Cai Guoqing's "sense of work and agriculture" has never been cultivated, so every time he finishes the course, his score in this course is always "good". At the same time, the roles of tie Dan Zi, Xiao GA Zi and Tu wa Zi in the liberated areas are always different. However, a classmate (Xue BAI), whom Cai Guoqing secretly fell in love with at that time, acted vividly and never had the courage to express herself before graduation.

Acting experience

In 1981, Cai Guoqing was selected by Xie Tieli to participate in the film "Bao's father and son" directed by Xie Tieli. At that time, Cai Guoqing with a moustache played a young master who could write love letters. In addition, he played a self indulgent middle school student in the movie "long live youth".

After graduating from the Central Academy of drama, Cai Guoqing was assigned to the China children's Art Theater, earning more than 30 yuan a month. In the work of children's art, he took part in many drama performances, such as "joy song", which reflects the life of children selling newspapers in Chongqing during the war. What makes Cai Guoqing remember the most is the children's drama song of the young pioneers, in which he failed to be the "Captain" due to the limited image, and played a supporting role of "rag". In 1986, China's first Shakespeare drama festival opened. Shakespeare's famous plays were staged in all major theaters. Richard III was staged in China children's Art Theater. The handsome appearance of CAI Guoqing was favored by the directors who came back from studying in the Soviet Union, and the role of Prince Edward was assigned. Because Cai Guoqing's appearance and temperament have some similarities with the role, and his performance is also very good, which makes him lay his foundation in children's art stage with this role.

Since 1985, Cai Guoqing has appeared on the stage as a singer and started with a cover song "Jingjing campus" with the theme of Taiwan campus. Because after the voice changing period, Cai Guoqing's voice lost the characteristics of his childhood, and completely gave up the idea of singing bel canto. When Teresa Teng and other popular singing spread, Cai Guoqing was infatuated with it and began to study it.

In 1986, he published his first solo album the addition of love. On May 9, the first national 100 singers' concert was held in Beijing. Cai Guoqing was selected to participate in the concert as a Beijing singer and entered the singing circle.

In August 1989, at the invitation of Finland's national television station, Cai Guoqing went to Finland to shoot the solo music TV program hope, becoming the first Chinese singer to appear on the Finnish screen. At the same time, MTV was recorded at Finland's largest record company, finlevo.

In 1990, he came back from Finland to record programs and participated in almost all the large-scale benefit performances in support of the Asian Games. On the evening of May 1, there was a live broadcast of CAI Guoqing at the "eve of the Asian Games" large-scale benefit show at the workers' Stadium and the May Day Party of CCTV. In order to grab the venue, after the performance at the workers' Stadium in the rain, the organizing committee, with the cooperation of the public security department, immediately sent Cai Guoqing to CCTV in a police car in heavy rain. After arriving at the TV station, she immediately scrambled for makeup and finally successfully completed two live shows. Just as he was busy with the Asian Games, Cai Guoqing received an invitation from the Art Department of Helsinki University of Finland to offer a scholarship. The report time was September 1, 1990. This is the first time that this famous university has ever sent an invitation to China. For Cai Guoqing, this is a hard won and long cherished opportunity. But at the same time, Cai Guoqing received the notice from the Organizing Committee of the Asian Games to attend the closing ceremony on October 7. After falling into a dilemma, Cai Guoqing decided to give up his dream of studying abroad and stay for the Asian Games. A few days after the Asian Games, Cai Guoqing went to Beijing TV station to sing the song "blue sky, white pigeon" for the audience. At the evening party of the closing ceremony, Cai Guoqing led the singing of the unforgettable song "stars shine tonight".

In May 1990, the fourth national young singers Grand Prix was held in Beijing. Cai Guoqing won the silver prize of popular singing group for his song "the bridge of Beijing". In order to sing this song well and highlight its sense of the times, Cai Guoqing found a teacher in the field of Quyi at that time and learned the singing skills of single string and Jingyun drum. He especially changed the starting and ending of enunciation, prefix and suffix. During the practice, he also got the guidance and help of his good friend Jiang Shan. At the end of the year, this song was sung again at the new year's Eve Party of Beijing TV station, and "the bridge of Beijing" became Cai Guoqing's famous and representative work.

In 1991, Cai Guoqing appeared on the stage of CCTV Spring Festival gala for the first time. Lang Kun, the chief director of the gala, personally took Cai Guoqing to Gu Jianfen's home. She and Wang Jian wrote for Cai Guoqing. CCTV's spring party sang "plum blossom snow" and hosted the program with Li Lingyu. Singing "autumn" at the green tide Gala. In May, in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of Tibet's peaceful liberation, Cai Guoqing became a member of the "heart to heart" Art Troupe. He traveled more than 2000 kilometers in Tibet in one month, performed 20 performances, and performed with oxygen and singing. On June 24, the Ministry of culture and the United Front Work Department jointly held an award presentation meeting. Li Tieying personally presented Cai Guoqing with the "outstanding actor award of Mount Everest". In September, he recorded his personal album story in my heart. In October, he went to Japan with Liu Huan, Tian Zhen and Wei Wei to attend the concert of China's top ten singers.

On January 1, 1992, he sang "forgive them" in animal world. On January 8, he sang "the sun of Sichuan is jubilant" in the 107 issue of "revolving stage".

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