Hu Guanmei
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Also known as Nai Zhenzhu, female, Dong ethnic group, born in September 1955 in Rongjiang County, Guizhou Province. She grew up in a Dong musical household; both her parents were well-known local Dong song masters, and she learned Dong songs from them as a child. By the age of ten she was a noted singer in the area, and at eighteen she was singing antiphonal Dong grand songs in the drum tower. Because her voice was pleasing and she commanded a large repertoire, she became a leading member of the village song team. She has an accurate grasp and understanding of the performance formats of the Dong grand song and of the vocal production and presentation of its different voice parts, and she has innovated on the basis of inherited Dong traditional music, to the deep affection of her fellow villagers.
Honors & Recognition
She is a representative bearer of the Dong grand song, a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. She is devoted to training and transmitting to young singers, and all fourteen of her apprentices have become song masters. In June 2007 the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Chinese Folk Literature and Art Association awarded her the honorary title of Outstanding Transmitter of Chinese Folk Culture.
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