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Lu Aiqin

05-2167Maoshan Work SongsTraditional MusicXinghua, JiangsuBatch 5 (2018)

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Female, of Han ethnicity, born in June 1973 in Xinghua, Jiangsu Province. She visited local singers far and wide and took village singers as her teachers. Her voice is high and powerful, sweet and finely textured, with steady phrasing and clear enunciation. In performance, local accent and local feeling blend into one; she grasps both the gentle, plain melodic lines and the bright, forceful rhythms, coordinating high and low registers and singing with ease, so that her performing skill possesses a distinctive aesthetic charm.

Honors & Recognition

National representative bearer of Maoshan Work Songs, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. She is dedicated to the performance of Maoshan Work Songs and to the training of successors. She has taken part in provincial competitions and joint performances dozens of times, always with excellent results. Devoted to performing Maoshan Work Songs and training bearers, she often leads her apprentices and her daughter in performances in various places.

References & Archival Sources

  1. Lu Aiqin · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item
Maoshan Work Songs
Item code
Ⅱ-150
Category
Traditional Music
Region
Xinghua, Jiangsu
Born
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Batch
Batch 5 (2018)

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