Chen Jiazhen
Lineage & School of Heritage
She began studying art at the age of eight. In 1950, under the instruction of her husband Wan Nengyin and others, she learned more than one hundred Xingshan folk songs. She is a fourth-generation inheritor of Xingshan folk songs.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, Han ethnicity, born in 1935 in Xingshan, Hubei. After participating in the first Mountain Song Festival of Xingshan County in 1981, she became famous for a time and brought Xingshan folk songs into public view. She has practiced art for more than sixty years and is honored as the Queen of Songs of the Three Gorges. Her voice is sweet and her vocalization rounded, and she sings with rich feeling. Her representative works include Lang zai Gaoshan Dasan Lai (My Lover Is Coming with an Umbrella on the High Mountain) and Changde Zhaojun Hui Niangjia (Singing Zhaojun Back to Her Parents' Home).
Honors & Recognition
A national representative bearer of Xingshan Folk Songs, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. In 2002 she was named one of the first batch of Excellent Folk Artists of Yichang City; in 2003 she received the title of Cultural Center Household of Yichang City; and in 2006 she received the title of one of the Ten Excellent Folk Artists of Xingshan County, among other honors.
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