Luo Jingchao
Lineage & School of Heritage
He learned songs from his parents at the age of fourteen, took Zhao Jingyang as his master at seventeen, and by eighteen had completed his training and could recite from memory the entire catalogue and content of the mountain songs.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Zhuang ethnicity, born in 1943 in Napo, Guangxi. He began training singers in 1980, and from 1988 collected and arranged mountain songs in the course of transmitting them; he has now collected and arranged thirty-two traditional mountain songs. His representative works include San Ge Daibiao San Duo Hua (Three Represents, Three Blossoms) and Gechang Dang de Shiliu Da (Singing in Praise of the Party's Sixteenth National Congress).
Honors & Recognition
He is a national representative bearer of Napo Zhuang Folk Songs, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He reads Zhuang script and his voice is melodious and pleasing; in 2002 the publicity department of the CPC Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Committee and the regional culture department conferred on him the title "King of Guangxi Song".
References & Archival Sources
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