Chen Keqin
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in 1935 in Yuxi, Yunnan. Chen Keqin joined the Yuxi People's Experimental Troupe in 1951, where he studied lantern opera vocal music, playwriting and instrumental accompaniment and was taught by the veteran artists Xue Guoxing, Yang Jiongming and Wu Jiashun, developing his own distinctive manner of singing in lantern performance and especially in lantern vocal music. He also served the troupe's lantern section, later the lantern troupe, as playwright-director, actor and orchestra accompanist, and subsequently held posts as leader of a farm art team, head of the tutoring section of the mass art centre and chief of the mass culture section of the Culture Bureau of the Yuxi Prefecture Administrative Office; he retired in March 1995 but continued to work for the culture bureau on contract. Chen Keqin combines the talents of playwright, performer and instrumentalist, and his representative works include Huisheng Bang (The Life-Restoring Club).
Honors & Recognition
He is a second-batch national representative bearer of flower-lantern opera (Yuxi flower-lantern opera), a national intangible cultural heritage project.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Hua Lantern Opera Ⅳ-78
- Hua Lantern Opera Ⅳ-78
- Hua Lantern Opera Ⅳ-78
- Hua Lantern Opera Ⅳ-78
- Hua Lantern Opera Ⅳ-78
- Hua Lantern Opera Ⅳ-78
- Hua Lantern Opera Ⅳ-78
- Hua Lantern Opera Ⅳ-78
Profile
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