Liu Gaiyu
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, Han, born in December 1939, a native of Zuoquan County, Shanxi Province. A National Class One Performer. Fond of singing from childhood, she studied Zuoquan folk songs and the daqiang style under the folk singers Cheng Jinian, Hao Yulan, Zhao Lanzhu and the township head Liu, as well as under artists of the Zihui daqiang troupe. At nineteen she joined the folk-song choir of the Central Song and Dance Ensemble, and the following year was transferred back to the Shanxi Provincial Song and Dance Troupe as a soloist. Through many years of practice she accumulated rich experience in singing folk songs and summed up the three essentials of folk-song singing as sound (exquisite), feeling (true) and flavour (rich), forming a distinctive singing style that has won unanimous praise from audiences and experts alike. Her representative numbers include Land Returns Home, Bitter Yearning, General Zuoquan, Peach Blossoms Red and Apricot Blossoms White, and Blooms on the Door Lintel. She has long devoted herself to folk-song performance, the collection of source materials and the training of successors, has been engaged by several colleges and universities to teach folk-song singing, and has trained many well-known artists of the Zuoquan kaihuadiao.
Honors & Recognition
A national representative bearer of the Zuoquan kaihuadiao, a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
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