Han Hong (singer)

Han Hong (simplified Chinese: 韩红; traditional Chinese: 韓紅; pinyin: Hán Hóng; Tibetan name Yangchen Drolma དབྱངས་ཅན་སྒྲོལ་མ་, simplified Chinese: 央金卓玛; traditional Chinese: 央金卓瑪; pinyin: Yāngjīn Zhuōmǎ), is a Chinese singer and songwriter of mixed Tibetan and Han ethnicity. She was born in Chamdo on September 26, 1971. Like her mother, a Tibetan singer, Han Hong is able to shift quite easily from piercing high pitches to soft low tones. Han Hong is one of the most popular Chinese female musicians who specializes in a variety of Chinese folk music. Most of Han's work reflect the Tibetan culture, but Han also use elements of Jazz, R-n-B, Rock-n-Roll and Latin music in her music work.^[1]

Biography

Han Hong was born in a family of performers in 1971, and sang in the choir at the age of 5. Her father was a Han Chinese rusticated youth who came to Tibet during the Cultural Revolution, and her mother was a Tibetan singer named Yongxi.

At the age of six, Hong's father died.^[2]"My father has left us, our life has been going worse and worse since his death. Because my mother was extremely busy working as an actor, I did not have a happy childhood at all."

She joined the children's choir in 1980 and received formal training.

In 1987, she joined the PLA second artillery corps command.

Han Hong started composing in 1993. She has written a number of popular songs for other singers.^[3]

In the 1990s, she was considered a frontline singer in the Beijing music scene.^[4]

In 1995, she was admitted to the music department of the Chinese people's liberation army college and learned from Li Shuangjiang.^[5]

In 1999, she adopted a boy named "Han Houhou".^[6]

She came to prominence after 2002.^[7]

She performed in a Chinese television gala broadcast after the Olympic closing ceremony on August 24, 2008. She also performed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony on September 5, 2008.

In Oct 2015, she became the CEO of Hualu Entertainment company, which includes businesses of creating Television episodes, creating original shows, and managing performances.^[8]

The characteristics of songs

Her music mainly deals with Tibetan themes but she is also influenced by Jazz, R-n-B, Rock-n-Roll and Latin music, which are all reflected in her work. She is able to shift quite easily from piercing high pitches to soft low tone；

Her singing has distinctive Tibetan characteristics.She's able to shift freely from piercing high pitches to soft low tones.

Career

In 1996, she won the gold medal of the competition of the election of Chinese singers, which was held by the ministry of culture of Dalian. In the same year, she won the gold awards of creation and singing in the singing "Kong Fansen" vocal music competition held by the ministry of culture.

Since 1996 ,she started to write lyrics and made music albums for other singers. Her main works are "good night, my love", "Chinese nation", "have you a take off", etc. She also sing the theme songs for some TV series such as"the sui and tang dynasties kingdoms", "the police film children", the ancient city of spring breeze fights wildfires ".

In 1997, she wrote and recorded her debut album "snow field light" and then the first radio recommendation song "snow field light" was released.

In 1998, she wrote "beauty in the wind and rain".

Showing concert the new song of "snow fields "was held at the China children's theatre in Beijing on September 24.

On April 27, 1999, as one of the singer representatives of Beijing, she participated in the assembly of some talented singers who were good at mandarin songs and from Beijing, Guangdong or Hongkong. It’s the first time for her to show on the stage of Beijing capital gymnasium.

In February 2000, the beautiful in the wind and rain "won the Channel [V] global Chinese music list list 1999 annual China excellent referral bonus, on March 15, in the China central television," 3.15 "the party sung the song composed for the party" dawn ", in June, with the "dawn" won the "Sprite - the Chinese original music charts" season choose 10 songs.

On October 8, at the same year, she participated in the "anti-theft advocate concert" jointly organized by 12 record labels.

In December, she participated in CCTV's New Year's day gala performance.

The In early January, 2002，she launched the latest hit "back", an environmental protection song, which topped one at song lists on dozens of domestic radio charts.

On December 24, 2003, a solo concert was opened at Beijing workers' stadium.

In 2005, two songs "heavenly road" and "the beautiful myth" made Hanhong more famous. On August 6, she held a second solo concert at the Shanghai grand stage.

On November 25, 2006, Hanhong solo concert was held at Wuxi sports center.

On January 26, 2008, "red transparent 2008" Han Hong solo concert was held in Beijing.

On April 26, 2009, she was drafted into the political department of the air force,as the vice President of the political department of the air force.

In the closing ceremony of the Shanghai world expo, Hanhong sang "land of love".

On the evening of February 2, 2011, she participated in the 2011 CCTV Spring Festival gala and sang ‘looking for you’.

In December, she attended "happy camp",one of the entertainment programmes in Hunan Satellite TV.

On March 23, 2012, she participated in the Sanya Liansheng starts concert.

On December 18, 2014, Hanhong confirmed to join in "I am a singer 3”.on January 2, 2015 the first phase on March 27, Hanhong won the championship this season in finals.

On May 12, 2015, she released her latest single "a man."

in September, she released his own solo work, "children in distance"

On May 12, 2015, she formally announced her farewell to the troops and also expressed her dismayed feelings for leaving the troops.^[9]

On January 2016, Hanhong concentrated on promoting her new album "I Am Love" in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and won the top ten golden melody awards in Hong Kong for "a man".

On April 8, in "I am the fourth season of the singer" the last partner of yu quan hong sing the song "to everyone who knows my name"

On April 25, 2016, Zhao Wei officially revealed the cast of her second directorial work, "no other love," and her best friend, Hanhong, also joined the cast.^[10]

On May 7, 2016, Hunan satellite TV broadcast another strong show "I want to sing with you".Hanhong and Wanghan were the hosters.^[11]

On January 27, 2017, the CCTV Spring Festival gala, han hong sang the song millennium.^[12]

On April 5, 2017, the musical "the love of alz memory" by Hanhong was premiered in Beijing.

On June 11, 2017, she was invited to attend the 71st Tony award, as the first Chinese composer to be invited to the Tony award and the only Asian representative of the Tony award.

Significant Music Works

Han's signature works are Tibetan Plateau (青藏高原) and Heaven's Road (天路). Tibetan Plateau is very famous and went international. Vitas, the famous Russian singer, sang this song in duet (video is below) at the BTV [television] Spring Global Gala 2010.^[13]

Heaven's Road is a folk song released on April 20, 2005 in her Album "Moved" to celebrate the opening of a railway to Tibet in 2006.^[14] Written in 2001, the song is very popular in China.^[15]

Discography

• 1998: The Brightness of the Snow (雪域光芒)
• 2001: We're all Awake (醒了)
• 2002: Singing (歌唱)
• 2003: Red (红)
• 2005: Love song Fairy Tale (恋曲神话), Moved (感动)
• 2009: Listen to my Voice (听我的声音)
• 2011: Red Song (红歌)

Social and Charity Activities

• 2000: the song "day break" was performed for the CCTV "3.15" party.^[16] In April, Han attended the world leaders' summit held in Hawaii, USA, and funded the leadership of delegations from the education foundation for children's health in Tibet.Also,she promoted Tibetan culture in Hawaii.^[17]
• 2004: Hanhong arrived in Lhasa and participated in the charity concert entitled "love in the hope of the world" by the youth league committee of Tibet autonomous region and Tibet TV station.^[18]
• 2005: Hanhong performed for the tsunami relief charity activity titled with "love without borders acting big performance" in Hong Kong government stadium and donated 100,000 to the United Nations children's fund . In May, Hanhong participated in the fund raising activities of the education health foundation of Tibet, Hong Kong,and achieved great success.
• 2006：Han hong participated in "China's warmth" to focus on AIDS to orphan children.
• 2007：She participated in the public welfare activities held by the youth development foundation.On November 30, she attended the Chinese disabled person welfare foundation co-sponsored the "good" carnival, "cheer for the Chinese disabled person sports delegation" charity event held by China disabled persons' federation.December, she participated in "spring warm 2007, earth love mother water cellar" public welfare party and donated 100 mother water cellar.
• 2008：The personal income of the concert was donated to three ethnic orphan schools in Tibet, xinjiang and Inner Mongolia. On the morning of May 14, Hanhong launched together with the China foundation for poverty alleviation “Hanhong caring and rescue operation” and held a press conference, calling for social fund-raising. On October 7, "Hanhong caring and rescue operation" organization sent warm clothes and assistance payment to the old courtyard of Miyun suburb.Han hong invested in the purchase of household appliances and supplies for elderly person of no family. On December 19, she participated in "love of guangxi, moved about" activities Guangxi and visited children with cerebral palsy there .
• 2009: Hanhong gave the old people down vest, medical equipment, a variety of practical gifts such as multi-purpose wheelchair, for ethnic minorities in Beijing old man bring the blessings of the double ninth festival and condolences n shijingshan national nursing home.^[19]
• 2010: After Yushu earthquake, Hanhong came to the Beijing’s donation site “Hanhong caring and rescue operation Beijing" and appealed to the people of the country to donate their love and help the people in the affected areas of Yushu.Among them, han hong individual donated 300,000 yuan.^[20]
• 2011: Hanhong donated money to build a hospital for the treatment of cataract surgery .
• 2012: Established her own charity organization, Han Hong Love and Charity Fund.
• 2013：In the wake of the ya 'an earthquake, Hanhong announced a donation of 500,000 yuan and launched a donation to the ya 'an compatriots in the south square of the bird's nest on April 21, accepting donations from all sectors of society.On April 26, Hanhong, with the han red charity foundation, sent more than three million yuan to the victims.
• 2014: "the han red love rescue team was also officially set off for the disaster area. On August 10, the charity action of "Hanhong’s love ,100 people's assistance" was officially launched in Xining, Qinghai. Hanhong announced that She would carry tens of millions of aid supplies to the people of qinghai for medical treatment.
• 2015: Launched the "Hundred people rescue Guizhou Province" Campaign, and provide treatment for total 1000 cataract patients. Donated money to construct 10 countryside emergency rooms, buy 30 cars for medical treatment, and 10000 medicine boxes.^[21]

Social Status

The 11th CPPCC national committee member.

A spokesperson for the education fund for children's health in China, China,

ambassador of the China foundation for poverty alleviation.

The thirteenth "China youth may fourth medal" winner.^[22]

References

Awards and Achievements