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Did Li Yugang make men feel excited? Did he make women jealous?
On stage, he is a peerless concubine, and offstage he is a handsome and dashing handsome guy.
Li Yugang became famous from the stage of "Avenue of Stars", and his unique anti-string style made him a unique opera singer.
However, he had an unforgettable battle with Mei Baojiu, the son of Peking Opera Mei Lanfang, because of his "drama".
After this incident, I thought that Li Yugang would "disappear", but who knew that because of a small video of being in a wheelchair and staggering backstage, he returned to everyone's field of vision......
So what kind of "grievances and hatreds" are there between Li Yugang and Mei Baojiu of the Peking Opera Mei School?
How is the dramatic singer Li Yugang doing now?
How did Li Yugang become popular
Li Yugang's current style was born by chance, and before he became famous, Li Yugang was an employee working in a video store.
In his spare time, he will learn to sing along with the recording, whether it is a male or female voice or an opera, he will learn a little bit along with it.
At the same time, Li Yugang was still working in a nightclub, and he would occasionally sing a song or two on stage at night.
Later, he got the opportunity to sing on the same stage with a female singer, but the female singer couldn't come in time for some reasons, but the performance was imminent, and it was really difficult to explain to the audience without the female singer's singing.
Saving the scene is like fighting a fire, Li Yugang chose to stand up, he decided to act as a male and female singer by himself, and the result was not only "fooled", but also made everyone feel refreshed.
Li Yugang seems to have picked up a key, which will open the door for him to become a unique singer.
It's a pity that Li Yugang was still an authentic North Drifter at that time, until later he met the stage of "Avenue of Stars".
To say that this stage is really a "grassroots" place to realize your dreams, as long as you have enough talent, this stage will eventually make your dreams come true.
In September 2006, Li Yugang showed his skills on the stage of "Avenue of Stars", and with his unique talent, he successfully reached the finals and won the third place of the year.
Later, his singer floated to the Sydney Opera House, and also held his own concert in the capital, until "The New Concubine Drunk" swept everyone's ears, and we couldn't help but fall into a question, that is:
Is this budding artist a singer or a theatrical actor?
The matter between him and Mei Baojiu
It was very difficult for Li Yugang to enter the industry, but his later development can be described as smooth sailing.
Since he became famous, he has not been satisfied with the status quo, but hopes that he can have greater development.
Although his masquerading as a woman has not been accepted by everyone along the way, it has to be admitted that his career is moving forward step by step.
Because his drama is novel, many people who don't know about opera mistakenly think that he sings the quintessence of the country, so that later a saying "Mei Lanfang in front of me and Li Yugang in the back" came out of nowhere.
However, this statement is not recognized by everyone, and Mei Lanfang's son Mei Baojiu especially disagrees with such a statement.
As the successor of Peking Opera, Mei Baojiu is a well-known figure in the opera industry.
Regarding such rumors, Mei Baojiu expressed dissatisfaction with Li Yugang's behavior of "pretending to be a child of the Mei faction", and also expressed strong condemnation.
This kind of thing makes the cusp of public opinion point to Li Yugang, who has only been famous for a long time, and we all have enough reason to believe that Li Yugang's original intention is not the so-called "leading the war" and "rubbing traffic".
But his unintentional words later went bad, it turned out that a CCTV party invited Li Yugang and Mei Baojiu at the same time, and before coming to the stage, the director told Li Yugang to seize the opportunity to perform well.
I don't know if Li Yugang was nervous or because he didn't think too much, as soon as he came to the stage, he said that he represented the broad and profound Mei School art to greet the national audience.
To our ears, I'm afraid it already feels wrong, because Li Yugang is not a disciple of the Mei School, where does he have the qualifications to represent this art?
And Mei Baojiu, who is really qualified to represent this art, is sitting in the audience, where does Mei Baojiu and even the entire Mei faction put their faces as soon as these words come out?
Mei Baojiu was naturally extremely angry, and then threw herself away directly!
Li Yugang's style
As we mentioned earlier, Li Yugang is an ambitious person, and he will not settle down in the status quo of being famous.
And his ambition is shared with everyone on the stage of Jiangsu Satellite TV's "Say My World", he wants to become an artist.
However, the word "artist" is unattainable for people from the grassroots, and among Li Yugang's many works, "Zhaojun Out of the Plug" can be said to have a special meaning for him.
Because he has been creating this work for more than 3 years, it could have been released early, but Li Yugang made a decision to "offend people", and he directly replaced the creative team regardless of everyone's opposition.
For everything in this work, he decided to overturn and start over, and the price to pay for starting over was to lose a lot of money, which must be a fatal blow to everyone who came from a peasant background.
Maybe this is what you have to go through to become an artist, there is only excellence in creation, and there is no so-called making money.
Later, there were more and more representative works of Li Yugang, among which "Wanjiang" and "Chiling" were used in various short videos, and when combined with the content of small videos, they can always give a feeling of national peace and security.
From this point of view, Li Yugang has embarked on the "road of no return" to become an artist.
Li Yugang's current situation
Wheelchair start!
The impression left by Li Yugang on us is generally that he wears a costume on the stage and then dances, but when he is 44 years old, the video of Li Yugang sitting in a wheelchair backstage has made fans' hearts entangled.
When the wheelchair was pushed up the steps, he was helped forward by the staff, from dancing to faltering.
On the way to becoming an artist, Li Yugang can be said to have paid a huge price, although creation is a part of life, but a healthy body is even more so!
In February of this year, Li Yugang released a new work "Changchun".
Later, in March, he also attended the 2024 China Internet Media Forum, in which Li Yugang sang "Wanjiang" for everyone, which made people feel Guotai Min'an.
epilogue
His own talent is remarkable, and with his own style, he is enough to shine in the entertainment industry.
Pop singers are good, whether they are quintessential masters, as long as they can bring high-quality works to the audience, they are considered successful people.
Information sources:
[1] Baidu Encyclopedia: Li Yugang, Mei Baojiu
[2] China News Network.2012-01-13.Li Yugang reviews the road to fame: the era of "grassroots" overnight popularity has passed
[3] Jiangsu Satellite TV: Li Yugang in the variety show "Say My World".
[4] CCTV.2011-04-12
[5] Jiangsu Satellite TV.2020-12-18.Li Yugang, who always came out of his mouth in those years (short video of Douyin official account)