It is not uncommon for children to inherit their father's business in the entertainment industry, if their parents are singers, this musical talent is not so easy to pass on to the next generation, so among the descendants of singers, some will continue to engage in singing careers, and some will find another way.
Today's singers, each of whom has their own masterpieces, some of them may not be well-known because they are older, but the songs they have sung are generally not unfamiliar, today let's get to know these well-known singers and their children, and see which one has passed on their outstanding musical talent to the next generation!
There is an old movie called "The Story of Liubao", I don't know if you have seen it? Hu Yansheng is the original singer of the theme song of this film "Ninety-Nine Sunny Days", and many singers have covered this classic old song.
Hu Yansheng, who passed away on December 6, 2007, served as the head of the Song and Dance Troupe of the Railway Art Troupe before her death, and has long been committed to leading the troupe to perform for employees along the railway.
She experienced a total of two marriages, the first marriage failed and left her a son with severe intellectual defects, and the second marriage gave birth to the second son, Tu Honggang.
On Tu Honggang's road to fame, he couldn't do without the support and cultivation of his mother behind him, but in the early years, because Hu Yansheng had a strong personality, he didn't get along with his youngest son, until she passed away, Tu Hong finally understood his mother's good intentions just now, but it was too late.
Zong Yong Zhuoma is a famous Tibetan singer, she graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, studied under Professor Wang Pinsu, and is now a national first-class actor, whose main works include "Hada in Hometown", "Daughter of Meili Snow Mountain", "Echo of the Valley", "Deqin Love Song" and so on.
Her voice is rich and gorgeous, tactful and long, and extremely magnetic, which has fascinated countless listeners, and Zongyong Zhuoma has cultivated his son Tashi Dunzhu into a rising star in the music industry.
Tashi Dunzhu is an alumnus of his mother, and he also graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and fans don't seem to buy him singing Chinese pop songs, and everyone expects him to sing national songs.
While singing, Tashi Dunzhu has also participated in film and television dramas, such as the TV series "Shangri-La", "Baby Project", the movie "1894: The First Sino-Japanese Sea Battle" and "The Legend of the Aromatic City".
I believe that many friends don't know that singer Han Hong is still a second-generation star, her mother Yongxi is a Tibetan soprano singer, as early as the sixties, she was famous for singing "On the Golden Mountain of Beijing".
Yongxi was born with a good voice, she has a wide vocal range, a sweet voice, and can speak Chinese fluently, so she can also sing various styles of Han folk songs. When her daughter Han Hong was six years old, Yongxi's husband died of illness, and she later chose to remarry.
Han Hong and grandma
After Yongxi remarried, she took her daughter with her at first, but Han Hong, who was 10 years old at the time, always worked against her stepfather, but her mother sent her back to her grandmother and uncle, so Han Hong thought that her mother didn't want her anymore, so her relationship with her mother was not close in her early years.
In 2002, Han Hong, who was 31 years old at the time, returned to Tibet to collect style, and the relationship between their mother and daughter was frozen for 21 years before it was eased.
Yan Weiwen is a well-known singer and actor, and his masterpieces "Say a Word from the Heart", "Little Poplar", "Mother", etc., are all popular and widely sung enduring works.
After graduating from high school, his daughter Yan Jingjing was sent by her parents to study in Vancouver, Canada.
Yan Jingjing's family after marriage
After Yan Jingjing returned from studying abroad, she met Li Hehe, the son of Li Zhaoxing, under the introduction of military singer Tan Jing, and after they met and fell in love, they held a wedding in Beijing on December 28, 2008. After marriage, Yan Jingjing gave birth to a daughter and a son, and the marriage was very happy.
Guan Mucun is a mezzo-soprano singer, she is a national first-class actor, in the 70s she sang Shi Guangnan's "Beat the Tambourine and Sing the Song" in the Tianjin Workers' Art Show and became famous in one fell swoop.
Her main works also include "The Grapes of Turpan Are Ripe", "When the Golden Wind Blows", "Phoenix Tail Bamboo in the Moonlight", "If You Want to Know Me" and so on. Guan Mucun has experienced two marriages, her ex-husband is actor Wang Xingjun, they have a son after marriage, and after 8 years of divorce, Guan Mucun remarried with his son.
Kwan Thiam Yuen with stepdad and mom
Guan Mucun's son Guan Tianyuan graduated from the Australian University of Technology, and looks a little similar to the Olympic champion Lin Dan, he did not enter the entertainment industry after returning from school, but created a tea company, the business is doing very well, and he is well-known in the Beijing area.
Wang Kun is not only a singer who won the first Golden Record Award, she is also a vocal educator who is full of peach and plums, and has successfully created the image of "Xi'er" in "The White-Haired Girl".
Her main representative works include "Autumn Harvest", "The North Wind That Blows", "Husband and Wife Literacy", "Nanniwan" and so on. This excellent artist did not balance his career and family, and his son Zhou Qiyue commented that "for my brother and me, my mother did not fulfill her responsibilities as a mother to the best of her ability.
Wang Kun did not fulfill all the responsibilities of being a mother on the road of her son's growth, which is also a heart disease that has always plagued her in her later years. In this special era, Zhou Qiyue was condemned as a "troublemaker" in order to defend his parents who had been treated unfairly, and he was imprisoned for nine and a half years, during which he was also on the verge of life and death because of the injustice he suffered.
Zhou July with foreign friends
In 1977, their family was finally reunited after all kinds of tragic encounters, and with the help and encouragement of his parents, Zhou Qiyue became an excellent screenwriter and participated in the creation of "Gadfly", "Linhai Prairie", "Fire Dragon", "Jianghu Brothers" and so on.
Wang Kun with her husband
In his later years, Wang Kun, who was lying on the sickbed due to a sudden cerebral hemorrhage, said to his son the guilt that had been pressed in his heart for decades, and the two sons wept silently when they listened to their mother's words, they said that they fully understood their mother's hardships and pains, and were proud to be Wang Kun's son.
Dai Yuqiang, along with Warren Mok and Wei Song, is known as the "Three Great Tenors of China", he is a disciple of the world's top opera master Pavarotti, and has performed in famous operas abroad many times.
In addition to opera, his main masterpieces also include the songs "I Come Up Like a Snowflake", "That's Me", "You Are Such a Person", etc., and his classic old songs such as "In That Distant Place", "On the Songhua River", "I Love You, China" are also full of charm.
Dai Yuqiang's daughter Dai Ziyi inherited her father's musical talent well, and at the age of nine, she starred in the National Center for the Performing Arts' opera "Tosca", in which she played the role of a shepherd boy, and she studied at many foreign conservatories, including a doctorate at the Hannover Conservatory in Germany. In March of this year, she gave a solo concert at the Henan Art Center.
Li Guangxi's singing career spanned more than 60 years and was known as an "evergreen in the pigeon world", and he played the male lead Alfred in the first Western opera "La Traviata" performed in mainland China, which made him famous.
He sang "Toast Song", "Ode to Beijing", "When Will We Meet Again", "The Sun Comes Out and Beaming", etc., all of which are very popular. On March 13, 2022, the Central Opera House released an obituary saying that Li Guangxi passed away in Beijing in the afternoon of the same day at the age of 93 due to ineffective medical treatment.
Li Guangxi and his wife
Li Guangxi and his wife have three daughters, his eldest daughter Li Tang graduated from the Music Department of the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts, served as a soloist in the Beijing Military Region Comrades-in-Arms Song and Dance Troupe, and later went to the United States for further study.
Li Guangxi and his daughter Li Tang
After returning to China, Li Tang served as a professor and graduate tutor in the Drama Department of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and she inherited her father's love and dream of music.
When he was in high school, Liao Changyong heard Guan Mucun's "When the Golden Wind Blows" at school, and since then he has become interested in music, decisively applied for the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and became an excellent baritone singer.
His representative works mainly include "Ruixue Xing'an", "Don't Say Goodbye", "You Are in My Heart", "Amorous Land" and so on. In 2019, Liao Changyong became the president of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
Liao Changyong's daughter Liao Minchong was born in 2002 and is now a singer, and she has sung songs such as "Catching Loaches", "I Want to Say to the World", "Galaxy in the World", "Mud Doll" and so on.
Many people may not be very familiar with baritone singer Hu Baoshan, but I believe everyone has heard his song "I Love This Blue Ocean", he graduated from the Sofia Conservatory in Bulgaria and is a national first-class actor.
Hu Baoshan passed away due to illness on September 13, 2019, at the age of 84. His son Hu Jun graduated from the Central Academy of Drama and is now even more famous than his father.
After graduating, Hu Jun entered the Beijing People's Art Theater and engaged in drama performances, with the popularity of film and television dramas such as "Lan Yu", "Dragon Babu", "Infernal Affairs 2" and "Curiosity Kills the Cat", Hu Jun has gradually become a rare and powerful actor.
Wan Shanhong was born in an artistic family, her father is a playwright, her mother is a singer, she began to study vocal music with her mother at the age of 17, and at the age of 19, she was admitted to the China Opera and Dance Theater with excellent results, under the tutelage of performing artist Li Bo.
In her early years, Wan Shanhong participated in many operas, such as "Starlight, Starlight", "Fangcao Heart", "White-Haired Girl", "Wilderness" and so on. The songs she has sung include "When I Miss Home", "Public Servant Praise", and "You Behind Me".
Wan Shanhong had a failed marriage, remained single after the divorce, and her son also entered the China Opera and Dance Theater after graduation. When Mo Jiashan grew up, although he lived under the same roof with her, he did not interfere with each other, and the mother and son maintained a relatively independent parent-child relationship.
Zhu Mingying sang three songs such as "The Sea, Hometown", "Back to My Mother's Home", "Mo Chou, Mo Chou" at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in 84, and immediately became one of the first singers born after the reform and opening up.
In 1985, Zhu Mingying went to the United States to study modern music and cultural industry, and during her stay in the United States, she began to get involved in the business world, and after returning to China, she founded a company in Beijing, and at the same time she continued to develop steadily in the entertainment industry.
She had a failed marriage, divorced because of her husband's personality incompatibility, and has been living alone with her son since then, never remarrying.
Her son, Wang Jue, also loves music like his mother, and when he grew up, he was admitted to Berklee College of Music, where his mother once studied.
After Wang Jue returned to China, he worked in his mother's company, and he has released many songs as he wished to become a singer, including "Tomorrow", "Rainy Day", "Searching" and so on.
Speaking of singer Yang Hongji, you will immediately think of the enduring song he sang "Rolling Yangtze River East Passing Water", what many people don't know is that he was 52 years old when he sang this song, and he really became famous in one fell swoop, he is a first-class actor in the opera troupe of the General Political Department of the People's Liberation Army.
Yang Hongji's voice is full of magnetism, his vocal range is wide, and every song he has sung is unforgettable. He and his wife have a son together, and he planned to train his son to become a musician, but his son Yang Ou's talent in this area is not very outstanding.
Yang Ou was finally engaged in the identification of cultural relics, with the help of his father, he worshiped Zhang Zhongyi as a teacher, after two years of hard work, Yang Ou got the relevant certificates, and also opened an antique shop, because there are few mistakes in the process of appreciating treasures, so it gradually became famous, although the son failed to inherit his father's business, but now it has become the pride of his father.
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