{"id":2461,"date":"2011-03-24T12:41:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T18:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orijinculture.com\/community\/?p=2461"},"modified":"2011-03-24T12:43:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T18:43:05","slug":"nigerian-singer-chinese-pop-sensation-bridging-cultural-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/nigerian-singer-chinese-pop-sensation-bridging-cultural-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Singer Becomes Chinese Pop Sensation | Bridging the Cultural Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/iframe><\/p>\nWe have all recently witnessed the surge of African music in North America and the rest of the world.\u00a0 However, the story of 33-year-old Nigerian singer Emmanuel Uwechue takes the influence of African musicians to a whole new level.<\/p>\nUwechue rose to prominence in the Chinese pop world after singing love songs in the native Chinese language of Mandarin.\u00a0 He learned the language after receiving an invitation from a friend to visit China in 2002. Uwechue has adopted the Mandarin name Hao Ge (pronounced How Guh), which means “good song” in Mandarin.<\/p>\nUwechue started his singing career in China by performing in bars and hotels in Henan and Hebei Provinces.\u00a0 He later soared in popularity in the country after singing on Xin Guang Da Dao<\/em>, a Chinese version of\u00a0American Idol<\/em> in 2006.\u00a0 He has performed alongside some of China\u2019s most famous pop stars including Sun Nan, Na Ying and Han Hong.<\/p>\nHa has been credited as being the first African to have reached widespread success in China and his popularity has led him to perform at some of China\u2019s most important events, such as the wildly popular Lunar New Year Gala, the Chinese equivalent of the Super Bowl and China\u2019s highest-rated broadcast event of the year.<\/p>\nUwechue is also viewed by many as positive symbol of cross-cultural ties between Africa and China.\u00a0 China is a major investor in Africa and has a significant interest in oil reserves in Nigeria.\u00a0 However, some Africans are skeptical of Uweche\u2019s success and China\u2019s role in Africa\u2019s economy because they fear China\u2019s financial power in the region is representative of \u201canother form of colonialism.\u201d<\/p>\nDespite these noted concerns, Uwechue\u2019s story provides as a great example of how music can be used as a medium in helping to bridge racial and cultural division.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2553\" href=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/2011\/nigerian-singer-chinese-pop-sensation-bridging-cultural-gap\/nigerian-superstar-in-china\/\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2553\" title=\"NIGERIAN-SUPERSTAR-IN-CHINA\" src=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/NIGERIAN-SUPERSTAR-IN-CHINA.jpg\" alt=\"NAJIA SUPERSTAR IN CHINA\" width=\"500\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a> \n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y19vv0ZEMPU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We have all recently witnessed the surge of African music in North America and the rest of the world.\u00a0 However, the story of 33-year-old Nigerian <a class=\"moretag signature-animation\" href=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/nigerian-singer-chinese-pop-sensation-bridging-cultural-gap\/\">CONTINUE READING<\/a>","protected":false},"author":877,"featured_media":2553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2172],"tags":[3208,3479,3692,3693,206,2959],"class_list":["post-2461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-underground-news","tag-china","tag-culture","tag-emmanuel-uwechue","tag-mandarin","tag-nigeria","tag-pop-music"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/NIGERIAN-SUPERSTAR-IN-CHINA.jpg?wsr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/877"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2461"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2559,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions\/2559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}