Emmanuel Uwechue, known by his
stage name
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Brother Hao () is a Nigerian singer. He rose to fame through a performance with
Han Hong on the ''
CCTV New Year's Gala
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'' and has emerged as one of the most notable foreign singers in China.
Career
Uwechue began his singing career in the choir at
Lagos
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' House on the Rock Pentecostal church in Nigeria.
He received a degree in
engineering
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, and began to pursue a singing career, which led his father to disown him. Before getting his career off the ground in China, he was a country music singer.
In 2001, a friend of his, Li Yayu, started Uwechue's singing career in China by inviting him to perform in hotels and bars throughout
Henan
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and
Hubei
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.
At the Big Easy Bar in Beijing, he was discovered by
Liu Huan, a well-known music producer, who helped him learn
Mandarin Chinese
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.
Discography
* ''Red and Black'' (2006)
* ''Hao Ge’s Latest Songs'' (2008)
* ''Beloved Life'' (2009)
See also
*
Lou Jing
Lou Jing (born 1989) is a Chinese talent show contestant from Shanghai. She was born to a Chinese mother and an African American father, who left China before she was born and has lost contact ever since. Her mother raised her as a single mothe ...
References
External links
* on
China Central Television
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*
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1981 births
Living people
Mandopop singers
Nigerian expatriates in China
Musicians from Lagos
21st-century Nigerian male singers
Maoists