Rock and Heavy Metal Music of China

The widely acknowledged of the forefather of the Chinese rock is Cui Jian in the late 1980s he played the first Chinese rock song that is known as Nothing to My Name (Yi wu suo you). This was the first time an electric guitar was used in China. He became the most well- known performer of the time and by 1988 he performed at a show broadcasted worldwide in accompanied with the Seoul Summer Olympic Games. His socially critical song earned him the anger of the government and several of his shows were banned. After the Tianamen square protests of 1989, he played with a red blindfold around his head as an action against the government. Following, the two groups that became well-known Hei Bao (Black Panther) and Tang Dynasty, both began during the late 1080s and early 1990s. Hei Bao is an old-school rock groups, whose first album Hei Baoused the famous English song (Don’t Break My Heart). Tang Dynasty was the first Chinese heavy metal groups, its first album A dream return to tang dynasty mixed elements of traditional Chinese opera and old school heavy metal.

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