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An awesome story about an awesome Chinese dancer

Updated: 07 12 , 2016 14:45
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BEIJING, July 11 -- "The life of a human, besides eating and sleeping and getting sick from time to time, is in fact very brief?, said Shi Yubo, the fan-named "Chinese Capital City?s most handsome modern dance instructor?, in a tone of calm that you might have imagined in an Ancient Chinese philosopher.

"We ought to devote our all and entirely to our passion,-- that little something that keeps our hearts ardent, -- our dreams, and make them come true within this brief living?, said Shi, one of the pioneers who brought the music genre of Hip Hop in China.

"Only doing so, and doing it with all our strengths, could we say in the end that our life had not been a waste?, he told Xinhuanet.

A Hip Hop Prodigy and Avant-garde

At the age of 18, Shi was already famous among the peer public for being one of the first Chinese talents to be trained and commercialized in the Republic of Korea, an Asian empire in music and movie production who created the widespread "Korean Wave? (or "Hallyu? in Korean) -- a sensational popularity of the South Korean cultural products worldwide back in the 90s.

There, young men and women were selected by elite entertainment companies (talent agencies) as candidates to a glorious stardom. Then they would face a strict, sometimes even described as "harsh and cruel? period of training -- from 2 to 5 years in average -- amid intense competition.

Enduring hours upon hours of singing and dancing on a daily basis, sacrificing their personal life and relationships, and shedding sweat as well as tears, only a small minority among the trainees could win a decade-long contract and debut as a K-pop star, meaning that the company would expect high returns of its investment.

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