DIMASH & Li Yugang - Drunken Concubine + Diva Dance | Singer Songwriter Reaction 

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Li Yugang came from a village in northeastern China, got admission to university but had to give up because it was difficult for his parents to pay for the tuition fee. He made his way to stardom by years of hard work and went through a lot of twists and turns. He barely made a decent living, but he sent his earnings to his family and spent the rest of income to take lessons to learn the artistic skills that he needed for his career. HIs journey is like an epic drama. In short, he didn't have any formal vocal training and traditional opera skills until in his very early twenties. I wish his touching biography will be published one day and translated into English. (Who wouldn't shed tears when you learn that he took opera training in a room with below freezing temperature because that opera artist couldn't afford heat for his home)

Full story is very sad. Dimash sings the role of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, who sentenced his beloved Concubine Yang Guifei to death for treason. That's why Dimash growls so hard in the first part. Then she reminds how she was besotted with him and asks why there's only one step between love and hate. Insanely romantic lyrics. Li Yugang (born 1976) is an outstanding Chinese singer, composer and producer in the Peking Opera. Here he sings in the traditional Huadan style when a male singers play a female roles in Chinese opera. That's an allusion to The Drunken Concubine in Peking Opera. Brilliant Dimash! Awesome Li Yugang! Great work! Thanks a lot for your sincere reaction to the new vocal masterpiece!

Dimash always does something different or put new twist to his performances and singing. Who would have thought of doing it this way? He can sing with anyone! From singing with Chinese Opera singers to Aida Garifulina and Lara Fabiaan to Tengri to Jam Hsiao. His talent and skills are practically limitless.

The whole point of this performance was to contrast Chinese traditional singing with Western style singing. Especially the piece after the Diva Dance, Li Yugang is singing straight Chinese opera style (sounding like the female role of course).

I think the interesting thing about this is hearing the difference between western and eastern opera....both are stunning in their own right.

So the story behind the song. Loosely translated. Concubine Yang, one of the concubines of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty , voluptuously pudgy, rendezvoused with Xuanzong Tang in the Pavilion of Flowers to drink and appreciate the beauty of the moon. Xuanzong Tang, however, stood her up and went to revel all night with another concubine. After waiting so long, and still no sight of the Emperor, Concubine Yang, possessed over by loneliness and animosity, had to drink all by herself. She drank until the moon was hight and bright upon the sky.

Li is with the China National Opera. He sings female roles who are traditionally played by males in Peking Opera.

Благодарим за реакцию, Димаш браааааааавооооооооо, суууууууупееееер 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️🤩💖🤩💖🤩💖👍👌✊✌️🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

Вы такой приятный человек..Веселый, внимательный реакционер.. Очень талантливый ,, Я из Казакстана.. Город Семей ....

I just love dimashs voice. Makes my day always 😌

Idk why people gotta hate, Dimash is Dimash but the other guy is really good too

Hi Caleb! Always love your reaction to Dimash. So the show is Spring Festival Gala of Jiangsu Channel 2020. Li Yùgāng is a Beijing Opera performer. He plays female roles on stage. And the original name of Drunken Concubine should be literally translated into New Drunken Concubine, since Drunken Concubine is pure opera and should be sung in a female’s voice throughout the song. But Li mixes pop elements (shown in the first part of the song) into BeiJing opera. The vocal techniques he uses in the clip are actually traditional Chinese opera techniques. 😉

Li Yugang is such an amazing singer. I'm really glad him and Dimash did this colab, or I never would have found out about Li. What an amazing combination, lovely contrast.

I watched this with my 1 year old grandson and he was not convinced Dimash needed a partner for this... Frowns every time Li sang, smiles for Dimash 😂 Personally, I enjoyed the vocal contrast and style of the two.

As I understand it Li is with the Beijing opera and he sings in the traditional manner the female parts in certain operas. The last part is the "Drunken Concubine" - Dimash is the male part and Li is the female part. There's a special name for what he does that I can't remember but someone else with provide that I'm sure.

BRAZIL - Hello dear Caleb, another great reaction and professional and personal comments on your part. I liked the duet, Dimash respects the art of any country and people, Li Yugang is very respected in Chinese Opera, is 41 years old and does not seem. She plays female roles and I love that traditional Chinese song, I think it's sad and beautiful. I saw a video of Li at a concert in Australia years ago. Dimash always rocking in the performances, either alone or in partnership, much respect for the colleague who sings with him, on the vocal limit. This spring festival in China seems to be beautiful, in colors, everything.

Thank you Caleb. Now you know why I said Dimash threw in a surprise during The Diva Dance part. I am also sure you know why Li plays the female roles.

Вы могли бы даже ничего не говорить, по вашей улыбке и глазам все понятно, спасибо 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🤗🤗🤗🥰💖🥰🤗🤗🤗👏👏👏👏👏👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Li is quite impressive though, i mean he's a male singer but he can sing with female voice,that's just crazy! really love your reaction!

Dimash's deep voice is probably supposed to be of the Emperor's voice. 😂 Li is doing the concubine's voice. At the end it sounded like they are crying...🌹 Thanks Caleb! 🥰

I love your analysis! Thanks for a new reaction to Dimash! He is amazing!!! greetings from Spain🇪🇸🇪🇸

Thank you for reviewing this song. Both Dimash and Li Yugang are excellent singers. I am learning so much about Chinese culture and opera! I think it is amazing how they integrated Diva Dance into this song. And that E7 by Dimash! Wow! Haven’t heard that since his Shenzhen concert. 👏👏😀😀🔥🔥🔥

As far as I can tell, Li Yu Gang singing technique is based on traditional Chinese Opera, a bit without throat resonance and extremely flexible in pitch bending.

Спасибо, дорогой Калеб, за крутую реакцию!!!!! Супер дуэт Димаш и Ли Юнгаг поразил всех нас своим шедевральным выступлением!!!!! Привет из России.

Shocked 🤯 in good way for sure, thanks Caleb 👌

Dimash e Li Yugang fizeram uma apresentação espetacular!! Dimash é Fenomenal e apaixonante! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏼👏🏿👏🏿👏🏽👏🏾😍😍😍🎶🎶🇧🇷🇧🇷

Hi Caleb I like your genuine reaction and analyzes 👏👍Dimash and Li Yugang matched together and it was indeed epic. Every artists has their own skills and music culture who will be repected to their listeners. So respect to Dimash and Li Yugang👍👏they sang it for the Chinese audience for their new year (lunar). Dimash always tries new things with other amazing singers😘because he always want to learn more 💕⭐️

Dimash is great without a doubt, however people should acknowledge that Li is great too. He even performed at the United Nation's HQ and Sydney Opera House, truly national treasure of China.

Калеб үлкен рақмет реакцияңыз үшін... Өте керемет орындалған, екеуі де өте әдемі орындап шықты!!!! 👌💝

Hi Caleb 🙋🏻‍♀️..Incredible performance of this duo, Dimash is spectacular always surprising, Diva Dance has finally sung again thanks Caleb for your analysis, an F7 is still great, many said a D8 but if you compare it with the previous one! Dance Diva, it's not a D 8! Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷🙋🏻‍♀️😘 I love your video reactions! 👌👍👏👏

Great reaction Caleb - Dimash & Li having no limits !! WOW !! Never have I heard Chinese Opera blended in such a way ! Simply stunning !!!

Hi my dear Friend , thanks for great reaction as always it is really weird that Dimash is adding to his voice day by day. I think he will soon reach the seventh octave😂😂 Anyway, the other singer forty-one year old he a very famous and great Chinese opera singer who is a female singer in Chinese opera because only males performs in Chinese opera. And it has a peculiar sound that relates to Chinese opera poetry and aesthetics💖💙

Thank you!❤ This was a really unusual meeting of East versus Western operatic styles, that I'm still not quite sure what to make of tbh, as my ears are so unused to the high nasal tones common to traditional Chinese "nan dan" opera - but what I *do* know, is that King Dimash absolutely smashed it from beginning to end, vocal fry F#1 to whistle tone F#7, and everything in between - a full six octaves of multi-tonal, multi-styled, powerful and pristine amazingness! 😮👌🤗

Димаш как всегда на высоте! Красавчик!!! Классно спел! Привет из Семея!

KEREMET BRAVO!!! 👏👏👏💐

Dimash me gusta, el otro chico me cansaría escucharle mucho rato, no aguantaría esa voz de gato... El final conjunto mejora y no está mal. Tu eres muy educado y ponderado. Gracias!

Por favor Caleb reacciona a vanguard de Dimash la canción para la película de Jackie Chan. El compuso la banda sonora también. Me encantan tus reacciones ❤️

Спасибо за реакцию👏👏👏

Были бы хотябы субтитры на русском, досмотрела бы до конца?!Лайк только из-за Димаша

Li has such a strange tone. It's quite interesting (although not as beautiful, warm, sweet, etc. as Dimash's). When Li goes up even higher, his tone becomes yet even more weird; at first it was borderline offputting but then I started liking those quirky sounds & tones. It's one of those things that's kind of a turn off at first then, after a few times, you kind of like it and you don't know why, lol. The way Dimash sounds is just so different and, to my untrained ears. It's not just his incredible amount of tones/timbres & colours but the technicalities of how he can add warmth and darkness to those upper sounds, not to mention the transitions & note-playing during sustains, etc. It really sounds special and like he's been training since a young child. I'm definitely going to search more of Li though. It's so interesting hearing him sing and, despite often not liking the sounds & tone he makes/uses, another side of me wants more of it, lol. Funny how the brain works.

Lo llaman la mejor voz del mundo !!! Ahí lo tienen la perfección , gran de DIMASH te saludo desde CHILE el fin del mundo

BRAZIL - Hello dear Caleb, another great reaction and professional and personal comments on your part. I liked the duet, Dimash respects the art of any country and people, Li Yugang is very respected in Chinese Opera, is 41 years old and does not seem. She plays female roles and I love that traditional Chinese song, I think it's sad and beautiful. I saw a video of Li at a concert in Australia years ago. Dimash always rocking in the performances, either alone or in partnership, much respect for the colleague who sings with him, on the vocal limit. This spring festival in China seems to be beautiful, in colors, everything.

Li Yugang is a famous Chinese traditional singer. He sings the female roles in these unique performances. He has a wonderful Wiki page. I love that Dimash who celebrates cultural music brings attention to another genre that many in the western world have never heard. Terrific! Good luck with your record. 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

Спасибо#@@@

Li Yugang is straight up taking the female's role in Chinese Opera and nailing it. Which is pretty hard, and that's just awesome.

fantastic duet

Thanks for this reaction. This duet requires a few viewings to really appreciate the unique style of Li if you are not used to hearing this style of singing. The blend with Dimash is quite stunning.

Dimash is incomparable still the best. His voice is unique and soothing.

Lmao, Dimash sang E1 to F#7 in a single song. That's 7 octaves Vocal range right there !!! 🤯

I always love to watch your Dimash Reactions!! Hope more to come !💢💥 Gracias !👍👌 #LegendDimash

Спасибо!

Димаш как не крути, все равно лучший!!!👍🏻

Dimash es incomparable e iniguable su voz hermosa y el hermoso todas sus dears siempre estaremos con el en este camino a su sueño

Димаш !!!

Keremet👏👏👏

Holy shiet, Li's harmonies are magical af!!!

CALEB MY DEAR!.....Dude. I have watched over 1000 reactions to Dimash. I know, I’ve got a problem -but forget that- This is now the best reactions I have ever seen to Dimash. You are super observant and appreciate many things that others do not. .........THANKS for your reactions to Dimash!!!!.....GREETINGS FROM A MEXICAN DEAR!...❤️🇲🇽❤️🇰🇿❤️

This is one of my favorites of Dimash duets. So modest at the beginning, but boy does it grow. Love the interactive nature of the two singers as well. Your analysis, of course, was topnotch.

😊👍👍👍

VERY GOOD THANK YOU

What an amazing duet and beautiful pruformance great reaction like always

Li is Chinese opera (Jing opera) singer. There are different type of Chinese opera in different area. Jing opera is popular Beijing and also is the national opera. And in Chinese opera males can play female role and females can play male role. It is common they need to practice different voice for the role. And the singing voices also have difference between young and old voice for both male and female roles. Li is famous for his lady role voice in the opera.

Hear those beats!! Smooth groves 💕💕💕 it! Each time I listen I hear something else. Then that whistle!!! Spectacular #Dimash and #Liyugang. Great reaction!

D. is the beast...

Li Yugang sounds more traditional Chinese style, that’s why the pitch is super straight and sounds a bit strange compared to Dimash’s

Toujours magnifique se beaux dimash love💖💖💖je l'adorrrrr💋🇧🇪merci👍👍👍

It was for the Chinese Spring Festival a few weeks ago. Thanls fir your reaction. Li is very famous in China and he is fascinating with his operatic woman voice- I checked our some of his performances and he is really good, the way he sings, he moves, his make up.

Dimash was Dimash. Love the different tones he produces in every song. Li , well, I liked his chinese opera singing except one part , the end of diva dance. Not my favourite sound in the entire performance,it kind of spoiled it for me. No offense to him, its just not my taste.

Hi Caleb thanks for reacting to this performance. It is my favourite Di duet since it came out recently. I'm not sure about the story either but I read somewhere that Di is singing the role of an Emperor of an ancient dynasty (hence the chair/throne), while Li sings the part of his beloved concubine, who has been sentenced to death for treason! They are singing about love and hate and life and death.

Hi Caleb, I LOVE watching your reactions as much as I LOVE Watching Dimash... I just loved everything about this...Li Yugang is apparently 41.. how do the Chinese people look so young... he plays a traditional role in Opera's "nan dan" which means he plays the Female role.. I Love his voice too.

Another great reaction, thanks! I did pre-order your album, glad to do that. Looking forward to hearing your new music 😃

Great reaction And Great Dimash!!!!!!!!😘👏

Mr li yugang is a famous Chinese singer for he has men n women's voices. Drunken is his chinese opera style song. His men's voice is so beautiful. His famous song in the world named" just met you" in men's voice only

Genial dueto! 💝 Abrazos desde Barcelona!

Дуэт👍👏👏👏💞

They both sound operatic, cant say Li is less operatic than Dimash, it's chinese opera style

Hello Cable! Dimsh win 1- 0 becaue Dimash sing the best than Yugang and poweful stongs! and sing he very high and Dimash is victory! But Yugang good singer are Dimash on 100% cool and powerful haha but his voicer such beatiful, It:s was pefomance duets Dimash and Yugang magick and awsome!

WOW GOOD

Who is Li? Think of Marcelito Pomoy, the Chinese version kind of person, but Li actually does Chinese Opera as well and is famous for that.

Great reaction to Dimash and Li singing Drunken Concubine and the Diva Dance. Great performances by both. Greetings from Amsterdam.

I simply have loved this duet!! I thought It was fantástic!! Dimash is always fhenomenal!!!♥️♥️😍😍🎶🎶💎💎💎💎🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

i made it 469 likes nice

Такого певца как Димаш не было и наверное не будет. Он подарок от Бога . Цените и кайфуйте 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🥳🥳🥳👍👍👍⚘⚘⚘😘😘😘🥇🥇🥇👏👏👏👏💐💐💐💐💖💖💖💖💖💖

Que locura es este chico Dimash,q maravilla

Another great reaction. "Drunken Concubine" is one of the masterpieces by Mei Lan-Fang, and is set in the Tang Dynasty (618-907). It is mostly a one-person show and tells a story of the emperor's beloved concubine Yang Yuhuan, also known as one of the Four Beauties of ancient China. The main character of this opera is Yang, played here by Li Yugang. Dimash takes on the role of the emperor. One night Yang arranges a banquet in the imperial garden and waits for the emperor to come, but he never shows up. Yang is informed by her eunuch servants that the emperor chose another concubine over her. She feels humiliated, furious and depressed. The opera shows the change of Yang's mood as she begins to drink heavily. "The icy moon rises above the island, making the world so clear," Yang says, expressing her feelings through lyrics and embeds her emotions onto the moon. Li Yugang specializes in "nándàn" roles, which is a male who plays a female role in Peking opera. The way he moves (knees bent together and those "meows" have a special meaning in the traditional opera). What is most amazing about Li is that he couldn't study at the university or conservatory of music, he is absolutely an autodidact which is so admirable. He is 42 years young. In 2009, he was invited to join the "China National Opera & Dance Drama Theater" and became China's First Class Artist (National Treasure). In that same year, Li Yugang was invited to perform at Sydney Opera House in Australia, only the second Chinese artist to have done so, and was awarded the Southern Cross Gold Prize for Culture by the Australian Government. He has become an icon in China's contemporary cultural scene. Dimash was invited to sing with him.

Loved both singers! It was very interesting when they sang together. 😀

СПАСИБО ЗА АКТИВНУЮ РЕАКЦИЮ И ЗА ТО ЧТО ВЫ ТОЖЕ МУЗЫКАНТ И ПОНИМАЕТЕ ДИМАШ ВСЕГДА В ЖИВУЮ. ДИМАШ ВСЕГДА НА 1 МЕСТЕ, ДИМАШ ПРОФССИОНАЛ МУЗЫКАНТ И ПРОФЕССИОНАЛ ВОКОЛИСТ ПЕВЕЦ ИЗ КАЗАХСТАНА. ОН ОЧЕНЬ СИЛЬНО ОТЛИЧАЕТСЯ ОТ ДРУГИХ ЛЮДЕЙ.

У вас красивая улыбка😍

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👏👏👏👏🇧🇷🇧🇷❤️🌹

Thanks for your reaction. Hello from Kazakhstan

Step out of the box. It's time to bring something new. Dimash is doing that. Music can lift or it can stagnate or it can desgrade our minds. We're stuck in a rut of mediocrity how. Dimash brought something fresh. The voice of an exquisite Chinese Opera singer (Li) and blended it with western style classical. Two different vocal types beautifully find a harmonic path together. It was wonderful.

Thanks so much for doing this reaction. I don't think this single performance is fully capable of showing how amazing Li is. I strongly recommend people to watch this song of Li's ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--S3hW1O27WQ.html . He sings all the parts, except for the rap of course lol. And it also shows his traditional opera looks.

Спасибо за реакцию

Thanks for another great reaction !! Dimash plays the Emperor and Li his favorite (drunken) concubine 👏👏👏 Great performance !!

Confessa/Diva dance, Drunken Concubine/Diva dance, Diva dance by itself....Perfect combination 👌. It looks they are enjoying, having fun. It's like to bake a cake. One ingredient is not enough, all ingredients together mixed by high class chef become a tastfull product. Please react to 'Swan goose" by Dimash ÷ Tengri.

Li Yuang sing with the clasic sound of the opera of PEKIN

Iv'e heard Dimash singing Diva Dance a lot of times already, but it still gives me chills. And that whistle and deep low growl. Wow! Speechless. He never dissappoints me. Dimash is indeed a very versatile and skilled singer. Not to mention Lu Yugang is also a great singer.