Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Guo Yi (musician)


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The result was keep. However, sourcing in the article as of right now needs substantial improvement. (non-admin closure) ~ Aseleste  (t, e &#124; c, l) 08:58, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

Guo Yi (musician)

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Fails WP:NMUSIC not enough available coverage. Sanketio31 (talk) 17:28, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
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Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.  The book has an entry about the Guo Brothers. The book notes, "Born in Peking, China, Guo brothers Yue and Yi followed the footsteps of their father, a singer and erhu (Chinese violin) player, and studied China's folk and classical musical traditions. They mastered many instruments in spite of their extreme poverty (at one stage the brothers were forced to pay for their music lessons with cooking oil). ... while Yi played the sheng (Chinese mouth organ) with the Peking Film Orchestra, with whom he recorded over 200 soundtracks. In 1983, Yue moved to England to study at London's Guildhall School of Music. Soon afterwards his brother joined him and together they formed the Guo Brothers group, that also featured Chinese percussion."  The book has an entry called "Guo Brothers". The book notes that Guo Yi was born in 1954. Raised in "a musicians' courtyard in Beijing", he was a musical pupil in the middle of the Cultural Revolution with his brother, Guo Yue, who was born in 1958. He and his brother immigrated to London at the beginning of the 1980s. The duo "built up a following busking in Covenant Garden". They subsequently composed film scores for The Killing Fields and The Last Emperor. Guo Yi's musical instrument is the sheng, "an ancient Chinese mouth organ".  The book notes, "In the UK, the Guo Brothers, Yi and Yue, two classically trained instrumentalists, have worked in a range of formats since their arrival in 1974. Guo Yi plays sheng, a portable mouth-blown organ, of which he was a prominent soloist with the Peking Film Orchestra, while the flautist Guo Yue is a former member of the Chinese Army Orchestra. Both formidable musicians, the Guos worked their way up from busking in London's Covent Garden to participating in the creation of the score to Bertolucci's film The Last Emperor and making solo albums such as 'Yuan', on the Virgin-owned Real World label."  The article notes, "WOMAD tour by the Guo brothers—Guo Yue, who plays Chinese flutes, and Guo Yi, specializing in the sheng, a hand-held mouth organ. Yuan, the Guo Brothers' recording on the Real World label, offers an excellent sampling of their music for Western listeners. It combines Chinese classical music, with its delicacy and grace, and lively folk songs that bear the stamp of the many outside influences absorbed into the long-standing traditional Chinese Han culture. Traditional melodies, in some cases transposed from works made famous by other instruments such as the lute-like pipa, are arranged in a manner that proudly displays their origins while modernizing their interpretation. ..."  The book notes: "When Guo Yue's was a young boy in China, his father, a respected musician, died. His mother was sent away, the result of the Cultural Revolution. Guo Yue and his brother, Guo Yi, grew up in a Beijing ghetto, a musicians' compound where they learned to play a variety of musical instruments. ... Yi became expert with the ancient sheng (a handheld mouth organ). ... Yi became involved with film, eventually composing hundreds of soundtracks. </li> <li> The book has an entry about the Guo Brothers. The book notes: "Guo Yue and Guo Yi with the help of their sister Yan formed one of China's famous folk musical ensembles in the 1980s and went on to record their music and work on music soundtracks. Since then, they have performed at various venues and festivals throughout Wales, including the Sherman Theatre Cardiff and the Pontardawe International Folk Festival."</li> <li> The article notes, "Two Chinese brothers, Guo Yi and Guo Yue, are wonderfully astonished at their new popularity, for exploration and exposition of Chinese Folk Music on flue and sheng (a mini pipe-organ, blown): forlorn bending pentatonic wails, mimetic virtuosity."</li> <li> The book notes: "The Guo Brothers (Guo Yue and Guo Yi) come from a musical family, and distinguished themselves as young woodwind players in official Chinese orchestras. After leaving China, their musical horizons have broadened, but still reflect the austerity and poise of their native traditions."</li> </ol>There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Guo Yi to pass Notability, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". Cunard (talk) 08:42, 18 April 2021 (UTC) </li></ul>
 * Keep per the sources found by Cunard ! Definitely meets WP:GNG and WP:BASIC. VocalIndia (talk) 06:48, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep as per the multiple reliable sources significant coverage identified by Cunard in this discussion including a number of book sources that show a pass of WP:GNG so that deletion is unnecessary in my view, Atlantic306 (talk) 00:11, 23 April 2021 (UTC)


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