Guo Degang | |
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Chinese name | 郭德綱 (traditional) |
Chinese name | 郭德纲 (simplified) |
Pinyin | Guō Dégāng (Mandarin) |
Born | January 18th, 1973 Tianjin, China |
Occupation | Xiangsheng actor |
Spouse(s) | Wang Hui |
Website | www |
Guo Degang (Chinese: 郭德纲) is a Chinese comedian and xiangsheng actor. His master was Hou Yaowen.
Guo Degang was born in Tianjin. He began to learn the art of storytelling, pingshu (评书), when he was 8 years old.
Guo went to Beijing in 1995 and established Deyun She (德雲社), a xiangsheng performance theater, in 1996. He started in teahouses and achieved nationwide fame.
His elder son was born in February 1996 named Guo Qilin, who is a performer in Deyun She and a student of Yu Qian. His younger son was born in January 2015.