Lang Lang, Faye Wong join China online tribute concerts for ordinary heroes who helped overcome coronavirus pandemic

Zhou Xun sang a cappella and Coco Lee did a dance at home for first live-streamed concert; Karen Mok and Cai Xukun will be among the performers in second one

Concerts follow American singer Lady Gaga’s global tribute concert, which had few Chinese stars performing and was not shown in China

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Hong Kong-born American singer-songwriter Coco Lee broke into a hot dance and belted out her trademark song Di Da Di for the Believe in the Future concert tribute to those who helped overcome the coronavirus pandemic. Photo: Believe in the Future

Published: 8:15pm, 5 May 2020Updated: 8:15pm, 5 May 2020

Some of China’s top musical artists have come together this week for a series of live-streamed concerts paying tribute to those who helped overcome the coronavirus outbreak.

Faye Wong, Gloria Tang Tsz-kei, and classical pianists Lang Lang and his wife, Gina Alice Redlinger, are among those performing in the three-part series “Believe in the Future”, billed as a tribute to “every ordinary individual who has worked hard to overcome the Covid-19 pandemic”.

The first concert, which featured more than 130 performers, was streamed on May 4. The second will be streamed on Wednesday evening; no date for streaming the final concert has been announced.

In April, American singer Lady Gaga organised “One World: Together at Home”, a cross-platform concert in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the charity Global Citizen, but Lang Lang was the only artist from mainland China to perform and the event was not shown there.

Lang Lang and his wife, Gina Alice Redlinger, perform Ode to the Yellow River on two pianos to close out the first of three “Believe in the Future” concert tributes to coronavirus fighters. Photo: Believe in the Future

The first of the three concerts, which lasted two hours, featured Wong performing with Chang Shilei. The singer adapted the lyrics of her popular song Mortal World, belting out inspirational lyrics including the line that a beautiful sky must come after rainstorms.