Singers involved in lip-synching to be punished

July 26, 2005
http://www.acappellanews.com/archive/000856.html

Xinhua (China):

China will severely punish any firm or singer involved in lip-synching, according to the newly revised Administrative Regulations Governing Commercial Art Performances. The regulations stipulate that any firms or individuals who deceive audiences by creating conditions for singers to lip-synch will be exposed.

The business licenses of performances organizing companies and art troupes will be revoked if their wrong-doing is laid bare twice within two years. The business licenses of singers whose lip-synching is laid bare for the second time within two years will be withdrawn as well. "To make a lot of money, some companies always make an overstatement about the performances in order to cheat audiences into the theaters, but the audiences feel they are fooled after seeing the performances," the regulations say.

To guard against such illegal practices, the new regulations explicitly state that no names of commercial performances are allowed to be proceeded with such words as "China", "Chinese", "national" or "international". All advertisements for commercial performances must be authentic, lawful and free of any misguiding and cheating, the regulations say.

I thought you were kidding! Wow.

I think China still uses corporal punishment too...

Not to mention general anesthesia....

That is awesome.

Good ol' totalitarianism.

I guess Britney Spears won't be performing there anytime soon.

Or Milli Vanilli!

They should ban swapping out "ugly" kids for "pretty" kids to "better represent" their country, too.

HA! that made me laugh out loud Royal.

Chinese pop duo facing government fines for miming during live show
Miming onstage is banned following Olympics controversy

January 25, 2010
http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/49398



Two Chinese singers are facing fines for allegedly miming during a gig last year.

Yin Youcan and Fang Ziyuan are accused of lip-synching and face fines of up to £7,400, reports BBC News.

The firm that organised the show has claimed they are dancers and that they don't know where they are currently living.

Miming during live shows is banned in China by the Ministry Of Culture. As well as fines, professionals who are found to have mimed twice in a two-year period face having their performing licenses revoked.

The measures were introduced following the Beijing Olympic Games opening ceremony in 2008. During the show a Chinese girl mimed to the voice of another girl singer, who was not deemed pretty enough to perform.

Wow.................

It's hard being mediocre (Even in China)

BEIJING (Reuters) - Two Chinese singers have become the first people in the country to fall foul of new rules banning lip-synching nearly two years after widespread criticism of miming at the Beijing Olympics' opening ceremony.

The two young female singers were spotted lip-synching during a concert in southwestern China's Chengdu city last year, the official Xinhua news agency said on its website (http://www.xinhuanet.com).

"No signals were received from their microphones while the show was on," it quoted an official with the local government's cultural affairs office as saying.

The two have been fined 50,000 yuan (4,767 pounds) each, Xinhua added.

China's feisty internet users frequently blame famous singers of short-selling their fans by lip-synching on stage.

But some have also wondered why these first fines were levelled against two almost unknown singers rather than more famous stars.

"Why do they choose to keep their eyes closed when it's a famous singer miming?" one commentator wrote on the website of the Beijing Daily.

Lip-synching, known as "fake singing" in Chinese, burst into the open during 2008's Beijing Olympics.

China's Olympic organisers were lambasted by Internet users and in the media after they admitted a nine-year-old girl lip-synched during the opening ceremony, in place of the real singer who was rejected because of her appearance.

The Culture Ministry then issued an edict formally banning lip-synching and threatened to revoke the performance licences of repeat offenders.

(Reporting by Huang Yan and Ben Blanchard)

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/odd/704765 ... p-synching

I hear that polls can mean the death penalty at the Chinese IMWAN.

This is both so right & so wrong at the same time!!!!