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    Hitting The Right Notes

    Jan 20, 2022 4 minutes
    By Li Nan
    Copyedited by Elsbeth van Paridon

    Annie Kathryn Lowdermilk, an American singer and actress living in Beijing, has a beautiful face yet a very masculine Chinese name—Tang Bohu, named after a Casanova poet and painter who lived during China’s Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). “He’s a crazy genius and I like a little bit of crazy, I think that’s important in art,” Lowdermilk told Beijing Review.

    The 31-year-old has done many outside-the-box things during her time in China: fusing Chinese traditional music, such as Peking Opera, with Western pop music; competing in Chinese music shows; acting in Chinese comedies; and hosting TV galas—in Chinese.

    Accidental yet fundamental

    Lowdermilk ended up in China’s showbiz pretty much by

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