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{{Short description|Nigerian Chinese-language singer}}
{{Distinguish|Haoge}}
{{BLP one source|date=February 2022}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}}
{{Use Nigerian English|date=July 2022}}
{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians -->
| honorific_prefix = 
| name             = Brother Hao
| background       = solo_singer
| image            = 
| caption          = 
| birth_name       = Emmanuel Uwechue
| alias            = Hao Ge, Brother Hao
| birth_date       = {{birth year and age|1973}}
| birth_place      = [[Lagos]], [[Nigeria]]
| origin           = [[Nigeria]]
| death_date       = 
| genre            = [[Mandopop]]<br>[[Country music|Country]]
| occupation       = Singer
| instrument       = Vocals
| years_active     = 2006–present
| label            = 
| website          = 
| Associated Acts  = 
}}

'''Emmanuel Uwechue''', known by his [[stage name]] '''Brother Hao''' ({{zh|c=郝歌|p=Hǎo Gē}}), is a Nigerian singer. He rose to fame through a performance with [[Han Hong (singer)|Han Hong]] on the ''[[CCTV New Year's Gala]]'' and has emerged as one of the most notable foreign singers in [[China]].<ref name="wang">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/arts/music/hao-ge-a-nigerian-becomes-a-pop-star-in-china.html?pagewanted=all|title=Nigerian Finds Pop Stardom in Beijing|last=Wang|first=Jimmy|date=15 March 2011|work=[[New York Times]]|access-date=4 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110320111808/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/arts/music/hao-ge-a-nigerian-becomes-a-pop-star-in-china.html?pagewanted=all|archive-date=20 March 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Career==
Uwechue began his singing career in the choir at House on the Rock Pentecostal Church in [[Lagos]], Nigeria.<ref name="wang"/> He received a degree in [[engineering]], and began to pursue a singing career, which led his father to disown him. Before getting his career off the ground in China, he was a country music singer.<ref name="wang"/> In 2001, a friend advised Uwechue to move to Beijing, where he started performing at bars and hotels.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2013-06-21 |title=Hao Ge: An African super star singer in China |url=https://masharikiradio.wordpress.com/2013/06/21/hao-ge-an-african-super-star-singer-in-china/ |access-date=2023-07-17 |website=Mashariki |language=en}}</ref> At the Big Easy Bar in Beijing in 2006, he was discovered by [[Liu Huan]], a well-known music producer, who helped him learn [[Mandarin Chinese]]. In the same year, he participated in the TV show [[Xingguang Dadao|Xing Guang Da Dao]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name="wang"/>

In 2011, a video of Uwechue singing the Mao-era patriotic song [[Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China]] was posted on YouTube. <ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk9NLUyYEpw&ab_channel=Roger | title=非洲小伙好兄弟 唱红歌已无法自拔 | website=[[YouTube]] | date=29 May 2011 }}</ref> It became a viral video, and helped to increase his fame on the Internet both within and outside China. "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk9NLUyYEpw 非洲小伙好兄弟 唱红歌已无法自拔]"

in 2017, a video of Uwechue was uploaded with him singing Honghu Water and Liuyang River posted on youtube "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xotXHjKHqY African Chinese Man Brother Hao Sings Honghu Water and Liuyang River]"

==Discography==
* ''Red and Black'' (2006)
* ''Hao Ge’s Latest Songs'' (2008)
* ''Beloved Life'' (2009)

==See also==
{{Portal|Biography|Nigeria|China}}
*[[Lou Jing (singer)|Lou Jing]]

==References==
{{reflist|30em}}

==External links==
*{{URL|http://www.cctv.com/tvonline/special/haoge/03/|Hao Ge}} on [[China Central Television]]
*{{Facebook|Emmanueluwechuehaoge}}

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[[Category:1981 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Mandopop singers]]
[[Category:Nigerian expatriates in China]]
[[Category:Musicians from Lagos]]
[[Category:21st-century Nigerian male singers]]
[[Category:Maoists]]