- Ma Tianyu
Infobox Chinese-language singer and actor
name = Ma Tianyu
马天宇
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tradchinesename = 馬天宇
simpchinesename = 马天宇
pinyinchinesename = Ma Tiānyǔ
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birthdate = birth date and age|mf=yes|1986|07|12
birthplace =Dezhou ,Shandong , China
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othername = Ray Ma
occupation = Singer
genre =Mandopop
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label = Diantong Yule
yearsactive = 2006 – present
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website = [http://http://www.tianyu.tv/ Official website]
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awards =My Hero
2006 sixth place, most popularMa Tianyu is a Chinese pop artists who rose to fame after winning sixth place and "most popular" at the 2006
My Hero Competition, a Chinese talent competition. Since then, he has released two albums, a single, and an EP.Before My Hero
Ma Tianyu's mother died when he was five, and his father left the family while he was early. He lived with his grandparents and two older sisters until the age of sixteen. There, he helped his grandfather tend the family's cornfields. His two sisters both dropped out so that he could attend school. Even then, he had to skip one year of middle school because of lack of money. For a year, he worked for 150
Renminbi a month carrying water from one end of the town to the other.After finishing middle school, at the age of sixteen, he went with his uncle to Beijing to sell meat. A year later, their marketplace was taken down, and they worked in many other jobs, including washing cars, being a cashier, and selling fried buns, flat buns, noodles, shish kabobs, tofu, and soybean milk. To avoid being a car mechanic, as his uncle wanted him to be, he ran away with seven jiao (one-tenth of a
Renminbi . After spending four fen on a copy of his residence ID card, Ma Tianyu found a job at a restaurant cleaning dishes.In 2006, while working as a clothings assistant for a magazine, Ma decided to apply for the
Beijing Film Academy after suggestions by friends. To increase courage in preparation for the tests, he signed up for theMy Hero competition. [cite web|url=hhttp://tieba.baidu.com/%C2%ED%CC%EC%D3%EE/shipin/plays/%D7%DB%D2%D5%BD%DA%C4%BF/#|title=080706《背后的故事》|publisher=Hunan TV|accessdate=2008-10-08zh]Discography
External links
*zh [http://blog.sina.com.cn/matianyu Ma Tianyu's Sina Blog]
*zh [http://tieba.baidu.com/f?kw=%C2%ED%CC%EC%D3%EE Ma Tianyu's Baidu Bar]
*zh [http://www.tianyu.tv/ Official Website]
*zh [http://blog.sina.com.cn/diantongyule Company's Sina Blog]References
Persondata
NAME = Ma Tianyu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Ray Ma, Ma Tian Yu, Tianyu Ma,
zh-st|s=马天宇|t=馬天宇
SHORT DESCRIPTION = Artist, singer
DATE OF BIRTH = birth date and age|mf=yes|1986|07|12
PLACE OF BIRTH =Decheng ,Shandong , China
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