Han Lei

Biography

Han Lei, also known as Senbur, is a Chinese singer of Mongolian ethnicity, born on February 23, 1968 in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia. His father was Han Chinese and a veteran of the Second Chinese Civil War, while his mother was Mongolian and a kindergarten teacher; Han Lei was registered as Mongolian following his mother. He studied trombone at the Central Conservatory of Music middle school in Beijing from 1982 to 1988, where he was a schoolmate of Jing Gangshan and Wang Feng. He worked as a trombonist in the Inner Mongolia Symphony Orchestra from 1989 to 1991. He entered the Chinese pop music scene in July 1991 when he participated in a large Beijing performance titled "New Voices, New Sounds" and sang "爱情飞蛾". Han Lei has sung hundreds of TV drama and film theme songs, which according to his own count exceed seven hundred. He achieved major success in 2001 when he sang the theme song "向天再借五百年" for the hit series "康熙王朝". He married his wife Qiqi Ge (Wang Yan) in 2007 and they have a son and a daughter. He founded his own cultural media company in 2009. He participated in "I Am a Singer" in late 2013 and won the championship in 2014, becoming the first contestant to win five times and six times in the show's history. He was appointed as a charity ambassador for the program "变形计" due to his background as a rural child left at home.