Before Yang was selected into the singing group of Singing the Motherland, he did not receive professional vocal training and did not have much performance experience. By chance, Pei Yi's parents learned that a vocal competition for primary and secondary schools was being held in Haidian District, Beijing, and took little Pei Yi to take part in it with a try attitude. Unexpectedly, she finally won the first prize for solo with a song she liked, which greatly exceeded her parents' expectations. This is the first affirmation that Yang, a first-grade elementary school student, got in the aspect of sound and music, and it is also her only award before the Olympic Games.
In 2008, Yang impressed the Olympic Organizing Committee with her flawless clear voice, unique voice and timbre, and the most simple emotion, which made her stand out among the children of many Olympic opening ceremony candidates and entrusted her with the important task of singing "Singing the Motherland" at the opening ceremony. On the second day of the opening ceremony, Zhang Yimou, the general director of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games, said emotionally at the press conference of "China Elements in the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games": "The most touching thing is that the little girl sang" Singing the Motherland ".
Perhaps the meaning of the word "motherland" is difficult for children to understand and express according to ordinary people, but the 7-year-old uses her innate talent voice to condense her love for the motherland in that familiar melody with singing. Without complicated skills and deliberate design, Xiao Peiyi tells people her ignorant attachment to the motherland with the most pure and natural children's voice.
Yang won the title of "the most beautiful voice of 2008" at the award ceremony of the 2008 China Jiaozi New Top List.
In 2009, at the age of eight, Yang signed a contract with the largest record company in the Chinese-speaking region, Gold Medal Dafeng, and became the junior of artists such as,,, Xu Wei and Niu Niu.
In September 2009, Yang's first EP (Singing for the Motherland/Don't Treat Me Like a Sheep) was officially released. The album not only contains the piano chorus version of Singing for the Motherland, which touched 4 billion audiences, but also reproduces the beautiful songs at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, and invited Niu Niu, a fellow piano prodigy, to accompany it. The two little geniuses performed together and presented the purest gifts to the children for the 60th birthday of the motherland. The album also includes the new theme song "Don't treat me as just a sheep" of the most popular cartoon Pleasant Goat and Big Big Big Wolf, which unfolds a fairy tale of a contest between justice and evil in Pei Yi's lively and sweet singing. In addition, Yang also performed these familiar classic nursery rhymes, such as Farewell, Lu, and River snail and oriole.
Let's hope that Yang, the most beautiful children's voice in China, will once again ignite the deep attachment of Chinese people around the world to the motherland and bring back the purest and best childhood memories for us. On her brand-new music road, it brings us a steady stream of touches and surprises.