INSPIRED BY SOUND OF MUSIC

Chelsea Guo was touched by the emotion of musical expression as a child. She now revels in evoking the same feeling in others through her performances, Chen Nan reports.

For her third birthday, Chelsea Guo received a CD and a DVD of the film, The Sound of Music, as a gift from a friend of her mother. It wasn't long before the little girl became infatuated with the 1965 film - which was adapted from the 1959 Broadway musical of the same title - watching the DVD every day and listening to the CD in her parents' car whenever they would have to drive somewhere. She even played out the roles and sang the songs for fun at home.

"I was fascinated by it," recalls Guo. "I can sing every single song in the film. Music is the most natural way of expression. When the characters are excited, they sing. When they are sad, they sing."