For Ouyang Nana, the 18-year-old Taiwanese cellist and actress, life is about having and making choices, and fame is just one of them.
Ouyang was just six years old when she took up playing the cello. At 10, she performed solo, live on national television. On her 12th birthday, she held a birthday recital at the Chinese Culture University’s concert hall in Taipei, performing a slew of classical pieces for a hundred attendees. In the same month, she pulled off her first solo cello recital at Taipei’s National Concert Hall of Taiwan. It was an admirable undertaking for such a young girl, one that the local media still mention in their articles today.
Yet, such success didn’t come easy for Ouyang. Those early years were marked by unceasing practice and tenacity in spirit to give it all she had. “Everyone has a certain determination in different fields, but especially in the things that they enjoy — that is if you are able to find that one thing. And I found something that I enjoyed when I was young,” says Ouyang.
This story is from the October 2018 edition of T Singapore: The New York Times Style Magazine.
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