It was a beautiful Saturday morning as I watched CCTV. A programme it calls ICON came up and was greeted by an inspiring interview with a musical genius named Xuefei Yang. She sounded inspiring and played awesomely, I soon fell in love with every bit of the programme. It led me to Xuefei Yang’s official website, www.xuefeiyang.com, where I found more information about her. This ICON show on CCTV truly made my day. Xuefei’s story started from childhood when she began learning to play the guitar, an instrument she describes as western and therefore alien to the Chinese music culture. She had her first public performance at age 10.