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《歌唱祖国》非林妙可所唱 7岁杨沛宜幕后献声
　　中新网8月12日电 2008北京奥运会开幕式音乐总监陈其钢在一个专访中透露，开幕式上那首震撼人心的《歌唱祖国》并非舞台上的“微笑天使”林妙可所唱，那个稚嫩、真挚的声音来自一位7岁的小女孩杨沛宜。
　　陈其钢透漏，杨沛宜小朋友的落选主要是因为考虑到对外形象，是为了国家利益。
　　对陈其钢的这个说法，部分网友表示认同，称林妙可与杨沛宜都是“英雄”。但是也有网友进行了反驳，认为“假唱不好，让小孩假唱更甚”、“请把最后一点纯真留给孩子”。

杨沛宜是开幕式《歌唱祖国》真正演唱者（视频截图）。

林妙可被赞“微笑天使”。
    据悉，7岁的杨沛宜是北师大附中的学生，开幕式后，杨沛宜接受了央视记者的采访。当记者问她有没有觉得遗憾时，她回答说不遗憾，开幕式上有自己的声音已经很满足了。

Singer was Olympic ringer

Rowan Callick, China correspondent | August 13, 2008

LIN Miaoke, the cute nine-year-old girl whose solo "hymn to the motherland" added a human touch to last Friday's opening ceremony, has since been outed as a fake after being flooded with commercial offers.

The ceremony's music director, Chen Qigang, revealed that Lin had not been singing but miming to a recording by another girl, Yang Peiyi, who was dumped from the starring role because she wasn't as pretty and had uneven teeth.

And it has also been revealed that the dazzling chain of massive fireworks that traced Route One north from Tiananmen Square to the main Olympic zone during the opening ceremony, amazing television viewers and the audience in the Bird's Nest stadium, was mostly computer-generated.

Music chief Chen told Beijing People's Broadcasting Station that when the opening ceremony team began rehearsing in the Bird's Nest, leaders came from various government agencies to watch, "especially a leader from the Politburo, who gave us his opinion, this has to change".

Thus while Yang cut the best recording of the song, at the Central People's Radio Station, she could not be presented to the world because, Chen said, the national interest was at stake: "The child on camera had to be flawless in looks, in her feelings and in her expression."

Lin had earlier performed in a TV advertisement when she was only six, and in Olympic promotions. The state-owned China Daily yesterday described her as a "songbird", saying: "She is already well on her way to becoming a star, thanks to her heart-warming performance".

Chen said that the organisers had a responsibility to explain why they had made the switch: "It was the image of our national music, our national culture. And especially since it accompanied the arrival of the national flag in the arena, this was an extremely serious matter."

In the end, he said, the change resulted in "a perfect voice and perfect image, merged together".

He thought this was fair to both girls. He said: "When Lin Miaoke was singing (on Friday), she may not have realised that was not her own voice" echoing around the stadium.