Hip Hop Grannies
posted by ModeratorFiled under: Truth that's Stranger than Fiction
Wu Ying was in her sixties when she fell in love with hip hop music and started dancing. She then organized a group of 30 women in China to learn and perform hip hop dance moves. The youngest is 48, but most are in their 60s. Now Wu is 71 years old, and the group has won numerous awards and will perform at the Olympics in Beijing.
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China grannies take hip-hop over hip replacements, by Kitty Bu, Reuters, December 7, 2007
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