Rock band helps struggling musicians

In December 2020, the band donated half of the income of their new album, The Crossing, to five groups of indie musicians. It was more than 60,000 yuan ($9,200). The rest of the income was donated to a charity organization focusing on people with depression.

Miserable Faith marked their 20th anniversary in 2019.

From March 2 to 15, 2019, the band toured six cities in Yunnan province. They donated all the income of that tour-more than 250,000 yuan-to local schools to help pay for music classrooms, purchase musical instruments and teaching materials, and train music teachers.

"We want to invite more people to join us and hopefully this project will be running long, so we can share music and find more ways to help," says Gao.

One of the highlights of their upcoming shows will be a performance in Guizhou where they will perform along with a band from the Haiga Elementary School.

In July 2020, a video clip of the students covering a Miserable Faith single, Sing for You, became an online sensation overnight, and was viewed about 60 million times on microblogging platform Sina Weibo.

On July 24, the four band members: Gao, guitarist Song Jie, bassist Zhang Jing and drummer Chi Gongwei, went to the school, which is about 2,900 meters above sea level and halfway up a mountain in Liupanshui, Guizhou province, to meet the students. There they met Gu Ya, who has taught the Chinese language in the school since 2016 and helped the students perform the song.