Zhang Yuqi

Zhang Yuqi (; born May 8, 2002), also known as Rachel Zhang, is a Chinese singer-songwriter. In 2013, she participated in the Children's Singing Program of Hunan Television "Let's Sing Kids" and received attention. In 2019, she won the championship in the Tencent Video music talent show "The Coming One Girls" (also known as "The Coming One 3").

Life and career On May 8, 2001, Yuqi was born in Huangshi, Hubei, China. She learned singing, composing and dancing at an early age. In 2009, she moved to Wuhan, studied at Wuhan Experimental Foreign Language School and joined the school chorus. In 2011, she got the first place in the city's campus personal performance of red song singing. In October 2012, she participated in the "Rolling Stone 30" concert in Wuhan Station with the school chorus, and sang the opening song "Happy Paradise". Since then, Zhang Yuqi began to accept regular vocal training.

In 2013, she participated in the Children's Singing Program of Hunan Television "Let's Sing Kids" (first season), and joined the Hu Haiquan (Chinese singer) class, won the name of "a musical nuclear weapon". After the program, her performance received a lot of attention. Her video was posted on Sina Weibo and was once ranked fourth in the platform. In 2014, Zhang Yuqi and some of the participants of the season formed a "Let's Sing Kids (first season)" combination, and released on August 8 of that year—the first EP "New Sound Class one". In the same year, she participated in the "Let's Sing Kids" (Second Season), and joined the Shang Wenjie class. On September 20, Zhang Yuqi, Pan Yunqi and Lv Xingyang of " Let's Sing Kids 2" participated in the closing ceremony of the Golden Eagle Cartoon Maiji Children's Art Festival. On November 14, 2015, together with Pan Yunqi and Golden Eagle Cartoon "Flying Family", she participated in the Hunan Southern Special Joy World "Fangte Night • Mango FAN" Carnival Carnival.

On January 22, 2016, Zhang joined the 2016 "Chinese Culture Paradise" Excellent Talent Student Exchange Group hosted by Overseas Chinese Affairs Office and went to Australia in mid-February. On May 1, she participated in the "To Sing for Love" Super Children's Star Charity Concert National Tour Changsha Station; on the 28th, participated in the "Children's Dreams" Super Children's Charity Concert National Tour Foshan Station. On June 18, part of the "Let's Sing Kids" participants participated in Ningxiang Lushan Maisheng Music Carnival. On July 17, she participated in the Hunan IPTV parent-child singing program "The whole family sang children's songs" finals. On October 1, participants of the "Let's Sing Kids " participated in the 2016 Maiji Music Festival.

On January 2, 2017, she participated in the "Singing for Love" Super Child Singer Public Welfare Concert National Tour Wuhan Station. In the same year, she graduated from Yingge Middle School in Wuhan. In June 2019 She joined in the Tencent Video music talent show "The Coming One Girls" (also named "The Coming One 3") as a "Restart" track entrant. And finally on August 24, with 4.07 million points of support to win the title of "the strongest label" for the season (i.e., the champion). On October 31, 2019, Yuqi won the Future Shock Award of Freshasia Music Festival. She attended the 2020 Breakthrough Prize ceremony at NASA's Ames Research Center on November 3, 2019, in Mountain View, California, and sang her own song "Outside" for the ceremony.

Discography Let's Sing Kids (first season) Studio album No. Class Date Title Notes 1 Class 1 of Let's Sing Kids August 8, 2014 Sunny Sky Wish The End (Solo) Never (Solo) The Leading Role (Mr.主角) (Solo) Guardian angel Galaxy on Summer Night Happy New Year

The Coming One Girls (The Coming One 3) Singles Date Title Notes June 29, 2019 Baby Don't Cry July 13, 2019 Outside July 27, 2019 Answer August 17, 2019 Light of Heaven August 24, 2019 Another August 24, 2019 We Will Have a Clue

Television shows Let's Sing Kids No. Date Songs covered by Yuqi Notes 1st season EP11 June 15, 2013 I'm a Little Bird 1st season EP15 July 7, 2013 Free as a Dream Dreamer on Air 1st season EP18 July 28, 2013 Initial Belief Special issue November 1, 2013 Brave Heart 2nd season EP2 June 7, 2014 For All Who Know My Name 2nd season EP3 June 14, 2014 Guardian Dream 2nd season EP5 June 28, 2014 See You Again 2nd season EP7 July 12, 2014 Our Dream 2nd season EP10 August 2, 2014 Garrin Tribe Received special mission award 2nd season EP11 August 9, 2014 Wish With Ruizhuo Wang 2nd season EP12 August 16, 2014 Journey 2nd season EP13 August 23, 2014 Back to Lhasa With Xiangru Wang

The Coming One Girls (The Coming One 3) No. Date Songs NotesEP2 June 29, 2019 Baby Don't Cry / Yuqi Zhang Got six stars The Moon Represents My Heart / Covered by Yuqi Zhang Battled with other six-star participants and got five stars EP3 July 6, 2019 Our Love / Covered by Yuqi Zhang Got three stars EP4 July 13, 2019 Outside / Yuqi Zhang Ranked eighth EP5 July 20, 2019 Wave Rash / Covered by Yuqi Zhang Got five stars EP6 July 27, 2019 Answer / Yuqi Zhang Ranked second EP7 August 3, 2019 Don't Break My Heart / Covered by Yuqi Zhang Got six stars, advanced to the top 14 EP8 August 10, 2019 Ivory boat / Cooperated with Eric Tsai (or Weize Cai, from band "Fool and Idiot") Ranked first, advanced to the top 8 EP9 August 17, 2019 Light of Heaven / Yuqi Zhang Advanced to the top 4 EP10 August 24, 2019 I Don't Care / Cooperated with Hua Chenyu 1st round Another / Yuqi Zhang 2nd round, advanced to the top 3 Blue Lotus /Covered by Yuqi Zhang 3rd round, candidates for "the Strongest Label” We Will Have a Clue / Yuqi Zhang 4th round, won "the Strongest Label" (champion)

Other shows Date Program Platform Notes July 24, 2013 Happy Baby Go (快乐宝贝GO) Golden Eagle Cartoon TV August 10, 2013 More Talk More Happy Hunan TV Finance Channel February 15, 2014 Crazy Maiji Golden Eagle Cartoon TV September 12, 2014 My Family Has a Star China BeijingTV Entertainment Channel February 6, 2016 Children Welcomes the New Year Hunan TV Entertainment Channel September 8, 2018 Let's Sing Kids (fifth season) Golden Eagle Cartoon TV October 27, 2019 Happy Camp Hunan TV Entertainment Channel