| Zhang Yuqi | |
| Native Name: | 张钰琪 |
| Other Names: | Rachel Zed |
| Birth Date: | 8 May 2002 |
| Birth Place: | Huangshi, Hubei, China |
| Alma Mater: | Berklee College of Music |
| Occupation: | Singer-songwriter |
| Years Active: | 2013–present |
| Website: | Sina Weibo |
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").
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.[1]
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.[1] On August 18 of the same year, she participated in the 2013 Daweishan (Hunan Province) summer festival camping music season "Cartoon Night" with another student of "Let's Sing Kids".[2] 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".[3] In the same year, she participated in the "Let's Sing Kids" (Second Season), and joined the Shang Wenjie class.[4] 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.[5] 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.[6]
On January 22, 2016, Zhang joined the 2016 "Chinese Culture Paradise" Excellent Talent Student Exchange Group hosted by Overseas Chinese Affairs Office[7] and went to Australia in mid-February.[8] [9] On May 1, she participated in the "To Sing for Love" Super Children's Star Charity Concert National Tour Changsha Station;[10] on the 28th, participated in the "Children's Dreams" Super Children's Charity Concert National Tour Foshan Station.[11] On June 18, part of the "Let's Sing Kids" participants participated in Ningxiang Lushan Maisheng Music Carnival.[12] On July 17, she participated in the Hunan IPTV parent-child singing program "The whole family sang children's songs" finals.[13] On October 1, participants of the "Let's Sing Kids " participated in the 2016 Maiji Music Festival.[14]
On January 2, 2017, she participated in the "Singing for Love" Super Child Singer Public Welfare Concert National Tour Wuhan Station.[15] In the same year, she graduated from Yingge Middle School in Wuhan.[11] And studied in an international school in Beijing and received the qualification of Berklee College of Music in the following year.[16] 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.[17] 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).[18] On October 31, 2019, Yuqi won the Future Shock Award of Freshasia Music Festival.[19] 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.[20]
| Date | Title | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 15, 2014 | Happy New Year | ||
| March 31, 2014 | Let's Adventure Together (Chinese: 我们去探险吧) | Theme song for "Crazy Maiji"[21] |
| Date | Title | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| June 29, 2019 | Baby Don't Cry | ||
| July 13, 2019 | Outside | ||
| July 27, 2019 | Answer (Chinese: 回答) | ||
| August 17, 2019 | Light of Heaven | ||
| August 24, 2019 | Another | ||
| August 24, 2019 | We Will Have a Clue (Chinese: 也许明天不再忧愁) |
| No. | Date | Songs covered by Yuqi | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st season EP11 | June 15, 2013 | I'm a Little Bird (Chinese: 我是一只小小鸟) | ||
| 1st season EP15 | July 7, 2013 | Free as a Dream (Chinese: 像梦一样自由) | ||
| Dreamer on Air (Chinese: 空中的梦想家) | ||||
| 1st season EP18 | July 28, 2013 | Initial Belief (Chinese: 最初的信仰) | ||
| Special issue | November 1, 2013 | Brave Heart (Chinese: 勇敢的心) | ||
| 2nd season EP2 | June 7, 2014 | For All Who Know My Name (Chinese: 给所有知道我名字的人) | ||
| 2nd season EP3 | June 14, 2014 | Guardian Dream (Chinese: 守护梦想) | ||
| 2nd season EP5 | June 28, 2014 | See You Again(Chinese: 再相见) | ||
| 2nd season EP7 | July 12, 2014 | Our Dream (Chinese: 我们的梦) | ||
| 2nd season EP10 | August 2, 2014 | Garrin Tribe (Chinese: 加林赛部落) | Received special mission award | |
| 2nd season EP11 | August 9, 2014 | Wish (Chinese: 心愿) | With Ruizhuo Wang | |
| 2nd season EP12 | August 16, 2014 | Journey (Chinese: 旅程) | ||
| 2nd season EP13 | August 23, 2014 | Back to Lhasa (Chinese: 回到拉萨) | With Xiangru Wang |
| No. | Date | Songs | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| EP2 | June 29, 2019 | Baby Don't Cry / Yuqi Zhang | Got six stars |
| The Moon Represents My Heart (Chinese: 月亮代表我的心) / Covered by Yuqi Zhang | Battled with other six-star participants and got five stars | ||
| EP3 | July 6, 2019 | Our Love (Chinese: 我们的爱) / Covered by Yuqi Zhang | Got three stars |
| EP4 | July 13, 2019 | Outside / Yuqi Zhang | Ranked eighth |
| EP5 | July 20, 2019 | Wave Rash (Chinese: 冲一波) / Covered by Yuqi Zhang | Got five stars |
| EP6 | July 27, 2019 | Answer (Chinese: 回答) / 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 (Chinese: 象牙舟) / 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 | 1st round | |
| Another / Yuqi Zhang | 2nd round, advanced to the top 3 | ||
| Blue Lotus (Chinese: 蓝莲花) /Covered by Yuqi Zhang | 3rd round, candidates for "the Strongest Label” | ||
| We Will Have a Clue (Chinese: 也许明天不再忧愁) / Yuqi Zhang | 4th round, won "the Strongest Label" (champion) |
| 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 (Chinese: 越策越开心) | Hunan TV Finance Channel | ||
| February 15, 2014 | Crazy Maiji (Chinese: 疯狂的麦咭) | Golden Eagle Cartoon TV | [22] | |
| September 12, 2014 | My Family Has a Star (Chinese: 我家有明星) | China BeijingTV Entertainment Channel | [23] | |
| February 6, 2016 | Children Welcomes the New Year (Chinese: 宝贝迎新春) | Hunan TV Entertainment Channel | [24] | |
| September 8, 2018 | Let's Sing Kids (fifth season) (Chinese: 中国新声代, 第五季) | Golden Eagle Cartoon TV | [25] | |
| October 27, 2019 | Happy Camp (Chinese: 快乐大本营) | Hunan TV Entertainment Channel | [26] |