Zhang Yixing

essential information

Zhang Yixing (lay), born in Changsha City, Hunan Province on October 7, 1991, is a male pop singer and film actor in mainland China, and a member of Korean male singing group exo / exo-m.

In 2005, he took part in the "Star Academy" competition of Hunan TV and won the third place in the finals. In 2008, through the selection of S.M. casting system in China, he became a trainee of South Korea SM company. In April 2012, he officially appeared as a member of exo group and its sub team exo-m.

On April 8, 2015, he set up a personal studio in China; in May, he joined the inspirational experience reality show extreme challenge, which attracted wide attention. In June 2016, he won the best supporting actor award in the 4th China UK film festival for his love comedy "ex 2: fight back with spare tire"; in the same year, he released his first creative album "LoseControl", and won two awards for the annual album of the annual grand ceremony of Yinyue V list and the best male singer in the mainland. In October 2017, she released her second album sheep; in the same year, she was nominated for the best supporting actor award of the 9th Macau International Film Festival for her war movie Jianjun Daye. In January 2018, he participated in iqiyi variety show "idol trainee", and released the album "dream never falls rain forest" in the same year.

On September 2, 2018, the Research Report on the social responsibility of Chinese film and television stars (2017-2018) was released, and Zhang Yixing ranked fourth. In August 2019, Forbes released the list of China's 100 celebrities, and Zhang Yixing ranked 11th. On August 27, 2020, Zhang Yixing ranked fifth on the Forbes 2020 China celebrity list.

Early experience

Zhang Yixing was born in Changsha City, Hunan Province. When he was 6 years old, he took part in the contemporary rural TV drama "we common people" and studied in the middle school affiliated to Hunan Normal University. In 2000, she participated in Lin Zhiying's music club and sang songs. She first came into contact with the TV screen. In 2005, he took part in the competition of Star College of Hunan Economic TV and won the third place in the finals. After the competition, Zhang Yixing went back to school to continue his studies. During the school period, he would participate in the performance of the school culture and Art Festival.

In 2008, Zhang Yixing was selected by S.M. casting system in China to become a trainee of SM company in South Korea.

Acting experience

In December 2010, Zhang Yixing participated as an open trainee in the dance performance of the company's SHINee Japan tour concert, replacing the injured member Zhong Xuan.

Zhang Xingo, the only member of the Chinese men's solo dance group, made his debut as "exsmo" on August 29, 2012 ”Participate in the special stage performance of SBS ballad war s.m.theperformance.

In December 2013, exo returned with the Christmas special album "miracle of December", while Zhang Yixing's piano performance on stage was recognized by the media and professional musicians. In the exo Japan Fanming held in April 2014, Zhang Yixing performed piano accompaniment again.

On May 23, 2014, Zhang Yixing composed "i'mlay" publicly in the exo Seoul concert. Since June, he has conducted activities in China in his own name, successively presided over "music storm list", "global Chinese Music List", and participated in the recording of "Star kitchen arrived", "star's chamber of secrets" and "time show" and other variety shows. On September 19, the special reporter was invited to participate in the concert The special program of Incheon Asian Games of CCTV-5 visited the studio of CCTV. On December 31, I'm coming, a self-made track, was released again in the new year's concert of Hunan Satellite TV and showed my dancing skills.

On February 11, 2015, Zhang Yixing, together with Zhang Quanling, Ren Luyu and Liu Yan, presided over the CCTV network Spring Festival Gala, served as a sharing ambassador, interacted with the performing guests and netizens; on March 7, at the second tour concert of exo in Seoul, Zhang Yixing made public his own composition "agreement", which was also included in the exo album "love right", and he was the first to have his own original music included in the portfolio On May 13, he joined Oriental satellite TV as a regular guest to experience the reality show "extreme challenge"; on September 17, his first growth record book "Erli · 24" was on sale for 24 minutes, refreshing the book industry's new record of pre-sale activities with nearly 70000 copies; on October 7, Zhang Yixing announced five original new songs at his birthday party for the first time; on October 10, exo became a new star Zhang Yixing became the first Chinese artist to perform in Korea's giant egg. On November 3, he won the most influential all-round artist in Asia's influential Oriental grand ceremony. On November 6, he played in the romantic comedy ex 2: fight back with the spare tire, and composed lyrics and performed the theme song "one man" in person. On November 15, he attended the "fengcong" concert "Dongfanglai" entertainment influence grand ceremony and won the annual Music Pioneer Award; on December 4, Zhang Yixing's first big screen work "from the sky" was released, and wrote lyrics and music for the film and sang the theme song "happy youth"; on December 18, Zhang Yixing confirmed his leading role in the fashion love comedy "shut up! He plays the leading role in the film, Chinese singer Han Bin. Good Mr. Cai

On January 15, 2016, the comedy suspense "extreme challenge" starring Zhang Yixing was released; on April 9, Zhang Yixing won two personal awards of the most popular film song and the most popular newcomer of the year in the 16th annual music awards with his original song "one person"; on April 17, he continued to join "extreme challenge Season 2"; on May 27, Zhang Yixing published solo original single On May 31, he took part in his first urban emotional drama "Mr. good", in which he played a rookie who loves cooking and pursues dreams, and nominated the 22nd Huading Award for the best new actor in China's top 100 TV series. On June 26, Zhang Yixing won the best supporting actor in the 4th China UK film festival for his love comedy "ex 2: fight back with spare tire" On July 4, the Republic of China suspense drama laojiumen, starred by Zhang Yixing, was broadcasted. Zhang Yixing played the elegant, gentle and affectionate Changsha Huagu opera star February red. After the broadcast, the drama broke the annual TV weekly ratings record with an average audience rating of 1.138%, and the network broadcast volume exceeded 10 billion, becoming the first self-made drama breaking 10 billion in the history of the whole network. On October 7, the first original so was released "Whatuneed" is the first song of the album "Lo". The MV of this song has been open for 21 hours, and the number of overseas official platform YouTube has exceeded one million. Zhang Yixing has become the Chinese singer whose MV has exceeded one million on the YouTube platform. At the same time, it has set a new record of SM Entertainment's male artist Solo's best hit on YouTube on the first day. On October 20, he continues to star in the Republic of China suspense film "February flowers bloom outside the old nine gates" and plays February red, On October 28, he released his first solo album "LoseControl", which broke all the records of solo singers in South Korea (first day / first week / annual sales), with sales of 270000 physical albums and 1 million digital albums. He also made the best score on the Chinese album "iTunes" list. In addition, he also won the annual music V list with this album The annual album of the grand ceremony and the best male singer award of the mainland.

On January 27, 2017, Zhang Yixing appeared on the stage of CCTV Spring Festival gala for the first time and sang the song "healthy move" with Jing bairan. On January 28, the Kung Fu Comedy "Kung Fu yoga" directed by Tang Jili was released, in which he played archaeology assistant Zhu Xiaoguang. The film finally won the box office champion of this year's Spring Festival with 1.753 billion yuan. On February 27, it won the second Chinese TV drama quality ceremony On April 24, he played Yan Xiaolai, an introverted character, in the campus youth idol drama "the battle of marriage proposal" co starred with Chen Turin, and sang the episode "wish" for the drama; on July 9, he continued to join the Star Interactive inspirational experience program "extreme challenge Season 3"; on July 27, his war movie "the great cause of building the army" was released, and he was in Beijing The film plays Lu Deming, the commander-in-chief of the Autumn Harvest Uprising, and nominates the best supporting actor award of the 9th Macau International Film Festival for the play. On September 8, Zhang Yixing's wax figure held the opening ceremony in the music area of Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in Beijing. On September 17, Zhang Yixing decided to star in the TV series "golden pupil", which is adapted from the novel of the same name of urban exploration, and played the leading actor Zhuang Rui in the play. On September 25, it was released first On October 7, she released her second solo album sheep, which won the 9th place on the world album list of itunesworld wide, setting a new record for the highest ranking of Chinese albums and singers in the world album list

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