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Let the world feel the charm of Chinese culture, Zhou Shen sang "Big Fish" to the United Nations!
On April 18, 2024, at the 15th Chinese Day of the United Nations, Zhou Shen was very honored to be invited to participate in this event.
In this Chinese Day event, Zhou Shen generously delivered a speech entitled "In the Name of Music", and sang "Big Fish" and the symphonic work "Ode to Peace" composed by Luo Wei and promised to compose lyrics specifically for Chinese Day.
"Fate is impermanent, life is full of unpredictable twists and turns" Looking back on the past, Zhou Shen has experienced too many twists and turns and setbacks along the way.
Let's get to know this talented teenager who is fluent in nine Chinese!
"Male and Female Voices"
Zhou Shen was born in Shaoyang City, Hunan Province in 1992, and later moved to Guiyang City, Guizhou Province due to his parents' work.
However, an accident in junior high school discouraged him from singing in front of his classmates, and Zhou Shen in junior high school still had a sharp voice after experiencing a voice change period, and because of this too feminine voice, Zhou Shen was ridiculed by his classmates since then, and some people even gave him the nickname of neither male nor female.
In the three years of junior high school, Zhou Shen could only practice singing silently at home, he hoped that after his training, his voice would become rougher, and Zhou Shen in school became taciturn, and even dared not speak loudly.
Until high school, Zhou Shen's voice still hasn't changed, but as he grows older, Zhou Shen, whose soul is gradually maturing, walked out of the ridicule of junior high school, he participated in the top ten singers competition on campus, and with his ethereal, clear and gentle singing voice, he successfully won the championship.
and became a "little star" on campus in one fell swoop, which allowed him to regain the confidence he lost in junior high school.
In 2010, Zhou Shen entered the network voice platform YY singing under the screen name of "Kabu", this faceless platform is simply tailor-made for Zhou Shen, Zhou Shen covered a lot of popular songs on YY, and in 2012, won the national network singer championship!
On this platform, Zhou Shen amassed his first fans.
After the college entrance examination, Zhou Shen chose to study in Ukraine, where studying cheaply, because of his unsatisfactory grades, at first he chose dentistry, but when he first arrived in Ukraine, he was frustrated because of the language barrier, and he taught himself Ukrainian during this period.
After studying dentist for a year, Zhou Shen still thought that he wanted to study music after a long period of consideration, so he had a cold war with his parents for two months.
After that, Zhou Shen successfully transferred to the music major, and was later successfully admitted to the Lviv State Conservatory, however, due to improper training, only four or five months, Zhou Shen's vocal cords suffered from vocal cord nodules due to wear and tear, and he was cured after trying various treatments.
Although he has lived abroad for a long time, Zhou Shen has not given up on domestic fans, and in 2014, Zhou Shen's cover of the nine-language version of "Lit it go" was released on Bilibili and ranked 11th on the list in one fell swoop.
At the suggestion of fans, Zhou Shen returned to China to participate in the 2014 "The Voice of China".
However, "The Voice of China" did not become Zhou Shen's springboard.
Eliminated Zhou Shen
In 2014, in the third season of "The Voice of China", Zhou Shen sang a song "Huanyan" with his unique voice, which won warm applause from the audience and won the turn of 3 mentors.
Among the three mentors, Zhou Shen firmly chose Na Ying as his mentor, and then a dramatic scene happened, just after Zhou Shen took the stage for the second time and sang "On the Shore of Lake Baikal" with Levi, Na Ying chose Levi on the grounds that Zhou Shen did not have a champion.
However, the audience support rate at that time was one-sided, and Zhou Shen's audience support accounted for 70 percent, and since then Zhou Shen has become the uneasy situation of many audiences.
Until 2023, Na Ying was exposed that "The Voice of China" can get the turn of the mentor as long as she pays the "transfer fee", and behind the seemingly ordinary mentor turning around for the heart-warming students, it is a huge amount of 500,000 yuan for turning around.
When Coco Li's video was disseminated, people thought of Zhou Shen, who was eliminated by Na Ying at that time, maybe Na Ying's apparent reluctance was fake, and she cared more about the "transfer fee" worth 500,000 yuan.
However, it is gold that always shines, and his talent was discovered by Gao Xiaosong, and with Gao Xiaosong's full help, Zhou Shen met the lyricist Yin Yue.
In 2016, the lyrics of the song "Big Fish", the theme song of "Big Fish and Begonia", were written by Yin Yue, and Zhou Shen became famous with this song.
Later, Zhou Shen participated in "The Masked Singer Guess Guess" with a song "Riding a White Horse", which won the applause of the audience, and he has completely overcome his childhood fear.
Later, Zhou Shen knocked on the door of CCTV with his strength, he appeared frequently at major galas, and later won the United Nations Propaganda Ambassador, and attended the Chinese cultural feast of diplomats across the country on behalf of the official, and sang "My Answer" for the Supreme People's Procuratorate.
Now Zhou Shen has appeared on the Spring Festival Gala three times, and will sing "Health to the Order" solo in 2024, which is enough to see that Zhou Shen has successfully become a first-line singer.
On Chinese New Year's Eve, Zhou Shen was even busy with the collapse performance, and he sang a total of 14 songs on the 4-song stage.
Now that Zhou Shen is more popular, the more it can show how wrong Na Ying's choice was at that time, and the other people who helped Zhou Shen formed a stark contrast to Na Ying.
Now he has sung his songs out of the country and into the world!
"Big Fish" arrived at the United Nations
Now Zhou Shen has been successfully invited to participate in the activities of the United Nations and sing, and Zhou Shen's participation has undoubtedly added more luster to this event.
United Nations Chinese Day is a program announced by the United Nations Department of Public Information in 2010 to promote the equal use of the six official languages at the United Nations.
Zhou Shen said that he was very honored to participate in the celebration of Chinese Day, and hoped that this song could bring hope to everyone, and that everyone could return home.
And Zhou Shen also sang songs with the 30 foreign employees of the United Nations on the scene, and in the face of Zhou Shen's performance at this event, fans completely dominated the comment area.
Zhou Shen has experienced many setbacks along the way, but he has also turned all setbacks into stepping stones on his road to success again and again, constantly breaking through himself and breaking through bottlenecks.
He is a clear stream in the entertainment industry, and he is doing his career seriously, Zhou Shen makes us believe that hard work will pay off.
In today's society, the brilliant star will be obscured by various factors, but I believe that as long as you work hard enough and stick to your dreams, everyone has the opportunity to usher in their own dawn!