Song Zuying
Biography Song Zuying
Song Zuying
is one of China's most prominent and best-established vocal artists. She studied at the Minzu University's Music School and the China Conservatory of Music with a doctorate degree in ethnic vocal music. During her brilliant career as an ethnic singer of more than two decades, Song Zuying has performed a wide repertoire of Chinese ethnic songs and artistic vocal works from overseas, and starred in major operas including "Red Coral" and musicals like "Tropical Rains". Nearly twenty of her signature songs have become popular classics at home and abroad, including "Spice Girls", "Waiting for You", "Good Days", "Winding Waters Leading to My Home", "I Will Grow Into You", "Soldiers Together", "Soldier Boys", "Hero", "Chapter of Sunshine", "From Good to Better", "New Ode to Liuyang River", "Gazing at the Moon", "Our Love for China", "Flying Song of the Earth", "An Oriental Jasmine for You", "Blue Skies", "Hope Springs Eternal in China", "A Joyful Heart", "Let us Dance", and "Blossoms of Pagoda Tree"; all these works have become household songs throughout China and among Chinese people living abroad.
Song Zuying has made a point of fusing her artistic pursuit with the essence of China's ethnic and folk music, and her singing bears a distinctive mark of China's ethnic vocal tradition. As her efforts of expanding and reinventing the tradition came to assimilate features of modern vocal arts, she has evolved an inimitable style of expressive singing, which has proved a spectacular success in China's contemporary vocal music. Over the years, Song Zuying has won a host of awards and honors at China's most prestigious music competitions, including, the Top Award at the China National Ethnic Vocal Music Competition, multiple Golden Awards at the CCTV Music Video Competition, multiple honors at the China Central Radio's "the Nation's Favorite Singers", multiple top honors at the SARFT TV Art "Starlight Awards", Gold Record Award of China, CCTV China Ethnic Music Legacy Award, China Ethnic Vocal Music Excellence Award, "Plum Blossom Award" of Chinese Drama, the honor of "Artist of Excellence and Integrity", "China Charity Award", one of China's Most Globally Influential Women in 2005, the Public Image Award and Remarkable Achievement Award of Chinese Artists in 2008, and "Notable Talent", as well as the Kennedy Center Honors and the nomination for the 49th Grammy Awards.
