Zhou Shen
Charlie Zhou Shen is a Chinese male singer. Zhou is best known for his song Big Fish and The Rose and The Deer , and both of which were Top 10 Hits Songs of Fresh Asia Music Award in 2016. In November 2017, Zhou released his debut album《深的深》, a co-creation with producer Gao Xiaosong, songwriter Yin Yue and composer Qian Lei. Zhou won the People’s Choice Male Singer and Most Improved Artist of ERC Chinese Top Ten Award respectively in 2017 and 2018. He has sang for a few TV series and Chinese Animation. In March 2018, he has also sang the Chinese Promotional song for the Academy Award for Best Picture of 2017 The Shape of Water. His first series of concerts “深空间” was held on May and June 2018, then on January, June and July 2019. His new concert tours ":zh:周深C-929星球全国巡回演唱会|Planet C-929", start from November 2019, be held in different cities, including Beijing, Nanjing, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Chengdu, Shanghai, Guangzhou, etc. He won the MTV Europe music award for Best Greater China Act in November 2019. He performed many songs which raised his international reputation in the China variety show Singer 2020, including Dalabengba, Baby, До свидания, Monsters and Ring the Doorbell, Listen by Yourself.
Biography
Zhou was born in Shaoyang, Hunan and later moved to Guiyang, Guizhou with his parents during second grade of primary school. With his beautiful voice, he was admitted to the key middle school Guiyang No.6 High School. After graduating from high school, he went to Ukraine to study dentistry. However, he transferred to Lviv National Musical Academy to study Bel canto.He never lowered his vocal pitch during puberty. Due to his unique female-like voice, he used to be afraid to sing in front of people. Thanks to one of his upper classmates who invited him to sing his original song Faded after Rain, he earned a little fame in school after taking part in a singing contest by chance as well as regained his confidence in singing. Gao Xiaosong said: "Zhou’s voice is ethereal and intangible, like mountain spring that refresh people‘s mind. Zhou’s unique angelic voice is something of a rarity in Chinese Music."
Career
Before Debut
2010 Zhou Shen started singing online in a Chinese video-based social network, YY.com, using his nickname “卡布叻”,and got his first fans.Participated in The Voice Of China
2014 He participated in The Voice of China. He got recognition from all coaches by singing HuanYan from Chyi Yu in the blind audition. The song Lake Baikal sang by Zhou and Li Wei in the contest was also awarded Song of 2014 of The Voice of China. In the same year, he took part in the live tour of The Voice.2015 He attended Beijing TV New Year’s Gala and supported the bid for Olympic Winter Games in Beijing by singing a multi-language version of Let it go. He also took part in the world tour of the performing-arts extravaganza ‘Cultures of China, Festival of Spring’. In May, he went to London to attend The Voice UK with Li Wei on behalf of The Voice of China. He then released a cover album ‘Aftertaste’ together with Li Wei in July. After that, his first single The Rose and The Deer was released, and won the Best New Artist of ERC Chinese Top Ten Awards.
Rise to Fame
2016 He sang Big Fish for the Chinese Animation Big Fish & Begonia in May, and Early Rain in Lin-an for an online game ‘Water Margin Q’. Big Fish and The Rose and The Deer, both were selected as the Top 10 Hits Songs of Fresh Asia Music Award 2016. In October, he sang several songs on the music show ‘The Masked Singer’, and impressed a lot of people. He also won the Most Popular Male Singer Online of Music Pioneer Award 2016.Debut Album
2017 He sang Echo for the TV series ‘The Starry Night The Starry Sea’. His song Big Fish won the Top 10 Songs of the Year and honoured him with the People's Choice Male Singer of ERC Chinese Top Ten Awards 2017. In June, he sang Calm Romance for the Chinese movie ‘’ and Speechless for the Chinese Animation ‘Dahufa’. He sang the ending song Vicissitudes of Life for the TV series ‘The Starry Night The Starry Sea Second’. His first debut Album “深的深” was released in November.First Concert Tour
2018 He sang the Chinese Promotional song for the Academy Award for Best Picture of 2017 The Shape of Water. He also won the Most Improved Artist of ERC Chinese Top Ten Awards 2018. He held his first series of concerts at Shanghai, Wuhan and Chengdu. He released the promotional song Irrelavant for another movie ‘:zh:幕后玩家 |A or B’. He won the Most Popular Karaoke MV of China Music Awards and the Best New Artist of Global Chinese Music Chart Awards. His title track Blue Parachute was also selected as the Top Songs of 2018. In November, he performed some classical songs Time to Say Goodbye, Memory, Think of Me, The Lonely Goatherd in the musical show ‘Super-Vocal’ from Hunan TV and got praised by audience and the coaches. He also appeared in the music show :zh:蒙面唱將猜猜猜 |‘The Masked Singer ’ again and performed with his well-trained Bel canto skill. He got applause from everyone and make a name for himself with his wonderful performance on the shows.Second Concert Tour and Awards
2019 He sang With the Wind for TV series ‘Mystery of Antiques’. A non-official Goodbye Song, named Never Say Goodbye, sang by Liao Changyong and MXH 36 was released in January. In March, he sang Only You for the TV series ‘Relying on Heaven to Slaughter Dragons’. He also got awarded "Breakthrough Artist of the Year" and Blossom won the Top 10 Songs of the Year from ERC Chinese Top Ten Awards 2019. He also started his second series of concerts in Beijing in January, followed by Shenzhen and Hangzhou in June and July. In addition, his music live concert 'in-Music "Shen's Moment" Sharing concert' was also held on 28 March. In April, along with MXH 36, he also joined the 'Super-Vocal' and 'Never Say Goodbye' concert tour. He also held a joint music concert “深龄其境” with Isabelle Huang in Shanghai on 18 May. On May 25, he attended Victor Wong's "The Pursuit of Hapiness" concert in Beijing as a special guest. On June 6, he was invited to the award ceremony of the 17th Vision Youth Awards. He received the Campus Popularity Award for Performing Artists on CNR Music Radio Top Music Awards on June 8. On June 12, he attended the Nanyang Khek Community Gift of Warmth Charity Concert 2019, a charity concert in Singapore, to offer warmth to people with autism together with Chyi Yu, Huang Hongying and Roy Li Fei Huei. In the concert, he sang seven of his own singles, and another Hakka song, When Hakkas Meet in Singapore and a duet with Chyi Yu on an English song Mother of Mine. In October 2019, he was on the music industry list of Forbes 30 Under 30 China 2019. On the 1st and 2 November 2019, Zhou Shen participated in the Nanjing "The Untamed" music concert and sang the song "Huang Cheng Du ". In November 2019, he won the MTV Europe Music Award for Best Greater China Act. He held his brand new concert tour, namely :zh:周深C-929星球全国巡回演唱会|Planet C-929, in Beijing, Nanjing, Suzhou, Chengdu and Shanghai from November to December 2019.Participated a variety of shows
2020 Zhou Shen performed some songs with Hacken Lee in the musical show 'Our Songs' from Dragon TV. He also participated in the first culture-experienced reality show :zh:了不起的长城|'The Great Wall' as "The Great Wall Trainee" with Liu Ye, Ethan Juan, Yang Chaoyue, Yang Di and Justin Huang Ming-hao. Zhou Shen was one of the initial singers to appear on Singer 2020. that broadcast on Hunan TV. His marvelous performances bring many surprises to the audience in the show. He also appeared in some e-commerce livestream after becoming the Brand Spokesperson of the Oriental Therapy, which belongs to The Procter & Gamble Company. After the reality show 'The Great Wall' ended, he also joined another variety show "Youth Periplous II" and become one of the "Spring outing family" in the show. He also appeared on some other variety show, including Day Day Up, Trump Card, Back to Field, Smoothly Flowing Melodies, Keep Running!. Due to COVID-19, the People's Daily, China Movie Channel New Media Center and social media platform Sina Weibo co-launched the Hello Future "Graduation Song 2020" Cloud Concert on 28 June 2020. Many filmmakers and musicians, including Zhou Shen, sent their best wishes by singing or speeches to 77 college graduates via the online commencement.Discography
Studio albums
Cover albums
Live albums
Singles
TV shows and songs performed
Variety Shows
2014• The Voice of China （中国好声音第三季）
2015
• I Want To Be In Spring Festival Gala（我要上春晚）
• Straight to CCTV Spring Festival Gala（直通春晚）
• Hundreds of surnames in China （中华百家姓，周姓专场）
• The Voice of China （中国好声音第四季）
2016
• The Voice PK（挑战好声音）
• Sing! China Intelligence Agency（新歌声情报局）
• I Want To Be In The Masked Singer（我要上蒙面）
• The Masked Singer（蒙面唱将猜猜猜）
2017
• I love Nijigen （我爱二次元）
• Little Masters（拜见小师傅）
• Sing! China （中国新歌声第二季）
• Sing! China Go!（冲吧！新歌声）
• The Masked Singer Season 2（蒙面唱将猜猜猜第二季）
• I Want To Be In Spring Festival Gala（我要上春晚）
2018
• Straight to CCTV Spring Festival Gala（直通春晚）
• inSound League （in雄联盟）
• Love Cuisine 2（心动的味道·厨语）
• Super-Vocal（声入人心）
• The Masked Singer Season 3（蒙面唱将猜猜猜第三季）
2019
• Chuang（这就是原创）
• Sing Tour（唱给世界听）
• inSound League （in雄联盟）
• Sing! China （中国好声音2019）
• Let's Band（一起乐队吧）
• Our Song（中国梦之声•我们的歌）
2020
• The Great Wall（了不起的长城）
• Happy Camp（快乐大本营）
• Singer 2020（歌手·当打之年）
• Trump Card （王牌对王牌）
• Day Day Up（天天向上）（guest）
• Youth Periplous 2 （青春环游记 2）
• Keep Running! （奔跑吧！第八季）（guest）
• Back to Field （向往的生活第四季）（guest）
• Everlasting Classics （经典永流传 第三季）
• Smoothly Flowing Melodies（流淌的歌声）
• Ace vs Ace