张靓颖

Jane Zhang (simplified Chinese: 张靓颖; traditional Chinese: 張靚穎; pinyin: Zhāng Liàngyǐng; born October 11, 1984), is a Chinese singer-songwriter. Known for her signature whistle register, she was dubbed the "Dolphin Princess". Zhang debuted her singing career by winning the third place at the Chinese singing contest Super Girl in 2005. The next year she signed with the Huayi Music. Her 2006 debut studio album, The One , sold more than one million albums in China. Zhang's second studio album, Update, was released in 2007. Buoyed by the success of pop single "We said", Update became one of the best-selling album of 2007 in China. In 2008, she released a song with Andrea Bocelli titled "One World, One Dream", the song for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. After signing with Universal Music Group in 2009, Zhang released her fourth studio album, Believe In Jane (2010), yielded the successful single "If This Is Love". Her fifth studio album, Reform (2011), sold eighty thousand copies within one month in China. which was ultimately certified Double platinum by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). Her live album, Listen To Jane Z Live, was released in 2012 and achieved number one in the Chinese music charts. In 2014, she signed with the Sony Music Entertainment and released her sixth studio album, The Seventh Sense (2014), incorporated songs of genres such as r&b and pop. Zhang's English song, "Dust My Shoulders Off", was released in 2016. The song became background music of HULU in the US. In 2014, Zhang became one of the juries at the 38th Montreal World Film Festival. In November 2017, she was invited to perform at Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. She was the first Asian singer to perform songs that made her top ten on the iTunes Instant List. In 2018, the World Tour Concert of "Jane's Secret" was held and the show ranked 45th in the United States in single-event mobilization. In 2019, she released her first full English album Past Progressive at the same time all over the world. Jane Zhang has received many awards, including nine Beijing Pop Music Awards for Best Female Singer, two China Gold Record Awards, and an MTV Europe Music Award, and has been included in the annual Forbes China celebrity lists from 2006–2013. In 2016, Chengdu government documents announced her annual output value of 1.1 billion yuan.