Zhang Liyin competes in a Chinese singing competition reality show

[rikayla.livejournal.com]

Zhang Liyin performs for Anhui TV's Mad for Music, whose sound engineer completely fucked up her performance video because some of her fans recorded her live in the studio, and that version sounds a whole lot better. Live performance recording version is embedded under the cut!

Goddess Team group performance:

Source: Anhui TV Official YouTube Channel, Baidu Bar

Liyin has improved so much since 2006. An artistic director who works for an entertainment company in Shanghai later commented on Weibo that Liyin has a A4-F5 singing range, which sounds really impressive!

Comments

[setsuna16.livejournal.com]

I wish they would let this heavenly creature do so much more...

[drfaith101.livejournal.com]

She's has an album coming out supposedly

[bang2tang.livejournal.com]

Your wish is granted
@soompi
#fx's #Victoria to Star in #ZhangLiYin's New Music Video (http://bit.ly/1r8AEQu )

[rikayla.livejournal.com]

if SM would grant my wish, it would be to have zly act in her own music video...

[missingmisnomer.livejournal.com]

So happy for ZLY!!

Who was the third goddess that sang btw?

[rikayla.livejournal.com]

the one with the dyed hair? that's laure shang! very popular in china :D

[missingmisnomer.livejournal.com]

the one with long dark hair parted in the middle?

[rikayla.livejournal.com]

(http://imgur.com/fEHS7AE)

Laure Shang, Zhang Liyin, Tracy Wang - from left to right :)

[missingmisnomer.livejournal.com]

Tracy Wang! Thanks!

[littlefox12.livejournal.com]

Her voice had such an ethereal quality to it. It's definitely not for evryone, but I like it.

That team perf was so nice. They really looked and sounded like a goddess team.

[stoppedclock321.livejournal.com]

A4 to F5 is barely an octave and a half and an F5 isn't even particularly high (she's a soprano, right?)so it's nothing to write home about...sorry OP :(
Did he say she sounds really good in that range or something?

[rikayla.livejournal.com]

:(( it sounded pretty good because i saw that there was a youtube video of beyonce covering the same notes.

no, he said that zly has a singing voice that is unlike any mainstream artist in china right now, and that she should participate in "i am a singer" season three!

[adenar.livejournal.com]

oh hay so i was checking back about my comment about the vocal range thing and of course this is your post I was talking about :P I thought I'd (belatedly) go all music major and comment to explain (maybe people will read back in the liyin tag and find this):

When the guy says Liyin has a range of A4-F5 that makes no sense, as it gives her a range of six notes. No one has a range of six notes (ok i'm pretty sure my ex did but he was like, the worst singer I had ever encountered in my life, he is an outlier and should not be counted lol)

A4 is the A five notes above middle C (aka slap bang in the middle of any average mezzo-soprano's range). Middle C - C4 - is in some ways known as middle C because it's one of those notes that could acceptably be written in any choral part, even amateur, from bass to soprano, and also because even in early keyboards with only a few octaves in range it was still pretty central to the instrument's range. F5 is five notes above A4, and probably the highest any really well-trained pop singer would ever try to belt (you'd attempt G5 if you were christina aguilera, but otherwise probably not. Trust me, I've tried).

There are /some/ systems that shift the numbers up and down a bit but even then the range is less than an octave, and definitely not representative of her actual range (now that I've heard her sing, lol). If she's a mezzo, it's more likely she has a range of A3-F5, not A4. Perhaps it was a misprint.

this post is as long as my last comment lol i'm so sorry for clogging your inbox but i figured i'd explain while i could

[cruel-disorder.livejournal.com]

What song is she singing in the first video?? Is she covering another artist's song? It's amazing and she sounds amazing! Damn!