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  • Genre: Alternative / Pop / R&B

    Location Beijing, China & Beverly Hills, California, Un

    Profile Views: 39578975

    Last Login: 3/5/2012

    Member Since 7/9/2006

    Website meilin.me

    Record Label Mestere Records

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My new singles are now out on iTunes! Pls encourage & support me, thanks so much!! Pls click below, or if you live outside the USA search in iTunes for Meilin or 梅琳 for my current English song tittles are "Tastes Like Sugar", "If You Knew", "Make It" and "Thought I'd Lost You", as for my current Chinese song titles are "Changes", "Why" and "Confession" without the quotes..! :)





Hey guys! ♥ What's going on in my life atm: I'm currently fiiiinally in my last year of uni, and now have the time to expand outside of China, also handling the career side of my life in a more personal direct way for my friends and fans, at last...Which means I will now be releasing more music & performing again!! :) Can't wait to get to know you guys.. music really IS international, spread the ♥&magic! Add me on Facebook & Twitter if you want! See you there :) xx

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Meilin 梅琳 | 


Meilin Gray

Meilin 梅琳 (born Alyssa Meilin Gray on June 14, 1989) is an Amerasian pop singer and songwriter, based in Beijing, China. Meilin first appeared on Chinese national and worldwide television in 2006 with her younger sister, Suelin, winning first place on Beijing Television’s ‘Arts of Our Land’ competition, performing a traditional Chinese ‘hulusi’ flute duet. BTV’s Arts of Our Land competition (Wai Guo Ren Zhong Hua Cai Yi Da Sai), was China’s then-premier international competition for foreigners to showcase their talents in traditional Chinese art and culture.

Following success on BTV’s ‘Arts of Our Land’, Meilin entered China Central Television’s ‘Xing Guang Da Dao’ Star Search competition, China’s foremost national talent competition, where she won first place in both the weekly and monthly competitions.

In 2007, Meilin and Hong Kong singer and actor, Xie Ting Feng (Nicolas Tse), recorded the theme song and music video for Walt Disney’s Mandarin language release of the film ‘Beauty & the Beast’, which gave Meilin her first commercial success, with the song reaching 2 on Pepsi’s Chinese Billboard Pop Charts.

Throughout her early youth, Meilin studied the performing arts; broadway vocals, classical piano and jazz flute, as well as ballet, tap and jazz dance.

Chinese Competitions

In late 2005, Meilin entered her first singing competition in China, the citywide ‘New Youth Singer’s’ competition in the city of Tianjin. By week-long TV call-in voting, Meilin was chosen by viewers as the top ‘New Entertainer’ among the original 800 competitors.

Following her success in various city-level singing competitions, in late 2005, Meilin began hosting ‘Vantage Point’, a 26-episode half-hour television series, presenting Chinese traditional arts and crafts to Chinese audiences, in Mandarin language. During the taping of one of these shows, Meilin was introduced to the Chinese traditional gourd flute known as the ‘hulusi’, which she and her younger sister then learned well enough to perform a duet, winning first place on (BTV) Beijing Television’s ‘Arts of Our Land’ international talent competition in early 2006. Meilin then entered CCTV’s ‘Xing Guang Da Dao’ Star Search, winning both weekly and monthly competitions.

During 2006-2007 Meilin performed in over 60 shows, both as a solo artist and with her sister Suelin. Meilin was invited by the Chinese folk singer ‘A Bao’ to perform a duet at the Great Hall of the People, and she and her sister, Suelin, performed a hulusi Chinese flute duet at this same venue in late 2006.

2008 Beijing Olympics

In the run-up period to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Meilin recorded the lead vocal on the official theme songs for China’s pre-Olympics promotional tour of America. The song was ‘Welcome to Beijing in 2008’, and featured Meilin in lead vocal, backed by a children’s choir of over 20 singers. The song was recorded on 3/15/08 at the Beijing studios of China’s Air Force Blue Sky Children’s Art and Entertainment Group. The Beijing city government sent more than 500 entertainers to America to promote the Beijing Olympics, and this song was featured as one of the main theme songs heard throughout that tour, with versions of the song created for the various cities they visited.

In August of 2007, China’s Olympic Committee staged the one-year countdown celebration to the Olympics, featuring 100 of China’s top singers on Tiananmen Square, singing the official Olympics countdown song called, ‘We Are Ready’. Meilin was the only foreigner invited to participate in this event, which was broadcast worldwide on China Central Television. She was also featured in the official printed book commemorating this song and event, with a full-page photo and her signature.

Artistic development and university

Throughout 2007 and 2008, Meilin participated in many televised events, including an official show at China’s ‘White House’, a state holiday dinner attended by over 200 foreign ambassadors. Meilin was introduced to China’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, and sang a solo part in the final song, broadcast on CCTV. In 2008, Meilin was a guest artist in the prestigious Chinese Spring Festival Evening Concert.

In 2009, Meilin was a featured singer in the opening ceremonies of the 24th World University Winter Olympiad, held in Harbin.

Meilin attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA during the summer of 2009, taking courses in music theory, songwriting, and performing. This was followed by a month of study at “The Acting Corps” in Los Angeles, with personalized classes in acting, dance, and performing arts.

In 2007, Meilin was given a scholarship at Tianjin Normal University and began her under-graduate study with a major in Performing Arts. Since then, she has divided her time between formal university study and performing and recording.

Record company and singles releases

By 2010, Meilin had established a record company called ‘Mestere Records’, named after her first middle school singing group, releasing her first two solo singles in Mandarin, ‘Why’ and ‘Confession’, available on iTunes, MySpace Music, Limewire, Amazon, eMusic, Nokia music stores and other online stores just to name a few. Soon to release more singles before this coming Holidays Season and will drop her first full album once she is done her schooling next year. The best is yet to come.

This article is released under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 License and the GFDL by Alyssa Meilin Gray of Mestere Records for use on MySpace.com and Wikipedia.org

Meilin's official and only web sites and social networking pages on the internet:

http://www.meilin.me
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http://www.facebook.com/meilingray
http://www.myspace.com/meilingray
http://www.myspace.com/xmeilinx
http://www.myspace..meilincn
http://www.twitter.com/xmeilinx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meilin
http://blog.sina.com..meilinchina
http://t.sina.com..1562770981
http://www.9911.com/meilincn
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