Vivi Jiang

Jiang Yingrong (Chinese: 江映蓉, English name Vivi, pinyin as Jiāng Yìngróng) was born in February 1, 1988 in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. She studied at Beijing Contemporary Music Academy (北京现代音乐学院) and majored in pop music. She attended many competitions and got many awards, such as the top 4 and the most potential singer in Yili College Students Music Festival (伊利全国大学生音乐节). She became famous for she got the first place in Super Girl (超级女声) in 2009. Accoriding to sina.com.cn, she has "millions of fans".^[1]

Personal interest

Jiang is inspired by Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, Pink, Michael Jackson, and Jay-Z.

Awards

year	name	awards^[2]
2007	Yili College Students Music Festival (伊利全国大学生音乐节)	Top 4
2007	Yili College Students Music Festival (伊利全国大学生音乐节)	the most potential singer
2008	Jueduichangxiang(绝对唱响)	Top 8 in Beijing
2009	Internet Music Festival(中国网络音乐节)	silver medal
2009	Super Girl (contest) (超级女声)	the first place
2010.6.25	Southern People Weekly(《南方人物周刊》)	young leader

Albums

In September 2010, Vivi Jiang released her first album Bad Angel (坏天使). This album includes some popular songs such as Jokes (笑话)，Exercise (练习题)，Present (礼物) and Orange Balloon (橘色气球) . Exercise is the song in TV series Look at the Meteoric Shower (起又看流星雨). In September 2011, Vivi Jiang released her second album Charming Women (女人帮). This album includes Tonight (热门花招), Charming Women (女人帮), eye catching (惹眼), dancing in the dark (在黑暗中漫舞) fighting (武装).^[3]

Fans Clubs

Vivi Jiang's fans made a website for her on the Internet. People who are interested in can click http://tieba.baidu.com/f?kw=%BD%AD%D3%B3%C8%D8 or http://www.vivifans.com . She also has a blog in sina so that her fans can always know her schedule http://blog.sina.com.cn/vivi020188 and she has weibo in sina to keep in touch with her millions of fans around the world http://weibo.com/vivi020188 .

Experience

Vivi Jiang’s father used to be an army officer. He started to do business soon after. Vivi was expected to have a very happy childhood, but her parents divorced when she was 12 years old. She has been living together with her mother since then. She dropped out of high school when she was 15 years and began to learn music in Sichuan Art School （四川音乐学校）. She sang in a famous pub named Music House and was taught by Chen Di （陈迪）.^[4] Vivi entered Beijing Contemporary Music Academy (北京现代音乐学院) in 2006.

Vivi started her competition in 2007. She first joined in College Students Music Festival and was outstanding in that competition. She was the first contestant in Top 20 and got the fourth place.^[5] She sang the theme song July (七月) for the famous movie Transfer of Love （《爱情呼叫转移》）.^[6] The competition Super Girl (contest) made her become very popular in China. She was the No.1 in Chengdu division. Vivi had been weekly winner for three times and it was no surprise that she got the first place in the competition.