Tia Ray - The Urban/Soul Queen of China is a representative singer in contemporary China.
Her singing is both delicate and passionate, and her composition skills are also excellent. She has creatively integrated and advanced soul music with various genres, redefining Chinese pop music and creating a new genre in China called "Soul Pop", which fills the gap in Chinese pop music. Her TIA character in both composition and singing attracts younger souls.
Her outstanding performance in the Chinese television series Singer impressed studio audiences; in Singer 2020, she won the title "Queen of Songs". Across the internet, she is hailed as a "beyond original singer".
Tia Ray recorded the theme song Be Apart for the film The Ex-File 3: The Return of the Exes in 2017, setting a historical record for number of plays on Chinese music platforms within a month. It grossed 1.9 billion yuan in sales, becoming the most popular movie song of the time.
In 2018, she performed her representative song Bu Tong Fan Xiang at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala.
Her fourth studio album Once Upon A Moon has continuously garnered good reviews since its release in 2021. Four-time Grammy-award winning music producer Luca Bignardi once said, "Her voice can be understood in any corner of the world". Music critics have described her as “both the tea of the East and the wine of the West”.
She creates popular music that belongs to this modern era. Her musical attitude represents her level of fashion and internationalisation, and the strength of the younger generation.