"Both of them are great, I want to make up for my regret, I choose Li Wei."

"I'm sorry Zhou Shen, I like Li Wei."

There were chants of support for Zhou Shen from the audience, and Wang Feng and Na Ying gave their answers.

All the grievances can only be turned into tears and swallowed down, Zhou Shen regretted out of the countless viewers of the intention to be difficult, but also let Na Ying into the public opinion.

After 8 years, can Zhou Shen make Na Ying look good?

Zhou Shen was born in the fall of 1992 in a remote mountain village in Shaoyang, Hunan Province.

His parents worked all year round, and he and his 5-year-old sister stayed with their grandparents.

As a child, he learned to carry water, cook, grow vegetables and feed pigs.

When he was in the third grade of elementary school, his parents, who ran a small business, brought him to Guiyang.

He saw a bigger world and got more opportunities to show his singing talent.

The music teacher noticed that Zhou Shen never sang out of tune and seemed to have a little bit of musicality, so she recruited him into the school choir.

In the choir, Zhou Shen showed great talent and was soon chosen to lead the choir, and as long as he led the choir, he was able to get the first place in the Guiyang City Chorus Competition.

Zhou Shen's talent for singing once made him and his parents feel proud, so his parents bought a set of karaoke.

One is for Zhou Shen to practice singing, and the other is as a display tool.

In every festival, the family came to the guests of the mother are the first to proudly put : "Our son can sing very well, come to sing a song for everyone."

The father silently took out the microphone, Zhou Shen sang a song, the relatives will give a red envelope.

In this way, Zhou Shen sang "Spicy Girls" all the way up, enjoying the sense of fulfillment he got in music.

And while the unique tone allowed him to enjoy the praise, it also brought him endless bullying.

In junior high school, Zhou Shen had a change of voice.

Completely different from other boys who transformed into a low, rough voice, Zhou Shen's voice became more and more high-pitched.

Like a child's voice, and even some like a female voice, coupled with a short and thin body, classmates began to point behind the back.

Later, they joked directly to his face, teasing him "not male, not female".

These are the words of a man who has sown the seeds of inferiority in the hearts of 13 and 14 year olds.

Since then, three years in junior high school, Zhou Shen never sang in the public **** occasions, and even to avoid talking out loud, silence and escape to become his way of protecting themselves.

Suffering from discrimination and ridicule, Zhou Shen in order to make his voice thicker, and even every day at home to pinch the voice, learn to lower the voice to speak.

And the set of karaoke, which was taken out by everyone, was also put on the back burner.

In the heart of a thirteen or fourteen year old child, the uniqueness of the voice and the shortness of the shape became a burden, and pressed on the heart like a big mountain.

Along with the change of voice, there is also a change in personality, since then he has become introverted, shy, silent, and low self-esteem.

In high school, Zhou Shen inadvertently came into contact with the Internet, and realized that there was a way to sing, but also to resolve the contradiction between his body and his looks.

At that time, he named himself "Kabulat" and sang behind a computer screen, venting the dreariness of three years of silence.

Fans thought he was a girl, so they called him "Goddess Kabu", and the platform later gave him an online concert.

The moment he turned on the camera, netizens realized he was an unattractive boy, and he was met with skepticism and abuse.

Discrimination seemed destined to become an essential element of his teenage years, and his youthful heart still didn't know how to live with these skeptical voices***, but his love of singing made it impossible for him to stand still.

One year, the school held a competition for the top ten singers, and Zhou Shen summoned up the courage to enroll.

Because of his unique voice, he became the champion of the competition and became famous in the Guiyang campus circle.

This little achievement could not shake the skepticism around him.

He loved to sing, but he didn't dare to choose the path of a professional singer.

For his thin appearance and average looks, being a professional singer was a distant dream.

After the high school exams, because of the poor results, Zhou Shen did not get into a good university, he had to find another way out, and "being a singer" was not in the scope of choice.

His parents heard a friend say that it was cheaper to study in Ukraine, where dental and music education is very good, so they planned to send him to study abroad.

His parents thought that an ordinary person would need a career after graduation, and that a dentist would be a better choice than a singer, and would be more stable.

If Zhou Shen had followed this path, he would probably be a dentist with his own practice by now, but the nerves in his brain always turn to his obsession with music.

Studying medicine is hard enough as it is, and learning Ukrainian, two things that add up to a lot of difficulty, with obscure medical jargon causing him anxiety.

Latin and Ukrainian are mixed in the book, and you can't read or understand it, and you have to spend five or six hours at home every day translating the textbook into Chinese.

Failing every day, sleeping three or four hours a day, and struggling to study every day, life has become a vicious circle.

The bottom line is that Zhou Shen gained very little from this difficult study.

He began to doubt himself, hard to run so far, wasting so much time and money they did not learn anything, figure what?

Once you have doubts about your life, there are only two ways to resolve them: one is to grit your teeth and stick to it, and the other is to stop in time.

After a year of suffering, Zhou Shen did not want to waste any more time, so he chose to drop out of school halfway through and transferred to a music college.

After getting into the Lviv State Conservatory, he told his parents he wanted to go down the music path, and at the time, his dream was just to go back and be a music teacher after graduation.

His parents were adamantly opposed to the idea, feeling that the chances of a career in singing were slim and unstable, and at one point had a cold war with Zhou.

They even cut off his living expenses to force him to change his mind.

The road to music was not easy, especially for Zhou Shen, who had no physical advantages.

With no money, Zhou Shen had to work part-time, and when eating instant noodles became a luxury, he switched to eating potatoes.

The school's tuition is not enough, so he had to borrow some money from the school first.

In his first year at the conservatory, Zhou met a baritone teacher who was very interested in him.

As the teacher was quite fond of his high voice, he gave him a piece of music in his freshman year that he had only learned in the fifth year of college.

For a freshman with no musical foundation, the difficulty is obvious. After a semester of learning this piece, the vocal cords failed.

He chose a different path, but God played a big joke on him.

If you really can't sing in the future, what else can you do?

Acupuncture, cupping, Chinese medicine, Western medicine, prescription, can try to treat all the treatment methods once, finally by mistake in Guiyang a humble acupuncture doctor cured.

After the sound was better, Zhou Shen felt that the baritone teacher was not suitable for him, and he decided to look for a new teacher.

At that time, there was a famous tenor singer teaching at the school, and Zhou Shen went to listen to his class every day, hoping that he would accept himself as a student.

The professor promised to listen to Zhou Shen sing a song before considering whether to accept him.

Against a voice that hadn't fully recovered, he sang as hard as he could, and the tenor singer nodded : "Good singing, but I still can't take you."

Hearing this, Zhou Shen was not discouraged.

In order to be able to achieve the purpose, Zhou Shen has no other way than stalking.

Later, with the help of the piano accompaniment teacher, the professor finally agreed to take him as a student after three months.

It was also during this time that Zhou Shen laid a solid musical foundation.

Even though he was still singing on online platforms at the time, and even reached the 11th position on the charts because of his rendition of "Let it go" in nine languages, being a singer was still a dream he never dared to think about.

It was his singing voice on the Internet that led him to be discovered by the director of The Voice.

In the summer of 2014, Zhou Shen appeared on the stage of the third season of The Voice of China.

Standing in the center of the stage, he heard noisy voices around him:

"Is he a man or a woman?"

"Looks like this?"

The questioning of gender strikes again, and Zhou Shen has done the mental buildup for it, but he still can't handle it when the voice comes.

In fact, before joining the show, the director of The Voice had approached Zhou Shen twice because he had heard his voice on the internet.

At the time, he was still in music school, and the director lobbied for him to come to the show, but he refused both times.

One reason was that he didn't have the confidence to be selected, and the other was that he was still studying, so he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to do both.

But the main reason is still afraid of being scolded, afraid that it will make a lot of people think they are strange.

Until the director of the third season came to him again, two or three months every day to send him a voice : "When you come back to the country, I go to the airport to wait for you."

In the end, the director finally moved Zhou Shen, and he made it to The Voice of China.

There are not many people who support him on the music road, and with such a person who can push him forward for his dream, he felt it was worth trying.

Zhou Shen won a turn from three mentors with his song "Cheerful Face," and he chose mentor Na Ying's team.

At that time, Zhou Shen did not have a dream of winning the championship, nor did he want to become famous in one battle, he just wanted a stage to sing.

Because there weren't many opportunities for him.

In the 16-4 match, Na Ying choked up and laid down the language.

The results weren't even out yet, and the tissue held in her hand foreshadowed the tears that followed the elimination : "I'm sorry Zhou Shen, I like Li Wei."

The scene in addition to Na Ying's sorry, and around the audience a cry:

"Zhou Shen! Zhou Shen! Zhou Shen!"

That summer, Zhou Shen's elimination became the show's intention.

But it has to be said that perhaps it was Na Ying's elimination that made Zhou Shen whole.

After the show aired, Gao was wowed by the song "Happy Face" sung by Zhou Shen.

When he learned that the singer was a boy, he was even more amazed, and he decided to make a solo album for Zhou Shen out of his own pocket.

In Gao's life, only two people have ever received such recognition from him.

One was Xiao Ke, one was Park Shu, and then there was another Zhou Shen.

Zhou Shen was so flattered by the news that he went home and covered himself in the covers and laughed.

But in order to present a perfect album, all he could do was strive for excellence.

He sang until he was hoarse in the studio to get a song right.

Even Gao Xiaosong couldn't help but sigh : "Don't be in a hurry, take your time."

Building an album is a way to find your own problems, and slowly polishing it to produce good work.

Before the album was released, Zhou received an offer for a theme song, which allowed him to further open up his popularity.

The song, "Big Fish," was the one that made Zhou Shen a hit.

With this song, Zhou Shen won several music awards, and those who heard the song praised his voice.

Zhou Shen took a step further in his career as a singer, and more and more people stopped picking on his image and only commented on his voice.

With the release of his 2017 album, he finally became a real singer with his own work and more stages.

Singing fire with "Big Fish", a new album was released and the opportunities gradually grew.

The theme song of "White Snake: Fate", the theme song of "Ginger", and the theme song of "The Embroidered Spring Blade: The Battlefield of Xuluo" were invited one after another.

At one time, Zhou Shen became a theme song harvester.

Then he took to more stages, singing, variety shows, reality shows, and observational programs.

Outside recognition and fan support is a key to open the door of Zhou Shen's heart.

Finally, he took to the stage of The Masked Singer in a long dress, wig and mask.

The move was Zhou Shen's farewell to his inferior self and a challenge to himself.

But at the time, Zhou Shen still had some hang-ups about gender misconceptions that he couldn't let go of.

After this reverse performance, he began to think that if one more person knew Zhou Shen, he would have more chances to be seen, and there was nothing wrong with that.

This was probably the beginning of his reconciliation with himself.

With the need to complete his studies and return to China for work, Zhou Shen had an extremely difficult time.

Because there was no direct flight, he had to take a 10-hour flight from Beijing to Turkey after each job.

He waited 10 hours at the Turkish airport and then flew to Kiev, where he waited three or four hours and then took a plane for an hour to the school's city.

For each stage, big or small, a round trip of 30 or 40 hours he flew for more than two years.

Whenever there was an opportunity to perform, even if it was a road show, he flew back to show off as much as he could.

Zhou Shen, who works so hard, is moving forward little by little on the road to becoming a professional singer.

In 2020, he was invited to appear on "Singer. The Year of the Hitman", contributing the hit song "Dala crash it", which had a hundred million plays across the network.

CCTV Spring Festival Gala a chorus with singer Zhang also chorus of "China in the lights" spread all over the country.

Just as Zhou Shen was forging ahead with his singing career, Na Ying, the mentor who eliminated him that year, became a regular on variety and reality TV shows.

And Na Ying, who has always been genuine, contributed to the conversation and controversy for a while.

Participated in the "Meng Tan Tan Case", spitting Yang Zi real simple or fake simple, too much heart eyes.

While only targeting Yang Zi's role as "Fan Ruo Ruo", Na Ying was still criticized by netizens for targeting Yang Zi in every way, for not being able to play nice, and for being old-fashioned.

Participating in the "Run Bar Brothers", Zheng Kai is ready to tear the nametag when she directly said : "Have the guts to tear ah, you dare to tear me?"

Even the audience looked embarrassed : this game can still play?

Participating in the "Ride the Wave Sisters Season 2", directly asked Li Feier and Zhang Xinyu : "Who are you two?"

That said, everyone on the same program, to participate in the variety show will have a list of people, right?

Whether it's a blunt character or a genuine lack of acquaintance, it's really uncomfortable to come up with a sentence like that out of the blue.

Over the years, Na Ying, who is one, hasn't released a new album in almost 10 years.

Nowadays, she can only rely on the classic golden songs of earlier years, and participate in a variety of variety shows to maintain the heat.

It's been eight years since Zhou Shen was eliminated, and while she may still be the same, she's not the same as she was back then.

Now the gap between the two is clear.

The feud between the two was once overplayed by the internet and is often used as a talking point even today.

It was once rumored that Na Ying thought Zhou Shen didn't have a champion look, so he eliminated him, and the rumor was later confirmed that it was false.

It was later revealed that Na Ying introduced Zhou Shen to Gao Xiaosong after he was eliminated.

But there's no denying that the young Zhou Shen is on the way up, while Na Ying has gone from being a singer to being a variety artist.

And his current achievements also impressed Na Ying, on many occasions on the mouth of Zhou Shen praise is not stingy.

Previously, Zhou Shen sang the theme song "There I Am" for a promotional video celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of China's **** Youth League.

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China, he also sang a Cantonese song "Blessing", showing his patriotic feelings.

Sang the theme song "Qing Qing" for the TV series "Wish You Well". He also sang the theme song "One in a Million" in the TV series "All About Dr. Tang".

The theme song "I SEE US" for the Sunny Noon drama "Welcome" topped the music charts, and then joined "Heavenly Voice" to sing on stage.

Bagged all the songs in this year's Tanabata rom-com "We look like love", the topic of the hot words once rushed to the fifth of the hot searches.

Now that he's a singer, he's no longer afraid of being talked about for his height and looks.

He also no longer suffers when people misunderstand his gender because of his voice.

The unique tone of his voice is both a gift and a robbery for Zhou Shen.

The tiny teenager who once suffered from discrimination and bullying is still a singer in the limelight.

It's been a journey of pain and tears, and the hardships and difficulties in between have made him despair.

Nowadays, he warns those who have a dream : "Go and try, only after you've tried will you know if it works or not."

Talent is the foundation of a singer's career, and image and luck seem to be able to knock talent down, but they can't knock down the heart of a singer who's been through a lot.

Without those days and nights to exercise the talent to become a professional effort, even if there is a lot of talent is just a flash in the pan, and Zhou Shen understands this, and cherishes every stage.

Worry has never disappeared from his heart, and hard work has become a habit, sinking into his bones.

In the future, I believe he will take the fear of the stage to a farther place.

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