Tia Ray

Qi Ray or Yuan Yawei (simplified Chinese: 袁娅维; traditional Chinese: 袁婭維; pinyin: Yuán Yàwéi; born 12 December 1984) is a Chinese singer. In 2004, she began to work as a background singer for Chinese singers including Jane Zhang and Ma Tianyu. In 2013, she appeared on the Chinese singing contest, The Voice of China, and debuted her singing career.^[1] In 2014, she released her debut self-titled studio album.^[2] Ray was also notable on her appearance in Singer since 2017, with her most recent appearance on 2020 as the season's runner-up.

Discography[]

Studio albums[]

• Tia (2014)
• TIARA (2018)
• 1212 (2019)

Singles[]

• "You Know I Love You" (2004)
• "Because of Love" (2004)
• "Stage Sisters" (2008)
• "Love Passes Love" (2008)
• "Tacit Understanding of Love" (2008)
• "Sweet Things" (2009)
• "Blossom" (2015)
• "Uncle Long Legs" (2016)
• "Love Herby" (2016)
• "Be Apart" (2018)
• "Starfall: Impressions" (2020)

Featured appearances[]

• "Moonlight" (Will Pan featuring Tia Ray) (2018)
• "Paint the Clouds" (Far East Movement featuring Tia Ray) (2019)
• "Champion (Official song of the FIBA Basketball World Cup China 2019)" (Jason Derulo featuring Tia Ray) (2019)

I Am a Singer Performances[]

Singer 2017[]

Ray first appeared in the I Am a Singer series as one of eight "Initial singers" for the season. After Ray narrowly avoid elimination for the first two shows (on the first week however, she was declared safe due to a contestant's withdrawal from the competition), she was eliminated on the third week. Ray later advanced to the semi-finals after reinstating her in the Breakout rounds, and finished in 7th place.

Singer 2018[]

Ray was invited as one of the four guest singers from the 2017 season during the season's biennial concert along with a guest Victor Ma. That season was currently the latest season to feature a concert airing after the finals held a week prior. The 2018 season also featured runner-up Hua Chenyu, who would also later compete along with Ray and two other singers two years later, and Hua gone on to win the season.^[3]

Singer 2019[]

Ray was again invited as a guest singer on the seventh season to accompany with Liu Huan (the eventual winner for that season) once more during the semi-finals.

Singer 2020[]

Ray later returned for her second season in 2020, entitled Year of the Hits, as one of the four returning singers from seasons four to six (including Lala Hsu, Jam Hsiao and season's winner Hua Chenyu). Ray was again eliminated after week eight (and unlike previous seasons, Ray was not entitled to Returning Performances the following week due to safety concerns regarding the coronavirus outbreak at the time), but she was reinstated upon her success in the Breakouts and went on to clinch as the season's runner-up, making her the best-performing previously eliminated singer in the series.^[4][5]

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