The original singer of the song "Chengdu" is Zhao Lei.
"Chengdu" is a song sung by Zhao Lei, with lyrics and music composed by Zhao Lei. It is included in Zhao Lei's music album "Can't Grow Up" released in 2016. In 2017, the song won the Most Popular Folk Single Award at the 6th Abilu Music Awards. In December 2019, it was selected as the most beautiful city music card outstanding song.
"Chengdu" is a song composed by Zhao Lei in 2014, with lyrics and music written by Zhao Lei. Zhao Lei often performs this song live in performances, but has never released a studio version.
Chengdu’s slow-paced, humane and life-like feeling makes Zhao Lei particularly fond of this city, and Chengdu has become Zhao Lei’s beloved second hometown. In order to express his record and nostalgia for Chengdu, Zhao Lei composed this love song for Chengdu. In 2017, Zhao Lei launched the Two Sessions version of "Chengdu" to dedicate it to every Chinese walking in spring.
Zhao Lei’s creative history
Zhao Lei, born in Beijing on July 20, 1986, is a male folk singer and musician in Mainland China. In 2011, Zhao Lei released his first album "Zhao Xiaolei". The title song "Southern Girl" included in the album was covered by many singers and music fans. In 2014, Zhao Lei participated in the "Chinese Good Songs" program and sang "Painting" and was selected by instructor Liu Huan.
Zhao Lei has also been recognized and paid attention to by more people. In 2014, he released his second solo album "Jim's Restaurant". On December 21, 2016, Zhao Lei released the album "Can't Grow Up"; in February 2017, Zhao Lei participated in the third episode of Hunan Satellite TV's variety show "Singer" and successfully broke through as a replacement singer singing the song "Chengdu".
The song "Chengdu" has been circulated up to 200 million times by users on the Kugou platform, and it has also broken all variety show records in the history of Kugou. "Chengdu" won the 25th Dongfeng Billboard Golden Song.