Jeno

Biography

Liu Liyang (English name: Jeno) is a Chinese singer born on October 24, 1980. She loved music from a young age and went to the United Kingdom during her second year of university to study advertising and marketing, but ultimately found she could not give up music. She studied in a British university from August 2001 to May 2004, majoring in advertising marketing planning. After returning to China, she worked in the planning department of a Swiss exhibition company in Beijing, and in her spare time studied broadcasting and radio hosting at the Beijing Broadcasting Institute. In 2005, she passed an interview from among dozens of candidates to work as an intern director and outdoor host for the Hua Yu Satellite TV show "All-Star Concert." She rose to fame in 2006 when she won the Guangzhou district championship and placed third nationally in the Super Girl competition. In 2007, she released her first EP titled "提线木偶" (Marionette) and served as a Great Wall promotional ambassador. She joined Hua Yan International Music in 2008 and released her first full album "我就是這樣" (This Is Who I Am). In 2009, she won the Best Newcomer (Bronze) award at the 17th Oriental Billboard Awards and released the mini-album "轉寄劉力揚" (Forward Liyang). She received the Mainland Campus Popular Singer Award at the MusicRadio China Top Chart Awards in 2010, released the album "旅途" (Journey) in 2011, and won Song of the Year for "谈感情" and the Breakthrough Performance Award in 2012.