Born in the capital of entertainment in China, Changsha in Hunan province, Jinx grew up with a love for music, taking the opportunity to perform whenever she could. “Every year in elementary school and middle school we have our annual shows and I will dance or write my own song and then perform it,” she says. “I always like attention, that’s part of it.”

Her passion at this point was firmly in making music, but this path into the music industry was not something that her parents agreed with. “They always tell me that you couldn’t make it, or we don’t want you to make it in the music industry, it’s too complicated and we don’t know anything about it.”

Her first break in the entertainment industry was an appearance on a variety show on major streaming network iQIYI entitled I Supermodel. This was in 2016, when she was just 19. That first foray into TV was done on a whim, during her mid-term break from university. Yet she went on to make another TV appearance on Come Sing With Me (我想和你唱) not long after, a formative experience that helped her realize that she wanted to focus on music only.

“The people I met at the show were all pro singers, they do training and stuff,” she explains. “But me I’m just like all by myself and I have to worry about my education and school. I just feel like, how am I going to compete with them? At that point, I realized I needed to put more energy on my music.”
She dropped out of university in Washington. She felt indifferent about her studies, but was also realizing how little she could relate to her peers at the time, as she was more intent on chasing her music dream.

“There’s so much I wanted to do but I just didn’t have the time and the energy and the circle,” she says about her decision to leave school. “I couldn’t have any sense of achievement, so I needed to drop out.”

She moved to Los Angeles and started creating her own music, while also linking up with locally-based producers such as Mike Gao.

She moved back to China in 2019, and reconnected with her old manager. But the only strategy she was presented with involved being pushed towards the rising variety shows in the country.

She’s taken full responsibility for her own career at this point, despite being in her early twenties, and is intent upon making people listen, on capturing attention with her unique musical style and with her look.

“I want to attract strangers when they walk into a show and they don’t who I am,” she says. “I want them to remember me, my musical style. I want them to walk out of the venue and be like ‘oh my god, who is that girl.'” Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.