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Ayen Ho (Chinese 何璟昕, He Jingxin ) is a Chinese
C-pop C-pop is an abbreviation for Chinese popular music (), a loosely defined musical genre by artists originating from mainland China,Hong Kong and Taiwan (the Greater China region). This also includes countries where Chinese languages are used by ...
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Cantopop Cantopop (a contraction of "Cantonese pop music") or HK-pop (short for "Hong Kong pop music") is a genre of pop music written in standard Chinese and sung in Cantonese. Cantopop is also used to refer to the cultural context of its production ...
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Mandopop Mandopop or Mandapop refers to Standard Chinese, Mandarin popular music. The genre has its origin in the jazz-influenced popular music of 1930s Shanghai known as Shidaiqu; with later influences coming from Japanese enka, Hong Kong's Cantopop, Ta ...
) singer-songwriter born in Qingyuan, Guangdong province. Ho has released songs and albums in mandarin and Cantonese and she is considered one of the pioneers of mainland-Chinese Cantopop wave. She currently lives in Beijing.


Early life

Ayen Ho was born 6 March 1994 in Qingyuan. She moved with her family to Huizhou, Guangdong Province, where she lived during her school years. In 2012, Ho moved to Beijing and applied to study in the digital media and arts department of the North China Technologic University. During that time, she started learning to play guitar, ukelele and violoncello. A year later, she won a music contest organised by the same institution, which meant the start of her music career.


Career

In 2014, Ho released her first Mandarin EP entitled ''Phototrophism''. She released more original songs and performed in many song contests in cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. After graduating from university two years later, Ho went on with her music career organising a tour around 16 Chinese cities. In 2016, she was nominated to the Abilu Music awards for a song entitled "The right time". In 2017, Ho composed music for TV commercials for companies such as Chevrolet, Pacific Insurance Company and also took part in a music event organised by Netease Cloud Music. In 2018, she registered herself in the Quangzhou Normal University in Xiamen, where she studied a master in music composition. At the end of that year, she took part in an exposition of musical instruments in Shanghai where she performed some of her songs. In 2019, Ho released her first full-length Cantonese album entitled ''Maybe today''.


Discography


Studio albums

* ''Phototrophism'' (2016) * ''Maybe today'' (2019)


Singles

* "Shooting star" (2016) * "An afternoon" (2016) * "Cloudy landscape" (2017) * "One play, one dream" (2019) * "Moonlight" (2019) * "Obsessed guy" (2019) * "Kite" (2019) * "Await one thing everyday" (2019)


References


External links


Ayen Ho Weibo profile.


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