I have been following the singer Jinchi on social platforms. Recently, I saw a post she shared mentioned "Hongmei" and added the account "Zheng Honghong".
Zheng Hong? Could it be the Zheng Hong who participated in the first season of and The Voice with Jin Chi? I clicked on her social account and checked to make sure it was her. But among the photos shared by Jin Chi above, which one is Zheng Hong? I didn’t realize it at the time.
Anyone who has watched the first season of " The Voice of China " must still have fresh memories of Zheng Hong, a 19-year-old female high school student with a slightly fat body and simple dress. Wearing a blue and black plaid top and a pair of dark jeans, his bloated figure is clearly visible. He also has a pair of black-rimmed glasses and long straight hair that covers both sides of his face. He also has a restrained and even autistic personality on stage... The whole thing looks like nothing. Nothing amazing.
But when she opened her mouth to sing "Someone Like You" by Adele, she instantly stunned the audience. Not only does he have outstanding singing talent, but he also sang this song with tears in his eyes and expressed the emotions of the song vividly. Tutor Yu Chengqing had tears in his eyes, saying he saw "the Chinese version of Adele".
Zheng Hong's performance successfully won the unanimous support of the four mentors, and finally she chose to join the Liu Huan mentor team.
Although Zheng Hong had an amazing debut, she did not go too far. She unfortunately failed in the first round of the group assessment, and regretfully left the stage of The Voice. In view of Zheng Hong's stunning appearance in the show, she won the "Echo of Nature" trophy during the awards ceremony on the peak night of the show.
So, ten years have passed in the blink of an eye. What has Zheng Hong been doing all these years? Is she still singing? Why did the blockbuster "Chinese version of Adele" disappear without a trace?
I remember that when Zheng Hong first gained attention, he also received some doubts on the Internet. Someone unearthed photos of her participating in a local show as the lead singer of a band with heavy makeup, and claimed that her simple and reserved image on the stage of The Voice was deliberately staged.
In fact, Zheng Hong was indeed a bit depressed and autistic at that time. She failed in the high school entrance examination and did not go to high school. She stayed at home and went to a five-year junior college. She did not continue studying because she had a bad relationship with her classmates. She returned home and chose to study on her own to prepare for the exam. Before participating in The Voice, she had just completed the college entrance examination as a social worker.
Due to repeated setbacks in school and lack of confidence in appearance, Zheng Hong was indeed relatively closed-off during that period. But she does have talent in singing, and she did form a band once in a short period of time.
After participating in The Voice, Zheng Hong signed a contract with Mengxiang Qiangyin. After all, he is a debut singer. Why is there no news after his debut?
According to what Zheng Hong revealed when she participated in a program a few years ago, after her debut, except for some performances in the first year when she was popular, she disappeared for a few years. In recent years, she went to London to study. After returning from studying for several years, she slowly started composing lyrics, composing and composing songs on her own, and a few years passed before she knew it.
As for his works, in addition to releasing an EP "Movie Ticket Stub" in 2014, he has released singles every now and then. Occasionally he also participates in events and sings some songs, but the overall exposure is very low, and his works are basically unknown. .
Therefore, Zheng Hong has basically disappeared in the public mind. He has not even had the chance to perform on his own stage such as " The Masked Singer ".
However, even if Zheng Hong returns to the public eye, most people probably won’t recognize her. She looks like this now:
And she looks like this:
I watched an interview video of Zheng Hong in 2020, "Many friends have noticed that I have lost weight, because I have become more confident when I lose weight." That's right. , she really lost weight, and not only lost weight, her whole temperament was completely different.
If you hadn’t told me, I wouldn’t have guessed that this was the fat little girl Zheng Hong on the 2012 The Voice stage.Even the tone and expression of her voice are quite similar to Gu Ailing . She is sunny and cheerful, filled with a kind of Gu Ailing-style confidence, rather than the deep and solemn tone of an introverted melancholy.
Zheng Hong said that she has slowly lost weight through exercise and fitness in the past few years, and then gradually discovered self-confidence; but before, she said she never knew what self-confidence was.
It is said that Zheng Hong has lost 40 pounds. Although he still does not look like the thin person that our current aesthetic advocates, and his legs are still relatively strong, he gives people a healthy and wild beauty, and is no longer bloated and obese before. , a bit like European and American women. Not only her body shape, but I seem to think that her facial features now look a bit mixed-race.
I wonder if it’s because Adele has lost weight, so Zheng Hong also lost weight because of the idol’s power?
But it’s not necessarily true. It’s not necessarily true whether Adele is her idol. It wasn't because she was fat and she sang Adele's songs and her voice was good, so she was given the title of "Chinese version of Adele". I remember what she said back then, I am not Adele, I want to sing my own songs.
Unfortunately, many years later, she lost weight, became more confident, and finally sang her own songs, but she no longer had so many people paying attention.
Judging from the updates that Zheng Hong occasionally shares, she still sings beautifully now, with a more mature and comfortable charm. Her current situation is like a combination of Yuan Yawei and Jiang Yingrong . On the one hand, she sings hard like Yuan Yawei, and on the other hand, she is as self-disciplined and progressive as Jiang Yingrong. Even if you look at her from a certain angle, she looks a bit like Yuan Yawei or Jiang Yingrong, and sometimes she looks a bit like Wan Nida .
Some netizens were surprised when they saw Zheng Hong's current changes and also questioned whether she had undergone plastic surgery. I don't think it's necessary. In addition to being fat, her facial features weren't ugly back then, and now she doesn't have a well-sculpted face that's popular on the Internet. There's no major change that requires plastic surgery. Weight loss is the plastic surgery with the most obvious effect. After losing weight, you will feel confident and outgoing, and coupled with the makeup effects, it is not surprising to achieve such an effect.
I think back then, when Zheng Hong didn’t understand what self-confidence was, she was praised and competed by the four major mentors. Even the always steady mentor Liu Huan made an unprecedented move to invite her to Wukesong’s large-scale concert in order to steal her. The bargaining chip of being a guest...
Of course, her singing also moved millions of viewers. In the end, they were very reluctant to leave her and complained for her.
Now, when her life has reached another stage, and her whole person is glowing with mature strength and confidence, can her singing career usher in another highlight moment?
However, I think that even if she cannot become famous, the change in her status is still a huge gain. I hope she becomes more confident and happy.
