Kelly Yu

Kelly was born in Dalian, China and moved with her parents to Vancouver, British Columbia, in 2004. She attended Killarney Secondary School and later moved to Boston, where she attended the Berklee College of Music. She majored in music, performance, Music Composition and studied acting.^[1]

At the age of 17, she released her first self-made album "Evil Child" with her band. In 2010, she served as a guitarist for Ku Youlun's band. In 2011, she went to Beijing Film Academy to study performance. In 2012, she made a cameo appearance in the film "To Our Dying Youth" directed by Zhao Wei. In the same year, she acted as the heroine of the movie "Let It Rain" and released the EP album "Let It Rain".

Yu's first movie was Under the Rain in 2012, directed by Liu Chen.^[2] Her first lead role was in 2014 in the television series One and a Half Summer co-produced by China and South Korea and pairing up with Nichkhun.^[3] In the same year (2014), Yu released her first album "Fighting Spirit".^{[citation needed]}

She has collaborated with 윤종신 (Yoon Jong Shin) for 왠지 그럼 안될 것 같아 (Somehow I don't think so) in 2014. South Korean media reported that Yu became the first artist in the global project of Mystic89, led by South Korean singer-songwriter and artist Yoon Jong- shin. In the same year, she participated in the Beijing Satellite TV "The Most Beautiful Harmony" competition and entered the finals. In November of the same year, Taiwan released the album "Fighting Spirit". On 13 December of the same year, the first individual ticketed Kelly Show album concert was held on the bank of the Taipei Mansion.^{[citation needed]}

In 2016, she participated in the third season of "Song of China" and was successfully selected with a song "Heartbeat". She became the top six student of Yuquan team. In the same year, she became the world's first female spokesperson for "Ibanez" and owned an electric guitar exclusively customized by the manufacturer. In April of the same year, she became one of the singers in the music season broadcast program "Avenue of Stars Super Edition" of CCTV Variety Channel.^{[citation needed]}

In 2017, Yu starred as the lead actress in the romantic film The Ex-File 3: The Return of the Exes.^[4] She sang the theme song of the film called "Ti Mian". The song was downloaded over more than 60 million in Spotify.^[5] The theme song for the rom-com feature film The Ex-File 3: The Return of the Exes was #3 at iTunes Taiwan, and a YouTube audio file has attracted 65 million "views".

After "Predecessor 3", she released two new albums and sang a lot of film and television OSTs, such as the drama versions of "July and Ansheng" and "I". She sang for episodes, theme songs, and opening and ending songs such as "My True Friend", "Storm Dance" and "Illusory City". She also participated in a lot of music shows, such as "Infinite Ballad Season", "Voice of God", "Let's Band Together", "Masked Singer", "You Music List", "Longing For Life", "The Perfect Travel of Girlfriends" and so on.

In 2018, Yu released her self-composed full-length second album titled "Undefined" followed by her third self-composed album Intermezzo in 2020, it ranked first on TME Physical Album Sales Chart's June 2022 chart.

In 2022, Yu joined Sisters Who Make Waves Season 3 as a contestant and won as the 3rd winner. 5 August 2022, in Riding the Wind and Waves (Season 3) she has successfully formed a group after winning the 3rd place. On the same day, she released her first singing and dancing single "Hedgehog". ^{[citation needed]}

This is followed with a variety show called The Seaside Band 乐队的海边 on 11 November 2022. In 2022, she starred in a Hollywood film Moonfall. It is a 2022 American post-apocalyptic science fiction disaster film co-written, directed, and produced by Roland Emmerich. She also sang the film's promotional song of the same name.^{[citation needed]}

On Christmas Day of 2022, Yu announced via Weibo that she will be reprising her role as Lin Jia from Ex-File 3 with other key members returning too. The Ex-file 4 was a success with 1 billion box office in the year 2023.^{[citation needed]}

In 2023, Yu released her fourth studio album called "It's Me" on 31 March. It ranked first on that month's TME Physical Album Sales Chart. In July 2023, Yu started her world tour concert (Kelly Yu 3x3/World Tour 2023) in Beijing on 29 July 2023. In November 2023, two days after her birthday, she released a song call "Drowning" which was written, sung and composed by her. She became the director for the MV as well.^{[citation needed]}