Liu Yuning

2010–2017

In 2010, Liu took part in Hunan Television's Super Boy, but was eliminated in the audition stage and failed to advance.^[8] He returned to the same competition in 2013 but was eliminated again in the second round of auditions.^{[citation needed]} In 2014, Liu formed Modern Brothers band with A Zhuo and Da Fei, and joined the YY's live streaming platform in March 2015 where they covered dozens of songs.^[9] In 2016, he starred in the web film Class 952 produced by YY. In 2017 he moved his band's live streaming stage from indoors to outdoors, to a historical street market in his hometown, Dandong.

2018–2019

Liu Yuning and the Modern Brothers band rose to stardom after 3 years of live streaming (singing).^[10] Liu gained significant number of fans for his unique guttural singing voice.^[11] In July and August, Liu was invited to a number of television shows, including Hunan Television's Day Day Up^[12] and CCTV3's Setting Out for Happiness, but his first professional music stage performance was Jiangsu Television's Golden Melody 2.^[13]

On August 17, Liu and Modern Brothers held their first offline singing event at the exhibition center of Guangzhou Central Station.^[14] On September 15, Liu officially debuted as a solo singer with the release of his first solo single "Imagination."^[15] On October 19, Liu attended Zhejiang Television's Autumn Gala with his Modern Brothers band.^[16] In November, he participated in Jiangsu Television's Mask Singer. On December 31, he attended Jiangsu Television's 2019 New Year Concert.^{[citation needed]} Liu landed his first drama acting role in the TV Series Hot-Blooded Youth starring Huang Zitao and Zhang Xueying which was filmed in September 2018 and aired a year later.^[17] He also sang OSTs for various films and TV series that year. Among them, the popular ones are "Toast the wine" (让酒) for Tomb of the sea (沙海) and the theme song for Jia Zhangke's film Ash Is Purest White.^{[citation needed]}

In January, Liu was voted the "National Recommended Singer" to be a contestant as the challenger singer in Hunan Television's singing competition Singer 2019.^[18] On March 25, Liu won the Best New Artist and the Internet Influence Honor awards at the Chinese Top Ten Music Awards. His "Toast the Wine" was also awarded the Media Recommended OST. In March 2019, Liu participated as regular member in Hunan TV's variety show Our Brilliant Masters.^{[citation needed]} In October, Liu participated as a regular member in the first season of Shanghai TV's music variety show Singing with Legends. As one of the eight young singers, he teamed up with older generation singer Richie Jen.^[19] Liu and Modern Brothers held their first concert tour in 5 cities from August to November; the last stop, planned to be held on February 14, 2020, in Wuhan, was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[20][21] In December, Liu released his first solo studio album Ten (十).^[22]

2020–2022

In 2020, Liu performed his new single "Talking about Love" (你说爱情啊) at Chinese Top Ten Music Awards, where he also won the All-rounded Artist of the Year award, the People's Choice Singer Award, and the Media Recommended Album for Ten.^[23]

In 2021, Liu and Modern Brothers' 5 years contract with YY ended. They chose to leave the company, and Liu created his own artist studio with a few staff to manage his solo works.^{[citation needed]} On March 21, Liu became the first Chinese pop singer to sing a Chinese theme song for Disney with the song "Magical Surprise" (奇妙的惊喜) for the 5th anniversary of Shanghai Disneyland.^[24] In October, Liu returned as a regular member in season three of Shanghai TV's music show Singing with Legends, where he teamed up with Penny Tai.^[25] In November, Liu again won the All-rounded Artist of the Year award, the Internet Influential Male Singer award, and the Most Popular EP award for his second EP "Listen∙Ning" at the Chinese Top Ten Music Awards.^{[citation needed]} Liu also released more than 30 OSTs for various TV series, movies, documentaries, and video games, including "Heavenly Questions" (天问) for the TV series Word of Honor, which won topped Tencent Music UNI Chart for three consecutive weeks.^[26][27]

In the summer of 2022, Liu released "Looking for you", the theme song for the TV series Love Between Fairy and Devil, which won him 4 consecutive champions in TenCent Music Billboard.^{[citation needed]} Besides his music career, he gained growing recognition for acting through dramas. His popular roles included Hei Yanjing in TV series Ultimate Note, Hao Du in TV series The Long Ballad, and Bai Choufei in drama Heroes.^{[citation needed]} Liu continued to regularly livestream on his Weibo page, where each session can last for 2–5 hours. He mentioned that livestream is a bridge for him to sing and communicate with his fans. He mostly performs live without his band members too as they're now focusing on family, but the group hasn't disbanded and they're still close to each other, hence his introduction will always be "Modern Brother's Liu Yuning."^{[citation needed]}

Studio albums

• Ten (十) (2019)^[29]

• Liu Yuning's (刘宇宁的) (2025)^[30]

2019 Modern Brothers Concert Tour "Growing Storm"

Originally scheduled for 7 shows, on January 22, 2020, Liu Yuning announced on his personal Weibo that the concert in Wuhan will be postponed due to severe COVID-19 epidemic and to ensure everyone's health and safety. The rescheduled performance time will be notified separately. Tickets sold remains valid after postponement and rescheduling.^[32][33]

2025 Liu Yuning Concert Tour "Liu Yuning's"

Hangzhou and Nanjing are the host cities of Liu's upcoming concerts. More shows are being scheduled. Details are to be confirmed.