Hu Xia
Hu Xia is a Chinese singer and actor. He won the sixth season of Taiwan's One Million Star in 2010 and released his debut album, Hu Love Xia, later that year. He has sung a great number of soundtracks for Chinese TV series, movies and games, the most famous ones being, "Those Years", for You Are the Apple of My Eye in 2011 and "Don't You Know" for The Story of Minglan in 2018.
Career
2008 – 2010: Debut and ''Hu Love Xia''
In 2008, Hu entered Mengniu Yogurt Music Dream Academy, titled "Running Towards Beijing, Achieving Music Dreams" and held by Enlight Pictures. He finished in the Top 8 and became a member of the idol group Fengyunbang.In September 2009, following the disbandment of Fengyunbang, Hu went to Taiwan to compete in the sixth season of One Million Star.
In May 2010, he signed with Sony Music Entertainment Taiwan as the winner of One Million Star. Hu was the first mainland China contestant to win a talent show in Hong Kong and Taiwan. On December 17, Hu Xia released his debut album Hu Love Xia. The title was taken from his father and mother’s family names, Hu and Xia, which is how he also got his name. The album earned him the award for Best New Artist at the 17th Singapore Hit Awards, the youngest and the first mainland China artist to win the award.
2011 – 2013: "Those Years" and ''Flame of Love''
In 2011, Hu sang the theme song, "Those Years", for the Taiwanese movie You Are the Apple of My Eye. The song became a mega hit in Asia and the music video, uploaded to an unofficial channel, garnered more than 100 million views in YouTube and is one of the most-viewed Chinese music videos on that platform. The song was nominated for the Best Original Film Soundtrack award at the 48th Golden Horse Awards. Same year, he made his acting debut in the musical Young Music.On February 24, 2012, Hu released his second album Flame of Love. On March 25, he held his first concert "Let Me Love You" in Taipei. In August, he held an unplugged concert in Nanning. In September, he starred in his first film Sad Fairy Tale, for which he also sang the theme song.
2013 – 2017: ''Silly Tango'' and ''Love Odyssey''
On June 20, 2013, Hu released his third album Silly Tango. It topped the six major charts in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. In November, he sang the theme song "Letting Go" for the movie The Four 2.In April 2014, Hu covered Lao Lang's "My Old Classmate", which was the theme song for the film of the same name. In August, Hu released "Ruthless", the theme song for The Four Final Battle.
In 2015, Hu released his fourth album Love Odyssey on April 14. Same month, he also starred in the film The Left Ear and released the promotional song "A beautiful Yesterday" for the film. On August 15, he held "Suddenly Summer" concert at Beijing Century Theater and donated the proceeds to the victims of the 2015 Tianjin explosions.
In 2016, Hu chose not to renew his contract with Sony Music Taiwan and Enlight Pictures. From June to July, he participated in the Chinese and South Korean music show The Collaboration and teamed up with Zico.
In June 2017, Hu released "Rush to the Dead Summer", the theme song for the same-name TV series adapted from Guo Jingming's novel.
2018 – 2021: "Don't You Know?" and ''Reading the Old''
In August 2018, Hu sang the first ending song, "Sighs of the Palace Walls", for Story of Yanxi Palace. In November, Hu partnered with 2D content creation community CFun to create the comic "Young Detective" starring Hu's two-dimensional image IP "Hu Xiaoxia".In December, he performed "Don't You Know?" with Yisa Yu for the TV series The Story of Minglan. The song became a mega hit, topping Tencent Music's UNI Chart for 5 consecutive weeks, the QQ Music New Song Chart 16 times, the Kugou Music Chinese New Song Chart and the Rising Chart, and the Kuwo Music New Song Chart for a whole month.
On April 12, 2019, Hu participated in the season 7 finale of the singing competition show Singer as Chyi Yu's partner. On April 17, Hu released his fifth album Reading the Old, under a new label Raining Culture.
In 2020, Hu appeared on Singer again, this time as a challenge singer. In July, he released "Indeterminate Fate", the promotional song for the game Tears of Themis. In December, he sang "Red Supreme", the ending theme for donghua Heaven Official's Blessing.
From December 2020 to February 2021, Hu participated in the competition show Shine! Super Brothers, finishing in 2nd place behind Tan Jianci and forming the group Tan, Chen Zhipeng, Fu Longfei, Fu Xinbo, Liu Wei, and Yu Menglong. In March 2021, he released "Untitled", which is one of the soundtracks for the TV series Word of Honor. From September to December 2021, Hu participated in the music variety show Singing with Legends season 3 as a New Singer and was paired with the Veteran Singer George Lam, winning the best pair prize of the season.
2022 – Present: ''MORE Hu Xia'' and variety shows
In 2022, Hu performed "Red Sun" at CCTV Mid-Autumn Festival Gala with Hacken Lee.On February 17, 2023, Hu released his sixth album MORE Hu Xia. On November 18, Hu held the first stop of his "Those Bygone Years" concert tour at the Guangzhou Asian Games City Gymnasium.
In 2024, Hu participated in multiple reality and variety shows, including Fresh Singer Group, season 4 of Call Me By Fire, Enjoy Your Journey, "Friends Sing Night" on season 6 of Singing with Legends, and Hit Songs 2024.
Discography
Albums
- 胡 爱夏
- 燃点
- 傻瓜探戈
- 替我照顧她
- 念·旧
- MORE胡夏
EP
- 三
- 拾
Singles