On the evening of September 10, the promotion competition for the Chengdu Original Musician Selection Activity was recorded in the Studio 1 of Chengdu Radio and Television Station. The 21 contestants who advanced to the previous round of auditions finally competed in the top 10 contestants after three rounds of live competitions in the promotion competition. The newly released list of top 10 players will be announced to audiences across the country through Mango TV at 20:20 on September 26. From "fast boy and fast girl" to "original innovative voice", Chengdu has been carrying the banner of music variety shows for 19 consecutive years. This round of promotion competition left the stage to pure original music: 21 singers and composers (teams) delivered their "new voice" answers on the stage of the "Music Capital" with sincere melody and sincere singing.
Write life into songs and treat the city as a chord
Teachers, store managers, singers...21 singers and competing on the same stage
This season's top 21 career spans from college teachers, bar singers to trendy store managers, covering more than ten provinces and cities including Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangdong, Beijing, and Shanghai, including Yi, Mongolian, Kazakh and other ethnic players, fully demonstrating the adsorption power of the "Music Capital".
Zhang Ronghao (Chengdu) played "Hot Search" with a guitar to respond to the algorithm era; Zimo Band (Xichang) wrote the Daliangshankou string into "Footprints" and added the Yi language shouting mountain on the stage; Zhou Jialiang (Guangzhou) combined the horse-head fiddle with the electronic beat, and "The Butterfly Saying·Ahu" made the national music "dry" dry; Shang Junyu (Beijing) wandered for music for ten years, writing all his emotions into "It's great to meet it", and choked up several times during the rehearsal...
Diversity is not a slogan, it is the reverb that comes with the air in Chengdu.
It is understood that this promotion competition continues to use the "21 to 10" three-round system: in the first round, 21 contestants were divided into 4 groups by lottery, and the judges immediately discussed after each group's singing, with one person passing through and one stopping, and a total of 6 top ten seats were generated; in the second round, 8 players to be determined to fully interpret the original works, and then 3 promotion places were decided; in the last round, the remaining 2 people accepted 31 public judges on-site voting, and the one with the highest votes won the last one top ten ticket.
The entire recording of the competition insists on "on-site voting, notarization supervision" to ensure that the event is open and transparent.
Judge Shanhe shared before the competition: "Every year, we hope that a classic original work will be born. I hope that everyone will pay more attention to original works and give more encouragement to musicians. Every test, practice, and feedback on the stage of the 'Original Innovation' will become the driving force for original musicians to go to the future."
The judges made their wishes that this year his requirements were higher than last year, and hoped that musicians could make progress every year. "Year after year, everyone's music will continue to improve and change with the times, making the audience's eyes lit up."
The three judges Shanhe, Xu Feng and Xu Fei have gone through auditions to the promotion competition, and "professional density is not inferior to any first-line platform" has become a consensus on the on-site media.
Flying guest Zhou Hui: We have an "Agreement" with Chengdu
Let today's new voice become tomorrow's golden song
26 years ago, a song "Agreement" brought Zhou Hui, a Taiwanese female singer in the public eye. "The "Agreement" was also a new work for the new generation, and today it has become a classic." Zhou Hui, a guest of the promotion competition, told reporters in the rehearsal backstage: "Chengdu has a natural fit with music - here to invite street artists to the live broadcast room, subway stations to write melody, and original works into urban renewal plans. Last year, I went to Chengdu for the New Year. Today, I stood on the stage of original innovative sounds, and wanted to complete the previous agreement with Chengdu and the agreement with the music capital - to make today's new sounds the golden song of tomorrow."
"I think the city of Chengdu is very 'cute' in its new and old cultures. In such a city, original music has more possibilities." Zhou Hui said that Chengdu has no limit on music. As long as the audience is interested in music, they can enjoy the different music brought by the contestants on the stage of "original innovative sound". If an original music wants to become a golden song of the times, it needs to meet many elements. Lyrics, music, singing, arrangement, tone, etc. are all very important elements, and none of them are missing.
What is the real originality? Leave the questions on hot searches and leave the answers to time. Professor Jia Guoping of the Central Conservatory of Music recently pointed out in his lecture: "Originality is not an innovative, but a coupling between the spirit of the times and personal life experience."
Tonight's stage provides a verifiable sample: when AI can form songs with one click, humans choose to write melodies with tears, heartbeat and subway stations; when cities provide subsidies, Chengdu writes "original" into every sound brick on the street. When the market calls for "hot products", the contestants still insist on leaving "imperfect pronunciation" in the song... Please turn your attention to these melodies that have no names. Because—the golden songs of every era were once original voices of innovation.
Cultivate the most fertile soil in the "City of Music"
City Industry Link Stick, so that good songs can be heard
Many people remember the audition row of "Super Girl" in Chengdu's singing area in 2006, and also remember the summer night when "The Emperor's Next Stop King Queen" turned the Sichuan Provincial Gymnasium into a KTV of 10,000 people.
Yan Lei, the director of the 2025 original musician selection activity, introduced: "In fact, we have never missed the music variety show track. From 'Super Girl, Fast Boy' to 'Original Sound', we are collecting, amplifying and mixing the original melodies scattered on the streets, campuses, and live broadcast rooms with no threshold registration channels, and finally precipitated into the most fertile soil of Chengdu's 'Music Capital' - allowing amateurs to dare to pick up their pens, let the demos take root, and the golden songs take root."
Yan Lei revealed that the second season of "Original Voice" has a particularly wide range of participation, covering many international contestants and students from well-known domestic music universities. At the same time, the stage design of the second season has also been comprehensively upgraded, which will benchmark the level of the concert to create a more exquisite stage for contestants.
At present, Chengdu has included the "music industry output value" in the GDP single list, with rolling support of 200 million yuan in special funds each year. It is reported that after the birth of the top ten, the contestants will take "original music + music bus + cultural and tourism scene + flash roadshow" as the core, conduct offline flash roadshows and fly guests/mentors to conduct music versions of CityWalk to connect city cultural and tourism points, deeply explore urban cultural resources, innovate tourism experience methods, shoot cultural and tourism landmarks and well-known attractions in Chengdu, and deeply embed the event IP into Chengdu cultural, commercial and tourism consumption network.
"Original Innovation Voice" 2025 Chengdu Original Musician Selection Activity
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