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Alyssa Meilin Gray (born June 14, 1989) is an American-Chinese pop singer and songwriter, based in Beijing, China. Meilin first appeared on Chinese national and worldwide television in 2006 with her younger sister, Suelin, winning first place on Beijing Television’s ‘Arts of Our Land’ competition,〔For an article about the Gray sisters, the early career of Meilin & Suelin, see (【引用サイトリンク】title=(新华社)"心手牵连"电视公益行动在京启动(附图) )〕〔(Read article, photos of both sisters )〕 performing a traditional Chinese ‘hulusi’ flute duet. BTV’s Arts of Our Land competition (Wai Guo Ren Zhong Hua Cai Yi Da Sai), was China’s then-premier international competition for foreigners to showcase their talents in traditional Chinese art and culture. Following success on BTV’s ‘Arts of Our Land’, Meilin entered China Central Television’s ‘Xing Guang Da Dao’ Star Search competition, China’s foremost national talent competition, where she won first place in both the weekly and monthly competitions.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=美国女孩爱唱越剧——梅琳在津演出侧记(组图)-梅琳,美国女孩-北方网-新闻中心 )〕 In 2007, Meilin (梅琳) and Hong Kong singer and actor, Nicholas Tse, recorded the theme song and music video〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Meilin 梅琳 and Nicholas Tse 謝霆鋒 – Beauty and The Beast MV )〕 for Walt Disney’s Mandarin language release of the film ‘Beauty and the Beast’, which gave Meilin her first commercial success, with the song reaching No.2 on Pepsi’s Chinese Billboard Pop Charts.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=组图：谢霆锋新歌发布 自诩"恋家的温柔野兽"_影音娱乐_新浪网 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=迪士尼日报 » 谢霆锋与梅琳打造《美女与野兽》中文版主题曲《爱在蔓延中》 – 神奇一刻 – 迪士尼迷的家 迪斯尼 Disney Fans' Corner )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=谢霆锋携手梅琳 演唱《美女与野兽》主题曲 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=为动画大片献声 梅琳谢霆锋上演"美女与野兽" -梅琳,谢霆锋-新闻 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=谢霆锋携手梅琳 演唱《美女与野兽》主题曲(图) -快讯-东方热线 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ϊ¶¯»´Óæ¬Ï×Éùã·Áõð»Öª·Æéïñý¡°Ãàå®Óëò°Êþ¡± )〕 ==Early life and family== Meilin was born in Redwood City, California〔 to Gordon J. Gray, a business consultant and musician, and Xiao-Nan Liu, a naturalized US citizen, whose parents had been high government officials in mainland China. Meilin’s parents met while attending a formal banquet for the visiting president of China, hosted by the Los Angeles World Affairs Council. Her parents married in 1986, and by the time Meilin was born, they had already relocated from L.A. to the San Francisco Bay area, where Meilin attended both private and public schools in Foster City, Belmont, and Redwood Shores. Meilin’s family has been a major influence on her interest in music. Her father is a music recording enthusiast, who commandeered the family den into service as a recording studio when Meilin was 1-year old. Later, after relocating the family to China, he built a larger recording studio and continued experimenting with creating the music that eventually became Meilin’s first recordings and the backing tracks for her public performances. Her father’s grandfather and grandmother had been professional child actors in vaudeville known as ‘Little Dottie’ and ‘Paul Yale’. They met in 1911 as touring members of the Marx Brothers vaudeville act, and were married on tour in 1912, later performing leading theater roles on Broadway in New York City. Meilin’s great uncle, Oakley Yale, was an accordionist and music teacher, who transposed and recorded classical symphonic music on accordion, touring Europe for many years with his accordion orchestra. Meilin’s father’s mother was also an accordionist, who performed on USO Armed Services Radio during World War II. On her mother’s side of the family in China, her mother and uncle studied violin prior to the closing of school during the Cultural Revolution. Throughout her early youth Meilin studied the performing arts; broadway vocals, classical piano and jazz flute, as well as ballet, tap and jazz dance.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Meilin Gray」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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