荣获奖项：
1997年3月获得“飞图杯”全国青年歌手大赛，北京赛区一等奖。
1997年7月获得“飞图杯”全国青年歌手大赛，全国总决赛一等奖。
1999年8月获得“99上海亚洲音乐节”中国赛区新人歌手大赛银奖。
1999年11月获得“99亚洲音乐节”亚洲赛区（亚洲十四个国家和地区）新人歌手大赛总决赛银奖。
1999年12月参加“世纪风”中国原创歌曲大赛，同时获得演唱和作品两个金奖。
2000年7月获得中央电视台举办的“全国青年歌手大赛奖”优秀奖。
2002年8月获得北京电视台举办的“第二届中国人唱外国歌”歌唱大赛第三名（通俗唱法第一名）。
2004年8月荣获中国文化部举办的“首届全国流行音乐新人选拔赛”一等奖。
2005年8月荣获中国文化部举办的“第七届全国声乐大赛文华奖表演节目二等奖。

音像制品：
录制近三十部电视剧主题歌和插曲：
*由宋春丽、史可、何赛飞、赵琳主演的30集电视连续剧《血色残阳》主题歌；
《摩登家庭》、《生活秀》、《十三格格》、《宫廷画师郎世宁》、
*由李小璐、傅彪主演的30集电视连续剧《十三格格》主题歌；
*由盖丽丽、廖京生主演的20集电视连续剧《生活秀》主题歌；
*由童正维、赵明明主演的33集电视连续剧《摩登家庭》主题歌；
*由大山、钟镇涛主演的20集电视连续剧《宫廷画师郎世宁》主题歌；
*由李幼、陶泽如主演的20集电视连续剧《第五个空弹壳》主题歌；
*由夏雨主演的20集电视连续剧《点燃我生命的是你》主题歌；
*今年四月中央一套将在黄金时段热播纪年SARS一周年电视连续剧《二十一天》的主题歌《我会》，由雷蕾作曲，易茗作词。
录制个人单曲“Ba La Ba”作词作曲黄征。
2003年7月录制个人首张个人原创英文单曲“Ashen days”(难忘的日子）。
于2005年7月录制完成个人首张翻唱专辑。

重要演出：
1998年5月中国北京大型“郭峰演唱会”，特邀唯一嘉宾。
1998年参加文化部举办的春节联欢晚会。
2000年5月受住在美大使李肇星夫妇邀请，参加中国大使馆举办的“爱心音乐舞蹈晚会”。
2001年12月再次参加中国驻纽约领事馆和世界联合国代表团新年联欢晚会
（受美国华裔商会谢晓红，刘国生夫妇的邀请）。
2003年参加文化部举办的春节联欢晚会。
2005年8月随外交部明星团出访俄罗斯交流演出。

Melanie (Zhang Xin)

(b.1978, China )

Vocalist and Pop Artist

Melanie is an internationally acclaimed vocalist and pop artist from China . Born just years after the curtain closed on China's Cultural Revolution, Melanie began singing in the early 1980s. At that time, the voice of Deng Lijun was just beginning to herald a new contemporary popular music industry and aesthetic less directed by the government. Popular songs inspired by the folk melodies of China 's northeastern plateau—the symbolic origin of China 's civilization and “ Mecca ” of the communist revolution—also experienced a commercial revival in the mid-1980s.

Trained at first by her father—a former music composer in the People's Liberation Army—Melanie was recognized as a music prodigy as an elementary school student. A music teacher at China 's elite Jingshan School —magnet school for the progeny of China 's leadership—invited Melanie to attend the prestigious school. Melanie subsequently garnered first place in Beijing 's annual vocalist competition each year from elementary through high school. In 1997, Melanie won her first national competition—first place in China 's “Rising Star Cup”—hosted by a major record label in Hong Kong . Two years later, competing with vocalists from fourteen countries, Melanie received the “Silver Cup” in the 1999 Shanghai Asian Music Festival. In 2004, she won first place in China 's Ministry of Culture's National Pop Vocalist Competition, and in 2005, she came in 2 nd place (top among pop vocalists) in the Ministry of Culture's Nationalist Vocalist Competition.

Producers and composers praise Melanie's voice for its power, precision, and versatility. Melanie has recorded the title tracks for more than fifty nationally broadcast television series, including The Modern Family , Life Show , Bloody Sunset , and Return of the Condor Heroes , which were broadcast by more than twenty television stations in China and received top viewership ratings. Melanie has recorded duets with China 's top male pop artists, including Liu Huan, Guo Feng, Huang Zheng, Yang Hongji, Han Xiao, and Jin Xuefeng. Her voice is behind the jingles for nationally broadcast commercials, such as China 's top-selling beer, Yanjing Beer, as well as for Honda , Cherry Auto, and Kraft. She has also recorded songs for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Melanie regularly performs with China 's Foreign Ministry's Celebrity Art Troupe, China 's Railway Culture Troupe, and China 's Coal Industry Culture Troupe. She has performed in many unique settings, from 60,000-seat stadiums to “reeducation” facilities for Falun Gong convicts. She has performed in more than one hundred cities throughout China , from Tibet 's Lhasa , the Mongolian grasslands, to coal mines in Yunnan Province . She has had guest performances with the China Broadcast Symphony, Minister of Culture's Spring Festival Galas, and China 's National Lottery and televised performances on Central Chinese Television (CCTV) and dozens of local networks throughout China , including Beijing Television (BTV), Tianjin TV, Hebei TV, Shandong TV, Inner Mongolia TV, Chongqing TV, Wuhan TV, Shanghai TV, etc.

Melanie's music aspires to promote cultural understanding and international peace. Her first recorded single was “On the Way to Little Rock ,” which was presented to President Clinton in 2000 as a gift of diplomacy by China 's Foreign Ministry. Melanie visited the United States for her first time in 2000, invited by China 's Foreign Minister to perform in Washington , D.C. and New York City in a Chinese Music Charity Gala. Melanie performed again in New York City in 2001 for the Chinese consulate and delegation to the United Nations. She has also toured Russia , Finland , Israel , Turkey , and Egypt as a cultural “ambassador” for China .

Melanie's voice is powerful and expressive. She performs and records diverse musical styles, from folk to fusion. She has recorded two solo albums in China and hopes to record an album in the United States .