Liu Yuning (born 8 January 1990) is a Chinese singer, actor, and the lead singer of Modern Brothers.
2010
In 2010, Liu took part in Hunan Television's Super Boy, but was eliminated in the audition stage and failed to advance.
2013
In 2013, he went back to take part in the same competition but got eliminated again in the second round of auditions.
2014
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.
2016
In 2016, he starred in the web film Class 952 produced by YY.
2017
In 2017 he moved his band's live streaming stage from indoors to outdoors, to a historical street market in his hometown, Dandong.
Liu Yuning and the Modern Brothers band had a phenomenal rise to stardom after 3 years of live streaming (singing) on the YY platform.
2018
In 2018, Liu rose to stardom by his covers on platforms YY's Live Streaming and Douyin, and released his debut single "Imagination" on September 15, 2018.
It was after his post of short singing videos on Douyin in June 2018 which resulted to Liu gaining more fans for his unique guttural singing voice.
Liu and his band were invited to various television shows to perform.
In July and August 2018, Liu was invited to a number of television shows includes Hunan Television's Day Day Up and CCTV3's Setting Out for Happiness, but his first professional music stage performance was Jiangsu Television's Finding Gold Song.
On August 17, Liu and Modern Brothers held their first offline singing club event at the exhibition center of Guangzhou Central Station.
2019
He released his debut studio album Ten in 2019, and held his first concert tour Growing Storm in 2020.
Forbes China listed Liu on their 30 Under 30 Asia list in 2019.
Liu landed his first drama acting role in the TV Series Hot-Blooded Youth starring Huang Zitao and Zhang Xueying which was filmed from early September and aired in the later part of 2019.
On September 15, Liu officially debuted as a solo singer with the release of his first solo single "Imagination."
On October 19, he attended Zhejiang Television's Autumn Gala with his Modern Brothers band.
In November, he participated in Jiangsu Television's Mask Singer.
On Dec 31, he attended Jiangsu Television's 2019 New Year Concert.
Liu Yuning 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.
In January 2019, Liu Yuning was voted the "National recommended singer" to be a contestant as the challenger singer in Hunan Television's singing competition Singer 2019.
On March 25, 2019, 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.
2020
His debut album won the "Media Recommended Album" award at the 2020 Chinese Top Ten Music Awards, and his second extended play Listen•Ning (2020–21) won the "Most Popular EP" award in 2021 Chinese Top Ten Music Awards.
Besides singing, he also gained recognition as an actor through his roles in television series.
Liu Yuning was born in Dandong, Liaoning Province.
His father passed away when he was 4 years old.
He's been living separately from his mother since childhood and grew up under his grandparents' care.
From a young age, Liu developed a passion for music, but his family's financial situation prevented him from pursuing formal music education or lessons.
Despite facing these constraints, his love for music persisted.
Liu graduated from Dandong Vocational-Technical Secondary School where he received professional training as a chef.
He admitted he doesn't like to cook but chose to learn the skill so he could make a living early on and support his grandparents.
His career as a chef came to an end due to a sudden pneumothorax.
After recovering, Liu worked as a waiter at restaurants until he got promoted to manager.
He also worked as a server at bath houses and sales associate at fashion stores.
Unwilling to abandon his initial dream of pursuing music, Liu used his first month's salary as a chef to buy a guitar.
He began his musical journey as a singer at local bars.
Subsequently, he formed the rock band Modern Brothers with his best friends.
