She is from Beijing. I am guessing she is born in 1980s: aka she would be about 40 now (baidu 钟晓京超女几岁了). I came across her at Bilibili, 钟晓京翻唱苏芮80年代经典歌曲《跟着感觉走》. This is the song that I listened in high school and college. || Update 09-01-2025: Jamie mentioned she was at 3rd grade in year 1993. Assuming she was 8 then, she was born in 1985.
Some background
(Sina Blog) 代表北京的传奇超女－钟晓京 (2006-07-04 22:09:20). Also Baidu pages (generated by AI). Please note Jamie is a music industry executive and she also graduated from 北外 Beijing Foreign Studies University which is considered the best college for English majors at my time.
Platforms we can find here
Bilibili – 钟晓京Jamie: you will notice her English songs got most playbacks. This is understandable because that’s also her strength: she graduate from Beijing Foreign Studies University 北京外国语学院 and passed 英语专业八级。
YT – 钟晓京Jamie: right now she listed all English song she sang (as cover 翻唱）。Personally I think she can put up her Mandarin and Cantonese songs there too.
Douyin 抖音: 钟晓京Jamie：北京歌手，毕业于人大附中、北京外国语大学英语系，英语专业8级。曾就职于国际唱片公司。直播内容：中英粤及其他语种经典歌曲，流行、摇滚、爵士等多种风格。This is the platform that she is most active (I believe). Probably for many short video creators Douyin is also most lucrative too – we got to eat and and sometimes bring bacon home. She probably started her solo/creator career about 5 to 10 years ago, and this again confirms this old saying: many roads lead to Rome.
Facebook: Jamie Zhong
Instagram: jamiezxj
WeChat: 钟晓京Jamie (she does go live 直播 on WeChat sometimes, at least once a month). She mentioned the WeChat audience is slightly older than the audience at the other platform (Douyin).
(Update 07-7-2025) During this morning’s WeChat live, Jamie made an interesting observation, that is over the time, people change the way they consume the pop music, and also due to that, they change their preferences of the type of pop music they listen to as well. Nowadays people tend to listen to music that’s easy, vs. say Whitney Houston’s “I will always love you”. Because a lot of times people listen to the music as a background (noise). I will put more precise words from her if possible.
Btw, the price to ask her to sing a song is about 500 Yuan (what they called “520” stands for I love you in Chinese), or $70. It’s not too expensive, but it’s not too cheap. I imagine Tencent (WeChat owner takes a cut, probably at least 30%?). Also, Apple is probably not taking a cut here.
Btw, I did google search on this too – did people change the habit of listening to pop music
(Update 07-11-2025) Jamie commented on WeChat live that 小斗 (she meant Douyin, because WeChat and Douyin are competitors on the video/live front), is already in 工业社会，by that she meant the analytics for broadcaster (live show host), while WeChat is still at 农业社会。Good analogy. I guess that’s one reason the singer I like (you probably know whom she is, if you read enough of my blog posts), also goes live on Douyin sometimes. A second reason “why someone goes live only on Douyin”, I can think of, is there’s an exclusivity between the show host and Douyin (Byte Dance). Note this is nothing new, as we seen similar things on Spotify or Apple in the west.
Keep in mind I am 2nd class citizen there as I don’t have an account with Douyin. To log into Douyin, we need the Douyin app, but the app is only available in the China app store (including HK).
Jamie also commented YT: 翻唱的歌拿到的广告费大多数要交版权费。一个矛盾是如果是自己版权的歌，一般流量就低，也就没啥广告费。
My comments: Jamie is a straight shooter. She would say what’s in her mind. That obviously a double edge sword: it has both pluses and minuses because usually people don’t want to hear anything negative about them.
PS:
I wrote another two singers, and this is the 3rd of the singers series, the first two are: Liang Jingru 梁静茹 aka Fish Leong and Ayen 何璟昕. We know Fish Leong learned quite a bit from the famous Jonathan Lee (李宗盛), and Ayen 何璟昕 (links to Wikipedia, full disclosure: yours truly made some contributions to her Wiki page recently), is also quite unusual in her career path, she grew interest in music in middle school and high school, but she chose to attend a college in Beijing, major in digital media and arts (Engineering degree), and she launched her music career during/after college.
The key are: you got to love that thing, and you probably need to be decently good at it. The latter also depends on the the competitive landscape and the business overall of that field: for example, I consider myself a decent programmer, but not a 10x dev, but I still made a decent living because the field is fairly lucrative (at least in my 24/25 years career, this may change due to AI etc). But music industry is more competitive. So were the creator and short video platforms.