Ayen何璟昕 He Jing’xin (earlier she used Ayen Ho for her English name) is very special and quite talented artist, musician and social media influencer (自媒体作者 zi mei ti zuo zhe). She was born in Guangdong Province and she lives in Beijing metro area now.
Sometimes people used the term “北漂(Baike, Wikipedia) bei’piao”。From what I observe, Bei’piao is quite common for musicians and some other artists, because Beijing is also China’s No. 1 culture center, in addition to be the capital of the country (the political center, and many good universities including the 2 leading ones). Here is an example of Shanghai singer who is also 北漂ing.
Live Performance
2025.10.18 CCTV 15 《15号音乐房子》 20251018 大概不到五分钟左右：漫步人生路；25分钟不到一点：祝福（粤语版）；44分钟左右：人生何处不相逢（粤语），中间有一小段国语版 最真的梦。这里有粉丝团的剪辑版（微博）。Technically speaking, CCTV show is recorded not live. But I will categorize it as live as I think it still has a lot of pressure.
2025.09.29 CCTV 3 [开门大吉]何璟昕带来经典歌曲《红日》
07-12-2022 CCTV 3 黄金100秒 appearance complete video via Baidu. Below are clips via Sohu: 广东女孩何璟昕唱响17岁写的原创歌曲《向光性》，温柔歌声，暖化心灵; 广东女孩何璟昕太有才了，现场带来原创粤语歌曲，直击心灵 (七夕词）; 广东女孩何璟昕脑洞打开，将从小熟读的诗句谱成曲子，这波操作太有才了 (I accidentally bumped into these as I was looking for an old video of hers – 何璟昕 北方工业大学 话剧. I didn’t find the 话剧 in which she was the director – she *may* have taken it down since I watched it a few months ago.)
(Update 08-01-2025) I found an old video of Ayen何璟昕 on Bilibili – 56红人馆 第204期 南方姑娘何璟昕北上追音乐 小清新曲风书写心情. You may need a Bilibili account in order to watch. Personally, I have a Bilibili account which is tied to my WeChat account.
(Update 07-19-2025, from 何璟昕的微博) 听民谣，来岳阳🎶 我会参加7月25号、26号的湖畔音乐节演出，地点在岳阳港工业遗址公园，这次准备了3~4首从来没有在现场演出过的新歌曲，欢迎大家来玩！
(Original June 2025) Here is my earlier post on her. The article was probably too long for a person who heard about Ayen何璟昕 the very first time. Below is an updated and a shorter version.
Show and Tell via Videos
Update 10-15-2025 Ayen recently started a new YT Shorts channel.
For those of you who really don’t like Douyin and like YT better: here is a video for Ayen and her mom – beyond-真的愛妳 吉他cover 母親節和媽媽一起合唱，媽媽第一次上鏡有點害羞 | Ayen 何璟昕
Also Bilibili: 南 屏 海 滩 it’s a combination of 南屏晚钟 (YT) and 上海滩。There are some similarities between those two song’s melodies.
Most of the video links go to Douyin 抖音. How to watch Douyin without an account? Basically, you need to complete the Chinese version of captcha (slide the shape/the object into its place). Also, you dismiss the phone number pop up after that. Btw, this is her Douyin live URL/address. Note I haven’t watched her live show yet, because before today 07-30-2025 I was under impression that we need a Douyin account in order to watch any live show. My assumption could be wrong.
Update 10-26-2025: also recently I happened to find another tip that get to DY on the mobile browser on the phone. That is the so.douyin.com DY’s own search engine. It only works on the phone though. It seems DY uses some “innovative” tricks on the front end.
(Original) I think this Douyin short video showed her skills very well. The song is 抖音《素顏》許嵩、何曼婷【動態歌詞Lyrics】Ayen was doing a cover, but it’s not a very straightforward cover. She puts efforts and creative thoughts into it. She has two versions of herself in the video.
Note this is not entirely new, as I saw she did it at other videos, such as this one – 許冠傑 – 半斤八兩 女生版 Acoustic cover｜粵語歌吉他彈唱｜Ayen何璟昕
and another one
【易燃易爆炸】的【笼】（电影《消失的她》主题曲）cover 陈粒 张碧晨｜Ayen何璟昕
And she did dance too. Ayen used to joke she didn’t know how to dance. I don’t know. But I know she learned dance in last few years. Personally I felt her dance move is good. Note dance is not her strong suite.
Btw, you don’t have to have an account in order to view Douyin videos. Just validate the capicha, and dismiss the pop-up for sign in.
梨涡浅笑：this song is 49 years old 🙂
New song June-2025 fresh brewed 🙂 痴情的人最心碎(YT); Douyin short clip featuring the Ayen何璟昕
Old song June-2025: 海阔天空 (Douyin)
国粤双语 面具+天后: since I am learning Cantonese nowadays, I think I hear: “一首歌，一个面具，大家听好” in Cantonese at the beginning.
Here is Baidu Baike intro of Ayen何璟昕
(Update 07-18-2025) I just noticed she has another channel – Ayen阿昕的抖音: and I really like 献给永远的 and 不一样的泪桥 (compare to 伍佰的泪桥here). Btw, noticed her compilation here 阿昕的合唱。
Executive summary
She is a multi-talented artist, composer, lyricist, singer/songwriter and creator/influencer. 唱作人，网红 in Chinese. Here is her Wikipedia page, and her Wikipedia page in Chinese.
Full disclosure: I made some contributions to her Wikipedia page since March 2025.
A few things I liked about her
Hard working, and work smart.
She does most everything on her own, again refer to her undergraduate major and her multiple talents. Here she talks about how she makes the video:
She is also present in all the main music (or video) platforms, inside and outside China. I am listing some platforms below:
WeChat (search Ayen何璟昕 in the app)
RedNote or Xiaohongshu (search Ayen何璟昕 in the app)
Bilibili (not updated as often recently)
YouTube; also 何璟昕（Ayen） – Topic (auto generated by YT as publisher sent new songs over to YT)
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Below are more gearing towards my personal preferences, please feel free to ignore
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敏杰最钟意（喜欢）的何璟昕原创原唱的歌
Top songs that Ayen wrote and I like the most, sorted in chronicle order
向光性 (Apple Music, Bilibili, Spotify, YT; QQ 音乐，网易云音乐)
月光 (Apple Music, Bilibili, Spotify, YT; QQ 音乐，网易云音乐)
如果今天天气很好 (Apple Music, Bilibili, YT; QQ 音乐，网易云音乐)
一切美好都像你 (Apple Music, Bilibili, YT; QQ 音乐，网易云音乐)
時間不等你 (原唱) (Bilibili, Spotify, YT; QQ 音乐，网易云音乐)
满天星星 (Apple Music, Bilibili, Spotify, YT; QQ 音乐，网易云音乐)
明月高高天上挂 (Apple Music, Bilibili, Spotify, YT; QQ 音乐，网易云音乐) — 国语版 顺游 在这里 (Apple Music, Bilibili, Spotify, YT; QQ 音乐，网易云音乐)
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敏杰最喜欢（钟意）的何璟昕翻唱或吉他弹唱的歌
Top songs Ayen covered, many covered with acoustic guitar. This is a tough task, because I like many of her covered songs. I have created many playlists on YT or YT Music. Here is one example.
I noticed a QQ Music playlist created by a friend is also very popular – much more popular than my list – understandable from the point that in mainland China there are a lot more listeners for both Cantonese and mandarin songs, compared to the listeners outside CHN.
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Lullabies 催眠曲
Btw, for lullabies, my recommendation is to listen to them from a MP3 player, not from the phone. Because ideally, we don’t want to look at phone extensively before bed, and also, we want to keep the phone outside bedroom – for less distractions and better sleep. I learned this trick back in 2012, from the CEO of Arch Coal my employer at the time. But I had to admit I failed many times and recently I am more serious following this best practice. A related thing I started to do is to use Apple Watch to track my sleep.
That being said: here is my YT playlist for lullabies. I have a similar PL on my iPod Nano I use for sleep or before sleep (we are talking about lullabies or songs during sleep, right 🙂 I got the songs from Ayen’s Cover songs on the U drive.
A related thing I started to do recently is to use Apple Watch to track my sleep – after the suggestion of my 15-year-old. Previously I used Fitbit sleeping tracking for a while, but I haven’t used the Apple Watch sleep tracking since its debut in 2020 (I switched from Fitbit to Apple Watch a few years before that), mainly due to the fear to facing the reality of looking at my sleep data. Oh well, not a really good excuse and also let me back to the topic.
Similar singers
I saw some people commented on YT that that Hong Kong based 王菀之和陈洁丽的风格有点像Ayen何璟昕。我觉得读者可以自己去做判断。
PS: 后记
How to show your support? Here is Ayen的店 at Taobao淘宝。She has her own branded guitar and other peripherals (附件，周边）in addition to her top selling Ayen翻唱經典歌曲集.