Feb. 1st, 2013, Laure Shang cover’s Black Eyed Bea’s hit song “Let’s Get it Started” on “I am a Singer” reality show. She single-handed sings all four singers of the song and rises almost all five hundred audience at the scene.
Jan 18th, 2013: Laure Shang is invited as one of the seven talented singers to attend a reality TV show “I am a Singer”. There are seven renowned Chinese singers will compete with their live performance and five hundred audience will pick up three best performers on their votes. The one with the least votes will leave the show and be replaced by another candidate singer. It is a hit show made by a Korean TV station MBC and is licensed by HUNAN TV station to transplant the show in China. Here is the live performance of Laure Shang at the opening scene of “I am a Singer”
Jan 1, 2013: Otaku music reviewer Michael McCarthy picked his Top 20 Asian albums from all the albums that he reviewed during 2012. Laure Shang’s album “Ode to the Doom” is listed at top 1 with Sandy Lam’s album “Gaia” at top 2 and Jolin Tsai’s album “Muse” at top 7. You can read the whole list at here.
Oct. 18, 2012: The live video of Laure Shang’s “Atypical Live” concert that held onJuly 5th, 2012 at Les Trois Baudets theater in Paris can be viewed at http://www.yinyuetai.com/playlist/621509 . It should be noted that the sound recording effects are not good due the the limitation of the camera that is used in recording the video.
Oct. 11, 2012: A creative artist Liu Hui uses Laure Shang’s song “Quand je me regarde” as background music for the video titled “Giant Parade”.
Oct. 9, 2012: Canadian singer Karina Es talks about her collaboration with Laure Shang during her interview with SoulMatters magazine. You can read the whole interview here.
Oct. 8, 2012: Laure Shang’s new album “Ode to the Doom” is No. 43 on the 30 days best sellers charts of mandarin music at www.YesAsia.com. It is the highest rank reached by a mainland female singer with Chris Lee’s “Old if Not Wild” following at No.44.
Oct. 6, 2012: A Chinese entertainment news portal blog site posts a report on Laure Shang’s new album “Ode to the Doom” with a title of “Laure Shang composes in four languages for ‘Ode to the Doom’ “.