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'I felt like I just started my career again': British Elvis revivalist finds his voice in China_我的网站

一 |     盛夏来临，暑气渐浓。

二 | “浙BA”激战正酣，越野赛穿山越岭，浙江各地体育赛事热火朝天，社区活动精彩纷呈。

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    Elliot James Reay sings on stage at a Chinese live show. Photo: Courtesy of UMG
Elliot James Reay could have copied every other Western act and sung a Taylor Swift cover. Instead, he took 1950s rock'n'roll to a live TV show where autotune is switched off and discovered a version of fame that Britain has forgotten.
Elliot James Reay was traveling in the US, trying to finish a song, when his manager called. There was an invitation to join Singer 2026, a prime-time live music show in China. Reay didn't hesitate. He had traveled the world before he was a full-time musician, but had run out of money before reaching China. "I went everywhere but China," he said while sitting for an interview with the Global Times, sitting in the office of his label in Beijing, from which the Palace Museum can be seen not far away. 
Reay is, in the West, a very 2020s kind of artist. He began posting short covers on short video platform TikTok in 2019; during the UK Covid lockdown, he chose to focus on growing his fan base. He now has millions of followers across platforms, and his debut single notched 10 million views before it was even released. In the British industry, this is both a leg-up and a trap. "You can have all the followers," he says, "but they don't guarantee people will buy tickets."
In China, that equation flipped.
    Elliot James Reay sings on stage Photo: Courtesy of UMG
Nervous again
The Chinese show, Singer 2026 is broadcast completely live, with no pitch correction. For Reay, who had played enough small gigs to feel comfortable in his own skin, it was a shock. "I haven't felt nerves in a long time," he says. "But I've never been in a competition before. To have my singing judged against other people made me really nervous."
He watched Week One's performances from the wings and saw why. "The standard was terrifying," he says. 
But the format, he admits, is something the UK no longer has: a televised singing contest that treats vocal ability as a public event, not a pre-packaged product. "It made me feel like I just started my career again."
Reay's lane is retro. Not as pastiche, but as lineage. He wears the silhouette of Elvis Presley, sings in the grain of 1950s pop, and writes songs that sound like they were cut from a Sun Records demo. He could have sanded it down for Chinese audiences, but he didn't.
"Someone has to start the wave before you can see it," he says. Among the songs he performed were "Unchained Melody" and his original track "I Think They Call This Love," which he co-wrote with his girlfriend. He points out that the Beatles still sit next to Taylor Swift on the radio, and that pop started in the 50s. "It's the foundations of pop," he says.
Learning to feel the words
In the final, Reay performed a bilingual version of the Chinese song "Hou Hui Wu Qi" (The End of the World). It was his first time singing in another language. He spent five days learning the Chinese lyrics, listening to the original on loop.
"There are sounds in Chinese we just don't have in English," he says. "I couldn't hear the difference at first. I'd say it, and Helen (his translator) would say, 'No.' I thought I was saying the same thing." Eventually, he stopped trying to hear it and started trying to feel it. "It became more about how it felt to say it. How I place my tongue in my mouth," he says.
He didn't understand the meaning until day three. "Helen gave me a card with the Chinese characters and the English translation. It's very poetic," he says. The performance received a strong reaction, with it being called an attempt at "cultural fusion." 
He had saved his own original, "I Think They Call This Love," co-written with his girlfriend, for the same final. He had held the song back deliberately. "I knew that any week was my last week," he says, "but I knew that if I made it to the grand final that I had to do it then." He had no idea it would become the last song of the entire show. 
When he finished, he walked straight off stage, took his girlfriend's hand, and the two of them left together, a moment that trended on Chinese social media that night. 
The song is about the exact point they realized they were in love; it was also the first track of his career he fully believed in and pushed into the world. Having her there to watch it live, after weeks of her only seeing performances on a phone in a hotel room, "tied the whole thing in a bow at the end."
A touring musician, not a TikToker 
Reay is open about the tension between his origin story and his ambition. "I don't want to be a TikTok celebrity," he says. "I'm a musician. I want to tour." 
The platform gave him an audience, but it also boxed him in. He remembers friends who wrote incredible songs during lockdown, while he chose to build a fan base. Now, he says, some of those friends have had to stop writing and make TikTok videos instead.
China, he says, gave him permission to be both an online creator and a live performer. Universal Music, his label, didn't push him to chase trends. "They never said, 'Do this, do that,'" he says. "They supported what I wanted to sing, and then they made it the best version they could."
Before Reay, a string of international artists had already found warm receptions and career-shifting opportunities in China. Kazakhstani singer Dimash Kudaibergen, Malaysian star Shila Amzah, US country artist Mickey Guyton, British vocalist Jessie J, and French singer-songwriter Joyce Jonathan all won large Chinese audiences through high-profile television appearances and live performances, each using the platform to open a new chapter in their careers.
He's already planning a return. He wants to bring a tour. He wants to buy the traditional instruments he saw on set and take them home to England. "I'm going to learn how to play them," he says, "and maybe put them into my music."
The advice he'd give other Western artists looking East is to stay loyal to yourself. "Be yourself," he says. "It's very easy to want to change yourself to fit into a market, but at the end of the day, if you stay true to yourself, you'll be happy."
"In the UK, I felt like I needed to do other things to make other people happy," he says. 
"If I hadn't stopped doing that, I wouldn't be sitting here. I wouldn't have done the show. My whole journey would be different," he says.
。在这股全民运动与生活热潮中，浙江体彩“安心购彩守护行动”以进赛事、进社区、进营业厅的“三进”模式全面铺开，将理性购彩倡导与反诈防骗知识嵌入百姓生活的高频场景，用可感知、有温度的方式，为购彩者筑起一道坚实的安全防线。      进赛事：与赛事同频 共筑安全防线      “浙BA”无疑是这个夏天浙江最受瞩目的群众体育盛事。从6月26日首战打响以来，“浙BA”的新赛制、新举措和新面孔吸引了更多体育爱好者，也让更多群众有机会在家门口感受篮球的激情。      浙江体彩以“体育+公益”为纽带，联动全省各地市将“安心购彩守护行动”深度融入“浙BA”赛场内外。温州、湖州、嘉兴、绍兴、衢州、舟山、丽水等市中心将“安心购彩守护小镇”宣传融入赛场，设置主题展位普及非法彩票危害，推出互动游戏提升反诈意识，让安心购彩的理念与赛事同频共振，也让浙江体彩的守护触达更多人群。

四 |       赛事场景的触角还延伸至更多全民健身领域。

五 | 温州文成铜铃山越野挑战赛现场，1300余名跑者穿行林海溪谷，“乐透好事 安心小镇”主题专区成为全场热门打卡点，跑者、游客和村民纷纷驻足，在互动中了解体彩公益金助力全民健身的实际用途，工作人员同步科普理性购彩知识，让公益理念伴着山野清风传递给每一个人。嘉兴体彩则借王店镇足球嘉年华之机，设置宣传点位、发放折页、面对面讲解，将“公益体彩 乐善人生”的理念充分融入这场乡村足球盛宴。      进社区：社区微阵地 守护零距离      社区是服务群众的“最后一公里”，也是传递责任体彩温度的核心阵地。各地体彩深入社区，通过沉浸式体验让安心购彩理念深入人心。      杭州体彩走进蔡马社区，依托文艺汇演平台开展情绪管理心理讲座和责任体彩趣味问答；温州体彩联合百威啤酒在科技广场开展世界杯决赛直播活动，全程驻场播放安心购彩主题MV并开展责任彩票宣传；湖州体彩走进爱山街道民谣集酒吧，与市民一起共享世界杯盛宴，传播责任彩票理念；金华体彩在永康万达广场将责任彩票理念与世界杯竞彩知识结合，联动当地公安进行反诈宣传；台州体彩深入椒江区当角村，将责任彩票宣传从实体店延伸至社区便民服务场景；丽水体彩在继光街老茶馆举办世界杯观赛活动，邀请公安开展反诈宣讲，200位球迷在现场观看决赛的同时学习购彩安全知识。      进营业厅：联合阵地筑防线 服务场景传理念      通信营业厅是与群众生活息息相关的服务场景，浙江体彩积极联合通信运营商，设立长期宣传窗口，以遍布城乡的通信营业厅为支点，推动安心购彩守护行动精准落地，让服务“小窗口”成为权益守护“大阵地”。      杭州体彩携手中国电信在西湖区营业厅开展公益宣传，以趣味游戏、线上互动H5等创新形式，让市民在办理业务的同时了解安心购彩知识；舟山体彩走进定海移动营业厅天达数码授权店，结合世界杯期间购彩热点，聚焦理性购彩、反诈宣传、合规购彩三大重点，让安心购彩知识变得触手可及，构筑起一道坚实的涉彩安全防线。

六 |       这个盛夏，浙江体彩以“三进”联动为纽带，将安心购彩理念带入更多场景，触达更多人群，安心购彩的守护网越织越密。未来，浙江体彩将持续深化“三进”模式，联动更多社会力量，拓展责任宣传覆盖面，让责任彩票理念在更广的范围内生根发芽，为购彩者权益保护和体育彩票高质量发展持续贡献力量。

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