Twelve Girls Band

Nüzi shere Yuefang (Chinese女子 十二 乐 坊/女子 十二 乐 坊, Pinyin Nǚzǐ Shier Yùefǎng, Eng. Twelve Girls Band ) is a Chinese music group whose all-female cast of traditional Chinese instruments playing modern pop music and traditional Chinese music with a modern interpretation. All members are drawn from music elite schools of the People's Republic. As the name suggests, are always twelve musicians on stage, but there have been some members changed. The band was formed on 18 June 2001 in Beijing, they gave their first concert on October 5, 2001 at the Beijing Century Theater. Since then the group has become very popular in the People's Republic, but also in Japan, where their first album was sold within two months about a million times. On her big Asian tour in 2004, they gave concerts in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand and Hong Kong.

The Group mainly uses the following traditional Chinese elements: erhu ( bowed instrument ), pipa (Chinese lute), guzheng (zither ) and dizi Yangqin (flute).

Members ( by instrument )

• Erhu 秦 子 婧( Qin Zijing )
• 上官 振 楠( Shangguan Zhennan )
• 于 秋 実(Yu Qiushi )
• 金 晶( Jin Jing )
• 罗 翩翩( Luo Pianpian )

• 石 娟( Shi Juan )
• 仲 宝( Zhong Bao )

• 臧 暁 鹏( Zang Xiaopeng )

• 陈雪娇(Chen Xuejiao )
• 廖 彬 曲( Liao Binqu )

• 张静(Zhang Jing )
• 马 亜 晶(Ma Yajing )

• 于 秋 璇(Yu Qiuxuan )

• 唐小媛(Tang Xiaoyuan )

Albums

• Beautiful Energy,
• Miracle Live
• Eastern Energy
• Romantic Energy ( 2010)
• Shining Energy
• Twelve Girls of Christmas (2010)

Awards

• 2003: Japan Gold Disc Award, Artist of the Year
• 2004: 5 medals in six nominations from the Chiana Light & Soft Music Association