Eric Chou
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Chou in 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Born | June 22, 1995 New Taipei City, Taiwan | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Taiwanese | ||||||||||||||||||
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Dacie Chao (m. 2022) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Children | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Family | Alex Chou (brother) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Years active | 2014–present | ||||||||||||||||||
| Labels | Sony Music Taiwan | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 周興哲 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 周兴哲 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Eric Chou Hsing-che (Chinese: 周興哲; pinyin: Zhōu Xīngzhé; born June 22, 1995) is a Taiwanese singer and songwriter. He has been dubbed by the Taiwanese media as "king of the lovelorn people". He debuted in August 2014 with the self-composed smash hit "The Distance of Love", which is the ending theme of the 2014 Taiwanese drama The Way We Were. It reached 100 million views on YouTube, making Chou the youngest Mandopop artist to reach the feat at that time. His debut studio album, My Way to Love, was released in December of that year.
In 2016, Chou released the single "How Have You Been?" from his second studio album What Love Has Taught Us (2016), which became a major hit in Greater China and the third most-viewed music video by a Chinese artist on YouTube, with over 250 million views. His following album, The Chaos After You, (2017) featured the singles "Unbreakable Love" and "The Chaos After You", with the latter earning him the Artist of the Year award at the KKBox Music Awards. His first extended play (EP) and fourth studio album, Freedom (2019), produced the hit single "What's Wrong".