Extended interview with US singer Christine Welch

Christine Welch has become somewhat of an unexpected star in China.

Last year, a song she wrote in Mandarin five years earlier, "A Million Possibilities" suddenly became a viral internet hit.

CGTN's Dan Williams talked with Welch.

As Welch remembers, "It was pretty crazy because the app that it went viral on, is called Tik Tok or Douyin in Chinese. Then I was like really curious, why is this going viral now, five years after the CD went out?"

Christine studied Asian and Middle Eastern Language at Northwestern University in Illinois. After a four-month study stint in Beijing, she then completed a two-year course in Taiwan.

She says, "I felt like Chinese is one of the most expressive and poetic languages. I just get really inspired by the way that it there is literature from 3,000 years ago that you can still read and these really great philosophical works, you know, from 2,000 years ago. And it really inspires me to use that same language to make modern songs."

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