Her career took off after she achieved fourth place nationally in the 2009 season of Hunan TV's Super Girl.

Her fans are called Yu jin xiang (郁金香), which means "tulip"; personally named by Yisa.

[3] After her graduation, Yu worked in a company for a few months before leaving to become a singer at the famous Lianhua fudi music bar.

Not content with the result, she traveled to Guangzhou to enter the local competition, where she reached the last 20 before being eliminated.

[6] Soon after the competition ended, Yu was invited to record the theme song for The King of Milu Deer, China's first 3D animated film.

The Taiwanese label immediately announced that they have assembled a team of top producers to work on her first original album.

"[13] Yu's second album, Wei Jia Xing Fu (meaning "add a little happiness"), was released in June 2011.