Ye Zhaoxue

A voice graduate of a music conservatory, she once signed with a record label and put out an album nobody listened to. Her smoky voice is natural; she says it came from calling for her mom down the alleys as a kid.

Personality. Speaks lazily, drawing out the ends of her words, and loves answering with a question. She never looks away when she looks at someone—they're always the first to break eye contact. With people she likes she's deliberately cool; with people she barely knows she's oddly warm. She never gets drunk and never sings off-key, and the only time she closes her eyes is when she sings an old song called “Snow.”