Wengie
Wendy Jie Huang (Chinese: 文洁; pinyin: Wénjié), better known as Wengie or WRAYA, (born 9 January 1986) is a Chinese Australian YouTuber, vlogger, pop singer, and voice actress. As of 2018, her YouTube channel has over 14 million subscribers, making her the most popular YouTuber from Australia. Her channel was the 6th most subscribed "how-to and style" channel on YouTube, as of January 2018.
Contents
- 1 Career
- 1.1 YouTube
- 1.2 Wengie Music
- 1.3 WRAYA
- 1.4 Voice acting
- 2 Personal life
- 3 Discography
- 3.1 Extended plays
- 4 References
Career
YouTube
In 2013, Wengie started the YouTube channel, "Wengie", inspired by her Chinese name, Wenjie. Her videos focused on beauty, fashion, and "Do It Yourself" (DIY) tips. As of 2016, she was one of the fastest-growing stars on YouTube, having garnered over 4 million subscribers in three years. Throughout 2018, she has focused on "Do It Yourself" (DIY) videos, prank videos, and slime videos. She has earned over 1.8 billion views over her YouTube career. Her YouTube channel was awarded "Best Channel" and "Overall Winner" at the 2017 Australian Online Video Awards.
In 2013, Wengie created a second YouTube channel called "WengieVlogs". As of November 2017, WengieVlogs has 1.7:million subscribers and 53 million views. In October 2018, she changed the channel's name to "Wendie ft. Wengie". She then changed the name to "Wengie’s Life" about a year later.
Wengie Music
Wengie released her first single, "Baby Believe Me" in China on 13 July 2017. It debuted at number 11 and peaked at number 6 on the Chinese music charts.
She released another song on YouTube under the channel Wengie Music Asia on 25 November 2017, en*led "Oh I Do". As of 29 November 2017, the music video had over 9,100,000 views.
On 10 July 2018, she released the song "Cake". This was her first English single and was released on her YouTube Channel "Wengie Music". The song has over 12 million views.
On 4 May 2019, Wengie released her first Filipino-language single "Mr. Nice Guy", which featured Filipino singer Iñigo Pascual.
She also released her first Korean-language single, "Empire", on 18 October. The song features Thai singer Minnie from K-pop girl group (G)I-dle.
On 1 May 2020, she sang on a remix of the song Learn to Meow by XiaoPanPan and XiaoFengFeng.
WRAYA
On 24 June 2021, WRAYA released her debut single "Bitter", which has over 670k views as of November 2021.
On 7 August 2021, WRAYA released her 2nd single "Trust Issues", which has over 705k views as of November 2021.
On 2 September 2021, WRAYA released her 3rd single "Tight Rope", which has over 891k views as of November 2021.
On 30 September 2021, WRAYA released her 4th single "Ghost", which has over 659k views as of November 2021.
On 11 November 2021, WRAYA released her 5th single "11:11".
On 22 February 2022, WRAYA reclaimed her iden*y as Wengie.
Voice acting
In 2017, Wengie was the voice of Blisstina "Bliss" Utonium in the Australian and New Zealand versions of The Powerpuff Girls (2016 TV series): Power of Four, a five-part TV movie.
Personal life
Wengie moved to Australia with her grandparents as a child. She is currently based in Sydney, Australia, Los Angeles, California and China. She was engaged to her former partner Max on 13 August 2015. The two have since parted ways in February 2022.