​Hua chenyu was born to a rich family on February 7, 1990. In the city of Shiyan, Hubei, China. Hua Chenyu’s parents divorced when he was two, and lived with his father. Who remarried when Hua Chenyu was ten，Hua Chenyu started playing flute at the age of six and took piano lessons in fifth grade, and wrote his first song at the age of twelve after mastering piano.

After finishing middle school he moved to Wuhan by himself to attend the fine arts school. In 2010, Hua Chenyu passed the college entrance examination and entered the Wuhan conservatory of music to expand his knowledge in music, where he studied pop music, vocal performance, and gained more stage experience as the vocalist of a college rock band named Conseer.