In fact, he received a lot of attention even when he was small because of his father's being from Taiwan and a member of a minority at that.
其實很小的時候，張洪就因為他的台籍身分，且又是個少數民族而廣被注意，阿美族血緣的天賦歌喉，讓他在邵武第五中學時就被選為歌唱代表，後來還以福建省居留台灣山胞身分到各地演唱。「廣東、福建、上海、蘇洲、杭州等地都跑過了」，張洪說。