Li Lingyu (李玲玉), born April 9, 1963 in Shanghai, is a Chinese mainland pop singer and film actress.
In 1985, the first album "Oriental rookie Li Lingyu" was released, in 1987, the first shooting of "Journey to the West" and played the Jade Rabbit Spirit, in the same year, the "Sweet Sweet Sweet" tape album sales exceeded 8 million disks, from 1987 to 1992, recorded eighty-eight solo albums, such as "Queen of the Sweet Songs" and "Sweet Sisters", and in 1992, she was awarded the Chinese People's * ** and Golden Record Award issued by the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China in 1992.
Li Lingyu's Early Years
Li Lingyu, born in Shanghai to an ordinary working family with her parents and two older brothers, attended Shanghai Hulin Middle School and Fudan Affiliated High School. When the Beijing Red Flag Vietnamese Opera Troupe came to Shanghai to recruit actors, Li Lingyu was one of the two selected out of more than 5,000 candidates. She was then sent to study at the Shengzhou School of Yueju Opera in Zhejiang province, where she specialized in the Xiao Sheng Xu School. She played Jia Baoyu in the Yueju opera Dream of the Red Chamber.
In 1980, Li Lingyu joined the Beijing Red Flag Troupe of Yueju Opera and underwent rigorous professional training, studying the Xiao Sheng for three years and then singing Yueju tunes. 1983, the troupe faced disbandment, and in the same year, by chance, she failed to pass her first examination for the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe.
In 1984, Li Lingyu once again applied for the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe, the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe to arrange an Afro-Asian song and dance evening, the lack of an actor who can sing and dance, the Song and Dance Troupe Li Lingyu to find her to give her a tape to go back to the practice, a week later, she passed the examination successfully. Entered the song and dance troupe after majoring in Japanese and Southeast Asian song and dance, and then was selected by the record company, turned to the development of the pop music world.