Overseas media news came that Yao Li died in Hong Kong on July 19. Yao Li, a well-known female singer in the Republic of China period in Shanghai, passed away early this morning at the age of 96.
friend Shao Yinyin said: "I have a high fever, maybe I am old and have respiratory infection. After being admitted to the hospital, she was chaotic all the way and didn't open her eyes and left." Yao Li also had an interview before her death and told reporters: She often sings, but still misses Shanghai very much.
At that time, Yao Li was as famous as Zhou Xuan , Baihong , Bai Guang, Gong Qiuxia, Li Xianglan , Wu Yingyin , etc., and was also known as the seven major singers in Shanghai's music scene in the 1940s. With Yao Li's death, all female actors of this generation of Republic of China also passed away.
Yao Li was born in Shanghai in 1922. Her ancestral home is Ningbo. She and her sister Yao Ying and her brother Yao Min (also a famous composer) established the "Datong Music Club". By 1967, because of Yao Min's sudden death, Yao Li gradually faded out of the music scene. In the 1970s, she was a producer for many Chinese-language singers, including Pan Xiuqiong , Cui Ping, Jingting , etc.
Yao Li has supported many younger singers and is also an idol of Teresa Teng . Yao Li (first left in the back row), Chen Dieyi (middle in the back row), Teresa Teng (left in the front row), Wu Jingxian (right in the front row)
Yao Li moved to Hong Kong in 1950 and is known as "Silver Voice" (the golden voice is Zhou Xuan), and is the most powerful queen of the 1950s. She has covered many famous songs by American female singer Patti Page in the 1940s and 1950s, so she is known as the Chinese Patti Page. She is also behind the scenes of many movie songs.
Yao Li once said that she only had one idol in her life, namely Zhou Xuan, who grew up listening to Zhou Xuan's songs.
1937, Yao Li went to the radio with her uncle because of her chance interest. Unexpectedly, she made a big splash and was appreciated by Zhou Xuan and Yan Hua. After introduction, she signed a contract with Eidai Records Company and recorded her first record "Selling Lovesickness", which was instantly popular all over the country and was widely sung in the streets and alleys.
More than 30 years later, she published hundreds of records. At that time, the album cover of Baida said that she was "always unique in the music industry, and no one who rose up came out of the way."
Yao Li's most popular songs include " Rose Rose I Love You ", "Love I Can't Get", "The Spring Breeze Kisses My Face", "Barrien of Suzhou River", "Congratulations", "Peach Blossom River", "The River Gos East", etc., and was the highest-selling singer in the Chinese music scene back then.
"Rose Rose I Love You" was covered by American singer Frankie Ryan as the English version of "Rose, Rose, I Love You". Yao Li's original Chinese version also reached 3rd place in the US Billboard Pop Chart. She is the first Chinese singer to enter the US music pop chart. This song is also known as the first Chinese pop song to be popular in the world.
"Rose, I love you" is the famous composer Chen Gexin. Her son Chen Gang believes: "She (Yao Li) is suitable for this kind of girl song, and she was only sixteen or seventeen years old when she sang roses. "Suzhou River" composed by her father was sung by her and her brother Yao Min. At that time, she wrote love so implicitly, and the night left a silence. Loneliness, no one by the river, I hold you, you hold me, walk back and forth on the street in the shore, leaving a loneliness at night, "How great! It's not like the current "Rat Loves Rice". "
On July 11, 1999, when the Chinese women's football team participated in the Women's World Cup final at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Los Angeles, although they lost a penalty kick, the Chinese audience sang "Rose I Love You" in the same voice, and the whole audience resounded through "Rose" The singing of rose I love you" is very touching, but it makes people appreciate another kind of magnificence. A love song now becomes the strongest voice that praises the heroic and heroic posture of women and girls and inspires them to be full of fighting spirit. The Chinese women's football team is also called "sonoral rose".
It is worth mentioning that the "Congratulations" that Chinese people all over the world will sing during the Chinese New Year today was actually originally sung by the brothers and sisters Yao Min and Yao Li. It is a song celebrating the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. It has become a part of the Chinese cultural tradition for most half a century.
Ye is gone, I wish her a good journey.
