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Wu Yingyin
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Chinese name: 吳鶯音 (Traditional) Chinese name: 吴莺音 (Simplified) Born: 1922, Shanghai, China Died: 17 Dec 2009, Los Angeles, USA Wu Yingyin was born in 1922 under the birth name Wu Jianqiu (吳健秋) in Shanghai. She was a famous singer. By the 1940s, she became one of the seven great singing stars. Wu was born to an intellectual family with her father as a chemical engineer and mother a doctor. She enjoyed singing to radio tunes at an early age. She originally wanted to go to the Shanghai Academy of Music, but her parents opposed the idea and claimed that the music industry was for indiv… read more