Musician Yao Li died at the age of 96, which was the third stage of her life, and Gong Qiuxia, Zhang Lu, Wu Yingyin, and Li Xianglan, who were equally famous with her, all passed away one after another. The witnesses of the Shanghai Chinese Times Have all left. Among the seven singers, Yao Li can be said to be the luckiest person in the singing career, her career is rarely disturbed by the outside world, and the cooperation with her brother Yao Min and Zhiyin Chen Gexin has become a good story, and has also left a large number of famous songs for the Chinese music world: "Rose Rose I Love You", "Which Is Not Sentimental", "Lover's Tears", "Life is a Drama", "Spring Wind Kisses My Face", which is still constantly being adapted by new musicians.
Yao Min and Yao Li actually had no professional musical training, and Song Qi said in the interview that Yao Min first played the rhythm, then hummed the tune, hummed a tune, and then recorded it on the piano. The Yao family was originally a wealthy family, but the family was in the middle of the road, and the three brothers and sisters taught themselves and performed everywhere to support their families. One time on stage, her performance was overheard by Zhou Xuan, Yao Li's idol is also Yao Li's Bole, Zhou Xuan recommended Yao Li to Yan Hua, Yao Li later introduced Yao Min to join, and the brother and sister duo officially joined the Chinese pop music industry. Yao Li also met her favorite composer Chen Gexin.
Chinese era song had a very stylish appearance at that time, combining Chinese minor keys with European jazz music, singing one song after another in the Shanghai Concession surrounded by artillery. This is the first stage of Yao Li's singing career, the era song with the help of the developed entertainment industry in Shanghai at that time into thousands of households, Chen Gexin wrote the famous songs "Rose Rose I Love You" and "Suzhou Riverside" for Yao Li, the former was photographed by American musicians, adapted into english version, ranked third on the US billboard charts, and wrote about the glory of Chinese music. Helpless to change the political situation, the Yao brothers and sisters went south to Hong Kong, Chen Gexin was invited by Xia Yan to return to Shanghai, was criticized in the anti-rightist movement, and starved to death on the farm in famine.
Yao Li is one of the few singers of the same generation who does not have a song and film amphibious artist, but has not lost the support of the film medium. In Hong Kong, Yao Li has continued the myth of Shanghai. The experience of singing for Shaw's company was transmitted to thousands of households through the medium of film, and also touched Wong Kar-wai, Cai Mingming and others. Years later, they put the music into their own films and passed them on to new audiences and listeners, igniting new life for her work. Yao Min's brothers and sisters are grateful for the help of nobles, and after arriving in Hong Kong, the music and singing remuneration has never increased.
When she first arrived in Hong Kong, she kept a low profile for a while, and soon became popular again by Chinese film trend and became popular again for famous movie stars. "Peach Blossom River" opened the boom of Chinese soundtrack, and the momentum was comparable to the theme song of the later TV series. Yao Min continued to write one hit after another for her, and she was able to transition from the single era to a large album, releasing several vinyl records in the sixties.
Yao Li's representative works have a large number of Western song adaptations in addition to the original Chinese songs. The River of No Return sung by Marilyn Monroe became popular in The Mandarin region after Hong Kong writer Szeto Ming (Feng Fengsan) filled in the lyrics for "The Great River Goes East". In 1999, Mei Yanfang turned over this song as the main hit of her album, and continued the classic again. When Yao Li sang this song, she had already abandoned her past singing method in Shanghai because of her voice disease, learned Patti Page, and changed from a clear and beautiful voice to a mellow tone, so that the audience knew the charm of her alto.
When Yao Min died in 1967, Yao Li soon announced that Zhiyin had gone and would no longer perform in front of the scenes. At the invitation of the company's senior management, she agreed to stay in the company and supervise records for other singers, helping Southeast Asian stars such as Cui Ping, Pan Xiuqiong, Jingting, Chen Finland and other Southeast Asian stars to make records, continuing the fire of Chinese era songs. Yao Li's supervising job was officially resigned from EMI Records in 1978. She did not completely fade from the public eye. Nine years later, Hong Kong Chinese Radio awarded Chen Dieyi the Golden Needle Award, with Mui Yanfang leading the tribute, and Yao Li also present to congratulate her. As a sign of respect, the stars surrounded her and sang a song called "Spring Breeze Kisses My Face", and the emcee effortlessly invited her to the stage.
In 2003, EMI sorted out the warehouses of Indian distributors, found a large number of tape master tapes of Shanghai celebrities in the 1930s and 40s, and invited electronic producer Ian Widgery from London to produce a remix of "Hundred Generations and Centuries Of Repairing the Old Good", and Yao Li's famous song "Unobtainable Love" became sharp and pioneering under the background of electronic music and broken beats. Around the same time, Malaysian musician Yang Weihan became acquainted with Yao Li because of his love for Yao Min's works, and spent four years writing her biographical book "Yao Li - The Rose That Blooms Forever".
In 2011, the Hong Kong singing group Chung Brothers, who met Yao Li because of the same faith, invited her to sing the gospel song "Dear Lord" with a golden mouth, which was the last time she released a new work before her death. Two years later, a group of juniors who were promoted by her organized a rose legend classic concert for her. In 2015, EMI Records was acquired by Universal, and the record company once again sorted out a large number of master tapes, and published four replica albums for Yao Li in the "Worship good times" replica series, more than forty years after her last album, "Fishing Light Song".
Yao Li's more than thirty years in front of and behind the scenes coincided with the era of dramatic changes in Chinese music. From the outside to the domestic market, her music has gone through ups and downs, and it is a veritable era song. Between the yin and yang, she calmly walked through various changes, avoided diseases and man-made disasters, and smoothly changed from a star to a producer, enjoying her old age in peace, not only as a witness, a witness, but also a survivor.