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Yao Lee, also credited as Yiu Lei and Miss Hue Lee, was a Chinese singer
from the 1930s to the 1970s and sister of Yao Min. By the 1940s, she became
one of the Seven great singing stars.[LINK:
http://bk.baidu.com/view/310270.htm] Baidu. Bai Guang. Retrieved on
2007-04-28.
Biography Born in Shanghai, Yao began performing with a radio appearance
there in 1935 at the age of 13. She was signed to Pathé Records.
Following the Communist seizure of power in China in 1949, popular music
was considered ideologically suspect[LINK:
http://english.ccnt.com.cn/?catog=music&file=030201&page=2&ads=service_001]
Panorama of Musical Creation: Vocal Music at China Culture Information Net
and Yao fled to Hong Kong in 1950 to continue her singing career there. She
stopped singing in 1967 with the death of her brother, but took an e
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