Wu Yingyin

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.