Li Guyi

Li Guyi (; born 4 November 1944) is a Chinese singer and dancer. Li rose to fame after singing Homeland Love , a mellow love ballad written by Ma Jinghua and Zhang Peiji, in 1980 shortly after China began its "Reform and Opening".

Biography Li was born in 1944 in Kunming, Yunnan, at Huidian Hospital , she graduated from Hunan Art College (now part of Hunan Normal University) in 1961. From 1961 to 1974, Li worked in Hunan Opera Theatre.

In 1970, Li performed Tinker a Pan . Chinese officials thought she was a revisionist black talent. Officials searched her house, confiscated her property, and she was sentenced to hard labor.

From 1974 to 1984, Li was transferred to Central Philharmonic Orchestra as a solo. Then she has toured with the Central Philharmonic Orchestra to perform in China and abroad, including in France, Japan and the United States. The song was prohibited for several years.

In 1986, Li worked in Chinese Light Music Group as the head.

In 1996, Li transferred to Central Oriental Song and Dance Troupe as the CPC Party Secretary.

Li is actively involved in politics, and was a member of the 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

On January 6, 2020, she was hired as a member of the Hunan Literature and History Institute.

Family Li was twice married. Originally wed to musician Jin Tielin. After a turbulent divorce, she remarried in 1976. Xiao Zhuoneng , her second husband, the son of Xiao Jinguang, who was one of the ten senior generals of the People's Liberation Army.