Yi Hui

Biography

Yi Hui is a Chinese Han singer born on November 7, 1984, into an ordinary farming family in Cili County, Xiangxi Prefecture, Hunan Province. She studied popular singing at the Xinghai Conservatory of Music from 2002 to 2006. She entered the entertainment industry in 2005 when she participated in Hunan TV's "Super Girl" contest, where she won second place in the Guangzhou region and eighth place nationally. In 2006, she released her single "I Don't Want to Fail" (我不要失败) and participated in a concert tour across 12 major Chinese cities. In 2007, she terminated her contract with Tianyu Media, participated in the "Fengyun Newcomer" talent competition organized by Enlight Media, finishing sixth in the finals, and released her first EP album titled "Sunshine" (阳光). In 2008, she published her first autobiographical book "Only Implied" (只可意会), and in 2009, her second book "Summer Blown by the Wind" (被风吹乱的夏天). She continued participating in various singing competitions on television in subsequent years and re-entered the public eye in 2013 after competing on Guangxi TV and attending singer He Jie's wedding. In 2015, she married Hong Kong-based co-pilot Tang Chenzhong and gave birth to their son in 2017. In 2021, she and her husband adopted a one-year-old girl from an orphanage in Shanghai.