Peng Liyuan
Chinese soprano, 2nd spouse of Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012
Peng Liyuan (Chinese: 彭丽媛; pinyin: Péng Lìyuán; born 20 November 1962) is a Chinese singer who is serving as the First Lady of China since 2012 as the wife of Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012. Peng became famous in the early 1980s with "On the Hopeful Fields". Her first and main songs include "Fellow Villagers", "Mount Everest", " I Love You, the Snow of the North", "We Are the Yellow River and Mount Tai", "Yimeng Mountain Ballad", "High Clouds in the Sky", "Heavy Snow in the Cold Winter," and "People of the Five Continents Laugh Together". After the Tiananmen Square massacre, she sang to the troops who had shot students.
In 1986, she received the Plum Blossom Award for her performance in The White-Haired Girl. She also recorded theme songs for television series, including The Water Margin (1998). She was the president of People's Liberation Army Academy of Art between 2012 and 2017, and vice president of the All-China Youth Federation between 2005 and 2010. In 2014, Peng was listed as the 57th Most Powerful Woman in the World by Forbes.
Biography
Peng Liyuan was born in Yuncheng County, Shandong Province, China. Her father, Peng Longkun, was the director of Yuncheng County Cultural Center, and her mother Li Xiuying was a major opera singer in the Yuncheng County Yu Opera Troupe.
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