Qian Lin (born March 11, 1991), better known in Japan as , is a Chinese singer. She is a former

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member and leader of the Hello! Project sub-group Shin Minimoni. She was announced to be joining as the eighth generation of Morning Musume on March 15, 2007. Along with Li Chun, she is one of the only two members in the history of Morning Musume that are of non-

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origin.

Biography

Linlin was born in

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, China. In the second grade of elementary school (1999), she was spotted by a local

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. Since then, she has been active in the entertainment industry, appearing in many

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s and other shows as a host in China. Through the recommendation of a

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, the producer of Hello! Project (which Morning Musume is under), Linlin joined Hello! Project as a part of Hello! Pro Egg, a training center for practicing

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and

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. On March 15, 2007, she (along with Junjun) were officially announced to be joining the eighth generation of all girl

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group Morning Musume, as a "foreign student". After seeing her perform at

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was impressed and believed that she and Junjun would be key for Morning Musume's planned expansion into

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in 2007. Three days later, on March 18, 2007, she made her Japanese

debut on

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. Within the same week, she moved to

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, Japan. After two years performing with Morning Musume,

announced on his

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that Linlin would become the

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of the new Minimoni. In the Morning Musume 2010 ~Rival Survival~ fall

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tour, Linlin graduated from Morning Musume and Hello Project along with Junjun and

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. Due to her graduating from Morning Musume and Hello Project, she also left the group Minimoni. On August 12, 2011, Takamasa Sakurai Tweeted that Linlin and the former Hello! Pro Egg member Akari Saho, would be forming a special unit. They will be performing a mini live at a Harajuku fashion show in Harbin, China.

Personal life

On June 25, 2016, Qian revealed on

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that she had been married in November 2014 after three months of dating and gave birth to a child in September 2015.

Discography

EPs

References

External links

Qian Lin's official Blog on Sina.com.cn
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