Li Chun (born January 11, 1988), known professionally as Li Qinyao, is a Chinese actress and former singer. From 2007 to 2010, she was a member of the Japanese

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Morning Musume under the stage name . As an actress, Li has appeared in television and film projects including ''Moon Embracing the Stars'' and ''Eastern Battlefield.''

Career

2007-2010: Morning Musume

In 2006, Li auditioned for '' Super Girl'', but failed to enter the top 10. Tsunku, who planned on expanding

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into overseas Asian markets, offered her and the other eliminated ''Super Girl'' contestants an opportunity to enter an audition for Morning Musume in Beijing,

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, which was kept secret from the members of Morning Musume themselves. Li accepted in spite of her family's disapproval due to the Japanese-Chinese tensions. On March 15, 2007, Li was officially announced as an eighth generation member in Morning Musume as a "foreign exchange student" along with

Lin Lin Qian Lin (born March 11, 1991), better known in Japan as , is a Chinese singer. She is a former Morning Musume member and leader of the Hello! Project sub-group Shin Minimoni. She was announced to be joining as the eighth generation of Morning ...

. On March 18, 2007, she made her first Japanese television appearance on '' Hello! Morning'', Morning Musume's variety show. Within the same week, she moved to Tokyo, Japan. Li made her first stage appearance took place during Morning Musume leader Hitomi Yoshizawa's graduation concert on May 6, 2007 at Saitama Super Arena. In July 2007, Morning Musume released the single " Onna ni Sachi Are", Li's first song with the group. In 2009, Li, along with Morning Musume members Sayumi Michishige and Koharu Kusumi and Berryz Kobo member Risako Sugaya, released the song "Sekai wa Futari no Tame ni" as the group Zoku V-U-Den. During the final show of Hello! Project's 2010 summer tour on August 8, 2010, Li, along with Lin Lin and Eri Kamei, announced they would be leaving Morning Musume after the final show of their fall tour, ''Morning Musume 2010 Rival Survival''. Her final single with the group was "

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", which was released on November 17, 2010. Li's final performance with the group took place on December 15, 2010, during which she sang " Furusato" as her graduation song.

2011-present: Return to China

In late August 2011, she was announced to be cast in a Chinese school-life film "Love for a Second" and as of early September 2011, she was discovered to be enrolling in the famous Beijing Film Academy, studying Performance Arts. On May 8, 2015, Li announced through her

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account that she would be changing her professional name into "Li Qinyao."

Personal life

On December 26, 2014, Li announced on

that she had married Chinese music producer Bernard Zheng.

Discography

Filmography

Television

Film

References

External links

Official blog
{{Authority control 1988 births Living people Japanese female idols Morning Musume members 21st-century Chinese actresses Chinese expatriates in Japan V-u-den members Super Girl contestants People from Yueyang Japanese-language singers Musicians from Hunan