Li Shuangjiang (; born 10 March 1939) is a Chinese military singer, and is considered one of the best tenors in China.

Biography

Li Shuangjiang was born in Harbin,

Heilongjiang Heilongjiang () formerly romanized as Heilungkiang, is a province in northeast China. The standard one-character abbreviation for the province is (). It was formerly romanized as "Heilungkiang". It is the northernmost and easternmost province ...

Manchukuo Manchukuo, officially the State of Manchuria prior to 1934 and the Empire of (Great) Manchuria after 1934, was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in Manchuria from 1932 until 1945. It was founded as a republic in 1932 after the Japanese in ...

in 1939. Li attended the

Central Conservatory of Music The Central Conservatory of Music () is a prestigious leading public music school of China and a member of Double First Class University Plan and former Project 211. Its campus is in the Xicheng District of Beijing, China, near Fuxingmen Stati ...

when he was twenty years old. After graduating from university he was assigned to work in the army song and dance ensemble. At the age of thirty, he joined the Chinese

People's Liberation Army The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the principal military force of the People's Republic of China and the armed wing of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The PLA consists of five service branches: the Ground Force, Navy, Air Force, ...

Naval Song and Dance Troupe. He made a record that sold three million copies by the age of thirty-two. Now, he is a professor at Central Conservatory of Music.

Personal life and family

Ding Ying () was Li's first wife. She was a dancer. They have a son named Li He (). In 1990, at age fifty-one, Li and Meng Ge, who was more than twenty-seven years his junior, married in Beijing. Meng Ge was his student at Central Conservatory of Music. They have a son named Li Tianyi. Meng Ge is also a well-known military singer.Buckley, Chris
"Rape Trial Casts Attention on Offspring of China’s Elite"
''New York Times'', August 28, 2013. Retrieved 2013-08-28. In 2013, Li was embroiled in controversy as his son Li Tianyi was sentenced to ten years in jail for rape.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Li, Shuangjiang 1939 births Chinese male singers Living people Musicians from Harbin Central Conservatory of Music alumni Singers from Heilongjiang