Lin Di (; born 1975 in

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flowin ...

) is a Chinese musician, composer, and vocalist. Her current band is

Cold Fairyland Cold Fairyland () is a Chinese rock music group based in Shanghai. Their style combines Eastern melodies and rhythms with Western symphonic rock and classical music. The band has two sides; classical and rock, which allows them to play in concert ha ...

, a

progressive rock Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog; sometimes conflated with art rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s. Init ...

band in which she plays ''

pipa The pipa, pípá, or p'i-p'a () is a traditional Chinese musical instrument, belonging to the plucked category of instruments. Sometimes called the "Chinese lute", the instrument has a pear-shaped wooden body with a varying number of frets ran ...

'' and keyboard

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s, and also sings. Lin began playing pipa at the age of four. She studied at the

Shanghai Conservatory of Music The Shanghai Conservatory of Music () was founded on November 27, 1927, as the first music institution of higher education in China. Its teachers and students have won awards at home and abroad, thus earning the conservatory the name "the crad ...

where she majored in traditional Chinese music and pipa. In 2001, she started her own band, Cold Fairyland, with

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ist

Su Yong Cold Fairyland () is a Chinese rock music group based in Shanghai. Their style combines Eastern melodies and rhythms with Western symphonic rock and classical music. The band has two sides; classical and rock, which allows them to play in concert ha ...

, and composed original music for various commercial projects and orchestral works. She performs occasionally with the Shanghai-based band Swing Shine. Lin is also an avid photographer.

Discography

Solo albums

*'' Ten Days In Magic Land'' (魔境十日) by Lin Di - 2002 *''

Bride in Legend A bride is a woman who is about to be married or who is newlywed. When marrying, the bride's future spouse, (if male) is usually referred to as the ''bridegroom'' or just ''groom''. In Western culture, a bride may be attended by a maid, brides ...

'' (迷路新娘) by Lin Di - 2004 *''

Meet in Secret Garden Meet may refer to: People with the name * Janek Meet (born 1974), Estonian footballer * Meet Mukhi (born 2005), Indian child actor Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Meet'' (TV series), an early Australian television series which aired on ABC du ...

'' by Miyadudu - 2009 *'' The Gossypium Era'' by Lin Di - 2011 *''

Buddhist Scriptures Buddhist texts are those religious texts which belong to the Buddhist tradition. The earliest Buddhist texts were not committed to writing until some centuries after the death of Gautama Buddha. The oldest surviving Buddhist manuscripts ...

'' by Lin Di - 2012 *''The One Tree Forest'' by Lin Di - 2021

With Swing Shine

*''Marguerite'' - 2011 *''Rootless Clouds'' - 2013

With Cold Fairyland

*''

Flying Over the City Flying may refer to: * Flight, the process of flying * Aviation, the creation and operation of aircraft Music Albums * ''Flying'' (Grammatrain album), 1997 * ''Flying'' (Jonathan Fagerlund album), 2008 * ''Flying'' (UFO album), 1971 * ''F ...

'' (在城市上空飞翔) (demo) - 2001 *'' Kingdom of Benevolent Strangers'' (陌生仙子国) - 2003 *''

Cold Fairyland 2005 Live Cold is the presence of low temperature, especially in the atmosphere. In common usage, cold is often a subjective perception. A lower bound to temperature is absolute zero, defined as 0.00K on the Kelvin scale, an absolute thermodynam ...

'' (冷酷仙境 2005现场) - 2006 *''

Seeds on the Ground A seed is an Plant embryogenesis, embryonic plant enclosed in a testa (botany), protective outer covering, along with a food reserve. The formation of the seed is a part of the process of reproduction in seed plants, the spermatophytes, includ ...

'' (地上的种子) - 2007 CDs are available from CDbaby.com. To stream online, please visit the artist's Bandcamp or Spotify.

Awards

2008 Shanghai City Weekend Magazine, Bar and Restaurant Awards, Editor's Pick 8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of t ...

- "The Best Locally Based Band" *

2009 China Music Awards 9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and ...

- "Strength For New Life" Award

References

1975 births Living people Chinese male singer-songwriters Musicians from Shanghai People's Republic of China composers Pipa players Singers from Shanghai 21st-century Chinese women singers {{China-composer-stub