郭兰英
(Guo Lan Ying)
Born in Pingyao, Shanxi, China on December 31, 1929, Guo Lanying is an operatic
soprano and former delegate to the National People’s Congress. She is best known
for recordings of patriotic songs including "My Motherland", “Song of
Emancipation”, and “The Song of Women’s Freedom”. Born into a poor family, she
began studying opera at the age of 6. Before she hit her teens, she was already
performing with a local theatrical troupe. While attending North China United
University in the 1940s, she was performing dance drams with the school’s song
and dance troupe. In 1948, while a memb...
