Yao Lee (姚莉), also credited as Yiu Lei and Miss Hue Lee, was a Chinese singer from the 1930s to the 1970s and sister of Yao Min. By the 1940s, she became one of the seven great singing stars. Born in Shanghai, Yao began performing with a radio appearance there in 1935 at the age of 13. She was signed to Pathé Records. Following the Communist seizure of power in China in 1949, popular music was considered ideologically suspect and Yao fled to Hong Kong in 1950 to continue her singing career.

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