Annie Yi is a Taiwanese singer and actress born in Taipei, Taiwan. In the early 1990s, she ventured to Hong Kong for her career, followed by a stint in Japan from 1996 to 1997. After turning 29 in 1998, she began her career development in China.

She grew up in a military dependents' village. Her father is from Jinan, Shandong, China, and came to Taiwan with the army during the Chinese Civil War. Her mother, Yang Shu Wan, is from Keelung and was a singer who used the stage name Lan Xian in the Mandarin singing variety show "Star Show." Her maternal grandfather, Yang Yuan Ding, served as the Vice Chairman of the Keelung City Council and was killed during the 228 Incident.

After her parents' divorce, her mother remarried a Ryukyuan man named, and she was renamed Inoh Shizuka, with "Annie Yi" becoming her stage name. In her early years, her mother emphasized her learning English, so she attended primary school in Hong Kong. During her high school years, she attended the Tokyo Chinese School in Yotsuya, Shinjuku, Tokyo. After graduating from Kanto Jogakuin High School, she entered the entertainment industry. Following her mother, she went to Tokyo, Japan. Due to her unique background, she is fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese, and Japanese.

At the age of 17, she returned from Japan to Taiwan and became a singer under the Feiying Production company. Her debut album "You and Me" was released in 1987.

She made her film debut in the film "Good Men, Good Women."

On February 14, 2000, she married Taiwanese singer Harlem Yu, whom she had known for 14 years. They welcomed a son, En Li, in the United States in 2002. On March 20, 2009, she and Harlem Yu officially announced their divorce, ending their nine-year marriage.

In 2014, she announced that she was in a relationship with Chinese actor Qin Hao, and they became engaged. In June 2016, at the age of 48, she gave birth to a daughter in the United States.

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