Seven Great Singing Stars
The Seven Great Singing Stars were seven singers of China in the 1940s.
Five of the seven stars. Left to right: Bai Hong (白虹), Yao Lee (姚莉), Zhou Xuan (周璇), Li Xianglan (Yoshiko Yamaguchi) (李香蘭/山口 淑子), Bai Guang (白光). The last one, Qi Zhengyin (祁正音), is not one of the seven stars. Missing in the picture are Wu Yingyin (吳鶯音) and Gong Qiuxia (龔秋霞).
Shidaiqu is a type of Chinese popular music that is a fusion of Chinese folk, American jazz and Hollywood film music that originated in Shanghai, China in the 1920s.
Singer Zhou Xuan remains an icon of the Shidaiqu era
Bai Guang played a prominent role in Shidaiqu music
Shanghai in the 1930s represented the center of the Shidaiqu music phenomenon