Annie Yi

Wu Chin-yi (; born March 4, 1968), professionally known as Annie Yi or Annie Shizuka Inoh, is a Taiwanese singer, actress, and writer. Early life and education Wu Chin-yi was born on March 4, 1968, in Taipei, Taiwan, the youngest of seven daughters of Yang Shu-wan and Wu Min. Her mother is from Keelung and her father is from Shandong. Her father divorced her mother to married another woman who gave him a boy, her half-brother Wu Pu-hui. During her childhood, she was sent to study in a primary school at Hong Kong to learn English. Then, she moved to Japan to live with her mother and her step-father 伊能祥光, a Japanese man from the Ryukyu Islands. She took her step-father's surname and took a Japanese name "Shizuka Inoh". She lived in Tokyo, Japan for six years and studied at Tokyo Chinese School. After returning to Taiwan in 1988, she took the stage name "Yi Nengjing", by simplifying her Japanese name dropping the last character. In 2010, she was selected as a judge for the television series China's Got Talent.