Wu Chin-yi (born March 4, 1968), professionally known as Annie Yi or Annie Shizuka Inoh (伊能 静), is a Taiwanese singer, actress, and writer.
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.
1988
After returning to Taiwan in 1988, she took the stage name "Yi Nengjing", by simplifying her Japanese name dropping the last character.
2000
On February 14, 2000, Yi married Taiwanese singer Harlem Yu in the United States.
They had dated for 14 years.
2002
From this marriage, Yi had a son Harrison Yu born on 16 March 2002 in the United States.
2009
On March 20, 2009, the Yi and Yu officially issued a divorce statement, ending their eight-year marriage.
2010
In 2010, she was selected as a judge for the television series China's Got Talent.
2013
On 25 September 2013, Yi announced that she adopted Xia Junfeng's son Xia Jianqiang as her godson and his wife Zhang Jing as her blood sister.
2015
On March 21, 2015, Yi married Chinese actor Qin Hao in Phuket, Thailand.
2016
Yi gave birth to their daughter Cindy Qin in 2016 in the United States.
2019
In 2019, Annie Yi removed her social media post promoting the teachings of Indian godman Kalki Bhagwan after the Chinese Ministry of Public Security (MPS) and China Anti-Cult Association (CACA) issued a warning about the Oneness cult's activities in the state run media Global Times.
