Wu Chin-yi^[3] (Chinese: 吳靜怡; pinyin: Wú Jìngyí; born March 4, 1968), professionally known as Annie Yi (Chinese: 伊能靜; pinyin: Yī Néngjìng) or Annie Shizuka Inoh (Japanese: 伊能 静, romanized: Inō Shizuka), is a Taiwanese singer, actress, and writer.

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Annie Yi
伊能靜
Born	Wu Chin-yi (吳靜怡) (1968-03-04) 4 March 1968 (age 56)[1] Taipei, Taiwan
Other names	Shizuka Inoh
Occupations	Singer Actress Writer
Years active	1986–present
Spouses	Harlem Yu ​ ​ (m. 2000; div. 2009)​ Qin Hao ​ (m. 2015)​
Children	2
Musical career
Also known as	Annie Shizuka Inoh
Origin	Taipei, Taiwan
Genres	Mandopop Cantopop J-pop
Instrument(s)	Vocals
Spinoff of	Feiying Trio[2]
Chinese stage name: Yi Neng-ching
Traditional Chinese	伊能靜
Simplified Chinese	伊能静
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Yī Néngjìng Wade–Giles Yi1 Neng2-ching4
Chinese legal name: Wu Chin-yi
Traditional Chinese	吳靜怡
Simplified Chinese	吴静怡
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Wú Jìngyí Wade–Giles Wu2 Ching4-yi1
Japanese name
Kanji	伊能 静江 / 伊能 静
Hiragana	いのう しずか
Katakana	イノウ シズカ
Transcriptions Romanization Inō Shizuka

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Wu Chin-yi^{[note 1]} was born on March 4, 1968, in Taipei, Taiwan, the youngest of seven daughters of Yang Shu-wan^{[note 2]} and Wu Min^{[note 3]}. 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^{[note 4]}.

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"^{[note 5]}. 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"^{[note 6]}, 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.

On February 14, 2000, Yi married Taiwanese singer Harlem Yu in the United States. They had dated for 14 years. On March 20, 2009, the Yi and Yu officially issued a divorce statement, ending their eight-year marriage. From this marriage, Yi had a son Harrison Yu^{[note 7]} born on 16 March 2002 in the United States.

On March 21, 2015, Yi married Chinese actor Qin Hao in Phuket, Thailand. Yi gave birth to their daughter Cindy Qin^{[note 8]} in 2016 in the United States.

On 25 September 2013, Yi announced that she adopted Xia Junfeng's son Xia Jianqiang^{[note 9]} as her godson and his wife Zhang Jing^{[note 10]} as her blood sister.

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.^[4][5]