Chen Lin (singer)


Chen Lin was a Chinese Mandopop singer. She died by suicide at the age of 39.

Career

She rose to stardom with her 1993 album entitled I Can Never Understand Your Love. It reached the top of the Chinese album charts, selling 1.5 million copies. She ended up releasing 7 albums.

Personal life

In 1995, she married the singer Shen Yongge, founder of Zhu Shu Entertainment Ltd., a record company. He helped her with releasing three albums that defined the peak of her career in 2000. Shen and Chen were a popular celebrity couple until divorcing in 2007. Her second marriage was to singer and producer Zhang Chaofeng in July 2009, and soon after in August 2009 Chen Lin released her last EP. Friends said she was plagued with emotional problems leading up to her suicide in October 2009.

Death

Three months after her second marriage, she died by suicide on 31 October 2009 by jumping from an apartment building in the Olympic Garden community in Chaoyang District, in Beijing. It was reported that some of Chen's friends said the singer was traumatized about the failure of her first marriage to Shen Yongge and picked his birthday to die by suicide.

Discography

Albums

  • 你的柔情我永远不懂
  • 害怕爱上你
  • 女人
  • 陈琳
  • 爱就爱了 Love is Love
  • 不想骗自己
  • 13131

Singles

  • 你的柔情我永远不懂
  • 害怕爱上你
  • 两个人的世界
  • 雨夜
  • 十二种颜色
  • 不想骗自己
  • 爱就爱了
  • 抱紧我别走
  • 天使的选择
  • 当爱已错时