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Taipei, May 2 (CNA) Yang Hsiao-ping (楊小萍), also known as Yang Xiao-ping, a popular mandopop singer in Mandarin-speaking society in the 1960s and 1970s, has died at the age of 79, her younger brother Yang Ching-huang (楊慶煌), an actor, said through his agent on Tuesday.

The veteran singer passed away on Monday with most her family present, the agent told the press. “As far as I know she died of old age, there is no information about her being ill,” she said.

The agent said Yang Hsiao-ping loved her family and had lived with them for the past few years. She did not provide any information as to where the singer lived at the time of her death.

Yang Hsiao-ping was born in Shanghai, China in 1944 and had 11 sisters and brothers. Her family moved to Changhua in Taiwan when she was three years old.

An award-winning folk dancer, Yang organized a dance troupe when she was 20 and performed many shows at home and abroad.

She was recruited as an actor in the Air Force’s recreation troupe in Taipei when she was at a junior high school. Thereafter, Yang played roles in television shows and films, while also singing several popular classic songs such as “Wine and Coffee” in the 1960s.

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