Lin Di

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This is a Chinese name; the family name is Lin.

Lin Di (林笛; pinyin: Lín Dí) is a Chinese musician, composer, and vocalist. She was born in 1975 in Shanghai, China.

Her current band is Cold Fairyland, a progressive rock band in which she plays pipa and keyboard synthesizers, and also sings.

Lin began playing pipa at age 4. She studied at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where she majored in traditional Chinese music and pipa, graduating in 1997.

She started her own band Cold Fairyland in 2001 with bass guitarist Su Yong. She also composes original music for various commercial projects and transcribes music (using MIDI) for computer games.

She is also an avid photographer.