Born on Nov. 27th, 1967, Na Ying is one of the best present-day female singers in Mainland China, having sold more than 10 million albums. She is also noted for her buoyant and forthright personality.

Her hometown is Shenyang City in Liaoning Province. Na is an ethnic Manchu and she won several national singing contests in the 1980s, and in 1988 began her recording career in Taiwan and Hong Kong.

At the 1998 Spring Festival Gala show hosted by CCTV, Na Ying sang a duet "Meet in '98" with her friend Faye Wong. Wong had already achieved fame in Hong Kong and elsewhere, but the performance with Na brought her to superstar status in China itself.

Na Ying had a relationship with Chinese footballer Gao Feng and had a son, but the two broke up in 2005. She married Meng Tong in 2006.

Although she devoted time to her family and children from 2002 to 2009, she never quit the stage, and had a prominent role at the closing ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.

At the close of 2009 she performed the concert "20 Years of Na", a retrospective of her stage career, at the Capital Gymnasium. Although her 2009 single "The Journey of Love" topped the charts wherever it was released, her early song "Follow Your Instinct" remains her favourite.