严凤英同志是一位极有艺术才华,深受国内外广大观众欢迎的优秀的无产阶级文艺战士。由于遭到林彪、“四人帮”推行的反革命修正主义路线的残酷迫害,于一九六八年四月八日含恨逝世,时年才三十八岁。严凤英同志生于一九三○年,安徽省桐城县罗家岭人。从小在放牛、割草劳动中学会了民歌小调,成了当地人民喜爱的一名小歌手。 Comrade Yan Fengying is an excellent proletarian literary and art warrior who is extremely artistic and well-respected by a large audience both at home and abroad. The brutal persecution of the counter-revolutionary revisionist line launched by Lin Biao and the Gang of Four resulted in the death of an eight-year-old woman on April 8, 1968. Comrade Yan Fengying was born in 1930 in Luojialing, Tongcheng County, Anhui Province. From childhood in cattle, mowing work learned folk songs minor, became a favorite of local people a small singer.