[1] Li attended the Central Conservatory of Music when he was twenty years old.
After graduating from university he was assigned to work in the army song and dance ensemble.
At the age of thirty, he joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army Naval Song and Dance Troupe.
He made a record that sold three million copies by the age of thirty-two.
[2] In 1990, at age fifty-one, Li and Meng Ge, who was more than twenty-seven years his junior, married in Beijing.