It was reported on January 23 that after 2023 and 2024, teacher Li Guyi will once again be absent from the 2025 Spring Festival Gala stage, which also means that we will not be able to listen to her live singing "Unforgettable Tonight". According to media reports, teacher Li Guyi said in response"Due to poor health, I still can't attend the Spring Festival Gala. I'm sorry everyone."
It is reported that as early as 1984, the Spring Festival Gala director Huang Yihe felt that there was a lack of a song that matched the entire program, so he specially found the lyricist Qiao Yu and customized a song that could reflect family reunions, the reunion of the motherland, the flesh-and-blood love between relatives, and the hope for the future. This was "Unforgettable Tonight", sung by teacher Li Guyi, and it has since become a repertoire of the Spring Festival Gala.
Since the first Spring Festival Gala in 1983, teacher Li Guyi has only not sang "Unforgettable Tonight" for four years.Once was in 1983, when the song had not yet been born; once was in 2012; and in 2023 and 2024, Li Guyi was absent due to physical reasons.
Among them, in 2012, it was because the Spring Festival Gala director Ha Wen reformed the program and decided to cancel "Unforgettable Tonight" as the closing song and replaced it with "We Are One World" sung by Liao Changyong and Wang Li.
However, this reform triggered a strong response from the audience.Many viewers expressed dissatisfaction and believed that the Spring Festival Gala would be incomplete without "Unforgettable Tonight", therefore, the 2013 Spring Festival Gala resumed the tradition of Li Guyi singing "Unforgettable Tonight".