宋祖英（1966年8月13日—），生于湖南湘西古丈县岩头寨乡老寨村，为中国民族唱法女高音歌唱家。1990年她凭借《小背篓》在央视春晚中初展头角，之后连续24年登上央视春晚的舞台，逐渐被全中国观众所熟知。曾先后五次在海外举办个人音乐会十场，因2006年"好一朵美丽的茉莉花——宋祖英肯尼迪音乐会"的举办，10月12日被命名为哥伦比亚特区的"宋祖英日"，还凭借此音乐会获得"肯尼迪艺术金奖"。她还是一位连续放歌世界杯、奥运会、世博会、亚运会、大运会的歌唱家。主要演唱并走红的歌曲有《小背篓》、《好日子》、《长大后我就成了你》、《十送红军》、《茉莉花》、《爱我中华》等。

Song zuying on August 13, (1966 -), born in hunan province ancient zhangs county rock TouZhaiXiang LaoZhai village, for the Chinese folk singing soprano. In 1990 for her at the beginning of the small basket in the CCTV Spring Festival gala show tau kok, after 24 years in a row on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival gala, gradually be known by all Chinese audiences. In overseas has five personal concert ten games, in 2006 "good a beautiful jasmine - song zuying concert" Kennedy held during the October 12, was named the district of Columbia "song zuying day", also won "Kennedy art award" for the concert. She is a continuous singing in the World Cup, the Olympic Games, world expo and the Asian games and universiade singer. Main and popular song "small basket", "good day", "after be brought up, I became you", "ShiSongGongJun", "jasmine", "love my China," and so on.