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He plays a wide range of the bamboo flute and currently lives in London. He has recorded for Peter Gabriel 's Real World label. He is also dedicated to cooking, and has found ways of combining cookery with flute playing at some of his concerts. Yue was born in , in Beijing , China. He was the youngest of six children. His family lived in one of the traditional courtyards surrounded by a jumble of old alleys, known as hutongs.

This was situated in the area between the Drum and Bell Towers and the river, and it was here where he played as a child. His hutong courtyard specifically housed traditional musicians and their families, most of whom were originally from the countryside. His father had no formal musical training, so Yue learned technique from these neighbouring musicians, and how to put his whole body, not simply his breath, into playing the flute.

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Yue's third sister, Yan, was living in England , and in she helped him leave China. He got a place at the Guildhall School of Music, where he studied the silver flute. Since then Yue has had a wide-ranging musical career, including composing, arranging, performing and recording traditional Chinese music.