李永才同志是我省著名的彝族民间音乐家。他于1926年12月出生在贵州威宁盐仓区板底乡一个贫苦的彝族农民家庭,在父母辛勤的哺育和亲友的接济支持下,勉强读完了小学,并以半工半读方式在云南昭通国立西南师范学校接受了初等师范教育,从而为他学习、继承、传扬彝族传统文化艺术奠定了良好的基础。1949年,太阳在彝家居住的芦虹高原 Comrade Li Yongcai is a famous Yi folk musician in our province. He was born in December 1926 in a poor Yi peasant family in Bandi Township, Yancheng District, Weining, Guizhou. With the help of his parents and his relatives and friends, he barely finished the elementary school and took part-time work in Yunnan Zhaotong National Southwest Normal School received elementary teacher education, which laid a good foundation for his study, inheritance and preaching of traditional culture and the arts of Yi people. In 1949, the sun lived in the Luxi Plateau of the Yi family