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Namgyal Lhamo, Tobden Gyamtso, Kelsang Chukie Tethong: vocals

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Tibetan Group Gang Chenpa consist of Namgyal Lhamo, Chukie Tethong and Tobden Gyamtso. Namgyal Lhamo and Chukie Tethong are sisters as well as former artist at the Tibean Institute of Performing Arts.
Their first CD is titled Voices from Tibet and is released to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama assuming Temporal Authority.
Pure and pristine, just the way it had always sounded in Tibet, until fortyyears ago. That is how Namgyal Lhamo, Kelsang Chukie Tethong, and Tobden Gyamtso from Gang Chenpa � �People from the land of snow� � wishto sing.
In present-day Tibet that would be virtually impossible. Forty years of Chinese rule have certainly left their marks. As a result, the traditional Tibetan repertoire in Tibet itself became obscure overnight. The generations that have grown up in Tibet in the last few decades no longer know these traditional songs and fewer people stillplay the traditional instruments like the dragnen � the Tibetan lute and the gyumang � a multi-string hammered dulcimer.
Gang Chenpa is a group of Tibetan singers living in exile. The two sisters Namgyal Lhamo (1956) and Kelsang Chukie (1957) completed at anearly age an arduous musical training course at the Tibetan Instituteof Performing Arts (TIPA) in Dharamsala, India. They were destined to become major performers of traditional Tibetan music, but they still had a long way to go.
Tobden Gyamtso (1964) roamed the roads and villages of the Tibetan countryside as a child, living off his great talent for singing thegyae-sar � ancient Tibetan legends. In the late eighties he became involved in the demonstration movement against the Chinese oppression. In the early nineties he was shown a series of photographs of the Tibetan community in Dharamsala. This prompted him to devote all hisenergy to supporting the cause of his own people. He set out for Indiaon foot, reac.......
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Editor's info:
Tibetan Group Gang Chenpa consist of Namgyal Lhamo, Chukie Tethong and Tobden Gyamtso. Namgyal Lhamo and Chukie Tethong are sisters as well as former artist at the Tibean Institute of Performing Arts.
Their first CD is titled Voices from Tibet and is released to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama assuming Temporal Authority.
Pure and pristine, just the way it had always sounded in Tibet, until fortyyears ago. That is how Namgyal Lhamo, Kelsang Chukie Tethong, and Tobden Gyamtso from Gang Chenpa � �People from the land of snow� � wishto sing.
In present-day Tibet that would be virtually impossible. Forty years of Chinese rule have certainly left their marks. As a result, the traditional Tibetan repertoire in Tibet itself became obscure overnight. The generations that have grown up in Tibet in the last few decades no longer know these traditional songs and fewer people stillplay the traditional instruments like the dragnen � the Tibetan lute and the gyumang � a multi-string hammered dulcimer.
Gang Chenpa is a group of Tibetan singers living in exile. The two sisters Namgyal Lhamo (1956) and Kelsang Chukie (1957) completed at anearly age an arduous musical training course at the Tibetan Instituteof Performing Arts (TIPA) in Dharamsala, India. They were destined to become major performers of traditional Tibetan music, but they still had a long way to go.
Tobden Gyamtso (1964) roamed the roads and villages of the Tibetan countryside as a child, living off his great talent for singing thegyae-sar � ancient Tibetan legends. In the late eighties he became involved in the demonstration movement against the Chinese oppression. In the early nineties he was shown a series of photographs of the Tibetan community in Dharamsala. This prompted him to devote all hisenergy to supporting the cause of his own people. He set out for Indiaon foot, reac.......
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