Jumaxi Yisimuhan
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Kazakh, born in August 1938, a native of Xinyuan County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. He learned to sing Kazakh folk songs from his mother in childhood and has thoroughly mastered the traditional singing methods, vocal techniques and relatively old lyrics. His enunciation is clear and his style archaic, with a rich flavour of grassland pastoral song; he is a locally representative and influential folk artist. He has long devoted himself to collecting, organizing and notating Kazakh folk songs, accumulating more than three hundred to date, and he can demonstrate and teach more than sixty of them. His representative works include Spring Bird, Longing for Home, Nomadic Life and I Am a Chinese Kazakh.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Kazakh Folk Songs, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He attaches importance to training successors and leads his disciples in transmitting and spreading Kazakh folk songs at the grassroots level.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Kazakh Folk Songs Ⅱ-148
Profile
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