Badema
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, Tibetan ethnicity, born in 1940 in Alxa League, Inner Mongolia. She was born into the family of Lubusang Dongdebu, a Tibetan living Buddha in Right Banner of Alxa. From the age of seven she learned long-song folk songs from her parents and her second aunt, and she is the fourth generation to inherit the folk-song art of her forebears. At the age of nine she took the folk artist Jiadu as her teacher and studied the horse-head fiddle. She is currently president of the Alxa Folk Song Association. She excels in the Mongolian long-song singing styles of the four schools of the Alxa region; her timbre is bright and resonant, and her singing style is simple and bold. Her representative works include Muluo Ren (The Camel Herder) and Beijing Lama (The Lama from Beijing). In 2004 she became a specially appointed folk singer of the Center for Ethnic and Folk Literature and Art Development of the Ministry of Culture. She is currently preparing for the publication of Alxa Menggu Changdiao Minge Jicheng (A Collection of Mongolian Long-Song Folk Songs of Alxa League).
Honors & Recognition
A national representative bearer of Urtiin Duu, Traditional Folk Long Song, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. Already in her youth she became a folk singer known within a hundred li. She has participated in folk song competitions inside and outside the region on many occasions, winning first and second prizes, and has received such titles as Famous Folk Singer and Folk Artist of the autonomous region.
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