Maimaiti Wulayin
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Male, Uyghur, born in 1949, died in 2008, a native of Shanshan, Xinjiang. National representative bearer of Uyghur Muqam of Xinjiang (Turpan Muqam), a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. In his youth he learned to play the tembur, rawap and ghejek and learned muqam lyrics from Simayi Mayizi, Awuti Rouzimaiti and Yiming Panjia, sixth-generation bearers of the Turpan Muqam. He became thoroughly proficient in singing and playing the Turpan Muqam, was especially renowned for his rawap playing, and took part in national and autonomous-region artistic performances on many occasions, winning awards.
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