Maimaitiali Alamati
Lineage & School of Heritage
At sixteen he began studying the Manas by correspondence and by visiting teachers to ask for instruction, and in 1970 he became a disciple of Jusup Mamay.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
A singer of the epic Manas. In 2009 he was invited to Urumqi to make recordings. He could sing six of the parts of the epic Manas in full, and more than one hundred thousand lines of verse were recorded. He often took part in various mass activities, singing the epic at gatherings, celebrations, life-cycle rites and traditional festivals, and he enjoyed very high prestige among the Kyrgyz people.
Honors & Recognition
Male, Kyrgyz ethnic group, born in April 1937, died in July 2013, a native of Akqi County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. National representative bearer of Manas, a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He trained more than fifty bearers of Manas through oral transmission from heart to heart. In 2007 he was commended by the Institute of Ethnic Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Folk Literature and Art Association and the Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture, among other institutions.
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