Songwriter

Yungchen Lhamo is a critically acclaimed Tibetan singer-songwriter who has been called “The Queen of Kindness”. She was born and raised in Lhasa, Tibet, which she left in 1989 to make a pilgrimage to Dharamshala, India. From there, inspired to share her voice and music with the world, she moved to Australia in 1993 and then to New York in 2000. Her name, which translates as ‘Goddess of Melody,’ was given to her by a lama at birth. Yungchen’s remarkable voice and message of peace and loving kindness have inspired thousands of artists and audiences around the world. She has performed and recorded with Natalie Merchant, Peter Gabriel, Annie Lenox, and Bono, among others, and her recordings have been used in the film Seven Years in Tibet and many Tibetan documentaries.

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World Music Institute Presents Yungchen Lhamo

First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn

In 1989 Yungchen Lhamo (which translates as ‘Goddess of Melody’) carried her baby son on a 1,200-mile journey, walking across the Himalayas from Tibet to India, then became the first Tibetan singer to achieve worldwide acclaim. Her first album, Tibetan Prayer, won the Australian Recording Industry Award for Best World Music Album in 1995. She was then signed by Peter Gabriel’s Real World Records label and released three more albums, Tibet, Tibet, Coming Home, and Ama, between 1996 and 2006. In 2013, Yungchen released her fifth album, a meditational collaboration with Russian classical pianist Anton Batagov, on the Cantaloupe Music label.

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Yungchen Lhamo

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Feb 24, 2024

World Music Institute Presents Yungchen Lhamo · New Music USA

Sep 30, 2023

Yungchen Lhamo · Public Theater

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