Namgyal Lhamo

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Winner of the Best Female Solo artist from India/Tibet at the 2007 International Music awards held by Musicaid in the U.K and Best Female Singer awards at the 2007 Tibetan Music awards, Namgyal Lhamo is an exponent of Tibetan traditional singing and Opera. She is based in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Starting at the age of 10, Lhamo trained for fourteen years under the greatest masters of Tibetan Opera and Classical Music at the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts (www.tibetanarts.org) set up by H. H. the Dalai Lama. She went on to become the star performer of the TIPA. Through this passage she stepped into the tradition of the various kinds of classical and folk music of her country. Her interpretations of the Nangma and the Toeshe, Tibetan classical songs from the 17th century, have been universally acclaimed and she has been christened The Nightingale of Tibet.

She has toured the world comprehensively and performed at Freedom concerts in Amsterdam and New York city alongside acts like The Beastie Boys, Alanis Morissette and Björk.

Namgyal Lhamo performs solo and is accompanied on stage by her voice, the Tibetan lute (Dranyen) and her independent spirit. She also owns the eclectic vegetarian restaurant “De Werfkring” in Utrecht. Besides her singing, she has developed a unique style of songwriting that is deeply rooted in her Tibetan tradition, free of political discourse but astoundingly powerful in communicating Tibet’s culture in a modern environment. Her latest albums "Pure" - classical-based Tibetan songs - and "The Enchanted Land" - a collaboration with electronic lounge musician Arnav Srivastava - have been released worldwide in August 2007.

Namgyal Lhamo's upcoming opus "Anthology" is a tribute to His Holiness The Dalai Lama and is scheduled for release this winter on the Silk Road label (www.silkrd.com)