Tibetan Chinese Singer 索朗旺姆 (Soinam Wangmo): “天路” (“Heavenly Road”)
CCTV-9′s Center Stage program carried a performance by Tibetan Chinese singer, 索朗旺姆 (Soinam Wangmo): “天路” (“Heavenly Road”). The song itself is about the 青藏铁路 (Qingzang railway) linking the high altitude Tibetan plateu with the rest of China. Soinam Wangmo was the 10th CCTV Youth Singing Contest gold medal winner in 2008. She sang the song “Father” during the contest which captivated her audience. Soinam Wangmo is from a small village 700 km away from Lhasa according to this backgrounder by Yu Jing. She lost her father when she was 14 years old.
It is nice to see someone like her succeed on such a grand scale given the presumably hard lifestyle in a remote village where manual labor means everything.
[Edit 12/30/2009: See Music Student comments for corrections.]
She won the 10th CCTV Youth Singing Contest gold metal in 2002, not 2008. And the song she sang during the contest was Golden Homeland (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lR_oB-8URI), not Father.
Thx for the corrections.