Gong Linna was born 1975 in Guiyang, Guizhou province (located in the Southwest of China). She first appeared on stage at the age of five.…
Artist Profiles: Gong Linna
Category: Artist Profiles
Artist Profiles: Geling Jiang
Geling Jiang is an award-winning multi-instrumentalist, who started her professional training at age of 10. After graduated from Wu Han musical Conservatory, she became a…
Artist Profiles: Alim Qasimov
Alim Qasimov, born in 1957 in Shamakha is an Azerbaijani musical legend, revered as one of the five best singers of all time. Qasimov is…
Artist Profiles: Sabina Rakcheyeva
Violinist Sabina Rakcheyeva is the first ever Azerbaijani graduate of the Juilliard School in New York. Sabina Rakcheyeva was born in Baku, Azerbaijan and began…
Artist Profiles: Khaled Arman
Khaled Arman is a musician, composer and improviser. He has dual musical training. On one side he has studied the Afghan and Indian tradition. On…
Artist Profiles: Homayun Sakhi
Homayun Sakhi (sometimes spelled Homayoun) is an outstanding Afghan rubab player, now living in Fremont, California, the American city with the largest concentration of Afghans.…
Artist Profiles: Daud Khan
Born in Kabul (Afghanistan), Daud Khan learned how to play the rubab (an Afghan string instrument) with master Ustad Muhammad Umar. After becoming a skillful…
Artist Profiles: Aziz Herawi
Aziz Herawi is an expatriate Afghani currently living in California. He comes from a wealthy religious family in Herat. His father did not approve of…
Artist Profiles: Tausi Women’s Taarab
Zanzibar’s all-female Tausi Taarab orchestra was formed in 2009 and presents classical style music in the tradition of some of Zanzibar’s strongest women. Dating back…
Artist Profiles: Mim Suleiman
Mim Suleiman was born in Zanzibar (Tanzania) and lived in Shangani (Stone Town) for most of her childhood, where she attended Tumekuja School. Mim appeared…