Artist Info: Yungchen Lhamo

དབྱངས་ཅན་ལྷ་མོ (Romanized: Yungchen Lhamo) is a Tibetan singer. Her name means "Goddess of Song", a name given her by a holy man soon after she was born near Lhasa. She left Tibet in 1989 at age 23. She moved to Australia in 1993, then to New York City in 2000.

Lhamo's Australian debut album Tibetan Prayer won the ARIA Australian Record Industry Award for best Folk/World/Traditional Music release in 1995. The success of that record led to her signing with Peter Gabriel's Real World label. [read more...]