Loten Namling
Loten Namling is an Indian-born singer, musical artist, entertainer and cartoonist currently living in Switzerland.[1] He is working on his project, "Blues", in which he explores paths linking the songs to culture.
The 14th Dalai Lama once called Loten "a singer with a voice."
Based in Switzerland, the artist has travelled worldwide with his lute, singing the songs of the 2nd Dalai Lama, as well as other traditional songs, and his own songs. From Kalmykia to Korea to Wales, Namling has performed worldwide, telling stories about his life, connecting songs of the past to the reality of the present, and inviting his audience on a journey through the landscape of spirituality.
Activism
[edit]On 13 May 2013, Namling started what he called A Journey for Freedom – One Man, One Path.[2] He walked from the Swiss capital of Bern to Geneva, dragging a black coffin around to attract attention. Arriving on 8 July, he performed with some 13 more musicians, amongst them renowned Swiss band The Young Gods whose singer Franz Treichler had strongly supported the artist's action and had organized the performance on Place des Nations, in front of Geneva UN headquarters.[3] It inspired Tibetan Warrior, a documentary film directed by Dodo Hunziker and produced by Urs Schnell, about the quest of Loten Namling from Europe to India where he met with politicians, experts and young radicalists before requesting the Dalai Lama his advice.[4]
In October 2013, Namling was given the Free Spirit Award in McLeod Ganj for this "Journey of freedom" march.[5]
Discography
[edit]- Songs of Narcissism (1999)
- Black Crane (2001)
References
[edit]- ^ Staff. "Loten Namling: Profile". loten.ch. Archived from the original on 25 August 2009. Retrieved 4 February 2010.
- ^ "Tibetan singer to carry out a coffin march from Bern to Geneva - www.phayul.com". www.phayul.com. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014.
- ^ YouTube.
- ^ "Synopsis – TIBETAN WARRIOR – the true story of one man's fight for freedom". Archived from the original on 13 January 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
- ^ "Loten Namling honored with Free Spirit Award 2013/ENG". .hu. 26 October 2013. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
External links
[edit]
- song, by Namling
- Rapper Curse feat. Loten Namling, 2012-05-26
- Spirit Award 2012: Loten Namling
- Loten Namling at Blogspot
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- Living people
- Indian male musicians
- 20th-century Swiss musicians
- Tibetan cartoonists
- Tibetan caricaturists
- Tibetan musicians
- 21st-century Swiss musicians
- 20th-century Indian musicians
- 21st-century Indian musicians
- 20th-century male musicians
- 21st-century male musicians
- Indian people of Tibetan descent
- People from Dharamshala
- Artists from Himachal Pradesh
- Singers from Himachal Pradesh