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His original score was inspired by the Bhutanese folk tune "The Unchanging Lotus Throne" (Thri nyampa med pa pemai thri). The melody has twice undergone changes by Tongmi's successors as band leaders. The original lyrics were 12 lines, but were shortened to the present six-line version in 1964 by a secretary to the king. [3]
Suresh Moktan released an album, New Waves, in 1996 that is the highest-grossing Bhutanese album in sales. However, he has now begun criticizing rigsar as unmusical. Others dislike the genre because it is repetitive, simple and generally a copy of Indian popular songs, [4] or because rigsar is not influenced by traditional Bhutanese music. [2]
Prior to this period, Bhutanese people primarily listened to filmi and other kinds of Indian pop music. Rigsar is the dominant style of Bhutanese popular music, and dates back to the late 1980s. The first major music star was Shera Lhendup, whose career began after the 1981 hit "Jyalam Jaylam Gi Ashi". [2]
The song is about a handsome yak (Legpai Lhadar Gawo) who was ordered to be taken from his beloved herder and slaughtered for meat. Over the years, however, the lyrics and meaning of the song have been shortened and often reworded. [2] An English translation of Dorji's yak song:
Kezang Dorji was born in a remote village called Wooling Village in the eastern Bhutanese district of Samdrup Jongkhar. [5] Hoping for a better life his family moved to a small town in Samdrup Jongkhar called Dewathang. [6] His parents were separated when he was six years old and he had a difficult childhood. "My family had a very hard life.
Zhungdra (Dzongkha: གཞུང་སྒྲ་; Wylie: gzhung-sgra) [1] is one of two main styles of traditional Bhutanese folk music, the other being bödra.Arising in the 17th century, zhungdra (zhung meaning "center, mainstream", and dra meaning "music") is an entirely endemic Bhutanese style associated with the folk music of the central valleys of Paro, Thimphu, and Punakha, the heart of ...
The lingm (Dzongkha: གླིངམ་, Wylie: glingm) [1] is a bamboo flute indigenous to Bhutan. [2] The lingm, the dramyin and the chiwang comprise the basic instrumental inventory for traditional Bhutanese folk music.
The Royal Academy of Performing Arts (RAPA) is a Bhutanese government body within the Ministry of Home and Cultural Affairs, Department of Culture, [2] that supports the preservation of traditional Bhutanese culture. [3] [4] It was founded in 1954 [5] under the initiative of the Third Druk Gyalpo Jigme Dorji Wangchuck.