Unnervingly good-looking, she's China’s most in-demand musical property. Twelve months ago, she was hardly known. Then she recorded Alive, an album that mixes traditional Chinese melodies and Buddhist mantras with electronic instruments.
Sa Dingding, the new age chanteuse, is one global export that in many ways echoes the Beijing Olympic fantasy of "One World. One Dream."
Born in 1983, the daughter of a Mongolian mother and Han father, she grew up a nomad. She sings in Mandarin, Tibetan, Sanskrit, and the rare dialect of Lagu, while fusing chill-out beats and floaty instrumentation played on zither, horse head fiddle and bamboo flute.
In terms of popularity, can we compare her to Siti Nurhaliza? Not only is Sa Dingding hugely popular in China, she is also finding similar success elsewhere: Her first album sold 2 million copies in Southeast Asia, and she has appeared on MTV. Earlier this year she won a BBC Radio 3 World Music Award and performed at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
Source: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article3805225.ece
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