ANU (band)

ANU are a Tibetan rap duo. They were founded in 2016 by Gonpa and Payag. They are from Nangchen (Ch: Nangqian) County, northwest China's Qinghai province (Amdo).[1]

ANU
OriginNangchen (Ch: Nangqian) County, Qinghai province, China Amdo, Tibet
Genres
Years active2016–present
Members
  • Bāyǎ (Chinese: 巴雅) Tibetan: Payag
  • Gōng Bā (Chinese: 宫巴) Tibetan: Gonpa

Name

"ANU" means "teenagers".[1]

ANU means youth and their full name in Tibetan ཨ་ནུ་རིང་ལུགས། (anu ring lugs) literally means the doctrine/philosophy of ANU, or, ANUism.[2]

History

In July 2016, ANU released their first EP ANU, which included two songs, ANU and Living Hometown. On December 27, they released their single, Joke / It's All A Game.[3]

On May 20, 2017, they released their second single, Fly.[4]

In 2018, their third single GA·GA and fourth single 1376 were released on February 14 and July 31, respectively. High Peaks Pure Earth translated the music video to “1376” into English. The video by ANU features both established and new singers and rappers from all over Tibet, TMJ, Dekyi Tsering, Tashi Phuntsok, Uncle Buddhist and Young13DBaby.

In January 2019, they participated in China's long-running singing competition Singer 2019[5] as the first professional challenger of the season and won Pre-Challenge-Face-Off, defeated Liu Yuning.

Many of their songs and music videos have been translated into English by the translations website High Peaks Pure Earth: https://highpeakspureearth.com/tag/anu/

Discography

Studio album

No.English titleReleasedNotes
1ANU2016

Singles

No.TitleReleasedNotes
1ANU6 July 2016
2离鄉6 July 2016
3Joke27 December 2016
4FLY ༼འཕུར༽20 May 2017
5137631 July 2018
6Just to find you- 2018
7一閃一閃亮晶晶- 2019
8路彎彎- 2019
9觀心閣- 2019
10Apologise- 2019
11GA·GA13 February 2019
12SARDUBA19 February 2019
13扎西德勒 Tashi Delek22 October 2019
14不要了25 October 2019
15Phamnyong Naumanyong29 December 2019

References

  1. 西藏说唱ANU组合秀文化魅力 藏语RAP显独特风采. sina (in Chinese). 2017-12-05.
  2. https://highpeakspureearth.com/music-video-fly-by-anu/
  3. English translation available here https://highpeakspureearth.com/music-video-its-all-a-game-by-anu/
  4. ANU加强版《Fly》正式上线 即将再掀藏风热潮. sohu (in Chinese). 2018-10-17.
  5. "Archived copy" 《歌手2019》第3期“藏族组合ANU”踢馆成功说明了什么?. eastday.com (in Chinese). 2019-01-27. Archived from the original on 2019-02-09. Retrieved 2019-02-08.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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