Sanubar Tursun

Sanubar Tursun (Uighur: سەنۇبەر تۇرسۇن; born 1971) is a Uyghur female singer-songwriter, famous dutar player and researcher for Uyghur Muqams. Tursun released her first album in 2000. For over a decade her voice filled town bazaars and rang out from local taxis and long-distance buses across the Uyghur region in Xinjiang Province. She was a judge in the Uyghur language The Voice of the Silk Road. She was allegedly sentenced to 5 years in prison.[1]

Sanubar Tursunt
سەنۇبەر تۇرسۇن
Born (1971-06-01) 1 June 1971
Ghulja, Xinjiang, China
DisappearedNovember 1, 2018
Ürümqi, Xinjiang, China
StatusAlleged 5 years imprisonment
NationalityChina
Alma materXinjiang Arts Institute
OccupationArtist, classical song singer
Years active2000-present

Early life

Tursun was born in Ghulja, to musician Tursun Chang. Her father taught her to play stringed instruments including dutar and satar. She trained and worked professionally as a chang (hammer dulcimer) player.[2][3]

In May 2014, she gave a performance at University of London.[4]

August 7, 2016, she appeared in Los Angeles.[5]

Her scheduled performances in France's cities of Nantes, Angers and Rennes were cancelled in November 2018 after she encountered difficulties leaving China.[6]

Disappearance

Reports claimed that she was detained by the Chinese authorities in November 2018 and sentenced to 5 years in prison. The actual charges against her are unknown. Uyghurs throughout Xinjiang have been similarly detained.[7][8][9][10]

See also

References
  1. "Mass arrests in Xinjiang continue". www.osu.edu. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
  2. "About Sanubar Tursun". www.akdn.org. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
  3. "SOAS to welcome one of the finest singers in Central Asia, Sanubar Tursun". www.soas.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
  4. "Sanubar Tursun Concert Tour in Europe". www.uyghurensemble.co.uk. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
  5. "Sanubar Tursun's voice in Los Angeles Sky". www.www.rfa.org. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  6. "China: Sanubar Tursun, voice of the Uyghurs, missing presumed detained in Xinjiang's internment camps". www.freemuse.org. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
  7. "Famous Uyghur singer maybe sentenced to 5 years imprisonment". www.rfa.org. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  8. "Researchers in Europe asked China to release Sanubar Tursun and others who were arbitrarily detained". www.rfa.org. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  9. "Sanubar Tursun disappeared". www.uyghur.info. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  10. "Cultural Genocide in Xinjiang: How China Targets Uyghur Artists, Academics, and Writers". www.theglobepost.com. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
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