In 2020, we at Lion’s Roar have been blessed when the award-winning Tibetan singer-songwriter Yungchen Lhamo specifically recorded a premiere video of her track “Awakening” (from her album of the identical title) as a part of our first “Dalai Lama World Imaginative and prescient Summit,” produced in partnership with Tibet Home US.
Since then, I’ve solely develop into increasingly more a fan, by this level enjoying Yungchen Lhamo’s most up-to-date album, One Drop of Kindness (2023), extra occasions than I may guess. Hers is a few stunning music: uplifted and unpretentious, impressed and galvanizing. And the kindness—in her voice, her melodies, her presence—is virtually palpable.
If you’re not a Yungchen Lhamo fan already, chances are you’ll properly develop into one now, as she’s just lately been given the “Stay on KEXP” therapy—which means that she’s been featured in a brand new video from the esteemed Seattle-based nonprofit arts outlet so well-known for capturing nice performances from musicians of every kind. Whether or not you watch or simply pay attention, it is a excellent time, that includes Yungchen Lhamo each solo and backed by guitarist John Alevizakis and percussionist Curtis Andrews, and elegantly interviewed by KEXP’s Darek Mazzone about her work and what Alevizakis calls her “grace, inspiration, and vitality.”
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And should you like what you hear, I hope you may additionally try Yungchen Lhamo’s One Drop of Kindness Basis, which is devoted to bringing compassionate assist to therapeutic and distressed communities by providing an Empathetic Listening and Compassionate Coaching program; the “You Are Lovely, I Am Lovely” Venture, which “includes music, role-playing therapies, and the usage of easy mantras for the advantage of the homeless, developmentally disabled, and mentally unwell”; and elevating assist to assist the Shri Sengedrak Ngedhon Samten Choeling nunnery and retreat middle, about 90 miles north of Kathmandu.
