ANU (Tibetan: ཨ་ནུ་, Wylie: a nu) is a Tibetan rap duo from China. They were founded in 2016 by Gonpa and Payag. They are from Nangqên County, northwest China's Qinghai province.[1]
ANU Ranglug | |
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| Origin | Nangqên County, Qinghai, China |
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| Years active | 2016–present |
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Name
edit"ANU" means "teenagers".[1]
ANU means youth and their full name in Tibetan ཨ་ནུ་རིང་ལུགས། (anu ringlug) literally means the doctrine/philosophy of ANU, or, ANUism.[2]
History
editIn 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.
On May 20, 2017, they released their second single, Fly.[3]
In 2018, their third single GA·GA and fourth single 1376 were released on February 14 and July 31, respectively. 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[4] as the first professional challenger of the season and won Pre-Challenge-Face-Off, defeated Liu Yuning.
Discography
editStudio album
edit| No. | English title | Released | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ANU | 2016 |
Singles
edit| No. | Title | Released | Notes |
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| 1 | ANU | 6 July 2016 | |
| 2 | 离乡 | 6 July 2016 | |
| 3 | Joke ༼རྩེད་མོ་ཡིན་ཡག༽ | 27 December 2016 | |
| 4 | FLY ༼འཕུར༽ | 20 May 2017 | |
| 5 | 1376 | 31 July 2018 | |
| 6 | Just to find you | - 2018 | |
| 7 | 一闪一闪亮晶晶 | - 2019 | |
| 8 | 路弯弯 | - 2019 | |
| 9 | 观心阁 | - 2019 | |
| 10 | Apologise | - 2019 | |
| 11 | GA·GA | 13 February 2019 | |
| 12 | SARDUBA | 19 February 2019 | |
| 13 | 扎西德勒 Tashi Delek | 22 October 2019 | |
| 14 | 不要了 | 25 October 2019 | |
| 15 | Pham nyong Ngu ma nyong (ཕམ་མྱོང་། ངུ་མ་མྱོང་།) | 29 December 2019 | |
| 16 | ཁྱོད་ལས་མི་འདུག (nothing other than you) | 31 March 2020 | |
| 17 | ཆང་གཞས། | 12 December 2020 | |
| 18 | phyir log yong (ཕྱིར་ལོག་ཡོང་།) | 1 July 2021 | |
| 19 | "Come back to find you" | 2021 | |
| 20 | ཨ་ཁུ་སྟོན་པ | 2021 | |
| 21 | Leave 离开 ཁ་བྲལ་བ། | 16 November 2021 | |
| 22 | སྲུང་། | 7 March 2022 | |
| 23 | ང་ཁྱོད་རང་གི་གམ་ལ་ཡོད། I am in front you | 2022 |
References
edit- ^ a b 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.
- ^ "Music Video: "Fly" by ANU". 19 July 2017.
- ^ ANU加强版《Fly》正式上线 即将再掀藏风热潮. sohu (in Chinese). 2018-10-17.
- ^ 《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.