'Asian diva' returns

Inner Mongolia is home to a wide diversity of Mongolian musical styles and sounds, from pop to folk.

Urna Chahar-tugchi, who was born to a family of livestock farmers living in the grasslands of the Ordos in the southwest region of Inner Mongolia autonomous region, is an artist who developed her musical talent and instincts while learning the yangqin (Chinese dulcimer) in Hohhot, the capital of Inner Mongolia.

She is inspired by the ancient traditions she learned while growing up on the grasslands. Many of Urna's songs evoke the immense Mongolian grasslands and tell of the Mongolian ways of life.