Giving voice to the prairie

Fifteen years after she moved to Germany, Inner Mongolia-born vocalist Urna Chahar-Tugchi made her Beijing debut on Friday at the National Library Concert Hall.

Her concert, titled after her latest album Amilal, the Mongolian word for "life", comprised a program of half traditional and half original works, with French-Iranian percussionists Djamchid Chemirani and Keyvan Chemirani, and Hungarian violinist Zoltan Lantos.

Urna's name is not widely known in China but her music is, as it was featured in two popular TV commercials, for Nippon Paint and Sony.