When Gong Linna, founder of new Chinese art music, sang Tan Te at London's iconic Battersea Park last month, hundreds of attentive listeners cheered and sang along. The audience, Chinese and Western ...

Folk singer Gong Linna went from popularity to anonymity before finding her true voice. Gong Linna was a struggling folk singer before her lyric-less song Tan Te, or Perturbed (click here to listen), ...

A German-Chinese couple said they walked a "lonely road" in search of China's true musical soul amid a culture that condones lip-syncing in live shows. Beijing-based German composer Robert Zollitsch, ...

From the day that Gong Linna became an Internet sensation for her lyricless song Tan Te, or "Disturbed", she was known as an unconventional Chinese folk singer who breaks all the rules. Folk singer ...

As far as names go, “China Broadcasting Chinese Orchestra” is descriptive, but scarcely tantalizing. It hints at the band’s mission, which is to play orchestral music on Chinese traditional ...