Tseten Dolma | |
Office: | Delegate to the National People's Congress |
Term Start: | 1983 |
Term End: | 1988 |
1Blankname: | Chairman |
1Namedata: | Peng Zhen |
Office2: | Member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress |
Term Start2: | 1978 |
Term End2: | 1983 |
1Blankname2: | Chairman |
1Namedata2: | Ye Jianying |
Office3: | Member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference |
Term Start3: | January 1965 |
Term End3: | March 1978 |
1Blankname3: | Chairman |
1Namedata3: | Zhou Enlai |
Term Start4: | April 1988 |
Term End4: | March 2003 |
1Blankname4: | Chairman |
1Namedata4: | Li Xiannian Li Ruihuan |
Birth Date: | 1 August 1937 |
Birth Place: | Xigaze, Tibet (modern day People's Republic of China) |
Nationality: | Chinese |
Party: | Chinese Communist Party |
Occupation: | Singer |
Children: | Nyima Dolma (1966), Nyima Tsering (1974) |
Tseten Dolma (;) is a Tibetan soprano. She was born August 1, 1937, to a serf[1] family in Shigatse, Tibet. Tseten was influenced by Tibetan folk music from a very young age, and first performed on stage in 1956. She is known for starring in the 1965 musical epic The East Is Red.
In 1958, she joined the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, learning from professor Wang Pinsu. She has served the Tibet branch of the Chinese Musicians' Association in various roles since the 1960s, including being chairman, director and vice-chairman of CMA, deputy secretary of Bureau of Cultural Affairs of Tibet Autonomous Region.[2]
Tseten Dolma married Namgyal Dorje in 1957, who she bore a daughter, Nyima Dolma, in 1966, and then a son, Nyima Tsering, in 1974.
Tsetsun Dolma is famous for the following songs: