ANU (band)

ANU
ANU
Origin	Nangchen (Ch: Nangqian) County, Qinghai province, China Amdo, Tibet
Genres	Mandopop; Tibetan pop; Tibetan rap; rap;
Years active	2016–present
Members	Bāyǎ (Chinese: 巴雅) Tibetan: Payag; Gōng Bā (Chinese: 宫巴) Tibetan: Gonpa;

ANU are a Tibetan rap duo. They were founded in 2016 by Gonpa and Payag. They are from Nangchen (Ch: Nangqian) County, northwest China's Qinghai province (Amdo).[1]

Name

"ANU" means "teenagers".[1]

ANU means youth and their full name in Tibetan ཨ་ནུ་རིང་ལུགས། (anu ring lugs) literally means the doctrine/philosophy of ANU, or, ANUism.[2]

History

In 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[3].

On May 20, 2017, they released their second single, Fly.[4]

In 2018, their third single GA·GA and fourth single 1376 were released on February 14 and July 31, respectively. High Peaks Pure Earth translated the music video to “1376” into English. 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[5] as the first professional challenger of the season and won Pre-Challenge-Face-Off, defeated Liu Yuning.

Many of their songs and music videos have been translated into English by the translations website High Peaks Pure Earth: https://highpeakspureearth.com/tag/anu/

Discography

Studio album

No.	English title	Released	Notes
1	ANU	2016

Singles

No.	Title	Released
1	ANU	6 July 2016
2	离鄉	6 July 2016
3	Joke	27 December 2016
4	FLY ༼འཕུར༽	20 May 2017
5	1376	31 July 2018
6	Just to find you	- 2018
7	一閃一閃亮晶晶	- 2019
8	路彎彎	- 2019
9	觀心閣	- 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	Phamnyong Naumanyong	29 December 2019

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References

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.
https://highpeakspureearth.com/music-video-fly-by-anu/
English translation available here https://highpeakspureearth.com/music-video-its-all-a-game-by-anu/
ANU加强版《Fly》正式上线即将再掀藏风热潮. sohu (in Chinese). 2018-10-17.
"Archived copy" 《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.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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[lion-1] 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.

[2] ttps://highpeakspureearth.com/music-video-fly-by-anu/

[3] English translation available here https://highpeakspureearth.com/music-video-its-all-a-game-by-anu/

[4] ANU加强版《Fly》正式上线即将再掀藏风热潮. sohu (in Chinese). 2018-10-17.

[5] "Archived copy" 《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.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)