ANU (Tibetan: ཨ་ནུ་, Wylie: a nu) is a Tibetan rap duo from China. They were founded in 2016 by Gonpa and Payag. They are from Nangqên County, northwest China's Qinghai province.[1]

ANU Ranglug
OriginNangqên County, Qinghai, China
Genres
Years active2016–present
Members
  • Bāyǎ (巴雅) Tibetan: Payag
  • Gōng Bā (宫巴) Tibetan: Gonpa

Name

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"ANU" means "teenagers".[1]

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

History

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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.

On May 20, 2017, they released their second single, Fly.[3]

In 2018, their third single GA·GA and fourth single 1376 were released on February 14 and July 31, respectively. 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[4] as the first professional challenger of the season and won Pre-Challenge-Face-Off, defeated Liu Yuning.

Discography

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Studio album

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No. English title Released Notes
1 ANU 2016

Singles

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No. Title Released Notes
1 ANU 6 July 2016
2 离乡 6 July 2016
3 Joke ༼རྩེད་མོ་ཡིན་ཡག༽ 27 December 2016
4 FLY ༼འཕུར༽ 20 May 2017
5 1376 31 July 2018
6 Just to find you - 2018
7 一闪一闪亮晶晶 - 2019
8 路弯弯 - 2019
9 观心阁 - 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 Pham nyong Ngu ma nyong (ཕམ་མྱོང་། ངུ་མ་མྱོང་།) 29 December 2019
16 ཁྱོད་ལས་མི་འདུག (nothing other than you) 31 March 2020
17 ཆང་གཞས། 12 December 2020
18 phyir log yong (ཕྱིར་ལོག་ཡོང་།) 1 July 2021
19 "Come back to find you" 2021
20 ཨ་ཁུ་སྟོན་པ 2021
21 Leave 离开 ཁ་བྲལ་བ། 16 November 2021
22 སྲུང་། 7 March 2022
23 ང་ཁྱོད་རང་གི་གམ་ལ་ཡོད། I am in front you 2022

References

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  1. ^ a b 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. ^ "Music Video: "Fly" by ANU". 19 July 2017.
  3. ^ ANU加强版《Fly》正式上线 即将再掀藏风热潮. sohu (in Chinese). 2018-10-17.
  4. ^ 《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.