Elken
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Elken Abdula, Uygur nationality, was born in Yecheng. He began to learn guitar from a young age. After graduating from the Central University for Nationalities in 1999, because of his passion for music, he embarked on the road of professional musicians and formed the Elken band. The music style takes flamenco and Uyghur folk songs as the main line, and integrates Latin, country, jazz, etc. to create a unique and more international music style.
Creative features
As a Uighur musician, Elken always pays attention to the inheritance and development of Uighur traditional music heritage. He has fully absorbed the ancient Uygur ancient Dao Lang's art essence of Mu Kam, and created excellent Chinese and Western songs, such as "Tianshan Eagle" and "Thousand Buddha cave". He has also worked as a music director for the children's art troupe of the colorful Kashi, and has arranged, produced, adapted and performed nursery rhymes with a very small population in the Pamirs Plateau, which has been passed on to the national culture. He left a valuable fortune.
Art experience
After graduating from the Central University for Nationalities in 1999, he became a professional musician because of his passion for music, and formed the Elken band. The music style takes "flamenco" as the main line, and integrates Latin, country, jazz, etc. to create a unique music style, which is deeply loved by the people of Xinjiang. In Xinjiang, people will hold a guitar after dinner, or at parties To entertain oneself and sing his works, we can see how much he is loved by the local people.
2002
As an original singer, Elken participated in the variety show competition jointly held by Fuji TV and Beijing TV, and won the championship for seven times! On behalf of the Chinese athletes, he went to Japan to participate in the "Sino Japanese cultural exchange" activity and won unanimous praise.
The first solo album "Dao Lang out of the desert" and the single "odamu Dao Lang" and "Uygur girl" respectively won the "best music album Award", "best folk song adaptation" award and "Top Ten Golden Melody Award" in Nanning International Folk Song Art Festival.
2003
Elken won the first prize of the popular group of the national vocal music competition sponsored by the Ministry of culture of the people's Republic of China.
In the same year, Elken's work "love to death" won the "best work Award" and "Silver Award" in the "new Asian singers competition" of Shanghai Asian Music Festival.
2004
On CCTV Spring Festival Gala, Elken sang "alamhan".
Elken released his second solo album, one thousand and one nights. And successfully held a personal music work "Tianshan light" Xinjiang tour live concert.
A charity performance was held in Yecheng County, Kashgar, which donated all the income to the Orphan School and won the title of "Kashgar youth image ambassador".
2005
At the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, Elken sang "lift your veil.".
In May, Elken, as the "youth image ambassador of Kashgar", presented the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region government. The film "sisters and brothers" produced the whole film music and sang all the film episodes including the theme songs "Kashgar" and "the other side".
Elken released his third solo album "Elken 3 - City Night" nationwide.
2006
Release Elken's fourth album the story of Erdaoqiao.
The original work "what's the matter" won the "Best Original Music Award" of Xinjiang gurbang Festival evening party.
2007
Release Elken's fifth album blog.
The original work Kashgar won the first prize in the network MV competition of Xinjiang Autonomous Region.
2008
Release Elken's sixth album thousand Buddha cave.
Singing the theme song for the TV series Muqam's past.
As music director of the colorful Kashgar children's Art Troupe.
"Mother" and "helpless" both won the "Xinjiang original pop music competition" Golden Melody Award.
He has visited many countries: Italy, Spain, Argentina, Morocco, Australia, Canada, Kazakhstan, Japan, South Korea, Philippines, Singapore, etc.
In 2009, I attended the CCTV Mid Autumn Festival party in Yichun.
In 2010, he studied composition in Central Conservatory of music.
In April 2012, Beijing compass culture and Art Co., Ltd. was signed.
On July 7, 2012, city night, Elken, Prince of western regions love song, was held in Beijing Poly Theater.
On January 31, 2013, the first album of Xinjiang was held in Urumqi.
From February 2 to March 4, 2013, the South American tour lasted for two months, covering almost the whole South American continent.
Music Album
Performance introduction
First concert
Elken's seventh new album "footprints" Urumqi Premiere
Xinjiang pop king Elken Abdalla, who is popular with songs such as balangzi, where is my girl and Loulan girl, returned to Xinjiang with his seventh album footprints to sing in Urumqi and hold a live album premiere. Xinjiang is Elken's hometown. The first concert is held at home, which naturally gets the popularity of his hometown fans. After the news of the premiere was sent out through the media and Elken's microblog, many fans came to the signing venue early to see their idols. The agency is fully open to the premiere, without setting up tickets and tickets, so that more fans can come to the scene and interact closely with Elken.
In the first concert, Elken sang the songs from the new album, such as "missing", "the beat of flying", "poplar forest", "the river of hometown". After several years of accumulation, the melody trend and composition style of the songs in the new album have changed a lot. Elken introduced that the new album "footprints" has a great breakthrough compared with the previous six albums. The new album uses a lot of Western classical music composition techniques, such as progressive, counterpoint and other more scientific and professional techniques. In the arrangement and orchestration, the grand symphony music as the background, together with Xinjiang national musical instruments such as aiczech and dutar, and the world national musical instruments such as Turkish flute Salim and Turkish Karon, the sound effect enriches the main melody.
Premiere time
January 31, 2013
Venue: Urumqi
South America Tour
At the invitation of the overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council, the tour will be performed on the occasion of the lunar new year for overseas compatriots and local audiences in the distant and exotic South America. As the first stop of the performance, Brazil Elken's passionate singing with gorgeous guitar performance conquered the same passionate Brazilian audience. During the performance, Elken not only sang the classic songs of the first six albums, such as "barrow boy" and "where is my girl", but also sang the songs of the seventh new album "footprints" just released in China. It is worth mentioning that in the new album, the music "the river of hometown", which is based on Xinjiang folk music and integrates flamenco and Latin music styles, is popular among Brazilian audiences. The light rhythm and the dazzling brilliance of Xinjiang folk musical instrument aiczech make Brazilian audiences who are good at singing and dancing Dance dance with music.
Music has no national boundaries. Elken's rich Xinjiang folk music and Latin music in South America have the same effect. There are many interlinked elements in the music structure, Xinjiang music is mostly 7 / 8, 5 / 8 mixed beat, Latin music also has such a rhythm form. In tune, they are mostly minor songs. There are so many similarities in the music, naturally, it has been popular with the local audience. South America is also a region where guitars are popular. During the intermission of performances, Elken competed with local Guitar Masters to learn piano skills, and improvised with South American artists to interact with many classic Xinjiang folk songs and local songs. South American songs combined with Xinjiang music style have a unique feeling, which also reflects the inclusiveness of Elken's music and its independence in foreign cultural exchanges Special advantage.
During the two-month tour, Elken's footprints are almost all over the South American continent, from Rio, the football kingdom of Brazil, to Buenos Aires, Argentina, from Ecuador, the equatorial country, to Peru, the corn barn. All the way, Elken collected music materials from various countries and many South American songs that he had never heard in China. While learning, he digested and absorbed the nutrients of South American folk music and integrated them into his own style in music creation. This is also an important lesson of this tour. Constant learning will keep the source of creation and the vitality of music for a long time. Elken said that the concerts learned in South America will be applied to the creation of the next album. I believe that Elken's music will have more strong world music characteristics.
Tour time
February 2-march 4, 2013
Venue: South America
Beijing Concert
City night
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Love songs of Western Regions
prince
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Beijing Concert
On July 7, 2012, Elken held his first solo concert in Beijing at Poly Theater. As a singer who integrates music into belief, Elken makes a breakthrough and innovation on the basis of retaining the essence of national music, and perfectly integrates flamenco guitar playing method into Xinjiang national music, which has distinctive characteristics of world music.
He has been dormant for 4 years and devoted himself to his creation. In four years, Elken traveled all over the world, stepping through mountains and rivers, breathing the dryness of desert, listening to the fragrance of grassland. After turning cocoon into butterfly, it was the rebirth of music. More than 20 new and old songs have been arranged in this year's Beijing solo, which condenses Elken's music wandering in the mountains and rivers
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