Genghis Blues (Part 1)

I do not own the copyright to this documentary film. This video is for historical and educational purposes!

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Genghis Blues (1999) is a documentary film directed by Roko Belic. It centers on the journey of blind American singer Paul Pena to the isolated Asian nation of Tuva due to his interest in Tuvan throat singing.

It won the 1999 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for a Documentary. It was also nominated for an Academy Award in 2000 in the Best Documentary Feature category.

The documentary captures the story of blind blues musician Paul Pena. After a brush with fame and success in the 1970s, Pena's fortunes faded as he dealt with career and health problems.

While listening to shortwave radio, Pena heard a broadcast of throatsinging, the Tuvan art of manipulating overtones while singing to make higher frequencies more distinguishable, essentially making it possible to sing two notes at once. Pena, over the course of several years, taught himself to throatsing to a very impressive degree. He eventually attended a concert of throatsinging and after the concert impressed one of the throatsingers, Kongar-ool Ondar, who invited him to visit Tuva, a province of Russia, a formerly independent country and the home of throatsinging to sing in the triennial throatsinging festival held there.

The entire journey is captured in the documentary, as well as the extraordinary mix of cultures and music.

The Belic brothers shot the film with two Hi8 camcorders and edited it themselves. They were allowed to edit the film during nighttime at the professional editing facility. It took them three and a half years to finish the film after they shot it. All this time they lived for $500 a month in an apartment above an auto repair shop.

LINKS FOR MORE INFORMATION:
http://www.genghisblues.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/04/movies/film-how-a-creole-singer-wowed-them-...

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Music

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• Genghis
• Blues
• paul
• pena
• documentary
• acoustic
• resonator
• guitar
• music
• tuva
• throat
• singing

[VogelKoe]

Thx so very much for sharing this documentary. I have watched it very intensely and this is really a once in a lifetime story everyone should be able to experience for themselves. I will treasure this beautiful story with all these wonderful people.

[sambobla]

@VogelKoe thank you, i also feel this is a very special story to hear.. :)

[vinki222]

thans for upload

[sambobla]

@vinki222 no problem, enjoy!

[nickpick55]

Very interesting, thanks again. Nick.

[sambobla]

@nickpick55 np mate thanks for watching! :)

[crazyoldbastard]

love it

[Mies78]

thanks. what a story.

[MrBuckwilliam]

A-ONE :)