Tuva Throat Singers

October 2007
Traditionally, throat singing used to be a male only preserve in Siberia.

But Shonchulai Choodu has well and truly broken that taboo.

She's been practising since she was five or six years old. "When I was little, going out and herding the sheep I would sing for the nature around me", Sonchulai tells Griffiths.

When she appeared at the annual music festival in the eastern city of Chadan Shonchulai Choodo mesmerised the crowd.

Among those mightily impressed was master throat singer, Vladimir Oidoopaa, "I am especially amazed when women sing. How is that? Such sounds from a woman's throat!"

Oidoopaa struggled during the Soviet era when, he says, throat singing was regarded as an act of "dissent"

He defied government bans for the most powerful of reasons. "Throat singing prevents our nation from dying, spiritually."

"To me, throat singing means power and philosophy, love for my nation, love for my people, to respect other opinions and to be tolerant of different religions. "

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[ninesandaks]

so annoying, but cool.

[vigo894]

@DonnieDwyer6029= Screw Gozie.

GOZIE IS A SPYWARE TRAP EVERYBODY. DON'T GO THERE.

[Ayazidas]

It´s interesting how different can be the various Turkic peoples from each other. These people have barely anything in common with Anatolian Turks, but they are really close to Mongols.

[Bhikshu2]

Sang like this for my college roommate once while he was taking psychadelics. He thought I was a bear that was going to eat him.

It was glorious.

[TheChillPillPool]

My wife is one of those few women from Tibet. It tickles your dick.

[lovesjuicycouture]

how did i get from Susan Boyle to this?

[feroxification]

is that Popeye the throat singeing man?

[sveitagothabilly]

@BlackChristmas283 since the vibrations produced can be about 3 times that of normal humming, you are right to wonder

[BlackChristmas283]

as amazing as that is, and how humbled I am by the amount of work and technique that is required to pull off that sound, I can't help but think: "I wonder how that would feel if a girl started doing that during a blowjob..."

Don't judge me.

[TheKavkazTurk]

Güreşi çayırda yapsalar daha iyi olur :)

Selam Tüm Türk kardeşlerime

[MegaJane37]

Throat

[HayBea]

@shinigamijesi Could be worse - just went to a video about the music of a pygmy tribe in central Africa and the voiceover lasted through the WHOLE video, so you couldn't really hear the singing at all...