DADAWA
Dadawa is the artist name of Zhu Zheqin, a Tibetan-inspired new age singer/songwriter, who is 
well-known for her vocalization. She was born in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.

Dadawa is sometimes referred as the "Chinese Enya" by fans. She is more likely better described as 
China's Ry Cooder, given her ecclectic forays into World Music including one recording and tour with 
Ireland's The Chieftains.   She collaborated with composer/producer He Xuntian, a Shanghai music professor, 
who has been collecting Tibetan folk music for twenty years. The result, Sister Drum (1995), was an 
international success. Following that, her album Voices From The Sky was released in 1997.

In recent years Dadawa worked more in television journalism, in particular her hosting of a major Chinese 
television documentary, "Into Africa", which introduced that continent to hundreds of millions of viewers.  
After many years of not releasing a new album, finally in August 2006, she came out with an album titled 
Seven Days. This album does not contain any Tibetan elements, but still maintains lyrical references to 
Buddhist ideas. Musically, the concept heads more towards Chinese traditional folk songs. However, her 
trademark beautifully sung melody lines, East Asian percussion and ambient electronic and classical 
instrumentation persists. 

In 2006, she completed a documentary film "Sound Pilgrimage" of her musical sojourns in India, Nepal 
and Tibet, co-directed with Oscar winner, Ross Kauffman.