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Artist
Nohon Shumarov
12+ albums
throat singingethnicambientfolkvargan
about
Nohon Shumarov (Ногон Шумаров) was born on the 9th of July, 1947 in Yaman, a small village in the Altai mountains, attended the College of Art in Novosibirsk for three years and then worked as an actor for a year in the Theater of Dramatic Art. He then went on to study in St. Petersburg at the Academy for Theater, Music and Cinema for five long years. From 1977 onwards he was the theater producer in charge of an ensemble of 30 performers in Gorno Altaysk, the capital city of the Republic of Altai, in southern Siberia. Material is presented there from the traditional folk art of the Altaiic origin, Kirgiz, and Bashkirs, as well as from Japan, Russia, and Moldavia. Nohon has also written plays of his own and composed the music for them. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
