Goddess of Song: Yungchen Lhamo and "Gebu Shere"

Today's random tune is by Yungchen Lhamo, a Tibetan exile in New York City. Lhamo's name translates to "Goddess of Song," and was given to her by a lama after her birth in Lhasa. Fleeing Tibet in 1989, she first lived in Australia and then in New York. She tours extensively, singing unaccompanied, and has collaborated with artists such as Annie Lennox, Billy Corgan, Sheryl Crow, Michael Stipe and Peter Gabriel, to whose label, Real World Records, she is under contract. This song, Gebu Shere, can be found on her 2008 album Ama, and is about a missing lover - which she describes as the reality of a lot of Tibetans who live apart because of exile.