The Eyes are the Prize: Yungchen Lhamo and "Nyebe Nilam"

Yungchen Lhamo brings us our random tune for today, called Nyebe Nilam. 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. Nyebe Nilam can be found on her 2008 album Ama. The title of the song translates to "Eyelash Girl" and is the plea of a young man to a beautiful woman to notice him because he is too shy to approach her.

Listen to songs like this and more on the KUNM Global Music Show every Monday night from 10 pm - 1 am Mountain Standard Time. Live streaming, program information and the two-week digital archive can be found at http://www.kunm.org.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yungchen_Lhamo; https://worldmusiccentral.org/2006/08/28/interview-with-tibetan-singer-yungchen-lhamo/