Sainkho Namtchylak

Hi! My name is Sainkho. My Daughter Tchai-Suu is hosting this at MySpace. I was born in Republic of Tuva in small village, at the family of school teachers. My parents both liked very much at youth time to play on music instruments.I remember once they decided to go to a capital town of Tuva to continue their studies. On Sundays my father liked to play and teach us (already three daughters) to dance and my mother looked out of kitchen and asked with the smile: "Don’t you feel tired? May be you can skip it till next weekend? Lunch is ready!"What do I remember else about those times? My father loved to read his poems to my mother and me. In this way he added his love and passion in to daily life. Now I understand how much he loved us. Once, it was on women holiday on the 8 of march 1966 he was reading one of those long wording poems, very difficult to understand for me, I was looking out of window to the beads of lights on the bridge in the night and thinking: "When I will become big as my father, I will drive away through this bridge and I will read my own poems!" Years after I completed music collage and I continued my studies in “Gnesin” Institute in Moscow. At that time my big interest was about discovering recordings and books or dissertations about different techniques of singing in archaic examples of cult music of lamaistic and shamanistic traditions of Siberia. As well as Tuvan and Mongolian throat- and overtone singing styles. My first appearance on professional stage was on competition of folk singers in 1986. I had impressively large geographic and forgotten mystery of syncretism of old songs from minorities and other nations of Siberia: Nganasan, Itelmen, Korjack, Nivch, Nanai, Buriat, Tuvan and russian traditions. My successful appearance had its special resonance.In the years 1987-1989 I had been in the group with other artists and presented my program in Spain, USA, Canada, Australia, Philippines and New Zealand. At the same time I started to look for new collaborations in contemporary and improvised music and bland those old traditions in to experimental and contemporary music. I started to perform a lot with new jazz musicians, I have learned about capacity and possibilities of my own voice. Discovery had been more then I ever expected. Appearance on Munster Jazz festival and later on Luzern contemporary music festival brought me new relation to western contemporary music. I started to play with many musicians in Western Europe.