Soname, born in the Tibetan countryside of noble descent, had to endure a childhood in servitude, separated from her parents and working in Chinese occupied Lhasa. She didn't enjoy the privileges of education, freedom and family life. At the age of sixteen she fled with a group of monks across the Himalayas - a difficult and dangerous journey that thousands of Tibetans must endure each year in order to enjoy basic human rights.
She finally arrived in Dharamsala, Northern India, where HH Dalai Lama has his home in exile. After six years she travelled to England (by way of France) where she has lived ever since, building a rapidly progressing singing career.
" I was born in Chinese occupied Tibet in the 1970s into a noble family, I escaped at the age of 16 to Dharamsala, where HH Dalai Lama (www.dalailama.com) resides. After a while I made my way to England via France and started my music career. If you are interested in a more detailed history of my humble self, please read my autobiography "Child of Tibet" published by Piatkus Books or the German Version "Wolkenkind" published by Droemer/Knaur. The book actually made the Spiegel Bestseller List in Germany, peaking at Number 19.
Some highlights of my musical career have included concerts like the The Prince of Wales' "Evening for Tibet" at the Royal Opera House in London raising 30.000 quid for charity, performing at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh before HH Dalai Lama came on stage and the red carpet affair "Cinema for Peace" in Berlin in aid of UNICEF two years in a row, 2006 and 2007. I have also been back and forth throughout Europe doing my "monkey business". Besides that I have been blessed to record some new music with legendary producers David M. Allen and Marius de Vries.
But enough of the past, I'm sure it all just started and there'll be much more interesting things to come in the mysterious dimension we call the future ... at the moment I am also involved in a Charity Project to build a hospital in collaboration with Gyuto Monastery in Dharamsala, more on that on here... "