Buren Bayaer (6 March 1960 – 19 September 2018) was a Chinese singer, composer and journalist from

Inner Mongolia Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. Its border includes most of the length of China's border with the country of Mongolia. Inner Mongolia also accounts for a ...

. He was an ethnic

Mongol The Mongols ( mn, Монголчууд, , , ; ; russian: Монголы) are an East Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia, Inner Mongolia in China and the Buryatia Republic of the Russian Federation. The Mongols are the principal member of ...

Early life

Bayaer displayed musical talent as a child. His parents and neighbors encouraged him to perform in front of the local community when he was six years old. His official musical education did not begin until age fifteen when he joined a school musical troupe. This is where he was introduced to different types of music including Mongolian songs, Revolutionary songs and

Peking Opera Peking opera, or Beijing opera (), is the most dominant form of Chinese opera, which combines music, vocal performance, mime, dance and acrobatics. It arose in Beijing in the mid-Qing dynasty (1644–1912) and became fully developed and recognize ...

. His song "Lucky Treasures", written in 1994, became popular in China. The song, originally, sung in Mongolian, was translated to

Mandarin Chinese Mandarin (; ) is a group of Chinese (Sinitic) dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. The group includes the Beijing dialect, the basis of the phonology of Standard Chinese, the official language of ...

() and was released shortly after. Bayaer and his wife Wurina were directors of the Hulunbeier Children's Choir.

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, their adopted son, was a singer in the choir. Their daughter, Norma, is a singer in China. Uudam and Nurma's cousin Enigma is also a singer. Bayaer died on September 19, 2018, at the age of 58 due to a

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Discography

* 1997: "Чандмань (Wishfulling Jewel)" () - audio cassette * "Миний аав Улаанбаатарт байна(My father is in Ulaanbaatar)" () * 2011: "The Moon and The Stars" - , 9787799912707

Videos

* "Take me to the Prairie" () * "Father's Prairie, Mother's River" ()

References

1960 births 2018 deaths Chinese male singer-songwriters People from Hulunbuir Singers from Inner Mongolia Chinese people of Mongolian descent {{China-singer-stub