Sanubar Tursun

Sanubar Tursun (Uighur: سەنۇبەر تۇرسۇن; born 1971) is a Uyghur female singer-songwriter, famous dutar player and researcher for Uyghur Muqams. Tursun released her first album in 2000. For over a decade her voice filled town bazaars and rang out from local taxis and long-distance buses across the Uyghur region in Xinjiang Province. She was a judge in the Uyghur language The Voice of the Silk Road. She was allegedly sentenced to 5 years in prison.[1]

This article is about a person whose name includes a patronymic. The article properly refers to the person by her given name, Sanubar, and not as Tursun.
Sanubar Tursunt
سەنۇبەر تۇرسۇن
Born (1971-06-01) 1 June 1971
Ghulja, Xinjiang, China
DisappearedNovember 1, 2018
Ürümqi, Xinjiang, China
StatusAlleged 5 years imprisonment
NationalityChinese
Alma materXinjiang Arts Institute
OccupationArtist, classical song singer
Years active2000-present

Early life

Sanubar was born in Ghulja, to musician Tursun Chang. Her father taught her to play stringed instruments including dutar and satar. She trained and worked professionally as a chang (hammer dulcimer) player.[2][3]

In May 2014, she gave a performance at University of London.[4]

August 7, 2016, she appeared in Los Angeles.[5]

Her scheduled performances in France's cities of Nantes, Angers and Rennes were cancelled in November 2018 after she encountered difficulties leaving China.[6]

Disappearance

Reports claimed that she was detained by the Chinese authorities in November 2018 and sentenced to 5 years in prison. The actual charges against her are unknown. Uyghurs throughout Xinjiang have been similarly detained.[7][8][9] She was reported to have been scheduled to play at a concert in Shanghai in November 2019.[10] However she never showed up and is currently believed to be out of detention and based in Urumqi.[11]

See also

References
  1. "Mass arrests in Xinjiang continue". www.osu.edu. Retrieved 28 December 2018.
  2. "About Sanubar Tursun". www.akdn.org. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
  3. "SOAS to welcome one of the finest singers in Central Asia, Sanubar Tursun". www.soas.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
  4. "Sanubar Tursun Concert Tour in Europe". www.uyghurensemble.co.uk. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
  5. "Sanubar Tursun's voice in Los Angeles Sky". www.www.rfa.org. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  6. "China: Sanubar Tursun, voice of the Uyghurs, missing presumed detained in Xinjiang's internment camps". Freemuse. Retrieved 8 February 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. "Famous Uyghur singer maybe sentenced to 5 years imprisonment". Radio Free Asia. Retrieved 4 January 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. "Researchers in Europe asked China to release Sanubar Tursun and others who were arbitrarily detained". www.rfa.org. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  9. "Sanubar Tursun disappeared". www.uyghur.info. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  10. "Uighur musician listed for China show year after disappearance". Agence France-Presse. 28 October 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. "Entry 1805: Senuber Tursun". Xinjiang Victims Database. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
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