For years, the territory that makes up Tuva spent hundreds of years changing hands. The semi-autonomous republic is now technically part of Russia. But Tuvans boast a musical identity all their own, ...

Tuva's throat-singing musicians have hit the United States. A talk with the country's superstar. Imagine a human bagpipe—a person who could sing a sustained low note while humming an eerie, ...

My flute teacher, a veteran jazz player and educator, sent me this video today. I was floored. I know a thing or two about Tuvan singing, having followed it for over twenty years with music from ...

What do Richard Feynman, Willie Nelson, Frank Zappa and Boris Yeltsin have in common? The answer was embodied in a radiant, round-faced Siberian singer named Kongar-ol Ondar, whose voice was unlike ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Kongar-ol Ondar was an internationally renowned master of Tuvan throat singing, the Central Asian vocal art in which a singer produces ...