Urna Chahar-Tugchi

Urna Chahar Tugchi
Native name	Урна Цахар Тугч
Born	1969 Ordos, Inner Mongolia
Nationality	Chinese
Occupation	Singer and musician

Urna Chahar Tugchi, known as Urna, (born 1969) is a Mongolian singer and player of the yangqin.

Urna was born into a family of herders in the grasslands of the Ordos Plateau in Inner Mongolia, a society where song was a ubiquitous part of everyday life. Her first musical training was learning to play the yangqin—Chinese dulcimer—from a Shanghai Conservatory of Music professor who was visiting Hohhot, the capital of Inner Mongolia. Then, at the age of 18, she moved to study at the Shanghai Conservatory, a challenging step since she had no knowledge of the Chinese language.

She now performs around the world, and is based in Bavaria, Germany and in Cairo, Egypt. In 2003, she was awarded the RUTH prize in Germany for Best International Artist.

Urna has produced four albums of music on CD:

She is also featured in the film Two Horses of Genghis Khan.

Andrea Murray's description in The Herald-Times of one of her performances gives an intriguing insight into the extraordinary characteristics of her singing:

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