ANU (band)

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ANU Ranglug
Origin Nangqên County, Qinghai, China
Genres
Years active2016–present
Members
  • Bāyǎ (巴雅) Tibetan: Payag
  • Gōng Bā (宫巴) Tibetan: Gonpa

ANU (Tibetan : ཨ་ནུ་, Wylie : a nu) is a Tibetan rap duo from China. They were founded in 2016 by Gonpa and Payag. They are from Nangqên County, northwest China's Qinghai province. [1]

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Name

"ANU" means "teenagers". [1]

ANU means youth and their full name in Tibetan ཨ་ནུ་རིང་ལུགས། (anu ringlug) literally means the doctrine/philosophy of ANU, or, ANUism. [2]

History

In July 2016, ANU released their first EP ANU, which included two songs, ANU and Living Hometown. On December 27, they released their single, Joke / It's All A Game.

On May 20, 2017, they released their second single, Fly. [3]

In 2018, their third single GA·GA and fourth single 1376 were released on February 14 and July 31, respectively. The video by ANU features both established and new singers and rappers from all over Tibet, TMJ, Dekyi Tsering, Tashi Phuntsok, Uncle Buddhist and Young13DBaby.

In January 2019, they participated in China's long-running singing competition Singer 2019 [4] as the first professional challenger of the season and won Pre-Challenge-Face-Off, defeated Liu Yuning.

Discography

Studio album

No.English titleReleasedNotes
1ANU2016

Singles

No.TitleReleasedNotes
1ANU6 July 2016
2离乡6 July 2016
3Joke ༼རྩེད་མོ་ཡིན་ཡག༽27 December 2016
4FLY ༼འཕུར༽20 May 2017
5137631 July 2018
6Just to find you- 2018
7一闪一闪亮晶晶- 2019
8路弯弯- 2019
9观心阁- 2019
10Apologise- 2019
11GA·GA13 February 2019
12SARDUBA19 February 2019
13扎西德勒 Tashi Delek22 October 2019
14不要了25 October 2019
15Pham nyong Ngu ma nyong (ཕམ་མྱོང་། ངུ་མ་མྱོང་།)29 December 2019
16ཁྱོད་ལས་མི་འདུག (nothing other than you)31 March 2020
17ཆང་གཞས།12 December 2020
18phyir log yong (ཕྱིར་ལོག་ཡོང་།)1 July 2021
19"Come back to find you"2021
20ཨ་ཁུ་སྟོན་པ2021
21Leave 离开 ཁ་བྲལ་བ།16 November 2021
22 སྲུང་། 7 March 2022
23ང་ཁྱོད་རང་གི་གམ་ལ་ཡོད། I am in front you2022

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