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inspire them for kindness and for peace,” Nawang said. “That is my hope, to be able to touch people and to. He hopes that his music “may help others to bring some peace and happiness.” to try to channel yourself into universal compassion and universal love.” “But as Buddhist monk myself before, as a student of the Dalai Lama myself, so I have been trained and taught to think for the well-being of others. “I don’t motivate by playing to become famous, make a lot of money. “That’s one key thing for me,” Nawang said. Nawang is not nervous before he performs, saying he has enjoyed entertaining people since boyhood and called himself a “class clown.” The force that provides spontaneous, original music on stage has never failed him.īefore taking the stage, he meditates, “asks the blessing of a higher force” and then motivates himself by asking, “may I be able to play some music that is beneficial to others.” “Then I realized that there is something in me,” Nawang said, adding that requests to perform started flowing in. Nawang left the stage for the basement and did not know to offer the crowd an encore. “They really liked it, I had no idea, first time performing in public,” he said. He made a plea for peace in the world, a trademark beginning of his concerts, then played his song for about five minutes. Nawang played one song on his flute the band was supposed to back him up, but they were silent. They told him to show up at their next gig in Sydney. At a concert of the three-person musical group Gowanda, Nawang went up to the musicians and asked if he could play with them. His break in music came in Australia in 1986, where he emigrated. He has played in great music venues, such as Carnegie Hall in New York, and opened the Earth Summit Precon meeting at the U.N.
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Nawang is a self-taught musician and is known for his collaborations with Japanese recording star Kitaro, David Bowie, Dave Matthews, Alanis Morissette, U2, Pearl Jam and others. In India, he studied meditation and Buddhist philosophy and spent 11 years as a monk.įor four years, he studied under the Dalai Lama and as a hermit meditating in the Himalayan foothills. Nawang, who is the first Tibetan Grammy nominee, was born in Tibet but fled with his family to India, following the Chinese invasion of 1959.
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Tickets to the concert are $25 plus fees and may be purchased online at or at the door. The money raised from the concert will go to the Tashi Pendey Foundation, which Lama Dhondup founded and supports Tibetan refugees and monasteries. The evening is dedicated to Maui’s late Tibetan Venerable Lama Dhondup Gyaltsen, with whom Nawang was acquainted.