Biography
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Born
1955 (age 69)
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Born In
Beijing, China
Liu Sola (Chinese: 刘索拉; born in 1955 in Beijing, China) is a Chinese composer, novelist, and vocalist.
She has worked with James Blood Ulmer, Jerome Bailey, Wu Man, Henry Threadgill, Umar Bin Hassan, and Bill Laswell.
She is influenced by Chinese folk music, though she has also studied opera, and following her love of Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin toured the Mississippi Delta studying blues and playing with blues musicians. In the mid-80's she led an all female psychedelic Pink Floyd influenced band and in 1988 formed a reggae band.
In September 2001 she founded the New Folk Big Band in China.
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