Amoeba Music

World-renowned Tibetan singer Yungchen Lhamo visits Amoeba Hollywood for a live mini-performance and album signing celebrating her latest release, One Drop of Kindness, and her Southern California tour dates Thursday, February 8 at 5pm!

Purchase your copy of One Drop Of Kindness (Real World Records) in-store only at Amoeba Hollywood on 2/8 to attend the post-performance signing. Show is free/all-ages.

Yungchen Lhamo tour dates:

2/9/24 at Trinity Episcopal Church in Santa Barbara

2/16/24 at The Pico Union Project in Los Angeles

2/17/24 at The Electric Lodge in Venice

World-renowned Tibetan singer Yungchen Lhamo makes her finest offering yet with One Drop of Kindness. A collection of songs, prayers and mantras devoted to spiritual awakening, unconditional love and compassion for all beings, Lhamo's seventh album finds her otherworldly voice framed by an array of western and global instruments. From quiet, shimmering beauty to rhythmic tribal trance, this is sound healing for the world.

Yungchen’s name, given her by a lama when she was born in Lhasa, Tibet, translates as ‘Goddess of Melody’, but she always wanted to be a nun, not a singer. In 1989 she made the dangerous, month-long 1,200-mile journey, on foot across the Himalayas, to Dharamsala in India to pursue her Buddhist practice. There, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama encouraged her to use her unique voice to promote Tibetan culture around the world. She then moved to Australia, where her first album, ‘Tibetan Prayer’, led to her being invited to sing at WOMADelaide in 1995. Later that year, the album won Australia’s equivalent of a Grammy, the ARIA Award for Best World Music Album.

After being signed by Peter Gabriel’s Real World Records label, Yungchen released three more albums: ‘Tibet, Tibet’, ‘Coming Home’, and ‘Ama’, which featured Annie Lennox on ‘Fade Away’ and Joy Askew on ‘Tara’. She has toured more than 80 countries on all five continents, including such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, New York; Royal Albert Hall, London; The Louvre, Paris; International Performing Arts Centre, Moscow; The Vatican, Rome; Sori Arts Centre, Jeonju; Sydney Opera House; and numerous WOMAD festivals and rock concerts. She has collaborated with many well-known artists, including Natalie Merchant, Annie Lennox, Billy Corgan, Peter Rowan, and – for her fifth album ‘Tayatha’ – with Russian classical pianist Anton Batagov.

In 2004, Yungchen established a charitable foundation to help Tibetans in need in Tibet, while today the One Drop of Kindness Foundation also supports projects in the USA, Nepal, India, and Liberia. Over the past ten years, Yungchen has spent much of her time working with homeless and mentally ill people in Upstate New York, for whom she wrote the song ‘You Are Beautiful’, as well as a co-titled drama that residents of a homeless shelter have twice performed in public.

In 2022, Yungchen released her long-awaited sixth album, ‘Awakening’, through Six Degrees Records, which featured Spain’s flamenco legend Carmen Linares on the track ’Loving Kindness’. ‘Awakening’ was voted #27 among the 100 Best Albums of 2021-2022 on the Transglobal World Music Chart, as ranked by its global network of world music critics.