Erkin Abdulla

Erkin Abdulla (Uyghur: ئەركىن ئابدۇللا; Chinese: 艾尔肯·阿布杜拉, pinyin: Àiěrkěn Ābùdùlā) was born in Qarghiliq. Kashgar, Xinjiang, China. He started to study guitar since childhood. In 1999, he graduated from Central University for Nationalities. Because he was very fond of music, he became a professional pop singer, and set up Erkin Music Group. He is an associate director of Chinese Flamenco Association.

Music style

Erkin's music is not merely in the traditional styles, but free and surpasses its ethnic roots. Using Flamenco, he has created a new music to the traditional one, making his work more modern and international. Some different from the concept most people have of traditional Uyghur music, his music has a distinct, international flare.Therefore, his music is a "mixture" of Uyghur, Turkish, Russian, Spanish and Chinese, as well as rock, jazz and hip-hop styles, which may be caused by his birth place which is the centre of Eurasia, or the silk road.

Erkin's band

Erkin also has formed a band to cooperate for the music, which consists of members as follows :

Music road

In 2002, Erkin, as a singer and songwriter, sang at a competition arranged by cooperation between the Japanese Fuji Television Networks and Beijing Television (BTV). Then he moved up to the annual championship round. As the representative of China as a contestant at the "China-Japan Cultural Exchange", Erkin got the great acclaim.

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