Alive is closer to the music she wants to make. There was too much outside interference and she had too little influence over the result. At home in China, it is her second album, following 2001’s Dong Ba La. “I am a musician so I concentrate on making music, but I am also Chinese so I definitely support our government policy on this issue,” she said, and some people wondered online if they should picket her appearance at the BBC3 World Music Awards, where she eventually won the award for the Asia/Pacific region, receiving a statue that looked like a metallic cross between a kidney and a heart.Īlive is her debut release in the West. Touring the UK in April, she was interviewed by the Independent and inadvertently attracted angry criticism when she responded to a question about Tibet. Two, her album is beautifully timed, being released, as it is, at a time when the interest of the Western world in China is growing, thanks to the country’s prosperity and the upcoming Beijing Olympics. English-language articles about Sa Dingding tend to mention two things.
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