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Tengger (singer)

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Tengger
Born (1960-01-15) 15 January 1960 (age 64)
Otog Banner, Inner Mongolia, China
Other names
  • Tenger
  • Tengri
Alma materTianjin Conservatory of Music
Occupations
  • Singer-songwriter
  • actor
Spouse
(m. 1987; div. 1995)
PartnerZhū Lā (Chinese: 珠拉)
Children
  • daughter: 嘎吉尔, 2004–2010
  • son: 班迪, 2007 (age 16–17)
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese騰格爾
Simplified Chinese腾格尔
Literal meaningsky
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinTénggé'ěr
Wade–GilesTeng Ko Erh
Mongolian name
Mongolian CyrillicТэнгэр
Mongolian scriptᠲᠡᠩᠭᠡᠷᠢ
Musical career
Genres
Instruments
Years active1979–present

Tengger (Mongolian: ᠲᠡᠩᠭᠡᠷᠢ, lit. "sky"; simplified Chinese: 腾格尔; traditional Chinese: 騰格爾; pinyin: Ténggé'ěr; Wade–Giles: Teng Ko Erh; born 15 January 1960), also known as Tenger or Tengri, is a Chinese singer, songwriter and composer of Mongolian ethnicity. He was born in Otog Banner, Inner Mongolia, China into the Sainbayar family.

He composed and sang the song "I am a Mongol" (蒙古人, měng gǔ rén) in 1986 which made him famous.[1] Since then, he has written theme songs for a number of TV series and movies.[2] He performed the closing titles theme of the CCTV television series Kangxi Dynasty and Amazing Detective Di Renjie.

Filmography

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