ANU (band)

ANU Ranglug
ANU Ranglug
Origin	Nangqên County, Qinghai, China
Genres	Mandopop; Tibetan pop; Tibetan rap; rap;
Years active	2016–present
Members	Bāyǎ (巴雅) Tibetan: Payag; Gōng Bā (宫巴) Tibetan: Gonpa;

ANU (Tibetan: ཨ་ནུ་, Wylie: a nu) is a Tibetan rap duo from China. They were founded in 2016 by Gonpa and Payag. They are from Nangqên County, northwest China's Qinghai province.^[1]

Name

"ANU" means "teenagers".^[1]

ANU means youth and their full name in Tibetan ཨ་ནུ་རིང་ལུགས། (anu ringlug) literally means the doctrine/philosophy of ANU, or, ANUism.^[2]

History

In July 2016, ANU released their first EP ANU, which included two songs, ANU and Living Hometown. On December 27, they released their single, Joke / It's All A Game.

On May 20, 2017, they released their second single, Fly.^[3]

In 2018, their third single GA·GA and fourth single 1376 were released on February 14 and July 31, respectively. The video by ANU features both established and new singers and rappers from all over Tibet, TMJ, Dekyi Tsering, Tashi Phuntsok, Uncle Buddhist and Young13DBaby.

In January 2019, they participated in China's long-running singing competition Singer 2019^[4] as the first professional challenger of the season and won Pre-Challenge-Face-Off, defeated Liu Yuning.

Discography

Studio album

No.	English title	Released	Notes
1	ANU	2016

Singles

No.	Title	Released
1	ANU	6 July 2016
2	离乡	6 July 2016
3	Joke ༼རྩེད་མོ་ཡིན་ཡག༽	27 December 2016
4	FLY ༼འཕུར༽	20 May 2017
5	1376	31 July 2018
6	Just to find you	- 2018
7	一闪一闪亮晶晶	- 2019
8	路弯弯	- 2019
9	观心阁	- 2019
10	Apologise	- 2019
11	GA·GA	13 February 2019
12	SARDUBA	19 February 2019
13	扎西德勒 Tashi Delek	22 October 2019
14	不要了	25 October 2019
15	Pham nyong Ngu ma nyong (ཕམ་མྱོང་། ངུ་མ་མྱོང་།)	29 December 2019
16	ཁྱོད་ལས་མི་འདུག (nothing other than you)	31 March 2020
17	ཆང་གཞས།	12 December 2020
18	phyir log yong (ཕྱིར་ལོག་ཡོང་།)	1 July 2021
19	"Come back to find you"	2021
20	ཨ་ཁུ་སྟོན་པ	2021
21	Leave 离开 ཁ་བྲལ་བ།	16 November 2021
22	སྲུང་།	7 March 2022
23	ང་ཁྱོད་རང་གི་གམ་ལ་ཡོད། I am in front you	2022

References

^ ^a ^b 西藏说唱ANU组合秀文化魅力藏语RAP显独特风采. sina (in Chinese). 2017-12-05.
^ "Music Video: "Fly" by ANU". 19 July 2017.
^ ANU加强版《Fly》正式上线即将再掀藏风热潮. sohu (in Chinese). 2018-10-17.
^ 《歌手2019》第3期“藏族组合ANU”踢馆成功说明了什么？. eastday.com (in Chinese). 2019-01-27. Archived from the original on 2019-02-09. Retrieved 2019-02-08.

[lion-1] 西藏说唱ANU组合秀文化魅力藏语RAP显独特风采. sina (in Chinese). 2017-12-05.

[2] "Music Video: "Fly" by ANU". 19 July 2017.

[3] ANU加强版《Fly》正式上线即将再掀藏风热潮. sohu (in Chinese). 2018-10-17.

[4] 《歌手2019》第3期“藏族组合ANU”踢馆成功说明了什么？. eastday.com (in Chinese). 2019-01-27. Archived from the original on 2019-02-09. Retrieved 2019-02-08.

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