Liu Sola
Encyclopedia
Liu Sola is a Chinese
composer
, author
, and vocalist.
She has worked with James Blood Ulmer, Jerome Bailey, Wu Man
, Henry Threadgill
, Umar Bin Hassan
, and Bill Laswell
.
She is influenced by Chinese folk music, though she has also studied opera, and following her love of Otis Redding
and Aretha Franklin
toured the Mississippi Delta studying blues
and playing with blues musicians. In the mid-80's she led an all female psychedelic
Pink Floyd
influenced band and in 1988 formed a reggae
band.
In September 2001 she founded the New Folk Big Band in China.
Chinese people
The term Chinese people may refer to any of the following:*People with Han Chinese ethnicity ....
composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
, author
Author
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
, and vocalist.
She has worked with James Blood Ulmer, Jerome Bailey, Wu Man
Wu Man
Wu Man is a Chinese pipa virtuoso and composer. Described as "the artist most responsible for bring the pipa to the Western World" by the Los Angeles Times, US-based, Chinese-born musician Wu Man has carved out a career creating and fostering projects that give this ancient Chinese instrument a...
, Henry Threadgill
Henry Threadgill
Henry Threadgill is an American composer, saxophonist and flautist. Threadgill came to prominence in the 1970s leading ensembles with unusual instrumentation and often incorporating a range of non-jazz genres....
, Umar Bin Hassan
Umar Bin Hassan
Umar Bin Hassan is an African-American poet associated with The Last Poets. He sold his younger sister's record player to purchase a bus ticket to New York City, where he joined the Last Poets...
, and Bill Laswell
Bill Laswell
Bill Laswell is an American bassist, producer and record label owner....
.
She is influenced by Chinese folk music, though she has also studied opera, and following her love of Otis Redding
Otis Redding
Otis Ray Redding, Jr. was an American soul singer-songwriter, record producer, arranger and talent scout. He is considered one of the major figures in soul and R&B...
and Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin
Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings and referred to as The Queen of Soul, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, and rock. Rolling Stone magazine ranked her atop its list of The Greatest Singers of All...
toured the Mississippi Delta studying blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
and playing with blues musicians. In the mid-80's she led an all female psychedelic
Psychedelic
The term psychedelic is derived from the Greek words ψυχή and δηλοῦν , translating to "soul-manifesting". A psychedelic experience is characterized by the striking perception of aspects of one's mind previously unknown, or by the creative exuberance of the mind liberated from its ostensibly...
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved worldwide success with their progressive and psychedelic rock music. Their work is marked by the use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album art, and elaborate live shows. Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially...
influenced band and in 1988 formed a reggae
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...
band.
In September 2001 she founded the New Folk Big Band in China.
Novellas
- Ni Bie Wu Xuanze 你别无选择 (You Have No Choice) (1985)
- Blue Sky Green Sea (1985)
- In Search of the King Of Singers (1986)
Novels
- Chaos And All (1989)
- 大继家的小故事 Small Tales of the Great Ji Family (2000)
- （女贞汤）Female Purity Soup（2003）
- LA GRANDE ÎLE DES (TORTUES - COCHONS)
- La Piccola Storia Della Grande Famiglia Ji
Discography
- Blues in the East (1994)
- China Collage (1996, with Wu Man)
- Haunts（1997）
- June Snow（1998）
- Spring Snowfall（2000）
- Sola and Friends （1999）
- Apparitions（2000）
External links
- LiuSola.com
- Harris, Craig (2008). [ "Liu Sola biography"], AllMusic.
- AdventureDivas.com: Liu Sola
- BeijingScene.com: Red China Blues Woman by Pan Keyin
- AsiaSource.org: Singing the Chinese Blues: An Interview with Liu Sola by Michelle Caswell