I was browsing youku (youtube's illegitimate Chinese cousin--that's what
everybody calls it) and found some Hmong music videos by Tub Lwm Hawj, a
Hmong Chinese singer from Yunnan. In the past decade, there has been a
growing interest among the Hmong Chinese in Yunnan and Guangxi, China
in Hmong entertainment from the West. They, in return, have produced a
couple of singers themselves like Yeeb Yaj, Mim Yaj, Lig Vaj, and Leej
Lis to cater music to the Hmong market in the West (which requires
singing in intelligible Far Western Hmong dialect). However, with the exception of Yang Geli, they have all been female singers. So it came as a great surprise to me to finally find a male Hmong Chinese singer who sings pop songs.
