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DADAWA in Concert

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Thursday, May 31, 2007
Time: 8 pm 

Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, University of British Columbia

Tickets: $28 / $48 / $88*
*includes post concert reception with the Dadawa and her band 

Ticketmaster by phone at 604.280.3311 or www.ticketmaster.ca 
Chan Centre Ticket Office (in person only)
[plus applicable service charges/taxes]

Information: 604.677.1383 ext 3 (VAHMS)

The 2007 explorASIAN Grand Finale Concert featuring International World Music Artist DADAWA

Tickets on sale now for the 2007 explorASIAN Grand Finale Concert, a delightful evening of contemporary 
world music blended with the traditional sounds of Asia featuring international world music artist DADAWA, 
presented by explorASIAN,  the Alma Mater Society of UBC, and the Chan Centre.

Dadawa (aka Zhu Zheqin) is the first contemporary Chinese diva to achieve worldwide stardom. 
Dadawa is a native of Changsha, Hunan. She has traveled China and the world extensively as both a 
musician and adventurer. She is considered to be the pioneer “indie” artist in China, having independently 
produced her music, videos and films for over a decade.

Dadawa is the first Chinese singer to be nominated for a Planet Award at the 
BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music 2007 with the release her latest album, Seven Days (2006). 

“Seven Days” finished as a top-ten CD in China in 2006, a remarkable accomplishment for an alternative music 
album in that market. Her work on this ground breaking CD was recognized in 2006 by an MTV Asia award for 
“Leading Female Artist” and the Tom.com award for “Most Influential Woman in Chinese Music”. 

Backgrounder:

The year 1995 was a milestone in the development of Dadawa’s career. After holding a recital at the 
Royal Academy of Music, London, her album “Sister Drum” was released in 56 countries worldwide 
and exceeded one million in sales outside of China, the first Chinese recording to do so. 

UK’s Q Magazine rated “Sister Drum” one of the top five world music albums of the year. 
The record also won Taiwan’s prestigious Golden Tripod music award for “Best Album”. 

In 1996, Dadawa recorded the soundtrack for the movie “Chinese Box” which won the Best Movie Soundtrack 
award at the Venice Film Festival. The following year, her album “Voices from the Sky” was televised on MTV 
in a simultaneous premiere in eighty-one countries and for which she also won an MTV Asia Video Award 
and MTV Asia Special Contribution Artist Award in1997. In 1998, Dadawa wrote and recorded “Tear Lake” 
with musical group The Chieftains in Dublin. They performed together live at Carnegie Hall, St. Patrick’s Day, 1999. 

In December 2000, Dadawa performed her concert, “Heavenly Music for Sentient Beings” in Beijing. 
It was selected by UNESCO as the opening cultural event of the International Year for Culture and Peace. 
In their Millenium edition, the Beijing Evening News hailed her as one of 10 leading cultural pioneers in the 
21st Century in China. In January 2002, the Hong Kong Government invited Dadawa to write, produce and 
perform her original multimedia musical spectacle, “The Riddler”. 

In 2003, Dadawa was invited by CCTV and HK’s Phoenix TV to be the host of the documentary series, “Into Africa”. 
In 2004 in Beijing, Dadawa premiered and recorded live her first in a series of a collection of Asian classics, 
entitled “A New Ballad Aesthetic”, accompanied by the Symphony Orchestra of the China National Opera House 
(and to be performed again with the Oshawa Symphony in January, 2007). In July 2005, Dadawa gave a concert 
at Harbourfront Centre, Toronto and recently toured China with her Toronto-based band.

In 2006, Dadawa completed a collection of completely new contemporary works in the album, “Seven Days” 
and completed work on her related and first documentary film project, “Sound Pilgrimage”, in collaboration 
with Oscar winner, Ross Kauffman. 

She is currently the visiting Artist in Residence at the Institute for Asian Research at the University of British Columbia.

Dadawa performs for audiences around the world. Backed by a veritable "dream-team" of elite Canadian musicians, 
Dadawa's sometimes haunting, always penetrating, voice will grace the resonant concert hall for fans and newcomers to enjoy.


Click here to meet Dadawa's incredible band of Canadian world class musicians
Click here to hear Dadawa's music - "Satori"  (track 5) from the CD "Seven Days"  (6:38 - 6mb MP3)
Click here to see Dadawa's music video "In the Setting of the Sun"  (5:49 - 12mb WMV)


"The artistry of Dadawa crosses every genre and demographic as only a real artist can.  
Her music is always spiritual, compelling and provocative.  To call Dadawa a world artist just doesn't say enough."     
~ Sam Feldman (CEO) 
(S.L. Feldman & Associates represents over 200 artists including Bryan Adams, Michael Buble, Avril Lavigne, 
Nelly Furtado, Norah Jones, Sarah McLachlan, Joni Mitchell, and The Chieftains)

"The audiences are enchanted by her. Her music is about spirit … [everyone] is drawn into her world."     
~ Bill Bridges

"On her slender shoulders ride the hopes of a revolution that could alter the face of popular music in the coming century." 
~ Daily Telegraph

"Dadawa's pure and natural voice reminds people of the lost essence of music.”
~ The Times

"Sister Drum" makes listeners feel its intelligence as well as a kind of happiness toward human life. 
It is a fantastic mixture of all kinds of culture”
~ Billboard

“After India, Africa and Latin America, China is now able to leave her foot-prints on the world music stage. 
The album, Sister Drum, makes this dream come true…” 
~ Reuters


DADAWA Discography

Yellow Children (1992)
Sister Drum (1995)
Voices From The Sky (1997)
Seven Days (2006)


Presenter websites:
www.explorasian.org
www.chancentre.com
www.ams.ubc.ca


Get your tickets now for what will be one of the most dynamic concerts you will experience this year!


MEDIA CONTACTS

Crystal Hung 604.677.1383 ext 2 (explorASIAN) for Dadawa interview requests
crystal@explorasian.org

Rachel Lowry 604.822.1815 (Chan Centre)
rachel.lowry@ubc.ca