Liu Sola
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 has been influenced by Chinese folk music, though she has also studied opera, and following her love of Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin, has 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.
BibliographyNovellasNi Bie Wu Xuanze (You Have No Choice)Blue Sky Green SeaNovelsChaos And All (1989)Da Ji Jia De Xiao Gu Shi (2000)
DiscographyBlues in the East (1994)China Collage (1997, with Wu Man)
External linksLiuSola.comAdventureDivas.com: Liu SolaBeijingScene.com: Red China Blues Woman by Pan KeyinAsiaSource.org: Singing the Chinese Blues: An Interview with Liu Sola by Michelle Caswell
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