aljenljeng tjaluvie (ABAO)
Music Director
aljenljeng tjaluvie, also known as ABAO, comes from an indigenous Paiwan community of Taitung, a county on the east coast of Taiwan. She has received a total of five Golden Melody Awards. In recent years, ABAO strives to promote indigenous culture and integrates different performance art forms. In 2021, she was invited to collaborate with renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and produced her first compilation album N1: Nanguaq No.1 featuring singles written by seven indigenous young singer-songwriters. Through collaboration, she hopes that the voices of the younger generation could thus have a broader and more diverse cultural representation.