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{{short description|Indian musician}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Sonam Tshering Lepcha
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| birth_date = 3 January 1928
| birth_place = [[Kalimpong]], [[West Bengal]], India
| death_date = 30 July 2020 (aged 92)
| death_place = [[Kalimpong]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]
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| occupation = Folk musician<br/>Lyricist
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| known for = [[Lepcha language|Lepcha]] folk songs
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| parents = Nimgay Tamsang
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| awards = [[Padma Shri]]<br/>[[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]]<br/>[[Sangeet Natak Akademi|SNA]] Tagore Akademi Ratna Award
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'''Sonam Tshering Lepcha''' (3 January 1928 – 30 July 2020) was an Indian folk musician, composer and lyricist.<ref name="Sonam Tshering Lepcha on India Online">{{cite web | url=http://www.indiaonline.in/about/Personalities/DancersandMusicians/Sonam-Tshering-Lepcha.html | title=Sonam Tshering Lepcha on India Online | publisher=India Online | date=2016 | access-date=16 January 2016}}</ref> He was the first among [[Lepcha people]] to air his voice on [[All India Radio]] and was credited with the revival of Lepcha culture, one of the indigenous cultures of the Indian state of [[Sikkim]].<ref name="Sonam Tshering Lepcha on India Online" /> He was reported to be credited with over 400 folk songs, 102 folk dances and 10 dance dramas.<ref name="Ministry of Home Affairs, Blog report">{{cite web | url=https://youforalltube.appspot.com/www.mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/pdf/nenl0407.pdf | title=Ministry of Home Affairs, Blog report | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2016 | access-date=18 January 2016 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510131250/http://youforalltube.appspot.com/www.mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/pdf/nenl0407.pdf | archive-date=10 May 2017 }}</ref> He died on 30 July, 2020 due to [[cardiac arrest]].<ref>https://www.indiatoday.in/lifestyle/people/story/pm-modi-condoles-folk-musician-sonam-tshering-lepcha-s-death-anguished-by-his-demise-1706095-2020-07-30</ref><ref>https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2020/jul/30/padma-shri-awardee-sonam-tshering-lepcha-dies-at-92-pm-modi-mamata-banerjee-condole-demise-2176974.html</ref><ref>https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/folk-musician-sonam-tshering-lepcha-dead/1905969</ref>

== Early life ==
Sonam Tshering was born on 3 January 1928 in Bong Busty, [[Kalimpong]], [[West Bengal]], and started his career as a soldier.<ref name="Sonam Tshering Lepcha KALIMPONG">{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqZLRH6mKGo | title=Sonam Tshering Lepcha KALIMPONG | publisher=Vijay Parimoo | work=[[YouTube]] video | date=15 April 2012 | access-date=16 January 2016}}</ref>

== Career ==
Lepcha travelled in [[Sikkim]], collecting traditional musical instruments and compiling songs and became the first Lepcha to feature on [[All India Radio]] in 1960. He is the founder of a museum in Kalimpong which houses several ancient and rare artifacts including indigenous musical instruments, ancient weapons and manuscripts.<ref name="Sonam Tshering Lepcha on India Online" /> He received the [[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]] of the [[Sangeet Natak Akademi]] in 1995.<ref name="Sangeet Natak Akademi Puraskar (Akademi Awards)">{{cite web | url=http://sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/awardeeslist.htm | title=Sangeet Natak Akademi Puraskar (Akademi Awards) | publisher=Sangeet Natak Akademi | date=2016 | access-date=16 January 2016 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150530204253/http://sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/awardeeslist.htm | archive-date=30 May 2015 }}</ref> The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Shri]], in 2007, for contributions to folk music.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2016 | access-date=3 January 2016}}</ref> In 2011, in connection with the 150th Birthday celebrations of [[Rabindranath Tagore]], [[Sangeet Natak Akademi]] selected 100 eminent performing artists of the country and Tshering Lepcha was included in the list of 50 for the [[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award|Tagore Akademi Ratna Award]].<ref name="Tagore Akademi Ratna and Tagore Akademi Puraskar">{{cite web | url=http://sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/tagoreawards.htm | title=Tagore Akademi Ratna and Tagore Akademi Puraskar | publisher=Sangeet Natak Akademi | date=2016 | access-date=16 January 2016 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140707094419/http://sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/tagoreawards.htm | archive-date=7 July 2014 }}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Lepcha people]]
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== References ==
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== External links ==
*{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqZLRH6mKGo | title=Sonam Tshering Lepcha KALIMPONG | publisher=Vijay Parimoo | work=[[YouTube]] video | date=15 April 2012 | access-date=16 January 2016}}

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