page_title: Indian folk music
section_title: Tamang Selo
hierarchical_section_title: Indian folk music / Tamang Selo
caption_attribution_description: English: Picture of Hira Devi Waiba taken in 2010.
context_page_description: Indian folk music is diverse because of India's vast cultural
  diversity. It has many forms including bhangra, lavani, dandiya, Sufi folk rock, and Rajasthani.
context_section_description: Tamang Selo is a genre of Nepali Folk song sung by the Tamang people and widely popular amongst the Nepali speaking community in Nepal, India and around the world. It is usually accompanied by Tamang instruments, the Damphu, Madal and Tungna. A Selo could be very catchy and lively or slow and melodious and is usually sung to express love, sorrow and stories of day to day life.
  Hira Devi Waiba is hailed as the pioneer of Nepali Folk songs and Tamang Selo. Her song 'Chura ta Hoina Astura' (Nepali: चुरा त होइन अस्तुरा) is said to be the first Tamang Selo ever recorded. Waiba has sung nearly 300 songs in a career spanning 40 years.After Waiba's death in 2011, her son Satya Waiba (producer) and Navneet Aditya Waiba (singer) collaborated and re-recorded her most iconic songs and released an album titled Ama Lai Shraddhanjali (आमालाई श्रद्धाञ्जली-Tribute to Mother).
caption: Hira Devi Waiba- Pioneer of Nepali Folk songs in India.
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