Sa Dingding - The Chinese Wonder

This kind of Chinesey New Age music style is nothing new, Oliver Shanti has been doing it since the 80s but Sa Dingding's (薩頂頂) music is nevertheless lovely. Coupled with her striking looks and memorable imagery of her videos it makes a nice package. She is poised to be heavily promoted in the West in advance of the Olympics in Beijing. I am looking forward to her success here.



For those interested, here're the lyrics:

嗡, 班炸薩多沙嘛雅 嘛奴巴拉耶
別炸薩多爹奴巴的叉司左咩巴哇
蘇多卡欲咩巴哇 蘇浦卡玉咩巴哇
阿奴囉多咩巴哇 沙爾哇司地咩渣也叉

沙爾哇 噶爾麻 蘇渣咩即打司哩任
古魯吽 哈哈哈哈 呵巴噶問
沙爾哇 打他噶打 班炸嘛咩母渣
班至巴哇 嘛哈沙媽耶 薩多啊
吽呸。

It's the Mandarin transliteration of a Sanskrit mantra, a sort of Buddhist prayer.