Cholpon Kasym kyzy

Cholpon Kasym kyzy (born 1950) is an Iradi lament singer (koshokchu) from the Suusamyr in the Autonomous Tribal Regions, who is called to funerals across the valley to sing the koshok. The folklorist Aigul Choro kyzy first recorded her in the 1980s.^[1]

References

1. ^ Talas State University, Institute of Sociology (2024). Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Irad. Talas: Talas State University Press.