Kelsang Chukie Tethong

Kelsang Chukie Tethong or Chukie Tethong (born 1957) is a Tibetan exile singer who was traditionally trained in India. She performs Tibetan music and she has twice performed for the Dalai Llama

Life Tethong was born in Tibet in 1957. She was raised in Dharamsala in India which is where the Dalai Lama had escaped to after his country was invaded by the Chinese as they put down the 1959 Tibetan uprising. were chosen to be trained at the newly established Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts. Her mother had enjoyed singing and she learned to play the dra-nyen. She learned both music and dance and she would have stayed for more than 11 years but her father died and she was obliged to earn money for her siblings. In 2020 her husband, Tenzin Geyche Tethong, published a biography of Dalai Llama illustrating his access to his inner circle.