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Genghis Blues. This is the kind of story that has to be true, because no novelist would dare to dream it up. In San Francisco lives a blind blues singer named Paul Pena. He plays and sings backup for such legends as Muddy Waters and B.B. King. Late at night when he cannot sleep, he listens to the world on a shortwave radio.
34 Reviews. Hide Spoilers. Sort by: Filter by Rating: 8/10. Fascinating music, people, film. bburns 4 February 2000. In 1995, an eclectic group of San Francisco musicians and their friends took a trip to the remote Russian-Mongolian region of Tuva, where one of them entered a throat-singing contest. The whole thing was filmed and this is the ...
75% Tomatometer 12 Reviews 90% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings At once whimsical and profound, "Genghis Blues" chronicles the journey of blind blues legend Paul Pena as he discovers the ancient art ...
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- Richard Feynman
- Roko Belic
- Documentary
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Oct 28, 1999 · Genghis Blues: Directed by Roko Belic. With Richard Feynman, B.B. King, Kongar-ol Ondar, Paul Pena. San Francisco bluesman and composer, Paul Peña makes a musical pilgrimage to the land of Tuva.
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- Documentary, Music
- Roko Belic
- 1999-10-28
Genghis Blues is a 1999 American documentary film directed by Roko Belic. It centers on the journey of blind American singer Paul Pena to the isolated Russian Republic of Tuva to pursue his interest in Tuvan throat singing. [1] It won the 1999 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for a Documentary. It was also nominated for an Academy Award in ...
May 10, 1999 · Proving once again that music is the one universal language, "Genghis Blues" pleasantly follows a blind American bluesman as he journeys to far-flung Tuva (the republic sandwiched between Siberia ...