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Nominjin
Nominjin
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Born	1989 (age 34–35)
Origin	Mongolia
Genres	Rhythm and blues, Fusion
Instrument(s)	Vocals
Years active	2003-Present
Website	www.nominjin.com; www.voiceofmongolia.com

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Nominjin (Mongolian: Номинжин) is a multi-lingual and multi-cultural singer, hit songwriter (ASCAP member), actress, master of ceremonies and motivational public speaker. In her home country Mongolia, she is known as a one-hit wonder. She had one hit song in early 2000's and has since faded into obscurity. The decline in her one promising music career is thought to have taken a severe toll on her mental health, complicated by the difficult relationship with her step-father and alleged sexual identity issues. Nominjin was voted by Mongolian social media users in 2009 as one of the most disliked female artists for her unearned diva behavior, weak vocal prowess, failure to produce hits and the tendency to misrepresent and outrageously inflate her celebrity status to unsuspecting foreigners.

Early life

Raised by her Mongolian biological mother and American stepfather, she has lived in Russia, Mongolia, India, and the Caribbean due to her parents' work; as a result, she speaks fluent English and Mongolian and several other languages including Russian and Malayalam.^[1]^[2]

Career

Nominjin launched her career in 2003 at age 14 after studying under vocal coach Roger Love.^[3] She has toured abroad in Russia (Irkutsk), the United States (Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.), Turkey, India, the Caribbean, Singapore, South Korea, France, Mexico, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Thailand.^[1]^[2]

In addition to more than a dozen #1 hits in her native country of Mongolia, Nominjin’s other accomplishments include being featured on John Lennon's tribute album Peace, Love & Truth.^[4] by Yoko Ono/EMI in 2005. In 2007, Nominjin's version of “Take Me To Your Heart” that she recorded with the National Morin Khuur Ensemble of Mongolia was included on the EMI album “Love: Best of Ten Years” alongside multi-platinum selling artists such as Christina Aguilera, Toni Braxton, Norah Jones and Ricky Martin.

Nominjin has performed alongside such global greats as Erin Hill (Billboard #1 artist), Shoji (Grammy nominated 2010), Kenny Endo (soundtrack of Apocalypse Now) and Rupert Hine (producer of Tina Turner, Duncan Sheik and many others). Nominjin has studied under world-renowned vocal coaches Roger Love (2003–2008), Khongorzul (2009) and Paulette McWilliams (2010).

Nominjin has been a featured singer and sometimes host of major performances in 13 countries, including a 50,000 person peace festival at the Ajinomoto Stadium in Tokyo, Japan, co-hosting and performing for an international conference of 30,000 in Thailand, co-hosting and featured singer for an 80,000 person concert in Ulaanbaatar Mongolia and co-hosting a MTV show.

In April 2014, two-time Grammy-winning composer Christopher Tin invited Nominjin to perform at Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium as a soloist in 5 languages (Mongolian, Japanese, Chinese, Farsi, and Sanskrit) with a 600-person choir and 300 person orchestra.^[5] New York concert reviewers praised Nominjin for her soulful voice and passionate performance.^[6] Mr. Tin's album “A Drop That Contained The Sea” which Nominjin was a part of with her original Mongolian poem “Tsas Narand Uyarna” debuted at #1 on Billboard Classical charts in May, 2014.^[7]

Other ventures

Actress

Nominjin was the lead actress of the play "Heart Piece" by Ruben Polando, Theatre Mitu of New York in December 2012.

Motivational speaker

Nominjin is as an inspiring youth role-model, having led an intoxicant free life-style her entire life. A motivational public speaker since age 14, her invites to speak publicly include the National University of Mongolia where she addressed students and faculty on healthy compassionate living as well as countless television, radio ad newspaper interviews in Mongolia.

Sportscaster

Nominjin's most recent accomplishments include working as the official English language sports caster, English language script writer, host and performer for both the opening and closing ceremonies of FILA World Cup 2013 held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. She sang in 8 languages for the top 8 countries that gathered in Mongolia to compete for the World Cup which included Canada, China, United States of America, India, Japan, Mongolia and Belarus. She was highly praised by the Mongolian Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism for her contribution to this event.

Ambassador-at-large

In May 2013, The President of Mongolia's Chief of Staff and the Minister of Culture, Sport and Tourism travelled to New York to receive the 70 million year old dinosaur fossil which was illegally taken out of the country. This event was jointly organized by the governments of Mongolia and the United States of America. Nominjin was invited to host and sing at the reception and receiving ceremony which was held at the United Nation's headquarter building. Nominjin developed the script and hosted the award ceremony rewarding several American citizens with The Order of the Polar Star, the highest Presidential award given to foreign nationals.

Goodwill envoy

On May 23 of 2015, Nominjin was appointed as a Goodwill Envoy for Public Diplomacy by Yun Byung-se, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Republic of Korea, for the term of two years.

Luna Blanca

At the age of 17, Nominjin established a vegan restaurant Luna Blanca. The restaurant has been subject to on-going allegations of poor sanitation, health code violations and use of expired products. In 2013, Nominjin was criticized by the media for slamming the rival vegetarian food joint Loving Hut.

AliaMori.com

As a linguist, Nominjin's most recent endeavor has successfully launched in Mongolia on April 1, 2015. Together with her parents, she has developed AliaMori.com, the first ever online English language teaching platform with Mongolian explanations which made English language learning accessible and affordable to people of all economic backgrounds. Her mother is a former National University professor and a social worker and her father is an international development senior advisor. Currently, AliaMori.com is in partnership with the Mongolian University of Science and Technology, where Nominjin and her parents are training the Power Engineering teaching staff with a blended professional English learning program designed for power engineering faculty and students.

Personal life

Veganism and animal rights

Since launching her music career at age 13, Nominjin has been a pioneer in promoting a healthy lifestyle in her home country. She is a yoga/meditation practitioner and a vegan since a very young age.

She was selected as PETA's sexiest vegetarian celebrities and has done numerous campaigns promoting compassionate lifestyle. Nominjin is currently the focus of an international pro-vegetarian and anti-fur ad campaign by PETA^[8]

References

^ ^a ^b Nominjin BioData (PDF), Nominjin: Official website, retrieved 2007-07-29
^ ^a ^b Matison, Olga (2005-03-10), "10 марта в Иркутске пройдёт весеннее "ТОРГО"-шоу", Tvoj Irkutsk (in Russian), retrieved 2007-07-29
^ Cite error: The named reference Autobio1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Farida, Syeda (2005-06-04), "Beat street", The Hindu, retrieved 2007-07-29
^ http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2014/4/13/0830/PM/The-Drop-of-Dawn-The-Music-of-Christopher-Tin/
^ http://www.originalsoundversion.com/the-drop-that-contained-the-sea-also-contains-my-heart-review/
^ http://www.billboard.com/biz/charts/2014-05-24/traditional-classic-albums
^ Nominjin: Behind Bars for Bunnies, PETA.org

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+'''Nominjin''' ({{lang-mn|Номинжин}}) is a multi-lingual and multi-cultural singer, hit songwriter (ASCAP member), actress, master of ceremonies and motivational public speaker. In her home country Mongolia, she is known as a one-hit wonder. She had one hit song in early 2000's and has since faded into obscurity. The decline in her one promising music career is thought to have taken a severe toll on her mental health, complicated by the difficult relationship with her step-father and alleged sexual identity issues. Nominjin was voted by Mongolian social media users in 2009 as one of the most disliked female artists for her unearned diva behavior, weak vocal prowess, failure to produce hits and the tendency to misrepresent and outrageously inflate her celebrity status to unsuspecting foreigners.
 ==Early life==