Toktogul Satylganov

Toktogul Satylganov was born in 1864 in the village of Kushchu-Su, in the Ketmen-Töbö valley, into a poor family. His mother Burma was a renowned mourner, gifted at verse, and it was from her that he took his vocation. He composed songs from the age of twelve and trained under several masters of popular music. At eighteen, he won a contest against a notable's official singer, which decided his life. Sentenced to death in 1898 on a false accusation, then to penal servitude in Siberia, he escaped from it in 1910. He trained a school of akyns and died on 17 February 1933.

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• PoetryБеш каманToktogul Satylganov · 1895not translated into EnglishLiterature