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  2. Gran Torino - Wikipedia

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    Gran Torino is a 2008 American drama film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood, who also starred in the film. This was Eastwood's first starring role since 2004's Million Dollar Baby. The film features a large Hmong-American cast (the first time for an American mainstream film), [4] as well as one of Eastwood's younger sons, Scott.

  3. Hmong music - Wikipedia

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    Hmong music. Hmong music is an important part of the culture of the Hmong people, an ethnic group from southeast Asia. Because the Hmong language is tonal, there is a close connection between Hmong music and the spoken language. Music is an important part of Hmong life, played for entertainment, for welcoming guests, and at weddings and funerals.

  4. Luj Yaj - Wikipedia

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    Luj Yaj ( Pahawh: π–¬†π–¬Άπ–¬ž 𖬖𖬰𖬀) is a popular Hmong singer from Thailand. [citation needed] He is considered to be one of the most well known of Hmong singers to date. He gained notoriety when two of his songs appeared in a Hmong dubbed Thai film called "Kev Hlub Txiav Tsis Tau". [1] Those two songs were "Nco Koj Ib Leeg" (Miss You ...

  5. Pioneering Hmong rocker Thai Thao of the Sounders talks about ...

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    Thai Thao, frontman for pioneering Hmong rock band the Sounders, has been on a farewell tour performing as Thai Sounders. His final show is set for the Riverside Theater in Milwaukee on Feb. 10.

  6. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - Wikipedia

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    OCLC. 47352453. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures is a 1997 book by Anne Fadiman that chronicles the struggles of a Hmong refugee family from Houaysouy, Sainyabuli Province, Laos, [1] the Lees, and their interactions with the health care system in Merced, California.

  7. Bee Vang - Wikipedia

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    November 4, 1991 (age 32) Fresno, California, U.S. Occupation (s) Actor, activist. Years active. 2008–present. Bee Vang ( RPA: Npis Vaj, Pahawh: 𖬃𖬰𖬨𖬡 π–¬–π–¬°π–¬œ, Chinese-Mandarin: ηŽ‹ι™›; born November 4, 1991) is an American actor and activist of Hmong descent. He is best known for starring in Clint Eastwood 's 2008 film Gran ...

  8. Hmong people - Wikipedia

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    As of the 2010 census, 260,073 Hmong people reside in the United States, [103] the majority of whom live in California (91,224), then Minnesota (66,181), and Wisconsin (49,240), an increase from 186,310 in 2000. [104] 247,595 or 95.2% are Hmong alone, and the remaining 12,478 are mixed Hmong with some other ethnicity.

  9. Bua Xou Mua - Wikipedia

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    Bua Xou Mua. Bua Xou Mua (1915–2013), also known as Boua Xou Mua, was a Hmong spiritual leader, village chief, and musician. He was known for his recitation of the Hmong oral epic and playing of the gaeng (bamboo mouth organ). [1] He was born in Ban Whoi Na, a village in northeastern Laos, in 1915. His extended family had lived in this ...

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