He was a son of the Luo tribe who, when not in school, had herded his father's goats; she was the daughter of white Protestant prairie folk from the American heartland.

他，是一个卢奥族部落的儿子，不上学的时候他就给爸爸放羊；而她，是一个来自美国中部的白人新教徒草原民族的女儿。

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Louisa Lim/NPR Ku'ermanjiang Zhikeriya says the dongbula is "the soul of the Kazakh people." "My mother is illiterate, but she knows every word to 156 folk songs," Aalatengwula says.

“我的母亲不识字，但是对于156首民乐，她如数家珍”，阿拉腾乌拉说。

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She is a folk singer.

她是一个民谣歌手。

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She wrote "I Must Be Saved" to honor the folk singer Odetta whom Peyroux calls her spiritual grandmother.

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She went on to direct the folk arts program at the National Endowment for the Arts.

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She learned all kinds of music, including jazz,rock and folk.

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Then she met folk-indie-prince Ward.

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In 1934, when she was 20, she joined a company called Theatre of Action, founded by Ewan MacColl, a folk singer she later married.

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She knew a lot of folk remedies and could easily have helped me recover in a day or two, but she would have kept me in bed for a few days longer to insure that I recuperated fully.

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