Lipstick is a Mongolia

Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It is bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south, east and west. Although Mongolia does not share a border with Kazakhstan, its western-most point is only from Kazakhstan's eastern tip. Ulan Bator, the capital and largest...

n girl band. Lipstick's music varies between melodic pop songs, R&B, and pumping disco beats. They were formed on March 1, 1999. The next year they won the Pentatonic award, a national rock and pop music award, as the best debut band. Since then they have received several other prominent awards for their work and were very successful with the younger generation in Mongolia from 1999 to 2002. They all sing and play instruments such as keyboard

Electronic keyboard

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, solo guitar

Guitar

The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

, bass guitar

Bass guitar

The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

 and drum

Drum

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s. They also used traditional instruments such as the Shanz (a 3-stringed plucked musical instrument) and the Yatga

Yatga

The yatga is a traditional Mongolian plucked zither, related to the Chinese guzheng.Yatga may vary widely in size, tuning, and number of bridges and strings; The body is a long wooden box, one end of which is angled downward. The performer plucks the strings with the fingernails of the right...

 (a kind of zither

Zither

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) for their music, e.g. in the songs Khüree khüükhnüüd 'City ladies' and Sarnai tsetseg 'Rose'. As of 2007, the band is inactive, but still widely considered one of the representative Mongolian pop bands.

Awards

• 2000, Pentatonic award (best debut band)
• 2001, UBS music award (Best video clip for Khüree Khüükhnüüd "City Ladies")
• 2002, Golden microphone (best band)

Discography

(Khüree khüükhnüüd 'City ladies'), 1999

• Unplugged, 2001 (Khelj amjaagüi khair 'A love that I didn't manage to confess'), 2002

Concerts

(Khüree khüükhnüüd 'City Ladies'), at the State Circus (1999)

• "TV unplugged live concert of Lipstick" on Ulaanbaatar Broadcasting System
  Ulaanbaatar Broadcasting System
  Ulaanbaatar Broadcasting System , or UBS, is a television broadcaster in Mongolia....
  
  (UBS) music channel, in UBS studio (2000) (Uruuliin budagtai khatsar 'Cheek with lipstick on it'), at the Wrestling Palace, (2000) (Üürdiin jargaliin ereld 'On a search for eternal happiness'), in the UB Palace (2003)

Current members

• Gereltuyaa (Gegeenee, Gerlee) - Keyboards
• Delgermaa (Deegii) - Solo guitar
• Ichinkhorloo (Ichko) - Drums
• Ganchimeg (Ganaa) - Bass guitar

Former member:

• Enkhjargal (Enjii)