Lumino (Mongolian: Люмино) is a famous Hip-Hop band from Mongolia founded in 2000. Their music is dance-friendly and often melodic, with frequent contributions by external vocalists. Like most Mongolian bands, they like to include elements of traditional Mongolian music into their songs.
The creation of the band was inspired by a person named "Jason" who had worked as an English teacher in Mongolia in 1996 and 1997. Besides giving language lessons, he also introduced his students to Hip-Hop music. Five of them then came together to form Lumino, but few years after the formation of the band two of their members Chinzo and Hülgüü stopped performing with the band. At one point Lumino consisted from more than a dozen members, headed by Skitzo, including the main MCs Skitzo, MC, Chinzo, and Lizard and MC's from groups Old School and Skitzo's Free Style. Around 1999 the group went through a major restructure changes and changed their strategy in terms of songs they were producing. They also cut their members to five. Mostly known for their hard core rap, since this change Lumino started to make softer songs for main audience and the head of the band was replaced by MC. A number of songs such as Zam and Hüniih were made into video clips and repeatedly played on TV, while the video for Namaig dagaad ceng was censured because of its too explicit imagery. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.