Urna Chahar-Tugchi, simply known as Urna, (born 1969 in Hohhot, Inner Mongol, China) is a Mongolian singer and musicist. Urna was born into a family of herders in the grasslands of the Ordos Plateau in Inner Mongolia, a society where song was a ubiquitous part of everyday life. Her first musical training was learning to play the yangqin (the Chinese dulcimer) from a Shanghai Conservatory of Music professor who was visiting Hohhot, the capital of Inner Mongolia.

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