Tsering Wangmo was born in a refugee camp in southern India. She studied traditional Tibetan music, dance and opera at the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts (TIPA) in Dharamsala, India, and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1989.

She was a past Vice President and Cultural Coordinator of the Tibetan Association of Northern California. In 1995, she opened Lhasa Moon restaurant in San Francisco, and was the recipient of a Chef’s 2000 Award and the 2001 Gold Medal Chef Award conferred by the National American Tasting Institute. In 1999, she founded the Tibetan Cultural Preservation Project through The Cultural Conservancy, a non-profit organization based in San Francisco. Through that project, she organized dozens of cultural programs including a sand mandala ceremony by Tibetan Buddhist nuns and a 2001 Losar Celebration featuring Tibetan elders from India. In 2006, she received an ABC Channel 7 Profiles of Excellence award for her contributions to the Bay Area Tibetan community.

Tsering has performed in Europe, Asia, Canada and throughout the United States. She was a featured performer at the 1999 Losar concert held at New York’s Carnegie Hall. Her classically trained voice is featured on Chaksam-pa CDs and her solo CD “Forbidden Voice,” a compilation of traditional Tibetan folk songs and contemporary Tibetan jazz.