True, he never managed to visit Tuva himself, but he showed some recordings to musicologist Ted Levin, who immediately left for Tuva, to see the people who could produce such interesting sounds. He found the four musicians living on the edge of Kyzyl, in barracks, in 1987.

Frank Zappa became a great fan of  "Huun-Huur-Tu" - in 1993 he even invited them to his private studio. Only one year later, they played with the great "Kronos-Quartet" in a packed 4 thousand seat memorial hall of Stanford University. They wrote the music for a Hollywood film with Ry Cooder; they invented joint projects with Stevie Wonder, Mickey Hart (Grateful Dead), with group Fun-Da-Mental, with Japanese "Kodo" taiko drummers, with the Bulgarian women's choir and many others.

The first Huun-Huur-Tu album, 60 Horses in my herd (1993) is a classic of world music and one of the best recordings in this genre. Today Huun-Huur-Tu continue to play, having survived several personnel changes.  They are considered the best known Russian group in the world (only the group "Tatu", in another genre, is comparable at all), and an original symbol of strange music altogether. For example, in the American serial True Blood, a vampire listens to the throat-singing of Huun-Huur-Tu in his car.