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Indian Diaspora Rock
Susheela Raman
| UK, India
Booking-Agent:
Amaya Collantes
+49 30 261032927
ac@f-cat.de
Susheela is a praised star of the jazz- and world music scene, who captivates her audience with her powerful voice and energetic shows.
She is playing regularly at the Harbourfront Festival in Toronto and the Ottawa Jazz Festival. Moreover, in Europe she played, amongst others at the Montreux Jazz Festival, the Sziget Festival and many more. Besides, she is a ‘hot’ act in Germany, France, Spain, UK…etc.
By now, Susheela Raman has released three albums.Her third Album, “Music for Crocodiles” proved already her incredible artistic development. With her debut album ’Salt Rain’ she has won the BBC Newcomer Radio 3 Award for World Music as well as the prestigious Mercury Music Prize. But it is her present album “33 1/3” that marks Susheela Raman's artistic coming of age. She creates a new identity through her voice, culture, and song. Regarding her musical development, the British newspaper ‘The Guardian’ recently said: “It’s a brave record,covering sacrosanct songs by hallowed 20th century artists including Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix and Joy Division, but Raman rises to the challenge! Rock classics are imbued with gentle Afro-Asian hues, making many of these timeless songs entirely her own”.
Carnatic music – the traditional classic of southern India – always played a major role in her childhood and until now it is influencing her songs. Teenage rebellion led her towards black American soul, blues, and funk, and at just 16 she was leading her own funk & soul band in Sydney. In 1997 she moved to London and met guitarist and World music-Producer Sam Mills. They began to develop a new sound drawing on Indian and Western influences and encompassing English songs, Sanscrit texts, their own compositions and reinventions of songs from the carnatic repertoire. With a mixture of jazz elements and the repertoire of carnatic music, Susheela created her own identity.
