Musicians

• Snatam Kaur

  Snatam Kaur is one of the most popular New Age artists of our time, selling over 70,000 albums a year. Snatam Kaur’s albums have topped New Age Retailer’s Top 20 lists every year since 2004. She was the only artist to have 3 albums in the Top 20 in a single year. Her albums have consistently ranked in the top 20 in both Indie New Age and Indie World Music on Amazon throughout 2009 and 2010. Her music can be heard around the world in venues from yoga studios to schools to Hollywood films and in the homes of her fans worldwide.
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• Mirabai Ceiba

  A gentle yet expansive spirit pervades all the music of Mirabai Ceiba. The delicate sounds of harp, piano, and guitar blend with lovingly intertwined voices amid lush celestial soundscapes. Their concerts are group celebrations for peace-joyous and loving occasions that embody the duo's profound belief in music as a universal language uniting all the world's peoples, cultures and traditions. Mirabai Ceiba is a duo consisting of guitarist/singer Markus Sieber and singer/harpist/pianist Angelika Baumbach.
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• Jai-Jagdeesh

  Jai-Jagdeesh’s journey as a singer began over 20 years ago, in a temple in India, and the soundcurrent continued all through her childhood. While at school in Amritsar, she traveled around Northern India as one of the musical representatives of Yogi Bhajan’s foreign education program (now Miri Piri Academy), playing kirtan everywhere the students were invited. Between then and now, her creative spirit has walked many artistic paths – actress, classical Indian dancer, photographer and writer – and she says “I find myself in perfect balance now that music has returned to the forefront.”

  In 2010, Jai-Jagdeesh joined the Spirit Voyage family of recording artists. Her debut album, 'I Am Thine', a combination of sacred mantras and powerful English lyrics, was released in the summer of 2011 to record sales and acclaim. She began touring across the globe and performing at Sat Nam Fests, delighting crowds with her soulful voice and deeply authentic style. She released her first meditation CD of Kundalini mantra, 'The Expansive Spirit', as a part of Spirit Voyage's Meditations for Transformation series in early 2012.

  Jai-Jagdeesh continues to record (a new album is due in June of 2013), perform, and express her heart's deepest creativity. She is completely devoted to sharing these sacred sounds, and sings them from the center of her heart. With humility, grace and kindness, she brings a bit of dance and lot of love to the world of kirtan.

• Simrit Kaur

  Simrit Kaur is a musician, composer and yogini whose highly devotional chant music with high powered singing and hypnotic rhythm is quickly gaining ear-opening attention around the world. Simrit's unusually rich, soulful and penetrating vocals speak for themselves. Her music and compositions are somehow both uniquely fresh with a contagious uplifting energy, and simultaneously ancient with a deep and sacred appeal. She has been singing and playing music from the time she was a young child and has studied both western and eastern classical vocals..
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• Nirinjan Kaur

  Nirinjan Kaur was born in Vancouver, B.C. to a Kundalini Yoga practicing, Sikh family. With two musical parents, shefound her love for singing at an early age. Her father still tells stories of how Nirinjan could be heard singing her heart out to her favorite songs, whether they were in the car going to school, or just playing around the house. As time went on, she became very interested in Kundalini Yoga and the Sikh faith, and became a certified Kundalini Yoga teacher at age 13. Sacred chanting goes hand in hand with both of these traditions, and Nirinjan quickly found a merging of two loves: spirituality and singing.
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• Ajeet Kaur

  Ajeet Kaur is one of the newest additions to the Spirit Voyage family with her first album of meditation music, ‘Sacred Waters’ being released at Summer Solstice 2013. She was recently featured on Gurunam Singh’s album ‘Touch Every Heart’, and is beginning to travel the world to offer music and yoga. Inspired by beloved chant artists like Snatam Kaur and the musical and spiritual atmosphere of her upbringing, Ajeet began singing at a young age. Her love of music has lead her around the world to study traditional Indian and Irish music, along with other folk traditions and western musical styles. Along with music, the love of Ajeet’s life has been her study of healing with her teacher Guru Dev Singh. Now, just out of college, Ajeet blends the healing power of ancient mantras with a fresh and unique contemporary style.
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• OUR EXTRAORDINARY SUPPORT MUSICIANS

  Ramesh Kannan

  Accompanying Snatam Kaur on percussion, Ramesh Kannan brings a rare and unique sensitivity to the music. Music and its power to transform and heal has always been a passion for Ramesh Kannan. Growing up in a musical household, the healing power of music was introduced to him at a very young age. Ramesh has had the opportunity to collaborate with numerous internationally renown artists including Zakir Hussain, Snatam Kaur, Krishna Das, Jai Uttal, Bhagavan Das, Deva Premal, Mitten, Manose, Will Ackerman, Tony Levin, GuruGanesha Singh, Rick Allen, and many more. Having played with such a diverse roster of musicians and styles of music, Ramesh has cultivated a sound that is unique to itself.
  

• Todd Boston

  Accompanying Snatam Kaur on Guitar, San Francisco based guitarist/multi-instrumentalist and composer Todd Boston lives a musical life. He brings with him a devoted heart to connect, share and enrich the lives of those he touches through the positive effects of music, sound, and vibration. "Todd Boston is almost impossibly talented, he's a brilliant guitarist. Touched by the Sun is the work of a mature artist who has come of age and who has given us a great recording of singularity and value, the world's a better place for his gift." ~ Will Ackerman (Grammy winner and found of Windham Hill Records)
  

• Ram Dass

  As a child, Ram Dass was surrounded by music of all forms. The Beatles were his nursemaid, Beethoven his schoolmaster, Simon and Garfunkel his neighbors. Melodies were his bed and harmonies his pillows. Ram Dass is a classically trained clarinetist. As a boy, he practiced his music for hours on end, skipped his more mundane academic classes, and through the guidance of his companions and elders his talents grew. He traveled with his music and performed at venues as grand as Carnegie Hall.
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• Matthew Schoening

  Accompanying Snatam Kaur on cello, Matthew brings his incredible talent at solo cello performance to Snatam Kaur's band. He plays the cello with a fluidity of movement and emotion that brings a deep sense of inspiration and healing to Snatam Kaur's music. Snatam Kaur said she knew he was the perfect fit for her band the first time she heard him play.
  

• Jamshied Sharifi

  Not only is Jamshied Sharifi a world-renowned composer and musician, he has produced the last 3 Mirabai Ceiba albums and makes the rare and much beloved appearance on stage with them at Sat Nam Fest, a treat for everyone. Playing an incredible array of instruments from keyboard to accordion to flute and more, Jamshied leaves the audience awestruck. Jamshied Sharifi crosses global traditions, mixing instruments from Mexico, Africa and the Middle East in percussively melodic arrangements with his keyboards and electronic wind instrument.
  

• Anthony Molina

  Anthony Molina’s musical journey began, literally, in a church. “My dad was a pastor,” he explained. “It was very much this spiritual connection.” It was a bi-lingual Spanish and English church with a Pentecostal feel. There was a Hammond B3 and a gospel choir. From the age of seven, Molina took up the alto saxophone for the band, while his brother Jason played the trumpet- a musical collaboration that would alternate roles over the years, but continues vibrantly to the present day.
  
  A burgeoning interest in sound healing and Kundalini yoga has brought Molina to explore the vast implications of the gong. The gong is said to contain all the sounds of the Universe, able to clear the subconscious. Molina’s interest was immediate. “There is something other worldly going on with it. I gravitate towards it. No two gongs sound the same, no two players sound the same. It just seemed like the most logical step, after playing in a cosmic rock band.”
  
  

• Michelle Hurtado

  As the accompaniment vocalist for The GuruGanesha Band, Michelle's soulful vocals are like a finely tuned instrument, able to bring the perfect balance to every song with a range from the sweetest melodies to the most rocking beats to soulful bluesy jazz songs. A writer and composer in her own right, some of Michelle's amazing songs have become a part of The GuruGanesha Band's performances to the delight of audiences everywhere.
  

• Hans Christian

  A multi-instrumentalist, composer, music producer and life long lover of music and healing, Hans Christian shines as a part of The GuruGanesha Band. Playing the instrument that was his first love, cello, Hans makes any audience melt with the first soulful strokes, filling the room with magic. He also plays an amazing array of instruments switching from cello to sitara to nyckelharpa to sarangi, introducing sounds and notes to the music that carried its style to all corners of the planet.
  

• Sat Kartar Singh

  The GuruGanesha Band's accompaniment guitarist, Sat Kartar Singh brings a gentle touch to the band's music with his finger picking and sweet vocals. Singing the sweetest harmonies alongside GuruGanesha Singh and Michelle, their voices blend to perfection. A Kundalini Yoga teacher and practitioner, Sat Kartar Singh's positive energy on and off stage keeps the band uplifted and smiling wherever they go.
  

• Guru Sangat Singh

  The GuruGanesha Band's bassist, Gurusangat makes his home in Massachusetts, where he teaches Kundalini yoga and its rich tradition of Gurumukhi mantras. Earlier this year, he put aside studies in jazz guitar to man the bass for the GuruGanesha Band. From the way he’s taken to the instrument, it’s clear to me that he’s got some real serious bass karma!
  

• Leonardo Har Prakash

  Accompanying Jai-Jagdeesh on sitar is Leonardo Har Prakash from Tulum, Mexico. Har Prakash will mesmerize you from the first note he plays. An incredible musician and solo artist in his own right, he has teamed up with Jai-Jagdeesh to bring a depth and breadth to her music that is awe-inspiring. A new treat since he joined the band is that he often plays one of his compositions as accompaniment to a dance piece by Jai-Jagdeesh who is also a classically trained Bharatnatyam dancer.
  

• Tripp Dudley

  Accompanying Jai-Jagdeesh on tabla and cajon, Tripp has an incredible skill at bringing more than just rhythm to the music with his playing.