Vandana Vishwas
Vandana Vishwas | |
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Vandana Vishwas Performing at Small World Music Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada | |
Background information | |
Born | Lucknow, India |
Occupation(s) | Singer, Composer, Arranger and Producer |
Website |
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Indo-Canadian architect-musician Vandana Vishwas is an exponent of south Asian genre of World Music in North America. She was an All India Radio artist before she left India, and specializes in composing, arranging and singing North Indian classical music based expressive song forms such as Ghazals, Bhajans, Geet and Thumri.
Vandana released her debut music album 'Meera – The Lover...' in 2009, which is a musical story of the sixteenth century Indian poet Meera Bai. She released her second music album 'Monologues', in January 2013, which is a collection of contemporary Ghazals, Nazms and light Thumris. Vandana released her single 'Samarsiddha' in July 2014, which is the theme track for identically titled Hindi novel authored by UK based novelist Sandeep Nayyar, published by Penguin India. In late 2016, she released her third music album 'Parallels', which is a collaboration of south Asian music with several western and ethnic music genres such as Flamenco, African, Rock, Country, Ballad, New Age. Vandana has won the Toronto Independent Music Awards in World music category in 2016 and silver medal at Global Music Awards 2016 for World Music and Female Vocalist categories.
Discography
Title | Release | Record label | Awards |
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Meera – The Lover... | 2009 | Self Produced | See below |
Monologues | 2013 | Self Produced | |
Samarsiddha | 2014 | Self Produced | |
Parallels | 2016 | Self Produced |
Awards
- Akademia Music Awards for January 2017 for Best World Beat Album and Best World Music Video
- Silver medal at Global Music Awards 2016 in World Music and Female vocalist categories
- Toronto Independent Music Awards 2016 in World Music category
- Woman Hero Award 2015 by Indo Canadian Arts & Culture Initiative
- Vox-Pop Winner for World Traditional Song at 10th IMA Independent Music Awards
- Best Toronto World CD Album Winner at Toronto Exclusive Magazine awards 2010
- Established Performing Arts at Mississauga Arts Council's Marty Awards 2012
Honourable Mentions
- 17th International Billboard Song Contest 2010
- Esongwriter.com song Contest
- 2010 Marty Award for Established Performing Arts by Mississauga Arts council, Ontario, Canada
Nominations
- TIMA Toronto Independent Music Awards 2010, 2014 & 2015 – Best World Music
- World Artist of the Year at The Indies, the Independent Music Awards 2010
- K.M. Hunter artist Award for Music 2010 by Ontario Arts Council, Canada
- 2010 & 2011 Marty Award for Established Performing Arts by Mississauga Arts council, Ontario, Canada
- 7th TIMA Toronto Independent Music Awards 2014 – Best World Music
References
- Article in Toronto Star
- Article in Toronto Sun
- Article in Weekly Voice
- Article in Mybindi.Com
- Article in All About Jazz
- Article in India Current
External links
- Official Website
- CBC Artist Profile
- Canadian World Music Artist Profile
- Mississauga Arts Council spotlight feature – page 8