Vandana Vishwas

Vandana Vishwas

Vandana Vishwas Performing

Vandana Vishwas Performing at Small World Music Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background information
Born Lucknow, India
Occupation(s) Singer, Composer, Arranger and Producer
Website www.vandanavishwas.com

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
Meera – The Lover... 2009 Self Produced See below
Monologues 2013 Self Produced
Samarsiddha 2014 Self Produced
Parallels 2016 Self Produced

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