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Sandhya Sanjana ({{lang-hi|संध्या}}) is a singer born in Mumbai, India.^[1] She is one of the first Indian singers to have experimented with fusing Indian classical vocals with contemporary western styles. Her career began at a young age and she has appeared on over 30 albums of various genres.

Life

Early life

Sandja was born in Mumbai as Sandhya Golikeri to Shaila and Ramdas Golikeri in a Saraswat Brahmin family. She is the eldest of four daughters. She learnt her first songs from her mother (née Sunanda Nadkarni) who was a singer who performed on Radio Dharwad. At the age of five, she moved to New Delhi and was raised by her uncle and aunt. Her uncle got her performing on stage singing pop songs and Indian devotional songs. At about seven years of age, she started learning Indian classical music from an elderly relative, Maitrayini Mundkur, who composed the texts of great saint poets with Indian classical ragas. Each piece was based on a single raga and taught the essence of a raga. Sandhya sang a devotional song for a children's programme on Radio Ceylon. She won competitions as a young girl in the Saraswat colony – Talmaki Wadi. At the age of ten, she started studying Hindustani classical music with Sita Hirebet, an proponent of the Kirana gharana and a student of Gangubai Hangal. Then she moved back to Mumbai and graduated from Elphinstone College with a degree in English Literature and Psychology. She simultaneously studied at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan under Dinkar and Shashikala Kaikini of the Agra gharana. Later she studied with Pt. Govind Prasad Jaipurwale until he died in 1987.

Journey into fusion

She sang with rock bands in Bombay, New Delhi, and Kolkata. When she met Dinshah Sanjana, he had studied classical piano and was entering the world of Indian music by studying the flute. He switched to tabla to accompany her. They went on to form their fusion group Divya,^[2]^[3] one of the first groups to fuse Indian music with jazz. While Divya was touring Europe, Alice Coltrane heard the band perform at the Jazz Jamboree in Poland and invited it to perform at the John Coltrane Jazz Festival in Los Angeles. Divya toured Europe, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, and the U.S.S.R. The band made two album—Madras Café and Kumbha Mela—on which Sandhya was the featured vocalist. Dinshah and Sandhya produced a soundtrack album for a documentary on the Ramayana TV series for Channel 4 in the UK. Alice Coltrane featured Sandhya on the BBC documentary Rhythms of the World with Zakir Hussain and L. Shankar.

Embarking on a solo career

In 1998, Sandhya and Dinshah separated. In 1999, she married a Dutch man, moved to the Netherlands, and embarked on her solo career. She recorded her Nava Rasa suite with Heiko Dijker on tabla and Matthieu Safatly on prepared cello. She toured the Netherlands and Germany with this trio, while sometimes adding a dancer to the group. In London, she performed her Nava Rasa song cycle with Renga of the London Philharmonic Orchestra at St. James's Church in Piccadilly and at the Southbank Centre. Alice Coltrane invited her to do a solo performance at the John Coltrane festival for a fund raising concert^[4] in El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles, where she was accompanied by Ravi Coltrane's pianist Luis Perdomo on some pieces. In late 2009, she recorded Random Access Melody which was released by Loplop.

She is a member of Ramesh Shotham's Madras Special, a band that combines South Indian music and jazz. With this band, she performed in Morocco, Taiwan, Romania, Hungary, London, Germany and the Netherlands. She appeared on their albums Madras Special and Urban Folklore.^[5]

She has been a featured member of Omri Hason's Kadim and toured Switzerland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Germany with this band. She appeared on two albums with Kadim – the eponymous debut album and Shati.^[6]

Prem Joshua is a pioneer in world fusion music. Sandhya has been featured on three of his albums: Yatri, Taranga, and Shiva Moon. She appeared on an MTV Asia live broadcast with his band. She has toured Europe with the band and performed at Indian events with him.

She was one of the musicians on mp3.com who made web collaborations. During this period, she met Rom di Prisco who writes soundtracks for video games. He used Sanjana's voice on Unreal Tournament 3.^[7]

Sandhya belongs to the Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin community. The Saraswat community has produced many artistes of note such as Dinkar Kaikini, Shashikala Kaikini, Sita Hirebet, Lalit Jaiwant Rao, Chidanand Nagarkar, Taranath, Ravi and Shashi Bellare, Nityanand Haldipur.

Discography

As vocalist/member

As guest

Newspaper articles in the de Volkskrant

References

1. ^Indian Classical / Jazz / Fusion guide : http://www.lutins.org/indyjazz//ij-list.html#SSANJANA
2. ^Indian Classical / Jazz / Fusion guide : http://www.lutins.org/indyjazz//ij-list.html#DIVYA
3. ^Jazz in India - Perspectives on Historical Development and Musical Acculturation, Warren R. Pinckney Jr., Asian Music Vol. 21, no. 1, University of Texas Press, 1989 : https://www.jstor.org/pss/834073
4. ^All About Jazz http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=995 Coltrane Foundation Scholarship Fundraiser: A Night of Jazz (English)
5. ^The Hindu 22 December 2005 : http://www.hindu.com/mp/2005/12/22/stories/2005122200870500.htm
6. ^Playing with Omri Hason (German)
7. ^{{cite web|url=http://sumthing.com/itemDetails.aspx?id=3434 |title=Unreal Tournament III - The Soundtrack |publisher=Sumthing.com |date=2007-11-20 |accessdate=2011-11-22}}
8. ^{{note|Navy1}} de Volkskrant Zoltan Lantos laat nieuwe snaren resoneren (Dutch), [https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&u=http://www.volkskrant.nl/archief_gratis/article966520.ece/Zoltan_Lantos_laat_nieuwe_snaren_resoneren&ei=k89ASq7QDNyZjAfY8_COCQ&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://www.volkskrant.nl/archief_gratis/article966520.ece/Zoltan_Lantos_laat_nieuwe_snaren_resoneren%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26hs%3DBAl Zoltan Lantos allows new strings to resonate (English)]
9. ^de Volkskrant Dialoog tussen piano en oeroude kleipot (Dutch), [https://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=n&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.volkskrant.nl%2Farchief_gratis%2Farticle566079.ece%2FDialoog_tussen_piano_en_oeroude_kleipot&sl=nl&tl=en&history_state0= Dialogue between piano and ancient clay pot (English)]
10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.shazam.com/music/web/album?id=12913 |title=Various: Ramayana: A Journey |publisher=Shazam.com|accessdate=2011-11-22}}
11. ^{{cite web|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.volkskrant.nl%2Farchief_gratis%2Farticle1140222.ece%2FWereldmuziek |title=Google Translate |publisher=Translate.google.co.uk |date= |accessdate=2011-11-22}}
12. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.mixedworldmusic.com/recensies.php?id=63 |title=Recensies |publisher=MixedWorldMusic.com |date= |accessdate=2011-11-22 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723041037/http://www.mixedworldmusic.com/recensies.php?id=63 |archivedate=23 July 2011 |df=dmy-all }}
13. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.subjectivisten.nl/caleidoscoop/2009/12/sandhya-sanjana-random-access-melody.html |title=Caleidoscoop: Sandhya Sanjana - Random Access Melody |publisher=Subjectivisten.nl |date=2009-12-22 |accessdate=2011-11-22 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110916213453/http://www.subjectivisten.nl/caleidoscoop/2009/12/sandhya-sanjana-random-access-melody.html |archivedate=16 September 2011 |df=dmy-all }}
14. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.freeform.org/music/jazzsupreme/alice.coltrane/ |title=A Jazz Supreme - Alice Coltrane |publisher=Freeform.org |date=1967-05-23 |accessdate=2011-11-22}}
15. ^http://www.showmehowtoplay.com/artist/Sandhya-Sanjana/albums/?key=&album_id=R000308271
16. ^{{cite web|author=All About Jazz |url=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician_discography.php?id=19955 |title=Indofunk Satish | Jazz | Discography |publisher=Allaboutjazz.com |date=2010-03-30 |accessdate=2011-11-22}}