Music Diva Kiran Ahluwalia Offers Global Common Ground
New York-based singer combines Indian musical roots with sounds of Saharan Africa, Portugal, Ireland and Afghanistan
November 23, 2011
Kiran Ahluwalia honors the traditions of others, creating a musical world where geographic boundaries don't apply.
The India-born Canadian singer
Kiran Ahluwalia
is known for her ability to combine a wide range of styles in single compositions - from the Indian and Pakistani “ghazals” of her girlhood, to Celtic folk music, Portuguese Fado and, most recently, the traditional hand clapping and blues-inspired music of the Tuareg tribes of West Africa
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“It’s not that I intended to come here,
but the path has led me here.
Laced with dust though I am,
yet please consider that for years
I have been wandering dusty paths…”
Those are lyrics to the ghazal “Yeh Nahin.” It's Punjabi for “Wandering Dusty Paths,” composed by Kiran Ahluwalia. Born in India, raised in Canada, now living in New York and touring the world with her band, Ahluwalia’s own path has been wandering ever since she first heard these traditional love songs as a girl.
“Even though the words were beyond the comprehension of a 10 year old, I was just mesmerized by the music," says Ahluwalia, in the apartment overlooking Harlem she shares with her husband, fellow musician and producer Rez Abassi.
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