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Chandrika Tandon, 71, won the hallowed gramophone for her caller collaborative medium successful the Best New Age, Ambient oregon Chant Album category.
Indian-American planetary concern person and musician, Chandrika Tandon Sunday won a Grammy for Triveni, an medium which blends past chants with satellite music, astatine the 67th Grammy Awards. Tandon, 71, won the hallowed gramophone for her caller collaborative medium successful the Best New Age, Ambient oregon Chant Album category. The seven-track medium aimed to beryllium a meditative travel successful what Tandon has called “inner healing”.
She joined forces with South African flautist Wouter Kellerman and Japanese cellist Eru Matsumoto to contiguous age-old Vedic chants successful the medium named aft the confluence of 3 rivers, too representing their 3 antithetic styles. “Music is love, euphony ignites the airy wrong each of us, and, adjacent successful our darkest days, euphony spreads joyousness and laughter,” she said portion receiving the coveted grant successful Los Angeles.
Raised successful a accepted and orthodox middle-class location successful Chennai and a Madras Christian College alumna, euphony was each astir Chandrika Krishnamoorthy Tandon and her younger sister Indra. Since the household was rooted successful the teachings of the Samaveda, Vedic chants, too Carnatic music, were a portion of the home’s accepted upbringing.
While Indra Nooyi led PepsiCo for 12 years arsenic its CEO, and became 1 of the 50 astir almighty women successful concern successful the world, Tandon was the archetypal Indian-American pistillate spouse astatine McKinsey, and created New York-based Tandon Capital Associates, a steadfast that looks astatine measurable restructuring of institutions.
A postgraduate of IIM Ahmedabad, she became a planetary concern person and philanthropist who, with her hubby Ranjan, donated $100 cardinal to the New York School of Engineering successful 2015. The institute present adds Tandon to its name.
Tandon, who learnt euphony from classical vocalist Shubhra Guha and vocalist Girish Wazalwar, was nominated for her archetypal Grammy successful 2010 for her medium Om Namo Narayana: Soul Call.
Interestingly, this twelvemonth she was nominated with shaper Ricky Kej, sitar subordinate Anoushka Shankar, and Indian-origin British creator Radhika Vekaria.
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Shankar, who has present been nominated astir 11 times, missed out, yet again, connected taking a aureate gramophone home. Her half-sister Norah Jones, Pt Ravi Shankar’s daughter, won Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Visions, her ninth workplace medium — soothing tracks that are an amalgamation of a slew of genres.
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