World (South Asian)
An architect by profession and a musician by passion, critically acclaimed Indo-Canadian World musician Vandana Vishwas is formally trained in North Indian classical vocal music but specializes in composing and singing expressive south-Asian song forms such as Ghazals, Nazms, Geet & light Thumris. Although blessed with prodigal singing skills and flawless silk smooth voice since early childhood, Vandana has had to overcome serious physical challenges caused by a painful permanent injury caused by an unfortunate medical negligence right after she was born.
With two critically acclaimed music albums ‘Meera The lover’ and ‘Monologues’ to her credit, leading her to win Marty Award 2012, US Indies 2011, Toronto Best World CD by TEM 2010 and nominations in Indies 2010, TIMA 2010, K.M. Hunter Award 2011, Vandana sings in many other south Asian languages such as Punjabi, Sindhi, Marathi, Bangla etc. apart from her mother tongue Hindi/Urdu. Sometimes she likes singing in English too! She has recently taken a liking for cross-over experiments, trying to extract the Indian music elements out of western classics!
Vandana has been lauded by the critics for her expressive & crystalline voice (Errol Nazareth, Toronto Sun), simplicity, sincerity & crisp diction (Savia Rajgopal, Mybindi.com), gently gliding entrancing vocals (Andrew Frey, Maximum Ink Music Magazine), tenderness towards melody and lyrics (John Goddard, The Toronto Star) and many other qualities by various other reviewers and critics. ‘It’s almost as if Vandana was the second coming of Lata…’ (Alastair Johnston, muzikifan.com).
Leading legendary musicians have been fascinated with her singing. ‘Vandana’s voice is a musical treat’ says Mr. Sohail Rana, the legendary composer of timeless classics such as ‘Aaj jaane kee zid na karo…’ and ‘Mujhe tum nazar se gira to rah ho…’. ‘It is her persistence and dedicated pursuit of music that have made Vandana evolve into a versatile singer with all the finer nuances, melody and sweet fragrance of Indian music…’ say the famous ghazalist brother duo Ustaad Ahmed and Mohammed Hussain.
Vandana’s recent projects include playback singing for a Marathi feature film “Mi Swatantra Honar” to be released in mid 2014 in India; and composing, singing and producing the theme track for upcoming Hindi novel “Samarsiddha” written by UK based novelist Sandeep Nayyar, being published by Penguin India in mid 2014.
With two critically acclaimed music albums ‘Meera The lover’ and ‘Monologues’ to her credit, leading her to win Marty Award 2012, US Indies 2011, Toronto Best World CD by TEM 2010 and nominations in Indies 2010, TIMA 2010, K.M. Hunter Award 2011, Vandana sings in many other south Asian languages such as Punjabi, Sindhi, Marathi, Bangla etc. apart from her mother tongue Hindi/Urdu. Sometimes she likes singing in English too! She has recently taken a liking for cross-over experiments, trying to extract the Indian music elements out of western classics!
Vandana has been lauded by the critics for her expressive & crystalline voice (Errol Nazareth, Toronto Sun), simplicity, sincerity & crisp diction (Savia Rajgopal, Mybindi.com), gently gliding entrancing vocals (Andrew Frey, Maximum Ink Music Magazine), tenderness towards melody and lyrics (John Goddard, The Toronto Star) and many other qualities by various other reviewers and critics. ‘It’s almost as if Vandana was the second coming of Lata…’ (Alastair Johnston, muzikifan.com).
Leading legendary musicians have been fascinated with her singing. ‘Vandana’s voice is a musical treat’ says Mr. Sohail Rana, the legendary composer of timeless classics such as ‘Aaj jaane kee zid na karo…’ and ‘Mujhe tum nazar se gira to rah ho…’. ‘It is her persistence and dedicated pursuit of music that have made Vandana evolve into a versatile singer with all the finer nuances, melody and sweet fragrance of Indian music…’ say the famous ghazalist brother duo Ustaad Ahmed and Mohammed Hussain.
Vandana’s recent projects include playback singing for a Marathi feature film “Mi Swatantra Honar” to be released in mid 2014 in India; and composing, singing and producing the theme track for upcoming Hindi novel “Samarsiddha” written by UK based novelist Sandeep Nayyar, being published by Penguin India in mid 2014.