09/17 @ 8:00pm - Samita Sinha

Samita Sinha - Photo: Paula Court

Vocalist and sound artist Samita Sinha creates her sound from a palette of Hindustani music, electronics, and text in several languages (Hindi, Urdu, Brajh, Mandarin, Spanish, English, recombinations therein, and imaginary language). After intensive vocal study with Alka Deo Marulkar and Shiv Shankar Pandey in India, she developed a unique sound with her group Kaash (documented on their record, Seep), toured internationally with performance poet Sekou Sundiata’s the 51st (dream) state, and performed with jazz ensembles including Marc Cary’s FOCUS and Sunny Jain Collective. She also performs and records with ANATOMY, an electronic music project with Marc Cary. She has received awards from the Fulbright Foundation, Urban Artists Initiative, Queens Council on the Arts, and Millay Colony for the Arts.  She studied Literature and Cultural Criticism at Yale, and is currently enrolled in the MFA program at Bard College.

http://www.samitasinha.com/