Susheela Raman - Salt rain 2001

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SALT RAIN marks the debut of an extraordinary new talent on the world music scene. A singer born in the U.K. to South Indian parents, Susheela Raman's bold and sensuous voice weaves the music of India with sounds from her Western upbringing, celebrating the collision of European, African, and Asian musical cultures. Empowered by her Indian classical training but not limited by it, Susheela maps out a new musical landscape of intense beauty and invention.

SALT RAIN is the culmination of a three-year collaboration between Susheela Raman and Real World producer/guitarist Sam Mills.

"I was born in London in 1973 to South Indian parents. My family moved to Australia when I was very young and were eager to keep our Tamil culture alive. I grew up singing South Indian classical music and began giving recitals at an early age. As a teenager, I branched out into more blues-based music, which demanded quite different voice techniques. The question, then, was how to bring these streams together. In 1995, I went to India to study with Shruti Sadolikar, one of the greatest living Hindustani vocalists. This was a challenging experience as I had to let go of what I thought I knew and find a new, more insightful approach to my craft.

SALT RAIN was recorded between October and December 2000. We were lucky to collaborate with some unique musicians who live mostly in London and Paris but are of diverse origins: Guinea Bissau, Cameroon, India, Romania, France, Greece, Egypt, Kenya, America, and Spain. Any record is a meeting of many minds and, now more than ever, it is networks of people, not just individuals that spark new and exciting work. Everyone brought their own special energy to the music and I am very proud of what we all worked together to create."

-Susheela Raman
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Susheela Raman (born in Hendon, London, UK on July 21, 1973) is an acclaimed British Tamil musician. Raman has released four albums since 2001. Her debut album Salt Rain was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2001.

After a period of three years experimenting and collaborating with Sam Mills, Raman made her first album Salt Rain. Released in 2001 on Narada, an American subsidiary of EMI, it went gold in France and in the UK was shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize. She also won the Best Newcomer award from BBC Radio 3. Salt Rain drew on traditional Tamil music blended with jazz-folk and pop influences. It featured original material, as well as old songs Raman sang at recitals when younger.






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