Life
Nitinside was raised in Rochester, Kent, England. He utilized music & comedy to escape a ever present racist attitudes of the more students. He was possibly at once prohibited from either the music room by the teacher world health organization was a member of National Front. He exposed law at Liverpool University for a short instance. So he attend London, in which he met Sanjeev Bhaskar. the pair became friends & created a comedy double work, The Secret Asians, together. A indicate sought to turn absurdly dated Asian stereotypes in their heads. It led to the locate BBC radio and eventually grew into a award winning BBCTV sketch indicate - Goodness Gracious Me.

When you took that period he met higher by using an old school friend, acid-jazz keyboards-streaming video player James Taylor. He joined Taylor for the 40-date tour inside when a portion of The James Taylor Quartet. It introduced him to A jazz club scene & provoked him into forming his have band, The Jazztones. He moved in to join forces by owning tabla master Talvin Singh to form the Tihai Trio &, when that collaboration ended around 1993, freed his debut album, 'Spirit Dance' in his have label. Shortly later, he signed sustaining Outcaste Records.

Activism
Sawhney's music is intensely political, normally approaching themes of multiculturalism, empowerment, identity, immigration, poverty, and spirituality. He move as an creative person inside home for 5 different performing arts organizations inside Europe & Asia, & along by owning George Martin is a patron for the British Governments Access-to-Music Program which brings music education to the inner-city students. He has written comment in The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, and The Observer.

Music
Sawhney's skills include classical and jazz piano and flamenco guitar. He hwhen freed half a dozen studio albums, too as infinite remixes & collaborations. Fallowing releasing 'Beyond Skin' in London's Outcoste Records inside 1999, he was signed by V2 to do vi albums. His 1st album sustaining a Virgin subsidiary, the millennial/apocalyptical 'Prophesy', within 2001 won the MOBO Award and a BBC Radio 3 Music Award.

Sawhney's music is influenced by his roots around India, utilizing & featuring Urdu and Hindi lyrics, Qawwali singing, tablas & more instruments from either a subcontinent, and Raga phrasings in music which is typically primarily intended for the dance floor.

Producing and Composing
Sawhney's function inside production & arrangement has led to his working around film & television scores. He has scored television ads for Sephora and Nike, when well as assibilate twenty-25 films from either his London-depending Spirit Dance Studios. He was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award for Film and TV Compositiin within 2004 for his music on Channel Four's film, Second Generation. from either either there, he has begun to view acceptance from a "classical" community, & within 2004 he was licensed per city of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Britten Symphonia to compose new performance works. London's Royal National Theatre invited him to write, direct, and score the act to exist as opened inside 2005.

Recorded Work
Albums
Love-philter (2005) V2 Homo (2003) V2 Prophesy (2001) V2/BMG Beyond Skin (1999) Casteless Records Displacing a Priest (1996) Casteless Records Migration (1995) Casteless Records Spirit Dance (1994) Globe Circuit Compilations
100% Mixed Higher (2004) V2 Fabric Survive Xv (2004) Fabric Film Scores
Lila Says (2004) Hari Om (2004) Second Generation (2003) Pure (2002) Anita & Me (2002) Split Wide Open (1999) The Dance of Shiva Television Scores
Major BBC Two documental series, The Sikhs Channel 4 production of Twelfth Night

Theatrical Work
Urban Prophesies

Remixes, Side Projects, and Related Artists
Sawhney's act has been remixed by: 4hero Bugz in the Attic Joe Clausell Fink KV5 London Electricity MJ Cole Nasha Ojos de Brujo Rishi Rich Sei-ji Talvin Singh

Sawhney has written or even even produced music or remixes of various creative person including: Amar - Warner Brothers recording artist Natasha Atlas Aya - Island Records recording artist Jeff Beck Bugz in the Attic - produced album Got a Bug and Cirque du Soleil - produced music for Varekai in 2000 Aref Durvesh - Tabla player The Fireman - a plan by Sir Paul McCartney Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Lamb - produced album Back to Mine Cheb Mami - produced album Dellali Robert Miles Momndo Gross - produced album Now Your family Understand Better Khaled - Virgin France recording artist Joanna MacGregor - leading British Pianist Sinéad O'Connor

Sawhney has scored works like: Stephen Clarke's Mahabharata adaptation Anish Kapoor Akram Khan's acclaimed choreographed work Kaash within 2002

Awards

2004
Nominative for even Better film or Television Score at a Ivor Novello Awards 2003
Commission for Racial Equality Award 2002
Nominative for Media Personality of the Season at RIMA Awards

A EMMA Award for Prophesy

A MUSO Award for Prophesy 2001
A BBC Asia award for music for Prophesy

A MOBO Award for Prophesy

A Boundary Crossing Award from either BBC 3 Music Awards for Prophesy 2000
Better Mainstream Fusion Work for Beyond Skin at A Asian Pop Awards

Nomination for Technics Mercury Music Prize for Album of the year for Beyond Skin

A South Bank Award for Popular Music for Beyond Skin 1998
A EMMA Award for Displacing the Priest

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Asian Dub Foundation Talvin Singh Tabla Beat Science