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Talvin Singh

Singh grew up in Leytonstone and began playing the tabla, breakdancing and listening to punk rock as a child. At the age of 15, Singh went to India where he studied tabla under Pandit Lashman Singh, but he returned to the UK after just one year. In spite of this classical training, Singh's tabla playing was not accepted by British promoters of classical Indian music, as he incorporated too strongly his western influences. By the late 1980s, Singh had decided to turn towards the fusion of sounds, and soon he began working as a musician with such artists as the Indigo Girls, David Sylvian, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Sun Ra, Björk, Massive Attack and the Future Sound of London. Image File history File links Tsingh. ... Image File history File links Tsingh. ... Leytonstone is a place within the London Borough of Waltham Forest. ... A breakdancer performing a one-handed freeze (also known as a pike) in the streets of Paris. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... Raga (rāg /राग (Hindi), raga (anglicised from rāgaḥ/रागः (Sanskrit)) or rāgam /ராகம் (Tamil)) are the melodic modes used in Indian classical music. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... The Indigo Girls are an American folk rock duo, consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. ... David Sylvian David Sylvian (born David Alan Batt, February 23, 1958) is an English singer/songwriter who first rose to fame as the lead vocalist of the band Japan, and whose subsequent solo career has been influenced by a variety of musical styles, including jazz and electronic music (primarily ambient... Siouxsie and the Banshees (pronounced like the name Susie) were a British punk/Post-punk band. ... Cover of the album The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One Sun Ra (May 22, 1914? – May 30, 1993) was an innovative jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, who came to be known as much for his cosmic philosophy as for his musical compositions and performances. ... Björk Guðmundsdóttir ( ) (born November 21, 1965 in Reykjavík, Iceland) is a Brit Award-winning Icelandic singer/songwriter and composer (formerly the lead singer of alternative rock band The Sugarcubes), with a great expressive range and an interest in many kinds of music including pop, alternative rock... Massive Attack are a successful and critically acclaimed band from Bristol, UK. They have released eight albums - four full studio albums, two movie soundtracks, one remix album, and a greatest hits collection. ... Future Sound of London (often abbreviated to FSOL) is a British electronic music band, the duo of Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans. ...

In late 1995, Singh founded the Anokha club night at East London's Blue Note, where drum'n'bass DJs and South Asian punk bands went head to head with the amped-up sounds of his tabla and percussion. Guest spots by LTJ Bukem and others made Anokha a Monday-night hotspot in London, and Singh signed to Island for an Anokha compilation including several of his own productions. He worked as a remixer until releasing his solo debut, OK, in 1998. The album won him the Mercury Music Prize for 1999. 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Map of South Asia South Asia is a subregion of Asia comprising the modern states of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, . It covers about 4,480,000 km², or 10 percent of the continent, and is also known as the Indian subcontinent. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... The Mercury Music Prize, now officially known as the Nationwide Mercury Prize, is a music award given annually for the best British or Irish album of the previous 12 months. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Old Farts by the Sometimes-United Nations. ...

Recorded Work

Solo Albums

• Ha (2001) Island
• Ok (1998) Island

Ha, the sequel to the Mercury Award winning album OK is a more club and dance based album. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Ok is the debut release of tabla player and music producer Talvin Singh , and it was nine months in the making. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...

Collaborations & original contributions

• Talvin Singh & Sangat - Songs for the inner world (2004) Live French Import.
• Talvin Singh & Rakesh Chaurasi - Vira (2002) Navras.
• Tabla Beat Science - Tala Matrix (2002) Palm Pictures.
• Remixsingh OK (2001)Island / Japan Import.
• Master Musicians of Jajouka (2000)
• Randall & Hopkirk - Original soundtrack (2000) Island.
• Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Star rise (1997) Realworld.
• Anokha - Soundz of the Asian Underground (1997) Island.
• Calcutta Cyber Cafe: Drum + Space (1995) Omni Records.

Compilation

• Back to Mine (2001) DJ-Series
• Abracatabla (1994) Sampling CD

Back To Mine is a series of compilation albums, usually (though not always) mixed by renowned DJs or composers of electronic music. ...

Remixes

• Madonna - "Nothing Really Matters"
• Nargis - "Ghoom Charakhana"
• Björk - "Possibly Maybe"
• Ryuichi Sakamoto - Grief
• John Martyn - Sunshines Better
• Sarah McLachlan - Answer

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External link

• Talvin Singh at the Internet Movie Database
• Talvin Singh Official website. homepage. Retrieved on March 30, 2006.