Snatam Kaur

小档案
外文名 Snatam Kaur
真  名 Snatam Kaur Khalsa
代表作 Long Time Sun
艺人资料
Snatam Kaur 的真名叫 Snatam Kaur Khalsa，Kaur 是锡克族语公主之意。Snatam Kaur 是一位精神音乐大使，她出生在印度瑜伽士家庭。Snatam 从小就训练了声音、小提琴、吉他。她有了西部古典音乐的坚实基础，并经常参加乐队演奏及个人的小提琴独奏。在精神音乐领域不断的扩展着并发挥着自己的天分，她遨游在音乐和灵性之间。“我得知潮流的重要性，信奉瑜伽者 Bhajan 曾说过，”她说，“我有个人经验的，我认为这些神圣的词能量，有一个非常真正，正面的作用。”Snatam 在印度更加进一步探索了声音的力量。在印度她花费了时间照顾幼儿，教体育和提供音乐给儿童在早晨吟唱和平颂歌。Snatam 在这里安定的学习音乐并从教于 Amritsar（Sikh 样式印度大师 kirtan）Bhai Hari Singh 。对她来说这是一巨大荣誉，并且她的母亲在孩童时代也受过这位大师的教育。
在从印度返到美国后，Snatam 开始了她的事业成为了录音艺术家并出版了《和平家庭》等音乐专集。而后，她担当了歌手，与音乐家 Livtar Singh 和 GuruGanesha Singh 相识，使她有了第一个机会可以写歌曲。两年后她开始开发她自己的声音并将锡克族音乐和西方古典音乐完美的结合在一起。从而开始了非常卓有成效的音乐事业。
很多人说：“每次听到她那宛如天籁的人声吟唱都是全身心的沉浸在她所营造那种平和的意境里不能自拔，她声音就像一股温暖和煦的阳光轻抚着听者的心。”
作品年表
Peace Family: Reunion（2000）专辑
To Heaven and Beyond（2000）专辑
Grace（2004）专辑
Prem（2004）专辑
Shanti（2004）专辑
Celebrate Peace（2005）专辑
Anand（2006）专辑
The Best Of（2007）专辑
Meditations for Transformation: Release & Overcome（2008）专辑
Feeling Good Today!（2009）专辑
Liberation's Door（2009）专辑
Divine Birth（2010）专辑
Sacred Chants For Healing（2010）专辑
Ras（2011）专辑
Light of the Naam: Morning Chants（2014）专辑
Life and career
Snatam Kaur Khalsa (born 1972 in Trinidad, Colorado), is an American singer and songwriter. Kaur performs new age Indian devotional music, kirtan, and tours the world as a peace activist. The surname "Kaur", meaning "princess", is shared by all female Sikhs.
Her family moved to California when Snatam was two, living in Long Beach and Sacramento. When Snatam was six, the family went to India where her mother studied kirtan. Snatam lived on a ranch near Bolinas, California until 8th grade and then moved to Mill Valley in 1986. During her childhood, she played kirtan with her mother in Sikh temples and at Sikh religious ceremonies. She attended Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley. While at Tam High, she played violin in the school orchestra and began songwriting. Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead coached Kaur and her classmates before they performed her song Saving the Earth at an Earth Day concert in San Francisco on April 22, 1990.
Snatam was also active in social and environmental causes while in high school, serving as president of a social action club known as "Students for Justice" in her senior year. The club started a campus recycling program and organized environmental awareness programs. The club also led the effort to change the school mascot and sports team names from the Indians to the Red Tailed Hawk in 1989 and 1990, inspired by a speech given at the school by Sacheen Littlefeather.
After graduating from Tam, Snatam attended Mills College in Oakland, California, receiving a bachelor's degree in biochemistry. She then returned to India to study Kirtan under her mother's teacher, Bhai Hari Singh. In 1997, Kaur began a career as a food technologist with Peace Cereals in Eugene, Oregon.
Discography
2000         Reunion
2000         To Heaven and Beyond
2002         Carry Us Home
2002         Prem (Love)
2003         Shanti
2004         Grace
2005         Celebrate Peace
2005         Mother's Blessing
2006         Anand
2007         LIVE in Concert
2007         Amrit Vela - Sadhana Chants
2008         Teree Meher Da Bolanaa
2008         Meditations for Transformation 1: Merge & Flow
2008         Meditations for Transformation 2: Connect & Heal
2008         Meditations for Transformation 3: Release & Overcome
2009         Liberation's Door
2010         The Essential Snatam Kaur: Sacred Chants For Healing
2010         Divine Birth
2011         Ras
2011         Feeling Good Today
2012         Evening Prayer - Kirtan Sohila
2012         Heart Of The Universe
2013         Sat Nam! Songs from Khalsa Youth Camp
 
2014         Light of the Naam: Morning Chants