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Kiran Thakrar
an Indian composer, producer and Keyboard & Harmonium
player based in London has been working, living and breathing music
over 25 years.
His music has been
heard on major TV channels worldwide like BBC, CBC Sky, ITV and many other
for which he has produced specially commissioned 'production music' album
for Universal Production Music, Programmes include 'The Real Shilpa Shetty',
'Desi DNA', 'India Schools' 'Tonight with Trevor
McDonald' and many more.
He has just composed
original score for film ‘Diana’ which in being shown internationally in
various film festivals.
In 2001 the album ‘Beyond Boundaries in which
Kiran collaborated and co- composed music was awarded the highest
award-‘The Juno award’ (Canadian Grammy) by the Canadian music industry.
He has also been awarded for the recognition of the best selling popular
album ‘Love 2 Love 2001’. Kiran was recognized for the success of the
album ‘All Time Hits’ for the Bollywood music director Nadeem of Nadeem
Shravan fame.
He has performed in
more than 4000 concerts worldwide and has worked with some of the most
respected names in the industry like Late Ustad Nusrahat Fateh Ali Khan,
Zakir Hussein, Sivamani, Ginuwine, James Asher, Bill Bailey, Hariharan,
Richa Sharma, Runa Laila, Hans Raj Hans, Sadhna
Sargam and Bollywood music directors Ravindra Jain,
Nadeem Shravan and many others of this caliber.
A strong interest in
the musical technology led Kiran to explore the worlds of computers,
programming and found this a great opportunity to pioneer fusions of
Eastern and Western musical styles and this encouraged Kiran to further
explore the creative fusing of modern technological processes, and the
blending of broad global elements to evolve truly new musical genres.
Kiran much enjoys the possibilities of creative manipulation offered by
hard-disk recording in his studio
Globalrootz.
A
few of Kiran's respected and loved artists with
whom he had a
opportunity to work:-
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Late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Pandit Hariprsad Chaurasiya
Sultankhan
Laxmishankar
Pandit Sharda Sahai
Pandit Ronu Mazumudar
Pandit Ramesh Mishra
Pandit Dinesh
Rakesh Chaurasia
Dipak Pandit
Devki Pandit
Chintoosingh
Sivamani
Rajendra Singh
Sanju Sahai
Anup Jalota
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Ravindra Jain
Nadeem Shrvan
Hariharan
Mahalakshmi Ayer
Richa Sharma
Sweta & Shraddha
Pandit
Runa Laila
Sadhna Sargam
Anuradha Paudwal
Vani Jayram
Talat Aziz
Kersi Lord
Franco Vaz
Channisingh (Allap)
Malkit Singh
Bali Bhrahambhatt
Hans Raj Hans
Basu da
Shin (DCS)
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Bill Bailey
Ginuwine
Rez Abbasi
Rich Brown
Babel Gilberto
James Asher
Masons Jennings
Kristi Stassinopoulou
Rokia Traore
Harry Manx
Chantal Vitalis(Anne Loree)
Wendy McNeil(Rambling roses)
Silk and Steel
B'Net Marrakech
Patty Larkin
Andrea Koziol
Lilison Di Kinara
Madagascar Slim
Ruh Afza Ensemble
Andy Rogers
Jeremy Darby
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