In Snatam s voice...there is purity, clarity and love.

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2 Snatam Kaur is one of the most popular New Age artists of our time, selling over 70,000 albums a year. Snatam Kaur s albums have topped New Age Retailer s Top 20 lists every year since She was the only artist to have 3 albums in the Top 20 in a single year. Her albums have consistently ranked in the top 20 in both Indie New Age and Indie World Music on Amazon throughout 2009 and Her music can be heard around the world in venues from yoga studios to schools to Hollywood films and in the homes of her fans worldwide. An International phenomenon, her music has reached every corner of the globe from North America, Europe, Asia, and South America to Africa and the South Pacific, one fan spoke for all when he said, We come to Snatam s concerts to experience the beautiful atmosphere her voice creates, to heal and grow. You ll find enthusiastic press about Snatam s music everywhere from the Houston Chronicle to the Hindustan Times. She s also been featured on the cover of new age publications such as the Light Connection and the Body Mind Spirit Guide. Snatam Kaur, whose father was a manager for the Grateful Dead, has an amazing ability to transform traditional chants into a contemporary sound that appeals to the modern ear yet awakens an ancient yearning in the soul. Sacred Sounds Radio calls her music spiritually uplifting and deeply soul cleansing. Ram Dass, celebrated author of Be Here Now, says that in Snatam s voice...there is purity, clarity, and love. Snatam s CDs Prem, Shanti, Grace, Anand, LIVE In Concert, Feeling Good Today! and Liberation s Door are setting the industry standard for excellence in new age sacred music. Dressed in distinctive Sikh clothing, Snatam Kaur embodies the Sikh message of strength through inner serenity. She is an ambassador for 3HO (a United Nations affiliate), and is deeply committed to supporting the U.N. s Peace Resolution through her ongoing Sacred Chant Tour. She brings music, yoga and meditation to the communities she visits, as well as to hospices, juvenile detention centers, and schools she visits along the way. In Snatam s voice...there is purity, clarity and love. - Ram Dass, author of Be Here Now Snatam Kaur s concerts continue to grow with audiences of 2200 in Barcelona, 1200 in Mexico, 800 in Germany, and 700 in Toronto and Vancouver.

3 Thousands of people are needing to seek refuge. Snatam Kaur brings a peace, a love, a joy, a light to all. The language of the heart is song. She carries us to a realm of love & light. You feel God. - Gurmukh, World renowned Yoga Teacher, Author, Founder of Golden Bridge Yoga After spending 2 years touring and writing new music, Snatam Kaur released Liberation s Door, an album written and recorded as she experienced the magical creativity of her first pregnancy. This album builds on the fluid, soaring music that Snatam is known for, but raises it to a new level with her maternal energy unleashing a depth of emotion and richness beyond anything we ve heard from Snatam before. Blending Gurmukhi mantra, Shabds (traditional Sikh prayers put to music) and the sweetest of songs, Snatam lays her heart and her devotion at the feet of the listener. Discography Liberation s Door 2009 Shanti the Yogi DVD 2008 Feeling Good Today! 2008 Live in Concert 2007 Music Facts Over 70,000 Snatam Kaur s albums are sold each year. Snatam s music is sold worldwide. Snatam Kaur s albums have topped New Age Retailers Top 20 lists every year since In 2008, her LIVE in Concert album was one of the Top 10 albums of the year. Anand 2006 Celebrate Peace 2005 Grace 2004 Shanti 2003 Meditation CDs Prem 2002 Carry Us Home 2001 To Heaven and Beyond 2000 Divine Birth 2010 Experience & Project 2009 Merge & Flow 2008 Release & Overcome 2008 Connect & Heal 2008 All albums are on the Spirit Voyage record label.

4 The Sacred Chant Tour features Eastern inspired chant music with Snatam Kaur as the lead vocalist accompanied by unforgettable guitar playing by GuruGanesha Singh, and Ramesh Kannan s master precussion rhythms. In her concerts, Snatam Kaur delivers a heart opening performance that combines musical traditions of East and West. Her enchanting voice brings you an experience of peace and deep devotion. In 2010, Snatam Kaur and her band will be spreading their message of peace across the globe, from Mexico City, to Toronto Canada, and from New York City to Santiago, Chile will also include Snatam Kaur leading Sacred Chant Yoga and Meditation retreats and weekend workshops in Mexico, Boulder, CO; Chicago, Costa Rica, Santiago, Vancouver, Massachusetts, West Virginia, Florida, and the Bahamas. Support Musician GuruGanesha Singh is an icon of the yoga music genre. A musician deeply devoted to both his craft and the greater landscape of sacred sound, GuruGanesha s contribution to World Sacred Music is manifold. His three solo releases of Sikh-inspired chant music enhanced by his virtuoso guitar work, Pure Ganesh, Grateful Ganesh, and Joy Is Now are beloved by his fans worldwide. Pure Ganesh put GuruGanesha Singh on the map as a solo musician, topping New Age charts in early 2007 and receiving high critical acclaim from magazine reviewers in both New Age and Yoga publications. Long before GuruGanesha Singh released his solo albums, he was the force behind many well known chant musicians, including Snatam Kaur, Thomas Barquee, and Mirabai Ceiba and released several albums with other musicians including Game of Chants with Guru Singh and Grammy-winning singer, Seal. GuruGanesha Singh is also the founder of the record label, Spirit Voyage Records. Snatam Kaur performs globally, reaching tens of thousands of people. She performs at many of the top yoga centers in the world, including; Sivananda Bahamas Yoga Retreat Center, Kripalu Center in Massachusetts, Omega Institute in New York, and The Chopra Center in San Diego.

5 considered for a Grammy nomination. And her recent European tour attracted enormous audiences. Thousands showed up. One day when Snatam was eighteen, Yogi Bhajan heard her sing. Her voice was so beautiful, it moved him to tears. He urged her to continue his work through the medium of her music. She has been singing and teaching Sikh methods of yoga ever since. Linda Johnsen from her book Kirtan! Chanting as a Spiritual Path Concert, chantfest, musical group meditation, a yoga class in melody... how best to describe a live performance by Snatam Kaur and her band? It s all of these things and more. Seated center stage, Snatam is an angelic presence, dressed in traditional Sikh attire, bejeweled dress, white turban and veil. She s a diminutive woman, barely five feet tall, but possessed of a voice that could wrest tears from a stone gargoyle crystalline and radiant, redolent of the simple yet powerful truth of the heart. That voice has made her one of the top selling artists in the field of world sacred music. Amid the swelling ranks of devotional divas and mantra mamas, Snatam stands tall. Alan di Perna, Yoga Journal Snatam Kaur and guest artist Guru Ganesha Singh unite their voices and Singh s guitar playing on the wonderful Liberation s Door, a beautiful fusion of chants and songs accompanied by both traditional (sarod, santoor, esraj, and tabla) and contemporary instruments (flute, sax, cello, keyboards, and bass). The first track, Servant of Peace, is a great example of this amalgam of the two musical styles. While the chants are sung in a subdued, flowing, gentle manner, when Kaur switches over to the English lyrics of the Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi, the music takes on the infectiousness of a modern folk-rock motif. The remaining nine tracks continue to showcase Kaur s outstanding vocals as well as impressive musical contributions from the other 11 accompanists. This is undoubtedly one of the top chant releases of the past year. Bill Binkelman, New Age Retailer Snatam travels the world introducing people to the universe of Sikh chants. The Western arrangements and instrumentation make the songs easily accessible to the widest possible audience, and have helped turn her CDs into one top seller after another on the New Age charts. Her album Shanti was so well received it was even Anand is outstanding. If you are looking for a quiet place to find your center, to feel whole, this is it. Taking her time, loving each moment, her music patiently reveals its wholeness and love. Kudos to Snatam for spearheading the Celebrate Peace Tour, an international commitment to finding peace through music. Debi Winston-Buzil, Yoga Chicago Celebrate Peace Spreading a hopeful message of peace, Snatam Kaur s new recording is a lush musical production of uplifting songs, invocations and prayers. Three new songs begin the recording, all featuring the lovely powerful vocals of Snatam Kaur singing with a sincere belief in the power of celebrating peace Aura Magazine Shanti - One of the most compelling aspects of Shanti is the pure quality of Snatam Kaur s chanting. Listeners will find themselves drawn to the sense of innocence and peace she conveys track after track. Using traditional Indian and modern Western Instrumentation, each song dedicates an extended amount of time to such themes as destiny, infinity, acceptance, strength, meditation, celebration, healing and peace. Forgoing a cookie cutter Top 40 format, the repetitive nature of these songs allows listeners to really root themselves in the Sanskrit lyrics and experience the benefit of their wisdom. Bill Binkelman, New Age Retailer...Snatam Kaur, who sings both traditional mantras and contemporary English songs, tours internationally and is well known for her beautiful voice. The first time I heard her, I cried, said Nathan Hayes, who asked the singer to perform here and who ll be teaching yoga before her Sunday concert. Her purity and clarity pierced right through my heart. It s the most incredible music I ve heard in a long while, said Mary Sabin of Olympia, who heard Kaur last year in Seattle. I instantly loved her classically trained voice on soft spiritual chants and sounds. Molly Gilmore, The Olympian, Olympia, Washington

6 Snatam Kaur s concerts are a joy. I can t really explain them much better than that. I simply know that afterward I feel great and smile a lot. She has been on a world tour and in September comes to Southern California. On Sept. 1 her new album, Anand, produced by Spirit Voyage will be released... Her tour sponsored by Peace Cereal, was dedicated to inspiring people of all walks of life to celebrate the peace that is within, and from that place of strength, to reach out to others as neighbors and nations in the spirit of peace. Steve Hays, Light Connection, San Diego, CA Svensk Yoga: Through music and the naad the point where the primal sound resonates with the finite energy Snatam sees it as her task to help people get into that space where they can experience a connection with the divine. After meeting Snatam Kaur, the possibility of peace on earth seems like a real possibility. It is up to each one of us to start changing our consciousness, and then the world will follow. Angela Valenti, Svensk Yoga, Sweden Peace ambassador and kirtan (chanting) artist Snatam Kaur and musicians GuruGanesha Singh and Krishan Prakash came to Evanston the weekend of April 1 to lead workshops and kirtans. The highlight of the weekend was the inspiring and uplifting kirtan at the Music Institute of Chicago on Saturday night. It was truly a heart-opening, joyful celebration of peace. With GuruGanesha Singh on guitar, Krishan Prakash on drums (both rock and tablas) and Snatam playing electric harmonium and violin, the group combined both Eastern and Western influences to create moving and upbeat sounds with jazzy guitar riffs and exotic drum beats that made it hard to sit still. Add the hundreds of voices of the audience chanting the names of God along with the musicians, and the house rocked! Sharon Steffensen, Yoga Chicago For some singers or musicians, describing their voice or musical composition as angelic would be hyperbole. But when listening to, learning from or conversing with chant artist Snatam Kaur, angelic is an understatement. she is aware of the power of prayer through the sacred chants she shares and their potential for changing the consciousness of the planet. Felicia M. Tomasko, LA Yoga, Los Angeles In the cool shadows of the trees in the garden of St. Joseph s Cultural Center in Grass Valley, Snatam Kaur looked more like an angel than a singer on a world tour. Dressed in immaculate white, the 34-year-old American Sikh performer spoke of God, peace and music in a young, soothing voice Kaur is now in Grass Valley as part of her international Celebrate Peace concert tour. She has already performed in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Great Britain, Spain, Sweden, and Canada, as well as in 28 major cities in the Eastern United States and 20 West Coast cities. Her next stop is Sacramento, where she performs on Aug Kaur has a cozy band accompanying her. It is comprised of her guitarist, GuruGanesha, and her percussionist, Krishan Prakash, and herself. She plays the violin and the harmonium, an Indian reed instrument. Soumitros Sen, The Union, California At concerts, Snatam Kaur s pure voice weaves interchangeably with those of her male ensemble singers. The melodies blend elegantly with the sounds of guitars, violins, harmonium and tabla drums. Her song lyrics move from ancient languages to English, making traditional prayers accessible to Western listeners. Kaur invites the audience to join her in chanting, singing, and even deep breathing. As the music reaches the sublime, Kaur asks audiences to devote the energy to peace. It s at that point in the concert that the vibration for prayer is so incredibly strong, and that s when we devote the most peace on the planet, she said, during an interview on the grounds of Self-Realization Fellowship Temple in Encinitas. Soothing and uplifting, Kaur s CD albums have touched people in deep ways. Pregnant women have given birth to Kaur s melodies. One man on his deathbed listened to her chants when he passed away. A soldier returning from the Iraq War refused to talk to his wife about his experiences. But when he listened to Kaur s music, he broke down sobbing. Helen Kaiao Chang, San Diego News Network Contact Sopurkh Singh Khalsa: press@snatamkaur.com (505) County Road 126, Espanola, NM Music & Wholesale Ordering: info@spiritvoyage.com (888)

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