TRITHA
Golden Voice. Globally acclaimed singer and composer, Tritha is a Sound Yogini, songwriter, music producer and activist. Bridging India and Europe, Tritha transcends borders, making souls vibrate through ancestral powerful mantras, original compositions and electro raga soundscapes.
More than just music, her art and existence is an act of commitment. A passionate environmental activist, she dedicated her album «Pachamama» as A Tribute to Mother Nature. Inspiring women’s rights and gender equality in India, her debut album “PaGLi’ delved into the search for freedom from a traditional Indian woman to a modern relevant global citizen. She founded a women collective in India SPACE – Stop Patriarchy And Choose Equality using Music for Social Change.
Currently she is invested in the transmission of Indian ancestral wisdom through Sound Yoga, which she teaches as workshops all over Europe & India. Recently, she was invited to demonstrate Sacred Geometry of Sound at the Museum of Consciousness at Oxford University, UK. Her talent has been recognized internationally: performed in 23 countries, listed among «100 Women Changing India» by Magnum Photos, featured on BBC and Arte’s «Tracks» as a music activist, and honoured at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival for her music in the «Coup de Cœur» award winning film «Voyage for Change» where young children give solutions for sustainability of the planet.
She has been studying Indian classical music for 25 years in the Agra & Patiala gharana and then Bishnupur gharana from Pandit Santanu Bandyopadyay where she learnt Khayal. She has also learnt deep secrets of breath and internal sounds connected to the physical body in 12th century Dhrupad style from Padmashri Gundecha brothers & masterclasses with Ustad Wasiffudin Dagar and Pt. Ritwik Sanyal. She has been teaching and conducting workshops on music therapy since the last 10 years and now also makes albums to share healing vibrations of music and sound secrets to the world.
Tritha’s debut studio album PaGLI released on Sony Music in 2014, where she earned her license to break the rules, unlearn and re-interpret what she had learnt in her classical methods. Her next album “Raagas in Paris” released in 2016 on Silk Road label where she explored Indian classical with psychedelic rock, and performed with her Indo-french rock band Tritha Electric, Soon after, in the same year, her next album, “Elements d’existence”, released based around sound healing and the 5 elements. This summer, she released her path-breaking album “Pachamama – A Tribute to Mother Earth” on July 3rd, 2021, also the International Plastic Bag Free World Day. Her last album was made in a Buddhist monastery in the Alps – “Dharani – 100000 ancient Buddhist mantras for the Earth” to for mind-body soul purification.
Tritha was featured on BBC World, European TV channels ARTE:Tracks and Canal +, where she was termed as a “Music Activist’. She represented India as a socially engaged musician in the global music residency program OneBeat in America in 2017 and got accredited from the U.S. State Department for her music activism and cultural diplomacy through musical engagements and community development.
Tritha’s picture has been traveling all over the world since 2012 with an exhibition – ‘Women Changing India’, organized by Magnum Photos from Paris & BNP Paribas. Tritha also has co-founded SPACE, stands for Stop Patriarchy And Choose Equaltiy ; an artist collective committed to women’s rights that creates music to provoke dialogue about gender justice and made 2 independent albums with the collective.
Her unique style, seduced critics and audiences alike in India as well as in Europe. In her younger days, at the age of 16, she had won popular Indian TV musical competition Antakshari on Zee TV on Indian Television and won many competitions in high school and college. She went onto singing with several Bollywood icons to becoming an asset for her country with her original music, representing INDIA in 23 countries. With her indo-french raaga rock band Tritha Electric, she went to Asia Music Festival 2013 in Miri, Malaysia, in the Kaloobang Festival and IOMMA at Reunion Islands in 2014, COP 21 Climate Conference and the prestigious Womex festival in Budapest in 2015, Luxembourg rock festival in 2016 and Copenhagen in 2017. As solo, she sung in the Grand Rex in Paris, Stay Magic in South of France, Medicine Festival and Solstice in UK, Lalaland Festival in Amsterdam, In the last decade, apart from India, she has also done performances, workshops & recordings all over France, Estonia, Italy, Germany, sung in Europe in Geneva, Berlin, Vienna, Madagascar and in Asia in Thailand & Indonesia. She has performed 500 concerts around the globe in the last decade.
Past – She has been invited for special performances, with world famous percussionist Sivamani, designer Urvashi Kaur for live performance on the ramp of India Fashion Week, Mallika Sarabhai for a dance production about Sufi saint Lal Ded from the 14th century and the American writer/activist Eve Ensler, famed for the book Vagina Monologues and for the One Billion rising movement. She has also worked with global personalities like Hip-hop producer Chinese Man & S.O.A.P, Mantra Techno with Ibiza based Hannah Hais and drum & bass with Marzman J and Jananka Selekta, back in India with national award winning Bollywood director Muzaffar Ali. Presently, she is working and finishing her next album, “Acid Raga Experience”, with Marc Colin, producer and founder of famous french band, Nouvelle Vagues.
Present – As a solo artist, she crafts a sonic universe where her powerful hypnotic voice intertwines using her loopstation, indian drone tanpura sounds, acoustic rythmic guitar, and the mystical resonance of Tibetan singing bowls alongside other traditional global instruments. Sometimes, she features as guest vocalist with global musical icons, dabbles as Tritha & Friends with amazing musicians, performs solo with Tibetan bowl, guitar, modular synth and raaga-loop performances as a One-Woman show with her reflective originals on Mother Nature & Human Nature and also DJs as her Electronic DJ Avatar PaGLi, composes for films, collaborates with artists from all over the world, and conducts workshops on using Music and Sound for healing and aligning human body, mind and heart causing deep and positive transformation of the soul. She has also organised successful holistic festivals such as Divine Union in Mojigao and Satsanga Retreat, Goa inviting numerous healers, yoga and holistic life practitioners, inspiring speakers and conscious musicians.
