TRITHA
One of India’s most promising musicians and gifted singer, songwriter and composer, Tritha is a rising figure in the world. She was invited to perform at the Cannes film festival 2019 in France for her music activist score in the “Coup de Cœur” award winning film – “Voyage for Change”. Travelled over 18 countries with her concerts and workshops, Tritha has 16 albums to her credit with her different projects. She is based presently in Goa. 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 had also been a speaker at the TEDx Delhi, where she got a standing ovation for her speech and songs about the New Indian Woman’s Voice and relevance on the global front.
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. 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.
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, an women artist collective based in New Delhi that creates music to provoke dialogue about gender justice and made 2 independent albums with the collective.
Her unique style, mixing Indian classical and psychedelic punk-rock rhythms has seduced critics and audiences alike in India as well as in Europe. In her younger days, at the age of 17, she had won popular TV show Antakshari on Zee TV on Indian Television and won many competitions in high school and college. She went on to becoming an asset for her country, representing INDIA in 18 countries. With her band Tritha Electric at Asia Music Festival 2013 in Miri, Malaysia, in the Kaloobang Festival and IOMMA at Reunion Islands in 2014, the prestigious Womex festival in Budapest in 2015, Luxembourg rock festival in 2016 and Copenhagen in 2017. In the last decade, apart from India, she has also done performances, workshops & recordings at Paris, Nice, Toulon, Geneva, Berlin, Corsica, Vienna, Madagascar & Thailand and finally Cannes in 2019. She has performed 400 concerts around 18 countries in the last decade.
Tritha also teaches Indian classical music in Europe and India combining it with Music Healing, Activism and Music Meditation workshops. 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, back in India with national award winning Bollywood director Muzaffar Ali.
She now also 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.
