Kiran Thakrar

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 has won 'Best UK Short film' at 'Iris Prize' and 'Jury awards' in Seattle. Now it is 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. Contact Tel no:+44 7957190680

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