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Tag: Sheila Chandra

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Sheila Chandra Provides Free Download of Upcoming Book in Response to COVID-19 Emergency

World Music Central News Room April 29, 2020 No Comments Indian musicSheila Chandra

British world music icon Sheila Chandra has made available a free digital download of her upcoming book ‘How to Live like an Artist’ on her…

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The Experimental Side of Sheila Chandra

Madanmohan Rao May 1, 2019 No Comments Indian musicSheila Chandraworld fusion

Sheila Chandra – This Sentence is True (EMI/Narada, 2001) Sheila Chandra, the Anglo-Indian singer who released a number of synth-pop albums in the 1980s, is…

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Sheila Chandra Out on Her Own

Madanmohan Rao April 11, 2019 1 Comment Indian musicSheila Chandraworld fusionworld music

Sheila Chandra – Out on my own (Indipop, 1984, reissued by Narada//EMI in 2000) This is a slender album by today’s standards, with 10 tracks…

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Artist Profiles

Artist profiles: Sheila Chandra

Angel Romero December 2, 2017 No Comments Indian musicSheila ChandraUnited Kingdomworld fusion

Singing at her family home at age 12, Sheila Chandra discovered her voice – an instrument which has beguiled and mesmerized her audiences around the…

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Real World Gold, Real World Records to Reissue 10 Classic World Music Albums

World Music Central News Room May 16, 2012 No Comments Afro Celt Sound SystemSheila Chandra

Iconic world music label Real World Records announced a new initiative called Real World Gold. The project focuses on reissues of essential recordings that have…

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Daring English Folk

TJ Nelson February 27, 2009 No Comments Benjamin ZephaniahBilly BraggChris WoodEliza CarthyJohnny KalsiMartin CarthyPaul WellerSheila ChandraSimon EmmersonThe Copper FamilyThe GlowormsTiger MothTransGlobal UndergroundTunng

Various Artists – The Imagined Village (Real World Records, 2008) Lining up the likes of Simon Emmerson, Billy Bragg, Martin Carthy, Eliza Carthy, Benjamin Zephaniah,…

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Sheila Chandra’s Indipop Retrospective

Angel Romero November 26, 2006 Sheila Chandra

Sheila Chandra The Indipop Retrospective (Narada) At age sixteen, East Indian-Irish actress and pop singer, Sheila Chandra embarked on what would turn out to be…

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Folk Britannia: Daughters of Albion

World Music Central News Room February 2, 2006 Eliza CarthyJune TaborKathryn WilliamsLou RhodesNorma WatersonSheila Chandra

  London, UK – Folk Britannia continues with Daughters of Albion, featuring June Tabor, Norma Waterson, Eliza Carthy, Kathryn Williams, Sheila Chandra & Lou Rhodes.…

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Palm World Voices Sets Out on the Right Path

Tom Orr July 27, 2005 Asha BhosleDissidentenIndian musicJohn WubbenhorstR. RahmanRavi ShankarSheila Chandraworld music

Pioneering Producer Chris Blackwell (who helped make an international star of Bob Marley years ago) recently cemented a new partnership between his own Palm Pictures…

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Chill out

Patricia Herlevi August 4, 2003 Indian musicSheila Chandraworld fusion

Compilasian, The World of Indipop (Narada World, 2003) The release of Narada World’s Compilasian (The World of Indipop) comes as more of a sign of…

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