CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS
Neighborhood Concert: Samita Sinha

Jackson Heights Branch Library (QL)
Saturday, June 27th, 2009 at 3:00 PM

Samita Sinha
·· Samita Sinha, Voice and Tanpura
·· Marc Cary, Keys
·· Abraham Gomez-Delgado, Congas
·· Sameer Gupta, Tabla, Vocalist

“[Sinha] has an extremely strong stage presence, always exuding a sense of control, both technically and emotionally. Her voice could change from extroverted to vulnerable within one phrase, all while balancing the feel of tune with that of the ecstatic.”
—All About Jazz

Vocalist and sound artist Samita Sinha creates her sound from a palette of Hindustani music, electronics, and text in several languages (Hindi, Urdu, Brajh, Mandarin, Spanish, English, recombinations therein, and imaginary language). After intensive vocal study with Alka Deo Marulkar and Shiv Shankar Pandey in India, she developed a unique sound with her group Kaash (documented on the ensemble’s debut recording Seep), toured internationally with performance poet Sekou Sundiata’s the 51st (dream)
state, and performed with jazz ensembles that included Marc Cary’s Focus and the Sunny Jain Collective. She also performs and records with Anatomy, an electronic music project with Marc Cary. She has received awards from the Fulbright Foundation, Urban Artists Initiative, Queens Council on the Arts, and Millay Colony for the Arts. Sinha studied literature and cultural criticism at Yale, and is currently enrolled in the MFA program at Bard College.

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Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concerts are supported, in part, by The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation.

Our thanks to The Honorable Helen Sears for making today's concert possible.