Name: "Jiva" / "Meddle" | Gingger Shankar | TED Institute
Uploaded: 2020-03-20T02:01:08.000Z
Duration: 9 min 55 s
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The songs that were performing for you today are from an upcoming project that I'm working all calm.

Called Nari Nari in Sanskrit means both women and sacrifice.

It started as a tribute to my grandmother Lecture Me, Shankar and My Mother Veggie as they helped bring indie music to the West in the 19 seventies with George Harrison and Ravi Shankar.

It is an ode to the women in my family's legacy, not only what they contributed in terms of music and dance, but the resilience, their endurance and a new generation of women artists that they birth and the fact that we were able to go so much further than they were because of the doors that they broke down for us.

The first song that you heard featured my mother veggies vocals.

I unearth these recordings recently that she made when she was a teenager, and after many years her life took an unexpected turn, and she passed away when I was 14.

That started me on this journey to make this record that we're making with newly discovered songs based on these old family archives onstage with me today is percentage gave Raja an incredibly talented percussionist who's been performing with refugees since the age of 13 and our producer, Devon DLP Parker, a multi instrumentalist and all sorts of things.

Our next song is based on the South Indian conical system, which is used in classical dance.

It's a salutation to my grandmother, Election E.

Who started as an Indian classical dancer at the age of 13 and with a Shankar's dance troupe.