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Long Bio – 2743 Words
By Linda Johnsen with contribution from Snatam Kaur Khalsa and Sharon Price

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Snatam Kaur is one of the most popular New Age artists of our time, selling over 50,000 albums a year to fans across the U.S, Europe, Asia, South America and the South Pacific. Snatam Kaur’s albums have topped New Age Retailer’s Top 20 lists every year since 2004. She was the only artist to have 3 albums in the Top 20 in a single year.

In addition to her concerts, Snatam can also be found teaching yoga classes and chanting workshops, working and playing with children, and recording new music. She is deeply committed to supporting the U.N.’s peace initiatives through her ongoing Celebrate Peace Tour, and is active in the interfaith movement, helping promote understanding and respect between the world religions.

Snatam Kaur was born in 1972 in the beautiful mountain town of Trinidad, Colorado. Her parents were students of world renowned spiritual teacher Yogi Bhajan, who first brought Kundalini Yoga and the Sikh spiritual practices to the West. It was Yogi Bhajan who gave her the name “Snatam” (pronounced sun-ah-tum) which means “universal” or “friend to all.”

Snatam was raised in a musical family that practiced yoga, meditation and chanting. When she was six, Snatam’s mother took her to India where she met Bhai Hari Singh, one of the master chanters at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, the holiest Sikh temple in the world.



Snatam Kaur

Snatam Kaur Khalsa is an emerging and celebrated spiritual music ambassador. She interfaces Gurbani Keertan, the Sikh style of religious music, and the Western style in her music and concerts.

Snatam Kaur has been singing and playing music all of her 28 years. As a young girl in California, she learned to sing with her mother in the Sikh musical style. As she has grown, her musical scope has expanded, and she now includes many traditions and many instruments in her exploration of sound.



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