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Vandana Vishwas’ PARALLELS Released in a Glittering Ceremony

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Published on November 14, 2016 with No Comments

Indo-Canadian musician Vandana Vishwas who recently won the 2016 Toronto Independent Music
Awards, released her third full length music album ‘Parallels’ in Mississauga on Friday, 11th
November 2016.
Multiple US and Canadian award winner, nominee, honourable mention holder and an ex-All India
Radio artist, Vandana Vishwas is known for her flawless voice, pure notes and crisp diction
of south Asian languages which is rarely found outside of the Indian subcontinent. A bold,
Out-of-Box composer who is not afraid of experimenting with unlikely combinations of Indian
music with other genres, Vandana is one of the few original south Asian music composers and
producers in Canada who are equally revered in and out of India.
Vandana’s new album ‘Parallels’ is the first of its kind featuring collaboration of Indian
music with different genres of mainstream and World music such as Flamenco, Country, African,
New-Age, Ballad etc., making each song unique, resulting in 5 pairs of ten unique ‘Parallel’
songs.
Hon. MPP Mississauga East-Cooksville and Minister Responsible for Senior Affairs Ms. Dipika
Damerla was the guest of honour who released the album by opening the CD and cutting the
World Premiere cake. The release was followed by maiden screening of music video for ‘Mai
Beqaid Flamenco’, one of the songs from the album and a short concert by Vandana who
performed the parallel track of the same song, this time interpreted in Country music. She
next performed ‘Fiqr E Manzil’, a traditional Ghazal composed by her Guru Mr. D.K. Gandhe,
accompanied by co-producer Vishwas Thoke on guitar and Anil Roopchund on Tabla. She then
performed the same song in Rock style on track. Vandana also sang Bollywood classic ‘Lag Ja
Gale’, promoting the audience to erupt into a loud applause as soon as the song started.
Classic era Bollywood superstar Tanuja arrived unannounced at the venue in the middle of the
programme to congratulate Vandana, as she likes her music and wanted to be a part of the
event. As soon as Vandana realized Tanuja was among the audience, Vandana sang the famous
song ‘Meri Jaan’ from Tanuja’s movie ‘Anubhav’ in her honour, triggering another loud
applause from the audience.
The event was hosted by Deepali Rana of Malhar Group and attended by many eminent musicians
such as Richard Henderson who has played on ‘Parallels’, south Asian media, entrepreneurs,
art aficionados, personalities from leading south Asian cultural organizations such as
Panorama, Indo-Canadian Chamber of Commerce etc. and the event was covered for television by
ATN.
All in all, it was a very tightly organized programme that shifted gears continuously and did
not give the audience to catch their breath until the end, which was highlighted by arrival
of the Bollywood legend Tanuja who came there specially to congratulate Vandana. The audience
appreciated the programme very much.
The album is available as of 11 November 2016 for online ordering through iTunes, Amazon and
CDBaby, or through direct e-mail ordering on info@vandanavishwas.com.
More information on Vandana and her music can be found on her website :
http://www.vandanavishwas.com

 

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