GANAVYA OSCILLATES between south indian vocals and contemporary music.

Vocalist, scholar, and composer Ganavya has carved a niche for herself at the nexus of South Indian vocal styles and contemporary music. Her debut album, Aikyam: Onnu (“Harmony: One”), features the incredible breadth of her character: it draws from an amalgam of ancient Indian spirituals she learnt during pilgrimages as a child with an anchor in jazz standards that she has translated to Tamil from English, showcasing a linguistic command over her two mother tongues. 

For more than a decade, Ganavya has learned extensively from, and toured with, the troupe of Sri Tukaram Ganapathy Maharaj, where she became well versed in the varakari tradition of singing abhangs, which are devotional poems written by Maharashtrian Hindu saints from the 12th through 17th centuries. 

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