Susheela Raman at Windmill Craftworks, Bangalore

Tamil Londoner Susheela Raman Has established her place as one of the most creative artists to emerge from the South Asian diaspora. Blessed with a mesmeric voice and an captivating stage presence, Susheela has enraptured countless listeners with her own songs and with her interpretations of songs from her Indian roots. She makes the lines on the map dissolve; a South Indian sensibility radiates through her happily hybrid Euro-Afro-Asian musical landscape, just as an Indian voice is infused with a Londoner`s feeling for rock, blues, soul. Susheela has always made music a vehicle of emotion with the same intensity of purpose that she offers herself and her music and to her audience. The songs she writes and interpret can come form any background, east, north, south or west. The key is that she makes them her own and then shares them, fashioning both into spears that penetrate the soul.