Vasuda Sharma + Shanks at The Little Door, Mumbai

Vasuda Sharma
Vasuda is a singer-songwriter,originally from New Delhi. Her music is a nice blend of Indianclassical and folk music with western contemporary music.

Her debut as a music director in a bollywood movie “Shahrukh Bola Khoobsurat Hai Tu” brought a new wave in the music Industry with songs sung by the late. Jagjeet Singh & Shanker Mahadevan.

She also won an online contest held by Music2deal where nearly 420 indian bands participated and was the chosen one to represent India in the 2010 Berlin Popkomm Festival held in Germany in September.She loves experimenting with different stuff ,is trained in indian classical and has been doing live looping combining both indian n western influences.This makes her a one woman Band where she does a bit of beatboxing,few harmonies and makes her own music live and sings her
compositions over it.She has been touring india and has performed in renowned clubs in India like Hard Rock Cafe,Opus, Blue Frog etc.

She is currently working on her solo fusion album “Attuned Spirits” and her first single Jaagi Jaagi Raina is already gaining popularity.

Sankarshan Kini
Multi instrumentalist fondly known as Shanks is a Mumbai based composer. He has toured for five years with pop band Kailasa, Hipnotribe and is presently a part of acoustic trio Whirling Kalapas and acoustic duo Bombay Acoustic People. Shanks has composed music for background score and does session work for advertising jingles but is presently focusing his efforts on independent music.