Origin India/USA Associated acts Sridhar/Thayil Genres Soul/World Name Suman Sridhar | Instruments Voice, Piano Role Singer Years active 2008-present | |
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Occupation(s) Artist - Musician/Performer Similar People Mikey McCleary, Prashant Pillai, Ravindra Upadhyay, El Guincho, Imaad Shah | ||
Suman sridhar khoya khoya chaand
Suman Sridhar is an Indian singer, songwriter, and actor. Sridhar works between and across music, performance art, theatre and film She was awarded the Google-INK Trailblazer's Grant 2014 towards developing a multimedia opera integrating Tamil folk music. She co-produced and acted in her debut feature film Ajeeb Aashiq / Strange Love by award-winning filmmaker Natasha Mendonca which premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2016 and received the Bright Future Award nomination.
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- Suman sridhar khoya khoya chaand
- Vari Jaun Hitesh Sonik feat Moora Lala Suman Sridhar Coke Studio MTV Season 2
- Early life and background
- Career
- Discography
- References
Vari Jaun - Hitesh Sonik feat Moora Lala & Suman Sridhar, Coke Studio @ MTV Season 2
Early life and background
Sridhar earned an undergraduate degree in Western Music and Women's & Gender Studies from Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA.
Career
In 2008, Sridhar co-founded Sridhar/Thayil, the lyrical post-pop music duo which Rolling Stone magazine acclaimed as "redefining indie music in India." Their studio album STD was released in 2012. The duo is known for "their cabaret-like attitude and improvisational chaos on stage."
Sridhar's original theatre productions as writer-director-performer include Yoni Ki Baat (South Asian Women's Collective, USA, 2003) and The Flying Wallas: Opera Noir (Prithvi Theatre Festival, India 2009). Her performance art and sound design works include Between The Waves by Tejal Shah (dOCUMENTA 13, Germany 2012), The Kochi Intervention (Kochi Biennale 2014) and Transformation 19124 (Flying Kite, Philadelphia 2012) amongst others.
In its 2014 listing of "25 Greatest Indian Rock Songs of the last 25 Years", Rolling Stone India featured Punk Bhajan (STD, 2012) – Sridhar/Thayil.