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Sat Kartar
12+ albums
chantyogaKirtannew agedevotional
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Sat Kartar has been chanting since the 1970's solo and in groups. She has recorded at least 6 albums including Flow, Listen, Daily Practice, Ethereal Journey, Domain of Shiva, and Spirit in Blossom. She strives to chant from a larger audience. Her childhood was full of music. Both parents played piano and her father frequently performed at parties and restaurants. There was music around of every kind--musicals, standards, and classical music. Sat Kartar played piano at 5, guitar at 14, and picked out everything on piano and guitar, from the Beatles to the Spanish classical Malaguena. She trained in ballet, and other dance forms. In college, she was gigging, doing covers of singer-songwriters and folk artists. One big influence was Joni Mitchell, whose open tunings and unusual melodies were a doorway and vicarious permission to explore uncharted territory, musically. Trying to find her lyric voice to express the rising spiritual revolution she felt, in this time, she tried a Kundalini yoga class, hoping for some kind of release from songwriter's block. Sat Kartar recalls, “My first experience of chanting was being mezmerized with the sound of this yoga teacher, named Livtar Singh, who was singing these words over and over to someone named Guru Ram Das (a spirit guide in the Sikh faith) while playing a drone instrument called a tamboura. I felt as though I had opened Pandora's Box on a mysterious unknown world of sound.” Sat Kartar went on to sing in 2 Sikh spiritual
