OMKARO
Omkaro, (aka Om), is the producer and creative inspiration behind Dance Medicine.
Besides being a keyboard player, electronica wizard, multi-instrumentalist and composer he is also a spiritual healer and energy channel
Digital Shaman... Trancemaster...these are some of the ways that people refer to Omkaro. He was the programmer, keyboard player and groove central for Lost At Last, a well known tribal trance band originally from Maui..
Born in South Africa, he took up guitar at a young age, and took up keyboards later.... At age 19,he left home and college, where he had started to study medicine. "I couldn't quite get into the program there." he says, "I knew a normal life wasn't for me. I needed to explore the world and myself." So he went out to travel the world. And himself! He spent many years traveling many continents and exploring both the outer and inner worlds. He ended up spending 11months in India with the enlightened master, Osho. " I¹m forever thankful for the experiences."
Omkaro landed on U.S. shores in 1982, and has remained since. He considers his work to be that of a digital shaman. "When I'm up there on stage, I'm not only doing the keyboard/computer thing, but I'm also channeling energy." He is a spiritual healer, and music is just one of his vehicles.
Natasha Popova
Natasha Popova is a violinist who performs worldwide. She started to play violin at age of 5. Classically trained at the prestige Gnessin Russian Academy of Music, she won many regional and International violin competitions in Russia and Spain. Traveling around the world, she performed as a soloist with major Symphony orchestras of Russia and Germany, Switzerland, Austria. She collaborates with many internationally recognized artists, including Arkady Shilkloper, Charlie Armstrong, Sergei Penkin and others. She has appeared in several movies and Russian National TV series, and has also participated in different projects in many countries.
Tati Ma
As a child, growing up in the deep East, where the mountains of Kazakhstan border with Mongolia surrounded by a mixture of cultures (Turkish, Greek Arab, Korean, Chinese, and Mongolian, Tatiana participated in Turkish traditional dance "Payduska" , Greek "Syrtaki-Zorbas" dance, Arab dance "Khaliji", and Mongolian shaman rituals. At that time Tatiana was the only Russian girl, who was interested in dancing these traditional dances for weddings and other ritual gatherings. Her Mother knew that this was more than a passion for her daughter, and enrolled her in a ballet school, and gymnastics. At that time Tatiana had some health issues (anemia, and allergies). After many visits to numerous doctors and hospitals, her mother gave up on modern medicine, and took her to see a Mongolian Shamans. When Tatiana met the Shaman, and experienced his ritual for her well being, she felt a deep connection to her healing powers and knew how incredible medicinal shamanic energy could be! In that journey the Shaman proclaimed, that Tatiana have a healing and caring energies and have a call for being Shaman . That experience stayed with her forever.
Amy Carr
Sukhawat Ali Khan
Amy Carr is a a versatile musician and composer, international vocalist who has traveled the world over refining her improvisational craft. As a vocalist, pianist and hand drummer, she has explored a far-reaching spectrum of musical genres and finds unique fusion between them. Although classically trained, she cut her teeth as a jazz vocalist and world music composer/pianist in Paris and later, a 6 year stint in Japan and India, where she performed and recorded extensively as well as studied classical Indian vocal techniques as they cross over into the jazz genre. She was a founding member of Kali’s Angels along with Lakshmi Devi and Suzanne Sterling, a powerful vocal and instrumental trio that explores the edges of original songs and ecstatic chants by weaving folk, celtic and gospel influences with Indian and Middle Eastern modalities.
Sukawat Ali Khan is an amazing qawwali musician form Pakistan. Sukhawat Ali Khan (born 1950), son of Indian-Pakistani vocalist Ustad Salamat Ali Khan and nephew of Nazakat Ali Khan,[1] is a classical singer of Sham Chaurasia gharana tradition,[2] as well as a performer of North Indian and Pakistani classical music and related folk music.[3] He began singing and playing the harmonium at age seven[3] and has performed around the world.[2] He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area[4] where he performs in the world-fusion ensemble Shabaz (formerly the Ali Khan Band) with his sister Riffat and her husband Richard Michos.[1] About his heritage and music, Sukhawat Ali Khan has said: Each song I do has classical thought behind it and I know how to sing it properly, but my style comes from my life, too. I spent time in New York. I go to clubs. I like the hip hop beat, Latin music, rave. ... There's a performing energy there that I also feel. It's the same kind of energy a good Qawwali singer has, and we can express it freely in America
He is currently performing with Dance Medicine, which takes his authentic sound and fuses it with their dance beats for the dance floor.
Sukawat Ali Khan is an amazing qawwali musician form Pakistan. Sukhawat Ali Khan (born 1950), son of Indian-Pakistani vocalist Ustad Salamat Ali Khan and nephew of Nazakat Ali Khan,[1] is a classical singer of Sham Chaurasia gharana tradition,[2] as well as a performer of North Indian and Pakistani classical music and related folk music.[3] He began singing and playing the harmonium at age seven[3] and has performed around the world.[2] He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area[4] where he performs in the world-fusion ensemble Shabaz (formerly the Ali Khan Band) with his sister Riffat and her husband Richard Michos.[1] About his heritage and music, Sukhawat Ali Khan has said: Each song I do has classical thought behind it and I know how to sing it properly, but my style comes from my life, too. I spent time in New York. I go to clubs. I like the hip hop beat, Latin music, rave. ... There's a performing energy there that I also feel. It's the same kind of energy a good Qawwali singer has, and we can express it freely in America
He is currently performing with Dance Medicine, which takes his authentic sound and fuses it with their dance beats for the dance floor.
Sukawat Ali Khan is an amazing qawwali musician form Pakistan. Sukhawat Ali Khan (born 1950), son of Indian-Pakistani vocalist Ustad Salamat Ali Khan and nephew of Nazakat Ali Khan,[1] is a classical singer of Sham Chaurasia gharana tradition,[2] as well as a performer of North Indian and Pakistani classical music and related folk music.[3] He began singing and playing the harmonium at age seven[3] and has performed around the world.[2] He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area[4] where he performs in the world-fusion ensemble Shabaz (formerly the Ali Khan Band) with his sister Riffat and her husband Richard Michos.[1] About his heritage and music, Sukhawat Ali Khan has said: Each song I do has classical thought behind it and I know how to sing it properly, but my style comes from my life, too. I spent time in New York. I go to clubs. I like the hip hop beat, Latin music, rave. ... There's a performing energy there that I also feel. It's the same kind of energy a good Qawwali singer has, and we can express it freely in America
He is currently performing with Dance Medicine, which takes his authentic sound and fuses it with their dance beats for the dance floor.
Many other talented artists have and are contributing their amazing talent to Dance Medicine
Kalidas
