Carnatic Connection: Bombay Jayashri and "Zara Zara"

Today's song is called Zara Zara and is performed by Indian vocalist Bombay Jayashri. A vocalist in the Carnatic tradition, as well as a music composer, violinist and an Academy Award nominee, Jayashri was raised in a Tamil family in Mumbai and began her music learning at an early age. She has participated in artistic dialogues and exchanges with other artists in music and dance, and she has also done collaboration across cultures with artists such as Egyptian singer Hisham Abbas and Senegalese singer Thione Seck. She also participated in an Indo-Finnish collaboration where she sang ancient poems from Sangam literature. Her Academy Award nomination came from her music on Ang Lee's The Life of Pi. She also believes in the healing power of music and has been working with institutions in Tamil Nadu that serve autistic children. You can find Zara Zara on the 2009 various artists compilation Putumayo Presents: India.

Listen to songs like this and more on the KUNM Global Music Show every Monday night from 10 pm - 1 am Mountain Standard Time. Live streaming, program information and the two-week digital archive can be found at http://www.kunm.org.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%C3%A4kel%C3%A4iset