“Blessed with an unparalleled memory for melody and vocal technique from virtually any culture, Nicki is able to easily leap from folk, French trip-hop, deep gospel, jazz or choral vocals to Indian classical or Arabic inflections as if all were emanating directly from her soul,” describes long time collaborator Nitin Sawhney who adds that:“Nicki is an entirely new phenomenon. She is truly the first global singer.”Singer, songwriter and composer Nicki Wells, AKA TURYA has performed in some of the world’s most prestigious venues from London’s Royal Albert Hall and Sydney Opera House to Glastonbury’s main Pyramid Stage.I met Nicki briefly some 8 years ago now outside Triyoga via a Dear mutual friend who sadly took her own life not long afterwards. Little did I know when we met how she would remain part of that connection.Simply put, I’m a huge fan of Nicki’s. This beautiful human has accompanied my inner journey from meditation to personal yoga practices, classes and my studios. Her etherial voice connects with an inner effortlessness and flows as if calling you home.This conversation is a versatile and fluid as her music, we traverse, her obviously stunning voice, her composition work, Nitin Sawhney, her childhood in Himachel Pradesh surrounded by mystic musicality, creativity, spirituality, consciousness, oneness, lightness of spirit and her more recent calling of sound to silence.Her voice has contributed to a number of films including Andy Serkis’s Mowgli, Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children, Renny Harlin’s The Legend of Hercules and was a major part of the scores of BBC documentaries such as The Human Planet series.Amongst many other projects, Nicki also composed the score to documentary filmmaker Koen Suidgeest’s: Girl Connected and then joined forces with renowned sitarist Anoushka Shankar to compose the score for upcoming documentary film An Officer and His Holiness.She is currently scoring the music to Indian Classical dancer Aditi Mangaldas’s new contemporary dance show to be premiered in India 2020 and joining forces once again with Aakash Odedra for his new epic production Samsara where he is joined by Chinese dancer Hu Shenyuan.

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