Kiran Ahluwalia

Kiran Ahluwalia is a Canadian singer-songwriter who infuses Indian music with African desert blues and Western styles. Ahluwalia won the 'Newcomer' category in the inaugural Songlines Music Awards (2009) – announced 1 May 2009 – the new 'world music' awards organised by the UK-based magazine, Songlines.^[1]

Kiran Ahluwalia
Kiran Ahluwalia performing
Background information
Born	(1965-07-01) 1 July 1965 (age 60) Patna, India
Origin	Toronto, Canada
Occupation(s)	Singer and composer
Years active	2000–present
Website	www.kiranmusic.com

Personal life

Ahluwalia was born in Patna, grew up in Delhi and moved to Toronto at the age of nine.^[2] After completing her MBA at Dalhousie University, she returned to Toronto with the plan of being in the financial services industry, she changed her mind and went back to India to study music and then returned to Toronto to build her career as a musician.^[3]

Ahluwalia is married to guitar player and co-arranger Rez Abbasi, and currently lives in New York.

In 2016, Ahluwalia was one of the recipients of the Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards presented by Canadian Immigrant Magazine.^[4]

Discography

Title	Release	Record label	Awards
Kashish — Attraction	2000	Kiran Music	nominated for 2002 Juno Award, Best Global Album
Beyond Boundaries	2003	Kiran Music	winner of 2004 Juno Award, World Music Album of the Year[5]
Kiran Ahluwalia	2005	Triloka Records
Wanderlust	2007	Four-Quarters Entertainment	nominated for 2008 Juno, World Music Album of the Year winner of 2009 Songlines/WOMAD Best Newcomer Award
Aam Zameen – Common Ground	2011	Kiran Music (Canada), Avokado Artists Recordings (United States, Europe, Australia)	winner of 2012 Juno Award, World Music Album of the Year winner of 2011 Canadian Folk Musi Award – Best World Solo Artist
Sanata : Stillness	2014–15	ARC/Magenta
7 Billion	2018	Six Degrees Records
Comfort Food	2024	Kiran Music

With Rez Abbasi

• Things to Come (Sunnyside, 2009)

Featured by Delerium

• Indoctrination (from Nuages du Monde) (Nettwerk, 2006)