About Kiran

Kiran Thakrar is music personified. Creating sounds from deep within his heart, you feel none other than a profound connection to him and his music.

A multi talented composer and music producer of the broadest genres, from Traditional Indian, Urban and World Music, Fusion, Folk, Dance music and Remixes to music for Films and TV.

His creativity has no boundaries.

Living and breathing music, his experience spans over 25 years taking his music around the world, not only with his award winning productions and collaborations in Canada and India but Kiran also plays Keyboards and Harmonium, playing live with his band STRINGS and for world renowned artists.

Globalrootz is the music production and recording facility owned by producer/composer, Kiran.

A strong interest in the musical technology led Kiran to explore the worlds of computers, programming and found this a great opportunity to pioneer fusions of Eastern and Western musical styles and this encouraged Kiran to further explore the creative fusing of modern technological processes, and the blending of broad global elements to evolve truly new musical genres. Kiran greatly enjoys and thrives off the possibilities of creative manipulation offered by hard disk recording in his studio

A few of the respected artist with whom Kiran has worked within his career

Late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Anandan Sivamani

Pandit Hariprsad Chaurasiya

Sultankhan

Laxmishankar

Pandit Sharda Sahai

Pandit Ronu Mazumudar

Pandit Ramesh Mishra

Pandit Dinesh

Rakesh Chaurasia

Dipak Pandit

Devki Pandit

Ravindra Jain

Nadeem Shrvan

Hariharan

Sadhna Sargam

Anuradha Paudwal

Vani Jayram

Talat Aziz

Kersi Lord

Franco Vaz

Malkit Singh

Bali Bhrahambhatt

Hans Raj Hans

Basu da

Babel Gilberto

James Asher

Masons Jennings

Kristi Stassinopoulou

Rokia Traore

Harry Manx

Chantal Vitalis(Anne Loree)

Wendy McNeil(Rambling roses)

Silk and Steel

B'Net Marrakech

Patty Larkin

Andrea Koziol

Lilison Di Kinara

Madagascar Slim

Ruh Afza Ensemble

Recent Highlights/Achievements :

Performed at the Royal Albert Hall in MOBO'S Awards 2004 with Babel Gilberto (Mobo award winner of 'Best World Music Album')

In 2004, Kiran co-composed and performed in Canadian Album name "Beyond Boundaries" and it is been awarded as 'best world music album of the 2004' by Canada's highest JUNO Awards (Canadian Grammy)

In 2001, Kiran co-composed and performed in one Canadian Album (Kashish) and it is been nominated in Canada's highest JUNO Awards (Canadian Grammy).

He has received an Award For Best Selling Album of 2001 from his record Company for album "Love 2 Love 2001", which is a remix album.

At present Kiran is signed by BMG (UK) and Zomba Music (UK) to compose and produce a library music album.

At MOBO Awards (Royal Albert Hall, London) performing with Babel Gilberto

Visit His Music Production and Recording Studio Web Site

Globalrootz