Personnel: Dina Awwad (vocals); Manish Vyas (Santoor, keyboards, percussion); Shekhar Borkar (sarod); Vikram Singh (flute); Ojas (djembe).

Manish Vyas is a unique phenomenon in the world of fusion music. A talented multi-instrumentalist and singer, over the last few years he has emerged as both an extraordinary performing and recording artist.

He grew up in a family passionate about Indian music and it was in this dedicated atmosphere that he was first exposed to its many different forms; from classical to ‘kirtan’ to folk. Music, one could say, is quite simply

in his blood.

Dina was born in kuwait to a Palestinian parents and moved to the USA in 1990 during the gulf war where she resides in santa fe, new mexico. she is truely global, rising above material, psychological, ethnocentric, geographical, racial and religious concerns.

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