This intense yearning that there was a beyond that there was a different state that one had to rethink success that one simply couldn’t be put in whatever treadmill we’re in and suddenly life is over. And what was that journey? That journey was this intense yearning for something more. Shivoham is particularly unique because what I did with Shivoham was really trying to express this journey of the last 20 years in songs.
OM SHIVOHAM SONG FUN FACTS SERIES
Now all of this that’s happened with the albums that’s come about has been a series of synchronicities, or accidents, or universal accidents. I added a lot of work to my practices and my life strums formed because of that. It made me understand what the quiet space is, because in Indian music, when you go into the highest levels of Indian music, you really have to quiet the mind to find the note, to find the sur.Īnd once I started to do that, the teachers came. It made me go into the deepest part of myself. And this journey to music really made me discover myself.
I wasn’t trying to get a Grammy nomination. I then decided I had to go back to music. This is how crazy I was about music.įast forward to 20 years ago. I ate rice and coriander chutney every single day that month because I didn’t have any money to eat. I had about $50 or so left for the next month. I bought a Martin guitar for $1,800, and I bought a stereo system, which was the rest of the money. But I didn’t buy any of that, other than the down payment. I had to pay my down payment for my rent. I had a $5,000 bonus when I joined McKinsey. So I went back to learn music, and I did it on the sidelines. And music was always something that really completed me. That got me back to thinking that I really should do things that made me so happy. I was lucky enough to be able to ask these questions. I had to really get into what was success, why was I on this planet - all these important questions we don’t often get to ask. About 20 years ago, I had a crisis of spirit. And music simply disappeared from my life for a lot of reasons. I came to America, I was with Citibank, I was with McKinsey. Then, of course, I got into the business world. But I remember what songs I used to sing when I did those chores.
Growing up, we came from a very simple family. How did it all begin? I remember in one of my interviews, you spoke about using your first salary to buy a guitar and a stereo system.
You straddle the world of high finance, business, education, the arts… You are a philanthropist, you are a humanitarian. Here are the edited excerpts of the interview: So for me all these factors coming together is a great confluence. Speaking about the performance, which came on the 56 th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination, she said “How great is it that, on that day which created so much conversation in the country that we are able to go in there and speak about finding your own radiance and peace and harmony and blessings. A day before her performance in Washington, she discussed her Kennedy Center debut with prominent journalist Aziz Haniffa for the streaming platform Neestream. Shivoham is the culmination of Tandon’s musical journey that lasted a couple of decades. One of the songs, Om Namo Narayanaya, was nominated for Grammy in the “Best Contemporary World Music Album” category. Though music and art have been part of her life since childhood, Tandon’s late-blooming musical career didn’t take off until 2010, when she released her first album, Soul Call. In 2015, the couple donated $100 million to New York University’s School of Engineering.
In 1992, she and her husband, Ranjan, launched the Tandon Capital Associates. She is the first Indian American woman to become a partner of McKinsey & Company. Tandon came to the United States when she was 24, after earning a bachelor’s degree from Madras Christian College and MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmadabad. (For Shivoham, which was recorded at nine studios in four countries, Tandon used 279 musicians.) In a performance that lasted roughly 100 minutes, Tandon sang 12 songs from the album, accompanied by an ensemble of 10 world-class musicians, including pianist Kenny Werner, and a two-dozen-strong choir drawn from New York University faculty, students and alumni, among others. The concert at the packed Eisenhower Theater, which has a capacity of more than 1,160, was the first by the Grammy-nominated artist and businesswoman in the nation’s capital. Indian American Chandrika Tandon dazzled the Kennedy Center, the high temple of American art and culture, with a brilliant performance of her fourth album, Shivoham, on November 22 nd. 22, speaks about her late-blooming music career and philanthropy.įollow Editor’s note: Interview transcript courtesy of Neestream.) Tandon, who dazzled the Kennedy Center with a brilliant performance on Nov. Chandrika Tandon performing Shivoham at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, on November 22, 2019.
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