Vandana Vishwas


Vandana Vishwas is a Canadian singer, musician, and composer and architect. She performs North Indian classical music based expressive song forms such as Ghazals, Bhajans, Geet and Thumri. She is a resident of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

Career

Vandana released her debut music album 'Meera – The Lover...' in 2009. It is a musical story of the sixteenth century Indian poet Meera Bai. In January 2013, she released her second music album 'Monologues', which is a collection of contemporary Ghazals, Nazms and light Thumris. Her 2014 single, 'Samarsiddha' is the theme track for identically titled Hindi novel authored by a UK based novelist Sandeep Nayyar, which was released in July 2014. Vandana released her third music album 'Parallels' in 2016 which topped RMR charts for 4 weeks consecutively. It is a collaboration of south Asian music with several western and ethnic music genres such as Flamenco, African, Rock, Country, Ballad, New Age. In 2021, Vandana released her second single 'Nav Varsh Mangalkamna Geet' - a Hindi song celebrating new year in India. and another single 'Mann Lago', which was part of her fourth album '', released later in 2023. The album is based on works of 15th century Indian poet Kabir Das.

Discography

TitleReleaseRecord label
Meera – The Lover... 2009Self Produced
Monologues 2013Self Produced
Samarsiddha 2014Self Produced
Parallels 2016Self Produced
Mann Lago 2021Self-Produced
Nav Varsh Mangalkamna Geet 2021Self-Produced
Kabeera - The Thinker... 2023Self-Produced

Awards

  • in World Music and Female vocalist categories
  • in World Music category
  • by Indo Canadian Arts & Culture Initiative
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Honourable mentions

Nominations