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
| Title | Release | Record label |
| Meera – The Lover... | 2009 | Self Produced |
| Monologues | 2013 | Self Produced |
| Samarsiddha | 2014 | Self Produced |
| Parallels | 2016 | Self Produced |
| Mann Lago | 2021 | Self-Produced |
| Nav Varsh Mangalkamna Geet | 2021 | Self-Produced |
| Kabeera - The Thinker... | 2023 | Self-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
- 17th International Billboard Song Contest 2010
- Esongwriter.com song Contest]
- 2010 Marty Award for Established Performing Arts by Mississauga Arts council, Ontario, Canada
Nominations
- TIMA Toronto Independent Music Awards 2010, 2014 & 2015 – Best World Music
- World Artist of the Year at The Indies, the Independent Music Awards 2010
- K.M. Hunter artist Award for Music 2010 by Ontario Arts Council, Canada
- 2010 & 2011 Marty Award for Established Performing Arts by Mississauga Arts council, Ontario, Canada
- 7th TIMA Toronto Independent Music Awards 2014 – Best World Music