Kavita Shah is a new member of the Composers Now Board of Advisors

Composers Now welcomes Kavita Shah to the Composers Now Board of Advisors.

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Kavita Shah is an award-winning vocalist, composer, polyglot, and native New Yorker. Hailed by NPR for possessing an “amazing dexterity for musical languages”, Kavita makes music that draws upon modern jazz, new music, and her own ethnomusicological research on diverse folk traditions from Brazil to West Africa to India. Her highly acclaimed projects include “Visions” (2014), “Folk Songs of Naboréa” (2017), “Interplay” (2018), which was nominated for France’s Victoire de la Musique for Jazz Album of the Year, and “Cape Verdean Blues” (2023), which the New York Times called “quietly riveting”. Kavita regularly performs her music at major concert halls, festivals, and clubs on six continents. She holds an A.B. in Latin American Studies from Harvard College and a Master’s in Jazz Voice from Manhattan School of Music. Kavita began singing professionally at the age of 10 with the Young People’s Chorus of New York City. She is the founder of Folkalist Records, a label dedicated to vocal music of the Global South.

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