Kiran Ahluwalia

Kiran Ahluwalia
Kiran Ahluwalia performing
Background information
Born	Patna, India
Occupation(s)	Singer and Composer
Website	www.kiranmusic.com

Kiran Ahluwalia is an Indian singer, songwriter who infuses African desert blues and Western musical styles. Kiran Ahluwalia won the 'Newcomer' category in the inaugural Songlines Music Awards (2009) - announced May 1, 2009 - the new 'world music' awards organised by the UK-based magazine, Songlines.

Ahluwalia was born in Patna, grew up in Delhi and moved to Toronto at the age of nine.After completing her MBA at Dalhousie University, she returned to Toronto with the plan of being in the financial services industry, she changed her mind and went back to India to study music and then returned to Toronto to build her career as a musician.

Ahluwalia is married to guitar player and co-arranger Rez Abbasi, and currently lives in New York.