Shama Rahman
| Shama Rahman | |
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| Native name | শামা সরয়াত রহমান |
| Birth name | Shama Sarwat Rahman |
| Born | Al Ain, United Arab Emirates |
| Origin | London, England |
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| Years active | 2009–present |
| Labels | The Gung Ho Down |
| Associated acts | The Shama Rahman Band |
| Website | www |
Shama Sarwat Rahman (Bengali: শামা সরয়াত রহমান) is a British singer-songwriter, sitarist, storyteller, performance artist, filmmaker and actress.
Rahman was born in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates to Bangladeshi parents a medical doctor and classical singer. She has lived on three different continents and trained under the tutelage lineage of Pt Ravi Shankar of the Maihar gharana.
Rahman has studied Molecular biology at University College London. She completed a PhD in joint partnership at Imperial College London, Goldsmiths and the Royal College of Music in the cross-disciplinary field of Complexity Science complexity mathematical tools taken from statistical and chaos theory physics. to study the Neuroscientific Systems of Musical Creativity. This PhD spans musicology, psychology, philosophy, and the physics of emergent behaviour illustrating how the whole system works together.
Rahman's original band members have included Peter Edwards (piano or clarinet) who also recorded on the album Fable:Time, Domenico Angarano (bass or kaos pad), William Pearce Smith (violin), Christopher Lane (guitar) and Felix Higginbottom (percussion or drumkit), Nicolas Rouger (saxophone), Andres Castellanos (bass) and Oberon King (percussion or drumkit). She writes and arranges all music and lyrics from her poems. Rahman and her band weaves sitar, urban folk, stories and song together. Together with her band she mingles storytelling, metaphysics and poetry into their music and creates multi-layered harmonies and energy-driven lyrical rhythms with international influences evoking genres from punk to folk, classical to jazz, swing to bossa nova, spoken word to dubstep and drum and bass to create their own unique urban jazz folk genre.
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