Sohini Alam

Sohini Alam
Native name	সোহিনী আলম
Born	London, England
Occupation(s)	Singer
Instruments	Vocals
Associated acts	Khiyo, Lokkhi Terra, Komola Collective

Sohini Alam (Bengali: সোহিনী আলম) is a British singer of Bangladeshi descent. She is lead singer of the bands Khiyo and Lokkhi Terra. As a vocalist, Alam has performed internationally on stage, radio, and television and worked on music for dance, theatre, and film. Alam is a founding member of the arts company Komola Collective.

Alam was born in London, England and was brought up there until the age of nine. After her mother died she moved to Dhaka, Bangladesh and lived here until she was 17. She comes from a musical family and was trained by her mother Hiron Alam and by her aunts Jannat Ara and Ferdous Ara. The latter is a leading Bangladeshi exponent of Nazrul Sangeet. She has a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from Angelo State University in the United States.

Alam is trained primarily in Nazrul Sangeet but has since branched out into folk, Rabindra Sangeet and contemporary music. While she sings mainly in Bengali, she has also sung in English, Spanish, Hindi, and Urdu. She sang in Tamil and Roma for a collaboration with the Mongooses Musical Playbox and in Yoruba for Lokkhi Terra's CubAfrobeat collaboration with Dele Sosimi.

As lead singer of Kishon Khan's Afro-Cuban-Bengali band Lokkhi Terra, Alam sang at the closing ceremony of the South Asian Games in Dhaka in 2010 and at the Dhaka World Music Festival in 2011. With Lokkhi Terra, she performed at WOMAD in 2011 and 2015, played twice on the main stage of Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in Soho, and opened for the Afro-Cuban All Stars at the Barbican Centre in 2012. Alam is featured on Lokkhi Terra's albums, and in a review of Che Guava's Rickshaw Diaries, the world music magazine Songlines wrote: "This good-natured London-based collective are now widely acknowledged as an international force to be reckoned with."

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