Wynne Paris
| Wynne Paris | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 22, 1964 Redstone Arsenal, AL |
| Genres | kirtan, new-age, worldbeat |
| Occupation(s) | singer, instrumentalist |
| Instruments | guitar, sarod, harmonium, saz |
| Years active | 1980s - present |
| Associated acts | Groovananda (2005-present), Krishna Das |
| Website | www |
Wynne Paris (born June 22, 1964 in Redstone Arsenal, Alabama) is a new-age and world beat musician/producer with a special focus on yoga music and kirtan, the call-and-response singing of Bhakti yoga. His live performance combines Kirtan chanting, American music (jazz, gospel music, blues and rock music), world beat rhythms and raga scales. He sings in both English and Sanskrit, and plays guitar,sarod (a 26 stringed, sitar-like instrument from India),harmonium, saz (a stringed instrument in the lute family) and percussion.
Paris was a rock & roll and rhythm & blues guitar artist in the 1980s, performing with artists like Rusted Root's Jim Donovan, and Mark Karan of the rock band RatDog. In 1994, at the age of 30, Wynne took up Indian music and yoga, changing the direction of his music. In 1996, one of the songs he co-wrote with Maura Moynihan, "Prayer for the Pure Land", won first place in the Songwriters' Association of Washington National Songwriting Contest. Also in that year, he met the Indian “hugging saint” Mata Amritanandamayi, known to her devotees as Ammachi or Amma, which inspired him to move to Marin County to study Indian music, shamanism, and yoga.
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