Reena Bhardwaj

                       Present – 2003

               Hindi , Tamil , Telugu 





                Reena bhardwaj may be a british indian singer, songster and recording creator best famed for her collaborations with a r rahman and nitin sawhney. versatile to genre and language, her repertoire includes a range of indian ancient, bollywood, world and fashionable designs sung in numerous indian languages (hindi, punjabi, bengali, tamil, telugu) and english.

Life

                  Reena bhardwaj was born and raised in london. from a really young age she displayed associate intrinsic aptitude for the indian arts, particularly music and dance. she trained within the north indian classical dance kind kathak and commenced working on stage from the age of nine. throughout her teens, focus shifted to singing and she or he began to impress audiences as she panax quinquefolius complicated compositions effortlessly. it absolutely washer natural vocal talent that eventually john drew the eye of a number of the world’s leading pioneers of music, each in bharat and also the great britain. 

               An avid educational, reena bhardwaj selected to pursue an expert career in business management, whereas continued to develop her musical interests on the facet. she won a support on the winds or fellowship management program and went on to graduate with bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the london college of political economy. she shortly worked in company selling and communications within the town of london.

Musical Career

                  Reena describes her musical career as a “turn of fate” that transpire whereas following her degree at the London faculty of social science, once she received associate sudden decision from her most favorite indian musician, a r rahman.

               With rahman, she recorded her debut song, “yeh rishta” for the bollywood film audio recording meenaxi: a tale of 3 cities directed by m f hussain, that catapulted her from the globe of teachers to the highest of the indian music charts. she became the primary british asian creator to be appointive for a izzard cine award for best playback singer and also the mtv immies award for best new talent of 2004.

             Next she herbaceous plant "baba kichhu tha", a tamil romantic duet with one amongst south india's most revered playback singers, s. p. balasubramaniam for the rajinikanth and manisha koirala starrer baba.

               Reena has featured on variety of a r rahman’s movie industry and tamil / telegu film soundtracks as well as mangal pandey: the rising, sakkarakatti and last she herbaceous plant the attractive song khilli re for the mani ratnam, aishwarya rai and abhishek bachchan starrer, raavan, conjointly by rahman.

             Reena’s has been a daily collaborator with british asian composer / producer nitin sawhney, associate degree association that began along with her emotional rendition of the epic indian literary work “heer” by waris shah of iran for sawhney's 2003 album human (v2). she went on to co-write the favored song “mausam” for sawhney's 2006 album love-potion (v2) aboard unforgettable performances on “koyal - songbird” and “the search”. She seems once more on sawhney's london under sound within which she expresses her feelings concerning growing up in london by co-writing the track “ek jaan” and sings aboard sir songwriter in “my soul”.

                 Reena has toured extensively with sawhney and his band and has performed at a number of the world’s most culturally elite venues together with the glastonbury competition, womad in taormina (sicily), jazz café, the tower centre, the royal competition hall, the roundhouse for the bbc electrical proms in 2008. one amongst her most notable performances was the bbc proms 2007 at the royal albert francis charles augustus emmanuel hall wherever she appeared aboard nitin sawhney, natacha atlas, & anoushka shankar.

               She has conjointly lent her voice to sawhney’s film scores, together with channel 4’s second generation, bharatbala production’s hari om, and therefore the 1929 silent indian classic, a throw of dice by franz osten, that premiered with the london orchestra and afterwards performed with national orchestras in european country, italy, new zealand, america and north american nation.

           She has collaborated with the uk’s biggest dance pair basement jaxx, basement jaxx, famed percussion king trilok gurtu, talvin singh and award winning british ballad maker guy chambers. her songs feature on varied compilation cds (ministry of sound’s, angel beach; pathaan’s indian sunset) and sony legacy’s 2009 compilation cd the most effective of a r rahman.

Songs

2002 : Baba kichchu from baba

2003 : Tak dheen from bombay dreams

2003 : Heer from human

2003 : Falling from human

2004 : Yeh rishta from meenaxi: a tale of three cities

2005 : Mausam from philtre

2005 : Koyal from philtre

2005 : The search from philtre

2005 : Dead man from philtre

2005 : Sandesa from franz_osten’s a throw of dice

2005 : Everybody from crazy itch radio

2006 : Main vari vari from mangal pandey: the rising

2008 : Naan epodhu from sakkarakatti

2008 : My soul from london under sound

2008 : Ek jaan from london under sound

2010 : Khilli re from raavan

2010 : Puli gharshana from komaram puli 

Other Film Soundtracks And Compilations

2009 : The best of a r rahman from sony legacy

2009 : Aaoji: classic sufi hits from sony music

2009 : life goes on from storm glass productions

2007 : In the mind of nitin sawhney, district 6

2005 : Angel beach from ministry of sound

2005 : American daylight from amaan ali khan

2005 : Frank osten’s a throw of dice

2004 : Hari om from bharat bala productions

2003 : Second generation from channel 4

2003 : Indian sunset dj pathaan