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British musician (born 1973)

Musical artist

Susheela Raman (born 21 July 1973) is a British musician. She was nominated for the 2006 BBC World Music Awards. Her debut album Salt Rain was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2001.^[1] She is known for live performances built on the sacred Bhakti and Sufi traditions of India and Pakistan.^[2][3]

Biography

Early years

Susheela Raman's parents are Tamils from Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu, India, who arrived in London, UK in the mid-1960s.

At the age of four, Raman and her family left the UK for Australia.^[4] Susheela grew up singing Carnatic music and began giving recitals at an early age.^[1] She recalls how her family "were eager to keep our Tamil culture alive."^[1] As a teenager in Sydney she started her own band, describing its sound as "funk and rock and roll",^[5][6] before branching out into more blues and jazz-based music, which d