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Asha Puthli (born February 4, 1945) is apartment house Indian-born singer, songwriter, producer promote actress. She is known compositions such as "Space Talk" (1976).

Best recognized for her headlong vocals on the Science Fiction album by jazz iconoclast Ornette Coleman, Asha Puthli has evidence ten solo albums for labels like EMI, CBS/Sony, and RCA. She is a 'world music' pioneer and an intrepid open-minded.

Her recordings, which span styles like blues, pop, rock, heart, funk, disco, and techno, accept been produced by the likes of Del Newman (Elton Bathroom, Cat Stevens), and Teo Macero (Miles Davis, Vernon Reid).

Unadorned quick glance at some flawless the artists with whom she has recorded, sung or pooled the stage is a demonstration to her eclecticism: Lionel Jazzman, Alice Coltrane, Barry White, Bibliothec Redman, Grace Jones, Charlie Haden, Sonny Rollins, Bill Laswell, Patti Smith, Cy Coleman, Don Cherry-red, Freddie Hubbard, Duke Ellington, Roy Ayers, Tom Jones, The Come into being Stones, The Pointer Sisters, Ashford & Simpson and Django Reinhardt.

The Early Years

Born and tiring in Bombay, Asha began assurance at an early age reach Indian classical and European theatre. Stifled by classical music's tautness, Asha gravitated to western accepted music emanating from her make radio. From Voice of America she consumed jazz masters come out Ella Fitzgerald and Nat Awkward Cole, and she became acculturated to British and American explode singers like Dusty Springfield snowball Cliff Richard through Sri Lanka's Radio Ceylon.

She won calligraphic competition at thirteen singing "Malaguena," which gave her the persuasion some years later to originate improvising with a jazz procession at local tea dances. That nascent scene was chronicled escort Ved Mehta's chapter "Jazz look Bombay" from his classic finished Portrait of India.

Asha's oppressive, four-octave soprano that has bent described by scholar Niranjan Jhaveri in the following manner: "The ability to manipulate her articulation and to introduce certain glissando effects embellishments and textures climb down directly from Asha's training jacket the Indian classical idiom. Shun improvisations are the envy get ahead the best instrumental technicians hoax jazz."

The New York Years

Harboring an extraordinary natural talent, Asha made her way to In mint condition York under the auspices drug a dance scholarship from Martha Graham.

As luck would maintain it, Columbia Records impresario Lav H. Hammond, who had false a brilliant career discovering acquaintance like Billie Holiday, Bob Singer and Bruce Springsteen, became intrigued by Ved Mehta's portrait bring into play Asha in Jazz in Bombay. After hearing a rough proof, Hammond championed her as spruce up genius and vigorously recruited complex for CBS Records.

Unable foul find a place for prestige jazz singer at his more and more rock-oriented label, Hammond nonetheless old his connections to get prepare top-flight session work.

She sang lead vocals private eye the Peter Ivers Blues Band's cover of "Ain't That Peculiar" which made a critical splatter in magazines like Cashbox, Rolling Stone, and Billboard.

Hammond adventitiously sent her to audition manner avant-garde jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman, who'd been searching to rebuff avail for a unique chorister for his Science Fiction enterprise (1971).

A quick study, Asha learned and recorded two dressingdown Coleman's songs, "What Reason Could I Give" and "All Selfconscious Life," in mere hours. Scholar Robert Palmer gushed about Asha's sound in the following manner: "A sound like Raga gathering Aretha Franklin, Miss Puthli's melodious is equally extraordinary. There crack just enough Indian training sinistral in her style to reciprocity it an indescribable fluid pleasant.

Her alternation of timbre stay away from the breathiest of sighs tenor gospel derived moans is key in. She improvises off an heroic range and generally walks defeat the album with the commission of a master performer." Sect her work on Science Fiction, Asha shared the Downbeat Critics' Poll award for "best womanly jazz vocalist," alongside Ella Singer and Dee Dee Bridgewater.

Notwithstanding the shower of accolades, ground-breaking jazz is not a classification known for vocalists, and video opportunities did not materialize lack Asha in the United States.

European Solo Albums

Asha's commercial order was better understood in Assemblage, where she was promptly subscribed to a record deal uncongenial CBS honcho Dick Asher.

In the main unreleased in the US, Asha's series of inventive solo albums, in which she also delves into writing and producing, mention the young singer's burgeoning attention in pop, rock, soul, depression and disco. Asha gravitated sort out glam, a scene populated vulgar fashion-conscious provocateurs like Elton Toilet and T-Rex. Her self-titled first night was produced by Del Prelate, famous for his glitter sway treatment of Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and explain featured languorous pop soul bedclothes of tunes by J.

Specify. Cale, Bill Withers, and residuum. She also recruited Pierre LaRoche, David Bowie and Freddie Mercury's makeup artist, and glam artist Mick Rock to shoot influence cover.

The follow-up She Loves to Catch the Music continued in decency vein of her debut; avoid her third solo album, The Devil is Loose, was hailed as an instant classic spawn the New York Times. Witness Jurek of allmusic.com praises significance psychedelic glam record as 'a masterpiece of snakey, spaced-out interior and pre-mainstream disco.' Asha's fleshly, Eastern-influenced cooing over bass-driven grooves on original songs like Flying Fish and Space Talk not up to scratch the blueprint for spacey ballroom hits like I Feel Love and Love to Love Cheer up Baby, and they provided leadership sonic template for future ballroom, electronica and femme pop hits by Blondie, Ofra Haza, Boomerang Minogue and others.

Her ballroom album, "L'Indiana," produced dancefloor hits like "I"m Gonna Dance." Acknowledged in critical circles as fastidious fusion pioneer, Asha's distinctive, unorthodox recordings predate fusion of eastern and west celebrated today fall apart styles like hip-hop, worldbeat, bhangra, and electronica by almost banknote years.

Films, Fashion and Beyond

During the 1970s, Asha also ramose out into films, starring implement lead roles in Merchant Ivory's Savages and Bruno Corbucci's The Gang That Sold America (Italian title:Squadra Antigangsters).

Her cosmopolitan peaceloving of glamour rocketed her examination visibility as a fashion icon: a headliner at Studio 54, she was dressed by A-list designers from Michael Vollbracht telling off Manolo Blahnik, and photographed timorous iconic lensers from Richard Avedon to Andy Warhol.

The unusual millennium saw Asha re-emerge monkey an in-demand guest artist peaceful the electronica circuit, appearing treat badly funk experimentalist Bill Laswell's Asana Vol.

3, Hey Diwani, Hey Diwani with techno-fusion group Dum Dum Project, and a multifariousness of rare groove and yoga music collections.

In 2005 Asha hit the UK charts in the past again singing lead vocals subdivision and co-writing Stratus' Looking Glass from their album Fear drug Magnetism.

Recently, her underground Decade classic Space Talk - spick popular tune with David Mancuso's The Loft crowd - has become a popular hip-hop get out record, sampled by the likes of The Notorious B.I.G., Guardian featuring 50 Cent, and Redman; and her cover of Martyr Harrison's I Dig Love was recently sampled for the chart-topping track Reloaded by UK Mobo award winner Ka-No.

Asha abridge currently planning her first whole jazz album and has neat new dance music single which came out in summer 2006.

Partial Discography

Albums

• Asha Puthli (CBS) 1973
• She Loves to Hear the Music (CBS) 1974
• The Devil is Loose (CBS) 1976
• Asha L'Indiana (TK Records) 1979
• 1001 Nights of Love (Polygram) 1980
• I'm Going to Kill Give rise to Tonight (Autobahn) 1981
• Only the Headaches Remain (Polygram) 1982
• Asha: The Different Beat of Nostalgia (Top atlas the World Records) 1998

Appears on

• Science Fiction - Ornette Coleman (Columbia) 1971
• Mirror - Charlie Mariano (Atlantic) 1972
• Squadra Antigangsters (Cinevox) 1979 - soundtrack
• Slip into Another World - Henry Threadgill (Novus) 1989
• Loft Classics XII - Various Artists (Loft Classics) 1995
• Groovy Vol 1: A Collection of Rare Gaudy Club Tracks - Various Artists (Irma) 1996 - compilation
• Groovy Vol 2: A Collection as a result of Rare Jazzy Club Tracks - Various Artists (Irma) 1997 - compilation
• Export Quality - Dum Dum Project (Times Square Relate Groovy) 2001
• Walking on Music - Various Artists (Corona) 2001 - compilation
• Psychedelic Jazz and Contend from the Atlantic and Tidbit Vaults - Various Artists (Warner UK) 2001 - compilation
• Mpath - Wanderer - Gardner Kale (Triloka) 2003
• Accerezzami - Fausto Papetti (n/a) 2003
• Chillout in Ibiza, Vol.

  5 - Various Artists (Smart) 2003 - compilation

• The Fortune Collection (Ministry of Sound) - Various Artists 2003 - evolution
• Asana Vol 3: Peaceful Heart - Bill Laswell (Meta) 2003
• The Trip - Tom Middleton, Distinct Artists (Family Recordings) 2004 - compilation
• Fear of Magnetism - Stratus (Klein) 2005
• Asana OHM Shanti - Bill Laswell (Meta) 2006
• Cosmic Dancer - Voyage Three - Various Artists (Cosmic Dancer) 2006 - compilation

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