She said Snatam roughly translates as “universal” and serves as a reminder that her music is intended to be all-inclusive. Kaur took both her first and last names from Yogi Bhajan, a spiritual leader from India who introduced Kundalini yoga to the United States in the late 1960s. She said many of the chants are in a call-and-response style that makes them easy for an audience to learn. Some of the chants are in English and others are in Gurmukhi, which Kaur said is a language of northern India that’s about 600 years old. The music tends to be very simple and very singable.” “The chants come from the Sikh tradition,” said Kaur, who is an American who grew up in California, where her parents had embraced the Sikh and Kundalini way of life.
In Peterborough, she will be accompanied by tabla player Sukhmani Kaur and guitarist Sara Carlyle. Kaur mainly plays the harmonium, an Indian pump organ. Kaur sang at Winfrey’s birthday party in Hawaii in 2012. She has been performing live for nine years, and is a favorite of Oprah Winfrey. Kaur has put out eight CDs, the most recent, “Heart of the Universe,” a collaboration with Grammy-nominated pianist/composer Peter Kater. The program will incorporate Kundalini yoga, vocal exercises, mantra recitations and meditation. Kaur will be leading a yoga and voice workshop, titled “Sacred Sound of the Soul,” at the Peterborough Unitarian Universalist Church on Aug. You know you’re successful when people are chanting, I love to experience that communication with people.” “I strive to share the chants and exercises so people can become empowered on their own. The results are so quick,” Kaur said last week by phone from her home in Santa Cruz, Calif. And a key element of her performances is a focus on breathing and meditation, as she encourages her audiences to join her in singing the chants she’s written. But she’s also a student of Kundalini yoga. Snatam Kaur’s is a singer who bases her music on traditional Sikh mantras from India.
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