The GuruGanesha Band

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GuruGanesha Singh is one of those rare individuals who combine the heart and soul of an artist with the clear, quick mind of a businessman and the easygoing warmth of a born raconteur. By the time he started Spirit Voyage Records in 1999 he had already made a substantial financial success as founder and CEO of Sandler Training Institute of Virginia, a sales training school for the high-tech industry. For many people, that would suffice as a life’s achievement, but for GuruGanesha it was just the prelude to a stellar musical career as a producer, guitarist, singer, songwriter and all-around prime mover in the burgeoning world devotional music genre. His latest project, the GuruGanesha Band, takes his unique vision into bold new aural dimensions.
“It’s something new, in that it’s bringing a guitar band sound into world devotional arena,” says GuruGanesha. “The sound of guitar bands is something that many people grew up with, and something that unites several generations. But here we’re using it in service of a higher purpose. I’m 60 years old now and I’ve dedicated the past ten years of my life to sending healing sound currents out to the world. And the GuruGanesh Band is a project that’s been in my heart for all of those ten years. Right now seems the perfect time to do it.”
Although GuruGanesha has been playing music professionally since the late ’60s, when he performed with the rock band Cat’s Cradle, his emergence on the world devotional stage took place in the first year of the 21st Century. He released the album A Game of Chants with the Grammy-winning singer Seal and began to record as part of the Peace Family, a group featuring the angelic voice of Snatam Kaur. Becoming Snatam’s manager as well as her guitarist and co-vocalist in 2002, GuruGanesha guided her through a series of much-loved and top selling releases on the Spirit Voyage label, including Prem, Grace, Anand and Liberation’s Door.  In a similar way, GuruGanesha has fostered the careers of the devotional duo Mirabai Ceiba, producer Thomas Barquee, singer Tina Malia and others.
GuruGanesha’s shimmering, evocative acoustic guitar melodies and supple chordal rhythms played an integral role in creating Snatam’s signature sound. But he has always had his own muse to follow as well. In 2004 GuruGanesha made his debut as a solo artist with the album Grateful Ganesh, a title that pays playful tribute to the artist’s all-time favorite band, the Grateful Dead. This was followed by Pure Ganesh in 2006, an album that ranks in the top ten of Spirit Voyage’s all time best-selling records. GuruGanesha’s solo career continued with Joy Is Now in 2008 and his newest release, 2011’s Kundanlini Surjhee.  All these discs are remarkable for their blend of heartfelt songcraft, profound devotional mood and sterling guitar work embracing a cornucopia of musical styles, from jazz to rock to raga.
In 2008, GuruGanesha embarked on his first solo tour, which met with a heartfelt outpouring of enthusiasm from his many fans. “Still to this day,” he says, “I get voicemails and emails asking when I’m going to do it again.”
Those fans will get their wish in 2012, when the GuruGanesha band embarks on its debut national tour. It has long been GuruGanesha’s dream to apply his supple six-string style to the electric guitar – his first love – and to combine that instrument’s textures and tonalities with the sounds of acoustic guitar, bass and world percussion. That dream has been realized with the formation of the GuruGanesha Band, or GGB for short.
“I could have called it GG Top, but decided against it at the last minute,” GuruGanesha quips.
On tour, the GGB will be performing material from GuruGanesha’s  solo releases. Fans will hear these beloved songs in a new way – a way they’ve never heard before, but a way in which GuruGanesha has always envisioned them.
“Over the years, I would a occasionally do a few of my pieces in concert with other artists,” he says. “But it wasn’t really the proper instrumentation to represent the pieces well. Because they’re guitar-oriented pieces, it’s very hard to deliver that without a bass and so forth.”
It’s a rare artist indeed who is still innovating and blazing fresh  trails at age 60. But GuruGanesha Singh is just that rare soul.

PRAISE FROM FANS FOR GURUGANESHA IN CONCERT  

“The concert in NYC last night was AMAZING! GuruGanesha’s guitar playing was PURE JOY.  I’ve never seen anything like it. Run, don’t walk, to see GuruGanesha and the rest of the band.”

“Last night’s kirtan in Toronto was an absolute joy, a connection to the heart. GuruGanesha is so divinely playful. I can’t wait for him to come back.”

“The deep and pure happiness emanating from GuruGanesha’s being was so strong it was tangible. It makes me smile and brings a peacefulness to my heart, seeing such happiness in human form. It gives me hope, as does this music which gives a place to rest and be held in beauty and love.”

“I felt like the concert could have gone on for another hour or two and I would still have been fully engaged. The music was incredible. I found myself awestruck by GuruGanesha’s guitar playing. I looked around and saw people mesmerized by the guitar. The vocals were wonderful. There were some four part harmonies in there that were amazing. It was really great all around!”

“The concert in Toronto last night was FABULOUS!  The evening was absolutely magical. GuruGanesha rocked.”

“The concert last night was QUANTUM healing, beyond anything I could have imagined. I am awed by GuruGanesha’s present and talent. I talked to him after the concert.  What a beautiful soul.”

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