A Brief Biography of Mirabai

Mirabai is a singer, storyteller, and composer who has fused her background in both Eastern and Western vocal traditions with story and poetry from around the world. She performs in a wide variety of musical styles and artistic collaborations; from jazz, dance/theatre, and New Music to world music and original compositions, appearing in concert with Baba Olatunji, Glen Velez, Steve Gorn, David Darling, Souren Baronian, Eddie Daniels, Max Roach, Coleman Barks and Martita Goshen's Earthworks. She is a member of the American Festival of Microtonal Music, has recorded for Newport Classics and Great American Audio, and was part of the award-winning storytelling video series "Sharing the Circle".

Most recently, she has been part of a Storytelling and Music production with members of the New Mexico Symphony, and is on the faculty of the Contemporary Music Program at the College of Santa Fe. Mirabai maintains a private studio where she teaches the practice of the Voice.

Her recently released CD, This Love, showcases her original compositions of settings of ecstatic poetry, including Rumi, Lalla, Ghalib, and her namesake, the 15th century Hindu poetess, Mirabai