CO-PRESENTED BY SPACE
Ganavya with Charles Overton

Blessed with a voice “that could turn stoics into sobbing wrecks” (The Guardian), Ganavya blends South Indian devotional music and spiritual jazz, and appears at SPACE, co-presented by the Portland Chamber Music Festival, in a special trio performance with Charles Overton on harp and Maxwell Ridley on upright bass. 

Described by the Wall Street Journal as “among modern music’s most compelling vocalists,” the New York-born, Tamil Nadu-raised singer and transdisciplinarian Ganavya released an ambitious new album, Daughter of a Temple, in November, 2024. Released by Nils Frahm’s label, LEITER, on vinyl and via all digital platforms, it follows her appearance at SAULT’s 2023 live debut in London where, The Guardian wrote, her “voice had a delicate emotive heft that could turn stoics into sobbing wrecks”. Her first single for the label, ‘draw something beautiful’, appeared earlier this year in July.

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"Ganavya creates a lush twine out of American and South Asian traditions, and on “Aikyam: Onnu,” this vocalist and scholar’s majestic debut album, the upshot feels more like an expansive invitation than any definable hybrid. Ganavya has populated jazz standards with lyrics from Tamil poetry and songs of anticolonial resistance . . . No matter the language or the content, Ganavya’s voice is a thick ephemera, like smoke as dark as ink, just coming off the fire." —New York Times