SHARADA SHASHIDHAR

About

Soul'd Out Presents: An Evening with Sharada Shashidhar Doors: 7:00pm Show: 8:00pm Ages 21+. Sharada Shashidhar is a Los Angeles based vocalist, composer & producer. Her soulful voice takes inspiration from jazz and Indian classical music, which influences her songwriting and productions. Shashidhar’s elaborate harmonies and vocal creativity come together in a new beat-orientated spiritual jazz. Sharada has performed across the US and EU in spaces such as Le Guess Who? Festival, Badehaus Berlin, JHL @ SFJAZZ, Public Records, Solar Myth, Zebulon and more. She has shared bills or collaborated with the likes of Nightmares on Wax, Pan Afrikan People’s Arkestra, and Zeroh among others. Sharada graduated from the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in NYC and released her debut EP, Rahu (Leaving Records) in March of 2020. Her 2024, Soft Echoes (Leaving Records) was named in the Top 10 Jazz Albums of the year by Gilles Peterson and Worldwide.FM. Her latest album, A Foot on the Ground, is out now via Colorfield Records, and features guest appearances from Benny Bock, Mark Guiliana, Caleb Buchanan, Timothy Angulo, and Devin Daniels. That album has received praise by We Jazz, MOJO, FL