I came to America, I was with Citibank, I was with McKinsey. Then, of course, I got into the business world. But I remember what songs I used to sing when I did those chores. Growing up, we came from a very simple family. How did it all begin? I remember in one of my interviews, you spoke about using your first salary to buy a guitar and a stereo system.

You straddle the world of high finance, business, education, the arts… You are a philanthropist, you are a humanitarian. Here are the edited excerpts of the interview: So for me all these factors coming together is a great confluence. Speaking about the performance, which came on the 56 th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination, she said “How great is it that, on that day which created so much conversation in the country that we are able to go in there and speak about finding your own radiance and peace and harmony and blessings. A day before her performance in Washington, she discussed her Kennedy Center debut with prominent journalist Aziz Haniffa for the streaming platform Neestream. Shivoham is the culmination of Tandon’s musical journey that lasted a couple of decades. One of the songs, Om Namo Narayanaya, was nominated for Grammy in the “Best Contemporary World Music Album” category. Though music and art have been part of her life since childhood, Tandon’s late-blooming musical career didn’t take off until 2010, when she released her first album, Soul Call. In 2015, the couple donated $100 million to New York University’s School of Engineering. In 1992, she and her husband, Ranjan, launched the Tandon Capital Associates. She is the first Indian American woman to become a partner of McKinsey & Company. Tandon came to the United States when she was 24, after earning a bachelor’s degree from Madras Christian College and MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmadabad. (For Shivoham, which was recorded at nine studios in four countries, Tandon used 279 musicians.) In a performance that lasted roughly 100 minutes, Tandon sang 12 songs from the album, accompanied by an ensemble of 10 world-class musicians, including pianist Kenny Werner, and a two-dozen-strong choir drawn from New York University faculty, students and alumni, among others.

The concert at the packed Eisenhower Theater, which has a capacity of more than 1,160, was the first by the Grammy-nominated artist and businesswoman in the nation’s capital. Indian American Chandrika Tandon dazzled the Kennedy Center, the high temple of American art and culture, with a brilliant performance of her fourth album, Shivoham, on November 22 nd.

22, speaks about her late-blooming music career and philanthropy.įollow Editor’s note: Interview transcript courtesy of Neestream.) Tandon, who dazzled the Kennedy Center with a brilliant performance on Nov. Chandrika Tandon performing Shivoham at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, on November 22, 2019.

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