User:Freedomandleela

Freedom and Leela are singers and song writers who tour the world singing Indian Spiritual music, Sikh Kirtan Music of India, Sikh music and ancient mantras at atmospheric, contemporary settings. They live in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Freedom was born in 1958 in Mombasa, Kenya to a Khalsa family from India. His birtthname is Sarbjit Singh Neel and was brought up a practising Sikh. He began formal training in Gurbani Kirtan and in playing harmonium and tablas when he was nine. Encouraged by Yogi Bhajan, he graduated from Western States Chiropractic College and became a Chiropractor in 1982. In 1991, he moved to the Sikh Temple Makindu in Kenya and began to practice mysticism as prescribed by Guru Nanak and Sikhism. Since then he has been singing Kirtan, Naad, Devotional Indian Music and Punjabi music.

He met Leela born. Barbara Fraser, 1962) in 1995. She is a classically trained professional soprano and received her Classical Degree and a diploma in jazz vocal performance from St Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia. After meeting Freedom, she began studying Gurmukhi, Indian raga scales and melodies, Golden Temple music, bhajan, mantra meditation music and Hatha Kundalini Yoga. In 2001 they both travelled throughout India for one year and recorded the CD titled RU, with renditions of the Gayatri Mantra, Waheguru Mantra and Mool Mantar of Guru Nanak Dev ji. They have recorded a total 10 Indian Devotional music recordings.

You can visit their Sikh Kirtan website Kirtan site at: http://www.kirtan.20m.com and their Mantra Chant site at: http://www.globalchants.com. They also sing Live Indian Folk Punjabi music and vist them at: http://www.freedomandleela.com

Watch Kirtan of Jo Mangey Shabad> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYqVYNyhGVg