Sina Vodjani

Sina Vodjani is a Musicien born in 1954 with Ispahan in Iran, wire of a French mother and an Iranian father.

Sina Vodjani grew successively with Teheran, San Francisco and Paris. Thus, as of early childhood, he is confronted with several cultures. Very young person, he learns the Chant and the Guitare but he is fascinated by the Eastern music.

In 1975, it leaves for Hamburg. It is there that it is made known as interprets French songs and than it undertakes two years of studies of composition.

At the beginning of the Years 1980, Sina Vodjani begins a course of studies of musicology to Bremen, by having like principal matter the guitar. It finishes its studies in 1986.

At the time of a stay in India, it is initiated with the Sitar and the Râga by the virtuoso Amit Roy.

Parallel to its activities of type-setter, of arranger and producer, Sina Vodjani works as a Photographe and painter; its work is exposed to Paris, Hamburg and in the north of the Germany. Its untiring research towards new influences leads it to the Nepal and the Tibet, where it meets and records the prayers of the 17th Karmapa, Orgyen Trinley Dorje. Sina Vodjani had recorded the 16th Karmapa which had had to be exiled in India in 1959.

In collaboration with various international musicians, Sina Vodjani carries out a work which associates traditional Eastern sonorities and modern rates/rhythms, with the songs and prayers of this monk. For other albums of the same register, it succeeds in collaborating with the Master of meditation Geshe Thubten Ngawang as well as the nun Tibetan Ani Choying Drolma or Ani Choying Dolma. It dedicates an album to Sainte Mother Subdued Amritanandamayi. Its current project, Zarathoustra , gather CD, a DVD and an album of photographs. It took as a starting point a voyage one month through Iran in 2005.

All the productions of Sina Vodjani are born from sophisticated creative processes which it improves in its studio of recording of Hamburg.

Discography

Discography on the official site

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