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Nitin Sawhney

Nitin Sawhney has collaborated with everyone from the London Symphony Orchestra and pianist Hélène Grimaud to Paul McCartney and Anoushka Shankar. His influences span jazz, flamenco, rock and Indian classical music and he performs, produces and composes for artists, films and TV series. The single ‘Down the Road’ from Immigrants, his first recording for Sony Masterworks, is out now.

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