Oliver Rajamani, is a renowned world music artist who is credited for keeping alive: the ancient vanishing Tamil folk music and Culture, the nomadic musical styles of India, and the unknown mystical Tamil Christian devotional musical styles of India. Music critics have distinguished Rajamani as an "artist who has redefined Gypsy Music by taking it back to India (homeland of the Roma Gypsy) to its original roots" and "literally destroying borders."
Rajamani is certainly a rare breed. When most artists spend their lifetime mastering one style of music or instrument, Rajamani is comfortable with many. Indian, Middle Eastern, and Gypsy music from percussion instruments to strings to voice and composition have come to him with much ease.
Hailing from India, Rajamani has the magic and spirit of the Indian music and the fire and passion of the Gypsy music in his blood and it flows naturally out of him as one can see at his live shows.
Born in TamilNadu, India, Oliver Rajamani grew up in a family that loved music and dance. He began performing informally at the age of four, and was encouraged early on to develop his natural gifts in music.
Music is ultimately of the heart and spirit and thus it is said it is the universal language uniting all living beings on earth, universe and beyond. Music is also everchanging as culture and humans are also everchanging. But the spirit always remains the same.
The music that flows through Rajamani unites all human beings spiritually stripping one of all illusions to lead you back into your heart and soul. It is a sound that is at once foreign and familiar. Drawing upon ancient Eastern traditions, his music resonates in a deep place within its listeners, while remaining accessible and satisfying to the Western ear.
Rajamani's live shows are spiritually uniting and melodically soothing, rhythmically energizing, technically breathtaking and historically educating. Rajamani's music crosses many cultural, religious, and musical boundaries. Its spiritual essence allows people from different ethnic backgrounds and belief systems to connect to their own true spiritual identity
The sounds and rhythms that flow naturally out of Rajamani are an essence of his own diary of his life thru birth, travel, education and spirituality.
Rajamani has created his own music by arranging traditional folk songs from Tamil Nadu, India, chronicling their historic path and by adding new compositions not found anywhere else on the globe.