Speakers

SH. KALURAM BAMANIYA

Kaluram Bamaniya from Madhya Pradesh is a soulful bhajan singer, rendering verses of Sant Kabir, Mirabai, and Gorakhnath across the world. Kaluram Bamaniya belongs to a vibrant tradition of singing bhakti poets in the Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh in India. He started learning at the early age of 9, by accompanying his father, grandfather and uncle on the manjiras. When he was 13 years old he went to Rajasthan, where he absorbed a wide repertoire of songs from an itinerant Mirasi singer Ram Niwas Rao for 1-2 years.