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Hindu devotional singing is having a moment

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The winner of the 2025 Grammy Award for best new age, ambient or chant album was an album titled “ Triveni ,” meaning “the confluence of three rivers” in Sanskrit .

The name, which is given to the meeting point of the holy Ganges , Yamuna and Saraswati rivers, said singer Tandon , came to her in one of her daily meditations.

A new generation of kirtan artists is leading the charge on Hindu sacred music.

Vani, born into an American Hare Krishna family, just performed his first solo live concert at Mumbai ’s Royal Opera House in late January .

Vani was the head of the successful early 2000sKrishna -conscious” rock band As Kindred Spirits .

Some form of singing or chanting takes place in almost every Hindu tradition, says Vani .

Nikita Bhasin, 27 , is a certified yoga instructor in New York .

She was raised in Laguna Beach , California , where she sang devotionals at the Kali Mandir .

She now opens and closes each of her yoga classes with a Sanskrit chant, often to the theme of the asanas, or postures.

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