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Wynne Paris (born June 22, 1964 in Redstone Arsenal, Alabama) is a New Age and world beat musician/producer with a special focus on yoga music and kirtan, the call-and-response singing of Bhakti yoga.〔 His live performance combines Kirtan chanting, American music (jazz, gospel music, blues and rock music),〔 world beat rhythms and raga scales. He sings in both English and Sanskrit, and plays guitar,〔 sarod (a 26 stringed, sitar-like instrument from India),〔 harmonium, saz〔(AllMusic Artists Profile: Wynne Paris - Credits )〕 (a stringed instrument in the lute family) and percussion. ==Career== Paris was a rock & roll and rhythm & blues guitar artist in the 1980s,〔 performing with artists like Rusted Root's Jim Donovan, and Mark Karan of the rock band RatDog.〔 In 1994, at the age of 30, Wynne took up Indian music and yoga, changing the direction of his music.〔''Grooving with Jazz, World Beats and Spirituality'' by Patrick O'Shea, The Times of Trenton, Friday, July 29, 2005〕 In 1996, one of the songs he co-wrote with Maura Moynihan, "Prayer for the Pure Land", won first place in the Songwriters' Association of Washington National Songwriting Contest. Also in that year, he met the Indian “hugging saint” Mata Amritanandamayi, known to her devotees as Ammachi or Amma, which inspired him to move to Marin County to study Indian music, shamanism, and yoga.〔 Since 1998, Paris has primarily performed and recorded New Age and World Beat music with an Indian influence, performing kirtan chanting and playing both Western and traditional Indian musical instruments. He appeared on the first album of Krishna Das, ''Pilgrim Heart'' (1998), who is known for popularising kirtan music in the West. This album also featured Sting. Paris released his debut album, ''Ghandarva Café'' in 2004, which was followed by ''Emptiness and Ecstasy'' (2005) and ''Omspun'', featuring Groovananda, in (2009).〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher= MTV )〕 Over the years, Paris has recorded with many notable musicians in these genres including Krishna Das, Badal Roy (Miles Davis), Shahin and Sepehr, Sharon Gannon, Bhagavan Das, David Newman, Wade Morissette, Rick Allen, Guru Ganesha Singh Khalsa, Mark Karan (Bob Weir & RatDog), Perry Robinson, Hans Christian, Dave Stringer, and Girish. Paris played for a "Yoga Ball" celebrating President Barack Obama's second inauguration at St. Francis Hall in Northeast Washington, D.C. on January 22, 2013. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wynne Paris」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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