Kiran Ahluwalia is an Indo-Canadian singer who publicly performs her own musical arrangements of ancient Persian and Punjabi Ghazals, or poems.
Kiran Ahluwalia won the 'Newcomer' category in the inaugural Songlines Music Awards (2009) - announced May 1, 2009 - the new 'world music' awards organised by the UK-based magazine, Songlines.

Personal life

Ahluwalia was born in India and migrated with her parents to Toronto

Toronto

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, Canada as a child. After completing her MBA at Dalhousie University, she returned to Toronto with the plan of being in the financial services industry, she changed her mind and went back to India to study music and then returned to Toronto to build her career as a musician.

Ahluwalia is married to guitar player and co-arranger Rez Abassi, and currently lives in New York.

Discography

Title	Release	Record label	Awards
Kashish - Attraction	2000	Kiran Music	nominated for 2002 Juno Award, Best Global Album
Beyond Boundaries	2003	Kiran Music	winner of 2004 Juno Award, World Music Album of the Year
Kiran Ahluwalia	2005	Triloka Records
Wanderlust	2007	Four Quarters Entertainment	nominated for 2008 Juno, World Music Album of the Year
Aam Zameen - Common Ground	2011

External links

• Kiran Ahluwalia
• Songlines Music Awards 2009
• Kiran Ahluwalia Interview at allaboutjazz.com