Susheela Raman was born in London in 1973. Her parents from Thanjavur in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu had arrived in London in the mid-sixties and when Susheela was four they left the UK for Australia. Susheela grew up singing South Indian classical music and began giving recitals at an early age. As a teenager in Sydney she got into Black American music started her own band and began singing funk, rock and jazz, which demanded quite different voice techniques.She tried to bring these streams together when in 1995 she travelled to India to rediscover her roots by way of further exploring carnatic music. Returning to England in 1997, she started to work with guitarist/producer Sam Mills who had made a record called 'Real Sugar' with a Bengali singer named Paban Das Baul. This record inspered her because it bridged a gap and found common ground for one particular kind of Indian music to be expressed to a new audience. It was a huge hit in Be

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