Graciella Zogbi
Artist Bio:
The songs are artistically and skillfully led and executed by award-winning vocalist and teacher, Graciella Zogbi, former professionally trained opera singer at the world-renowned Cleveland Institute of Music, with over 10 years additional training of her four-octave voice in Vedic voice culture and the Classical Music of Northern Vedic India. She has studied and trained with numerous top musical artists of India including world-class sitarist and padma bushan award recipient, Debu Chaudhuri; and vocalists, Pandit Mani Prasad, and former president of the Lucknow School of Music, Dr.Awasthi. She has also integrated with her musical studies, training and study of Sanskrit and Vedic Recitation and chant with numerous Sanskrit scholars. Although not of Indian heritage, she has been repeatedly acclaimed for her perfection in Sanskrit phonetics by Vedic scholars. She is currently teaching classes in Vedic Devotional Song at both the elementary school and university levels. She is actively engaged in research and performance as well as production of additional CDs in ancient Vedic Classical Devotional Songs.