Ram Dass Khalsa, known professionally as Ram Dass, creates music that is spiritually and emotionally restorative. His music opens the heart and stirs the soul. As a producer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter, he inspires a unique potency through collaboration and improvisation that creates art greater than the sum of its parts. His constant dedication to render the beauty of human experience, triumph, tragedy, and beyond, has led him to the world stage. He performed at the 2019 GRAMMY Awards, has played at Carnegie Hall, and continues to perform at venues around the world every year.
Ram Dass is at the forefront of a movement of musicians aiming to bring healing and solace to the world. In 2021, he created a series of musical projects born from his own deeply personal human experience of joy and sorrow, collaborating with the duo AWARÉ to create the EP And Now He Has Wings, a musical journey through his recovery and healing after the death of his newborn son.
Born into a family of professional musicians, Ram Dass was raised to appreciate all musical genres and find the unique nuances of every song and composition he heard. He developed a near-encyclopedic knowledge of wide swaths of the musical landscape, which he calls upon to create novel and moving approaches to music production and songwriting.
Notable Credits
Ram Dass produced the score for the film AWAKEN (2022), directed by Bob Degus, starring Gabrielle Anwar (Scent of a Woman), Henry Ian Cusick (Lost, The 100, Scandal), and Dave Baez (Dexter, Days of Our Lives).
In 2020, he was the music producer for the EP Underworld, in collaboration with Pulitzer Prizewinner Ian Urbina and singer-songwriter Jai-Jagdeesh, inspired by Urbina’s book The Outlaw Ocean, to bring attention to ecological crime, piracy, and trafficking on the high seas.
Live and touring credits include Snatam Kaur, Roscoe Mitchell and Joseph Jarman (the Art Ensemble of Chicago), Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul, and Mary), Guster, and Tina Malia.
Production credits include Snatam Kaur, Jai-Jagdeesh, Nirinjan Kaur, and Adrienne Shamszad.
Music by Ram Dass
Music Videos by Ram Dass
Ram Dass - Niagara (Official Music Video)
Press For Ram Dass
With his last EP, ‘And Now He Has Wings‘ on the current Grammy® ballot and his songs going viral across Instagram Reels and TikTok, Ram Dass releases ‘The Unimaginable,’ an EP that offers hope in times of strife. With an acoustic guitar and small backing band of drums, bass, violins, and cellos, he reaches out in the universal language of song with a deep understanding of the challenges of being human.
Ram Dass releases, “Siddhartha” a classically inspired instrumental EP on Spirit Voyage Records. It is a musical meditation that evokes an emotional healing experienced through every note. You feel the movement of sound and silence on Siddharta as if the instruments are breathing. Ram Dass plays piano, flute, clarinet and guitar. He is accompanied by the beautiful cello of Shannon Hayden on ‘Prelude for Siddhartha’.
Staring at the vastness of Niagara Falls, Ram Dass could not process the wonder or majesty of this powerful force of nature. He could not hear the booming sounds of the water crashing below him. He could not feel the water dancing in the air around him. All he knew was that his son was going to die. His pregnant wife was on the opposite coast while he was on tour, and they each processed this news alone.