Jai Uttal is an American musician, a Grammy-nominated singer and a pioneer in the world music community with his eclectic East-Meets-West sound. We talk about his life, his path to living a spiritual life and ultimately becoming a Kirtan singer. At 19, Uttal moved to California and studied under Sarod player, Ali Akbar Khan. He later began making regular trips to India, where he spent time with practitioners from both Buddhist and Hindu traditions, wandering Bengali street musicians, and singing with the kirtan wallahs in the temple of his Hindu guru Neem Karoli Baba. Uttal adopted the spiritual practice of kirtan, the ancient bhakti yoga of chanting the names of God.
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