Indian-American vocalist and entrepreneur Chandrika Tandon has won the Grammy Award for Triveni in the Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album category. The 67th Grammy Awards, organised by the Recording Academy, took place on Sunday at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.
Tandon, who grew up in Chennai, won alongside South African flautist Wouter Kellerman and Japanese cellist Eru Matsumoto. She is also a global business leader and the elder sister of former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi.
“It feels amazing,” she said in a backstage interview with the Recording Academy. “We had such wonderful nominees in the category. The fact that we won this is really an extra special moment for us. There were fabulous musicians who were nominated with us.”
Other nominees in the category were Break of Dawn by Ricky Kej, Opus by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Chapter II: How Dark It Is Before Dawn by Anoushka Shankar, and Warriors of Light by Radhika Vekaria.
The awards ceremony is being streamed live on Disney+ Hotstar in India.
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