Ganesha Sharanam Sharanam Ganesha
Gan Gan Ganapati Sharanam Ganesha
Jay Ganesha Jaya Jaya Gananatha
Gan Gan Ganapatye Namaha
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About Jai Uttal:
Jai studied piano when he was quite young but his real musical passion emerged when he discovered the banjo, diving deeply into the old timey Appalachian song tradition. Then, of course, came electric guitar and the mind bending universe of sonic colors inspired by Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles. But a first encounter with Indian music at age 17, attending a concert by Maestro Ali Akbar Khan, proved to be a life-changing experience. He would later say that this music “entered my heart like the source of all life.” Soon he was studying sarod with Khansahib in Northern California, which would become his home. Jai says that his time with Maestro Khan totally transformed his relationship to sound and to music itself. It also led to the discovery of his singing voice. “Ali Akbar Khan insisted that all his students study singing as well as instrumental music.” Jai explains. “He said, ‘All music comes from the voice. I won’t teach you sarod unless you also study voice.’ Most of us did this very begrudgingly. We all wanted to be hot-shot instrumentalists, not singers. On top of that, I was extremely shy and insecure about my voice. But I found that when I was at home singing and practicing the ragas, I started having glimmers of this deep, deep inner world that I never knew existed. It was years before I took that outside my bedroom, and what brought me out was Kirtan. I was terrified at first, but somewhere along the line I realized that I couldn’t be paralyzed by fear because singing was the key to my healing and salvation.”
Music and spiritual practice became inextricably linked for Jai when he met the great Indian saint, Neem Karoli Baba, in 1971. Maharajji, as he was called by his devotees, encouraged the practice of Bhakti (devotional) Yoga as expressed through kirtan, the call-and-response chanting of sacred mantras, and service. Kirtan would become the center of Jai’s musical and spiritual life, giving him what he calls his “soul support system!”
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