Amira Gill is an Indian vocalist, Song writer and Music Therapist. She is known for singing the song Das Main Ki Pyaar Vichon Khatteya for Coke Studio along with Kanwar Grewal and Deveshi Sahgal. Her expertise in music ranges from Punjabi Tappe to Classical Indian Music. Her most popular work also includes her interpretations of pre-existing classics and folk tunes from countries across the globe.
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Wiki/Biography
Amira Gill was born on 2nd January in New Delhi, India. She is a Capricorn. At the age of 6, she was training in Tabla and Kathak but by then she had realized her passion for music and continued to pursue music. She did her schooling at The Shri Ram School (TSRS), Aravali Campus, Gurgaon. In 2015, she went on to get her bachelor’s in music therapy at Berklee College of Music and graduated in 2019.
Family
Parents & Siblings
Amira was born into a Delhi-based Sikh Family. As such there is not much information about her parents. Amira has a brother, Adiraj Gill. Amira is close to her maternal grandmother.
Amira Gill Childhood Picture
Amira Gills Grandmother
Amira Gill with her mother
Religion
Amira follows Sikhism.
Amira Gill with her family at Golden Temple
Career
Band
At the age of 15 Gill started working as the lead vocalist of The Incredible Mindfunk, a genre-breaking indie band based in Delhi. She used to play with The Incredible Mindfunk in bars and clubs late at night.
Amira Gill (extreme left) with her band The Incredible Mindfunk
Berklee
Amira received two partial merit-based scholarships to complete her Bachelor’s in Music Therapy from the world-renowned Berklee College of Music in Boston. During her graduation from Berklee, Amira joined the Berklee Indian Ensemble, due to which she got a chance to work with some of the best musicians from all over the world. Along with this, she learnt the traditional music of the Balkans, Middle East, and India. At Berklee, she also shared the stage with artists such as Vijay Prakash, Shankar Mahadevan, Shreya Ghoshal, Tigran Hamasyan, and Amal Murkus. She Performed the folk music of Punjab/Pakistan at the International Folk Festival at the Berklee School of Music. While at Berklee, she worked on an album Shuruaat, which got nominated for Grammy for Best Global Music Album category in 2022.
Amira (holding the mic) during rehearsals at Berklee
Amira Gill with Shreya Ghoshal at Berklee
UCLA
After her graduation, Gill went on to do an internship with UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital as a music therapist where she worked closely with children who were undergoing many medical challenges. after the competition of her internship, she got a chance to go to Kenya and Uganda with the organisation ‘Umoja Global Community Music Therapy, their motive was to empower and help the woman and children who had been left alone with the help of music therapy.
Amira Gill (second from Left) in Uganda
Singles/Albums
Amira did a song for the famous Coke Studio Bharat Das Main Ki Pyaar Vichon Khatteya along with Kanwar Grewal and Deveshi Sahgal. Amira has made many recreations of old Folk songs with her own vocals Like Chori Chori (Reshma Ji) and Raavi by Sajjad Ali. Amira Gill has composed and sung songs in 19 different languages which include Punjabi, Hindi, Bengali, English, Greek, Portuguese, Spanish, etc.
Movies and Shows
Amira Gill lent her voice to the songs of many shows and movies like Saath from the show FAADU(2022), Mera Ishq Vi Tu from the web series Minus One(2019) and, Hoovina Angi Thottu from Dasara (Kannada Movie) (2023).
Favourites
- Singer: Beyoncé, Alicia Keys, and Leona Lewis
- Band: Kings Of Leon
- Song: Sex On Fire
Facts/Trivia
- Talking about her parent’s reaction when working late at night in bars and clubs as a vocalist for an all-male Indie band, Gill said that,
I was very young when I started performing professionally with an all-male band (The Incredible Mindfunk) in bars and clubs late at night. Most parents would not be comfortable with that but mine were very supportive, and would show up for almost every performance, full of pride. They supported me even when I wanted to go to Boston, instead of being fearful that I did not have ‘a safety net’ of an academic degree to fall back on if music as a career did not work out. They trusted me and my decisions.”
- Amira’s Family originally belonged to the Punjab and Sindhi region of the Pre Partition period of India and growing up listening to the stories of the partition, Amira has a connection with the event of partition and often talks about her fascination with meeting the people from the other country and this often reflects in her work.
Amira Gill’s family before the partition
- Gill has more than 25k Listeners per month on Spotify.
- Amira loves learning about new cultures and people.
- She has a Podcast Music Therapy Approaches on which she has conversations with other music therapists.
- Amira Loves Travelling.
Amira Gill in Tibet’
- Amira composed a song from the famous poem by Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Subh-e-Azadi, this poem is based on the event of partition and is the only poem on partition written by Faiz.
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