Nitin Sawhney
British composer and producer; Beyond Skin, scores for more than sixty films.
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- Nitin Sawhney is a British musician, producer and composer whose work mixes Asian and other world influences with electronica.
- His 1999 album Beyond Skin was nominated for the Mercury Prize, and he has scored more than sixty films as well as theatre, dance and video games.
- He received the Ivor Novello Lifetime Achievement award in 2017 and was appointed CBE in 2019, having turned down an OBE in 2007.
Key facts
- Born
- 1964; raised in Rochester, Kent1
- Albums
- Spirit Dance (1993); Beyond Skin (1999); Prophesy (2001); Philtre (2005); London Undersound (2008); Dystopian Dream (2015); Immigrants (2021); Identity (2023)1
- Comedy
- With Sanjeev Bhaskar in The Secret Asians and on Goodness Gracious Me (BBC radio, 1996 to 1998)1
- Honours
- Ivor Novello Lifetime Achievement award (2017); CBE (2019)1
- Also
- Chair of the PRS Foundation1
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