Recipient of Emerging Excellence Award for her upcoming album, composer's residency 'Take V' by Serious (London Jazz Festival), shortlisted Sky Arts Scholarship.

"Love It All. Brilliant!"-Gilles Peterson
"Beautiful and Intoxicating.I've completely fallen for this lady.I love it", Michelle Hussey, BBC Introducing
'New, creative work by Shama Rahman or soon to be Dr Rahman!' Lopa Kothari, BBC3 World Routes
"..consistently able to combine new elements & sounds with what is already present to create an incredibly unique record... a musical & paramusical strength that many others could take valuable lessons from, may her own work continue to show those strengths for a long time to come."-7bitArcade

"Fable: Time" is an ambitious piece, that rare combination of unconventional creativity and the focus to bring it into a successful fruition" -FredPerry Subculture

Shama's album 'Fable:Time' has the Sitar musically arranged centrally within layered harmonies and complex grooves ranging keys, sax, violin, guitar, harp, double bass, drums and percussion.

From jazz to dubstep, punk to folk (bulgarian, bengali and english), spoken word, trip hop to hip hop, swing to bosa nova, her stories start life as poems and take flight as cross-genre songs. Poetic Music-with a whole heap of energy!

She draws inspiration from Bangladeshi roots, childhood desert landscapes of the Middle East, and colliding with London's vibrant characters to produce songs that are original and insightful with an essence of playfulness.

www.shamarahman.bandcamp.com

"Impressively inventive...Shama Rahman's band performing quirky, intelligent tunes", Arts Desk
"Truly outstanding and original music...to the next level" gigsandfestivals.co.uk

International: Germany's Water Festival, France's Fete De La Musique and Bangladesh. Major festivals in England: The London Jazz Festival, Southbank's Alchemy Festival, Barbican, Manchester Jazz Festival, The Secret Garden Party, The Green Man, feature on Womad radio, Supersonix festival (supporting Seth Lakeman and Ska Cubano), Wilderness, One Love Festival, Global Beats Festival, Manchester's UnConvention Festival, Wandsworth Arts Festival, The Rollright Fayre, DSC Literary Festival, SALF, Hackney Word Festival and a commission for Birmingham's Eastern Electronic Festival.

London venues: The Forge, Passing Clouds, Green Note, Richmix, Proud Galleries, Floripa, Ritzy, Wilton's Music Hall, Troubadour, Luxe, Bedford, Old Queen's Head.

Under the tuition lineage of Pt Ravi Shankar, she sings over her sitar at times passionately soaring and powerful, at others, mischievously percussive and quietly thoughtful but always beautiful as she tells it like it is with observations on life, love and time hidden in fables, illuminated in parables and good old fashioned clap-alongs.

"So beautiful, that was incredible", One Taste Stage organiser

"That was absolutely fantastic.We have a beautiful lady sitting in our studio with a beautiful instrument-that was spectacular!"-Secret Garden Party Radio
"Audience mesmerised!" One Love Festival, Soul Rebel stage organiser
"What came across was just how beautiful your voice is, I was pretty blown away to hear such a balance of delicacy and power"- SpitalFields Festival, Composer, Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Commissioned by MOJO magazine for a re-interpretation of Beatles classic Eleanor Rigby using her unique jazz-sitar style.
She starred as the lead in international bilingual BBC drama series, Bishaash, which showed to over 52 million viewers world-wide on Sky. Interviews and music appearances on BBC Radio London, BBC3 World Routes, BBC Introducing Manchester, BBC Asian Network, BBC6 Introducing with a special mention from Tom Robinson and international Turkish, Indian, Bangladeshi and Sky TV channels. As a vocalist, she has featured on Asian Dub Foundation's latest album 'Signal and the Noise' and worked with producer State of Bengal (Bjork, Talvin Singh) with whom she featured at 2012 BEast festival performing their collaborations. As a sitarist she has featured on Guardian-acclaimed hip-hop producer Telemachus Malone's 'In the Evening' and featured with Bangladeshi artists Bangla producer Buno and singer-songwriter James.

Other collaborations: Kora player Jally Kebba Susso, Gembri player Simo Lagnawi, Folk singer Jamie Doe, London Sitar Ensemble, London Bulgarian Choir and The Doves at the BBC Electric Proms at the Roundhouse, sitarist/vocalist with Orchestra Elastique on Berlin tour.

BBC London Radio, 'Sunny and Shay':"Wow..that was amazing! We could have you on all day!"