Yashashwi Sharma has travelled extensively throughout her life and has been part of music wherever she has set foot. Yashashwi studied Indian classical music in her home town of Jaipur, before studying Jazz and R&B music at the Los Angeles Music Academy, then sang and worked with African musicians during her stay teaching at Tushime School and working at Kibewa Orphanage in Tanzania. Yashashwi draws on all these influences in her unique singing style and genre of music.

Yashashwi formed ‘Patterns in the Ivy’ with pianist John Pearson in the winter of 2009, having just moved to the Untied Kingdom to study her BA in Music and Philosophy and Ethics at Liverpool Hope University. Her new music fuses cinematic and electro-acoustic with world styles, and Patterns in the Ivy have also found themselves perfectly suited to scoring independent films. They recently finished their first album and are currently playing concerts around Liverpool and hoping to start gigging farther afield.

I describe myself as a Established and Experienced Practitioner

Type Of Artist

• Commissioning Artist

Description of my working practice

Full-time practitioner (>25 hours per week)

My 2 most recent engagements

‘Love Music Hate Homophobia’ at the Slug and Lettuce – sang a 30 minute set at a concert raising money to help campaign against homophobia and raise awareness about the LGTB Society. ‘The Way the Lamp Swings’ - working with partner on the music for a short film by director Peter Kelly. They have been working with natural texture and manipulated digital sounds – this will be the tenth short film sound track.

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