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Music For The Planet | Ricky Kej | TEDxGateway
A life-long musician and conservationist who has always followed his Passion, Ricky Kej is a Grammy® Award Winner and one of the biggest names in the Global Music Industry. Without falling prey to commercial music making, Ricky has dedicated his entire life and art to the sole purpose of creating Environmental Consciousness and awareness on Climate Change. Ricky travels the world for his performances and advocacy, bringing together several like-minded international artists. In this video, he shares his inspiring story and also performs songs from his album 'Shanti Samsara - World Music For Environmental Consciousness'.
Joining him are other renowned musicians from USA, Turkey, Vietnam, Canada and India.
Grammy® Award Winner Ricky Kej
Featuring-
Grammy® Award Winner Darlene Koldenhoven on vocals (USA)
Grammy® Award Nominee Ron Korb on flute (Canada)
Grammy® Award Nominee Mehmet Sanlikol on vocals and oud (Turkey)
Hai Phuong on Dan Bau (Vietnam)
Manoj George on Violin (Bangalore, India)
Charanraj MR on vocals (Bangalore, India)
Raveolution String Quartet (Mumbai, India)
Dominic D' Cruz Choir (Bangalore, India)
Muthu Kumar on Tabla (Bangalore, India)
Santana Davis - Sound Engineer
Vanil Veigas - Musical Director
Varsha Kej - Additional Production
New Beginnings Video by Sairam Sagiraju & Amoghavarsha
Love Divine Video by Amoghavarsha
National Anthem Video by Sairam Sagiraju & Amoghavarsha
National Anthem Video thanks to RoundGlass Samsara
Grammy® Award Winner and US Billboard #1 artist Ricky Kej is an internationally renowned Indian Music Composer, Conservationist and Professor.
Ricky Kej composed and produced his latest album ‘SHANTI SAMSARA’, which was launched by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Francois Hollande in the presence of World Leaders at the United Nations COP21 Climate Change Conference in Paris. For Shanti Samsara, Ricky collaborated with over 500 musicians from over 40 countries, all coming together for Environmental Consciousness. Ricky went on to performing music from this album thrice at the United Nations Headquarters, NY & Geneva among other prestigious venues all over the world. Ricky serves as a UNCCD "Land Ambassador", UNICEF "Celebrity Supporter" & UNESCO MGIEP "Kindness Ambassador"
His repertoire of work consists of 15 studio albums released internationally, over 3,500 commercials, and 3 feature films. He scored music for the opening ceremony of the Cricket World Cup 2011, held in Dhaka-Bangladesh.
Ricky has been awarded the United Nations "Global Humanitarian Artist" award. Among other awards to his credit, he has also won Producer of the year at the South African Music Awards (S.Africa), Album of the year at the Zone Music Awards (New Orleans), Global Indian Music Award and Mirchi Music Awards (India) and Centre for Conscious Creativity's ‘FutureVision’ Award (Los Angeles). Ricky is also conferred with the title "Pride of Karnataka" and “Youth Icon of India".
'Real Leaders', a Signatory to the United Nations has recently named Ricky Kej as one of the 100 Real Leaders alongside greats like Bill Gates, Leonardo Dicaprio, Angelina Jolie, and others who 'Inspire the Future'. The House of Commons, Parliament of Canada recently awarded Ricky for his "Outstanding Musical and Humanitarian Achievement".
Ricky Kej a Conservationist and Environmentalist, is a professor at the prestigious National Institute of Advanced Studies (at the Indian Institute of Science) and an Ambassador to Earth Day Network. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
