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Lal Meri is an American Electronica/Dance/Pop/World band based in Hermosa Beach, California. They are currently signed with Six Degrees Records. Their songs include “Dreams of 18,” “Sweet Love,” “Lal Meri” and “Bad Things.”

The band members are Nancy (Rosey) Kaye, Ireesh Lal and Carmen Rizzo – three musicians of different backgrounds, cultures and musical sensibilities, combined into a unified whole. Nancy Kaye's singing and writing have created projects in pop (a 2002 debut album for Island/Def Jam Records) and jazz (a recent album titled Luckiest Girl under her “Rosey”). Ireesh Lal's multiple instrumental, composing and arranging projects have included collaborations with Kid Rock, Smashmouth and others -- as well as in his own bands, Hot Sauce Johnson and Animastik. Carmen Rizzo's works includes stints as a writer, mixer and producer who has worked with Seal, Coldplay, Paul Oakenfold and Pete Townshend, along with wide-ranging solo albums and his work as a member of the world-fusion act Niyaz.

Lal Meri takes its name from an ancient Sufi folk song, part of a mystical tradition that helped to expand the reach of Islam around the world in centuries past. Ecstatic, transcendental Sufi art forms were used to draw people in through direct experience, bypassing dogma and authoritarianism.

The band’s music is currently ranked #2 on iTunes electronic music chart, #55 on iTunes pop music chart (ranked near Lil' Wayne, Beyonce and Journey's greatest hits), as well as #1 on the Amazon.com mover and shakers chart.