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DISCOGRAPHY OF NISHA MADARAN

Nisha Madaran is an award winning singer/songwriter.

Nisha was born on 11 Jan 1988, is a law student at the University of Suriname and will graduate within 1 year as a Lawyer. She already sang as a girl of 5 or 6 years and started singing on her 16th till 26th in her own band “Nice & Easy”. She sings Bollywood and classical Indian styles and also non-Hindi / western songs (English, Spanish, French, Surinamese, Dutch, etc.). This gives her lots of great possibilities and voice ranges with combinations of styles in her music productions.

At the 2017 SuMusic Award Show (Suriname / South America), Nisha won the awards for Best Female Artist, Best Hindi Artist, Best Collaboration and the People’s Choice Award. At the 2016 Suriname Summer Award Show she won the awards for Best Female Artist, Best Hindi Artist, Best Summer Song / Song of the year and the People’s Choice Award. In 2015 she has also won the "Best Female Award" and "People's Choice Award". This made her a record holder of 3x Peoples Choice Award, 3x Best Female and 2x Best Hindi artist in Suriname. In the Netherlands / Europe she won the "Best Indo-song award" of 2015. Nisha has been decorated by the President of the Republic of Suriname (St. America) in November 2016 for the way she brings integration through her music to all people, cultures and religions and the positive branding of Suriname in and outside Suriname as well as all the social work that she does for children and women in need. She also got a high decoration in the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Europe) because of her musical compositions that brought integration in music of different cultures, fusion styles and languages. This decorations gave her the title of “Ambassador for integration of music and cultures”.

Her career went fast and she was asked to perform with the Award winning ‘Yaadgaar Orchestra’ in Suriname and performed with artists from India and The Netherlands, Guyana, Trinidad and France. She felt honored to perform with artists from India like SANAM, Babul Suprio, Vipin Sachdeva, Mukthar Shah, Radjes Pawar, Rakesh Maini, her classical guru Mohamed Nizam and lots more great singers from the Netherlands, Guyana and Trinidad and Suriname. In 2015 and 2016 she gave lots of successful concerts in The Netherlands, Trinidad, Guyana, Barbados and Suriname, including music tours with Diamonds2000 and Avishkar from the Netherlands, including musicals. In 2016 she participated in lots of local and international shows and concerts like “Fet de la Music, a worldwide French festival celebrating the French Independence. She participated in Student Song Contests and also participated in the finals of HindiPop Suriname 2013 and Suripop 2016, both composers’ competitions. In October 2016 she had a sold out Concert in Almere / Netherlands and in November 2016 a concert in Ahoy Rotterdam / Netherlands. She had the honor of performing as a special guest at the ZeeTV Business event in The Netherlands. This and next year she will participate in several local and international concerts. She has attended several workshops and participated in the Famous Music Festival in 2014 in Suriname, is now also part to the Indian Cultural Center (ICC) in Suriname and gives pro bono concerts for social projects. She is also Ambassador for the Organization of American States (OAS) for Education projects. In april 2017 she participated in the 180 years celebration of the oldest Theater in Suriname and she danced, acted and sang along with lots of great artists, including Karin Bloemen from The Netherlands. In May and June of 2017 she participated in 4 concerts in The Netherlands of IloveSu (that was held in The Box in Amsterdam) and Festival Weekend (in Silverdome, Zoetermeer), which was powered by ZeeTV. In June 2017 she went to ZeeTV London for a Live TV interview at Zee Companion. In August 2017 she had the honor to represent Suriname at the Carifesta XIII festival at Barbados. In November 2017 she performed with the well known Dutch artists Nick & Simon (The Netherlands) and as the queen of fusion music of Suriname, she made a fusion from one of their greatest hit “Steeds Weer” together with “Jeena Jeena”.

In Suriname, she released her first cover song "Pyar Hamara" (ft. Bryan B) in 2015 that was more than 12 weeks on the National Top40, of which 5 weeks at the number one position, as well as several Hindi and non-Hindi radio stations. She also did a cover of "Tujhse Naraz" (with Sonny Khoeblal on the Piano) that reached the number 1 position in the Hindi Top list. She released Kuch kuch hota hain" in a Indo-Fusion that went to the top of the charts for which an award has been received in the Netherlands as the Best Indo-Song in 2015. She then came out with a Hindi-Latin fusion of Yeh Sama & Besame Mucho (with Yoana Borroto from Cuba) which came in at the no .1 position as well on the Hindi list of Top40 Suriname as well as several radio stations in Suriname and internet radios stations. A beautiful fusion followed of "Every Night" and "Janeman" (again with Bryan B) that came out with the name "Me dren fu yu" (I Dream of you), that did very well on all charts and went to the top of the Hindi List. Her recent own compositions that has been released which are a kids song (Zullen we tellen - Shall we count). She had a collaboration with Bollywood Unplugged and had a live cover of Tu, Tu hai wohi (You, you are the one). Her Hindi – English latin love song: “Tu hi mera dil”  (“You are my Heart” ) came out as her first 100% own written and composed production, and went viral in 193 countries and became a National no.1 hit song on all radio stations and the National TOP40 Suriname hit list and in The Netherlands. This song got more than 2,8 Million views on YouTube within a very short time and has been declared the best Suriname video clip till 2017 by “Black Entertainment” on FB. In March 2017 she launched her new song “Mere Soniyaa” (My Love-one) in duet with Ray Neiman, a French singer, again her own composition in Hindi, French and English, which also became no.1 on several radio stations. In February 2018 she released her latest new own written song, named “DANCE” that also hits the no.1 position of several hit lists. In May 2018 Nisha made a new duet with Jackson Blai, a Maroon singer from Suriname, that went in to the radio hitlists within days. Nisha did her 2018 music tour in the Netherlands with "Suritoppers" (Top Surinamese artists) and performed at the celebration of 145yrs Indian Immigration of Suriname. After this Nisha started with new covers and new own compositions of which the music has been recorded by great Indian musicians with whom she will make the video clips in India as well.

Nisha will keep on making music and besides covers and fusion also keep on writing her own songs in such a variation that all fans will be satisfied. She will keep on singing with local and international artists and will always make the difference with her voice, qualities, performances and production. Besides all social projects she does for children, disabled people and elderly, she aims to stimulate young and elderly in both classical and modern Indian music including fusions and collaborations between several music styles, languages, artists and also as reflected upon it, as a good example of integration of music and culture. "We connect..."

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For bookings and info: Email: nisha.madaran@gmail.com Mob/App: +5978506428 or +31611645555