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Wynne Paris (born June 22, 1964 in Redstone Arsenal, AL) is a New Age and world beat artist/producer and musician with a special focus on yoga music and kirtan, the call-and-response singing of Bhakti yoga. His live performance combines Kirtan chanting, American music (jazz, gospel music, blues and rock music), world beat rhythms and raga scales. He sings in both English and Sanskrit, and plays guitar, sarod (a 26 stringed, sitar-like instrument from India), harmonium, saz (a stringed instrument in the lute family) and percussion.

Paris was a rock and roll and rhythm and blues guitar artist in the 1980s. In 1994, at the age of 30, Wynne took up Indian music and yoga, changing the direction of his music. In 1996, one of the songs he co-wrote with Maura Moynihan, "Prayer for the Pure Land", won first place in the Songwriters' Association of Washington National Songwriting Contest. Also in that year, he met the Indian “hugging saint” Mata Amritanandamayi, known to her devotees as Ammachi or Amma, which inspired him to move to Marin County to study Indian music, shamanism, and yoga. Beginning in 1998, Paris has primarily performed and recorded New Age and World Beat music with an Indian influence, performing kirtan chanting and playing both Western and traditional Indian musical instruments. Paris has recorded with many notable musicians in these genres including Krishna Das, Badal Roy (Miles Davis), Shahin and Sepehr, Sharon Gannon, Bhagavan Das, David Newman, Wade Morissette, Rick Allen, Guru Ganesha Singh Khalsa, Mark Karan (Bob Weir & RatDog), Perry Robinson, Hans Christian, Dave Stringer, and Girish. Paris played for a "Yoga Ball" celebrating President Obama's second inaugural at St. Francis Hall in Northeast D.C., Jan 22nd, 2013.

Groovananda
Paris is the creative director of Groovananda (which means "the bliss of the groove"), a collective of musicians formed in 2005 the core consisting of Paris, Rick Allen (Def Leppard) and John "JT" Thomas (Bruce Hornsby Band), who play rock-and-jazz-influenced kirtan. On May 14, 2010 he and Groovananda were part of a benefit in Washington, DC for the Bonobo Conservation Initiative. They have produced one CD, Omspun, released in 2011 by Auspician Records. Besides the core band members, it featured Badal Roy, Perry Robinson, Mark Karan, Hans Christian, John Wubbenhorst and several others, and vocalists including Krishna Das and Dave Stringer.

Notable performance venues

 * Constitution Hall in Washington, DC
 * National Zoo - Smithsonian music series
 * Millenium Celebration in Washington, DC
 * Willow Tree Yoga Center in Washington, DC
 * (CBGB's) CB's Gallery in New York City, NY
 * Health and Harmony Festival in Sonoma, CA
 * Karmapalooza Yoga Festival in Miami, FL
 * Starwood Festival in Pomeroy, OH
 * Taos Yoga Center in Taos, NM
 * Holy Cow Yoga Center in Charleston, SC
 * Three Rivers Yoga Studio in Pittsburgh, PA
 * Elysian Fields Yoga in Saint Simons Island, GA
 * Omkar Ashram in Colorado

With Krishna Das

 * The Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY
 * The Jivamukti Yoga Center in New York City, NY
 * Yogaville - The Satchidananda Ashram in Buckingham, VA
 * ChantLanta Sacred Music Festival in Atlanta, GA

Discography

 * Inner and Outer Space - Caroline Casey (1996) Sounds True
 * Playful Yoga: Movement & Meditation for All Ages - Various Artists (1998) White Swan Records
 * Pilgrim Heart – Krishna Das (1998) Triloka/Mercury Records
 * Drum Prayer - Steve Gordon (2002) Sequoia Records
 * Planet Yoga – Krishna Das (composed music for single "Prayer to Rudra") (2002) Karuna
 * Japa - Dave Stringer (Aug 08, 2002) Ajna Music
 * Nostalgia - Shahin and Sepehr (2002) Higher Octave
 * Chakra Healing Chants - Sophia Songhealer (Feb 04, 2003) Sequoia Records
 * Ghandarva Café - Wynne Paris (March 2, 2004)
 * Jai Ma: White Swan Yoga Masters, Vol. 2 CD - Various Artists (2004) White Swan Records
 * Emptiness and Ecstasy - Wynne Paris (January 25, 2005) Auspician CD
 * Yoga Salon - Various Artists (April 12, 2005) Sequoia Records
 * All One – Krishna Das (Aug 23, 2005) Triloka
 * Oshun and Gaia - Amikaeyla Proudfoot Gaston & Ariana Lightningstorm (with Kiva) (2006) Amikaeyla and Ariana
 * Arcana - Lisa Reagan (2006) Stillpoint Records
 * Pure Ganesh - Guru Ganesha Singh (2007) Spirit Voyage
 * The Journey Home - Gurunam Singh (February 29, 2008) Spirit Voyage
 * Bhagavan Kripa: A Kirtan of Grace - Jojo and Yati Priya (Mar. 25th, 2008) Devotional Music Foundation
 * Tara Om - Wynne Paris & Groovananda with Krishna Das (single) (April 1, 2008) Auspician
 * Infinita - Lawson Rollins, (May 20, 2008) Infinita
 * Maha Moha: The Great Delusion - Wade Imre Morissette (Sep. 16, 2008) Notone
 * Love, Peace, Chant - David Newman (September 30, 2008) Nettwerk Records
 * Get Free - Devi (Oct. 17, 2008) True Nature
 * Kundalini Meditation Music - Various Artists (September 22, 2009) Sounds True
 * Head Over Heels - Mahbood Len Seligman (2010)
 * Omspun - Wynne Paris & Groovananda (July 19, 2011) Auspician Records CD
 * Ghandarva Café: Ecstatic Songs of Love & Devotion - Wynne Paris (Import CD) EMI (August 16, 2011)
 * Change - Gurunam Singh (Jun 12, 2012) Spirit Voyage Music
 * Heaven is Dancing – SuperTrine (single) (June 25, 2013) Auspician Records