Hailed as a ’powerful new voice’, Samia Malik’s‘uncompromising’ yet ‘hauntingly beautiful’ lyrics weave tabla, violin, tanpura, keyboards, bass, and flute with the sitar of the world-renowned ‘virtuoso multi-instrumentalist’ Baluji Shrivastav. Writing from her perspective as a British Asian woman from a Pakistani/Muslim background, Samia’s unique voice and vision tackles issues ranging from revolution to race to love to liberation to sexual politics to child abuse to Bollywood: hers is a personal and yet universal voice of our times, a courageous, inspirational and beautiful fusion of musical styles and languages.

She has toured successfully in the UK and Europe with the her band Garam Masala and throughout India with the celebrated actress and dancer Mallika Sarabhai. Samia has released two warmly received and reviewed CDs: The Colour of the Heart (1998) with Garam Masala, and Jaago Wake Up (2004).

As well as being a trained teacher, Samia regularly facilitates workshops on Indian Music and songwriting.

She has just graduated from a second degree in Fine Art, linking sound, words and images.