Sohini Alam

Sohini Alam (Bengali: সোহিনী আলম) is a British singer of Bangladeshi descent[1] who sings in the bands Khiyo,[2] Lokkhi Terra, and GRRRL.

With Lokkhi Terra, she performed at WOMAD[6] in 2011 and 2015, played twice on the main stage of Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in Soho, and opened for the Afro-Cuban All Stars at the Barbican Centre[7] in 2012.

Alam is featured on Lokkhi Terra's albums, and in a review of Che Guava's Rickshaw Diaries, the world music magazine Songlines wrote: "This good-natured London-based collective are now widely acknowledged as an international force to be reckoned with.

[13] GRRRL was voted Best Live Act of Shambala Festival 2017 and performed at the closing celebrations of the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia's Gold Coast.

[14] Alam worked with composer Jocelyn Pook for Akram Khan, recording vocals for his Olivier Award-winning dance piece DESH.

In its review of Dick Whittington Goes Bollywood, the Stage wrote: Alam creates a transcendent soundscape that taps as much into the spirituality as the silliness of this time of year.

"[19] UK Theatre Network described her performance in Kanjoos – The Miser: "singer Sohini Alam takes us to a different level as her rich voice encompasses everything from jazz and scat singing and pop to traditional Indian songs.

"[20] The Public Reviews wrote of her in Bollywood Cinderella: "the key person in all of this was the singer...Sohini Alam, who sang for every single character as they mimed the words.

"[21] Alam has been featured on BBC Radio a number of times, on programmes such as World on 3, The Verb, Introducing with Tom Robinson, and Woman's Hour.

In December 2015, Alam married lyricist and guitarist, Asif Asgar Ranjan, of popular Bangladeshi band Arbovirus at Dhaka's Rose Garden Palace.

Sohini Alam (2nd from left) on stage at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club