Los Angeles, 3 February 2025: Indian-American singer and entrepreneur Chandrika Tandon won a Grammy Award in the Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album category for Triveni at the 67th Grammy Awards held at the Arena in Los Angeles on Sunday.
Tandon, a global business leader and elder sister of former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi, shared the award with South African flutist Wouter Kellerman and Japanese cellist Eru Matsumoto.
Expressing her joy after the win, she said, “It feels great,” and described music as a source of love, light, and laughter. “Let us all be surrounded by love, light, and laughter. Thank you for music and thank you to all the people who make music,” she said while accepting the award.
The Chennai-born artist’s Triveni, released on August 30, 2024, features seven tracks, including Pathway to Light, Chant in A, and Journey Within. This was her second Grammy nomination and first win, following a nomination for Soul Call in 2009.
The category also included nominations for Break of Dawn by Ricky Kej, Opus by the late Ryuichi Sakamoto, Chapter 2: How Dark It Is Before Dawn by Anoushka Shankar, and Warriors of Light by Radhika Vekaria.
