Nitin Sawhney
Composer of Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
Source: Suki Dhanda
Nitin Sawhney is one of the most distinctive and versatile musical voices around today. A recipient of the Ivor Novello Lifetime Achievement award, he is firmly established as a world-class producer, songwriter, DJ, multi-instrumentalist, orchestral composer and cultural pioneer. Sawhney has become a latter-day Renaissance man in the worlds of music, film, videogames, dance and theatre.
Sawhney's output as a musician is highly prolific. He has scored for and performed with many of the world's leading orchestras, and collaborated with and written for the likes of Paul McCartney, Nora Jones, Sting, The London Symphony Orchestra, A.R. Rahman, Brian Eno, Sinead O'Connor, Anoushka Shankar, Jeff Beck, Shakira, Will Young, Joss Stone, Taio Cruz, Ellie Goulding, Horace Andy, Cirque Du Soleil, Akram Khan, Deepa Mehta, Mira Nair, Nelson Mandela and John Hurt. Performing extensively around the world, he has achieved an international reputation across every possible creative medium.
Often appearing as Artist in Residence, Curator or Musical Director at international festivals, Sawhney works tirelessly for musical education, having acted as patron of the British Government's Access-to-music programme, the East London Film festival and, currently, Artis as well as acting as a judge for The Ivor Novello Awards, BAFTA, BIFA and the PRS foundation. He is a recipient of 6 honorary doctorates from British universities, is a fellow of LIPA and the Southbank University, an Associate of Sadler's Wells, sits on the board for British theatre company Complicite and in 2007, turned down an OBE for ethical reasons. In 2017, Sawhney received the Ivor Novello's lifetime achievement award for his eclectic and highly acclaimed body of work.
Listen to the Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle soundtrack.
Watch the trailer for Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle.
This episode of The Pop Disciple Podcast is hosted by Paul Goldowitz.
Production, Editing, Mixing, Mastering | Paul Goldowitz
Select Cues Throughout Episode | Nitin Sawhney
The Pop Disciple Podcast Theme and Outro Music | Paul Goldowitz
Special thanks to Nitin Sawhney and Jeff Sanderson of Chasen & Co.