Ami Dang

About the Artist

Amrita “Ami” Kaur Dang is a South Asian- and Punjabi-American, Sikh composer, vocalist, sitarist and multimedia artist from Baltimore. Combining ideas from Indian music with electronic media, her work invites the audience to reframe their assumptions about the colonial history of music, the arts, technology, and performance and its place in the contemporary musical landscape. Dang studied voice and sitar in New Delhi and Maryland from a young age, and she also holds a bachelor’s degree in Technology in Music & Related Arts from Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She has performed in North America, Asia, and Europe and has released six solo albums. She has received two Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland State Arts Council, and she is a 2020 Baker Artist Award winner. Her work has received accolades from The Guardian, The Washington Post, Spin, and Pitchfork, to name a few.