Amira Gill is an Indian vocalist, songwriter, and music therapist. She is known for singing the song “Das Main Ki Pyaar Vichon Khatteya” for Coke Studio along with Kanwar Grewal and Deveshi Sahgal. Her expertise in music ranges from Punjabi Tappe to Indian Classical Music.
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Wiki/Biography
Amira Gill was born on 2nd January in New Delhi, India. Her zodiac sign is Capricorn. At the age of 6, while training for Tabla and Kathak, she realized her passion for singing and decided to pursue singing. She did her schooling at The Shri Ram School (TSRS), Aravali Campus, Gurgaon. In 2015, she pursued a bachelor’s degree in music therapy at Berklee College of Music, where she graduated in 2019.
Physical Appearance
Height (approx.): 5′ 6″
Hair Colour: Black
Eye Colour: Brown
Family
Amira belongs to a Sikh family in Delhi.
Parents & Siblings
There is not much information about her parents. Amira has a brother, Adiraj Gill. According to Amira, she is very close to her maternal grandmother
Amira Gill’s childhood picture
Amira Gill’s grandmother
Amira Gill with her mother
Religion
Amira follows Sikhism.
Amira Gill with her family at Golden Temple
Career
Band
At the age of 15, Gill started working as the lead vocalist of The Incredible Mindfunk, a genre-breaking indie band based in Delhi.; she would often work till late at night.
Amira Gill (extreme left) with her band The Incredible Mindfunk
Berklee
Amira received two partial merit-based scholarships to complete a bachelor’s degree in Music Therapy at the world-renowned Berklee College of Music in Boston. While studying at Berklee, Amira joined the Berklee Indian Ensemble due to which she got a chance to work with some of the best musicians from all over the world. Apart from this, she learnt the traditional music of the Balkans, Middle East, and India. At Berklee, she also shared the stage with artists such as Vijay Prakash, Shankar Mahadevan, Shreya Ghoshal, Tigran Hamasyan, and Amal Murkus. She performed the folk music of Punjab/Pakistan at the International Folk Festival at the Berklee School of Music. While studying at Berklee, she worked on an album Shuruaat, which was nominated for a Grammy for Best Global Music Album category in 2022.
Amira (holding the mic) during rehearsals at Berklee
Amira Gill with Shreya Ghoshal at Berklee
UCLA
After graduating from Berklee, Gill went on to do an internship at UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital as a music therapist, where she worked closely with children who were undergoing many medical challenges. after the completion of her internship, she got a chance to go to Kenya and Uganda with the organisation ‘Umoja Global Community Music Therapy;’ their motive was to empower and help the women and children who had been left alone.
Amira Gill (second from Left) in Uganda
Singles/Albums
Amira did the song ‘Das Main Ki Pyaar Vichon Khatteya’ for the famous Coke Studio Bharat along with Kanwar Grewal and Deveshi Sahgal. Amira has lent her voice to many recreations of old Folk songs like ‘Chori Chori’ (by Reshma) and ‘Raavi’ (by Sajjad Ali). Amira Gill has composed and sung songs in 19 different languages including Punjabi, Hindi, Bengali, English, Greek, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Movies and Shows
Amira Gill lent her voice to the song ‘Saath’ from the TV series Faadu (2022), ‘Mera Ishq Vi Tu’ from the web series Minus One (2019), and ‘Hoovina Angi Thottu’ from the Kannada film Dasara (2023).
Favourites
- Singer(s): Beyoncé, Alicia Keys, and Leona Lewis
- Band: Kings of Leon
- Song: ‘Sex on Fire’ by Kings of Leon
Facts/Trivia
- In an interview, talking about her parent’s reaction when working late at night in bars and clubs as a vocalist for an all-male Indie band, Gill said,
I was very young when I started performing professionally with an all-male band (The Incredible Mindfunk) in bars and clubs late at night. Most parents would not be comfortable with that but mine were very supportive, and would show up for almost every performance, full of pride. They supported me even when I wanted to go to Boston, instead of being fearful that I did not have ‘a safety net’ of an academic degree to fall back on if music as a career did not work out. They trusted me and my decisions.”
- Amira’s Family originally belonged to the Punjab and Sindh region of the pre-partition period of India. Amira grew up listening to various stories related to the partition of India, which is often reflected in her artistic work.
Amira Gill’s family before the partition of India
- Gill has more than 25k listeners per month on Spotify.
- Amira loves learning about new cultures and people.
- She has a Podcast, Music Therapy Approaches, where she often converses with other music therapists.
- Amira’s hobbies include reading and travelling.
Amira Gill in Tibet
- Amira composed a song from the famous poem by Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Subh-e-Azadi, the poem is based on the event of partition of India and is the only poem on partition written by Faiz.
