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| birth_name = Shama Sarwat Rahman
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| birth_place = [[Al Ain]], United Arab Emirates
| birth_place = [[Al Ain]], [[United Arab Emirates]]
| origin = London, England
| origin = [[London]], [[England]]
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| genre = [[Jazz]], [[punk rock]], [[Folk music|folk]], [[spoken word]], [[Bengali music]]
| occupation = Singer-songwriter, [[sitar]]ist, composer, scientist, actress
| occupation = [[Singer-songwriter]], [[sitar]]ist, [[composer]], [[actress]], [[scientist]]
| instrument = [[Sitar]], vocals, piano, ukelele/guitar, percussion
| instrument = [[Sitar]], [[Singing|vocals]], [[piano]], [[ukulele]], [[guitar]]
| years_active = 2009–present
| years_active = 2009–present
| label = The Gung Ho Down
| label = The Gung Ho Down
| associated_acts = The Shama Rahman Band
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'''Shama Sarwat Rahman''' ({{lang-bn|শামা সরয়াত রহমান}}) is a British singer-songwriter, [[sitar]]ist, composer, scientist, storyteller, [[performance art]]ist, filmmaker and actress.
'''Shama Sarwat Rahman''' ({{lang-bn|শামা সরয়াত রহমান}}) is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[singer-songwriter]], [[sitar]]ist, [[Storytelling|storyteller]], [[performance art]]ist, [[Filmmaking|filmmaker]] and [[actor|actress]].


==Early life==
==Early life==
Rahman was born in [[Al Ain]], [[United Arab Emirates]] to Bangladeshi parents a medical doctor and classical singer. She has lived on three different continents<ref name="wowtalks">{{cite news |last= |first= |url=http://www.wowtalks.tv/the-nine-lives-of-shama-rahman/|title=The Nine Lives of Shama Rahman|work= |location= |publisher=''WOW Talks''|date=15 September 2011|accessdate=1 February 2014}}</ref> and trained under the tutelage lineage of Pt [[Ravi Shankar]] of the [[Maihar gharana]].<ref name="pledgemusic">{{cite web |url=http://www.pledgemusic.com/artists/shamarahman|title=Shama Rahman|publisher=[[PledgeMusic]]|date= |accessdate=1 February 2014}}</ref>
Rahman was born in [[Al Ain]], [[United Arab Emirates]] to [[Bangladesh]]i parents a medical doctor and classical singer. She has lived on three different continents<ref name="wowtalks">{{cite news |last= |first= |url=http://www.wowtalks.tv/the-nine-lives-of-shama-rahman/|title=The Nine Lives of Shama Rahman|work= |location= |publisher=''WOW Talks''|date=15 September 2011|accessdate=1 February 2014}}</ref> and trained under the tutelage lineage of Pt [[Ravi Shankar]] of the [[Maihar gharana]].<ref name="pledgemusic">{{cite web |url=http://www.pledgemusic.com/artists/shamarahman|title=Shama Rahman|publisher=[[PledgeMusic]]|date= |accessdate=1 February 2014}}</ref>


==Education==
==Education==
Rahman has studied [[Molecular biology]] at [[University College London]].<ref name="wowtalks"/> She completed a PhD in joint partnership at [[Imperial College London]], [[Goldsmiths, University of London|Goldsmiths]] and the [[Royal College of Music]] in the cross-disciplinary field of [[Complex adaptive system|Complexity Science]] complexity mathematical tools taken from statistical and chaos theory physics.<ref name="ideastap">{{cite web |url=http://www.ideastap.com/People/ShamaRahman|title=Shama Rahman|publisher=IdeasTap|date= |accessdate=1 February 2014}}</ref> to study the [[Neuroscience|Neuroscientific]] Systems of Musical Creativity.<ref name="wowtalks"/> This PhD spans musicology, psychology, philosophy, and the physics of emergent behaviour illustrating how the whole system works together.<ref name="pledgemusic"/>
Rahman has studied [[Molecular biology]] at [[University College London]].<ref name="wowtalks"/> She completed a [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] in joint partnership at [[Imperial College London]], [[Goldsmiths, University of London|Goldsmiths]] and the [[Royal College of Music]] in the cross-disciplinary field of [[Complex adaptive system|Complexity Science]] complexity mathematical tools taken from statistical and chaos theory physics.<ref name="ideastap">{{cite web |url=http://www.ideastap.com/People/ShamaRahman|title=Shama Rahman|publisher=IdeasTap|date= |accessdate=1 February 2014}}</ref> to study the [[Neuroscience|Neuroscientific]] Systems of Musical Creativity.<ref name="wowtalks"/> This PhD spans musicology, psychology, philosophy, and the physics of emergent behaviour illustrating how the whole system works together.<ref name="pledgemusic"/>


==Music career==
==Music career==
Rahman's original band<ref name="unimusicleague">{{cite web |url=http://www.unimusicleague.com/Band-Profile-175-The-Shama-Rahman-Band&title=bresult|title=Shama Rahman|publisher=Uni Music League|date= |accessdate=1 February 2014}}</ref> members included MOBO nominee Peter Edwards (piano and clarinet) who also recorded on the album ''[[Fable:Time]]'', and continues with Christopher Lane (guitar), Nicolas Rouger (saxophone), Andres Castellanos (bass) and Oberon King (percussion or drumkit).<ref name="pledgemusic"/> She writes and arranges all music and lyrics from her poems. Rahman and her band weaves sitar, stories and song together. Together with her band she mingles storytelling, metaphysics and poetry into their music and creates multi-layered harmonies and energy-driven lyrical rhythms with international influences evoking genres from punk to folk, classical to jazz, swing to bossa nova, spoken word to dubstep and drum and bass coining it Urban Jazz Folk.<ref name="ideastap"/>
Rahman's original band<ref name="unimusicleague">{{cite web |url=http://www.unimusicleague.com/Band-Profile-175-The-Shama-Rahman-Band&title=bresult|title=Shama Rahman|publisher=Uni Music League|date= |accessdate=1 February 2014}}</ref> members included Peter Edwards (piano or clarinet) who also recorded on the album ''[[Fable:Time]]'', Domenico Angarano (bass or kaos pad), William Pearce Smith (violin), Christopher Lane (guitar) and Felix Higginbottom (percussion or drumkit), Nicolas Rouger (saxophone), Andres Castellanos (bass) and Oberon King (percussion or drumkit).<ref name="pledgemusic"/> She writes and arranges all music and lyrics from her poems. Shama was previously the lead singer-songwriter and sitarist for band Kid Karoshi. Rahman and her band weaves sitar, urban folk, stories and song together. Together with her band she mingles storytelling, metaphysics and poetry into their music and creates multi-layered harmonies and energy-driven lyrical rhythms with international influences evoking genres from punk to folk, classical to jazz, swing to bossa nova, spoken word to dubstep and drum and bass to create their own unique urban jazz folk genre.<ref name="ideastap"/>


Rahman has performed as a solo artist and with her band and various guest artists in Bangladesh, England, Ireland, France, Germany and Bangladesh. She has performed at the [[Royal Festival Hall]], [[Southbank Centre]], headlining the Modern Mela in 2011's Alchemy Festival, and the London Jazz Festival 2014 at The Forge as part of their 'Jazz Beyond Borders' series. Major festivals include The [[Secret Garden Party]], SilFest, [[Spitalfields Music|SpitalFields Festival]], featured on [[World of Music, Arts and Dance|Womad]] radio, Supersonix festival (supporting [[Seth Lakeman]] and [[Ska Cubano]]), Wilderness, One Love Festival, special commission for Eastern Electronic Festival, Un-Convention and [[Fête de la Musique]].<ref name="pledgemusic"/><ref name="ideastap"/> She has been commissioned by MOJO for a re-interpretation of Beatles classic Eleanor Rigby using her own unique jazz-sitar style featuring pianist Peter Edwards. Her solo performances encompass classical sitar (India festival, Belfast), storytelling with the sitar (SHUNT, V&A Museum of Childhood, Tales in the Tower) and her solo project involving 'looped' sitar electric soundscapes where she unconventionally bows it and creates percussion (opening for ''[[Into the Woods]]'' musical at [[Queen Elizabeth Hall]]).<ref name="ideastap"/>
Rahman has performed as a solo artist and with her band and various guest artists in Bangladesh, England, Ireland, France, Germany and Bangladesh. She has performed at the [[Royal Festival Hall]], [[Southbank Centre]], headlined the Modern Mela in 2011's Alchemy Festival, and the 2014 [[London Jazz Festival]]. Major festivals include The [[Secret Garden Party]], SilFest, [[Spitalfields Music|SpitalFields Festival]], featured on [[World of Music, Arts and Dance|Womad]] radio, Supersonix festival (supporting [[Seth Lakeman]] and [[Ska Cubano]]), Wilderness, One Love Festival, special commission for Eastern Electronic Festival, Un-Convention and [[Fête de la Musique]].<ref name="pledgemusic"/><ref name="ideastap"/> She played live in the studio at [[BBC London 94.9]] on the ''Sunny and Shay Show''.<ref name="ideastap"/> Her solo performances include India festival in Belfast, opening for ''[[Into the Woods]]'' musical at the [[Queen Elizabeth Hall]], ''NYE'' at [[The Troubadour, London|The Troubadour]].<ref name="ideastap"/>


She has been commissioned by MOJO for a re-interpretation of [[The Beatles]] song "[[Eleanor Rigby]]" using her own unique jazz-sitar style featuring pianist Peter Edwards. Her solo performances encompass classical sitar (India festival, Belfast), storytelling with the sitar (SHUNT, V&A Museum of Childhood, Tales in the Tower) and her solo project involving 'looped' sitar electric soundscapes where she unconventionally bows it and creates percussion.
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She has been on tour in 2014, with In Place of War (IPOW) artists from UK, India, Congo, Zimbabwe and Kenya - Nucleya, OCTOPIZZO, Louis Barabbas, Alesh Officiel - which culminated in 4 performances at Shambala Festival with 2014's Mercury winning Young Fathers and the legend Sandie Shaw. She has featured on Asian Dub Foundation (Official)'s latest album 'Signal and the Noise', producers Telemachus Guardian acclaimed 'In The Evening' LP and Sam Stateofbengal. She has also had numerous collaborations with musicians from all over the world notably with the London Sitar Ensemble at Southbank, [[London Bulgarian Choir]] and the [[Doves (band)|Doves]] at the [[BBC Radio 2 Electric Proms]] in the [[Roundhouse (venue)|Roundhouse]], sitarist/vocalist with Orchestra Elastique on Berlin tour, afro-beat percussionist for Mr LoveBucket at Fete de La Musique in Paris, [[Shunt (theatre company)|SHUNT]], [[Salisbury International Arts Festival|Salisbury Arts Festival]] and [[London International Festival of Theatre|LIFT]], television appearance as sitarist/vocalist with Bangladeshi musician [[James (Nagar Baul)|James]] and recorded with musicians from Bengal including producer Buno from revolutionary band [[Bangla (band)|Bangla]].<ref name="ideastap"/>


In 2014, she toured with In Place of War (IPOW) artists from UK, India, Congo, Zimbabwe and Kenya - Nucleya, OCTOPIZZO, Louis Barabbas, Alesh Officiel - which culminated in four performances at [[Shambala Festival]] with [[Sandie Shaw]]. She has featured on [[Asian Dub Foundation]]'s album ''Signal and the Noise'', producers [[Chemo (musician)|Chemo]]'s LP ''In The Evening'' and [[State of Bengal]].
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In June 2013, Rahman's debut album ''[[Fable:Time]]'' was released. Each song on the album unveils a chapter in an overall story about how time affects us – its illusions, deceptions and myths. The album mimics the non-linearity of time and is on a circular track listing. From this, she has visualised one overall narrative by creating a series of eight videos which are all episodes in a series.<ref name="greenman">{{cite web |url=http://www.greenman.net/artist/shama-rahman|title=Shama Rahman|publisher=Green Man Festival|date= |accessdate=1 February 2014}}</ref><ref name="glasswerk">{{cite news |last=Otsao|first=Jamie|url=http://www.glasswerk.co.uk/magazine/article/18009/Exclusive++Shama+Rahman+-+Reflections/|title=Exclusive: Shama Rahman – Reflections|work= |location= |publisher=''Glasswerk Magazine''|date=12 April 2013|accessdate=1 February 2014}}</ref><ref name="festivalsforall">{{cite news |last= |first= |url=http://www.festivalsforall.com/article/4th-webisode-from-sitarist-storyteller-shama-rahman|title=4th Webisode from Sitarist Storyteller Shama Rahma|work= |location= |publisher=''festivalsforall''|date=5 December 2013|accessdate=1 February 2014}}</ref> Some of her spoken word pieces are featured in this album and has led her to perform at the DSC Literary Festival and Hackney Word Festival.<ref name="ideastap"/>
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She played live in the studio at [[BBC London 94.9]] on the ''Sunny and Shay Show''.<ref name="ideastap"/> and has had radio play with Gilles Peterson,BBC3 'World Routes' with Lopa Kothari, BBC Asian Network, BBC Introducing and BBC World Service. In October 2013, Rahman was interviewed by [[Nadia Ali (broadcaster)|Nadia Ali]] on [[BBC Asian Network]].<ref name="bbcasiannetwork2">{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b02xfdmf|title=Shama Rahman and her sitar|publisher=[[BBC Asian Network]]|date=2 June 2013|accessdate=1 February 2014}}</ref>


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She has also had numerous collaborations with musicians from all over the world notably with the London Sitar Ensemble at Southbank, [[London Bulgarian Choir]] and the [[Doves (band)|Doves]] at the [[BBC Radio 2 Electric Proms]] in the [[Roundhouse (venue)|Roundhouse]], sitarist/vocalist with Orchestra Elastique on Berlin tour, afro-beat percussionist for Mr LoveBucket at Fete de La Musique in Paris, [[Shunt (theatre company)|SHUNT]], [[Salisbury International Arts Festival|Salisbury Arts Festival]] and [[London International Festival of Theatre|LIFT]], television appearance as sitarist/vocalist with Bangladeshi musician [[James (Nagar Baul)|James]] and recorded with musicians from Bengal including producer Buno from revolutionary band [[Bangla (band)|Bangla]].<ref name="ideastap"/>
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As a music composer for stage and screen, her credits include: UK theatre production ''Harlesden High Street'', the BBC drama series ''Bishaash'', BritDoc ''Mass E Bhat'' and Bengali film ''Runaway''.<ref name="serious">{{cite web |url=http://www.serious.org.uk/about/artists/artist-development/take-five/editionIX|title=Take Five Family – Edition IX|publisher=Serious|date= |accessdate=1 April 2014}} Shama Rahman</ref>


While at university, Rahman was the head of marketing for Europe's largest internet radio station. She ran music events combining unknown talent with known names. In 2009, after a break of a few years, she resumed this as artistic director and producer of "The Gung Ho Down", which is a showcase platform for performing arts from all genres and disciplines, artist-led collaborations and promotes artists.<ref name="ideastap"/>
While at university, Rahman was the head of marketing for Europe's largest internet radio station. She ran music events combining unknown talent with known names. In 2009, after a break of a few years, she resumed this as artistic director and producer of "The Gung Ho Down", which is a showcase platform for performing arts from all genres and disciplines, artist-led collaborations and promotes artists.<ref name="ideastap"/>

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In June 2013, Rahman's debut album ''[[Fable:Time]]'' was released. Each song on the album unveils a chapter in an overall story about how time affects us – its illusions, deceptions and myths. The album mimics the non-linearity of time and is on a circular track listing. From this, she has visualised one overall narrative by creating a series of eight videos which are all episodes in a series.<ref name="greenman">{{cite web |url=http://www.greenman.net/artist/shama-rahman|title=Shama Rahman|publisher=Green Man Festival|date= |accessdate=1 February 2014}}</ref><ref name="glasswerk">{{cite news |last=Otsao|first=Jamie|url=http://www.glasswerk.co.uk/magazine/article/18009/Exclusive++Shama+Rahman+-+Reflections/|title=Exclusive: Shama Rahman – Reflections|work= |location= |publisher=''Glasswerk Magazine''|date=12 April 2013|accessdate=1 February 2014}}</ref><ref name="festivalsforall">{{cite news |last= |first= |url=http://www.festivalsforall.com/article/4th-webisode-from-sitarist-storyteller-shama-rahman|title=4th Webisode from Sitarist Storyteller Shama Rahma|work= |location= |publisher=''festivalsforall''|date=5 December 2013|accessdate=1 February 2014}}</ref> Some of her spoken word pieces are featured in this album and has led her to perform at the DSC Literary Festival and Hackney Word Festival.<ref name="ideastap"/>

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As a music composer for stage and screen her credits include: UK theatre production ''Harlesden High Street'', the BBC drama series ''Bishaash'', BritDoc ''Mass E Bhat'' and Bengali film ''Runaway''.<ref name="serious">{{cite web |url=http://www.serious.org.uk/about/artists/artist-development/take-five/editionIX|title=Take Five Family – Edition IX|publisher=Serious|date= |accessdate=1 April 2014}} Shama Rahman</ref>

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In October 2013, Rahman was interviewed by [[Nadia Ali (broadcaster)|Nadia Ali]] on [[BBC Asian Network]].<ref name="bbcasiannetwork2">{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b02xfdmf|title=Shama Rahman and her sitar|publisher=[[BBC Asian Network]]|date=2 June 2013|accessdate=1 February 2014}}</ref>


==Television career==
==Television career==
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Rahman has appeared as presenter in China, Bulgaria and for artist Oliver Guy for a Wellcome Trust project on Doubt.<ref name="ideastap"/>
Rahman has appeared as presenter in China, Bulgaria and for artist Oliver Guy for a Wellcome Trust project on Doubt.<ref name="ideastap"/>


==Filmography==
==Discography==
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*[http://musicbrainz.org/artist/71be49a7-24e5-4045-9dbc-37d6dae13b20 Shama Rahman] on [[MusicBrainz]]
*[http://musicbrainz.org/artist/71be49a7-24e5-4045-9dbc-37d6dae13b20 Shama Rahman] on [[MusicBrainz]]
*[http://www.spotlight.com/interactive/cv/3011-7861-3744 Shama Rahman] on [[Spotlight (directory)|Spotlight]]
*[http://www.spotlight.com/interactive/cv/3011-7861-3744 Shama Rahman] on [[Spotlight (directory)|Spotlight]]
*[https://www.complexity.org.uk/people/shama-rahman/ Shama Rahman] on Complexity Science
*Rahman, Emdad. [http://www.eastlondonnews.com/the-supernatural-investigator/ Emdad Rahman discusses paranormal adventures with Shama Rahman]. ''East London News''. 21 April 2011
*Rahman, Emdad. [http://www.eastlondonnews.com/the-supernatural-investigator/ Emdad Rahman discusses paranormal adventures with Shama Rahman]. ''East London News''. 21 April 2011
*[http://www.wowtalks.tv/the-nine-lives-of-shama-rahman/ The Nine Lives of Shama Rahman]. ''WOW Talks''. 15 September 2011
*[http://www.wowtalks.tv/the-nine-lives-of-shama-rahman/ The Nine Lives of Shama Rahman]. ''WOW Talks''. 15 September 2011
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Shama Rahman
শামা সরয়াত রহমান
Birth nameShama Sarwat Rahman
Born
actress, scientist
Instrument(s)Sitar, vocals, piano, ukulele, guitar
Years active2009–present
LabelsThe Gung Ho Down
Websitewww.shamarahman.bandcamp.com

Shama Sarwat Rahman (Bengali: শামা সরয়াত রহমান) is a British singer-songwriter, sitarist, storyteller, performance artist, filmmaker and actress.

Early life

Rahman was born in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates to Bangladeshi parents a medical doctor and classical singer. She has lived on three different continents[1] and trained under the tutelage lineage of Pt Ravi Shankar of the Maihar gharana.[2]

Education

Rahman has studied Molecular biology at University College London.[1] She completed a PhD in joint partnership at Imperial College London, Goldsmiths and the Royal College of Music in the cross-disciplinary field of Complexity Science complexity mathematical tools taken from statistical and chaos theory physics.[3] to study the Neuroscientific Systems of Musical Creativity.[1] This PhD spans musicology, psychology, philosophy, and the physics of emergent behaviour illustrating how the whole system works together.[2]

Music career

Rahman's original band[4] members included Peter Edwards (piano or clarinet) who also recorded on the album Fable:Time, Domenico Angarano (bass or kaos pad), William Pearce Smith (violin), Christopher Lane (guitar) and Felix Higginbottom (percussion or drumkit), Nicolas Rouger (saxophone), Andres Castellanos (bass) and Oberon King (percussion or drumkit).[2] She writes and arranges all music and lyrics from her poems. Shama was previously the lead singer-songwriter and sitarist for band Kid Karoshi. Rahman and her band weaves sitar, urban folk, stories and song together. Together with her band she mingles storytelling, metaphysics and poetry into their music and creates multi-layered harmonies and energy-driven lyrical rhythms with international influences evoking genres from punk to folk, classical to jazz, swing to bossa nova, spoken word to dubstep and drum and bass to create their own unique urban jazz folk genre.[3]

Rahman has performed as a solo artist and with her band and various guest artists in Bangladesh, England, Ireland, France, Germany and Bangladesh. She has performed at the

The Troubadour.[3]

She has been commissioned by MOJO for a re-interpretation of The Beatles song "Eleanor Rigby" using her own unique jazz-sitar style featuring pianist Peter Edwards. Her solo performances encompass classical sitar (India festival, Belfast), storytelling with the sitar (SHUNT, V&A Museum of Childhood, Tales in the Tower) and her solo project involving 'looped' sitar electric soundscapes where she unconventionally bows it and creates percussion.

In 2014, she toured with In Place of War (IPOW) artists from UK, India, Congo, Zimbabwe and Kenya - Nucleya, OCTOPIZZO, Louis Barabbas, Alesh Officiel - which culminated in four performances at

Chemo's LP In The Evening and State of Bengal
.

She has also had numerous collaborations with musicians from all over the world notably with the London Sitar Ensemble at Southbank,

James and recorded with musicians from Bengal including producer Buno from revolutionary band Bangla.[3]

While at university, Rahman was the head of marketing for Europe's largest internet radio station. She ran music events combining unknown talent with known names. In 2009, after a break of a few years, she resumed this as artistic director and producer of "The Gung Ho Down", which is a showcase platform for performing arts from all genres and disciplines, artist-led collaborations and promotes artists.[3]

In June 2013, Rahman's debut album Fable:Time was released. Each song on the album unveils a chapter in an overall story about how time affects us – its illusions, deceptions and myths. The album mimics the non-linearity of time and is on a circular track listing. From this, she has visualised one overall narrative by creating a series of eight videos which are all episodes in a series.[5][6][7] Some of her spoken word pieces are featured in this album and has led her to perform at the DSC Literary Festival and Hackney Word Festival.[3]

As a music composer for stage and screen her credits include: UK theatre production Harlesden High Street, the BBC drama series Bishaash, BritDoc Mass E Bhat and Bengali film Runaway.[8]

In October 2013, Rahman was interviewed by Nadia Ali on BBC Asian Network.[9]

Television career

From 2010 to 2011, Rahman played the lead role of Zara Rahman in a 24-part bilingual

Sky.[3]

Rahman has appeared as presenter in China, Bulgaria and for artist Oliver Guy for a Wellcome Trust project on Doubt.[3]

Discography

Year Title
2013 Fable:Time

Filmography

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2010–2011 Bishaash Zara Rahman 24 episodes
2011 50 Ways to Kill Your Lover: Unlucky Curry Lover Gurjeet
2012 Runaway Music composer
2013 Mass E Bhat

Stage

Year Title Role Theatre
2013 Harlesden High Street Music composer Tara Theatre

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d "The Nine Lives of Shama Rahman". WOW Talks. 15 September 2011. Retrieved 1 February 2014. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  2. ^ a b c d "Shama Rahman". PledgeMusic. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Shama Rahman". IdeasTap. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  4. ^ "Shama Rahman". Uni Music League. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  5. ^ "Shama Rahman". Green Man Festival. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  6. ^ Otsao, Jamie (12 April 2013). "Exclusive: Shama Rahman – Reflections". Glasswerk Magazine. Retrieved 1 February 2014. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  7. ^ "4th Webisode from Sitarist Storyteller Shama Rahma". festivalsforall. 5 December 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2014. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  8. ^ "Take Five Family – Edition IX". Serious. Retrieved 1 April 2014. Shama Rahman
  9. ^ "Shama Rahman and her sitar". BBC Asian Network. 2 June 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  10. ^ Rahman, Emdad (21 April 2011). "Emdad Rahman discusses paranormal adventures with Shama Rahman". London: East London News. Retrieved 1 February 2014. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

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