Asha

British-born new age composer Asha revealed an aptitude and enthusiasm for musical creation during his earliest years. At the age of three he began crafting basic tunes, an activity that soon grew into a deep attachment to radio programming. Broadcasts on Radio Luxembourg featuring Buddy Holly, Van Morrison, and Leonard Cohen prompted him to start composing folk and protest songs as a teenager. After encountering his spiritual path in his early twenties, he adopted a freer method of writing, regarding music itself as unfiltered emotion and addressing lyrics only afterward. Although he never learned to read or write notation, Asha produced works marked by intricate orchestration. Elements drawn from Vivaldi and Pachelbel, together with folk traditions of the British Isles, South America, and the Middle East, helped form a style that found strong resonance among listeners. His connection with New World Music, the label that emerged from the mind-body-spirit healing tradition, commenced in the early 1990s; that association generated more than fifteen albums across roughly the same number of years, turning the releases into worldwide fixtures for meditation and relaxation. Asha maintains an active schedule of composing and recording while also pursuing studies in Jungian psychology and extending spiritual guidance services.