Biography

Krosswindz is a Grassroot Grammy Winning Bengali rock/folk-fusion band, based in Kolkata, India. They have played all over India and abroad, and have helped urbanize the folk music of Bengal and have tried to make it popular. Krosswindz is one of the few Kolkata based Bengali rock bands who have female singers in their lead vocalsThe band was formed in 1990, and started out playing at college festivals. Today, they have toured all over India and have played at all major college festivals and stadium concerts. The band has performed and collaborated with internationally reputed names like Herbie Hancock (USA), Sky High (Sweden), Tizian Jost (Germany),Pandit Ramesh Mishra (Indian Sarangi Player) and The Jazz Ambassadors(USA). The band's music has been featured in numerous documentary films and commercials.KROSSWINDZ from Calcutta India are the first band from the eastern region of India to release an album of English originals way back in 1993 called SINGLES.They have also released a full length English originals album called ONE WORLD in 2002 .They also have releases from RSJ records Delhi ,Chandrani's originals were featured in GIR vol 1 and 2.They have 9 albums in their regional language Bengali of which 5 are full length albums and the other 4 are compilations. They toured the US in October 2007 and 2009-and played for Sandusky Radio in SEATTLE, & played concerts at the following cities-Los Angeles, San Fransisco, Chicago, Jersey City, Atlanta and Seattle.