Sheela Bringi is a sacred music performer, educator, multi-instrumentalist, and adjunct faculty in Indian Devotional & Rāga Singing at Naropa University. She is a vocalist and plays the harp, harmonium, and bansuri (Indian classical bamboo flute).
Sheela has extensive training in North Indian classical, devotional and Western musical traditions. Past teachers include Indian maestros Pandit G.S. Sachdev and Ustaad Aashish Khan, as well as Western contemporary greats such as Cecil Taylor and Meredith Monk. She currently studies Hindustani voice with Sri Subhashish Mukhopadyay (a topmost exponent of the Kotali Gharana). She has released two albums as a solo artist (Shakti Sutra and Incantations).
Her work to bridge the musical worlds of India and America has been profiled by NBC News, NPR, Public Radio International, and others. Sheela tours and teaches internationally and has collaborated with artists including Idan Raichel, Karsh Kale, Jai Uttal, and many others. In 2020, Sheela and her partner Brent Kuecker founded the Sacred Sound Lab – an online devotional music school where they offer education and training to students from around the globe. Find out more about Sheela’s music at shebrings.com and teaching at sacredsoundlab.com.