London, (PTI) The earliest memory that UK musician Tanya Wells has is as a five-year-old in the foothills of the Himalayas where she and her sisters would start the day with meditation at a school, with Hindustani classical music at the heart of its Sahaja Yoga meditation practice.
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, founder of the International Sahaja Public School in Dharamshala, named her Bhakti and her twin sister and fellow singer Nicki Wells as Shakti – setting the course for Tanya’s lifelong love for devotional music.
Now, in her late 20s and as a new mother to a baby daughter, Tanya is based in Uberlandia in central Brazil – home to husband and Seven Eyes bandmate Paulo Vinícius. But the Indian influences in their yogic lifestyle and music continue to tour with them all over the world, blending diverse cultures, languages and genres.
