Nitin Sawhney is a British Musician, Producer, and Composer whose fourth album, Beyond Skin, on London’s Outcaste Records, earned a Mercury Music Prize nomination and won him the coveted South Bank Show Award.  Nitin subsequently signed for Richard Branson’s V2 Records and released the Silver-certified Prophesy in 2001, winning a MOBO Award and a BBC Radio 3 Music Award. His seventh album, Philtre, won another BBC Radio 3 Award in in May 2005.

Nitin’s eighth album, London Undersound, was released on Cooking Vinyl in 2008. It featured artwork by Antony Gormley and performances from Paul McCartney, Anoushka Shankar, Imogen Heap, and Natty, among others.  Nitin’s 2011 studio work, Last Days of Meaning, was previewed at the Royal Albert Hall in May 2011. It centers on a character from actor John Hurt and follows the metaphorical, Dickensian journey of a lonely and intransigent man. 

His 2013 box-set release, One Zero, was recorded live-to-vinyl as a celebration of ten album releases. He went on to produce Anoushka Shankar’s 2013 Grammy-nominated album Traces of You, featuring Norah Jones, and Jools Holland’s 2021 album Pianola. PIANO & FRIENDS. 

Nitin’s tenth studio album, Dystopian Dream, was released in November 2015, and his eleventh album, Immigrants, was released in March 2021. Nitin Sawhney received the Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2019 after refusing to accept the OBE in 2007, when offered due to concerns over colonialism issues at the time. Nitin’s latest album, IDENTITY, was released in October 2023 with Warner Music. Nitin has become a modern-day ‘Renaissance man’ in music, film, video games, dance, and theatre. Nitin’s endless and creative curiosity makes him a formidable polymath across the whole artistic range of media associated with the music industry.