Deva premal born

German-born Deva Premal is a classically trained musician who grew up chanting mantras as bedtime songs. Her mother played European medieval music on the viola da gamba, and her father, an artist and drum maker, was a devotee of Eastern spirituality, teaching himself Sanskrit while practicing daily sessions of yoga and Zen meditation.

Deva notes: “When my mother was pregnant with me, my parents prepared for the birth by chanting the Gayatri Mantra throughout the pregnancy.

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As I grew up we continued to chant it together regularly before sleep. I didn’t really know what I was singing… or even why! I just did it because I was told to! It wasn’t until much later that I came to appreciate the great gift my parents had given me.”

At the tender age of 11, she was introduced to the meditations of the controversial enlightened Indian mystic Osho, who gave her the name ‘Deva Premal’ (‘Divine Loving’ in Sanskrit).

As a teenager, she moved away from the confines of both her classical music About: Miten - Deva Premal & Miten NYJ