BIO

Samir Bodhi’s music career spans nearly 30 years. Trained in western music as well as Indian music, he is an internationally recognized music composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist. He has developed a unique style and brand in global and new age fusion music. He has successfully collaborated under his real name Samir Chatterjee, bringing his virtuosic talents as a guitarist, composer, producer and recording engineer to a multitude of projects involving legendary Indian musicians – such as Kumar Sanu, Shan, Jagjit Singh, Madhumita Chatterjee, Ustad Ashish Khan, Rakesh Chaurasia, Louis Banks - and under his stage name Samir Bodhi with many renowned western musicians in Hollywood. Bodhi till date has released 6 albums, more than 40 singles and has been the music composer for two films (Bengali and Hollywood).

In 2021, producer and guitarist Samir Bodhi became a celebrated new age/world fusion artist with the release of Stairway to Nirvana: A Musical Journey to Awakening, his dynamic, spiritually inspirational debut EP which hit #4 on the ZMR Top 100 radio chart, earned a Hollywood Music in Media Award (HMMA) nomination and won Best of Asia at the 2022 InterContinental Music Awards. The musical visionary’s second album Memories of Empathy is driven by his belief that the gap between the haves and have nots is widening and that people’s self-absorption is reducing human empathy to a distant memory.

Bodhi has received awards or nominations from prestigious music organizations. In 2024, he was a featured composer on a GRAMMY® nominated children’s album, Hip Hope for Kids by DJ Willy Wow. He has won the Inter-Continental Music Awards and Global Music Awards. His latest single Un-Me Too has been nominated for Hollywood Independent Music Awards (HIMA) and Indie Channel Music (ICM) awards. His other new single Anxiety’s Shadows, collaboration with Hollywood singer Shannon K is trending on Spotify. His music has topped the charts in Amazon Pre-sales, New Age Notes music chart and others. He is a voting member of the GRAMMY®.

While music is his passion, Samir is also an internationally recognized scholar, scientist and researcher. He is an endowed chair and professor of computer science at Claremont Graduate University. He lives in southern California with his wife and son.
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