Folia (Bianca Gismonti) with Varijashree Venugopal

Sangam Series 2020
created by Bianca Gismonti and Julio Falavigna
with Global Music Institute and Embassy of Brazil in New Dehli

This project unites musicians from both western and eastern cultures, harmonising theirs talents as to bring forth the best of human artistry. This unique blends showcase apparent differences and enhances similarities of our world heritage.

Due to the advent of involuntary quarantine all around the globe, such meetings were favoured as means to bring peoples hearths and minds together.

On this first video, Bianca Gismonti (Brazil) and Julio Falavigna (Brazil) invited the great singer Vajirashree Venugopal (India) to create a new version of Bianca's brazilian samba, "Folia".


Vajirashree Venugopal, voice
Bianca Gismonti, piano
Julio Falavigna, drums (and mixing)