Tarali Sarma is a complete Artiste. A versatile singer composer and music director. Who loves to take the tougher path. To begin with she chose Traditional Axomiya Music. Being born in a family in Asom (India) where Traditional & Folk music is a family legacy, the passion and love for music flowed in her veins. Then she chose the ancient and extremely difficult idioms of various traditional and folk music, to harness and express her creativity. And after diving deep within the time tested ocean of Traditional & Folk music, she chose to share the pearls she discovered with a creative mind across the globe.

Tarali thrives on challenges, loves to crossover boundaries, take an un-threaded path and try the never before. Being an artiste, in her tryst with the cultural world and in her pursuit for music, she has continued creating & immersing in different forms of music Result ? A series of hugely successful ‘firsts’ in the list of her musical adventures.

For instance, she created an identity of her own when at the tender age of 12 she composed the music for an All India Radio Program. And there is no looking back from then onwards. As an accomplished singer, composer and music director, she has the rare Distinction of winning the coveted ‘Rajat Kamal’, National award as the best female play back singer in the year 2004, thus becoming the first female from the state to win the prestigious award. She also has the privilege of being the first female music director in the mobile theatres of Asom.

She has many albums to her credit, ’Abhiman’ being the first. She has lend her voice for various films, serials and plays. She moved her magic as music director for 2 feature films, couple of short films and many documentaries and serials. She is a regular performing artist of All India Radio & Doordarshan.

Along with all these innovations, experimentations Tarali continues to give her creations and concerts of pure Axomiya Traditional & Folk Music and Modern Music across the state and beyond her boundaries and shores. Obviously here is a vast spectrum where popular music, collaboration, sublime, new age music, folk music, thematic music, psychedelic sounds and film music co-exists very comfortably with her first love-Traditional & Folk Music.

Tarali derives her inspiration from nature. Her creations are closely blended to the various elements of nature and its beauty. She loves to travel both physically and in her own creative dream world. Her inspiration can be observed in her creations which has the flavor of the soil of her native place Asom and her country India as well it echoes the sentiments of an individual. She tries to remain connected with spirituality with meditation everyday. To her Lord Ganesha, Lord Krishna and Lord Shiva remains the most severed and constant companion, as she derives the strength & power from them during her creations.

Floating in and out of varied sounds, novel creations and huge accolades, Tarali is always striving to give the best to her audiences. She is aware of her responsibility as an artiste as well as a responsible individual.

Tarali have the vision of making the ancient traditional & folk music of Asom & various Ethnic tribes of the state, to be established on the Indian music platform. And she has imbibed the inspiration & nuances from her father Shri Prabhat Sarma, a renowned folk exponent, flutist, music director and the Sangeet Natak Academy Awardee and from her uncle Shri Bakhista Deva Sarma, who is the satradhikar (religious head) of the ‘Barpeta Shatra’ along with other satradhikars, thus striving to make the form of art indispensable in the world of music. And from the looks and creation of it Tarali is all set to make it indispensable in the world of music, across the globe.

And why not ? She cherishes the invaluable treasure of Traditional & Folk music in its various forms that her family legacy has helped her imbibe and has her eyes set on the globe.

Tarali Sarma

She is the new face of Tradition

She is “Asom (India)-in-the twenty first century personified”