Jai-Jagdeesh

Jai-Jagdeesh lives and breathes through her creativity. Born in the early '80s to Kundalini yogis RaviInder Kaur and Sat Kartar Singh, she was immediately and completely surrounded by yoga, meditation, and the sacred soundcurrent. A few decades and many adventures later, she's still surrounded - and gratefully so.
At the age of 6, Jai-Jagdeesh began attending boarding school in India, as a part of Yogi Bhajan's foreign education program (now Miri Piri Academy). Throughout this adventurous childhood, she dove headfirst into every conceivable creative expression. One year it was photography. Another year it was writing and painting. Throughout high school, it was dance - inspired, of course, by Bollywood films - and with that came a strong desire to learn the craft of acting. But the one constant from year to year was music.
Long before beginning school in India, teeny tiny Jai-Jagdeesh sat down to a harmonium. Her parents, both musical beings themselves, taught her shabds (hymns) of the Sikh faith and mantras of Kundalini yoga. A few years after beginning school overseas, she partnered up with a few other students, forming a jatha (group) that would soon become one of the musical representatives of Miri Piri Academy. They went wherever the school was invited, sharing kirtan at gurdwaras and ashrams all over Northern India, in parades through the streets of Amritsar, and, once a month, at the entrance to the Golden Temple, as requested by Yogi Bhajan to help heal the wounds of the 1984 military attacks that had demolished parts of this sacred site. Jai-Jagdeesh says the experience was "A blessing, but one that I didn't recognize as a blessing until several years later. I still had some growing up to do."