indio saravanja

Argentine-Canadian Indio Saravanja is a musician, composer, producer, poet, and sometime actor, who has worked principally as a performing songwriter and recording artist since the early 1990’s. His first nationally-broadcasted CBC concert aired in 1996 and his first album debuted coast to coast on Sounds Like Canada in 2005. Raised in the Canadian arctic and departed from his family at age 13 thanks to a dance scholarship, Indio was busking in Montreal by age 15, gigging in Spain by 17, and making his NYC debut by 19 courtesy of his friend, the late Jeff Buckley. Most of his twenties were spent on the Canadian bar band circuit until an invitation came to record under the Caribou Records label
in 2005. Since that first release, Indio has been consistently featured on public, commercial, and college radio, released 8 more albums internationally, and consistently gained new fans by performing hundreds of concerts and festivals across Canada and abroad, the largest being the main stage of the Winnipeg Folk Festival in 2007. He has collaborated or shared stages with Bruce Cockburn, Buffy Sainte Marie, Los Lobos, Matt Mays, Joel Plaskett, Josh Ritter, Fred Eaglesmith, Blackie & The Rodeo Kings, Serena Ryder, Bill Bourne, Joan As Police Woman, and many others. He was awarded First Prize at the 2012 Calgary Folk Festival Song Competition, and his song First Communion was used by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) between 2008 and 2015. Indio composes for theatre and film, works infrequently as a teacher and translator and has been mentioned in numerous books, most recently in Dave Bidini’s bestseller Midnight Light. Although he has lived and performed throughout the world, Indio’s favourite destination is his birth city of Buenos Aires where he continues to record much of his work, in close collaboration with musicians and recording studios in Canada where he resides with his young daughter, whom he calls his greatest inspiration.

- he is a poet of the finest water, a keen observer with finely attuned literary sensibilities and a thinker of considerable substance..... Saravanja is clearly connected to the larger contemporary global zeitgeist. Big things are coming his way. (Greg Quill - Toronto Star- 2006)