Satkirin Kaur Khalsa is a former Jew who now works as a Sikh

Sikh

A Sikh is a follower of Sikhism. It primarily originated in the 15th century in the Punjab region of South Asia. The term "Sikh" has its origin in Sanskrit term शिष्य , meaning "disciple, student" or शिक्ष , meaning "instruction"...

 preacher and prolific Sikh

Sikh

A Sikh is a follower of Sikhism. It primarily originated in the 15th century in the Punjab region of South Asia. The term "Sikh" has its origin in Sanskrit term शिष्य , meaning "disciple, student" or शिक्ष , meaning "instruction"...

 Kirtan

Kirtan

Kirtan or Kirtana is call-and-response chanting or "responsory" performed in India's devotional traditions. A person performing kirtan is known as a kirtankar. Kirtan practice involves chanting hymns or mantras to the accompaniment of instruments such as the harmonium, tablas, the two-headed...

 singer. She presents a Kundalini Yoga

Kundalini yoga

Kundalini yoga is a physical, mental and spiritual discipline for developing strength, awareness, character, and consciousness. Practitioners call Kundalini yoga the yoga of awareness because it focuses primarily on practices that expand sensory awareness and intuition in order to raise individual...

 show on JUS Punjabi

ATN JUS Punjabi

ATN JUS Punjabi is a Canadian Category B Punjabi language specialty channel that is owned by Asian Television Network. It broadcasts programming from JUS Punjabi and Canadian content....

 t.v. channel.

Life

She was married to Govinda Singh ,after she converted to Sikhism

Sikhism

Sikhism is a monotheistic religion founded during the 15th century in the Punjab region, by Guru Nanak Dev and continued to progress with ten successive Sikh Gurus . It is the fifth-largest organized religion in the world and one of the fastest-growing...

. She was nominated as the Granthi

Granthi

Granthi is any person of either gender, who performs the reading of the Guru Granth Sahib at congregational occasions, however this task can be performed by any individual who is part of the congregation...

 in the Los Angeles Gurudwara in 1974 and currently serves at the Manhattan

Manhattan

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 Gurudwara. She has had the opportunity of singing the opening prayer for the Opening Ceremony of the 2009 United Nations General Assembly on Climate Change. She has performed in Columbia

Columbia

Columbia may refer to:-Places:* Columbia , a poetic name for the Americas, and the feminine personification of the United States of America* District of Columbia, the federal district in which the capital of the United States is located...

, Ecuador, Peru

Peru

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, Paraguay, Bolivia

Bolivia

Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...

, Argentina, Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

, India, Malaysia, and United States of America. She hosts a show named JUS Yoga every Saturday & Sunday morning (10am-10:15 am EST) on JUS Punjabi TV.

Discography

She is well known for her expertise in Sikh

Sikh

A Sikh is a follower of Sikhism. It primarily originated in the 15th century in the Punjab region of South Asia. The term "Sikh" has its origin in Sanskrit term शिष्य , meaning "disciple, student" or शिक्ष , meaning "instruction"...

 devotional music. She got the knowledge of Ragas from many leading music scholars like Bibi Amarjit Kaur, Bhai Jaspal Singh, Bhai Pargat Singh, and Ustaad Narinder Singh and Bhai Hari Singh of Patiala Gharana. Some of her recorded works are as under:

• Ignite Your Light: Musical Meditation for Beginners
• Ajai Alai
• Jaap Sahib – Gobinday Mukunday & Ajai Alai
• Mangala Charan of Jaap Sahib
• Guru Guru Wahe Guru
• Chatara Chakara Vartee
• Lightness of Being
• Universal Prayer
• Ra Ma Da Sa Sa Se So Hung
• Melody and Majesty
• Shabd I
• Shabd II

See also

• Sikhism
  Sikhism
  Sikhism is a monotheistic religion founded during the 15th century in the Punjab region, by Guru Nanak Dev and continued to progress with ten successive Sikh Gurus . It is the fifth-largest organized religion in the world and one of the fastest-growing...
  
  
• Guru Granth Sahib
  Guru Granth Sahib
  Sri Guru Granth Sahib , or Adi Granth, is the religious text of Sikhism. It is the final and eternal guru of the Sikhs. It is a voluminous text of 1430 angs, compiled and composed during the period of Sikh gurus, from 1469 to 1708...
  
  
• Sikh Gurus
  Sikh Gurus
  The Sikh Gurus established Sikhism from over the centuries beginning in the year 1469. Sikhism was founded by the first guru, Guru Nanak, and subsequently, all in order were referred to as "Nanak", and as "Lights", making their teachings in the holy scriptures, equivalent...