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• Amira Gill is an Indian singer, songwriter, and music therapist. She is well-known for performing “Das Main Ki Pyaar Vichon Khatteya” for Coke Studio with Deveshi Sahgal and Kanwar Grewal. She is skilled at both Indian classical music and Punjabi tappe.

• Amira Gill entered the music circuit at the age of 14 when she started doing gigs at the local clubs in Delhi with an indie band ‘The Incredible Mindfunk’. But after playing for the same crowds at the same venues for a few years, Amira wanted to broaden her musical horizons and explore it in new ways which led her to the Berklee College of Music to study music therapy.

• In the Fall of 2015, she received a merit-based Berklee Scholarship to Berklee for her bachelor’s in Music Therapy.

• At Berklee College of Music, she pursued a Bachelor of Arts in Music Therapy from 2015 to 2020. During her time at Berklee, Amira joined many international Music Ensembles including the Berklee Indian Ensemble, Berklee Pletenitsa Choir (Bulgarian Music), Berklee Middle-Eastern Band (Music of the Middle-east), and Berklee World Strings (Vocalist for the Berklee World Strings Ensemble). ^[3]LinkedIn – Amira Gill
  

  Amira Gill during the practice of Berklee Indian Ensemble

   

• Apart from Music Therapy, Amira became skilled in the folk music of India, the Middle East, and the Balkans. She also performed on stage alongside renowned musicians like Vijay Prakash, Shankar Mahadevan, Shreya Ghoshal, Tigran Hamasyan, and Amal Murkus while attending Berklee. She played folk music from Pakistan and Punjab at the Berklee School of Music’s International Folk Festival. She worked on the album Shuruaat while attending Berklee, and it was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Global Music Album category in 2022.
  

  Amira Gill performing at the Berklee College of Music

• Amira volunteered as a Music Therapist at the Boys & Girls Clubs of America for 3 months in 2017 from August to October where her work included refocusing the children’s attention on creative participation, entertainment, expression, socializing, and integration through the use of musical activities like songwriting, studio recording, group music creation, and choir singing.

• In the Fall of 2018, she received the Indian Ensemble Zunz Family Scholarship.

• Amira has worked as a music therapist with autistic children at many hospitals including Boston Children’s Hospital (in 2017), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (in 2018), and Rosie’s Place (in 2017).

•  During an interview, talking about the motivation and inspiration to become a music therapist, she said,
  

  I wanted to be a great musician whose musical abilities are the reason her music therapy abilities are also great.I wanted to do music therapy where the act and involvement of creating a song and singing is therapy in itself. Whenever I do music therapy it has to be exciting and fulfilling for me too, because only if it is exciting to me will I be able to help and authentically serve the people I am working with. I want to work with people I relate to and causes I feel for.”

• In 2019, after graduating from Berklee, Amira travelled to Kenya and Uganda with the organisation ‘Umoja Global Community Music Therapy.’ Through music therapy techniques like goal-based songwriting, lyric substitution, community singing, dance, and drumming, the Umoja Global team concentrated their efforts on fostering a sense of community and empowering women and children to overcome challenging life situations.

• In 2020, Amira Gill got her official license as a Music Therapist from the Certification Board for Music Therapists and her Neurologic Music Therapist license from The International Neurologic Music Therapy Training Institute.

• Later in 2020, she moved back to India from the USA and started her project titled The Songbird Project which uses music (listening, songwriting, singing, analyzing, and discussing) as a therapeutic tool to promote wellness among individuals. She works as the director of music therapy at The Songbird Project.

• In May 2023, Amira recorded a song “Das Main Ki Pyaar Vichon Khatteya” for Coke Studio Bharat which was the rendition of a Punjabi folk song Das Main Ki Pyaar Vichon Khatteya with Kanwar Grewal, Deveshi Sahgal, Tajdar Junaid, and Vijay Yamla Jatt.
  

  Amira Gill in the music video of the song Das Main Ki Pyaar Vichon Khatteya

   

• Amira Gill provided vocals for many songs including “Mera Ishq Vi Tu” from the web series Minus One (2019), “Saath” from the TV series Faadu (2022), and “Hoovina Angi Thottu” from the Kannada film Dasara (2023).

• • Amira Gill hosts a podcast “Music Therapy Approaches” where she invites other music therapists she admires and talks to them about different methods of music therapy and its benefits.

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• Amira Gill is often seen consuming alcohol.
  

  Amira Gill consuming alcohol

• Amira Gill has composed and sung songs in 19 different languages including Punjabi, Hindi, Bengali, English, Greek, Portuguese, and Spanish.