Aks & Lakshmi

Aks & Lakshmi are a composer-vocalist (and husband and wife) duo who pioneered Electronic Bhakti Music. Through engaging live shows, albums and videos, Aks & Lakshmi present the peace, love and pluralistic vision of poets such as Adi Shankaracharya, Kabir, Mirabai, and Surdas to multi-faith audiences.

In their live performances, EDM chants, bhajans and stotras (devotional song and hymn) interconnect with storytelling and visual media in a celebration of ecstatic devotion. In 2013, their music and media company Eclipse Nirvana released “The Bhakti Movement”, a project that modernized traditional songs and was distributed worldwide by Sony Music.

Aks is an Indian-American composer, producer and vocalist with credits spanning albums, film & TV, and video games. Trained by Oscar-winning composer A.R. Rahman, he creates music that blends electronic orchestration with catchy melodic hooks. He has produced music for over 200 original songs and teaches in UCLA’s Film Scoring program. Lakshmi is a vocalist-scholar who brings singing, scholarship, and storytelling onto one platform. With an M.A. in Religious Studies from Stanford University, she performs and writes on the great Indian saint-poets of the Bhakti Movement. You can find her articles in international publications such as Hinduism Today. She has recorded several devotional albums with her mother and guru Padmini Chandrashekar in her hometown Singapore.

As guest presenters at Princeton University, Stanford University and the Global Conference on World’s Religions, the content of their sacred music brings strong educational value to institutions. They have been featured as cultural ambassadors at the American and Indian Embassies. Aks & Lakshmi have also presented major concerts at spiritual organizations such as Chinmaya Mission, Vedanta Society, Brahmakumaris and Aurobindo Society. Based in Los Angeles, California, Aks & Lakshmi perform across North America and beyond. Audiences describe their music as “healing”, “meditative” and “transforming”.