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Sanatam Kaur Khalsa, an American Singer, song writer and a peace activist was born in 1972 at Trinidad Colorado. Her family moved to California when she was only 2 years old. The family then shifted to India where Sanatam Kaur studied. Her mother learnt music in India and the child developed interest to sing along with her Gurbani hymns. As she grew, she learnt violin and became a violinist in the school orchestra. She also started writing songs. When her classmates under the guidance of Bob Wear of Gratful Ded performed her song Saving the Earth at an Earth day concert in San Francisco on 22nd April, 1990, she became quite popular. After finishing her studies with a bachelor degree in Bio-Chemistry from Mills College in Auckland, California she again went back to India to study Kirtan under her mothers’ teacher Bhai Hari Singh. In 1997 she began her career as a food technologist with piece serials in Eugene, Oregon. She started her music career in 2000 with Guru Granesha Singh Khalsa, a guitarist. A number of albums were then produced including some Kirtan albums like Kirtan Sohila and some other hymns. Various other albums contained devotional chants and songs like ‘To Heaven and beyond’, ‘Carry us Home’, ‘Amrit Vela’ etc. From 2003 to 2009 Sanatam Kaur spent major time on tours called ‘Celebrate Peace Tour’, wherein she gave performances at schools, hospices, juvenile detention centers and gave a message of peace as an ambassador for the 3HO Foundation. After her marriage with a graphic artist, Sopurakh Singh, the couple undertook such tours. It needs to be mentioned here that her one of the album ‘Shanti’ had appeared in the news when it got an entry for the Grammy award competition. All of her compositions show a deep influence of Sikhism. This influence can be seen in her books also which include a book on Japuji Sahib entitled ‘Meditation of the Soul’. This book was published last year. All these achievements make her a Sikh role-model who derives energy from Sri Guru Granth Sahib and inspires thousands of the people.