Sharmila G. Lash at Piedmont Piano Company

Sharmila G. Lash is a multifaceted vocalist able to easily move through a variety of musical styles. She performs as a soloist and ensemble member in both jazz and classical settings, is a private voice instructor, and works as a session singer. She is a current member of the Los Angeles Master Chorale and San Francisco-based Volti.

A native of Southern California, Sharmila began her music studies at a very young age, starting piano lessons at age six and singing lessons at age eleven. She was a music student at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and continued on to study classical voice at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she discovered her passion for jazz. After college, she was accepted into the “Jazz in July” program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and worked with the legendary jazz singer Sheila Jordan. Since then, she has been a featured performer at a number of jazz festivals in Southern California (including the Inaugural Filipino-American Jazz Festival and the Inaugural Asian-American Jazz Festival, both held in Los Angeles). Most recently, she sang with The Hollywood Film Chorale in Seth MacFarlane's (The Family Guy) private birthday concert, featuring The John Wilson Orchestra....

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Sharmila G. Lash is a multifaceted vocalist able to easily move through a variety of musical styles. She performs as a soloist and ensemble member in both jazz and classical settings, is a private voice instructor, and works as a session singer. She is a current member of the Los Angeles Master Chorale and San Francisco-based Volti.

A native of Southern California, Sharmila began her music studies at a very young age, starting piano lessons at age six and singing lessons at age eleven. She was a music student at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and continued on to study classical voice at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she discovered her passion for jazz. After college, she was accepted into the “Jazz in July” program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and worked with the legendary jazz singer Sheila Jordan. Since then, she has been a featured performer at a number of jazz festivals in Southern California (including the Inaugural Filipino-American Jazz Festival and the Inaugural Asian-American Jazz Festival, both held in Los Angeles). Most recently, she sang with The Hollywood Film Chorale in Seth MacFarlane's (The Family Guy) private birthday concert, featuring The John Wilson Orchestra.

Sharmila has extensive experience singing in many languages, including: Latin, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Bengali, and Swedish. In 2008, she released her debut solo jazz album, If Music Be the Food of Love, featuring guitarist Larry Koonse, and bassist Kevin Axt. Although she does enjoy singing "the standards," the album showcases her affinity for exploring songs that stray from the usual jazz repertoire, like the title track by Baroque composer Henry Purcell, a song by the alternative rock band The Cure, and a Bengali folk song.

As a session singer, Sharmila has sung on a number of film soundtracks, including Avatar, Eat Pray Love, and The Hangover Part III. She also recorded a solo song for the 2013 film Gangster Squad, which can be found on iTunes. She is a member of AGMA, SAG-AFTRA, and ASCAP. sharmilaguha.com

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