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Rock for Rights 

Asha Puthli  will be performing at the prestigious Jazz at Lincoln Center's The Rose Theater  for the  Benefit Concert " Rock for Rights " on January 18th 2009. The Benefit will raise awareness and funds for Human Rights Foundations,  causes that Asha has championed as a social activist and through her music.
 
Over the years Ms. Puthli has been active on issues concerning Human Rights, participating in the first Children's Human Rights Conference in Vienna , attending the Kyoto Conference for Spiritual and Parlimentary Leaders where Mikhail Gorbachev announced the launch of the Green Cross, working for sustainable development, birth control, and raising awareness about AIDS.  " These issues are all interconnected when we want to see change " says Asha.  Raised in India in a family of social activists, the importance and value of making a difference through one's actions to better the world was instilled into her at a young age.  Her father U.G. Puthli was an instrumental and motivating force in rural development bringing health care and education to the landless Adivasis and marginalized farmers eventually creating job opportunities for them so that the villages became self sustainable. Written about in Pranay Gupte's UN sponsored book "The Challenge of Change " is one of these villages which eventually turned out to be the model of sustainable development where Asha at the age of 16 went to teach the women about birth control and to take up their fight against domestic abuse.  In 1982  Asha recorded an album "I'm gonna kill it tonight" which covered the topic of spousal abuse,calling the style Traction Rock.
 
Asha's passion for social causes extends into her music and lyrics. Though better known in the US as a Jazz, Funk artist, she has been hailed as a Cross Cultural pioneer by mainstream newspapers like The New York Times, The London Times, Times of India, and Daily News.  Asha has either collaborated or shared the stage with Ornette Coleman, The Rolling Stones, Grace Jones, Barry White, Tom Jones, Ashford and Simpson, The Pointer Sisters, to name a few. Her music has been sampled by P. Diddy, The Notorious B.I.G., Dilated Peoples, Governor, 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Diplo, Kano , Jermaine Dupri, J Walk, SWV and Redman. "There is nothing more gratifying then to know that your music is appreciated and sampled and kept alive by a younger generation"
 
Asha is proud to be part of The " Rock for Rights - Crossing  Genres - Crossing Generations" Concert whose theme is central to Asha's life, music and work.
 
Recorded in Monte Carlo, Asha's latest recording," LOST "  for the indie label Kyrone is scheduled for European release in early spring 2009, the label is currently looking for a licensing deal in the US. It includes songs that are socially conscious  and songs in mash-up cross cultural style. Two songs from the album have been placed in the film "Finding Bliss" starring  Leelee Sobieski, Denise Richards and Jamie Kennedy  by Director Julie Davis. The film will be screened at Sundance on January 18th. The same day that Asha is singing at the "Rock for Rights" Benefit . Looks like the planets are smiling on Asha.