Grammy-winning Indian American musician and philanthropist Chandrika Krishamoorthy Tandon is launching “Chant Club,” a new weekly community gathering in New York City that will bring people together through Sanskrit mantras, Indian classical ragas, and sacred music focused on healing, mindfulness, and connection.
Indian American business leader, philanthropist, and Grammy-winning musician Chandrika Krishamoorthy Tandon is preparing to launch a new musical and spiritual initiative in New York City that aims to bring people together through chanting, community, and collective healing. Called “Chandrika’s Chant Club,” the weekly gathering will officially begin on June 7 and is open to people of all backgrounds and experience levels.
The initiative reflects Tandon’s long-standing belief in the transformative power of sacred music, breath, rhythm, and ancient Vedic traditions. Through the Chant Club, she hopes to create a welcoming and joyful environment where participants can reconnect with themselves and others through sound and shared experience.
According to a flyer shared by the organizers, the Chant Club will take place every Sunday from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the Young People’s Chorus of New York City, located at 37 West 65th Street in Manhattan. The sessions are open to individuals between the ages of 9 and 99, and no prior singing experience or Sanskrit training is required. Participants will engage in Sanskrit mantras, hymns, and songs rooted in Indian classical ragas and Vedic texts. Registration for the sessions is mandatory through email.
Tandon described the upcoming initiative as more than just a music gathering. For her, the Chant Club represents a shared spiritual and emotional experience centered around stillness, harmony, and human connection.
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“I see the Chant Club as a joyful space where people can come together through breath, rhythm, and sacred sound. Vedic mantras have touched our deepest selves to harmonize us, and create connection, and inner stillness for thousands of years. Indian Ragas can awaken many profound feelings and emotions. When we chant together, something shifts — the mind quiets, the heart opens, and a loving community begins to form,” she told The American Bazaar in an email exchange.
She also stressed that the club is not designed around technical perfection or professional musical ability, but around participation and openness.
“The Chant Club is not about perfection or performance. You do not need to be a singer or know Sanskrit. It is about participation, presence, and the simple human experience of raising our voices together. It is a musical way to invoke the divinity and light within each of us and radiate it in the world,” Tandon added.
Over the years, Tandon has built a unique identity that bridges global business leadership, humanitarian work, and spiritual artistry. While she is widely known in the corporate world for her accomplishments in business and philanthropy, she has also become a recognized figure in contemporary spiritual music.
Under her nonprofit music label Soul Chants Music, Tandon has released six albums that blend devotional traditions, chants, and contemporary musical arrangements. Her body of work includes “Ammu’s Treasures, Shivoham – The Quest,” “Soul March,” “Soul Mantra,” Grammy-nominated “Soul Call,” and “Triveni.” The album “Triveni” earned her a Grammy Award for Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album, bringing international recognition to her spiritually driven musical journey.
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Beyond recording music, Tandon has also staged several large-scale benefit concerts across the world. She has performed to sold-out audiences at iconic venues including the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Nassau Coliseum, Times Square, Berlin’s Olympiastadion, and the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Many of these performances were connected to philanthropic and humanitarian causes, reflecting her broader mission of using music as a force for healing and unity.
Tandon’s contributions across business, leadership, philanthropy, and music have earned her several prestigious honors over the years. She has received NYU’s Gallatin Medal, regarded as the university’s highest distinction, along with the Walter Nichols Medal for leadership and integrity and the Polytechnic Medal for her contributions to science and engineering.
The launch of the Chant Club comes shortly after another public spiritual-musical appearance by Tandon. On May 20, she performed alongside spiritual leader Didi Krishna at the Marble Collegiate Church in New York City during a special evening gathering focused on music, reflection, and spirituality by Sadhu Vaswani Center For World Peace.
With the Chant Club, Tandon now appears to be taking that vision a step further by building an ongoing community space centered on music, mindfulness, and shared human connection.