Snatam Kaur Khalsa, born June 19, 1972 in Colorado, is an American singer, songwriter and author. Kaur performs new age Indian devotional music, kirtan, and tours the world as a peace activist. The surname "Kaur", meaning "princess", is shared by all female Sikhs. She grew up in California, living in Long Beach and Sacramento. She lived on a ranch near Bolinas, California and moved to Mill Valley in 1986. She attended Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, where she played violin in the school orchestra and began songwriting. Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead coached Kaur and her classmates. When she was six, the family visited India, where her mother studied kirtan. During her childhood, she played kirtan with her mother in Gurdwaras and at Sikh religious ceremonies. They performed her song "Saving the Earth" at an Earth Day concert in San Francisco on April 22, 1990. Snatam was active in social and environmental causes while in high school, serving as president of a social action club known as "Students for Justice" in her senior year. The club started a campus recycling program and organized environmental awareness programs. The club also led the effort to change the school mascot and sports team names from the Indians to the Red Tailed Hawk in 1989 and 1990, inspired by a speech given at the school by Sacheen Littlefeather. After graduating from Tam, Snatam attended Mills College in Oakland, California, receiving a bachelor's degree in biochemistry. She then returned to India to study Kirtan under her mother's teacher. In 1997, Kaur began a career as a food technologist with Peace Cereals in Eugene, Oregon. Snatam Kaur has received numerous positive reviews of her concerts and albums, especially in alternative and yogic media. These include LA Yoga, The Olympian (Olympia, WA), Light Connection, The Union (Nevada County, CA), The New Sunday Times (Malaysia), and Yoga Chicago. In 2010, her album Essential Snatam Kaur: Sacred Chants for Healing peaked at number nine on the Billboard listing of Top New Age Music Albums. Snatam Kaur's career also received a boost when it became known that her music was a favorite of Oprah Winfrey. Kaur was nominated for a 2019 Grammy for her album Beloved. Snatam lives in the United States with her husband Sopurkh Singh, whom she married in January 2006, and their daughter, Jap Preet Kaur.

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