White Sun won a GRAMMY Award on February 5th 2023 for our album “Mystic Mirror”. It’s a great privilege to be recognized by the Recording Academy, and it’s a great honor to make songs for a better future.
Thank you to everyone who played a part in the creation of this album, and thank you to all who supported us.
Gurujas talks to guitarguitar about the album White Sun Sadhana, singing, writing, the meaning of the mantras and how important such music can be for people today.
Check out the interview with guitarguitar here:
Following their GRAMMY-winning second album, new age music creators White Sun are basking in the glow of their third release, White Sun III, and deservedly so. The pioneering band, which consists of Gurujas Khalsa, Adam Berry and Harijiwan Khalsa, recently let their new music spin for 100 eager listeners at BMI’s LA office before the release of their double album on September 28. Not surprisingly, the crowd was spellbound. It’s no wonder White Sun’s mesmerizing music, which took the GRAMMY for Best New Age Album, has topped the charts for Billboard, Amazon and iTunes, while amassing 20 million streams across six continents.
The Los Angeles-based New Age band White Sun released their third studio album, the double-LP White Sun III, on September 28th. The 90-minute project follows two previous albums, their 2015 self-titled debut, which reached Number One on the iTunes World Music chart, and 2016’s White Sun II, which topped Billboard’s New Age chart and secured Best New Age Album at the 2017 Grammy Awards.
Music so powerful that it wins a Grammy and the attention of UCLA researchers doesn’t just happen by chance. This is music created with intention and purpose. Yoga supergroup White Sun’s second album broke through the Grammy mantra barrier. After hitting #1 on Billboard’s New Age Chart and#2 on Billboard’s World Chart, White Sun II won the 2017 Grammy for Best New Age Album.
Most people connect easily to music, as the blood flow in our brains changes when we listen to it. White Sun's music positively affects the glandular system as well, because it contains mantras, which influence the waves of the mind. Harijiwan's Gong playing has the same effect vibrationally, but the sound is more primal.
Results suggest that yoga can be a cognitive enhancement or brain fitness exercise that can confer similar or even more extensive cognitive resilience than memory training—the gold standard—in older adults.
Meditation in this study was practiced with music recorded on the White Sun album, which received a Grammy award this year.
