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'''Sheema Mukherjee''' is a British composer and [[sitar]] player. She is best known for her work with musical collective [[Transglobal Underground]] and [[The Imagined Village]]. She is the niece of sitarist [[Nikhil Banerjee]]. In 2005, ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' referred to her as a "sitar prodigy".<br />
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Mukherjee studied [[Hindustani classical music]] under her uncle Nikhil Banerjee, [[Ali Akbar Khan]] and later [[Aashish Khan]]. In 1998 she joined Transglobal Underground. In 2005, she composed the music for the [[West Yorkshire Playhouse]] productions ''Gluey and the Lion'' and ''Non-Contact Time''. She also composed the score for the [[Tamasha Theatre Company]]'s 2009 musical ''[[Wuthering Heights]]''. Her composition "Bending in the Dark" was featured during the [[2012 Summer Olympics]].<br />
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Her first solo debut album, ''Sheema'' was released on 28 August 2014 by the independent vinyl label ECC100 Records and was well received.<br />
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