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Vijay Iyer
Rochester, United States • b. 1971-10-26
Vijay Iyer is credited on 92 releases across 59 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1995–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
92
Pressings credited
59
Albums
4
Decades active
34
In collections
Biography
Vijay Iyer ([ˌvɪdʒeɪ ˈaɪjər]; born Vijay Raghunathan, October 26, 1971) is a composer, pianist, bandleader, producer, writer, and professor based in New York City. The New York Times has called him a "social conscience, multimedia collaborator, system builder, rhapsodist, historical thinker and multicultural gateway". Iyer received a 2013 MacArthur Fellowship, a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a United States Artists Fellowship, three Grammy nominations, and the Alpert Award in the Arts. He was voted Jazz Artist of the Year in the Downbeat magazine international critics' polls in 2012, 2015, 2016, and 2018. In 2014, he was jointly appointed with tenure to Harvard University's departments of music and African American studies as the Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts.
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Credited work
92 releases · 59 albums · active 1995–2025
- Performance · 250
- Other credits · 50
- Production · 14
- Engineering · 3
Studios: Avatar Studios · Oktaven Audio · Sorcerer Sound · Stadtsaal, Burghausen
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Mike Ladd
- Steve Coleman
- Arooj Aftab
- Various
- Kim English
- Steve Coleman And The Mystic Rhythm Society
- Steve Coleman And Five Elements
- Talvin Singh
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