Suman Sridhar & The Black Mamba’s urban contemporary sound traverses effortlessly between cultures, genres and languages; rock, opera, Indian classical and jazz against the backdrop of cascading vocal crescendos and counterpoint melodies. The result is a contemporary genre – worldbeat wherein divergent performance traditions are inexorably fused.

Suman Sridhar is a musician, composer and actor from Mumbai / New Jersey. She works at the intersection of music, film, performance art, theater. She is recognized for chart topping Bollywood film songs such as Fifi (Bombay Velvet, 2015), Muskaane Jhooti Hain (Talaash, 2012), Khoya Khoya Chand (Shaitan, 2011). As a songwriter and performer, she is recognized by Rolling Stone magazine for redefining indie music in India. Suman's genre-bending work has received awards and nominations including Best Female Playback Singer-Times of India Film Awards, Best Female Indie Artist - MTV Video Music Awards India, Band & Album of the Year- Jack Daniel's Rock Awards. Her performances include dOCUMENTA (13) (Germany), Southbank Centre (UK), Coke Studio MTV India, NH7 Weekender (India), BBC- World Service (UK), Radio Mirchi Music Awards (India), Mijwan Fashion Show (India), One Billion Rising (India), National Center for Performing Arts (India), Sarai Reader 09 (India), Prithvi Theatre Festival (India), Jazzmandu (Nepal), Galle Literary Festival (Sri Lanka), The Great Escape Festival (UK), Quarter, Royal Opera House (India) etc. She holds a degree in Music, Visual Art and Women's & Gender Studies from Rutgers University, USA.