Nationality: Indian

Language: Assamese,Bengali,English,Hindi,Kannada,Marathi,Punjabi,Tamil,Urdu

- A multi-genre and multi-linguist artist, Ujjayinee is known for her versatility in various forms of performing arts. She is a singer-songwriter, actor, dancer, voice actor, columnist, educator and poet. She has been the voice behind numerous songs in mainstream Indian music and sung in Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam and Telugu films and has worked with various Indian music directors like A R Rahman, Illayaraja, Sajid –Wajid, Harris Jayaraj, Devi Shree Prasad, Yuvan Shankar Raja, M G Sreekumar and many more. She has also lent her voice for numerous jingles, ad-films and voice-overs. She is also a popular actor for television and the silver screen.
Her journey in to the world of music began in the small town of Agartala at the age of three when she began training in Hindustani Classical Music. She trained under two gurus, Shri Ganesh Dev Burman and then Pandit Ramendranath Dey. Ujjayinee started performing for All India Radio and Doordarshan Kendra from the age of seven. By the time she was eighteen, she was already a graded artist and composer for All India Radio. In the meanwhile, she also started performing in classical and light classical concerts, her debut being facilitated by her guru late Pt. Ramendranath Dey, as per traditions of Indian Classical Music. She has also been associated with Radio Mirchi as a radio jockey and producer.
During the early days of her musical career, she had also been the founder member of bands like Tribe and Aurko. She has also been a participant in popular reality shows likes SaReGaMa (Zee Television) and Pop Stars (Channel V). She has also hosted an entire season of Zee Tamil’s Sa Re Ga Ma Pa. For many years Ujjayinee has been working and experimenting with various genres of music like opera, rock, Indian and Western classical, blues, jazz, folk music etc., and this versatility is visible in her voice as well as her compositions.
In the year 2011 Ujjayinee met guitar player and music producer from Germany and Los Angeles, Ed DeGenaro and thereby started a new musical journey for her. She collaborated with him for his jazz fusion album “Holiday in Madras” lending her voice as well as co-producing some of the tracks. They found the band Elektrik Circus and have performed in various venues. She has also released many of her independent compositions in a compilation called “This Feels Right". Ujjayinee has also released another original compilation called “Novocain For The Soul” with music producer Amit Gupta. Recently she, Trumpet Player Kishore Sodha and Ed DeGenaro have come together to release a jazz fusion album called Ménage a Trois. Ujjayinee and Kishore also have a band called voice & Trumpet other than her solo act - Ujjayinee Roy Collective.

MUSIC PROJECTS
Ujjayinee has also collaborated and performed with other international and Indian artists like:
Padma Bhushan Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
A R Rahman
Multiple Grammy winner Ric Fierabracci
German producer duo Benny Schaschek and Hannes Hafenklang (The Sailing Conductors)
Indian classical and fusion artist and Grammy winner Selva Ganesh
Classical and fusion artist Ghatam Umashankar
Carnatic saxophonist Kalaimamamani Kadri Gopalnath
Carnatic vocalist Mahesh Vinayakram
Hindustani classical artist Prakash Sontakke
Veteran Indian vocalist Usha Utthup
Music producer Manikanth Kadri
Guitar player Sanjeev Thomas
The band Blues Conscience as a vocalist and co-producer
The band Wolf’s Lair as a vocalist and co-producer
Ace lyricist Madhan Karky for her original composition “Oruvaney”
French-Moroccan music producer Faylasuf
Ujjayinee was also jointly nominated for Global Indian Music Academy (GIMA) Awards along with guitar player Sanjeev Thomas for their single “Tanha – Alone” of which she was the vocalist and lyricist. Some of her original compositions like Kalighata – Rain Clouds” and “This Feels Right” have been rated amongst the top chartbusters in independent music. Recently she went on a European tour of twenty-nine concerts with the Sailing Conductors wherein she performed her original compositions with other artists from Germany, South Africa, Australia and Brazil.
The multilingual Ujjayinee has also sung in various foreign languages like Spanish, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, German and collaborated with many international artists.
Ujjayinee has taught Hindustani Classical Music (vocals) at the Swarnabhoomi Academy of Music, a premiere music institute in India and contemporary music as a senior faculty at Vijaybhoomi University (True School of Music).
ACTING PROJECTS
Ujjayinee is an actor in director and producer Lillete Dubey’s English musical based on the Mahabharata called Jaya The Victory, where she plays the role of Queen Kunti. She has also acted in other plays like Jagannath and Raj And His Three Hot Lovers.

Ujjayinee has been an extremely popular actor on three television series on Sun Tv produced by SaReGaMa. They are Valli, Chandralekha and Roja.
Ujjayinee has acted in Tamil films like Cinderella (prime video), Thani Oruvan, Saa Boo Thri and Thiranthidu Seese.
She has acted in a web series called Nisha (Zee5) and also hosted the first season of Saregamapa Tamil on Zee Tamil.
Ujjayinee has participated in the Star Tv’s action reality series Anu Alavum Bayamillai
She has also featured as well as sung and composed music for two German documentary films - The Sailing Conductors and Blown Away - Music, Miles & Magic
Ujjayinee is also a Bharatnatyam dancer and has performed in numerous venues, sabhas and dance festivals.
10. Skill – professional multi-lingual (17 languages including 5 foreign languages) and multi-genre vocalist, can play guitar and piano, dance, stunts, martial arts, driving, can ride a bike and motorbike