Biography
"A voice of milk and honey” - Anaïs Mitchell
"Superwoman enigma... incredibly talented " - BBC Scotland
Chloe Matharu is a Scottish Indian singer songwriter, harpist and harmonium player based in the Outer Hebrides. She is an independent, multi-award winning, internationally touring, musician and draws on her experience of sailing the world as a Navigational Officer in the Merchant Navy to lend a voice to the modern day seafarer through music. Bringing back to life the folk tradition of narrating working conditions and traditions, she uses her lived experiences, storytelling, and music to reel audiences into her watery world.
Live, Chloe performs in English, Scots, and Gaelic interlinking modern and historic maritime themes through song. Solo, Matharu accompanies her singing with either her Celtic Harp or her Punjabi grandfather's Harmonium. Her performances are deeply personal and unique. She also performs as the Chloe Matharu Trio (voice/harp, guitar, flute); the Chloe Matharu Band (voice/harp, guitar, flute and fiddle) or as Chloe Matharu and the Celtic Deep (voice/harp, guitar, flute, fiddle, percussion, keyboard) the latter offering a mix of more upbeat songs alongside Chloe's original repertoire.
You may have come across Chloe in her TV and radio features such as on BBC Scotland's Island Crossings, BBC Woman's Hour, BBC Loose Ends, features in The Times and The Sun, amongst others. She is the only artist to have won Celtic Music Radio’s Album of the Year twice; she's also received the Danny Kyle Award at Celtic Connections amongst other awards and nominations including MG Alba Awards Scots Singer of the Year Nominee.
She's a Live Music Now musician and is involved in her local community. When not performing music Chloe spends her time riding her horses, long distance sea swimming and running her croft on Isle of Lewis in the Western Isles of Scotland.
"A beautiful dynamic movement that carries the listener along." - Folk Radio UK
Reviews and Interviews
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"It's an absolutely captivating listen from start to end, comprised of eight enchanting tracks you'll find yourself lost in." - by Tour Bus Tunes
"intriguing sounds and words...Matharu's voice is clear and distinctly Scottish. It is genuinely haunting with the occasional catch in her sound that adds an emotional depth to her singing." - by Fatea Magazine
"This singer and harpist from the west of Scotland, near the Clyde, writes all her own songs. She interprets them with a vibrato which summons a certain fragility, over an evocative base woven by the harp and calmed by the sounds of nature." - by Le Canard Folk, Belgium
"Thoughtful and sensitive songwriting...a natural ebb and flow and a beautiful dynamic movement that carries the listener along. She is most certainly a name to watch for." - by Folk Radio UK
"Captivating vocals, beautiful lyrics and a wonderful production, mesmerising...as personal as it is beautiful. Take a few minutes out of your day to stop and listen and you'll quickly find yourself lost" - by Tour Bus Tunes
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"Her music is truly haunting"
by BBC Radio Scotland
"Voice of milk and honey"
by Anais Mitchell
"Voice with the purity of a folk classic"
by The Herald
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