Solo Career
Now signed to Universal Music Publishing Group, Sawhney has released 9 studio albums, each garnering critical acclaim. Indeed, Sawhney has received no less than 17 major national awards for his album work alone.
His final album for Outcaste records, 1999's Beyond Skin, was his breakthrough, earning a Mercury Prize nomination and winning the South Bank Show's award for Popular Music. Subsequently, Richard Branson's V2 Records signed Sawhney to a six-album deal, and released Prophesy in 2001. The album went on to win a MOBO Award, an EMMA and the BBC Radio 3 World Music Award. In 2004 Sawhney issued two remix collections, All Mixed Up and FabricLive.15, released worldwide by London nightclub Fabric and featuring samples of Gipsy Kings' Nicolas Reyes vocals. Sawhney’s album, Philtre, released in May 2005, was awarded the BBC Radio 3 Culture Crossing Award. His most recent album, Last Day's of Meaning, was released in 2011 under Sawhney's own label, Positiv ID.
2007 saw the release of In the Mind Of… Nitin Sawhney, the first release in District 6's new compilation series.
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