Music maestro Nitin Sawhney has been active in events supporting the Make Trade Fair and Make Poverty History campaigns.

Nitin Sawhney is The Man. Aside from being an award-winning musician, he has scripted and performed in the sitcom ‘Goodness Gracious Me’, helped produce the world-renowned circus show ‘Cirque de Soleil’, mixed for Sting, written film scores and lectured for Open University. Blimey. No wonder The Guardian said: “It would be easier to jot down what this man can’t do, than what he can.”

As if that wasn’t enough, he’s also managed to find time to support Oxfam’s campaigns. Nitin was one of the celebs involved in the Make Trade Fair photo shoot, where he was unceremoniously covered in peanuts. He headlined the launch of ‘Friction’, a new ‘conscious clubbing’ night in London, with a zany mix of acoustic guitar and drum n’ bass. And he will be teaming up with Bobby Friction again for a special Trade Justice club night at the Marquee in Leicester Square during the Trade Justice Vigil on 16 April.

Nitin, whose work uniquely melds British and Asian musical cultures, is a great believer in the power of music to create change in society. In an interview with Radio 3 he said: “I get very excited when I see music that’s made not so much on the basis of commercialism but much more on the basis of expression. That music is the music that will change the world.”