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​Kalya Ramu is a published portrait artist and Jazz vocalist based in Toronto, Canada. Kalya specializes in creating close-up portraits, working predominantly with watercolours and coloured pencils. Aside
from being a full time performing musician and music teacher, Kalya
works as an illustrator for arts magazine Cannopy, where she has had her art published in and featured on the front cover of multiple issues. 
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Kalya has been working on a portrait series called "Jazz Musicians" that
she began in 2020. Merging her two passions - art and music -
Kalya has created, and continues to contribute to, a series of portraits of musicians that have been influential to her throughout her life and career as a vocalist. She offers 8.5x11" prints of these works (see "Jazz Musicians Series" page). 

Custom portrait ​commissions are currently open!
Email inquiries HERE.
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To explore Kalya's music visit 
​www.kalyaramu.ca

Photo by Calm Elliott-Armstrong.