Penn Masala

Penn Masala, comprised of students from the University of Pennsylvania, is the world’s first and premier South Asian a cappella group, founded in 1996 with the desire to create music that traversed traditional cultural boundaries and captured the experience of growing up with both Eastern and Western cultures. As the first group in the world to bring the sounds of the Indian subcontinent to a cappella, Masala has consistently been at the forefront of South Asian-Western fusion ever since. Since we started off in ’96, we’ve performed in India, at the White House, the Indian International Film Academy (IIFA) Awards, and the group was featured in the Hollywood feature film and soundtrack for Pitch Perfect 2. To date, Penn Masala has released 11 studio albums, most recently Musafir in February 2020.