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 South Asian music to a cappella, Masala continues to expand the boundaries of South Asian-Western fusion. Since we started off in ’96, we’ve performed in India, at the White House, the Indian International Film Academy (IIFA) Awards, the Paris Olympics, and the group was featured in the Hollywood feature film and soundtrack for Pitch Perfect 2. To date, Penn Masala has released 12 studio albums, most recently Midnight Oil in June 2022.