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PRAKASH SLIM

Prakash Slim was born mired deep in the blues. Born in a small village in Nepal, his father died at the age of twenty nine, leaving his mother with three children to raise on her own. Slim started hearing old blues records when he was a child, and he first played music by drumming on a set of gallon water jugs, and he sing to the beat all damn day. Sometimes he almost drove his mother crazy.

Due to his difficult childhood growing up in dire poverty, Slim is died in the wool bluesman. He’s been playing and teaching blues for a long time. For over twelve years he played lead, rhythm, bass as well as vocalist for various bands through out Nepal. After completing serious blues research with the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund in Mississippi and going through blues mentorship training with blues, jazz pioneer T. J Wheeler, he totally shifted to country blues style. He servers as a member of the board associates for Mt. Zion Memorial Fund. He has been interviewed by prestigious blues publications and websites such as Blues Radio International (USA), American Blues Scene (USA),  Blues.Gr (Greece), Blues & Co magazine (France) , Down At The Crossroads( Ireland) and some others.

A major Paraguayan national daily news paper referred to him as a “Nepali Robert Johnson” and published his interview. American Blues Scene magazine mentioned Prakash as a living history of the blues and premiered his single “Blues Raga”. He was featured  as  blues educator in Central Iowa Blues society for the month of Februrary, 2020 at Where in The World : A Blues Ambassador’s Travel series. He has also featured on different radio stations,  in magazines in America, Europe, South America and in some countries. Now his music is being heard in America, UK, Australia, Canada, Brazil, Chile, Israel, Ukraine Ethiopia and in some others.

He has performed at some major international blues festivals ; Can’t Stop The Blues (USA), Crossroad Confined Countdown Festival (France), International Blues Festival of Asuncion (Paraguay), International Blues Festival of Lima (Peru), 5th Posadas Blues Festival (Argentina), 7th En El Rio Blues Festival (Argentina) etc…