Grammy Award winning Wouter Kellerman

Wouter Kellerman (born 20 September 1961) is a Grammy Award-winning South African flautist, producer and composer who has won seven South African Music Awards.[1] Using his classical training as a foundation, Kellerman has focused his attention on World and Roots music, exploring the versatility of the instrument and fusing classical and contemporary sounds.

Kellerman received a Grammy Award at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards[2] for his 2014 album Winds of Samsara, a collaboration with Indian composer and producer Ricky Kej. Winds of Samsara reached No. 1 on the US New Age Album Billboard Charts[3] and also peaked at No. 1 on the ZMR (Zone Music Reporter)[4] Top 100 Radio Airplay Chart in the month of July 2014.

Kellerman's Love Language (2015) received a Grammy® Nomination for 'Best Contemporary Instrumental Album', and won a SAMA for 'Best Instrumental and/or Classical Album'. It debuted at nr. 1 on the World Music Billboard charts in July 2015. This album also featured at No. 1 on the ZMR Top 100 International Radio Airplay Chart in August 2015, and spent 11 weeks in the CMJ New World Top 40 Chart, peaking at nr. 12.

His next adventure was a collaboration with the Soweto Gospel Choir, Symphonic Soweto – A Tribute to Nelson Mandela.The album sees the two Grammy® winners re-conceptualise traditional music, freedom songs (including Mandela favourite and popular songs by South African legends (including Brenda Fassie, Lucky Dube and Miriam Makeba), from a symphonic and choral perspective – as part of honouring Nelson Mandela in the year he would have celebrated his 100th birthday. Symphonic Soweto won the 2018 SAMA for Best Adult Contemporary Album - Kellerman's seventh SAMA recognition. From Symphonic Soweto, Kellerman's collaborative composition 

PANGAEA by Wouter Kellerman and David Arkenstone | Album Review by Dyan Garris, New Age CD, New Age Notes Radio, and Zon

David, performing mainly on guitar and keyboards, and Wouter performing mainly on various flutes, are joined on “Pangaea” by a host of stellar talent in additional instrumentation, production, arrangements, and ethereal vocals, including vocalists Seay, Aeone, and even Mbuso Khoza..