“Tamar para amar del mar”
“Tamar is to love from the sea”
About Tamar
Tamar (also known as Tamar McLeod Sinclair) is a creative voice channel, love warrior, inspirational leader, artist, musician and singer for life. When she’s not making art, teaching, dancing, practicing yoga or creating new projects, you can find her by the sea in Tamariu, La Costa Brava where she now calls home.
Born in Aotearoa (New Zealand), Tamar’s ancestral roots are from the Māori Ngāi Tahu tribe, French Polynesian royalty, Aliki (Ariki) a Galalei, and the Saint Clair family of Europe.
“Hypnotic” and “evocative” are two words frequently used to describe the voice of Tamar. Long-time music journalist Graham Reid of Elsewhere NZ defines her as “strong and flexible, romantic and effectively mysterious”.
Whether she is singing and playing the piano alone or accompanied by fellow artists, Tamar captivates her audiences with her powerful musical transmissions that are filled with wild, divine beauty. She penetrates the hearts of young and old alike with what she calls her World Soul Music.
Tamar delivers a unique alchemical experience, abundant with sacred feminine energy. She is a force of nature, expressing her life art with freedom, grace and elegance.
Listening to Tamar is both uplifting and an invitation to live the surprising “impossible” while enjoying an extraordinary journey through deep geographical, emotional, and spiritual landscapes.
About Music
As a young artist, Tamar left New Zealand’s enchanting shores with a one-way ticket to Europe and a dream to develop and explore her voice and talents. Taking inspiration from her ancestry, she has weaved threads of world and soul together, to create her own sound and musical style: World Soul Music.
Tamar was one of the first pioneering artists to combine Māori language (te reo) and songs (waiata) with jazz music. Her first EP, Karanga (The Call) – which fused these elements together – can be found in the National Library of New Zealand.
She composed, produced and recorded her first full-length album:
The Heart Notes, a double LP released on gatefold vinyl. The album was recorded across five countries in award-winning studios Sono Records in Prague, Blind Records in Barcelona, and The Exchange and Real World Studios in England. Tamar produced a second album: The Naked Sessions, a live solo album recorded at the 12th century house La Casa Murada in Tarragona.
Tamar has been invited to sing for well-known figures including:
· Former New Zealand Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Helen Clark
· Heads of all New Zealand Universities at the World Expo in Seville
· Leading scientists for the W. Pauli Convention in Monte Verita
· Arabian, Spanish, and New Zealand Embassies and Diplomats
· Contemporary dance legend and choreographer Anna Halprin
· The spiritual leader Amma (informally known as the hugging saint)
During her musical career, she has sung at the iconic Palau de La Música and Ateneu Barcelonès in Barcelona; at legendary jazz clubs such as: Jamboree Jazz Club in Barcelona, Sala Clamores in Madrid, Ronnie Scott’s in London and at the Cortona Piazza Garibaldi in Tuscany, the night that Pavarotti passed away.
She has also performed with acclaimed jazz singer Lisa Sokolov from the University of New York (Experimental Wing) at the STIMMEN (Voice) Festival in Germany and other international festivals such as the Voll-Damm Barcelona International Jazz Festival.
About Teaching
Tamar holds a Bachelor of Music from the Jazz Conservatorium of Massey University in New Zealand. In Europe, she has trained with music masters including: Peter K Elkus of LAAME in France, who was selected by Maria Callas to sing at the opening of the Juilliard School of Music, and the famously fierce gypsy singer Ida Kelarova from the International School for Human Voice in Czech Republic, first as a student and later as Ida’s assistant.
Tamar has gone well off the beaten track to find her own freedom and to develop her own unique expression of the human voice. During two decades, Tamar has mentored and taught hundreds of students, (some now successful recording artists, music club owners, singing teachers and music therapists) from many different countries, guiding them all to bring out what she calls: The Hidden Voice.
Becoming more conscious of the present global reality and actively engaging in and harmonizing our immediate environment and surrounding community, with the intention to create a new and better world, is the grand master key to the engines of Tamar’s work.
She has an innate gift to lead and facilitate large groups and travels internationally to teach masterclasses and workshops on singing, creativity and personal empowerment. Past groups she has worked with have included: Jóvenes Directivos España (Young Executives Spain) and the doctoral students, special guests and professors of the ETH of Zürich in Cortona Week.
About Spirituality & Creativity
Over many years Tamar has investigated shamanism and worked with her teacher Daan Van Kampenhout, the founder of Systemic Ritual and longtime student of Bert Hellinger, the founder of Family Constellations. She has also walked el Camino de Santiago from Lourdes, France to Cape Finisterre in Galicia, nothing less than 1200 km.
On her own artist’s way, she has met psychedelic visionary artists such as Alex and Allyson Grey at The World Psychedelic Forum for the 100th birthday celebration of Alfred Hoffmann in Basel, Switzerland.
Tamar was taught by her Aunt Rose McLeod, NZ Artist and former student of the famous New York textile artist Nancy Crow, Contemporary Patchwork. She has sold pieces commissioned for the Former NZ Consulate in Barcelona and to Private Collectors in Switzerland.
She made her debut solo show at Palau Dalmases Gallery in Barcelona in June 2023 with her exhibition: “Catch The Light”. The show was inaugurated by Señor Antonio Voltá, Former New Zealand Consul of Barcelona and recipient of the New Zealand Order of Merit for over 25 years of service.
2022 saw the birth of Tamar´s collective multi-disciplinary artistic project: The Golden Circle Festival. A celebration of creativity with international five-star quality workshops on painting, dance, singing, theatre, meditation, tai chi, conversations and concerts.
Her latest composition and musical work: Blue Magic Woman focuses on the cycle of life of water as a woman. Its´ planned release is for 2024 on Golden Circle Records, Tamar´s independent recording label.
