Alice Coltrane

Alice Coltrane
Coltrane in 1972
Born	Alice McLeod (1937-08-27)August 27, 1937 Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Died	January 12, 2007(2007-01-12) (aged 69) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Other names	Turiyasangitananda
Spouses	Kenny Hagood ​ ​ (m. 1960, divorced)​ John Coltrane ​ ​ (m. 1965; died 1967)​
Children	4, including Ravi
Family	Ernie Farrow (half brother) Flying Lotus (grand nephew)
Musical career
Genres	Jazz avant-garde jazz post-bop spiritual jazz devotional music
Instrument(s)	Piano organ harp vocals
Years active	1960–2006
Labels	Impulse! Columbia Warner Bros.
Musical artist
Website	alicecoltrane.org

Alice Lucille Coltrane (née McLeod; August 27, 1937 – January 12, 2007), also known as Swamini Turiyasangitananda (IAST: Svāminī Turīyasaṅgītānanda) or simply Turiya, was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader and Hindu spiritual leader.

An accomplished pianist and one of the few harpists in the history of jazz, Coltrane recorded many albums as a bandleader, beginning in the late 1960s and early 1970s for Impulse! and other record labels.^[1] She was married to the jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane, with whom she performed in 1966–1967.^[2] One of the foremost proponents of spiritual jazz, her eclectic music proved influential both within and outside the world of jazz.

Coltrane's career slowed from the mid 1970s as she became more dedicated to her religious education. She founded the Vedantic Center in 1975 and the Shanti Anantam ashram in California in 1983, where she served as spiritual director. On July 3, 1994, she rededicated and inaugurated the land as Sai Anantam Ashram. During the 1980s and 1990s, she recorded several albums of Hindu devotional songs before returning to spiritual jazz in the 2000s and releasing her final album Translinear Light in 2004.