New Zealand-born singer Anna Rugis has been singing since childhood. She gained a broad range of professional experience through her career as a session musician in New Zealand and Great Britain and has toured the U.S. with artists such as Cat Stevens, the Kinks, and Van Morrison. She met her husband, John (the production manager and sound engineer for Bill Graham/FM Productions in San Francisco), while working for Van Morrison.
They left the music business and returned to New Zealand to live and raise a family. There they met their spiritual teacher, Naqshabandi Sufi Shaikh...