Born in 1946 in Bombay, India of Parsi Zoroastrian parentage, Shireen Isal completed her schooling, graduation and post graduate degrees in French followed by work experience as secretary in charge of French cultural affairs at the Alliance Francaise in Bombay before leaving for Paris, France in 1974, to join her husband, Dr. Jean-Pierre Isal.

After an initial stint as cultural assistant at the Embassy of India in Paris, she set up Association Sargam, whose mission is to present India's finest performing artists, thereby meeting its objective of creating a greater awareness in the west of India's cultural heritage. Since 1979, over a hundred tours of classical musicians and dancers have been organised in numerous European countries. They have performed, taught and recorded their art through a total of five hundred events.

Since the last twenty five years, Shireen thus strives to be that link between India and Europe by offering all parties the ideal conditions for the propagation of a rich and divine art.