Whatever your situation is as we are all navigating this new reality of a global pandemic, if you need a short break from it all then I hope this new mashup video brings some delight.g

In December 2019 I sang at the Brooklyn Raga Massive with saxophonist and composer Aakash Mittal, drummer Alex Ritz, guitarist Todd Neufeld, and vocalist Shurmi Dhar, performing original pieces composed by Aakash for his Awaz Trio.

Last weekend I caught the Broadway musical Jersey Boys, the story of the rise of the the rock and pop band known as the Four Seasons. The top notch vocals you expect from a Broadway show kept me highly engaged and every time one song ended I couldn’t wait for the next. Then I heard the line “You’re just too good to be true…”

Yesterday I caught a performance of an off-broadway play called Romeo and Bernadette, a twist on Shakespeare’s classic Romeo and Juliette. The performances were excellent, as was the music, which drew upon many Italian classic melodies. It inspired me to pull this work out of my archives and share here again, one of my remixes of an old Bollywood song that itself was inspired by a classic Italian tune, the Tarantella Napoletana. 

Share my version of one of the most popular New Year’s Eve songs in the English-speaking world, “Auld Lang Syne”, with an Indian lens. Wishing you all a joyous and prosperous year ahead. Happy New Year.

My original song, “Fortune Teller”, is inspired by the history of the resilient Romani people as a humble tribute to their experience and to the experience of all migrants today who are searching of a place to call home in the face of oppression.

Creating this piece was an intensely emotional experience, as I delved into the experiences of people fighting for important human values. From the power of historical footage, to the familiar anthems of resistance in “We Shall Overcome” and “Raghupati Raghav Rajaram”, to my poetry in rap form, this composition is my humble attempt at building bridges between people of different cultures, finding common ground between their struggles, thereby highlighting a worldview of intersectionality.

One month ago, I came across an old VHS recording of my 9-year-old self, playing the Hindi song, “Mujhe Neend Na Aye” on the keyboard and was immediately inspired to make a modern cover track.