Los Angeles-based award-winning artist who has a new album that features two GRAMMY winners and two GRAMMY nominees coming out on August 30th. In just over two weeks she will be performing at Sages and Sciences with Deepak Chopra at Harvard, and at the end of next month at The Clive Davis Theater at the GRAMMY Museum. She has previously collaborated with the likes of Prince, Enrique Iglesias, and GRAMMY-nominated producer George Landress, among others. She has performed in Europe as well as here in the U.S. at South By Southwest. Her top five songs on Spotify alone have a combined total of over 2.6 million streams.
“I am fascinated by different languages and so, for me, it’s whatever feels right in music, it's whatever feels right in the song.”
“I think that with music – and especially sacred music sometimes – we often don't talk about the spirit of what it is to fight to be who you are.”
“I don't believe that life should be lived within a construct. I really feel like the most beautiful things emerge when we just give ourselves to a process. Often we don't even know what that process is.”
“Music is full of purpose. There's a purpose in the soul to be heard and music is the most profound vehicle to do that.”
“I think oftentimes we as creatives, we kind of get it a little topsy turvy. We think we're the ones creating something; but we're not, we're simply creating the conditions around that which needs to be created.”
“I had an extremely chronic speech impediment when I was younger, actually went into my adulthood and it prohibited me from really speaking with any kind of natural rhythm… the interesting thing is I was always able to sing but I wasn't able to speak, so that really made singing my playground.”
“The world shows us that that's what success is and for me, this music… is pretty niche, if you think about it, it's not necessarily commercial radio, it's not Billboard 100 stuff. I would love for it to be but it's what gets me excited, it's what literally brings a smile on my face.”
“I can entertain you, but I'd rather bring meaning and kind of offer a way for it to be integrated and useful and practical for your day-to-day.”
“I was actually part of a support act that was at Prince’s O2 Arena tour, so I did a lot of different forms of music in my career.”
“I think when you hear music and you love it you see something of yourself in there, right? Music is a mirror and if you keep coming back to it it's because you’re seeing something that you’ve never seen before, and self-discovery is the journey of life and that's why music is the greatest and most profound tool to do that with.”
“Kali”
“Liberate (Maha Mrityunjaya)”