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July 9, 2026 — “Sammy Chand interviews Raja Kumari” · The Bridge by Sammy Chand

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  Speaker 1: South Asian music and culture can be.
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  Speaker 2: Found around the world.
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  Speaker 3: Best and presented here for you on Rugus Avenue Radio.
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  Speaker 1: Why did actually comind you listening The Bridge only on
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  Speaker 1: Ruckus Avenue Radio.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to the Bridge with Tammy John.
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  Speaker 5: Hello, as let's say called this is and you're listening
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  Speaker 5: to The Bridge hosted by my.
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  Speaker 1: Dear Sami Chan on Ruckus Avenue Radio. Tada, what up?
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  Speaker 1: Come in love and direct to you from Los Angeles, California.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Sammy John, and welcome everybody to a
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  Speaker 1: July ninth edition of The Bridge. Certifiably the most entertaining
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  Speaker 1: hour in all of South Asian music and culture is
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  Speaker 1: coming at you here over this next fifty nine minutes.
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  Speaker 1: We've had a fabulous week on this show and we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna put a cherry on top today. We were joined
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  Speaker 1: on Monday by Calcutta Cowboy. On Tuesday we were joined
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  Speaker 1: by India Consul General of Los Angeles, doctor kJ Srini Vasa,
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  Speaker 1: and yesterday we were joined by schel Mali Golgare, great
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  Speaker 1: Bollywood singer, great vocalist, great artist out there. And today
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  Speaker 1: we'll be joined by Raja Kumari really excited about this conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Raja is somebody I've been watching here from Los Angeles
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  Speaker 1: for a good part of my thirty years in the business,
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  Speaker 1: and she has evolved into a plane that is wide
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  Speaker 1: open because she is able to touch base with both
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  Speaker 1: sides of the industry, the Indian side and of course
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  Speaker 1: the American side. She has accomplished evenly on both sides
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  Speaker 1: of the industry and because of that, she has really
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  Speaker 1: afforded herself an amazing career out there. And we'll pull
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  Speaker 1: her into this episode today and touch base with her
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  Speaker 1: and see what she's got to share about her story.
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  Speaker 1: We're excited. We'll be joined by the Ruckus Avenue Radio
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  Speaker 1: All Stars, as we do every day. We'll be joined
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  Speaker 1: by Ashi Aurora. She gives you a preview of her
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  Speaker 1: Sunday show. Here's Grinder Gil just mean up there.
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  Speaker 1: start off our Thursday episode. Folks will also be joined
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  Speaker 1: today by d J Get. She's gonna bring you her
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  Speaker 1: He's got a brand new song and the Bollywood soundtrack
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  Speaker 1: out there. She did an excellent job of not only
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  Speaker 1: presenting the song but then engaging the community out there
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  Speaker 1: with it. Wonderful stuff. Lots of great dance videos out there. Now,
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  Speaker 1: let's bring in doctor Roy to this party. How are
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  Speaker 1: you doctor Roy?
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  Speaker 2: Hey guys, this is doctor Roy with Today's word on Avenue.
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  Speaker 15: In film and TV news, Renversing is taking thround their
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  Speaker 15: theatrical release in July tenth. Ahead of the premiere, the
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  Speaker 15: continues its international box office journey. In media news, Indian
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  Speaker 15: origin songwriter Savin Kotea has spent the last two decades
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  Speaker 15: shaping global pop penning chart topping hits for some of
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  Speaker 15: the world's biggest artists, while remaining one of the injudestry's
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  Speaker 2: Now, the Grammy and Oscar nominated.
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  Speaker 2: That's it for today's word on the avenue. Until next time,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Roy and in talking about extraordinary talent and vision,
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  Speaker 1: We'll be joined today by Raja Kumari with an exclusive
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  Speaker 1: interview here very shortly hang back for that.
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  Speaker 1: Now let's turn it over to Ashi Aurora. She gives
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  Speaker 6: Thanks Sammy.
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  Speaker 17: This week we dive into the world of accounting to
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  Speaker 17: this Sunday at four pm Pacific Standard time as we
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  Speaker 2: Back to you, Sammy, Thank.
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  Speaker 1: You so much. Ashi, looking forward to that conversation this
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  Speaker 1: Sunday right here on the signal on Ruckus Avenue Radio
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  Speaker 1: Incredible work right there a Didjit sing teaming up with
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  Speaker 1: Shash what sucks there with one of the top songs
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  Speaker 1: And as we get ready to interview Raja Kumari right
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  Speaker 1: here on this show, I wanted to invite in DJ
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  Speaker 1: Geet to the episode. She brings you her song of
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  Speaker 1: the week. What's up, DJ Geat.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you Sammy. Hi everyone, this is DJ gat and
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  Speaker 2: today we're.
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  Speaker 19: Spotlighting a brand new release from Amy Brick and Guccit
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  Speaker 19: Gil called low You. What I really love about this
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  Speaker 19: in the production and even that afrobeat style bounce that
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  Speaker 19: makes the song feel fresh without losing the heart of it.
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  Speaker 19: The chorus got to me right away. It has this
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  Speaker 19: very smooth catchiness to it, the kind of hook that
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  Speaker 19: has you moving and dancing before you even realize it.
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  Speaker 19: And the echo section is honestly one of my favorite parts.
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  Speaker 19: It adds such a nice texture and layer, like the
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  Speaker 19: song opens up for a second and pulls you in
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  Speaker 19: even deeper.
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  Speaker 2: The song still.
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  Speaker 19: Has that classic Amivik softness and romance, but the beat
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  Speaker 19: makes it so groovy, so it's not just a love
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  Speaker 19: song you're listening to. It's when you actually feel throughout
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  Speaker 19: your body. And with Emmy Wilk bringing the Unity Tour
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  Speaker 19: up for that live show energy, So let's get into it.
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  Speaker 4: Back to you, Sammy, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: DJ Get, thank you very much for stopping by here.
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  Speaker 1: The song is called lost in you emilk. Everybody. We're
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  Speaker 1: getting ready to bring in Raja Kumari into this episode,
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  Speaker 1: someone we've been following the story of here for a
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  Speaker 1: good part of over two decades. Really excited to talk
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  Speaker 1: to her, and she, of course has accomplished some amazing
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  Speaker 1: things on both sides of the ocean, out in India
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  Speaker 1: and of course over here in North America. So stand
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  Speaker 1: by for Raja Kumari. This is Ali setti.
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  Speaker 21: Aga, Lama may Awamba Puri, parnas only Aya, the Labangu Bagata, Karyakaga,
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  Speaker 6: Yodi Juri Rabba Baba.
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  Speaker 1: No, Okay, Ladies and gentlemen, here she is. How are you, miss,
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  Speaker 1: Roger Kumari.
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  Speaker 12: Oh I'm doing incredible. How are you doing, Sammy? It's
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  Speaker 12: nice to speak to you all the.
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  Speaker 4: Way from Mumbai.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, how's the scene over there? It's what monsoon season
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  Speaker 1: sometime now, isn't it?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, it's finally monsters season. We've been praying for it.
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  Speaker 12: Nothing was breaking the heat, but now we are quite
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  Speaker 12: flooded over here.
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  Speaker 4: But it is a beautiful time to be in India
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  Speaker 4: and you know, just to it.
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  Speaker 12: Lets you slow down, which is crazy in this place.
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  Speaker 4: So I appreciate you.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's cool, very cool.
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  Speaker 8: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna start by throwing a different question at
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  Speaker 1: you that maybe outside of music a little bit and
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  Speaker 1: through some of your social media stuff there, I had
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  Speaker 1: picked up that and I did a fair bit of
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  Speaker 1: research coming into this conversation, but nothing stuck out to
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  Speaker 1: me quite like this new archery thing you got going
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  Speaker 1: on listen, tell us about this. How did you fall
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  Speaker 1: in love with this? And it seems like you've you've
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  Speaker 1: kept it going.
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  Speaker 12: Oh yeah, I got the tattoo and everything. Now I'm
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  Speaker 12: really an archer, you know.
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  Speaker 4: I think there's like a.
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  Speaker 12: Pipeline directly from Barthonachim dancers to archery, and I like
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  Speaker 12: really encourage anybody that like learn berthonotcham to go do it.
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  Speaker 12: And it's actually then archery. So it has a lot
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  Speaker 12: to do with the control of your breath and you
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  Speaker 12: have to really clear your mind. So it's like meditation
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  Speaker 12: with your eyes open, and I really love it. Like
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  Speaker 12: I think in my life, I've always, you know, gone
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  Speaker 12: through different relationships with my body image and what people
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  Speaker 12: felt about my body image and a lot of times
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  Speaker 12: and maybe I would have gone into like a weight
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  Speaker 12: loss thing with like maybe disdain towards myself, but I
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  Speaker 12: feel like this whole journey with archery, it's like it's
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  Speaker 12: so fun and it makes me feel like I'm living
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  Speaker 12: in the Mahabara and it's like everything.
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  Speaker 4: I've ever wanted to like be, and you know, it's
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  Speaker 4: just been.
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  Speaker 12: Working so well for my body that I'm just happy
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  Speaker 12: to go every day and it's such a great vibe
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  Speaker 12: and I wish more people would do it. And I'm
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  Speaker 12: hoping to build a shop Pisena and get all the
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  Speaker 12: ladies together and let them understand how powerful they can feel.
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  Speaker 12: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, that's so awesome connecting bart not Tiam for
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  Speaker 1: all those folks that are learning about your story here.
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  Speaker 1: You grew up, of course, in southern California with a
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  Speaker 1: very distinct Southern Indian classical dance form that we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about here, and while most kids around you, or most
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  Speaker 1: folks around you were probably into like American pop here
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  Speaker 1: you were, you know, really focused on what is a
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  Speaker 1: very distinct art form there. But it forced you to
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  Speaker 1: kind of hang on very closely to your classical roots.
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  Speaker 1: It's a decision that I think ultimately ended up defining
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  Speaker 1: your career because because of that, I think it stretched
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  Speaker 1: the bookends really wide for you as far as what
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  Speaker 1: you can engage in. Here we are talking about archery,
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  Speaker 1: and of course now let's connect it to your music.
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  Speaker 1: It to me was a defining factor of how you
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  Speaker 1: became such a successful musician. Tell us about that.
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: Wow, those you know. I sometimes I think about, like
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: who would I.
• 32:18
  Speaker 12: Be if I had not learned classical dance, And it
• 32:21
  Speaker 12: was so early in my life that it is the
• 32:24
  Speaker 12: formative experience, you know, And I always tell people, you know,
• 32:28
  Speaker 12: growing up in America, you would expect that I would
• 32:30
  Speaker 12: be fascinated by Superman and Batman and Spider Man, but like,
• 32:33
  Speaker 12: nothing could engage me more than.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: Like Anuman and like ourgin and character, you know.
• 32:40
  Speaker 12: And it's like I just would see so many similarities,
• 32:42
  Speaker 12: like if I was watching stories or reading like the Odyssey,
• 32:46
  Speaker 12: or like you know, just understanding I'd always refer back to.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: Like our great civilization in my mind, you know.
• 32:51
  Speaker 12: And I think being able to go and actually dance
• 32:55
  Speaker 12: as a young child and tour India and like perform
• 32:58
  Speaker 12: in temples and be.
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  Speaker 4: So connected to the culture. When I would come back
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: to America.
• 33:03
  Speaker 12: And I would say, like, I'm from India, like growing up,
• 33:05
  Speaker 12: most people wouldn't even know where it was on the
• 33:07
  Speaker 12: map at that time, or they would ask us, you know,
• 33:09
  Speaker 12: like what tribe are you? You know, So I always
• 33:11
  Speaker 12: had beef with Columbus, for sure, house I would a
• 33:14
  Speaker 12: beef with him. But I think that when it came
• 33:17
  Speaker 12: time to express myself for music, because classical dance was
• 33:22
  Speaker 12: essentially something that like, you know, my mom wanted to
• 33:24
  Speaker 12: be a dancer, and she didn't have the you know,
• 33:27
  Speaker 12: means to do it because you know, quite a expensive habit.
• 33:30
  Speaker 12: You know, you have to do the costumes and the
• 33:32
  Speaker 12: performances and the orchestra. And I think my mom didn't
• 33:35
  Speaker 12: grow up that way, so she was really focused in
• 33:37
  Speaker 12: making sure I was like a vessel of culture and
• 33:39
  Speaker 12: understanding it. But music for me was like my first
• 33:43
  Speaker 12: unique expression. It was outside of what my family wanted
• 33:47
  Speaker 12: me to do.
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: It was so different.
• 33:48
  Speaker 12: It was more of like my American expression. But I
• 33:51
  Speaker 12: think it was born out of this idea that I
• 33:54
  Speaker 12: wanted the West to see what I thought as so
• 33:56
  Speaker 12: beautiful in India, you know, like the culture, the colors,
• 34:00
  Speaker 12: the rhythms, and I think like the Kona GOLs and
• 34:02
  Speaker 12: thals have always been integral part of the music. And
• 34:05
  Speaker 12: I think the reason even I leaned into rap is
• 34:08
  Speaker 12: because classical dance is so rhythmic, you know, and it
• 34:11
  Speaker 12: has so many detailed rhythms that I was already trained,
• 34:15
  Speaker 12: you know, to play with the beats. And you know,
• 34:18
  Speaker 12: people now, if you listen to an artist like Kendrick Lamar,
• 34:20
  Speaker 12: I'm always like, do you understand you're in fish? Does
• 34:23
  Speaker 12: he hear himself? He's like, perfectly, you're slipping into the
• 34:26
  Speaker 12: corna goals. So there was something universal, and I think
• 34:29
  Speaker 12: that I felt that that would be the bridge to
• 34:31
  Speaker 12: be myself in a space that didn't even know how
• 34:34
  Speaker 12: to really understand me. And I think that that's always
• 34:37
  Speaker 12: been a big part of why I've worn the culture.
• 34:41
  Speaker 12: Some people, you know, would think, maybe I'm you know,
• 34:43
  Speaker 12: is it a costume? But it was like it was
• 34:45
  Speaker 12: like pride. It was like armor, I felt, and I
• 34:48
  Speaker 12: think Rajah Kumari because.
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: Obviously I'm Safa Yella Pregatorao.
• 34:52
  Speaker 12: You know, I'm a classical dancer and I studied religion
• 34:55
  Speaker 12: in college. But Rajak Kumari is a vessel of baby.
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: You know, she was like a.
• 35:00
  Speaker 12: Modern Davy in the Caliuge, so I would imagine her
• 35:03
  Speaker 12: with like on a chariot of fire, you know. So
• 35:06
  Speaker 12: I think that that really helped me kind of face
• 35:09
  Speaker 12: the world and really be able to be you know,
• 35:12
  Speaker 12: this projection of Davy because the first thing I ever
• 35:15
  Speaker 12: did was my Shastra Mardini, so you couldn't tell us
• 35:18
  Speaker 12: it's the first vision of feminine to a six year
• 35:20
  Speaker 12: old child.
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: Is a demon playing goddess.
• 35:22
  Speaker 12: You know, it's only inevitable that you would turn Kumari
• 35:25
  Speaker 12: into a demon playing goddess as well.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: You know, beautiful stuff there, really very cool. I mean,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm going to go into the story of
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: you as the songwriter, which is really an interesting part
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: of your story. I don't want to say one became
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: the other because you know, I know that they both
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: existed at the same time and they became successful in
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: their own way, and perhaps two different parallel lanes let's
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: just call it. But the two different skills draw on
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: completely different muscles. And for those people that aren't so
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: familiar with the art form, you know, songwriters serve someone
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: else's voice, if you will, the artist is the voice
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: right when you're writing for another artist versus writing for yourself,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: because you have to do both of those things. What's
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: actually different in those two rooms? And what and what
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: did being a songwriter teach you that most artists never
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: learn because they never get to be that right. They
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: may have a songwriter like you come in and do
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: this work, But what is it while you're sitting there?
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: And I guess it's the second question? What is it
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: while you're sitting there you're thinking to yourself, Man, they
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: never got to learn this about this aspect of being
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: an artist. What are those things?
• 36:41
  Speaker 12: Well? You know, I think I approach songwriting quite like collaborative,
• 36:45
  Speaker 12: you know, And I think of my rule and I
• 36:48
  Speaker 12: think it helps keep you humble to songwriting because you
• 36:52
  Speaker 12: go in there with the perspective that there's something inside
• 36:55
  Speaker 12: of them that they need to express and me being
• 36:58
  Speaker 12: in the room is going to help them express it.
• 37:00
  Speaker 12: And I think I really learned that a lot like
• 37:02
  Speaker 12: when I worked with Gwen Stefani. That was like one
• 37:04
  Speaker 12: of the larger songwriting projects, like before I went into
• 37:08
  Speaker 12: my artist career, and she had just gone through like
• 37:10
  Speaker 12: a pretty public divorce, you know, and it was quite
• 37:14
  Speaker 12: you know, jarring. You know, it was very cliche. The
• 37:17
  Speaker 12: husband left her for the nanny. It was quite ridiculous.
• 37:20
  Speaker 12: And she would come into the studio and it was
• 37:22
  Speaker 12: just me, Justin Tranter and JR. Rohade them, and you know,
• 37:25
  Speaker 12: I had done a lot of work as a songwriter
• 37:27
  Speaker 12: to even like get into that room, you know, by
• 37:29
  Speaker 12: being able to be observant and actually be of service.
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: I think that that was like a really.
• 37:34
  Speaker 12: Important time for me to be to get out of
• 37:37
  Speaker 12: the way, you know. But when I would be doing
• 37:40
  Speaker 12: these songwriting things, you know, I would try to help them,
• 37:42
  Speaker 12: Like we would pick she would bring her journal, we'd
• 37:44
  Speaker 12: pick out like one sentence that like really was deep
• 37:47
  Speaker 12: that we all connected with, and we'd.
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: Build the song around that. And you know, there was
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: a lot of.
• 37:51
  Speaker 12: Interesting experiences, you know, growing up on Gwen Stefani and
• 37:54
  Speaker 12: like obviously her voice having influence in mind, and then
• 37:57
  Speaker 12: being the person that writes with her, does the demo
• 38:00
  Speaker 12: and then when I hear her recording, I almost hear
• 38:02
  Speaker 12: my voice in her. It was such an insane experience,
• 38:05
  Speaker 12: you know, to just be part of that circle. But
• 38:08
  Speaker 12: in the process of songwriting, what I would discover is
• 38:10
  Speaker 12: there were things that were for others, and there were
• 38:13
  Speaker 12: certain things that only my voice would carry, you know,
• 38:15
  Speaker 12: that I could be really authentic in and that kind
• 38:18
  Speaker 12: of helped me develop what was uniquely me. And in
• 38:22
  Speaker 12: that question of like, you know, if people don't participate
• 38:24
  Speaker 12: in songwriting, I actually encourage everyone, you know, Like my
• 38:28
  Speaker 12: goal in the last ten years, I've been releasing music
• 38:31
  Speaker 12: for myself, but one of my main goals, and I
• 38:32
  Speaker 12: think a lot of people know this is like mentorship
• 38:35
  Speaker 12: and creating an infrastructure for musical education, you know in India,
• 38:38
  Speaker 12: because I had a lot of access by being in
• 38:41
  Speaker 12: Los Angeles to the music scene, you know, to collaborations
• 38:45
  Speaker 12: with Grammy Award winners when I had nothing, you know,
• 38:47
  Speaker 12: just to write with them, just to be in the
• 38:49
  Speaker 12: room and learn from Timberland, you know. So I think
• 38:52
  Speaker 12: like that kind of my goal is to teach people
• 38:55
  Speaker 12: these songwriting things that I learned when I went to
• 38:57
  Speaker 12: Finland for a songwriting camp. You know, you just you
• 39:00
  Speaker 12: learn something from everyone as long as you keep your
• 39:03
  Speaker 12: ego down. And I think that we have to be
• 39:05
  Speaker 12: in service of the song.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 39:07
  Speaker 12: We used to always say, like the song is almost
• 39:09
  Speaker 12: written and it's just our job to hear or hear
• 39:11
  Speaker 12: the parts that are specifically for us to hear in
• 39:13
  Speaker 12: the room. But it's a collaborative, you know, it be collaborative,
• 39:17
  Speaker 12: you know, like because once it's right, everybody in the
• 39:19
  Speaker 12: room that's musical, there's a sensor that goes off that
• 39:21
  Speaker 12: says it's finally correct.
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 39:24
  Speaker 12: So there's something in that, you know, so I try
• 39:26
  Speaker 12: to dig in that. And I guess why I encourage
• 39:28
  Speaker 12: people to be songwriters is because when.
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: You do your own music, you can always take a
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: great song. You know.
• 39:34
  Speaker 12: I wouldn't I wouldn't say not to do that, because
• 39:37
  Speaker 12: then I'd be out of business as a songwriter.
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: You know, take a great song, but it should connect with.
• 39:42
  Speaker 12: You in a way because when you go on stage,
• 39:45
  Speaker 12: you know, you become a conduit for energy, and people
• 39:51
  Speaker 12: are not necessarily looking at you in your human form.
• 39:53
  Speaker 12: They're looking at you and your god form, you know,
• 39:54
  Speaker 12: like you projected this thing.
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: You know, I look at music, you know. I think
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: about the role of art in our lives and our culture,
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: you know, And I.
• 40:04
  Speaker 12: Always every album, I usually say I offer this on
• 40:06
  Speaker 12: the Ultra of Stars Withia, and I truly do.
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: I truly do, because we don't know the effects of
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: our music.
• 40:14
  Speaker 12: And I think collaboration is key because if two people
• 40:17
  Speaker 12: can agree that a lyric moves them, then you have
• 40:20
  Speaker 12: a better chance that millions of people will agree. And
• 40:22
  Speaker 12: that's really been my kind of ethos with making the music.
• 40:27
  Speaker 12: Like I've never been obsessed.
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: With like me being the only writer.
• 40:30
  Speaker 12: I've always participated in the writing, for sure, but I
• 40:33
  Speaker 12: think if there's incredible musicians around you that can like
• 40:37
  Speaker 12: maybe get you out of your mindset, we have to
• 40:39
  Speaker 12: keep reinventing ourselves. So without collaboration, you can get stuck
• 40:43
  Speaker 12: in one version of yourself, you know. So it's really important.
• 40:47
  Speaker 12: And I think ar ram One kind of taught me
• 40:50
  Speaker 12: this quite young because I would get around him, and
• 40:52
  Speaker 12: every time I was around him, I would just be like,
• 40:54
  Speaker 12: this is what's going on in music, and I would
• 40:56
  Speaker 12: just play him the most random diaspora artists and just
• 41:00
  Speaker 12: to put him on too, like whatever I thought was
• 41:02
  Speaker 12: interesting and I noticed that he always works with young artists.
• 41:06
  Speaker 12: It doesn't even matter if you've had like cuts, He'll
• 41:09
  Speaker 12: give you cuts, you know, And I think that that's
• 41:11
  Speaker 12: kept you relevant over the decades.
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: And I have adopted that as well.
• 41:16
  Speaker 12: I'm like, I want to know, you know, who is
• 41:20
  Speaker 12: really working on it, you know, like who's writing at home,
• 41:22
  Speaker 12: who has that incredible touch with like that, you know,
• 41:26
  Speaker 12: with the depths of it, because I do believe we
• 41:28
  Speaker 12: have gone for a long time with superficial things, and
• 41:32
  Speaker 12: I think the pendulum will swing and art will prevail.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: You know. Let's talk about the intersection of these two industries.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: I hear you talk through this last answer and touch
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: on these two worlds. They're very interesting, two distinct worlds
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: that you're engaged in. But you also come at it
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: from a very interesting perspective. You are from both sides
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: of the world. What would you say right now as
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: you look at how much movement is occurring in this
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: kind of intersection, you know, what would what are the
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: two things? I guess one the first part of the
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: question is, you know, what's the shift that everybody is
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: paying attention to that everybody's like, oh, this is what
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: we are seeing happening between these two worlds. But by
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: being from these two worlds, what are you looking at?
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: You're saying, man, this is way overhyped. We should not
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: be doing this, and everybody's you know, running towards this.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: This is it the collaboration?
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: Is it?
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: The star studded collaboration?
• 42:36
  Speaker 7: Like, what is it?
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: What is it that people are looking at from a
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: good idea and what's happening between these two worlds and
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: then a big misconception that is out there.
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: Wow, that's a you know what. I'm like uniquely.
• 42:50
  Speaker 12: Like suited answer to this question because I feel like
• 42:53
  Speaker 12: I've had to like get into the trenches on both
• 42:55
  Speaker 12: sides to kind of figure out the mentality right. And
• 42:58
  Speaker 12: I think in the West I would say, like I
• 43:02
  Speaker 12: used to always tell people, in the West, I fight
• 43:03
  Speaker 12: racism and in the East I fight patriarchy, Like those
• 43:06
  Speaker 12: are the first like factors. But in the West side,
• 43:10
  Speaker 12: I think that we fall, you know, when we try
• 43:13
  Speaker 12: to engage with major labels or major mainstream spaces. I
• 43:16
  Speaker 12: think we fall into being exauicized or like put into
• 43:18
  Speaker 12: certain boxes that are palatable to the West, which I
• 43:21
  Speaker 12: feel like I've always kind of tried to push against
• 43:24
  Speaker 12: in different ways.
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: Some of my like some of my battles are silent.
• 43:28
  Speaker 12: I never told people, but like, you know, I used
• 43:30
  Speaker 12: to face things from the labels when they would say
• 43:33
  Speaker 12: like Indian girls don't wrap, or like if you don't
• 43:35
  Speaker 12: wear the bindi. If you wear the bindi, it alienates people.
• 43:38
  Speaker 12: If you don't wear the Bindi will give you a budget.
• 43:41
  Speaker 12: And fast forward ten years later and you're seeing articles
• 43:44
  Speaker 12: about like Bendi's and Bengals and.
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: You know, like you know, and I know that like
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: it was yeah, and it was the groundwork was late,
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: and I.
• 43:51
  Speaker 12: Mean, I mean you understand you laid the groundwork, you know,
• 43:54
  Speaker 12: like two decades before. Like I remember getting the Karmacy
• 43:58
  Speaker 12: album and just being like, how do I, you know,
• 44:00
  Speaker 12: intersect these worlds. So I know you have been paying
• 44:02
  Speaker 12: attention to this as well for time. But I think
• 44:05
  Speaker 12: the West exoticizes us and if you, you know, fall
• 44:08
  Speaker 12: into that, you might be platformed. And there's nothing wrong
• 44:11
  Speaker 12: with that because we're not a monolith, right, so we
• 44:13
  Speaker 12: should platform things that are of quality.
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: From the Indian side and maybe in the diaspora a bit.
• 44:19
  Speaker 12: I would just say that we do fall into this well,
• 44:24
  Speaker 12: India does chase the West, And I keep telling them,
• 44:26
  Speaker 12: you guys are looking to the west and they're looking
• 44:28
  Speaker 12: to us, and you just need to turn around and
• 44:29
  Speaker 12: look at yourself, because you know, they want where they
• 44:33
  Speaker 12: want the dukas and it's not it doesn't just end
• 44:35
  Speaker 12: with the fashion, you know, and now the culture and.
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: Yoga is not even what yoga began as.
• 44:41
  Speaker 12: And you know, we are at risk of losing the
• 44:43
  Speaker 12: connection to our culture if we're not the authors of
• 44:46
  Speaker 12: the conversation, you know, so it really is important that
• 44:49
  Speaker 12: we stay grounded in it. But I would say that
• 44:52
  Speaker 12: India does fall like kind of victim to if one
• 44:55
  Speaker 12: thing works, then less copy paste, and I think the
• 44:58
  Speaker 12: diaspora may in some ways, you know, fall victim to
• 45:01
  Speaker 12: that as well. But then there's these moments of just innovation,
• 45:05
  Speaker 12: you know, that comes, and that's what I encourage. I
• 45:08
  Speaker 12: think that we should platform innovation and just very I
• 45:14
  Speaker 12: want to see art for the sake of being art,
• 45:16
  Speaker 12: you know, I want to see us really express what
• 45:18
  Speaker 12: it felt like to grow up in these places, or
• 45:20
  Speaker 12: what does our culture feel like after partition, or you know,
• 45:24
  Speaker 12: what does it feel like to be a second generation
• 45:26
  Speaker 12: far away from the motherland, like those conversations are really
• 45:29
  Speaker 12: interesting to me, you know. So that's what I'm looking
• 45:31
  Speaker 12: for as an artist. But I do believe that the
• 45:34
  Speaker 12: West is obviously thinking that we're not paying attention and
• 45:37
  Speaker 12: they're just copying our notes, and you know, the East
• 45:40
  Speaker 12: is trying to start into the West, and before we
• 45:42
  Speaker 12: know it will all be AI songs. So I just
• 45:44
  Speaker 12: encourage everyone to learn an instrument, learn classical arts, even
• 45:48
  Speaker 12: if you won't continue it. We need more doctors that
• 45:51
  Speaker 12: love Karnatic music, you know. We need people in our
• 45:53
  Speaker 12: culture to keep caring about the thing that made us
• 45:57
  Speaker 12: the light of the world for thousands of years, Like
• 45:59
  Speaker 12: why would.
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: Sell it even looking for us?
• 46:01
  Speaker 12: You know, so I don't want to lose that in
• 46:03
  Speaker 12: this globalization. You know, that's my that's my fears.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: As I was digging around formulating a conversation with you today,
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: I kept coming across a word. The word was fusion.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: I kept seeing it in some sort of form of
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: your description, And about the second or third time I
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: saw it, I was like, I don't think this captures
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: who she is. And it got me thinking. I was like,
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: all right, well, all right, if it's fusion, is condensing
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: down these things I don't think she's compromising here. And
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: so my question to you is this, what's the word
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: you would use? Is there a word we should be
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: using as a different story, right, but for the sake
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: of this conversation, you know, what is the word you
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: would use instead of fusion? Or is fusion good with you?
• 46:53
  Speaker 12: No? You know, that's a great question, I say. I'm
• 46:56
  Speaker 12: like smiling, and I'm like, wow, great question. I understand
• 46:59
  Speaker 12: why people would say fusion, you know. And sometimes we
• 47:02
  Speaker 12: have to tend to like dumb down what we're creating
• 47:04
  Speaker 12: so people can have an entry point to understand that
• 47:07
  Speaker 12: two cultures are coming together. But now, after all the
• 47:10
  Speaker 12: study I've done in my art, like you know, making
• 47:13
  Speaker 12: my new album and really reviewing everything I've created, I
• 47:16
  Speaker 12: would now say it's integrated, you know, like I am
• 47:20
  Speaker 12: when I am rapping in English or talking about something
• 47:23
  Speaker 12: that might be a Western lens, it really truly is.
• 47:26
  Speaker 12: And now that I've spent the time to live in
• 47:28
  Speaker 12: India the last eight years, it was always my dream
• 47:30
  Speaker 12: ever since I watched Swabesh, I was like, how well
• 47:33
  Speaker 12: I live in India one day? You know, I've learned
• 47:35
  Speaker 12: a lot about myself here and I think that the
• 47:37
  Speaker 12: music comes from a very integrated space. I am definitely
• 47:41
  Speaker 12: not compromising like on the last project, I do sunscripts
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  Speaker 12: like hip hop album.
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  Speaker 4: Oh Kashi the kailas right, And you.
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  Speaker 12: Know, we had eto eights and drums and everything that
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  Speaker 12: I would naturally put in my music. But then I
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  Speaker 12: really got Punari dol players, female Punari dole players to
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  Speaker 12: come and we recorded it at Yrs Studios, and you know,
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  Speaker 12: we really put in the energy to make sure the
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  Speaker 12: vibrations were there. So definitely fusion was I guess the
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  Speaker 12: entry point. That's how I thought Aar Rahiman was a
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  Speaker 12: fusion artist. But he's so beyond that. So I mean,
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  Speaker 12: I'm happy that you can see past that.
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  Speaker 4: But I guess.
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  Speaker 12: Integrated, integrated on the bridge from the West back to
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  Speaker 12: the east, from ancient to the future.
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  Speaker 1: You know good, it's good stuff. Last question for you
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  Speaker 1: before we let you go. This conversation has delightfully gone
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: longer than usual for me, and but we'll keep this
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  Speaker 1: tape rolling, of course. Last question for you, sis, there
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  Speaker 1: is a young girl here somewhere in southern California that
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: is looking at you. The blueprint as far as a
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: way to get to the heights of the business. There's
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: a way now that you've given folks right, what is?
• 48:53
  Speaker 14: What is?
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: What is the advice you would give them?
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  Speaker 12: Oh, I would tell her to be auten, to find
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  Speaker 12: the thing about you that is special, the thing that
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  Speaker 12: you love, and hold on to that because people will
• 49:06
  Speaker 12: always have an opinion of how you should do it.
• 49:10
  Speaker 12: But cool is relative, you know, cool keeps changing. When
• 49:14
  Speaker 12: you just are who you are and you stand in it,
• 49:17
  Speaker 12: people are meant to pay attention. And as long as
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  Speaker 12: your pen is mightier than the sword, as long as
• 49:23
  Speaker 12: you write your work, you work on your craft, you
• 49:25
  Speaker 12: really dedicate yourself to the craft because it's holy, then
• 49:29
  Speaker 12: you will find your way. And manifestation is real. You
• 49:33
  Speaker 12: just must have the audacity to believe in yourself.
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  Speaker 1: That is awesome. On that note, Sis, thanks so much
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  Speaker 1: for hanging out with us today on the bridge. It
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: was a wonderful conversation and for me, I think we've
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  Speaker 1: been champions of your work here for such a long time.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: On a personal mode, I would like to say that
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  Speaker 1: I'm one of the few people that have seen this
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: journey from the small place of la to the big
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: stages that you you're in right now. And so we're
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: very proud of all the great stuff that you've been doing.
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: Thanks for spending time with us on the bridge today,
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: and have a great rest of the day over there
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  Speaker 1: in India.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, Sammy, always pleasure.
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: All right, folks, we'll be right back and I'll share
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: some closing remarks on this conversation right after this.
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  Speaker 23: I can see you bluffing. I can see you from
• 50:19
  Speaker 23: coming from my angle. I can see you want and
• 50:20
  Speaker 23: everybody wants something in my.
• 50:22
  Speaker 12: Head can't coming in the hundreds.
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: Bore the dog.
• 50:26
  Speaker 23: Put it on the line yet. I'll bet you talk good.
• 50:28
  Speaker 23: Trump's evil Jebbichal before. Keep your mind on the truth.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: Only truth will prevail.
• 50:32
  Speaker 12: Puts my back.
• 50:32
  Speaker 23: I gets the wall, then I'm gonna bring you hell.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: It's not my sholder, devil. Let my back.
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  Speaker 4: Don't you know?
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: My word is my shield and I'm ready for that.
• 50:38
  Speaker 4: You can try to begin.
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna put your car. Don't you know?
• 50:41
  Speaker 23: The bike is the bright when you see it from
• 50:42
  Speaker 23: the dark.
• 50:44
  Speaker 8: Is the who don't open the open?
• 50:52
  Speaker 10: Don't get here, okay, son, what's upping it by?
• 50:58
  Speaker 4: So Ema?
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  Speaker 1: Just got scar, I'll get your stop. Wish man Savil.
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  Speaker 8: Suck.
• 51:45
  Speaker 23: You been the scales, You've been the answer to God.
• 51:47
  Speaker 23: Coming from my family, then you're coming from war. I
• 51:49
  Speaker 23: looked at the heavens and a wrestled with faith. What's
• 51:51
  Speaker 23: the strength of a man? Will he been that you
• 51:53
  Speaker 23: break when the truth costs more than you thought you
• 51:55
  Speaker 23: could pay?
• 51:55
  Speaker 6: Who you stand on your feet?
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: Are you running away? Depend on your honor? Do whatever
• 51:59
  Speaker 4: it tastes? Justice is sleeping? Will you say so?
• 52:02
  Speaker 23: Stop plus wetting your tears. Gotta give it to all.
• 52:05
  Speaker 23: You gotta conquer your fear when they cook. Put the
• 52:08
  Speaker 23: pride stand tall, ten toes down to your side, adrenalin
• 52:12
  Speaker 23: and you gotta fight for your own.
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: You gotta get in your zone.
• 52:16
  Speaker 4: The twoth is the key.
• 52:17
  Speaker 23: Let the world burn down it bring it three.
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: It's from the brand new Netflix show starring Kumar and
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: Sonny Diol. The show is called Ika, and that's Raja
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: Kumari right there with the lead single called Boka. He
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: wanted to give a click shout out to Roja Kumari
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: for stopping by the episode today. What a delight to
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: talk to her and folks. Now let's turn it over
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: to Doita, do Gupta and I'll be back before the
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: episode with some closing remarks what's up doa hi everyone,
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: this is.
• 52:58
  Speaker 24: Da You're Rockasavni Radio Music correspondent back with another artist, spotlight.
• 53:03
  Speaker 24: Let's spotlight Aditya Ricardi, the daily born Indie singer songwriter
• 53:07
  Speaker 24: whose emotionally raw music has made him one of the
• 53:10
  Speaker 24: most fastest rising voices in Indian pop today.
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: Known for heartfeld hits.
• 53:14
  Speaker 24: Like Fastly Samchoona Barrow and the viral sensation Sahiba, Aditya
• 53:19
  Speaker 24: has built a massive fan based so deeply personal lyrics
• 53:22
  Speaker 24: and minimalist melodies that connects strongly.
• 53:24
  Speaker 4: With jen Z listeners.
• 53:26
  Speaker 24: Twenty twenty six is already shaping up to be a
• 53:28
  Speaker 24: huge year for him. Earlier this year, Aditya collaborated with
• 53:32
  Speaker 24: Kudli Khan and Ravator on the Koch Studio power track
• 53:36
  Speaker 24: ah Nabi, a soulful vision record that quickly gained major
• 53:40
  Speaker 24: traction online and across streaming platforms. He's also continued his
• 53:44
  Speaker 24: storak of releases with songs like Promise and Lajawa, while
• 53:47
  Speaker 24: expanding further into Bollywood with tracks for upcoming films including
• 53:51
  Speaker 24: Dukoid and pattipatn Orvoto Fans and critics Ali have praise
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  Speaker 24: his ability to turn vulnerability into music that feels deeply
• 53:59
  Speaker 24: personal yet universally relatable, with many calling him one of
• 54:02
  Speaker 24: the defining voices of India's indie waves. With billions of streams,
• 54:07
  Speaker 24: sold out live shows, and a sound that feels intimate
• 54:10
  Speaker 24: yet cinematic all at once, Aditya Ricari continues proving that
• 54:14
  Speaker 24: indie music in India has never sounded more honest or
• 54:18
  Speaker 24: more powerful.
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: Well that's all for me.
• 54:20
  Speaker 24: Stay tuned for more only on Ruckus Avenue Radio.
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Deita. I'm a big fan of
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: Aditya's work. I'm gonna try to pull him into the
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: show for an interview. But this song Promise is a
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: previous number one song from our Top twenty Countdown show.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: It's a great one. I'll be back with some closing remarks.
• 54:45
  Speaker 8: Just okay, oh.
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  Speaker 25: lucky only.
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  Speaker 1: But that they recry everybody. The song called Promise. Big
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: shout out to Raja Kumari for stopping by the big
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: program today and in my thirty years in this business.
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you the line from today's conversation I can't
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: stop thinking about. Roger. Kumari told me that when she
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: talks to artists back in India, she tells them this,
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: you're looking to the West and they're looking to us.
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: You just need to turn around and look at yourself.
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: Sit with that, because it's the whole thing. I've known
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: Roger from the beginning, watched to grow from a small
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: place in La to the biggest stages in the world.
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: And what makes her a serious artist to me was
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: never the resume long as it is. It's that she's
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: authentically from both worlds and she refuses to let either
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: one flatten her. She said something else today that stayed
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: with me. She said, in the West, I fight racism,
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: In the East, I fight patriarchy. That's the cost of
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: being the bridge. She's paid it on both sides. She
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: told me about the labels that she said Indian girls
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: don't wrap about being told to lose the bindi for
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: a budget, and she'll tell you. Fast forward ten years
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: and the same industry as running features on Bindi's and Bengals.
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: She laid that groundwork silently and let the world catch up.
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: Here's what I want you to understand when Roja references
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: the Goddess, She's not commercializing the culture. She's offering every
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: album on the altar of Sataswathi and she means it.
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: The Goddess is the many faces of her own identity
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: and a reminder that the divine is found within. She
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: isn't fusion, She's integrated, one person, both worlds, no seam.
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: I'm the bridge, she told me, from the West back
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: to the East, from the ancient to the future. That's
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: not a lyric, that's a life. Raja Kamari comes to
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: us from the future, a future where the border of
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: axis of culture is a memory and the rest of
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: us are still catching up to where she is already.
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: I'll leave you with this song. It's the current number
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: one song on our Top twenty Countdown show that we'll
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: be delivering to you tomorrow. It's a tender stage. The
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: song is called Nazamandi Balki have a great day. Everybody,
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: see you tomorrow. Oh Sea soon A yeah, they're so
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  Speaker 1: hard ky.
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  Speaker 7: Soon A yeah, that's so had Louky to give her
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  Speaker 7: a funny azamad fucky it should.
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  Speaker 1: Get it bended. Joe Bunny, Bara, Sonia
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  Speaker 8: Na Rada