Beth Ditto is epic!

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Gossip- Heavy Cross

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Coming in with heavy electronica mixed in with rock: Monica Dogra in Shaa'ir + Func!

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SHAA'IR + FUNC - DO IT AGAIN

Indie Rock meets Bollywood

How did you get into music in the first place?

My mom is a singer as well so I grew up around Hindustani classical music, going to classical concerts when I was young. And then my parents split up when I was twelve and I was raised by my dad. He was the opposite, like, be a doctor, go to business school, etc. But I still had such a deep-rooted love for music that I couldn’t deny it.

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How did you meet Randolph and how was Shaa’ir n Func born?

In those first five days, Randolph came to a party. It was a room of twenty people with no smoking, no drinking allowed. There was a saxophonist, a bansuri player, I’m a singer and a poet. There was a girl doing interpretive dance. It was so tripped out. It felt like a scene from a movie. So Randolph walked in, he had a guitar, and he started playing. I liked his vibe a lot. Our music is a combination of influences. We do heavy doses of rock, electronic music, spoken word and funk. We call it conscious dance music.

When I went back to Bombay I bumped into him and I asked him to play with me. I wrote the record, he and I recorded it, we got a distribution deal, we were getting paid to do shows, and it all kicked off. Sometimes when you do the right thing, life is like “good job, I’ll give you this.” And that just kept happening, not without a lot of sweat and hard work though.

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Shonali Bhowmik: Comedian, vocalist, guitarist and Lawyer. In short, the definition of multitasking!

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Ultrababyfat- Twist (Her Old band)

Tigers and Monkeys - Fire escape (Her New Band)

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