RIANJALI: I WANT TO SEE A FEMALE A R RAHMAN

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Rianjali started singing when she was just 6. Her father, a well-known Bengali singer made sure she grew up listening to music all her life! She started taking classical Indian music classes and then picked up the guitar when she was 14 or 15 years old. She went to LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, which really changed her life. It was a very tough school where she was surrounded by all kinds of music and had to learn so many styles. It was there where she really picked up some of her American music influence, Her brother was part of a fraternity in college, and he introduced her to one of his friends in his frat who also had a passion for music. His parents were really supportive and had built a makeshift recording studio in his house. A couple of years after she first met her brother’s friend, they ended up writing a song together and put it on SoundCloud. It turned out that the friend's family had known A.R Rahman for over 15 years, but he had never told her out of a matter of privacy. One day, her friend called her out of the blue and asked her if she was free the next day because A.R. Rahman wanted to meet her! A.R. had apparently asked her friend if he had worked on any new music lately, so he showed him their SoundCloud track. A.R. then asked him who the female vocalist was. The rest is history!
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