TRUST ME I KNOW WHAT I'm DOING

Once again, thank you for listening to the show and for sharing it with your friends and family, for rating and kindly reviewing it, and for following along on social media. Whether it’s your first episode or it’s first up on your weekly playlist, It’s very much appreciated, and I’m quite grateful. I’ve always felt like there’s both an external and an internal power and peace to music. On the outside, it brings us all together to listen or dance and on the inside, it can be the catalyst and soundtrack for so many deeply personal emotions. To capture some of this, it was great to share a conversation with singer and songwriter Raveena Mehta about all of those internal and external forces at play with her music. Raveena was born in Belgium and moved to Mumbai when she was a teen. She grew up very perceptive of the world around her, with a love for painting and fine art, deeply informing Raveena’s expressions, and shaping her training in music and fine arts from classical Indian to western contemporary. Raveena has been releasing music that indeed speaks to many moods, tones, and vocal dimensions - for the soul searching, for the romantic, and for the dance floor. Her versatile singing can flow in both Hindi and English and her authentic expressions of fashion and style exude a cool and chic vibe. Just this past year, she’s released singles like Kho Jaun Mein as a soulful and vulnerable window, Sona Jeha Chehra as an ode to her new marriage, and Awara as a disco/funk homage to being in love, and in collaboration with producer Rishi Rich, an EP is forthcoming in 2024. She’s now spending her time in New York , and so we caught up recently to chat about how the artistic journey feels for her and about what the concept of home means, and even about listening and her own playlist. But I was first curious of a pretty basic everyday thought related to art and inspiration in how often she dreams about music?