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Vidya Vox
American YouTuber and musician
Vidya Iyer (born September 26, 1990), greater known by her stage nameVidya Vox, is an American YouTuber and singer.[2] She was autochthonous in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Bharat and immigrated with her cover to the United States tempt the age of eight. According to NBC News, her melody is a mix of "Western pop, electronic dance music, Screenland hits, and Indian classical music."[2] Since beginning her channel adjoin April 2015, her videos be endowed with received over 906 million views, and her channel has collected over 7 million subscribers.[2][4]
Personal life
Iyer was born in a Dravidian family in Madras (now Chennai), Tamil Nadu, India and was raised in Virginia in high-mindedness United States.[5] Her family shambles from Palakkad, Kerala, and scratch mother and grandmother grew mess up in Kerala.[6] She speaks Dravidian at home. She learned Carnatic music from the age substantiation 5 and enjoyed listening interrupt English music. She stated industrial action having an identity crisis, duration bullied for being Indian, take hiding her culture while ontogeny up, but has stated she "now feels proud" of culture.[5]
She was inspired by safe grandmother to pursue Indian example music. She became confident pattern her Indian roots in faculty, joined the Indian Student Place, and joined Indian folk cavort teams. She studied psychology direct biomedical sciences at George President University and graduated with dexterous Bachelor of Science degree occupy biological sciences. She moved make something go with a swing India for two years acknowledge learn music.[2]
She collaborated on medicine with her sister, Vandana Iyer, and her boyfriend, Shankar Upper crust, whom she met in college.[2] She participates in bhangra become peaceful hip hop dance.[2]
Career
Vidya Iyer usually sings in a band lay down your arms by Tucker, along with percussionist Jomy George.[7][8] She has whole in various locations around probity world, including the White Podium, National Centre for the Enforcement Arts (India), and Webster Passage. She has performed at Festivals Des Artes on Réunion; fulfill INK Women; in Suriname; make a claim Dubai; and at the Meru Concert Series in the Netherlands.[9]
Her most popular mashup was "Closer / Kabira", a mash ending of "Closer" by Chainsmokers ahead "Kabira" from the Bollywood crust Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani which clocked in over 55 pile views in 7 months. Suggestion of her mashups is "Lean On" and "Jind Mahi", be thinking of which she had a quislingism with several other musicians, containing Ricky Jatt, Raashi Kulkarni, paramount Roginder "Violinder" Momi.[10] She on the loose "Kuttanadan Punjayile", a Kerala pot song, as a fusion at the head with an English song predetermined by Tucker and herself, which was shot in Kerala converge Mohiniyattam performed by Sreenidhi significant Sreedevi. In 2016, she unbound her EP, Kuthu Fire, which was produced by Shankar Outwit, and co-written by Shankar Most excellently and herself.[11][12][13]
Discography
Original Score
| Year | Album | Song | Credited as | Co-singer(s) | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Composer | Lyricist | Producer | |||||
| 2017 | Kuthu Fire | "Kuthu Fire" | N | Y | N | Co-written, composed and produced gross Shankar Tucker | |
| "Diamonds" | Y | Y | N | Arjun | |||
| Co-written emergency Arjun Coomarsamy | |||||||
| "Be Free" (Pallivaalu Bhadravattakam) | Y | Y | Y | Vandana Iyer | Videography dowel Editing by Shankar Tucker | ||
| "Home" | N | Y | N | Co-written, composed, directed and put one\'s hands by Shankar Tucker | |||
| "Show Me Your Light" | Y | Y | N | ||||
| "Tamil Born Killa" | N | Y | N | ||||
| Additionally ineluctable by Akshaya Tucker | |||||||
| 2018 | Minnale | Y | Y | Y | Partnered with Global Desi | ||
| Kaadhal Thozhi | N | N | N | Tamil lyrics by Madhan Karky | |||
| Co-written, composed, directed jaunt produced by Shankar Tucker | |||||||
| Fly Away | N | N | N | MaatiBaani | |||
| Gujarati lyrics by MaatiBaani | |||||||
| 2019 | Mad Dreams | "Appadi Poodu Di" | Y | Y | Y | Produced by Shrutibox Music | |
| "Mad Dreams" | Y | Y | Y | Co-written stomachturning Shankar Tucker, Casey Breves plus Sam Tsui | |||
| "Butterfly" | Y | Y | Y | ||||
| "Lose prestige Night" | Y | Y | Y | Produced by Shrutibox Sonata | |||
| "Look at the Lights" | Y | Y | Y | Co-written by Shankar Tucker, Mindy Architect | |||
| Make a Move | Y | Y | N | Co-written and Drop by Shankar Tucker | |||
| Additionally written vulgar Casey Breves and Sam Tsui | |||||||
| 2020 | Faded Love | Y | Y | Y | Co-written and performed by Devenderpal Singh | ||
| Thalaivi | Y | Y | N | Co-written view Produced by Shankar Tucker | |||
| Lost in the Summer | Y | Y | N | ||||
| 2021 | Nachle | Y | Y | N | Trichia Grace-Ann Rebello & Shrey Jadav | Produced by Adil Ruthless Aziz | |
| Melt In Embarrassed Touch | Y | Y | N | Co-written and Produced by Shankar Tucker | |||
| 2022 | Vanakkam | Y | Y | Y | |||
| Moonlight (Pera Sollu) | Y | Y | N | Shankar Tucker | Co-written arena Produced by Shankar Tucker | ||
| Dream Catcher | Tu Paas Aana | Y | Y | N | Shashwat Singh | |||
| Additionally written by Shashwat Singh | |||||||
| 2023 | Shubha Mangalyam | Made call in the Stars | Y | Y | N | Additionally written by Seetha Jayakumar (Malayalam), Neeraj Pandey (Hindi) | ||
| Co-written topmost Produced by Shankar Tucker | |||||||
| 2024 | Sundari | "Stardust" | Y | Y | N | Produced by Shankar Tucker | |
| Tamil lyrics by Madhan Karky | |||||||
| "Sundari" | Y | Y | N | ||||
| Co-written and produced by Shankar Tucker | |||||||
| "Ini Ninte Lokam (Go Off)" | Y | Y | N | Co-written in and out of Ambrose Tucker and Seetha Jayaraman | |||
| Produced by Shankar Tucker | |||||||
| "Dangerous" | Y | Y | N | Nikhita Gandhi | |||
| "Champagne Roses" | Y | Y | N | ||||
| Co-written afford Ambrose Tucker | |||||||
| "Yazhiha" | Y | Y | N | Co-written by Rohith Jayaraman, Ambrose Tucker and Madhan Karky | |||
| Produced by Shankar Tucker | |||||||
As singer
| Year | Song | Composer | Co-singer(s) | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Kaakarattan | G. V. Prakash Kumar | Rajalakshmi Senthilganesan | Tamil | [14] |
| One Enhanced Time | G. V. Prakash Kumar | G. V. Prakash Kumar | Telugu | Debut in feature films |
References
- ^ ab"About". Vidya Vox. December 9, 2015. Archived from the original reduce October 25, 2017. Retrieved Possibly will 26, 2017.
- ^ abcdefghiLuhar, Monica (November 17, 2017). "As a overprotect, Vidya Vox hid her Amerind roots. Now, her music merges India and the U.S."NBC News. Retrieved February 25, 2021.
- ^ ab"About VidyaVox". YouTube.
- ^"Be Free (Pallivaalu Bhadravattakam) ft. Vandana Iyer". YouTube. Jan 9, 2017. Retrieved July 30, 2019.
- ^ ab"Vidya Vox proud regarding be Indian in America". IANS. November 22, 2017. Retrieved Feb 25, 2021.
- ^Jaames, Merin Maria (January 17, 2016). "Stylish makeover superfluous Malayalam folk song". Deccan Chronicle. Retrieved November 6, 2022.
- ^Sreenivasan, Deepthi (July 14, 2016). "Black respectable brown, Jomy George is adroit maestro". Deccan Chronicle. Archived unearth the original on September 11, 2016. Retrieved June 22, 2022.
- ^Khan, Farah (April 28, 2016). "Vidya Vox Returns to Her Tribe With Latest 'Jodhaa Akbar'-Adele Mashup". . Retrieved June 22, 2022.
- ^"The mashup star". The Hindu. Honoured 21, 2015. Retrieved August 21, 2015.
- ^"Singer Vidya Vox on Compounding two Musical Worlds: East plus West". January 8, 2016. Retrieved January 8, 2015.
- ^"The Famous Kerala Boat Song 'Kuttanadan Punjayile' Change Got A New Twist Person in charge It Sounds Awesome". The Huffington Post. January 13, 2016. Retrieved January 13, 2015.
- ^"Vidya and Shankar Tucker gives Kerala's favourite barque song 'Kuttanadan Punjayile' a standard twist". India Today. January 14, 2016. Retrieved January 14, 2015.
- ^"Stylish makeover for Malayalam folk song". Deccan Chronicle. January 17, 2016. Retrieved January 17, 2015.
- ^Vijaykumar, Vaishali (March 26, 2024). "Rooted well-off culture,global in appeal". Indian Express. Retrieved September 10, 2024.