Top 35 Vidya Vox Quotes

If your intention is pure, an audience will recognise it and connect with you.

I want to bring Indian music to the mainstream.

I never thought being a musician would be something I could make a career out of.

I’m so grateful to be able to do music.

My music is a whole reflection of who I’m as an individual.

The money I earn from a live show is divided into two parts. One section goes towards producing my music videos, and the other goes into my savings.

Most of the clothes and accessories in my videos come from my wardrobe.

I was actually going for the pre-medicine track and studying for my MCATs and then I decided to follow my passion, which was music. So I moved to India after college to re-immerse myself in Indian music.

Growing up, I had a bit of an identity crisis.

Growing up in Virginia, I was surrounded by two different cultures.

My mother had to make an unconventional decision. We had to run away from home. She made a really difficult decision to leave financial stability behind and undertake raising two girls on her own.

I grew up learning carnatic music but I also enjoyed english music so I always thought I could marry the two words and we tried the idea once and it was a hit.

My father was actually controlling and abusive.

I think in the world of Internet trolls, people can shake your confidence really easily, with just one comment. As long as you can stand behind your work, it doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks!

Most of my family speaks fluent Malayalam.

Yeah, I didn’t ever think about music as a career. Like, it was never – it’s just something like an extracurricular activity that my mom put me in. And as every South Asian, you know, like, child, I was like – oh, OK, I can do medicine.

I spoke in Tamil at home and ate dosa and idli.

It’s all about the balance. For musicians, me personally, you just can’t keep doing covers or mash-ups. It would get old pretty fast.

My mom took my sister and I to music classes. We used to hate practising as kids but my grandma used to make it fun by playing musical games with us.

I was raised in an Indian household – singing classical music and eating south Indian food. But the second I went to school, it was a different world. I’d be listening to Destiny’s Child, Usher and the Backstreet Boys. It wasn’t until college that I really found the balance between the two worlds.

I guess fusion would be the best way to describe my music. I think it also goes into the spectrum of electronic and dance with inspiration from Indian folk songs.

Music is so subjective and personal, I don’t expect people to like everything I do. But that’s life and you have to live unapologetically.

Kerala is one of my favourite places. It’s so beautiful, so serene!

Most of my jewellery is what I picked up in India.

I grew up listening to dappan koothu songs and loved the fun party vibes they gave.

Music was my solace, my refuge.

When I launched my channel, I felt I was ready to do this. It’s not that I had learnt everything – because as an artiste you never stop learning, but I was ready to put out my voice in the world.

It’s very natural for me to sing in English and have a tabla in an arrangement, to have hip-hop beats but sing in Tamil. It’s very niche but I love doing it.

I love mixing Indian and Western.

I was bullied when I was in middle school in D.C., especially for being an Indian, because there weren’t many Indian kids in school. And because of that, I tended to hide my Indian culture, but that changed by the end of high school. Now, I am 100% proud of it.

Visuals are important, as listeners like to ‘see’ the song.

The thing about doing mashups and covers is it’s great, but a part of you never gets to really showcase what your original sound is like or what your writing voice is like.

I can be a mix of both. I don’t have to be an Indian or an American. They’re not mutually exclusive. It’s something growing up I didn’t know.

You can’t please everyone.

You can put your music out on YouTube and get messages from all over the world.