Are you ready to come into my world?

Beware.. It's not all pretty and easy going like i make it look on social media. It has been years of talking about my album, teasing lyrics and melodies but privately creating it and secretly putting my all into making Navjeevan an album that will represent who I am, where I want to go with my music and plotting on how I can have an impact once it is released.

Photo by Yusi Hunter

So here I am opening the door, seeing who is interested, who wants to hear my story.

What is the name of my upcoming album??

"Navjeevan"

In Hindi it is नया जीवन naya jeevan

In English it means "new life"

Why Navjeevan??

When I was 15, my mom took me to India to learn about where I come from. While we were there, we spent a few weeks volunteering at a small organization called Navjeevan where children from the red light district of Mumbai are supported to get their education in a safe community out of the city and break out of the sex trade to create new lives. Children from ages 3 to18 were there laughing, singing and playing just like I was, even though they had been through the unimaginable hell of the sex trade.

At 15 I didn't realize how much the children there had taught me how beautiful life is and how much power we have to recreate our lives. Since then I have grown up and have had my heart broken countless times on my quest to find peace within myself. I got involved in several abusive relationships, situations in which I would pour myself out desperately hoping to receive love in return, not knowing i deserved much more until I hit rock bottom and decided I would stop letting anything or anyone have power anymore. It left me in a void of outside voices I thought where my own, melodies I was singing that had nothing to do with my own spirit. I was left with a huge loss, given everything i had with nothin in return but confusion and shame of laying myself down for the wrong goals. If you listen to the project I released in 2022, Eyes Wide Shut, you will hear how disconnected I was but also the longing to find peace. My mental health only took deeper lows after the release of that project, creating Navjeevan only exposed more debilitating truths i had to process.

My album Navjeevan is a deliberate recreation of my own life. It has been a constant redefining, crossing out the wrong words, rewriting what feels right as it evolves into my true voice. Navjeevan is not only a discovering of my sound as an artist, it has been a journey to create the life I was always meant to live. To just be and let my spirit lead me.

My story is not one I have been proud of, it's one I have hidden and felt embarrassed, scared and ashamed to share. But the more I see how it all feeds into me being able to create a new life, the more I am so grateful to be who I am, to have been in the darkest places so that I can now walk in the light and just be and invite others to walk with me. I am excited now to tell how I have overcome and gotten into my 30s alive. Not long ago, I was trapped in a hospital fighting the urge to end everything and leave this place. Now here I am, letting you into my beautiful world of Navjeevan! I can't wait to tell you how much my dreams have surpassed what I thought they would be!!

I have booked my Album Release shows in both Edmonton and Calgary for September, so until then follow along my blog here to hear all the behind the scenes as I bring my music out of my heart and into the world!