Initially from Thanjavur, she was named Kalaivani by her folks. She embraced the stage name 'Lady Kash' for her rapping symbol.
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Eighteen-year-old Lady Kash was rather surprised when she got a call from playback singer Benny Dayal saying AR Rahman wanted to meet her. She promptly hung up on him dismissing it as a prank call. It took a second call to convince her that AR Rahman had indeed requested a meeting with her after seeing some of her independent singles online. After the successful meeting, Lady Kash was catapulted to success with her debut song in superstar Rajinikanth’s film Enthiran.
Lady Kash is a self-made bilingual rapper who was born and brought up in Singapore. Originally from Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu, she was named Kalaivani by her parents. She adopted the stage name ‘Lady Kash’ for her rapping avatar.
“I moved to India from Singapore when I was 18 to pursue a diploma in Recording Arts. My parents were very reluctant about the idea. They didn’t think of rapping as much of a career. But I was sure that was it. I wanted to become a rap artiste and a creative professional and finally they conceded,” she says.
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"Persuading my folks was no mean assignment. I made my dad guarantee me that on the off chance that I figured out how to contribute half of my instruction costs in India, he would release me. What's more, fortunately, around then there was an online ability rivalry with a huge entirety of prize cash. In the wake of beating 8,000 challengers from various nations, I won the show and there was no halting my voyage to India," she says.
From that point forward, her melodic adventure has taken her around the globe to nations like Canada, Switzerland, Dubai, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, to give some examples
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Lady Kash's solid intrigue towards rapping originates from her adoration for opportunity.
"I have consistently been a free soul. Opportunity was critical to me. What's more, living in Singapore which was a profoundly rule-bound society, I was normally attracted to this artistic expression. It offered me the opportunity society didn't offer," she says.
During her youth, Lady Kash exceeded expectations at verse, composing and expressions. What's more, soon she understood that she was normally attracted to cadence more than tune. All these met up as rap for her.
While Lady Kash concedes she isn't religious, she is particularly sensitive to her otherworldly side. Music and otherworldliness go connected at the hip for this youthful artist and she accepts the universe has a method for completing things. Consistent with her words, she says 'Lady Kash' was a name that just appeared to her in her fantasy and she realized she needed to receive it.
Lady Kash's voyage to music hasn't actually been windy.
"Being a female rap artiste in a generally male commanded space accompanied its own difficulties. I wasn't paid attention to when I contacted individuals requesting direction. I needed to depend completely on myself to build up my aptitudes. You wouldn't accept the sort of things I have googled to make sense of this. I have actually gone through hours experiencing lexicons to improve my jargon. Truly, it took me a decent 4 years to make sense of my voice and cadence and build up myself as a rap artiste," she says.
Lady Kash has as of late had a leap forward with her most recent single Villupaattu, discharged freely through her mark AKASHIK. What began as an adventure of self-revelation into her melodic roots has now brought about her profound duty and dedication to sparing indigenous music structures.
“I was first exposed to villupaattu in Singapore as a child. Although I never dwelled too much on it, I believe that performance left an impact on me. Those thoughts lurked in my mind and when I pursued rapping seriously, they surfaced and I was completely convinced that rapping had its roots in villupaattu.”
Her song Villupaattu is dedicated to Poongani amma, the oldest living villupaattu performer in the country.
Lady Kash finds an undeniable connection between villupaattu and rapping.
“They are both forms of musical storytelling. Much like rap, villupaattu has got a lot to do with stage persona and that element of style. I was devastated to see the art form dying. I believe if we don’t know where we come from, we wouldn’t know where we are going. And going back and finding my roots in such a hapless state has deeply disturbed me,” she says.
Lady Kash believes that rapping has its origins not just in the African and American continents, but was very much a part of the Indian musical landscape too.
“To me, Poongani amma is as much a legend as Bob Marley. She deserves to be a global icon too.”
Lady Kash has plans to open a professional school for rapping. This is her way of ensuring that rap doesn’t meet the same fate as villupaattu.
While Lady Kash is a strong advocate of preserving indigenous art forms, she also admits that music is ever-evolving and ever-changing. But it’s important that we don’t forget our roots.
She says, “Simply put, just because there are doughnuts now, you don’t stop eating vada. All I am saying is let’s just embrace them both.”
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