The Singer Whose Work Feels Like Prayer
Briefly

In the tradition that I was raised, you can't actually pay your teacher enough for what they're giving you. So you do things around the house because you understand that there's no amount of money that you could ever give that would ever make this make sense.
As soon as you hear Ganavya's voice, you want to hear it some more, Esperanza Spalding, a collaborator, said.
Born Ganavya Doraiswamy in Flushing, Queens, and raised in Tamil Nadu, a state in South India, Ganavya came up in a creative family, where, as a child, she studied the harikatha along the Varkari pilgrimage route.
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