“May The Bridge serve as a monument to my love for India”, says Raja Kumari!
Raja Kumari’s full-length album ‘The Bridge’ to release worldwide on 28th April under her label Godmother Records.
Raja Kumari, the Grammy-nominated songwriter and one of India’s top female rappers launched her Godmother Records in 2021 and is making her own label album debut with The Bridge, set to release worldwide on April 28, 2023. The album features nine dynamic tracks that serve as The Bridge of Evolution, from West to East, Ancient to Future, humanity to God and who she was to who she is becoming.
Written and recorded entirely during the pandemic in Los Angeles and Big Bear in the US and Mumbai and Goa in India, The Bridge was penned by Kumari along with Harm Franklin, Douglas Garrette, Humberto de los Ríos, Nacho Larraza, Karan Pandav and produced by Larraza, Pandav and iLL Wayno.
Talking about the album Raja Kumari said, “Thr Bridge is a testament to my perseverance, my will to love and the constant nature of evolution and change,” shares the International artist on her first album under her Record Label. “May The Bridge serve as a monument to my love for India, my motherland, and this little girl’s dream to belong. And, may it inspire each listener to find the same within themselves.”
Recently, Raja Kumari co-headlined Walkers & Co. Tour (by Johnnie Walker Refreshing Mixer) with multi-platinum selling award-winning artist John Legend in Mumbai and New Delhi. Shortly following that event, Kumari kicked off the first-ever Wireless Festival Middle East alongside fellow headliners: Travis Scott, M.I.A., and others. Additionally, throughout her career, she was the first woman to headline NH7, India’s biggest music festival. In the past Raja Kumari has co-written songs with Gwen Stefani, Fifth Harmony, Twin Shadow. and Iggy Azalea. Iggy Azalea’s The New Classic was subsequently nominated for four Grammys including Best Rap Album on which Kumari was both a songwriter and vocalist. The following year Kumari took home the BMI Pop Award for penning the hit “Centuries” by Fall Out Boy.
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