Ashwarya

In ASHWARYA’s world, nothing is as it seems. The 21-year-old Indian-born Melbourne native is a musician whose primary instruments are smoke and mirrors, whose dominant language is surprise and unpredictability. In ASHWARYA’s music, every left turn is met with a trap-door; her sound traverses rap and pop, bhangra drumming and R&B trilling. Pop music is filled with supposed innovators, but said innovators pale in comparison to the head-spinning delights of ASHWARYA’s debut singles, each worlds unto themselves. Suffusing the sound of Gen Z with grit and glamour, ASHWARYA is a weird and witty new voice in a scene desperate for one, an ascendant star desperate to fuck with the world around her. Give ASHWARYA three minutes of your time, and she can change pretty much everything you think you know about modern pop.