Arushi Jain: 'That’s the core of any identity question that often arises for immigrants: how do I be who I have always been in this new space?'The immigrant experience is universal, but ask Arushi Jain about moving from India to the United States and she zooms in on a specific incident. Freshly enrolled at Stanford University, in California, she auditioned for a college a cappella group.
“That was huge. They didn’t understand the language,” says Jain. “I was taken aback – a little confused what to sing. I felt not a part of this system. That is generally a very normal experience for people who come from other parts of the world to the US. Especially for college: you’re going to have to fit yourself into that world.
Music is the producer and composer’s way of exploring that eternal conundrum of immigrant identity and the journey that has taken her from studying vocal training at the Ravi Shankar Institute for Music and Performing Arts in New Delhi, the city where she was born, to graduating in software engineering from Stanford.
The results of that inquiry are stunning. On her album Under the Lilac Sky, Jain contemplates what it means to leave your home and put down roots elsewhere. She does so through heartbreakingly beautiful synthesiser instrumentals that, interwoven with wraith-like vocals, trace the progress of an evening from dusk to darkness. Along with the beauty there is a yearning for her old life.
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