I wrote this song during lockdown when I was teaching remotely. I just felt so disconnected from everything, but this song is almost sad hope. I held on hoping we would make it through this but the feeling of emptiness still haunted me.

It ain't over - Jeeves 2024 - 08:08:2024 22.51

I wrote this song with a big emphasis on the lyrics. Inspired by triphop from Bristol, Manu Chao and hiphop from both the US and UK, I really wanted capture the complexity of my Asian identity. My family are from India, but originally from a region that now belongs to Pakistan. My grandparents and parents lost their homeland during partition. At school in Chicago, I experienced a lot racism from other students, who said I didn't belong here and that I was taking jobs from their parents. My parents tried to make me blend it, by disassociating our cultural heritage and not teaching us Hindi or Punjabi. No matter how hard I tried, I was different from the others in my school. In a sense, I embrace my cultural heritage but acknowledge that I am sort of lost because many other Indians call me an American-born confused desi - which I took on the term to Natural-born desi - meaning I am who I am. I am Asian, Indian, Punjabi and American, a French speaker and product of the Commonwealth. All these aspects, good, bad or weird make me who I am.

Natural Born Desi 2024

This is a cover of « Mercy » by Madame, Monsieur a duo who represented France in the 2018 Eurovision song contest. Based on a true story of a refugee woman who gave birth to a child aboard on a rescue boat in the Mediterranean sea, I had to cover it with my own style infusing reggae and dance. This is the same song we sing in French class. Sometimes, I mash it up with Bob Marley's Sun is Shining because they're both in the same key and both talk about rescuing and miracles. I had to throw in a rocking solo to cut through the continuous beat. Pretty banging.

Mercy par Madame, Monsieur (Reprise reggae accoustique)

This is a slightly grungy version of my song Inside Out. It's me on acoustic and the piano. I want to get other musicians in on this track and then remix it to something dancey and jazzy, Enjoy

Inside Out v4.Rough version feat. Spirikal

Guitarist, house fiend, lover of Reggae, R&B, Soul, UK garage, trip-hop, disco, and anything in between.

Je suis aussi francophone d'origine indienne.

Jeeves

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