Raja Kumari (Rapper)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Raja Kumari

• Does Raja Kumari smoke?: Not Known

• Does Raja Kumari drink alcohol?: Not Known

• Raja Kumari is an Indian-American singer, songwriter, and rapper who fuses classical Indian music with hip-hop style.

• She is a Los Angeles based and her parents immigrated to the U.S. from India.

• She is a trained Indian classical dancer (Bharatanatyam, Kuchipudi, and Odissi) who started dancing at the age of 7. 

• Her debut ‘Bharatanatyam’ performance on stage was at the age of 7, at a concert where Pandit Ravi Shankar was the chief guest.

• During the fifth standard, she discovered hip-hop album ‘The Score’ through the Fugees (an American hip hop group).

• As a teenager, she became a respected freestyle artist performing under the alias Indian Princess.

• After college, where she majored in South Asian religious studies, she decided to pursue her career in music.

• She started her career as a songwriter in 2013.

• She is well known for her collaboration with big artists like Gwen Stefani, Iggy Azalea, Fifth Harmony, Knife Party, and Fall Out Boy.

• She is a winner of the BMI Pop Awards in 2016 for co-writing the song ‘Centuries’ with Fall Out Boy.

• In February 2015, she was being nominated for a Grammy award for the album ‘The New Classic’.

• She worked a lot of philanthropy through her dance performances and raised $80,000 in a night. She built a meditation hall in India, built a hospital in Bangalore, a school for physically disabled children etc.

• She has been recognized as a benefactor by the Foundation for Indic Philosophy and Culture (Indic Foundation) and has been honored with the Kohinoor Award for excellence in the Classical Arts by the Governor of Tamil Nadu.

• She got inspired by an Indian singer and music composer A.R Rahman. 

• She calls her music ‘BollyHood’.

• She is a role model for the Asian-Americans.