Meet Chandrika Darbari Or Rika, The New Prodigy In The World Of British Pop

Meet Chandrika Daroari or RIKA, the new prodigy in the world of British pop

- Drishti Vij

Chandrika Darbari was 16, when she first saw the gut-wrenching visuals of injured children in Syria. The images of blood, devastation and helplessness haunted her into wanting to make the world sit up and take notice of their plight. That’s when she penned, ‘For peace in Syria’, a song she shot with her siblings while on vacation in Delhi in 2016; it went on to clock in over 900K views on YouTube. “I just sat at my piano and the words just came to me,” she says. The simple yet heartfelt lyrics—that was Darbari’s cry for peace—made the video go viral and helped raise funds for UNICEF.