WHILE PERFORMING at a live-streamed gig this past April, Mumbai-based singer-songwriter Aditi Ramesh came across a comment which read as “sambar soul.” Ramesh says, “I thought to myself that this should be the answer when people ask me for my genre.” The tag stuck with the musician and she decided to use it as the title of her latest honeyed single, which released today.
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