Tara Priya
Tara Priya combines vintage soul, Brit-pop, & poetic lyrics to create a delicious music experience. Oft compared to Sharon Jones & Amy Winehouse, the "retro-sou
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Rollin'
Wounded
Expectation
Memories
Rollin' (Reprise)
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Tara Priya (born December, 1989, in San Francisco, CA) is an American retro-soul/pop singer-songwriter. Her eponymous EP debuted in late 2010. At first reluctant to distract his 11-year-old daughter from her classical piano studies, Taras father was persuaded to put her into opera training after she starred in the California Theater Centers Thumbelina. Ironically, Tara cites her father as her sole supporter when she graduated school early to pursue a singing career.
As a young diva, Tara was scolded by her kindergarten teacher for disrupting class by constantly singing. Her music was better received at Columbia University, where jazz and classical coaches shaped her voice and supported her singing career. Encouraged by her professors and peers, including a Columbia-Juilliard exchange student with whom she occasionally writes songs, Tara decided to pursue a singing career not by dropping out like a few of her successful Columbia contemporaries (eg, Alicia Keys, Lauryn Hill) but speeding through school. In a record 2 years, Tara graduated as an Economics major.
Armed with years of songwriting, stacks of poetry, and intense New York City performances, Tara returned to San Francisco to focus purely on music. In 2010, she met and began collaborating with multi-instrumentalist Jason Cirimele. The pair traveled constantly between San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles, in order to play shows and record the Tara Priya EP.
After being named 1 of 3 Pop finalists in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest for her single Memories, Tara released her EP, gaining distribution in the US and Japan, and played in CMJ Music Marathon and the 2010 Miami Music Festival. Of Indian-Persian ancestry, Tara is the great-niece of famed Persian poet Sohrab Sepehri. When not touring, she resides in Los Angeles.Your musical influences
Bob Dylan, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Etta James, Nina Simone, Lauryn Hill, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, The Temptations, The Beatles, Jackie Deshannon, Solomon Burke, Patsy ClineREAD MORE
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